All my thoughts flew out of my head because I keep thinking of tiny Sephiroth and even tinier Tseng, golly. It took me a second to get the timeline straight in my head because I'm so used to thinking of older Sephiroth (Vincent realizing that he was hiding Sephiroth from Hojo's view in the elevator was kind of cute)
This was a delightful little adventure and I feel a little bit sorry for Vincent panicking a little when he loses track of Sephiroth, haha. I didn't realize how much i wanted to see a fic with potential found family dynamic until now
Also: whenever I'm reminded that Hojo and Lucretia had some kind of mad science thing going on (fuzzy on the details because it's been a while) I'm like Jesus Christ lmao, Hojo......is.....not someone I wanna think about as any kind of father LMAO
Hojo's peak parenting achievement was slightly before he died, when he hijacked a giant laser to shoot at his boy's force field to juice up his apocalyptic intent, because 'my son needs power and help!!!'
dkfajsd;kl you call it a 'mad science thing' and I start to visualize it in Girl Genius terms, with suggestive lab coat removal and scientific equipment a turn-on, which I do not want.
The vibe I've always gotten is that Hojo exploited Lucrecia, pinpointing all her psychological weaknesses and playing on them to extract what he wanted, then immediately discarded her in order to maximize his own control of the project. The only part of this that doesn't match the timeline and their established characters exactly is that it requires Hojo to have convincingly pretended to be a halfway decent person for at least a few months. He was catching her on the rebound so it was easier than it would otherwise have been, but still.
...What haunts me is that he apparently had some mad animal magnetism of SOME kind going for him, because 30 years after performing that plot-essential seduction he could go sit on a beach in his lab coat and be surrounded by adoring, nubile young women. >> HOW DOES HE DO THAT?????? He's not even paying any attention to them! What.
Ahem. Anyway! Yeah Vincent as Sephiroth's pseudo-parental-figure is a dynamic I've always enjoyed the thought of. Honestly I think it's all the better for them being entirely unrelated, though I do understand the appeal to some people of the Real Dad scenario.
XD Yeah the reason I went on about Sephiroth's height as much as I did was partly because it amused me to have him be short when usually he is tall, partly to grind in the child soldier thing, and partly because I knew it would be tough for readers to keep in mind that Sephiroth looked different than usual unless I brought it up frequently.
I'm happy you enjoyed that moment where Sephiroth's smallness was actually plot-relevant lmao. <3
Even tinier Tseng was total self-indulgence but I have Headcanons about Tseng based on the fact that he seems younger than Sephiroth in Crisis Core, and at any rate can't be much older; he ages really visibly during the five years after Nibelheim so you can tell he hadn't finished growing into his face in his first scene. But he was already a uniformed Turk when he turned up at Elmyra's house for Aerith the first time, a good decade previously.
That makes for a very young secret policeman. And Cissnei has established that training children up into the organization is a thing the Turks do, so...
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