The 67th Floor Chapter 2

[lian_hua]

Iscariot: I think I had an aneurysm reading that. I can't feel the left side of my head anymore.
He moved forward, to get a better look at the display on the monitor. "I don't understand. I thought she had given up prostitution!"

"Oh, you will shortly convince yourself that such is not the case"You've known where she is, haven't you?" His voice was

Comments

[beacon80]

Sephiroth infiltrated the HQ by possesing Jenova's body and pretty much carving a path through the building; here though, he just waltzes in like it's nobody's business (in Goth clothes no less).
It also helped that Jenova was already on floor 67, so he just had to go up a few flights. Going down is much simpler.

[ryushikaze]

LSD not LCD, and Aneurysm not Anneurism.

This has managed to be even more boring than High or SOLDIER. Go Slave. Your mediocrity knows no limits.

[lian_hua]

Whoops! Fixed! =D

[little_masaouki]

Where is "Strife" now? Is he still on the sword. Or did Sephiroth set him up in a chair in front of the TV, Normal Bates style.

I feel sorry for housekeeping.

[lian_hua]

In the fridge.

[arynia]

So, in Slave's book, Sephiroth losing to Cloud in a fight is a massive rape of his character and a sign that they don't know their own story...but having Sephiroth beg Hojo for help and be utterly dependant on someone plainly unqualified to do the job he wants is perfectly fine?

[lian_hua]

I think the stuff she makes him go through in her stories is much worse than what he went through in canon. Aside submitting like an obedient little lemming to Hojo's torture for practically all his life, after making one stupid, criminally negligent decision after another, Slave also has Jenova rape him and force him to rape a woman. Slave had Sephiroth RAPED for God's sake, and it went beyond characterization.

The fact that she claims to know the story better than the creators just proves once again that she lives in a very compact little bubble.

[little_masaouki]

One of my favorite things about Slave's interpretation of Sephiroth is that she makes him more of a villain than he was in the series. The idea is that Sephiroth was a good man, possessed by Jenova, but her Sephiroth is not a good man. He's violent, he's cruel, he has a sadistic streak in combat, he's apathetic towards anybody who isn't important to him, and snubs everybody who isn't himself or Julia. He toyed with Julia's emotions, and overreacts to any slight or front. While his sins don't quite reach "blow up the world" level, he comes close enough that if he had a reason to end the world, I don't think he'd lose any sleep over the decision.

In other words instead of being a good man who couldn't handle the truth and snapped, he's an asshole, who was forced to do slightly more asshole-ish things than he would have done on his own.

Huge improvement there. /sarcasm

[lian_hua]

The worst part is that due to her...lack of filter, so to say, Slave is unaware that she made him worse than in canon. She claims she wanted to show the characters in a different light, not the typical Cloud=good, Sephiroth=evil angle, but all she did was reinforce this (justified) view by making Sephiroth a monster who had to be stopped even if he had not been involved in the Nibelheim incident.