Comments | vasher: Sacrifices need not be bloody... but it really helps.

vasher

Sacrifices need not be bloody... but it really helps.

Dec 20, 2006 18:34

Hey, I actually finished something. *cheers* Granted, it is a little tiny something that has nothing to do with my large mental stack of 'big things to finish', but it is indeed something!

FFVII ficlets
Mostly worksafe S/C, not-quite-angst
In-game
Spoilers for... disk one. (Enough of a summary for you? ;) )

( There's not enough blood. )

drabbles, ffvii, fic

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kiraya December 21 2006, 18:30:31 UTC

That last line killed me. Lovely work.

vasher December 22 2006, 00:17:11 UTC

Thank you. ^^

It was lots of fun to write.

azul_fyre December 21 2006, 19:08:32 UTC

Loved the whole thing.

Or maybe Aeris felt bad about bleeding all over the floor, about staining that perfect chalky-white marble, and decided not to bleed at all.

I loved Cloud's thoughts right here, especially that one.

And the last line was well placed. It just hit me perfectly timed.

vasher December 22 2006, 00:23:35 UTC

*blushes*

Why thank you. ^^ Cloud can be remarkably...poetic, almost, when he wants to be.

I'm glad the last line worked out well- it was so much trouble finishing the last section of this. >_

fallen_seraphs December 24 2006, 04:41:09 UTC

I am of the opinion that Cloud and Sephiroth can analyze each other extremely well- but where Sephiroth does it consciously, Cloud isn't really aware of it. The scene after Aeris dies kind of demonstrates that for me. *shrug*

vasher December 26 2006, 20:52:36 UTC

Hmm, that's a good point about whether (or I guess 'which of') the two are actually aware of the mental dissection, as it were, occuring whenever they meet.

I was thinking more of the ending of their fight in AC- the last few lines for me seem to show that Sephiroth's understanding of Cloud is a little skewed, like there's a big important chunk that he just doesn't get. And the whole 'puppets don't have feelings' conversation post-Aeris' death...

Not that Cloud does all that much better, really.

But I could totally be misremembering these parts and/or making them up. >_>

Thanks for the discussion. ^^

fallen_seraphs December 27 2006, 02:54:56 UTC

Oh- I love discussing my fandom. ^_^

I think that the misundertanding of Cloud on Sephiroth's part comes from a misunderstanding of humans in general- After Nibelheim, Sephiroth doesn't name himself as a human, he sees the race as traitorous and begins to aspire to be a God- absolutely superior to them. After finding the (")truth(") about his origins, he may have well thought that humans were wretched creatures meant to be ruled and incapable of feeling.

Looking up the lines(http://www.rpgamer.com/games/ff/ff7/ff7cscript.html) and italicising things I find interesting, the post-Aeris death scene went like this:
((After Sephiroth rambles about Aeris' life energy going back to be one with the Planet and so on...))
Cloud: "Shut up. The cycle of nature and your stupid plan don't mean a thing ( ... )

vasher December 27 2006, 16:35:11 UTC

Yep, I definitely agree about Sephiroth not understanding humans as a whole, rather than just Cloud and co. Even before the Nibelheim incident, he probably wouldn't have had a diverse range of interactions with other people (if fandom and Prof. Hojo are to be believed). And after, he probably feels a bit betrayed and, er... well-justified in declaring them pretty much mindless deceptive cattle.

Ooh, that's a nifty site. Thanks for the link. ^^

That 'too' at the end of Sephiroth's seems pretty telling- that he has feelings and assumes that humans don't. I find it interesting that he acknowledges that little bit of vulnerability to Cloud- and in a way that doesn't really gain Sephiroth anything. Or he thinks he has feelings, anyways. I'm still not very sure how much of the Sephiroth there was controlled by Jenova (if at all) or if they 'merged' in the Sephiroth clone ( ... )

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