The Fifth Act, Chapter 15

[sinnatious]

Title: The Fifth Act

Rating: T for violence.

Summary: FFVII Time-travel. Gen. Cloud has an accident with a Time Materia.

Author's Note: This chapter has a little bit of everything.

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[aori_tsuki]

Pffff, oh Sephiroth, your social skills are much desired. Also Tseng! Kunsel! And Zack! Haha, this fic always makes my week interesting. Plus Angeal you crazy, devious person you. Wasn't even suspecting that! :D

Also, fic links to the Gabranth/Vaan I mentioned last week (?):

These Unending Alchemies of Honour
tentatus est

[sinnatious]

Okay yes, I think I am SOLD on Gabranth/Vaan now, especially if we get to read some angry, vengeful Vaan! Angry vengeful Vaan kicking ass. I really like Vaan, but the game made him so utterly irrelevant. :( Thanks for the links!

[searisme]

Whey! Aside from that, this chapter was just too awesome for words. Sneaky!Angeal, who'd have guessed? And Tseng being Tseng. And Seph being socially retarded... and murderous-mother-hen!Genesis (there should be more Genesis). I worry about Angeal, too.

Also, Zack, you dork! Didn't he know?

As for lines...

In a rare moment of empathy, Sephiroth realised this must be what Genesis felt like all the time.

and

“Loveless, Act I. Thank you for trying to put me to sleep anyway.”

Well, there´'s more, but... bother..

[sinnatious]

Well, Angeal being sneaky by accident, but then, he does have friends to look out for. ^_^

When writing that scene, all I could remember was all those moments in Crisis Core where Kunsel would impart info and then despair at Zack not being aware of any of it. XD Second Class Zack really was a bit of a dork. <3

[searisme]

By accident. Well, then everything's ok.

Meh. Never played CC, so I'll have to take your word for it. Or is that the ultimate no-no to admit to in this august company?

[sinnatious]

Not to worry. Quite a few of the people reading haven't played CC, apparently. ^_^ So I'll just take credit for all those fun parts lifted from it, yes? :D

[ixtey]

Like an uncontrollable tempest, a force of destruction which you couldn’t predict and if you tried to grab it, would just slip through your fingers.
> this was... wow. A very different interpretation of Cloud's name by Sephiroth when compared to other fics. And loads better than Seph going on and on into soliloquy about how the name "Cloud" perfectly matches his pretty blue eyes, etc. not that it's completely false, though~ 8D

He thought he’d finally found it in the enigmatic blond. No - he knew he found it. Something about Cloud called to him, awakened some instinct.
> for one second I thought the fic suddenly morphed into sappy, smutty fluff, lol.

Yay, Seph decides to be friends with Cloud! Looking forward to the awkward conversations full of "I-want-to-be-friends-with-you-even-though-I-know-you-hate-my-guts" talk :DD

Angeal, you sneaky little sneak! Although I had an inkling that he would do that when he looked at Cloud's PHS. And ashdaslkd how could you, Zack, of all people, not know that about Cloud before? tsk, tsk. :PP

[sinnatious]

Some credit to Zack! If he'd known before, he might have put together the pieces about the mysterious mercenary in Wutai and that guy in the slums who can kick ass. That he didn't know... well, it means he's not very well informed, but also not stupid. :P

Well, it's a rivalry, not a romance. XD Sorry if I disappointed you with the following sentence. :D As for the name thing, they gave him Strife and Zack Fair for a reason.

I do like those talks! Let's look forward to them together. ^_^

[swyrel]

OMG I love Kunsel and Zack's interaction with each other. If I didn't love Zack/Aeris so much, I would be hitting you up for some Kunsel/Zack...

'Sometimes, there really were ordinary explanations.'

Yeah, right, Tseng. Only if ordinary involves time travel...

I can't wait to see Sephiroth trying to befriend Cloud. Yeah, I can see that going over very well with him...

Genesis~ *hugs* I want to see this mother Chocobo side who pecks everyone's eyes out! lol

[sinnatious]

They are so fun to write together, seriously. *_*

I feel a bit sorry for Tseng, really, trying to unravel a mystery he has absolutely no hope of solving. :D

[firedraygon97]

It's weird, but when you divide the chapter up into different POVs, it seems so much longer. :O I like it.

*flails* Angeal, you sly dog! My Spidey-senses did not go off at ALL during that PHS scene. *is a little ashamed* But I do love it when I'm blindsided by these new developments. :3 I wonder how Tseng's going to get ahold of Cloud's PHS (will Rude and Reno be involved? XD) and whether or not Cloud realizes that his snazzy phone is going to bring trouble. Delete your contact list!!

Angeal had that Second he’d adopted, and Genesis had Loveless. What did Sephiroth have?Hahahaha, Loveless is now equivalent to a puppy. XP At first I read it like Sephiroth was being snarky when mentioning Genesis, but now it just makes me feel sorry for him, that he doesn't have a passion for something yet. Hopefully this thing with Cloud will work out

[sinnatious]

Lucky for you then that most chapters have at least one change of POV. :D

Gold Chocobo Elite! XD That's brilliant! This needs fic, seriously. Stop making me want to write side stories!

It's a relief to hear that in some small ways this is at least managing not to be exactly like all the other time travel stories. Probably helps that not too many of them have CC characters in them yet. :D

[firedraygon97]

Stop making me want to write side stories!

DOOO IIIIIT!! ♥ And Cloud can learn about it from Kunsel. :D I wonder who the founder would be? Haha.