Of course she goes to the library first

[rhapsoidein]

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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[rhapsoidein]

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."

[neverbeamemory]

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.

[rhapsoidein]

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.

[neverbeamemory]

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.