Cloud

[residentflorist]

code

Lilium
Derived from Latin lilia, which may have come from a corrupted
pronunciation of a word from an extinct Eastern Mediterranean language
Humility, devotion, restored innocence after death

"Lovers used to give these when they were reunited."

Comments

[residentmerc]

... Yeah. It just is.

[ it is something they are... wow... in love..... ]

[residentflorist]

...I shouldn't have said what I did back then, I think. [about not falling in love with her.]

[residentmerc]

[ here's the funny part cloud has never been 100% sure if that was real or not so ]

Back then?

[residentflorist]

When I said not to fall in love with me.

[well. now he can know.]

[residentmerc]

... You remember that too.

[ well! that's good to know. that is one mystery solved. ]

[residentflorist]

[hm. thinking about how there are other things she needs to tell cloud, such as the matter of her fate. that's a monday problem though.]

Yeah. You weren't ever really sure what you were seeing, were you? [in...in that instance.]

[residentmerc]

[ it is very much a monday problem ]

Not exactly the first time. [ it's a mild admission considering. yknow. ]

[residentflorist]

Guess there wasn't ever really time to ask either between getting out of Shinra and then leaving Midgar all together. But...I'm glad you didn't listen to me. That's what I was getting at.

[residentmerc]

... You were calling for me. Whatever else you said.

[ you needed me so i went, and he was just annoyed at being told what he could or could not feel otherwise, so there. ]

[residentflorist]

[a little curious but knowing smile.]

I didn't know if you would, or could. [this has nothing to do with cloud in particular, it's about aerith's own issues of sometimes needing help and not getting it, or being ignored.] Should've known that wouldn't have stopped you.

[residentmerc]

... Even if you hadn't, there's no way I would've left you there.

[ he unfortunately has that hero complex thing he pretends to not have ]

[residentflorist]

...I didn't regret doing it to make sure Marlene was safe. [but?] But I wasn't ready for it either.

[for fun and convenience, he may have terrible memories.]

[residentmerc]

[ WOW THE RAGE DISGUST AND HATRED HE FEELS IS UNPARALLELED THANK YOU HOJO ]

... That sick bastard. [ holding her hands tighter looking like if hojo was in front of him he would murder him and god he wants it ]

[residentflorist]

[THANK YOU HOJO.]

...[she isn't entirely sure what to say because like. hard agree.] You know how Hojo is.

[i.e. he would have done god knows what if they'd actually gotten to keep aerith back then.]

[residentmerc]

... Yeah. I do.

[ cloud knows what and actually have fun with that memory too ]

[residentflorist]

[oh.

okay. she could have lived without this, but also, the vibe really is "they wanted to breed me?" she's looking incredibly incredulous, grip a little tighter on cloud's hands as she narrows her eyes.]

That...was his plan? [oh. oh no. no thanks.]

[residentmerc]

[ the vibe is cloud thinking about murdering hojo ]

...Yeah. We rushed in to go find you right away after hearing that. [ he does not mention that it might. still? be part of his plan? which is. hm. no. ]

[residentflorist]

...Hojo should be first after we finish with Sephiroth. [SURPRISE, SHE'S FREAKED OUT AND ALSO PISSED, ACTUALLY.]

[residentmerc]

Yeah. After everything he's done, there's no way we can just let him walk.

[ and they only know like the half of it ]

[residentflorist]

Sephiroth's first, but Shinra's not off the hook. I don't even want to think about what they might be doing while we're chasing after him.

[maybe they should just blow up the shinra building, too.]

[residentmerc]

... I don't think Rufus was lying when he said they didn't have the resources to go after Sephiroth. [ which means now that sephiroth (probably?) has the black materia they are not going after it anymore? ] They might have gone back to trying to get the materia out of the Weapons.

[ on top of every other horrible thing they do in general ]

[residentflorist]

That's not much better. [why is everything happening so fucking much, she hates it here.] It's one more thing to keep track of and hope they aren't successful there.

[residentmerc]

Yeah, maybe. [ he is frowning ] There's the war we have to worry about, too. Movement might've been hard for the others with all that.

[residentflorist]

We have a lot to think about, don't we? It's all moving so fast, sometimes it feels hard to know what we can stop paying attention to long enough to look at something else.

[residentmerc]

... Yeah. [ not to mention every other issue they run into when they go new places. hm. ] Guess we should focus on here before anything else.