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    Cloud's ma was wrong. He wasn't obsessed with Sephiroth. He didn't have a crush (ew). Sephiroth was just objectively the coolest kid in town - and yeah, he never left that weird old manor, and his dad was a greasy rat, and he had a propensity for staring at Cloud like he could make lasers come out of his eyes. But that was all part of the Sephiroth experience! It was fine! Cloud would be fine.

    Thanks to a wish granted by the lifestream, Cloud is born in 1984, two years earlier than he should be. Sephiroth is being raised in secret within the walls of Shinra Manor by Hojo and a handful of Shrina employees, and Cloud (age eleven) is a willful magnet for trouble.

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    25 Jul 2024

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    "you don't think the phantom thieves are just?"

    "i think your support of the phantom thieves shows your incompetence, detective."

    kurusu's tilting his head in a curious manner, and the light glances off his black-rimmed glasses, nearly obscuring his eyes from view.

    but goro sees him, sees the hunger, sees the ravenous nature underneath; he sees it because he feels it too: the draw, the deal, and the start of the game.

    [a roleswap au; akira kurusu as the calm, professional, cagey detective prince, and goro akechi as the surprisingly charming and well-spoken delinquent transfer student. comes with art!]

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    02 Jul 2024

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    What would it be like to die here? What do you want to be when you rot? I want flowers seeping out of my jaw, snaking around my bones. I want something to grow out of me.
     
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    It starts the night that Zack comes home.

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    21 Jun 2024

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    If this were a different story, Zack thinks, he would be using his last moments to remember kind, green eyes and a sweet smile. He would be staring out into the raining sky, life running out of him, while making peace with the fact that he would never see his first love again. If this were a different story, Zack would not be left empty-handed, crying out as his friend stumbles away into the remnants of a battlefield. He would not be praying for that blond head to turn, aching to capture the final sight of a cherished face before locking it behind two lids.

    No, this does not feel like a fitting end to this story at all―and Zack overflows with the one childish thought that this is unbearably unfair. In the rare moments that he, as any soldier must, contemplated his death, he never imagined that he would die alone.

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    02 Jun 2024