PARTY TIME!

[deloreandriver]

Characters: Marty and EVERYONE ELSE. Start your own threads, mingle, make CR!
Setting: Floor 38, the big lounge floor just under the dorms, BEST STORM VIEW
Format: Your choice
Summary: STORM WATCHING PARTY! So the power is out and there's tons of thunderstorms. But don't let that get you down, WATCH THE THUNDERSTORMS! Also pancakes and coffee.
Warnings: STORM WATCHING ! Lots of thunder

Marty had enough of the darkness in the tower and the creeping monsters, so when he looked at the mass of pancakes the automatic pancake maker had made, he loaded them up along with the coffee maker, coffee, the syrup, and toted them all the way up to Floor 38.

There was no way he was going to let those massive stacks of pancakes go to waste, and this was the closest floor to the dorms that actually had some place to hang out, so he set the pancakes up as a sort of continental breakfast, and sat watching the storm.

What he hadn't expected was the people to start trickling in.

Comments

[intemperiae]

The General's answering smile...was somewhat chilling. "I've lived with nightmares all of my life, Reno," he replied, answering the Turk's unspoken thought. And decades of unknown torment stood behind that simple statement.

"Were they to suddenly disappear, that I might find frightening."

[midgarhorizon]

Reno hesitated a long moment, almost long enough to act like he wasn't going to answer at all, but he gave a sad smile and shrugged his shoulders slightly. "I'm sorry."

[intemperiae]

Sephiroth's lip twitched. "Do not pity me, Turk," he chided lightly. "For make no mistake, I neither need nor want it. Were my circumstances different, I would not be the man that I am."

He turned back to stare out at the growling storm. "Despite everything, I have no regrets."

[midgarhorizon]

Shaking his head, the smile faded. "It isn't pity, Sephiroth. It's more... I'm startin' to get why things happened the way they did."

He frowned and shook his head, folding his arms as if in defense. Keeping Sephiroth in the dark about Nibelheim and what he did seemed somehow... wrong now, but there was that he might not take it well. Even so, Reno didn't know exactly what had set the man off other than some general details.

"You like the man you are now, huh? I think that's you, not circumstances."

[intemperiae]

"I know no other way to be." Sephiroth fell silent for a moment, then chuckled, shaking his head.

"It might have been idyllic to grow up in Banora with Angeal and Genesis, or in Gongaga with Zack Fair, but..." He shrugged lightly. "Then I would not be who I am. Therefore, it's moot."

[midgarhorizon]

"There's this sayin' we make ourselves into what we want to be. It says a lot about ya, you and those three ended up in the same place." With that, Reno finally decided to leave, rubbing his forehead in some confusion on exactly what- or how, his relationship with Sephiroth just evolved into.