towerofanimus | Of course she goes to the library first

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Of course she goes to the library first

Characters: Genesis Rhapsodos and OPEN
Setting: Floor Three; The Library; A good chunk of the afternoon
Format: I'll match!
Summary: Genesis finds the library and disappears into the world of fiction!
Warnings: None for the moment

Fighting monster had gotten boring, really. While many presented a challenge, she really did not want to keep fighting! So it just so happened that she found the library Tohko had told her about and it was here she stayed for quite some time. Many of these books were just fascinating! Like nothing she had ever seen on Gaia. Genesis had grabbed quite a few, though she doubted she would finish any of them today. Was she allowed to check any out?

Were anyone to find Genesis, they would find her on the floor in the corner of the fantasy section, a couple piles of books next to her and her nose in one of them.

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"I told you already. It doesn't matter."

There is a hint of displeasure in his tone as he decided, at least for now, to humor this woman and so turned fully to face her. Apparently she wasn't satisfied with what he had told her on the network and so had to verify it face to face. Sephiroth supposed that made sense to a certain extent, after all there wasn't anyway to verify anything in this Tower, in general.

He refrained from drawing his arms up and folding them though that was the temptation. After all, she were a SOLDIER and so he'd need to keep his hands to his sides if it turned out he may have to defend himself. She did after all just mention, that there might be a reason for him to be angry with her. He shakes his head firmly, daring to hold her gaze until she finished speaking at least.

"All false, sentimental trash that I could not have held onto, even if I may have wanted to." That displeased tone still very present in his low voice.

"If you may have wanted to hold onto them, then why didn't you?" She couldn't help but asked, utterly confused. "What made you give them up and think they don't matter? Your memories are what make you you."

Genesis just didn't know what to make of that. She really didn't. Sephiroth was confronting her fully and yet she didn't feel as though this were the conversation they should be having. He didn't remember what she had done, so what could she do now?

"What memories do you still hold?"

"They had to go. They weren't relevant."

There was almost a slight growl worked into the end of that statement with it's accompanying glare, a warning not to pry into this issue. Indeed the only memories relevant had been those related to the core he had made out of his intense feelings of hatred for Cloud. The rest had been stripped from him and destroyed alongside Meteor. Not too long ago, Sephiroth had not even been able to recall his own appearance, his own name. Such had been one of many reasons for the Remnants, the importance of their search for the last Jenova cells.

Since that time in the Lifestream, he had known there might have been that hungover feeling of something missing - but in the grand scheme of things it wouldn't have mattered. It still shouldn't.

"That is none of your concern. I know enough to have gotten myself a body again."

And now he's stuck in the Tower with it. Sephiroth doesn't like being drawn into such thoughts and balls both hands into fists and then relaxes them again. Where he can't die, where he can't merge with this new Planet and start the work again.

"And why not?"

Genesis was used to getting Sephiroth riled up, even slightly. That small growl only made Genesis want to push harder, like she always did. But she had to reign herself in a bit as well, remember that this wasn't the Sephiroth she once knew. This was someone who was unpredictable. And unpredictability was never a good thing in any sort of fight, verbal or physical.

Hearing that he knew enough to get a body again made her raise a brow and tilting her head. "You only know enough? What is enough? Do you still believe the lie about Jenova being your mother?"

The words were out of her mouth before she could stop them, but other than pursing her lips, she stood her ground. When Nibelheim burned, she had heard about Sephiroth going mad and believing some of the things in Hojo's notes. That Jenova was an Ancient, that Hojo told Sephiroth that his mother's name was Jenova. Yes, he had her cells, but that didn't make her his mother.

She huffed a sigh. "Whatever you remember about Jenova is a lie. Everything we are were born from lies, you know."

Well whatever Sephiroth might have been considering to tell Genesis about the need for him to give up so much of his irrelevant memories when he'd last joined the Lifestream, he was a lot less inclined to reveal much now that Jenova had been inserted into the conversation. That glare deepened drastically as Sephiroth narrowed his eyes.

Not only had a SOLDIER been brought here, with her Mako-blue eyes and familiar red hair, but Genesis was informed - at least to a certain extent. Even so, how dare she taunt him like that. He knows the facts well enough regarding Jenova but still, considering the depth of the cellular infusion how could she be called anything but Mother. She made him everything that he is.

"Lies that I have shattered. You clearly don't know what you're talking about. How would you even KNOW? About Mother..."

His tone is controlled enough but anyone might be able to see the anger hotting up just beneath the cool facade. He's been doing so well keeping himself calm recently but such control is made much easier by the fact there aren't so many left in the Tower who would antagonize him so fearlessly.

Sephiroth decides that there would be no reason at all now to hide what he felt from being in Genesis' presence, it might even serve his purpose. And so he feels out, through their held gaze, his undeniable connection with any and all Jenova cells within the woman. Merely a psychic probe for now, just enough to identify with the cells before pulling his will back. It's a very tenuous link, should Genesis blink it would be broken off prematurely.

She saw the anger building and she would have grinned in her effort but now was not the time. Genesis knew something about him that could push him to emotion, so she stored that tidbit of information in the back of her mind for now. Instead, she scoffed at his words.

How would she know? She knew practically everything! Not 100%, sure, it was fairly difficult sometimes to remain undetected in the archives but she knew so much more than anyone else. She had to know, she had needed a cure for her degradation. Genesis had to look in every nook and cranny for an answer and she wasn't going to give up when notes from Project G had been exhausted.

"I know because I am your prototype," Genesis started. "I was the first and-"

And ow, sudden tension between her eyes. Despite holding his gaze, she felt a tug within. But it was small and very odd. It irritated something, she didn't know. It didn't actually hurt, but it had surprised her enough that after a few seconds of speechlessness, she blinked and looked away. The tension faded instantly.

Did he just-?

"...what?"

More lies. It only stoked at the anger.

What did she mean prototype? Sure he knows enough of his past to know that he was an experiment, indeed that's the root cause for his deep hatred towards all ShinRa; the fact that they had lied to him so completely. That all along he had been their puppet, when he was destined to pull all of the strings. Though, it made sense that there would have been experiments before him, sure it would explain the Jenova cells.

But that did not mean that she was in anyway equal or superior to him. Indeed, he is Jenova's legacy and as so quite clearly now demonstrated by cutting her gloat off - there was a faint link there. Sephiroth doesn't allow himself to blink as Genesis looked away, though he drops the probe since his point is proven. He makes no effort to hide the fact that it was him, the slight smirk pulling at the side of his mouth is a giveaway for sure.

"I might believe that. There are many who do not deserve Mother's gifts."

Her confusion swiftly morphed into disgust at his words and that smirk. Now that reminded her of her own days in ShinRa when the men always felt superior towards her for being a woman "in a man's world." Even if his superiority was of a different standard and not gender, it still irked her something fierce and she had to fight to not light up a fireball into Sephiroth's face.

Instead, she scoffed in disgust, putting a hand on her hip. "Please, like I would even want her "gifts". She is the cause of all the problems with ShinRa and I only wish she had never landed on Gaia, let alone been found."

Genesis looked up to hold his gaze, despite that... whatever he had done, she would be damned if she didn't look him in the eyes after that.

"And maybe you would have been your true self. Not a walking god complex."

Edited 2013-03-16 16:46 (UTC)

Sephiroth holds that smirk, she may have already stored an emotion trigger from him and now he was doing the same. Clearly Genesis doesn't like to be made to feel inferior. Though indeed in this instance it has nothing at all to do with her sex. It has never been about that with Sephiroth. Once she's finished he replies, a lot calmer sounding than a few moments ago.

"Then neither of us would have existed. I'd be rather careful what you wish for."

As far as he is concerned, he is his true self. And he is still close enough to a God as well. Whatever emotion, whatever reaction she had hoped to get from the 'god complex' insult was either being hidden expertly or simply not something he would react to; truth doesn't hurt much when he's so proud of it.

"I don't have to be," Genesis replied, still unhappy over that smirk of his. "Because I know exactly how you were made. And how I was made. I know exactly what I'm wishing for and I would rather see you not exist than exist in this pathetic form you've taken now."

It was a saddening thought, really. To imagine a life without Sephiroth, but without Projects G and S, there wouldn't have been SOLDIER and this whole mess could have been avoided. And no, she hadn't hoped to get much of a reaction, though anything other than that smirk.

"Or, who knows, maybe Lucrecia would have gotten to actually raise you instead of Hojo."

Both smirk and gaze were dropped as Sephiroth inwardly forced himself into calming down. He couldn't allow himself to get so wound up over the words of someone he doesn't even know; that's exactly what the Tower would want. Just who was this woman, anyway, to know all of this information and think she could just fling it all in his face. Especially considering his inability to get himself out of the whole Tower-situation.

"Back off, Genesis." Was the lowest muttering of a warning as again she pushed against the boundaries of his patience. But then she just had to add with that comment. Sephiroth's livid gaze snapped back up to meet her own, green fire danced wildly in his eyes now. With a sweeping motion of an arm in a backhanding motion, Sephiroth flung a telekinetic wave at Genesis. Strong enough, he hoped to at least knock her back a few paces. At best, it might pick her up and fling her a few feet back away from him. Maybe now she would get the hint. If not, well then he'll just have to show her.

"How dare you even think to associate them with me. Their involvement is as irrelevant as the memories you bid me remember."

Genesis saw the fire in his eyes light up at her words. She wanted to feel proud of herself that she finally got him to drop that smirk of his, but she couldn't because she knew that this Sephiroth wasn't going to just let it be this time. She hit a button harder than she meant to and it showed when he lifted his hand. Her reaction was instinctive, her head ducking and arms raising as if to protect herself from a backhanded slap, but then a materia on her bangle glowed and just as the telekinetic wave smacked into her, the Shield was up and blocking the rest of it.

Genesis found herself on her ass before she knew it, a few feet back and her breath nearly knocked from her. She groaned at looked up at him, eyes a bit wider than she wanted them to be. Since when could Sephiroth do that?

But she wasn't going to let this stop her. "How dare I? How dare you for taking the side of some alien parasite over your humanity!" She picked herself up. "You're far more pathetic than I thought."

The fact that she had ended up on her ass was satisfactory enough, as was that look on her face momentarily, even though it was clear that the Shield had taken most of the force out of his invisible strike. Never mind, another demonstration over.

Sephiroth glared down at Genesis as if his gaze alone could keep her on the floor. When proved otherwise and she picked herself up, Sephiroth averted his gaze slightly.

"Humanity? And what care would I have for that. As Mother intended, they all deserve to be extinct. You forget, the fact that they made out to me that I was Human was the most heinous lie of them all." Of course he ignores any notion of how 'pathetic' he is. It's more pathetic to him, to be stuck in this place...which cannot ever be accepted.

Genesis scoffed a laugh. She could not and probably will not ever understand Sephiroth's complete disregard for his humanity. If, indeed, he had any left. She didn't know what happened after he fell into the Lifestream and she wasn't sure she wanted to know. But with him like this, it was just downright infuriating. And even a little frightening.

"You were born from a human. A human fathered you. You are human, regardless of some extra cells you have," Genesis said, exasperated. "Yes, they lied to you. They lied to everyone on Gaia, but that doesn't mean the entire human race is to blame. "Mother" is nothing but a parasite that deserves to be eradicated and the fact that you'd rather be a parasite is disgusting. Especially because you probably don't even realize it."

Whatever humanity Sephiroth has left is more than likely just a reflection of the humanity that the others who had remembered had recalled. Such as his appearance that was reconstructed through gathered memories and emotions that he had been able to glean through the Remnants. Then made real by the last of Jenova's power.

Only to have been defeated again and then his essence must have been gathered right away and spirited away in it's entirety - to this place.

"Stupid girl." Sephiroth almost laughed now at Genesis. Did she really think this was the exact same body as when he had first joined the Lifestream? "Genetically yes, my original form was somewhat flawed.

But this is my body, drawn into being with Mother's power. And I mean that in a literal sense." Sephiroth pauses, reminding himself again of their situation here in the Tower. The fact that their souls are recycled into new bodies produced by the Tower whenever they die, which is not a new body created via Reunion. He has yet to discover whether or not that state of being makes him weaker (or stronger) in any way.

"But as I said, none of that matters anymore." He took a deep breath to steel his resolve more than anything. "Gaia is dead now, and with it all the lies, and all trace of Jenova in the Lifestream. No more Lifestream, no more Gaia."

There, he'd said it. For the first time since coming to this conclusion in his mind he'd been given an opportunity to vocalize it. Sephiroth didn't feel any better for it though, taking yet another blow to his already cracked and splintering sanity, and then a moment later turned his back on Genesis to start to walk away.

Genesis realized right then just what Sephiroth was now. She had wanted to refute the 'stupid girl' comment but with his explanation came realization and she found herself feeling stupid that she hadn't thought of that before. The whole point of Hojo's experiment was to study the Reunion aspect of Jenova's cells and Sephiroth was the best form of Jenova yet, other than the alien herself. Sephiroth had more than just died that day.

"Gaia is not dead!" Genesis couldn't help by say. Even she was going to believe him about his body, she was not going to believe that Gaia as dead. "Others have come and gone from this place. How could a world be dead if its inhabitants aren't returning to a wasteland? Besides, I refuse to believe that I've failed my job before it even began!"

Sephiroth was already walking away and Genesis wanted to follow after him. But she decided to stay where she was. She was Minerva's Guardian. The Planet's Guardian. And she will continue to be so until she saw with her own eyes that her Planet was no more.

Job? What job? Sephiroth considered to turn around and ask Genesis just that but he's already started to walk away and is too much of an egotist to turn back now.

For whatever reason Genesis might be particularly upset that Gaia has been destroyed, it wasn't important unless she gave him a reason to be spiteful. Odd that she hasn't already crossed that line, but one cannot cross it with ignorance. Despite the amount that Genesis knows about Sephiroth, she doesn't know all of it.

With his back turned and heading away from her, she wouldn't be able to see the utter defeat cracking it's way across his features. Sephiroth was dead, and being so closely involved with the Lifestream, how could he even exist here like he does without Gaia being dead also. So what, exactly could he do about it? The logic is mind-breaking, or maybe it's the Tower breaking it.

Edited 2013-03-17 08:17 (UTC)

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