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When I was in the lab with Zack... well, Hojo had different methods of keeping us in line... one of them was — well, after a month or two, he figured out we didn't care what he did to us, so long as we could get a word in edgewise between the screams, so he worked out a system where when one of us did something, the other would get punished for it.
So... one day, about six months in, we tried to escape. Spent ages planning it and everything. I blew it, naturally. Zack managed to get along fine, but I had lost too much blood to make it very far. And of course, this was in the days before Hojo started getting budget cuts, so we made it halfway up the stairs before being taken down by what was practically an army.
"Zack's" punishment was... well, if I had known, I'd have tried to keep quieter, but they were recording the whole thing. About halfway through, I started begging them to kill me, but even then, it stopped eventually.
For "my" punishment, they locked him in a room with no light, and they looped the recording for five days. I got to watch from a two-way mirror. He did okay for the first two days — as okay as you could expect in those circumstances, anyway. By the third day, he started screaming along with the recording, and I got taken away for testing again. He was quiet for the fourth day, though. And when we opened it up on the fifth day, we found him lying in his own blood with a gash on his forehead. He had beaten his own head against the wall, just to knock himself out and make it stop.
We didn't try to escape again, after that.
If I had known, I wouldn't have screamed. But I didn't think anyone that mattered was listening.
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-jams his stick roughly back in the cup-
edited 12th Apr '12 5:18:53 PM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistMade it up. The game used a Gory Discretion Shot for the years in Nibelheim in order to keep the T rating. Besides, the stuff in canon is just as bad. I could have gone with his mental breakdown in the Northern Crater, and the only thing that would make it better would be the lack of blood.
FFVII was a really weird, really depressing game. :D
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist

Nevermind.
Well, you'd best get to telling us your greatest shame then, 'cause Daddy's not making any more compromises!
edited 9th Apr '12 2:04:57 PM by MacDuffy