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towerofanimus2013-10-11 11:56 pm
goddamntea) wrote in towerofanimus2013-10-11 11:56 pm
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Characters: Cid and you.
Setting: Room 2-04, the workshop, cafeteria and anywhere else.
Format: Starting with prose, but will match.
Summary: Cid awakens in the Tower. Appropriate canon point means his world being destroyed makes a lot of sense. He then goes off to explore the tower and discover with horror what they've done to the tea in this horrible, horrible place.
Warnings: %^$@#$%@#!!
• Dormitories Floor (Room 2-04)
To some people, the thought that your world may have been destroyed makes absolutely no sense. But to Cid, it actually made a whole lot sense. Mind you, last thing he could remember, the meteor was crashing into the planet-- And while both Holy and the Lifestream were working at stopping it, there was no saying as to whether or not it had worked.
Guess that letter settled it. It had not worked.
Not that it really made that much sense though, since if his world had indeed been destroyed, nobody should have been able to rescue him. Well, guess there was only one way to get some straight answers. Grumbling, he went through his trunk's content and grabbed his equipment-- With his speak noticeably broken into pieces, thank you tower, before heading out. This smelt like something Shinra would do, and he needed answers.
• Cafeteria (Day 2)
Like everyone else, Cid had gone through his oatmeal the day before, but not without an healthy amount of swearing. Who in the world would want to eat oatmeal? Certainly not him. This tower was clearly as bad as it looked. He was a bit more enthusiast today though, as he had seen the other meals offered by the tower and they didn't look half as bad. He went for the pancakes first-- And then grimaced.
"... Pumpkin pancakes?" he left the pancake aside after one bite and moved on to take a bit of the roasted seeds-- Only to stop halfway in and brush the dish aside as well. "... Pumpkin flavored seeds."
The hell was up with that? At least they provided him with tea, they were decent enough, right? Not what he thought any more after drinking it.
"Goddamn pumpkin tea!" he slammed the cup on the table "$^@#*$ù%!! Why is everything infected with pumpkin in this damn cafeteria?!"
• Workshop (15th Floor)
At some point Cid found the workshop and stayed in it. The Tower had been nice enough to provide him with his weapon of choice, a spear, namely the "Venus Gospel". But unfortunately, it had been broken into pieces so as to fit into his trunk, pretty much killing the whole point of having a spear as weapon.
But no matter, he'd decided to take the matter into his own hands. Using whatever good metal he could find around, heating the spear's pieces and hammering them, he started working on putting the pieces back together into a coherent whole. He had made his first spear himself after all, fixing a broken one shouldn't be beyond his capabilities. It was tough and tiring to do, though.
• Random Corridors
You'll find Cid exploring the tower for the next couple days with his spear in hand and ready to cast a spell at the first sign of trouble. This tower got a lot of floors, too many if you asked him, but given he couldn't leave anytime soon he'd rather get to know the various floors.
Setting: Room 2-04, the workshop, cafeteria and anywhere else.
Format: Starting with prose, but will match.
Summary: Cid awakens in the Tower. Appropriate canon point means his world being destroyed makes a lot of sense. He then goes off to explore the tower and discover with horror what they've done to the tea in this horrible, horrible place.
Warnings: %^$@#$%@#!!
• Dormitories Floor (Room 2-04)
To some people, the thought that your world may have been destroyed makes absolutely no sense. But to Cid, it actually made a whole lot sense. Mind you, last thing he could remember, the meteor was crashing into the planet-- And while both Holy and the Lifestream were working at stopping it, there was no saying as to whether or not it had worked.
Guess that letter settled it. It had not worked.
Not that it really made that much sense though, since if his world had indeed been destroyed, nobody should have been able to rescue him. Well, guess there was only one way to get some straight answers. Grumbling, he went through his trunk's content and grabbed his equipment-- With his speak noticeably broken into pieces, thank you tower, before heading out. This smelt like something Shinra would do, and he needed answers.
• Cafeteria (Day 2)
Like everyone else, Cid had gone through his oatmeal the day before, but not without an healthy amount of swearing. Who in the world would want to eat oatmeal? Certainly not him. This tower was clearly as bad as it looked. He was a bit more enthusiast today though, as he had seen the other meals offered by the tower and they didn't look half as bad. He went for the pancakes first-- And then grimaced.
"... Pumpkin pancakes?" he left the pancake aside after one bite and moved on to take a bit of the roasted seeds-- Only to stop halfway in and brush the dish aside as well. "... Pumpkin flavored seeds."
The hell was up with that? At least they provided him with tea, they were decent enough, right? Not what he thought any more after drinking it.
"Goddamn pumpkin tea!" he slammed the cup on the table "$^@#*$ù%!! Why is everything infected with pumpkin in this damn cafeteria?!"
• Workshop (15th Floor)
At some point Cid found the workshop and stayed in it. The Tower had been nice enough to provide him with his weapon of choice, a spear, namely the "Venus Gospel". But unfortunately, it had been broken into pieces so as to fit into his trunk, pretty much killing the whole point of having a spear as weapon.
But no matter, he'd decided to take the matter into his own hands. Using whatever good metal he could find around, heating the spear's pieces and hammering them, he started working on putting the pieces back together into a coherent whole. He had made his first spear himself after all, fixing a broken one shouldn't be beyond his capabilities. It was tough and tiring to do, though.
• Random Corridors
You'll find Cid exploring the tower for the next couple days with his spear in hand and ready to cast a spell at the first sign of trouble. This tower got a lot of floors, too many if you asked him, but given he couldn't leave anytime soon he'd rather get to know the various floors.
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Because he's an idiot, that's why.
[ And nothin' would ever change that very simple and rational fact of nature. He sighed though upon seeing Xion's reaction, scratching the back of his head as he replied. Kids these days. ]
Hey listen, I want ya to know I ain't disliking him-- I'm not gonna literally kick his ass, a'right? [No matter how much he'd deserve it.] His only defaults are bein' a Shinra and his sad sense of humor. But Gaia's been smashed to pieces an' he finds time to recruit for Shinra? I mean kid, come on.
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I think he cared more about giving me a family and people I could trust and feel safe around. That means a lot, here in the Tower.
[At least, that's what being a Turk meant to her.]
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[ Can't say, if Reno really did it to give the kids of this tower some sort of family they could belong to, he had to applaud the effort. Not so surprising, it had been obvious most Turks were less cold-hearted as they looked. Just, making them Turks along the way was probably not to be applauded. ]
Still Shinra an' Turks ain't really the kind of stuff bringin' family or trust to my mind. An' it paints you as a damn red target if @^#$%@# like Palmer or Hojo eve' pop up.
[ That and Shinra is sort of synonymous with soul-sucker company that destroys the planet, but details. ]
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[Because she vaguely remembers that he was here before, that Shion had worked with him in the infirmary sometimes. And he hadn't done anything to her then, even though she'd been made a Turk by then. Then again, the Tower probably had presented its own infinite opportunities for... whatever it would be that Hojo would've wanted to research.
She grimaces, toying at the food on her plate.]
I think Jason's worse anyway.
[She may be eternally biased in that regard, though.]
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[ Well, shit. People in Sephiroth's family needed to learn how to die and most importantly, how to stay dead.
Cid never heard about Jason (yet), but as far as he was concerned, beating the freak level of Hojo and all his Jenova experiments would be hard. And he didn't even know half of the entire story. ]
I dunno a thing about any Jason, but trust me when I say Hojo is a nutcase ya don't want anywhere near you. Dude would experiment on his own son. Guess Reno got his reasons thou'.
[ He better. ]
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[Her voice is... unbelievably matter-of-fact.]
I know Hojo's a problem, but he's not here, and even if he was, he isn't in charge. Jason is.
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[ Cid still wasn't convinced any of this was beating the level of Hojo-horror, but that made it clear enough this Jason dude was no joke. ]
Guess that makes him the threat to deal with around here.