Hey, do you reckon Zack kept this feather he caught after Genesis took off in Banora?
Maybe he stashes it in a drawer once he gets home, unsure how to feel about it or even if he wants to ever look at it again.
And then, almost a year later, he happens across it again after returning from his trip to Modeoheim, having opened the draw to put another feather—this time, a white one—inside.
He takes Genesis's feather, brows furrowed in angry sadness, and holds it along with Angeal's to his chest. He flops onto his bed, curls into a tight ball, and sobs, all while cradling what little he has of them left.
A month later, Sephiroth enters his office to find a simple, plain envelope on his desk, addressed to him and written in Zack's typical scrawl. Confused yet intrigued, he opens it, finding a small note and two feathers—one from Genesis, the other from Angeal—tucked inside.
These are what you think they are. Figured you deserved them more than me, since, you know...they were your best friends and all. Hope that's okay.
- Zack
Sephiroth is truly glad he's kept his office door shut.
He certainly isn't ready to face anyone with tears streaking down his face.
~ Fin
I think I just broke my own heart oh my god-
/gross sobbing
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you're a diver from Fontaine, one of the best in the entire Court, and are known far and wide for your ability to collect whatever resource people need- that's where most of your pay comes from, collecting beryl conches and romaritime flowers for jewelry, perfumes, and the like. but you also enjoy diving as a hobby, spending most of your time off in the water and enjoying the sights, your Vision allowing you to breathe easily under the waves. there's something about floating weightlessly in oceanic world that helps you feel so calm and at peace.
it's during one of these leisurely dives that you encounter something- or someone- incredible.
you won't lie, you were swimming too close to the Fortress of Meropide. yes, it's technically forbidden, but you couldn't help but investigate the deeper waters and caves around it after so long of staying away from the area! as long as you stayed away from the searchlights, no one would suspect a thing, so you swam down into the murky gloom. it's more difficult to see as you cautiously glance around, slightly on edge- until you come face-to-face with an oddly glowing light, seemingly emitting from a faceted crystal. you don't dare go towards it (you've had enough experience with ocean creatures to know it very well could be a lure), so instead it decides to come towards you, and an enormous slinking creature is revealed from the darkness. your blood runs cold, all instincts screaming to get away, run, but the monster merely chitters curiously, tilting his horned head and blinking at you quietly.
hesitantly, you raise a hand and wave, and the beast's singular eye widens in awe as he waves back.
you come back to visit the odd creature again and again after that day, becoming adept at avoiding the lights of Fontaine's prison. the monster- Childe, as he told you via carvings on the wall- was incredibly sweet despite his intimidating appearance, greeting you with a delighted chirp and a hug, always extremely gentle with you. he follows you as you explore, protecting you and bringing you trinkets that have sunk to the ocean floor, nudging your hands for head scritches. through his gestures and warbling tones you deduce that he lives in a cavern further below, one you refuse to go to- it makes your skin crawl, for some reason. rarely does Childe come to the surface, but occasionally he'll accompany you if he doesn't want to see you go, wrapping his scaled tail around your legs and whining until you give him a kiss on the forehead. he loves you, and you love him, and he was your special secret.
until you began to fall mysteriously ill, your breaths coming out short and ragged and your head filling with cotton clouds. at first you think it's just a common cold, but it doesn't go away, only getting worse over time. the doctors you visit don't seem to have a cure, merely telling you to rest until you feel better, which you never do, no matter how many hours you sit on the shore with Childe's head in your lap. his worry for you makes you feel a little happier, caressing his cheeks and whispering hoarsely to him as he whimpers, claws dancing over your cheeks in an attempt to hold you back. but it hurts and you cough again and again, growing weaker by the day for no reason other than fate's cruel story.
you don't know that Childe is a monster from the Primordial Sea, gradually wearing away at your strength and life, until it's too late.
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Thinking back to (aka wishing i had the energy to draw a comic about) my first death with with Moros’ keepsake because I remember so vividly thinking “Oh this is really OP, it’ll make everything easy!” after reading the item description. And Then. the the first time the countdown started I was so caught off guard it was like [ten] WHAT [nine] HE TALKS? [eight] this is NOT what i EXPECTED [seven] *realizes I’m supposed to fighting, panics* [six] *mental flatlining* [five] oh god I’m not even halfway through this boss’ health bar what the fuck [four] Okay But Seriously What The Fuck [three] *realizes i’m going to die* SHIT [two] *mental flatlining but with more panic* [one] and then I was left watching the death screen in stunned silence like what the FUCK just happened to me.
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somewhere else?
some ramblings below:
something something, jon landed in erebus and was healed from the stab wound by the time he woke up. he's still connected to the eye and has been able to manage on his own more or less, but he's generally been nerfed and is also struggling to concentrate as an effect of erebus being a place the eye can't really see.
he meets melinoe in the fountain chamber, where he's been able to catch his breathe and try to think about what to do next, and how to reach martin, who he's been separated from. the chamber has the added benefit of being spider free, probably thanks to the cat that frequents the area.
martin is in the fields of mourning, however jon isn't able to see that far deep into the underworld, much less be able to go down there himself. he can, at the very least, sense that he IS there somewhere. martin probably assumes that jon is dead, and some mix of of the lonely and being in the fields has him doing not so well :( can eventually be found by melinoe, sitting alone in a chamber next to one of those statues that watch you
uhh something something, eventually they're reunited and get a happy ending xD
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okay so two ways to take this:
poseidon is full of shit. polyphemus is his son but doesn't want to tell his niece that because it makes him look bad.
poseidon is telling the truth, and was pissed off at odysseus for secret reasons unrelated to polyphemus.
important note: this still makes him look bad.
edit: oh. so he was telling the truth
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