The Ultimate Anti-Climax of Ultimate History?

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[So, all of you islanders have been recovering from the horrors of the Zombie Island Mish-Mash of Nuclear AWESOME, doing your island-y things. That's cool, so has Ed, off being his usual slightly-reclusive self and blowing things up in his Gilligan-lab to pass the time. Life returns to what passes for normal here, right?

...and then there's the note. Of course your first thought is 'Oh God, another event?' as would be the logical train of thought--

Wait a minute. Wedding invitation? Of the island and--WHAT?! And on top of that you're free to leave for home or wherever you like?]

...there's no way. This has to be a trick.



(( MINGLE POST HO!!! Are you skeptical of this ~*gift from the heavens*~ as Edward is? Are you one of the insanely hopeful that shall plan for where you'll go? Need to start making tearful goodbyes to your long-time buddies? Shanghai some fellow islanders to your homeworld for nefarious purposes? Get pissed at being brought here recently just to leave? Flip out and go find some Black Materia to call down Mete--wait.

So yeah. Post, mingle, have fun! And assume this is the day of the note-arrival, obvs. Mods, if this is out of line, feel free to stake me out for the vultures. *A*b ))

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[flatchestking.livejournal.com]

Well... wouldn't it be a little odd to talk about that?

[thundagathighs.livejournal.com]

Well, there was always stuff going on-- not just the, well, dying.

[flatchestking.livejournal.com]

You said you joined... SOLDIER, was it? I assume you had much to do?

[thundagathighs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did. I was always out on missions-- SOLDIER is really the best of the best, so it was tough work. I trained under a guy, his name was Angeal.

[flatchestking.livejournal.com]

What was he like?

[thundagathighs.livejournal.com]

He was everything I thought a hero should be-- he was so smart, so cool, he always had the situation under control! He was a legend at Shinra-- one of the best there was. He taught me everything I know. About honor and dreams and... he always knew what was best.

[flatchestking.livejournal.com]

... Then something went wrong, yes?

[thundagathighs.livejournal.com]

... Yeah. He was a part of Project Gillian, which was a part of the Jenova Project. He was born with these cells that were injected into his mother... it turned him into something that made him believe he was a monster. He had to hold back for a long time... as long as I'd known him, to keep it from showing.

He had two friends, who were other SOLDIER operatives. Their names were Sephiroth and Genesis... they were both a part of the project as well. As time went on, Shinra wasn't just a power company, wasn't just a mainstay for the world... it was poisoning it as well, and looking to drain it dry of mako, which is a type of energy where I live. It runs the entire world, every blinking light... and Shinra was greedy for it.

They used cells from a being called Jenova, which they believed to come from an ancient race that could commune with... an untapped, vast surplus of Mako. That's the short way of describing it, anyway. However, Jenova wasn't what they thought it was. Jenova was... Jenova was something else. A monster.

And because of that, because my Mentor always believed he was a monster. He wanted to protect the world from things like monsters like him. [ Shakes his head ] In the end, he couldn't stop it anymore. And he needed me to kill him.

[ His hand lightly touches the cross-shaped scar on his cheek. ] So I did.

[flatchestking.livejournal.com]

... Unbelievable. The lengths that some reach, even if it heavily affects others.

[thundagathighs.livejournal.com]

It's my turn to say 'I didn't know at the time'. Even after he died, even though I was so confused, I took my mentor's place and became SOLDIER 1st Class. I looked after the new recruits, but I never stopped wondering.

Eventually, that man I mentioned, Sephiroth... he discovered the being called Jenova when we went to the village of Nibelheim to check out its reactor. He studied more about it, and he became obsessed... he had the same misconception that the person who first found it did, he thought he was a member of the ancient race whom he thought humanity betrayed and that Jenova was his mother. I... I don't know what happens from there, I know I fought him, but things get fuzzy.

Next thing I knew, it was four years later and I had woken up in a tube. The scientist who worked on the Jenova project had experimented on me and my friend, injecting us with the cells.

[flatchestking.livejournal.com]

...

[thundagathighs.livejournal.com]

I was able to resist, but my friend was suffering from Mako poisoning. Once I broke us out, we were wanted fugitives for escaping. Guess that comes with being a top-secret science experiment, right? Also the fact that we had been confirmed dead for a long time.

We were on the run for a while. Eventually, I had to confront a lot of my mentor's demons-- and one of his best friends, Genesis. I got a letter from an old friend... someone who still wrote to me, despite so much time passing. And then I knew I had to get back to Midgar.

But when I finally got close, there was Shinra's army. I hid Cloud somewhere safe and... you know the rest.

[flatchestking.livejournal.com]

... Whatever happened to that 'Sephiroth'?

[thundagathighs.livejournal.com]

I... don't know. I assume he died.

[flatchestking.livejournal.com]

Well, an obsessed person can be very dangerous...

[thundagathighs.livejournal.com]

... Yeah. I doubt Shinra would leave a loose end like him untied, though. Look at all the trouble they went through for me.

[flatchestking.livejournal.com]

Were you making yourself known? They had to know you were coming.

[thundagathighs.livejournal.com]

Well, breaking out of where they kept me sort of required that.

[flatchestking.livejournal.com]

They thought you would walk straight to where everything was? And not run away?

[thundagathighs.livejournal.com]

Well, first I went to Gongaga, to see my parents.

But they knew I went there, too.

[flatchestking.livejournal.com]

Were the tracking you somehow?

[thundagathighs.livejournal.com]

No, it's Shinra. They're just that good at hunting someone down. And I imagine even with the most sneaking I could do, someone like me and my comatose friend would still catch some attention.

But I couldn't leave Cloud behind, even if it had made things easier on me.

[flatchestking.livejournal.com]

Can you... tell me about Cloud?

[thundagathighs.livejournal.com]

Cloud's another country boy like me. He came from Nibelheim, the... town that Sephiroth destroyed. [ he's still not too sure on why it suddenly existed again after he broke out of Shinra mansion ] He wanted to be SOLDIER 1st Class too. He really looked up to Sephiroth.

I don't know, for some reason or another, they included him in the experiments. He didn't do well with the poisoning, but the last time I saw him, he snapped out it it.

[flatchestking.livejournal.com]

... It must have been hard for him.