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bard_linnKiraya: Greetings, dearest readers!
Bard Linn: We hope you enjoyed this chapter. After this things start slowly picking up plot wise...and we have a number of really long chapters coming. >.> *writes to much*
Kiraya: Do not.
Kiraya: Write too much, that is.
Bard Linn: Anyway, this chapter we have post!rejection!Cloud.
Bard Linn: Who is, by the way, very much NOT over the whole Aeris thing - he's just ignoring it as best he can.
Kiraya: Poor boy. *pets him*
Bard Linn: And obviously Zack is still carrying a torch for Aeris.
Bard Linn: Or at least cares a great deal still, depending on how you define "torch".
Bard Linn: ...I'm rather fond of the Sephiroth and Cloud scene, myself.
Kiraya: Ahh, Seph. <3
Bard Linn: So serious and firm, but caring in his own way as well.
Kiraya: ...he's actually been in the background a lot lately, though...
Bard Linn: Well, not much we can do about that. Sephiroth and Cloud are rather distant from each other still, far more professional than friends and the story tends to follow the rock thrown in the pond - ie Cloud.
Kiraya: Mmhmm.
Bard Linn: Everyone else sort of fluctuates around him.
Kiraya: Hence "Butterfly Effect."
Bard Linn: Though I mean, they do get their own screen time too.
Bard Linn: Anyway....I'm much amused by the mental image of Zack'n'Cloud on horses, done up all fantasy-knight style battling over Aeris' hand.
Kiraya: Wouldn't they be chocobos, though? :P
Bard Linn: I doubt even chocobos could carry a knight in full armor, somehow.
Bard Linn: *is imagining something out of Pierce's books*
Kiraya: Just stick with a breastplate and greaves, then, maybe gauntlets and a helmet?
Kiraya: ...geez, why are we worrying about the mechanics of this?
Bard Linn: We wouldn’t be us if we didn’t.
Bard Linn: And Aeris sitting next to Sephiroth in the balcony all dressed up? XD
Bard Linn: *is stabbed by Seph for imagining him in a dorky crown*
Kiraya: Sephiroth threatens to kill whomever tries to put him in froufy courtier fashions.
Sephiroth: That would be Rufus or the President anyway.
Zack: Have at thee, uncivilized barbarian! I shall win the fair lady's hand by the grace of the Gods!
Cloud: ....oh bother.
Sephiroth: The sooner you finish this, Strife, the sooner he'll stop.
Cloud: Good point, sir. *chucks a blizzaga at Zack*
Zack: HEY!
Zack: THEY DIDN'T SAY WE COULD START YET!
Zack: And that's cheating! We're supposed to be jousting, with lances and everything! No spells!
Cloud: Since when do I wait to fight when someone tells me to? And as far as the spell front goes, they never said we couldn't.
Vincent: *nods in approval*
Cloud: Being predictable is a weakness, Sinclair.
Zack: Stop trying to pull a Seph on me and let's fight, already!
Zack: WITH WEAPONS.
Cloud: *shoots gun*
Cloud: And the WEAPONS aren't awake
Zack: ...some days I really hate you, you know that?
Cloud: Yes, Zack, I know.
Aeris: *trying desperately to smother her laughter*
Sephiroth: *has ditched court wear and is now signing off on paperwork in the balcony*
Zack: Hey! I thought I told you no work in the stands!
Bard Linn: *snickers* Anyway, other than that we have the first introduction of "Red XIII" in this chapter. Another character soon to be appearing on screen!
Kiraya: The cast will certainly be getting bigger before it gets smaller, that much is for sure.
Bard Linn: Does it ever get smaller, really?
Kiraya: .........actually, now that you mention it...
Kiraya: Not really.
Bard Linn: Didn't think so.
Bard Linn: Also, much love for Zack over the whole Red thing.
Bard Linn: “You want us to break into the tower’s high-tech, heavily guarded science labs, steal a giant cat right out from under Hojo’s nose, and not get caught?” = total love.
Kiraya: Tellin' it like it is; that's our boy.
Bard Linn: *pats him on the head*
Bard Linn: And finally Aeris again, this time slowly developing a backbone against her mother and finding strength to fight Shinra in her own way. Moving a bit more towards Game-Aeris, which makes sense as she's 19/20ish around here.
Kiraya: Yup.
Bard Linn: Aeris is fun to write, actually. Especially since her Cetra abilities aren't all THAT strong in many ways - she only hears the Planet in the Church in game, for instance. So balancing Cetraness with Humanness can be much fun.
Kiraya: That'll definitely be interesting to play with, indeed.
Bard Linn: Well, I think that's it for this chapter.
Kiraya: I can't think of anything else...
Bard Linn: Then we'll see you all March 10th!
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Date: 2007-02-11 01:41 am (UTC)Awesome job, as always! And extra ♥ to Cloud, because I just can't help loving him. A lot.
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Date: 2007-02-11 02:49 am (UTC)Yay! Cloud needs hearts. *nod*
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Date: 2007-02-11 02:44 am (UTC)And in other news, I love you two. Really, I do. Hard to find a point that I can say "I love this!" about because, well, I love it all. ♥ ♥ They're all kick ass, and yet so very human.
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Date: 2007-02-11 02:51 am (UTC)I'm glad they're both kick-ass and human! Its hard to find the balance between, but that's what makes this fic fun. :)
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Date: 2007-02-11 02:53 am (UTC)You managed. ^___^ Makes me happy.
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Date: 2007-02-11 02:58 am (UTC)Practice? Maaaaaaaaaybe. Maybe not. >D
Yay! ^____^
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Date: 2007-02-11 03:04 am (UTC)*snort* He's a teenager. He's GOING to have to get some practice, if only because Ms. Rosie would be rather boring if she were... uh, worked all the time. Not to mention he's in the Army. Said Army that doesn't really care too much about.. certain night-time activities so long as the job gets done
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Date: 2007-02-11 02:52 pm (UTC)Vincent highly disapproves of this notion and thinks if Cloud has issues he should take care of them himself - leaving ones self open to a sexual partner is far too much of a vulnerability and if Cloud gets too far into that notion he'll lock him up.
Chaos points out he's acting like a parent; Vin's ignoring him.
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Date: 2007-02-11 02:57 pm (UTC)at first. He'd just be the one vetting the "dates" Cloud went on, a la Big Brother style.Date: *comes over to pick up Cloud*
Zack: *looming and threatening*
Date: *squeak*
Yes well, Vincent's Got Issues with relationships, this we know. *grins*
And now, work!
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Date: 2007-02-11 03:01 pm (UTC)Very Big Issues.
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Date: 2007-02-11 10:36 pm (UTC)Understandably so, granted, but amusing to watch
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Date: 2007-02-11 10:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-11 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-11 11:03 am (UTC)"You people and your quaint catagories."
XDDDD
I have been spending waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time around the Doctor Who and Torchwood comms lately!
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Date: 2007-02-11 03:25 am (UTC)Lo, one of the mysteries of the universe answered.
I'd agree with
It's also nice to see that Cloud's at least trying to brush the rejection off, and that Zack was willing to see it his way. I'm rather glad it didn't turn into a multi-chapter issue. Well, a multi-chapter issue between Zack and Cloud, anyway. Cloud, not matter what he's been through, isn't Cloud without some form of angst.
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Date: 2007-02-11 11:06 am (UTC)I declare OT4 of Shiny.
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Date: 2007-02-11 02:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-11 02:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-11 02:53 pm (UTC)And GOD people, not all Aeris are perverts - dressing Cloud up aside. *headdesk*
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Date: 2007-02-11 02:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-11 03:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-11 03:07 pm (UTC)But I'm not really saying you should do any such thing, it's just idle chatter.
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Date: 2007-02-11 02:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-11 02:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-11 03:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-11 03:03 pm (UTC)Because I WILL tell you the fic will NEVER have sexual CloudxVin interaction. Ever.
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Date: 2007-02-11 04:08 pm (UTC)I like the snarkfest between them, though. "Lol, humans"-variety Chaos is fun.
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Date: 2007-02-11 06:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-12 12:45 am (UTC)...And would you please tell me who is Mulligan? And if it's somebody here, where did the name come from? And where can I find GlassShard?
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Date: 2007-02-12 04:36 am (UTC)GlassShard's fanwork can be found over at her site, Casualvillain.com.
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Date: 2007-02-13 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-02-11 03:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-11 04:33 pm (UTC)I read a fic once where the four demons actually cared about Vin...
...I know I've read that fic. I want to say that GlassShard wrote it, since she writes scads of Vincent-fic, but she tends to screw with her characters before giving them a happy ending. Hrm.
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Date: 2007-02-11 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-11 05:07 pm (UTC)...I really need an AC!Cloud icon for moments like these. Yay, Cloud/Tifa~!
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Date: 2007-02-12 02:31 am (UTC)Can't recall the fic that was in, but I know it was one of those epic AU types that retell the game events... just can't recall which.
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Date: 2007-02-11 02:49 pm (UTC)Cloud's resilient, but yes, he needs angst. No worries though, Cloud's going to be too busy in a bit to worry about Aeris too much....
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Date: 2007-02-11 02:53 pm (UTC)Apparently, greens. Only lots more of them. (There tend to be some hungry plot-advancing chocobo in FFXII.) I suppose the case can be made that war chocobo are like war horses, you breed them bigger to make them more intimidating, and to be able to carry a fully armored rider.
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Date: 2007-02-11 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-12 12:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-14 08:27 pm (UTC)Vin: Cloud, your applying your tunnel vision again. Stop it.
Cloud: >.< I'm sorry!
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Date: 2007-02-14 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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