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Tifa's gone home. Sorry to her friends here.


Filtered to KH!Cloud/50% Unhackable]

[A muffled attempt to start a sentence, and then he just forgets it and there's a dull sound as he switches to Private instead.]


[Private/50% Unhackable]

Can't even give us a minute to say goodbye, can you.

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[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

[She briefly considers turning into Tifa there, but that would be plain cruel. Instead, she chuckles and rapidly transforms into...

Cloud. And tries to copy his facial expression and gaze]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

...what the hell're you doing?

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

[Same voice as him, of course:]

Stargazing.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[You're weird, Nina.

Cloud just returns his attention to the skies again. There's probably more silence before he shifts uneasily and mumbles.] I loved her ever since I was little. Like...six or seven.

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

[Still there as Cloud, and no chuckle there just... listening. And trying not to be impacted; she doesn't want to mention her childhood]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

I was creepy. [Cloud lifts his head, slides his hands beneath it and lays back down. He doesn't look at Nina -it'd be weird, talking to your own face...not like Cloud hasn't done THAT before- and just watches.] I could never say anything around her; I got so nervous. And she was friends with these three boys that didn't like me so it's not like I ever had a chance to say anything anyway. I think...the first time we spoke was right before I left town for Midgar.

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

[...That's a familiar tale to her. Not personally, of course, but lives she's pretended to live have told similar tales. It's a mundane one, but maybe it was good for him? She gives a grunt there to say she's still listening]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Yeah, nothing special about his childhood.

He seems to be done, though. Gives a little half-shrug here.] ...anyway. She's better off home. It's safe for a year, at least...if time passes there at all.

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

That's an adorable tale there, Mr. Strife.

[...That's got to be weird to hear coming out in his voice]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

No it's not. It's stupid.

...but thanks for listening to it anyway, hag.

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say stupid, but I would say mundane.

[Still, she'll snort there, as him]

Still, it's probably better you had some mundane in your life to fall back on.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Speaking from experience?

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

[A pause, and then a light laugh]

There's a distinct difference between becoming special and being born special. The later has some consequences which aren't pleasant to most people's ears.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

...hm. [Cloud faces the sky again.] Yeah. I guess it does make sense that you and Sephiroth got along.

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

[...Snort there, and then she's going to chuckle before she goes back to her "normal" form] Yeah, we bonded over our uniqueness.

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You don't have to understand to listen. [Shifts his weight again.]

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

What, and I'm to tell the tragic tale of my family being killed so I could be kidnapped into House Jin when I was a toddler?

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

I didn't say you had to tell me anything.

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

[Chuckle]

Well that's the start of it, anyway. I wasn't from a big House; Sji was really small, and it was going to be slaughtered eventually. Dear Lord Sor'jin [...She fumbles on that name, briefly] saw a reason in that there was rumors I could ignore mass when I morphed.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Cloud head fell to the side and he watched her, listening.]

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

I was taken in as the personal... I guess a good word you'd understand would be "handmaiden." Slave is what most people tell it as but that's not quite right. In either case, I was inducted into House Jin under the direct service of Lord Sor'jin, one of the younger nobles in it.

[There's a cruel, bitter, insane laugh there]

Those were simpler times.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[The laugh makes Cloud frown a little bit, but he doesn't speak otherwise. It should be pretty obvious that he's still paying attention, though.]

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

I was trained. I mean, there were a lot of us; but the only constant was Lord Sor'jin. I killed most of the others myself in various matches or tests or if he told me too.

Well, I was trained and I was broken in, I suppose is a better way to put it.

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Cloud's honestly surprised she's offering up so much information, but thankfully the alcohol is just present enough for him to not really care of the circumstances, and he instead just hums a "keep going" sound.]

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

[Heh. She's going to snort there and then...] Of course, where there's one special person, there's a more special one.