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[toxicwillpower]

Characters: Kadaj & Sephiroth
Setting: Feb 17th after the collar check.
Format: Prose
Summary: For the very first time, these two meet!
Warnings: Who knows…


Light began to shine into Kadaj’s eyes through his lids. Half asleep, he winced, hoping that if he squeezed his eyes closed more tightly the light wouldn’t be a problem. However, he soon found that exerting any sort of effort to rid of the annoyance was just waking him up further. So, tired of trying, he slowly opened his eyes and allowed his catlike pupils to adjust to the pale light overhead.

Where was he? His head ached, but his body felt fine—rejuvenated, in fact. Last he could recall he was trying to pry off the collar which clung tightly to his neck. This wasn’t the outdoors he had been in, and the sky had turned into a white, sterile ceiling. How dull. How irritating.

Rolling his head to the side, Kadaj noticed he was in a bed, most likely a hospital bed. Growling, he jerked himself up and slid off the mattress. His gaze fell to the only other figure in the room. Whatever or whoever it was, was calling him—strongly--forcing him to gravitate closer.

With quiet footsteps the remnant approached it, careful not to wake it. Two gloved fingers curled around the figure’s chin so Kadaj could get a better look.

The teen inhaled sharply and took a step back. His chest tightened with fear as he immediately looked for a way to escape. A door, a window, anything! But his legs wouldn’t move and he was glued in place. The young remnant’s fists hung securely by his sides as every nerve vibrated with anxiety. He glared with a mixture of amazement and hatred at the figure on the bed.
It was Sephiroth!

Sephiroth was the man who haunted his dreams and reality—the very core of his existence—and here he was, for the very first time, right within arm’s reach.

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[toxicwillpower]

“Gaia isn’t gone! It doesn’t work that way.” He sneered, surprisingly he spoke with mirth. “Only Mother has the ability to take planets away like that.”

If Sephiroth were to sense anything from his remnant, it would be an odd form of grief, depression, confusion, and the wild anger that resided in a very vengeful soul, fueling the fire. The steady progression of failed strike after failed strike and constantly being bested by Cloud or Sephiroth weighted on his brain, on his sanity. And now he was brought here without any say and no immediate way out. The resulting cocktail of fervent rage and mental instability was explosive. Luckily for all parties involved, Kadaj’s mind was getting so bogged down attempting to retain his pride and figure out Mother’s wishes that his instinct for denial was, for the moment, vaporized.

“Aren’t you going to fix this?” He asked, as if this should have already happened. He didn’t wait for answer. Most likely because he didn’t want to hear it. “Something brought us here and it can bring us back!” The teen exclaimed. What would usually have been an angry tone was, instead, low but still strong. He was tired and in partial shock. Kadaj considered those signs of weakness and hid them the best he could.

He’d wait until after Sephiroth was gone to have his nervous breakdown. No doubt trash the place, and whoever he set his sights on next would unquestionably get a large chunk of his displaced rage thrown their way.

[neverbeamemory]

He recognizes those feelings that he senses radiating from Kadaj; it's a mixture of those feelings that he himself buried deeply within his own consciousness not long after he first arrived here. Lest they play right into the great experiment he's clearly been brought here for. Sephiroth shouldn't have expected anything different from Kadaj, the only difference seems to be the reason why such feelings are boxed away. Sephiroth has more recently resolved to hold his nerve, and be patient.

Sephiroth isn't about to let on that he can so easily read Kadaj but the Remnant would be certainly blind not to know how one-sided their connections is. He relaxes his folded arms and rubs with one hand at the back of the collar as he is want to do when it feels as if silver hair might have gotten entangled around some of the violet tubing; or it might be somewhat of a absent-minded gesture, or simply a check in case circumstances may change.

"Now is not the time for action. I'm not about to go slashing about in the dark, Kadaj." Of course Sephiroth wants to fix this, but if fixing this means that they will all be returned to Gaia...the question remains whether Sephiroth OR Kadaj would even exist. The only 'fixing this' could be breaking their Hosts' hold on him first, and Sephiroth needs to know more first.

He has nothing else left to say to the Remnant, and even if he did have more to reveal, Sephiroth wasn't sure what he would tell his avatar. And so Sephiroth heads out of the Infirmary, he will shoulder barge Kadaj out of the way if he doesn't so move willingly.