... -Coughs-
Uh, Cosmo Canyon. It's underground. Big massacre from the Gi about fifty years back. We took out most of the big ones on the way through, but the place was swarming with them.
But... that's just dead guys. And... dead dog guys, I guess, but still just dead guys only with four legs. The dead thing hanging around Cloud's kinda different.
Yes you are. You're smarter and you're more confident and you're in control of your powers.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?...Well, like I said, Cloud's always been a little... y'know, in the head, so when I got a text saying that he was seeing shadows out of the corner of his eye... there's a lot of ways to take it, right?
Cloud's "I'm gonna wake you up at two in the morning because I was just worried you dropped dead for literally no reason" crazy. Not "tinfoil and Martians and the toaster says I should push you down a flight of stairs" crazy. He sees shit, yeah, but it usually comes from somewhere. You've always gotta take it seriously when Cloud says he's hearing voices.
Ten years back or something he had stuff... done to him. You obviously saw the end result of that so I'm not gonna go into detail, but the short version is he's got this zillions of years old alien squid living in his head. We killed it and burned the body, but it's kinda stuck to him. And... recently things got bad. Real bad. -Suddenly looks flustered, unsure of how to proceed- I don't — I mean, I know he can't have meant it, right? He wouldn't do something like that.
Because... because...
...
-Looks to Yuffie. Crosses her arms, defensively-
The toaster hasn't told me to kill anyone in a long time...
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?...
Because you know what you're doing and nobody else does.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?- n o -
He started falling apart into meat, right? And then he said he was seeing things, and he was having trouble stringing sentences together, and pretty soon he didn't even know what was going on around him, so we took him to see a doctor, and...
Th — he killed people. A lot of 'em. There were these pricks that said he'd gone mad, and there was nothing we could do, and that he's nothing but some brainless maniac, but... but I know him. I know he wouldn't. I think that thing in his head — it made him, or something. It's happened before, but back then we had...
Look, even if he did go nuts, it was that Jenova thing that did it, like it did last time. If we get rid of it, he'll go back to normal, right?
-Looks at Gracia-
... -Shuffles away slightly-
edited 26th Sep '16 12:00:07 AM by WonderSquid
(Miyu doesn't look back up at him, focusing on the ash in her hand)
He became a Heroic Spirit to save a hundred people. In return, he had to continuously kill millions to save billions. It hurt him, but it saved the world.
(she tilts her hand, and the ash begins to fall, fading away like a projection just before it hits the ground)
...In the end, the one who really suffered from that was him.
…
(Is silent a very long time, seemingly at a loss for words. Doesn't make it anymore comfortable that he can't blink or anything.)
…
<...Was that necessarily the only way it could have been done...?>
edited 26th Sep '16 12:06:07 AM by MobileLeprechaun
make it through this year if it kills you yet | 2001-2019-He stands up from his chair-
So, I happen to have a better grasp of etiquette than you. So, I happen to be in control of my Limitless Psychic Power. So, I happen to have a place in society. So what? None of these things are exclusive to me, none of these things are things you can't do. I am not some better, superior being than you simply because I know things you do not. All these things I have, all the things that truly matter, you are perfectly capable of obtaining. We are equals!
-Yuffie it seems he's shifted his focus for the time being....-
edited 26th Sep '16 12:07:13 AM by MacDuffy
-She stares at Reigen with surprise and admiration-
-Gives a tiny smile-
... Thank—
-Jenova-
-Not the word she wanted to hear. Floodgates open-
-She hunches over-
Nnnnnnnh!
edited 26th Sep '16 12:09:11 AM by SR3NORMANDY
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?

<Very good, then... And, if you find their instruction lacking at all, I could assist you.>
(SLICE. The one creepazoid is cleanly bifurcated, its body promptly dissipating into a thick, hot steam that smells pungently of human flesh.)
(KA-PUNCH. The other one's bell is firmly rung, and it falls limp on the ground, also poofing into icky steam.)
…
(The others stare a moment, before calmly advancing, arms outstretched.)
<...I was, yes... This is about what I'm getting at, really. You and this Archer, you are two individuals, hardly copies by any means. Your trajectories may be similar, your trajectory to that of Kiritsugu's may be similar, but they do not have to be identical. You think differently, you behave differently... You are different, Miyu, you don't have to warp yourself into a mold...>
make it through this year if it kills you yet | 2001-2019