towerofanimus | unchanging, the earth will always keep on spinning

Characters: Some death kid (Ryoji), a swishy-haired jerk (Sephiroth), and you!
Setting: Dorm 4-16, and Floor 14 to start, but the rest can happen anywhere else. Sephiroth will be training in the gymnasium as well, should anyone want lone encounters with him.
Format: Prose to start, but I'll match.
Summary: Ryoji has just woken up in his new dorm room, and is going about a 'normal' day in the Tower, though he does feel a little strange...
Warnings: Someone is messing with Ryoji slightly, so expect threadjacking that results in bizarre mood swings and paranoia. Ryoji's opinions of various CR may be slightly messed with. Other than that he should be fine this time around.

Dorm 4-16

Even though Ryoji had gotten that letter, it was still a bit of a shock to wake up in a new room. As soon as he was able to move, he sat up as quickly as possible and checked the trunk. Everything there was still the same. Nothing was damaged. It seemed so strange, to be magically transported a few rooms down in the middle of the night, but he supposes stranger things have happened.

He's a little embarrassed that his love-sick request actually got fulfilled, but he has to admit it isn't too bad. He's managed to at least partly forgive himself for brutally murdering Diarmuid, enough to be able to look him in the eyes and smile honestly again, and though he didn't know Lancer very well, he seemed nice enough. Strange, though. Diarmuid hadn't mentioned who his other roommate was...

He'll stay in the room for a while, just to get his thoughts in order, and maybe see if anyone shows up, but after a while, he's ready to go about his regular business. As he leaves his doorway, he pushes a bit of an uncomfortable feeling to the side. He felt strange, but he was certain he wasn't sick. It was simply an interesting start to the day that made him feel like this, nothing more.

Floor 14

A few hours later, Ryoji has already forgotten about that nagging paranoia, and is enjoying an animated film with some cartoon animals. He hasn't seen this one before, and is clearly invested in the story. His eyes light up as one of the characters bounces onscreen, and he's laughing at all the right times.

If anyone decides to enter the floor, he'll be a little too absorbed in the movie to notice them, but he still wouldn't mind a distraction.

Any other public area in the tower

Unfortunately, some of those distractions ended up going a tad awry, and now Ryoji's starting to suspect that he should have trusted his instinct this morning. He can be found on any other floor, but whether he's reading in the library or getting rid of some of the monsters on infested floors, he's keeping his distance unless spoken to. Then he'll shove his worries down and try to hold a regular conversation. He just hopes he's just having a bad day. His friends are still trustworthy, aren't they? He's just reading into things too much. Maybe he didn't completely get over how he acted during that experiment.

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Ocelot had been in the tower long enough to understand the concept of people looking human when they actually weren't. She nodded sharply, thinking. "That does sound like something he would do," she said. Ocelot had no interest in causing terrible destruction, not here. Her plans for her own world weren't exactly a good thing, but she wasn't interested in complete annihilation.

"It's for the best, then, if he stops showing interest in you."

Ryoji can't help but be a bit relieved that she didn't ask. He was starting to trust Ocelot, but not enough to tell he what he was. She was still on Ganondorf's side, after all.

"Yeah. Hopefully he will. It's hard to avoid my friends here, even if Ganondorf may use that against me...

"How did you get involved with that group, anyways?"

"I was asked to join during the infiltration," she said simply. Sephiroth had recommended her, probably because he saw something of a kindred spirit in her, she reasoned. "It was merely an alliance of convenience." It wasn't a lie. She didn't trust anyone in her alliance and was nearly positive that they felt the same way about her.

"I cannot say I entirely approve of his methods, but Ganondorf is a man that is capable of getting many things done."

"Oh, you too, then. It seemed like a lot of the people there were new recruits."

That's a shame. He wishes he would have been able to find out from an older ally what the team was trying to accomplish before this whole mess occurred.

He looks away, quietly muttering his response.

"There are other people that can get things done around here as well. People that might not be so paranoid."

"I imagine he wanted all of the help that he could get." It was just a shame that Ryoji had had to get involved. He was too nice for his own good and Ocelot could only hope that her allies would be staying away from him for the time being.

"Are there?" she asked, curious. She was already aware of Ganondorf's enemy. She wasn't about to jeopardize herself by looking to the other groups within the tower, but it was still something to look towards so long as it didn't have the potential to lead to violent confrontation. In this place, one needed as many chances to lay low as possible.

“Of course. It was a big plan, and it needed a lot of people to help it succeed. I just wish I would have known what his real goal was before I had gotten involved.”

He smiles softly, and just a bit apologetically.

“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t be complaining. There’s no reason that I should regret a situation that let me meet people like you. You’re a very strong person…

“Honestly, I don’t know a lot about the different groups here, but I think there are a few people who may have a chance to lead us to restoring our worlds and getting us all back safely.”

Ocelot had known the sort of person Ganondorf was going into it. Perhaps it was Ryoji's youth, or his wanting to be involved with people who weren't monumentally selfish or dangerous. "There are," Ocelot agreed, nodding. Though she didn't know much about the history between Zelda and Ganondorf, she knew that the woman would have a very high chance of helping to save the world.

Truthfully, the old woman would prefer Zelda to be the one to save the worlds. She didn't trust Ganondorf enough to think he'd be interested in such things. "One of us will succeed," she said confidently. "It doesn't matter who."

There's a lot of reasons Ryoji didn't want to be a part of this. Most importantly, the Tower was a second chance for him. He needed to use that chance to be the good person he always wanted to be instead of a monster forced into terrible things.

He nods at Ocelot's words. He isn't sure if he entirely agrees that it doesn't matter, but there is a lot of truth in it. There are a lot of powerful people here, and no matter who succeeds, the success is what's important. "As long as we all make it out safely, I'll be happy."

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