[Written/Action]

[herobydefault]

Don't touch my youngest, he explodes.


Yuffie, we're gonna leave tomorrow. Also Cid, join my party. Sorry Leto, but I think for the good of the plot you're going to have to bite the big one. We'll bring you back later, don't worry.


[[Locked to Tifa//80% Unhackable]]

...I'm sorry. Can I talk to you?


[[Private//85% Unhackable]]

Tell me the truth; did you take her, or did she go back?


[Action]

[Simon and Cloud are out walking about because the boy keeps bloodying up the house and scaring Cloud half to death. ...why he thought a walk outside would be a good idea is beyond me.]

Comments

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

No, he's not a sidequest. I'm pretty sure he's plot.

...but um, I don't know his difficulty rating; the usual, I guess? I'll be fine, Cid and Yuffie are in my party.

[wingenvy]

...You're ditching the kids again, Spike.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

No, I was gonna drop them off at the bar.

[wingenvy]

The bar?

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the bar. Kids are always safe there.

[wingenvy]

Since when?

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

...since always. That's just how it is.

[wingenvy]

So lemme get this straight. Instead of going, "Hey Zack, can you watch the kids for a few days", you're going to ditch a ten year old kid and his younger, exploding brother, at an empty bar.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

...nothing bad ever happens to kids when we leave them at the bar at home. They're always fine.

Besides, I thought you were getting sick of watching my kids.

[wingenvy]

That doesn't mean I'd rather see them left alone. There's nothing magically safe about bars, Spike. What if someone goes in and gets drunk?

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

...that never happens though.

[wingenvy]

What the hell's wrong with you?

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

There's nothing wrong with me, look-

Obviously when you go off to do a boss fight, you can't take little kids with you. They'd be in danger. So what do you? You leave them at the bar; it worked out fine for Marlene in the slums all the time -minus the whole plate coming down thing but Aerith got her out before that happened- and it worked fine for her and Denzel again when Bahamut attacked Edge.

...hell, Marlene ran the bar when Tifa, Barret and I went to take out that reactor. I don't know what your problem is.

[wingenvy]

You're insane. Just leave them here so I can watch them.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

I'm not insane, but fine.

[wingenvy]

If only for Denzel's sake. You really think the poor kid should be watching Simon explode? There's plenty of stuff to bump into at a bar.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Zack, I don't know if you've noticed, but that kid's got bigger balls than I do.

[wingenvy]

Doesn't mean you should be giving him that much responsibility. Kids should be kids.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Zack, I think we're thinking of two different things here.

You leave a kid at the bar, and the storyline continues on with the main party. Because the storyline continues with the main party, not much else happens elsewhere unless it directly relates to the main party, and the kids only get kidnapped if they wander the streets. It's just how things work. Plus there's plot devices and script edits because of time and space constraints, so really I don't think you have anything to worry about.

[wingenvy]

.....

[Facepalm.]

Have you even asked them if they want to go?

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Denzel's usually fine with it. And Simon would understand; I'm not going to be gone for months, just a couple weeks, max. Besides, this is a BOSS FIGHT.

I have to do this or the plot doesn't advance. And then we'll never get home.

[wingenvy]

...Just... nevermind. Let them stay home, please?

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

I already said fine.

What's wrong?

[wingenvy]

This experiment's weirding me out. And you know I hate it when you run off like this.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Look, I'd be more than happy to let you take the party there, but I'm the main character. I can't kick myself out of the party unless there's something going on in the plot that renders me useless. Like if I got Mako poisoning again. I don't really want to, but...