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Sephiroth (age 7) ([personal profile] pinnaculum) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-02-06 01:06 pm

❄ The new kid ❄ [open]

Characters: [au2] Sephiroth and YOU
Setting: throughout the tower: dorms, cafeteria, library, floor 81, anywhere with monsters to fight.
Format: Starting in action, but will match prose
Summary: A new Sephiroth arrives in the Tower. He's a bit smaller than the other one, and looks a lot younger.
Warnings: Mentions of human experimentation.


The dormitories; room 1-18 and hallways:
[Waking up in a completely unfamiliar place isn't a novel experience for Sephiroth, but it isn't one he likes. He rises from the bed and quickly searches the room. He reads the letters he finds and changes out of the white jumpsuit as soon as possible, exchanging it for his own dark gray, utilitarian clothes. He has a pair of dark goggles that he rests on top of his head. He uses them at times to disguise his glowing eyes, but he doesn't pull them down now. The last time he woke in a strange place, it was cold and snowing. This is a warm room. It is preferable, but he still has much to learn about his current location. He ventures out into the hallway as soon as he's dressed.

He doesn't see Mr. Valentine. He's supposed to stay near him. Maybe he can find him somewhere nearby.
]

Floor 1; the cafeteria:
[Who has absolutely no problem with eating his oatmeal? This kid. After all, soldiers in the field eat rations, and this is no different. He is eating the bland food at a steady pace with a remarkable lack of expression and quiet determination. Seldom has oatmeal been eaten more seriously.]

Floor 3; the library:
[Sephiroth doesn't see the need to ask for help, though he's frustrated that he still hasn't found Mr. Valentine. The network terminals aren't difficult to operate. With in no time, he's accessing them and looking through the old entries. He frowns slightly. A lot of these entries aren't very useful. He doesn't need to know about people feeling sick or playing pranks or insulting each other.

After spending some time at a terminal, Sephiroth makes his way through the shelves and locates a nice, extensive section of science books. In no time, he's amassing quite the collection of thick tomes on biology, genetics, and chemistry. He pulls down all the books that seem interesting. The ones on the upper shelves are harder for him to reach, so he leaps up several feet into the air and grabs those he's selected from the shelf. This acrobatic display seems effortless.
]

Floor 81; the observatory lounge:
[Sephiroth has walked out onto the bulging glass windows, so that he almost seems to be suspended in midair. He isn't doing anything in particular. He stands silently looking upward, watching the stars.]

Any dangerous floor, near dusk:

[It's growing darker, and it's probably a good time for children to be heading back to safer floors, but Sephiroth, instead, is heading out. He has a sword with him, a rather long sword for someone of his height. Kids, swords, and monsters: always a good combination.]
liquidouroboros: (Default)

floor 3

[personal profile] liquidouroboros 2013-02-06 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Liquid was often one for ridiculous acrobatics himself, but that? That was impressive, even by his impossibly high standards.]

...Where did you learn to do that?
liquidouroboros: (know that we'll never walk alone)

[personal profile] liquidouroboros 2013-02-06 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[If he hadn't been interested before, he was now. Liquid closed the book he was reading--apparently a Sherlock Holmes collection--and focused on Sephiroth, trying in no uncertain terms to figure out just what his deal was.]

So you've always been capable of that? Seems a bit unusual.
liquidouroboros: (Default)

[personal profile] liquidouroboros 2013-02-06 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
So what is it that makes you so different?

[Tact? What's that?]
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The Cafeteria

[personal profile] oathshackledbird 2013-02-06 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[It is almost like the tower is taunting him with things he can't have--his own children--and things he can't protect--those as dear to him as his own children. It had only been a day or so ago that he'd run into one small child here. Now another sits eating the oatmeal at a table not far from where the first had sat.

This child is different, though. That is readily apparent the moment Diarmuid spots him. Already in this place he's run into children who thought they were adults and adults who thought they were children, but this child is different from both of them. He might look young, there there is a aura of something much older around him. Something trained, focused, and cold.

Diarmuid approaches the child carefully. Despite his youth, this one has obviously been trained for war even if he has not see it yet. Diarmuid might understand the necessity--his own training had started young--but that didn't mean he liked seeing it in others. Not in this day and age anyway.

Still, he can't argue that training won't give the child an edge when it comes to surviving in this place.
]

I'm glad not every child I run into in this place is foolish enough to argue with necessity. Tell me, what have you been told about this place so far? I will be glad to help answer any questions you might still have.
disgracedvoid: (♐ A little vision of the start the end)

Room 1-18

[personal profile] disgracedvoid 2013-02-06 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Just as Sephiroth goes for the door, Darkleer steps into the room. The gargantuan troll looks down at the boy, bending his neck a little to get a better look at him. Certainly not the child that used to room here, before. Well then.]

Excuse me.

[He waits patiently for the boy to move aside, so he can reach for his trunk and retrieve his weapons as he's in the mood to do some practicing today. Hopefully, this one will have better manners than the one before him. Hopefully. But from what Darkleer has noticed about humans, he doesn't really expect much.]
liquidouroboros: (so we sing out this our canticle)

[personal profile] liquidouroboros 2013-02-06 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well holy shit, Liquid could honestly say he hadn't seen that coming.]

...You're not a clone, are you?
neverbeamemory: (Portrait)

Floor 81 (Takes the plunge....)

[personal profile] neverbeamemory 2013-02-06 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Floor 81. The new Floor 45. This one has less human-like things crawling around on the glass outside and it does have it's spectacular view of the starry sky above the Tower. Being also an elevator-floor, undoubtedly it will be one of the more traversed floors which meant that for precious reflection time it probably wasn't all that suitable. It's a new floor still though and Sephiroth did like to stare up at the constellations last time he'd rested up in here after the 1st leg of his exploration earlier in the week.

The reflection started in the lift on the way down from the Dormitories. Hojo had gone from the Tower, that distinct feeling was no longer there. Sephiroth couldn't tell when exactly he'd noticed that the professor was no longer within his scope but in all honesty he was glad. No more picking apart his faults like he was still part of the Project. He knew that there was a Remnant here as well now, though what would be the purpose to go hunting that one down? If it was the creation he expected it to be, then he'd be best left to stew in his own juices first. Sephiroth had to adjust to the Tower - Kadaj could do the same.

Besides Cloud though, there was -something- else. Not quite as significant as Cloud felt but certainly -something-. It was an unknown and he couldn't quite pinpoint how he would go about finding it either it was that faint of a trail. That is until Sephiroth stepped from the elevator on the 81st Floor and approached the windows and met a sight to stop him dead from taking another step.

This kid can't have been more than 7 or 8, short silver hair, plain clothes and gazing up at the sky. If he hadn't known better, if actually perhaps he could recall better - it could have been...

They really weren't kidding when he'd read about different versions of the same people that they could bring here. But this?]
liquidouroboros: (know that we'll never walk alone)

[personal profile] liquidouroboros 2013-02-06 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[You're in good science experiment company, Sephiroth.]

I may as well ask--for what purpose were you made that way?
liquidouroboros: (Default)

[personal profile] liquidouroboros 2013-02-06 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
...You too, really?

[Well don't that beat all.]
mayatama: (Default)

cafeteria;

[personal profile] mayatama 2013-02-06 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
You're actually fine with eating that?

[ She'll just blink at the guy, certainly surprised. Because this is new... ]
liquidouroboros: (take back your souls)

[personal profile] liquidouroboros 2013-02-06 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Phrased simply, yes. Though I regrettably can't claim to be anything original.
liquidouroboros: (take back your souls)

[personal profile] liquidouroboros 2013-02-06 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never heard of it. I assume that was where you originated?
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[personal profile] liquidouroboros 2013-02-06 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
'Midgar'...? [The guy that secretly enjoys reading mythology is looking confused.]

I've not exactly heard of that, either. Is it anywhere on Earth?

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