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1. First and Last and Always by Rosettafall

   Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   30 May 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Cid Highwind/Vincent Valentine
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • Yuffie Kisaragi & Vincent Valentine
   • Tifa Lockhart & Vincent Valentine
   • Cid Highwind & Barret Wallace
   • Shalua Rui & Reeve Tuesti
   • Cid Highwind
   • Vincent Valentine
   • Yuffie Kisaragi
   • Reeve Tuesti
   • Tifa Lockhart
   • Cloud Strife
   • FF7 Ensemble Cast
   • Additional Warnings In Author's Note
   • Past Lucrecia Crescent/Vincent Valentine
   • Immortality sucks
   • AroAce Cid Highwind
   • Valenwind but make it a QPR
   • Post-Game(s)
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Dirge of Cerberus but it's picked apart a lot
   • POV Third Person Limited
   • POV Multiple
   • Tags May Change
   • Slow Burn
   • Past Abuse
   • (In the context of Vincent)
   • Canon divergences abound

   Summary

   Healing isn't a linear process - not for the planet, and not for Vincent. Especially not when he’s confronted with immortality and an eternity of trying to move on from a past that remains ever-present.
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   It seemed like an appropriate punishment for someone who was, for the longest time, desperate for death, to become incapable of it. To believe you existed for no reason– to want to exist for no reason– and end up with a purpose beyond what human language could communicate. These are the thoughts that came to Vincent while he lay on the verge of the closest he could ever get to death.
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   Title is from an album by Sisters of Mercy. Rating is for: swearing, violence, discussions of trauma/abuse/ptsd etc.

   Language:

   English

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