Cloud would not respond to that one. He wondered if some of that was due to his own weakness of wanting to matter. To get the approval that he never really had. Though, right now, it would appear that there were things that Sephiroth also regretted when it came to that. Cloud didn't exactly need Sephiroth's words of encouragement. It felt. Odd.
To protect the planet instead of destroying it. Cloud also hummed in thought at that. "Honestly, Shinra did more damage to it than you really did. Meteorfall shouldn't have happened, but because it did no one's using mako anymore."
Silver lining and all of that. That definitely wasn't what Jenovah wanted, but in a sense Meteor kind of forced everyone to really stop and think about the planet and the future. Something good did come out of it.
"Hojo had a lot of labs and places for different projects. Maybe the first step is actually finding them all. If things hadn't happened the way that they did... Would Zack, Vincent, and I have been found? How much time would have passed?"
And he paused as he thought about that. "I would be more than happy to dismantle more of Hojo's labs," he said. "Maybe there's even other victims still alive in some of them." A horrifying thought. What would be happening to them? Nothing good for sure.
"... If you were still in the lab, I would have still been trying to destroy the Planet. And I might have succeeded." He shook his head. "Or maybe you really would have been found and things would have played out much the same. It's impossible to say. It's better not to ponder on those impossible What Ifs ... and yet it's so difficult not to think about them."
"Possibly. Vincent and I couldn't be the only ones..."
Did Sephiroth really count? Cloud wasn't entirely sure of that. Sephiroth was alive now and he survived whatever Hojo put him through. However was he really caged? That was the part that Cloud didn't know. He wasn't sure he was ready to ask, to talk about a man that had screwed so many people over.
Besides, Sephiroth wasn't wrong. It was impossible to say how things might have played out. Dwelling on them didn't really do anyone any good.
"So think of that when you go back to sleep. Not about the 'what ifs,' but of chances to make things right."
Sephiroth definitely felt the same, that there must be others. He had certainly been a victim, but he wouldn't think of himself as the same as those who had been unable to leave unless they broke out.
"I'll do that."
He settled back into the couch and repositioned the wing as a blanket. He really hadn't expected to fall asleep again, but somehow he did.
This time he stayed asleep longer. But at one point there was a flash of light and suddenly he was laying there in a version of his Safer form, but with his legs and both arms intact and no giant halos in the way. The wings were purple in this version, most of them hanging all around his waist. The larger wing on his shoulder slipped away from his chest, followed by his right arm hanging off the couch to the floor. He was still sound asleep, apparently unaware that he had transformed in his sleep.
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Date: 2024-11-04 05:11 am (UTC)To protect the planet instead of destroying it. Cloud also hummed in thought at that. "Honestly, Shinra did more damage to it than you really did. Meteorfall shouldn't have happened, but because it did no one's using mako anymore."
Silver lining and all of that. That definitely wasn't what Jenovah wanted, but in a sense Meteor kind of forced everyone to really stop and think about the planet and the future. Something good did come out of it.
"Hojo had a lot of labs and places for different projects. Maybe the first step is actually finding them all. If things hadn't happened the way that they did... Would Zack, Vincent, and I have been found? How much time would have passed?"
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Date: 2024-11-04 05:26 am (UTC)And he paused as he thought about that. "I would be more than happy to dismantle more of Hojo's labs," he said. "Maybe there's even other victims still alive in some of them." A horrifying thought. What would be happening to them? Nothing good for sure.
"... If you were still in the lab, I would have still been trying to destroy the Planet. And I might have succeeded." He shook his head. "Or maybe you really would have been found and things would have played out much the same. It's impossible to say. It's better not to ponder on those impossible What Ifs ... and yet it's so difficult not to think about them."
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Date: 2024-11-05 04:43 am (UTC)Did Sephiroth really count? Cloud wasn't entirely sure of that. Sephiroth was alive now and he survived whatever Hojo put him through. However was he really caged? That was the part that Cloud didn't know. He wasn't sure he was ready to ask, to talk about a man that had screwed so many people over.
Besides, Sephiroth wasn't wrong. It was impossible to say how things might have played out. Dwelling on them didn't really do anyone any good.
"So think of that when you go back to sleep. Not about the 'what ifs,' but of chances to make things right."
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Date: 2024-11-05 05:06 am (UTC)"I'll do that."
He settled back into the couch and repositioned the wing as a blanket. He really hadn't expected to fall asleep again, but somehow he did.
This time he stayed asleep longer. But at one point there was a flash of light and suddenly he was laying there in a version of his Safer form, but with his legs and both arms intact and no giant halos in the way. The wings were purple in this version, most of them hanging all around his waist. The larger wing on his shoulder slipped away from his chest, followed by his right arm hanging off the couch to the floor. He was still sound asleep, apparently unaware that he had transformed in his sleep.