The 67th Floor Chapter 8
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Chapter 8.) - in which watashi wa oinku!
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Sephiroth's body fell limp over Julia's, and his last words, only a hoarse whisper, were strained, hard to say, the use of his last sliver of energy. "I, I love you, Julia. Sure, I suspected you of cheating on me, failed to save you and am partly responsible for your doom, but I love you nonetheless."
Now Hojo loomed over the girl like the homicidal maniac he'd become,
Lian Hua: Wasn't he always like that? This fic is actually doing a great job in defending Hojo. No, he isn't evil, he's simply tormented by voices! He even tried listening to the good voices and allowed Sephiroth and his codependent nutcase to escape! But then he got angry remembering that Julia destroyed his research and lost control thanks to his mental issues. He wasn't a homicidal maniac before, no sir!
and cackled, giving her that ominous grin that he'd given to his last victim. Pointing down to his next what?, he whispered madly, "You're next."
Seeing that having Sephiroth's body sprawled out on Julia wasn't going to help him seal her fate, the scientist picked up his son's corpse and set his him upright in a corner, before he slithered back over to stand looming over the girl, thinking it would be more fitting to see if she'd just die of shock upon seeing her dead lover. "Get up, little girl." His hiss was mocking.
From her position on the floor, Julia moaned, keeping her eyes closed and wondering what had happened. There was something warm and wet on her.
*She didn't want to know what that was. And, hopefully Hojo had suffered heart failure and died while she had been, asleep?, unconscious? She couldn't remember.
*Hojo moved slightly closer to the girl and stared down at her, smiling wickedly. "Did someone have a nice, nap?"
Lian Hua: Someone lost a comma.
Sephiroth's body lay limply, propped up against the corner, his head leaning against the wall, his hair bloodied and laying over his shoulder. His eyes were still open, the last emotion still there, one of happiness, comfort, and love. He was finally out of this fanfiction.
Julia heard the voice, and rolled over, suffering form slight amnesia. Slightly delirious, she responded to Hojo, "You again, go away. Whatever you're selling we don't want any." Her mind was foggy, and she didn't immediately know where she was.
Iscariot: Apparently Julia's childhood was plagued by door to door salesmen.
She assumed that she was in her home in Mideel.
Lian Hua: So she's from Mideel! And we find this out only in the last chapter of the damn story.
Evil grin still in place, Hojo tipped his head to one side and gave her an intensely murderous stare. "Don't bother waking your precious Sephiroth, little girl. He is gone-and shall never return." He cackled insanely, awaiting the girl's response.
Slowly though, rigor mortis was setting in upon Sephiroth's body, and his eyes were slowly fogging over, becoming empty, cold, dead.
Lian Hua: Wroooong. In humans, rigor mortis commences about three or four hours after death and reaches maximum stiffness after twelve hours.
Iscariot: Biology be damned! Sephiroth's getting stiff, and he's gettin stiff right now! It's probably the only time he's ever gotten stiff, with Julia as a girlfriend.
"What do you mean?" Julia was fully awake now, and fully aware of what had been happening before she had lost consciousness. She He stared Hojo straight in the eyes, and had yet to look anywhere else. She glanced down, and realized that she was covered in someone else's blood. "Okay, what in the name of all that is Holy holy is going on here?" Her hands wrapped securely around Hojo's throat and squeezed, hard.
Iscariot: God, what a moron. Yes, piss this monster off more without even knowing what's happening! That'll work out really well. And where did all this energy come from? She was COWERING behind Sephiroth earlier!
He laughed, eyes flashing blood red with snake-like pupils cast heavenward. "There are two things of which I must inform you." He held up one finger, as if she were incapable of counting.
Lian Hua: She is rather stupid. Between willingly placing herself into his hands and setting the floor below her on fire instead of escaping, anyone can tell she doesn't exactly fit the requirements for MENSA.
"One. You cannot kill me because the author is a hack and can't make a convincing and menacing villain without making him invulnerable, so don't bother trying." He held up another. "Two. Look at the blood stained upon your clothes and then look at Sephiroth in the corner." He pulled her hands off his throat with ease, and gestured to the corner. "Have we gotten the picture yet?" His grin widened as he hissed nastily, "I'd sure as hell like to think so!"
Sephiroth's eyes still held that last glimmer of love for Julia, though they were still steadily fogging over.
Sephirothslave: SEPHIROTH LOVES ME, DAMMIT!
Slowly she turned to look at Sephiroth, paling as she noticed the lacerations covering his body, tears spilling down her cheeks as she realized he was dead. "Oh, oh God" she ran to his side, crying hysterically. "Waaaah waaaah waaaaah Sephiroth."
Iscariot: Hey, Slave. Hey. Hey. HEY. You kow how you build a dramatic and moving death scene where a major character gets a shock upon discovering the dead body of a loved one? You DON'T USE THE NARRATION TO DESCRIBE THEIR DAMN BODY AND FORCE SOMEONE TO USE THE CORPSE LIKE A DAMN HALLOWEEN PROP. Not only that, YOU DON'T HAVE THE DAMN VILLAIN CRAM IT, RATHER UNSUBTLY, DOWN THE MAIN CHARACTER'S THROAT.
Julia curled up next to the only person she'd ever loved (loosely speaking, of course), oblivious to Hojo, to the world. "Sephiroth, wata ku tenshi."
Lian Hua: This is probably the most entertaining scene Slave has ever written. To this day I cannot read the above paragraph without bursting into fits of laughter! The scene tries hard to be dramatic, but then the character suddenly and inexplicably starts using Japanese, and INCORRECT Japanese at that. The mistake is obvious to anyone who has studied Japanese, even to a beginer level, and it blows the entire scene to pieces. The correct form should have been: Watakushi no tenshi, in which Watakushi is the most formal way of saying I, no is the possessive particle and tenshi means angel.
Iscariot: I want to look around the web and do a mock translation of what she wrote. So, wata generally relates to cotton, but it's also the word for lower intestines. Depending on the kanji, ku can mean many things, such as nine, ward, section and pain.
Lian Hua: Lower intestines section angel!
Iscariot: Cotton pain angel!
Lian Hua: Intestinal pain angel!
*His body was cooler than it should have been, and was getting colder, blood still flowing in rivers from his wounds, further covering Julia.
Iscariot: He's only been dead for a few minutes! Even with the ridiculous air conditioning in the building, his body is violating all the laws of thermodynamics right now.
Still she buried herself closer to him, oblivious to the blood, tears blinding her.
Lian Hua: I hope you realize that this is almost entirely your fault. If you had simply accepted that there were things he did not or could not share with you, then right now you would have still been together with him, safe and undisurbed in Mideel or whever you used to live. But no, you simply had to indulge your selfishness and put yourself in harm's way, which resulted in Sephiroth being sick with worry and being forced to confront his abuser. And now he's dead, and you had a huge part to play in this. It's not entirely your fault, since he was stupid enough to go to the lab without his Masamune or without materia, and did not take you out of the HQ the first chance he got. But you are still the essential catalyst in the events which led directly to his gruesome death. Congrats!
Hojo held up his arms and continued to shout like a crazy old street preacher. "Yes, you heard it right, bitch! Sephiroth-the burden of my lifespan is finally gone! Gone I tell you! Gone!"
Lian Hua: We shall dump him where the weeds decay - and the rest is rust and stardust.
Her head jerked up, tears still spilling helplessly down her cheeks. "Then kill me to, God damn you!" She shrieked at Hojo, charging at him at grabbing onto his waist with her knees, using her free hands to claw at his face, as though to tear him apart with her bare hands. "Send me to be with Sephiroth!"
Lian Hua: Julia used the CROTCH CLINGER! It is super effective!
Iscariot: Wasn't Hojo slimy and huge in his transformed state? She should either slide off of him, or not be able to wrap her legs around his huge torso.
He pointed his axe at her, with the very tip, and telepathically threw her across the room.
Lian Hua: So now he does stuff telepathically? And where are the voices?
Iscariot: It should not even be telepathy, but psychokinesis (telekinesis) which is the power to move objects with one's mind.
"My GOD aren't we anxious to die tonight! Is it so we can be with our beloved Sephiroth! Whose love for you lies bleeding all over the floor!"
Iscariot: Hojo is ridiculously poetic in these last two chapters.
Lian Hua: His life is like a big, dead rose.
He cackled in her face, feigning sympathy. "But of course, my dear Julia." He tossed his axe from one claw to the other, chortling wildly. "If death is what you want, death is what you shall get!" He leaned closer to the girl, eyes glowing wickedly. "But-you my dear girl will die a much slower, much more painful death-Hold still while I make this painful!""
"Of course Professor." Her voice turned even more grief-filled, contained even more self-loathing. "It's my fault that Sephiroth is dead now, so kill me! Now dammit!"
Lian Hua: I don't think you realize just how much of this is your fault.
Iscariot: Error 404 spine not found.
Protip - characters who don't lose hope and instead fight against the odds when facing certain doom or tradgedy are almost always more favorably viewed than spineless cowards who whine and give up at a moment's notice. Even if the characters die trying.
He loomed over her and grabbed her beck, giving her one last glare before yet again smiling ominously. "Goodbye, Julia!"
Iscariot: It's never too soon to read a Tragicomic Julia Death Scene.
And, with those words, he made a deep incision down her chest and stomach, much in the same way that Sephiroth had cut the Lockheart Lockhart girl in the reactor with a totally different weapon, physics be damned.
Lian Hua: Ladies and gentlemen, Julia has just been gutted like a pig by Hojo. Let that sink in for a minute.
Iscariot: After you have marveled over that mental image, ask yourselves: why is Tifa so important as to be remembered by Hojo? She was one of Sephiroth's many victims during the Nibelheim massacre and her mentor whisked her away to safety before Shinra could get their hands on her like they did with the other survivors. Hojo should not deem her worthy of remembering, as she was just a nameless, unimportant girl for him.
Julia smiled, despite the pain, and that she was losing blood rapidly, a peaceful, serene smile slowly appeared on her face. She crawled weakly over to Sephiroth and lay down in his arms, than looked up into his face, one last time, whispering quietly, "I love you. Oink oink..."
Lian Hua: And once again, we have the tragic(ally stupid) tale of Sir Spinelack and his fair(ly stupid) damsel, Codependia. Two people whose stupidity got them axed.
Iscariot: At least they got themselves out of the gene pool.
Chapter 8.) - in which watashi wa oinku!
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Sephiroth's body fell limp over Julia's, and his last words, only a hoarse whisper, were strained, hard to say, the use of his last sliver of energy. "I, I love you, Julia. Sure, I suspected you of cheating on me, failed to save you and am partly responsible for your doom, but I love you nonetheless."
Now Hojo loomed over the girl like the homicidal maniac he'd become,
Lian Hua: Wasn't he always like that? This fic is actually doing a great job in defending Hojo. No, he isn't evil, he's simply tormented by voices! He even tried listening to the good voices and allowed Sephiroth and his codependent nutcase to escape! But then he got angry remembering that Julia destroyed his research and lost control thanks to his mental issues. He wasn't a homicidal maniac before, no sir!
and cackled, giving her that ominous grin that he'd given to his last victim. Pointing down to his next what?, he whispered madly, "You're next."
Seeing that having Sephiroth's body sprawled out on Julia wasn't going to help him seal her fate, the scientist picked up his son's corpse and set his him upright in a corner, before he slithered back over to stand looming over the girl, thinking it would be more fitting to see if she'd just die of shock upon seeing her dead lover. "Get up, little girl." His hiss was mocking.
From her position on the floor, Julia moaned, keeping her eyes closed and wondering what had happened. There was something warm and wet on her.
*She didn't want to know what that was. And, hopefully Hojo had suffered heart failure and died while she had been, asleep?, unconscious? She couldn't remember.
*Hojo moved slightly closer to the girl and stared down at her, smiling wickedly. "Did someone have a nice, nap?"
Lian Hua: Someone lost a comma.
Sephiroth's body lay limply, propped up against the corner, his head leaning against the wall, his hair bloodied and laying over his shoulder. His eyes were still open, the last emotion still there, one of happiness, comfort, and love. He was finally out of this fanfiction.
Julia heard the voice, and rolled over, suffering form slight amnesia. Slightly delirious, she responded to Hojo, "You again, go away. Whatever you're selling we don't want any." Her mind was foggy, and she didn't immediately know where she was.
Iscariot: Apparently Julia's childhood was plagued by door to door salesmen.
She assumed that she was in her home in Mideel.
Lian Hua: So she's from Mideel! And we find this out only in the last chapter of the damn story.
Evil grin still in place, Hojo tipped his head to one side and gave her an intensely murderous stare. "Don't bother waking your precious Sephiroth, little girl. He is gone-and shall never return." He cackled insanely, awaiting the girl's response.
Slowly though, rigor mortis was setting in upon Sephiroth's body, and his eyes were slowly fogging over, becoming empty, cold, dead.
Lian Hua: Wroooong. In humans, rigor mortis commences about three or four hours after death and reaches maximum stiffness after twelve hours.
Iscariot: Biology be damned! Sephiroth's getting stiff, and he's gettin stiff right now! It's probably the only time he's ever gotten stiff, with Julia as a girlfriend.
"What do you mean?" Julia was fully awake now, and fully aware of what had been happening before she had lost consciousness. She He stared Hojo straight in the eyes, and had yet to look anywhere else. She glanced down, and realized that she was covered in someone else's blood. "Okay, what in the name of all that is Holy holy is going on here?" Her hands wrapped securely around Hojo's throat and squeezed, hard.
Iscariot: God, what a moron. Yes, piss this monster off more without even knowing what's happening! That'll work out really well. And where did all this energy come from? She was COWERING behind Sephiroth earlier!
He laughed, eyes flashing blood red with snake-like pupils cast heavenward. "There are two things of which I must inform you." He held up one finger, as if she were incapable of counting.
Lian Hua: She is rather stupid. Between willingly placing herself into his hands and setting the floor below her on fire instead of escaping, anyone can tell she doesn't exactly fit the requirements for MENSA.
"One. You cannot kill me because the author is a hack and can't make a convincing and menacing villain without making him invulnerable, so don't bother trying." He held up another. "Two. Look at the blood stained upon your clothes and then look at Sephiroth in the corner." He pulled her hands off his throat with ease, and gestured to the corner. "Have we gotten the picture yet?" His grin widened as he hissed nastily, "I'd sure as hell like to think so!"
Sephiroth's eyes still held that last glimmer of love for Julia, though they were still steadily fogging over.
Sephirothslave: SEPHIROTH LOVES ME, DAMMIT!
Slowly she turned to look at Sephiroth, paling as she noticed the lacerations covering his body, tears spilling down her cheeks as she realized he was dead. "Oh, oh God" she ran to his side, crying hysterically. "Waaaah waaaah waaaaah Sephiroth."
Iscariot: Hey, Slave. Hey. Hey. HEY. You kow how you build a dramatic and moving death scene where a major character gets a shock upon discovering the dead body of a loved one? You DON'T USE THE NARRATION TO DESCRIBE THEIR DAMN BODY AND FORCE SOMEONE TO USE THE CORPSE LIKE A DAMN HALLOWEEN PROP. Not only that, YOU DON'T HAVE THE DAMN VILLAIN CRAM IT, RATHER UNSUBTLY, DOWN THE MAIN CHARACTER'S THROAT.
Julia curled up next to the only person she'd ever loved (loosely speaking, of course), oblivious to Hojo, to the world. "Sephiroth, wata ku tenshi."
Lian Hua: This is probably the most entertaining scene Slave has ever written. To this day I cannot read the above paragraph without bursting into fits of laughter! The scene tries hard to be dramatic, but then the character suddenly and inexplicably starts using Japanese, and INCORRECT Japanese at that. The mistake is obvious to anyone who has studied Japanese, even to a beginer level, and it blows the entire scene to pieces. The correct form should have been: Watakushi no tenshi, in which Watakushi is the most formal way of saying I, no is the possessive particle and tenshi means angel.
Iscariot: I want to look around the web and do a mock translation of what she wrote. So, wata generally relates to cotton, but it's also the word for lower intestines. Depending on the kanji, ku can mean many things, such as nine, ward, section and pain.
Lian Hua: Lower intestines section angel!
Iscariot: Cotton pain angel!
Lian Hua: Intestinal pain angel!
*His body was cooler than it should have been, and was getting colder, blood still flowing in rivers from his wounds, further covering Julia.
Iscariot: He's only been dead for a few minutes! Even with the ridiculous air conditioning in the building, his body is violating all the laws of thermodynamics right now.
Still she buried herself closer to him, oblivious to the blood, tears blinding her.
Lian Hua: I hope you realize that this is almost entirely your fault. If you had simply accepted that there were things he did not or could not share with you, then right now you would have still been together with him, safe and undisurbed in Mideel or whever you used to live. But no, you simply had to indulge your selfishness and put yourself in harm's way, which resulted in Sephiroth being sick with worry and being forced to confront his abuser. And now he's dead, and you had a huge part to play in this. It's not entirely your fault, since he was stupid enough to go to the lab without his Masamune or without materia, and did not take you out of the HQ the first chance he got. But you are still the essential catalyst in the events which led directly to his gruesome death. Congrats!
Hojo held up his arms and continued to shout like a crazy old street preacher. "Yes, you heard it right, bitch! Sephiroth-the burden of my lifespan is finally gone! Gone I tell you! Gone!"
Lian Hua: We shall dump him where the weeds decay - and the rest is rust and stardust.
Her head jerked up, tears still spilling helplessly down her cheeks. "Then kill me to, God damn you!" She shrieked at Hojo, charging at him at grabbing onto his waist with her knees, using her free hands to claw at his face, as though to tear him apart with her bare hands. "Send me to be with Sephiroth!"
Lian Hua: Julia used the CROTCH CLINGER! It is super effective!
Iscariot: Wasn't Hojo slimy and huge in his transformed state? She should either slide off of him, or not be able to wrap her legs around his huge torso.
He pointed his axe at her, with the very tip, and telepathically threw her across the room.
Lian Hua: So now he does stuff telepathically? And where are the voices?
Iscariot: It should not even be telepathy, but psychokinesis (telekinesis) which is the power to move objects with one's mind.
"My GOD aren't we anxious to die tonight! Is it so we can be with our beloved Sephiroth! Whose love for you lies bleeding all over the floor!"
Iscariot: Hojo is ridiculously poetic in these last two chapters.
Lian Hua: His life is like a big, dead rose.
He cackled in her face, feigning sympathy. "But of course, my dear Julia." He tossed his axe from one claw to the other, chortling wildly. "If death is what you want, death is what you shall get!" He leaned closer to the girl, eyes glowing wickedly. "But-you my dear girl will die a much slower, much more painful death-Hold still while I make this painful!""
"Of course Professor." Her voice turned even more grief-filled, contained even more self-loathing. "It's my fault that Sephiroth is dead now, so kill me! Now dammit!"
Lian Hua: I don't think you realize just how much of this is your fault.
Iscariot: Error 404 spine not found.
Protip - characters who don't lose hope and instead fight against the odds when facing certain doom or tradgedy are almost always more favorably viewed than spineless cowards who whine and give up at a moment's notice. Even if the characters die trying.
He loomed over her and grabbed her beck, giving her one last glare before yet again smiling ominously. "Goodbye, Julia!"
Iscariot: It's never too soon to read a Tragicomic Julia Death Scene.
And, with those words, he made a deep incision down her chest and stomach, much in the same way that Sephiroth had cut the Lockheart Lockhart girl in the reactor with a totally different weapon, physics be damned.
Lian Hua: Ladies and gentlemen, Julia has just been gutted like a pig by Hojo. Let that sink in for a minute.
Iscariot: After you have marveled over that mental image, ask yourselves: why is Tifa so important as to be remembered by Hojo? She was one of Sephiroth's many victims during the Nibelheim massacre and her mentor whisked her away to safety before Shinra could get their hands on her like they did with the other survivors. Hojo should not deem her worthy of remembering, as she was just a nameless, unimportant girl for him.
Julia smiled, despite the pain, and that she was losing blood rapidly, a peaceful, serene smile slowly appeared on her face. She crawled weakly over to Sephiroth and lay down in his arms, than looked up into his face, one last time, whispering quietly, "I love you. Oink oink..."
Lian Hua: And once again, we have the tragic(ally stupid) tale of Sir Spinelack and his fair(ly stupid) damsel, Codependia. Two people whose stupidity got them axed.
Iscariot: At least they got themselves out of the gene pool.