Optimal Scenario, File 6.0

[sinnatious]

Title: Optimal Scenario

Warnings: Contains not-particularly graphic shonen ai, mild language, and violence.

Summary: FFVII, Vincent/Cloud. Shelke decides to play matchmaker. This mostly seems to involve tormenting Cloud.

Author's Note: Sorry for the delay, but here at last is the penultimate chapter. Kind of short actually... the last chapter

Comments

[sinnatious]

I know right? I don't have a reputation for suddenly tragic endings at all.

[eve_tenshi]

Aww, as much as I want to see them get together, I don't really want Cloud to be in any kind of serious danger in order to instigate it...not to mention Shelke would be in sooo much trouble :( Hurry, Vincent!

(But really Cloud, why haven't you just borrowed a ribbon from someone else yet, not having a ribbon seems to have been screwing you over a lot as of late ._.)

[sinnatious]

It's true, I should just retitle this fic 'Things That Happen When Cloud Misplaces Ribbon'.

[caterfree10]

*SNORT* I might've cackled at the realization of Shelke's plan. Then again, clueless men call for desperate measures, y/y?

Oh dear at that last line tho. Like tsuyuhime said tho, at least the promised lightness of the fic promises it won't turn into a disaster. which can't be said for some of your other fics heh //brick'd

Also, mmmm in-verse metaphors and turns of phrases, always a delight! 'S a shame more fandoms don't do that more widespread outside the homestuck fandom. :V

[sinnatious]

I'm sure other fandoms do it! It's probably just more obvious in these fandoms because there's a fantastical element to them.

Yeah, plus there's only one more chapter so you know I can't drag it out. :3 ...Or can I?

Just kidding I can't this is really a totally brain dead fic so you don't need to worry.

[ratzels]

*facepalm* Shelke, you idiot.

Then again, this could be an excellent way to cure Vincent of his crush! ...Although Lucretia marrying a creepy sleezeball and authorizing experimentation on her unborn child didn't do it, either. Hmm.

[sinnatious]

Vincent has some serious blinkers, really. Lucrecia gets painted as somewhat saintly but really the only thing that makes her better than Hojo is that she regretted it. (And maybe didn't actively shoot people. So two things.) Are we sure it's not some kind of lingering Stockholm Syndrome from his time in the tubes?

I almost feel like I need to write a more serious standalone fic exploring this sometime.

[gelfling8604]

As much as I feel bad for Cloud, I kinda think he's use to things like this happening to him by now--definitely rolls with the punches.

Love your Reno, he really has no issues with...much of anything, really.

[sinnatious]

I imagine it probably takes quite a lot to faze AVALANCHE in general these days. After you've made friends with a dolphin in order to sneak into Junon or hijacked a rocket into space or been double-crossed by a robot cat...