[ cloud isn't even looking at the emet painting still, he is too busy having a staring contest with painting sephiroth. a completely sane and normal thing to do ]
[Hm. He looks from Cloud to the painting of Sephiroth. His hamster wheel is turning. He is kind of making a bit of a leap here, but things are adding up. It's--the eyes probably.]
S'that your guy? [The confessional one.] Sephiroth. [Surprise, Jason knows a name.]
Jason looks again at the Sephiroth painting. He really feels like he's missing something here, but after the confessional, he thinks he understands what's happened. Maybe.]
Uh. He... actually... wasn't so bad of a guy. [But Jason immediately holds up both hands in surrender and defense.] You said he was a war hero, right? I think it might have been... before the, you know.
[He twirls a finger by his head.]
He was my age. He was actually our second execution, and he was innocent. We fucked up. Everyone thought he sounded guilty because he was trying to persuade us to look more closely at someone else since their story sounded suspicious.
[ cloud, IMMEDIATELY bristling, but... the explanation makes sense. he's seen for himself some of the weird time junk in places. or even alternate universes (sora kingdom hearts, hi?). so he just looks away with a scoff.
he is bitter though; ]
Too bad it didn't stick. Would've saved me a lot of trouble. [ it's probably not how that works! but also! FUCK sephiroth. all his homies hate sephiroth. etc. ] So he died the second day there?
[HOLD ON, CHILL OUT. Damn. Jason gets taken out for stanning pre-psychotic Sephiroth (no).]
Yeah, he did. Actually, kind of glad he did after our little heart-to-heart in the box. Maybe he would have went off the rails there if he had stayed alive.
[He glances at Cloud. Okay, he feels a little bad for the guy. But he's not sure saying "sorry, buddy, for your trauma" will help in any way. So instead:]
[ i can't wait until jason gets to learn the lore that sephiroth learned about his mom and then went on a rampage. i'm sure that's not relatable.
well. he's not going to lie watching jason step on baby sephiroth is satisfying, and the cool thing with paintings is if you step on it hard enough you go through. because they are canvas.
so cloud joins in ]
This your idea of a good time?
[ he says, having stepped through sephiroth's dumb stupid face <3 ]
Is it really torture if it doesn't try to kill you seven times?
[ but yeah, he'll take point and keep walking. but he will also keep away from looking at the paintings of the ff7 party. and also maybe lup is there, for fun. ]
[HEY FLURRY IF YOU ARE READING THIS LATER ZIA PUT LUP IN CLOUD’S GALLERY PAINTINGS!!!!!!!
Jason follows alongside Cloud. He also isn’t trying to look directly at the paintings still, but he can’t help any glances.
Dislike all the Bat family ones, honestly. But there is also one with a tall and armored woman in it? She is with a kind of ugly, malformed looking buff guy in a blue and red spandex onesie.
Jason sort of slows down to look. But when he does, the two of them are laid out in rubble, broken and blood. Hm.]
[ HOW IS THIS A SECRET!!!! adds bunny and fox to cloud's paintings. friends.
anyway, jason asks and cloud turns to look. wow. what a beautiful painting of people fucking dying. terrible that there is more of that around now that he is actually looking and not deliberately ignoring the gallery.
how come sephiroth is the only one not dyin!!! bitch!!!! ]
... Somehow, I think this is just the start of it. [ he nudges jason lightly ] C'mon, let's keep going.
[ is the feeling maybe guilt at seeing a bunch of people they know dying? maybe. maybe! who can say. cloud resolutely ignores them and keeps walking ]
I'm not getting the same feeling as when we were with those mirrors, though. So maybe they won't crawl out. [ ... but yeah, uh; ] Downside is it might mean we're stuck here a while with just bad art for company.
[If it wasn’t for the carnage, Bruce would look somehow like a regal and well put together man. Jason knows he isn’t. Then again, Bruce may be lying shot to hell and back in Crime Alley, but he’s still in a fancy boy’s club suit.
If you have money, you can always look regal and put together even being murdered.]
Yeah. That’s him.
[Is it weird when a black-haired, blue-eyed man keeps adopting children who look exactly like him?]
[ we both know it is, and cloud has seen enough black haired and blue eyed men in this corridor to at least find it a little weird. he unfortunately does not roast Bruce Wayne about this. ]
... That tracks. Never seen anyone who looks like that not be totally unaware of reality.
[the areas in which cloud and jason are converging are sending me]
He has a savior complex. So he thinks you can try to save even the worst people.
[And, look, at the core of it, Jason gets it, but he does not want to live by that standard. Sometimes, bad people need to die. That's what he believes in.]
I guess you'd hear a different story if you asked someone else. Like Dick, or Gordon, or Gordon's daughter. All the people benefiting from the little charities he does.
Pretty sure there's some stuff people can't come back from doing.
[ cloud is thinking not just of sephiroth but also everyone's favorite scientist hojo and like. honestly. most of fucking shinra. yikesies. he keeps going and also okay he gets it his name is cloud he can't mock people but also ]
[ you think anyone in ff7 is named RICHARD, anna? you think any person has a name like RICHARD? the most normal name is johnny.
anyway cloud looks a little ? at the richard = dick thing, but also he is distracted by something else, which jason had not mentioned when complaining about his mentor before. ]
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Unfortunately.
[ cloud explain! no. ]
no subject
S'that your guy? [The confessional one.] Sephiroth. [Surprise, Jason knows a name.]
...He was with us on the island.
no subject
Sephiroth? [ yes that's what he said, cloud. ] On your murder purgatory island? And you guys actually made it out?
[ WOW CLOUD ]
no subject
Jason looks again at the Sephiroth painting. He really feels like he's missing something here, but after the confessional, he thinks he understands what's happened. Maybe.]
Uh. He... actually... wasn't so bad of a guy. [But Jason immediately holds up both hands in surrender and defense.] You said he was a war hero, right? I think it might have been... before the, you know.
[He twirls a finger by his head.]
He was my age. He was actually our second execution, and he was innocent. We fucked up. Everyone thought he sounded guilty because he was trying to persuade us to look more closely at someone else since their story sounded suspicious.
no subject
he is bitter though; ]
Too bad it didn't stick. Would've saved me a lot of trouble. [ it's probably not how that works! but also! FUCK sephiroth. all his homies hate sephiroth. etc. ] So he died the second day there?
no subject
Yeah, he did. Actually, kind of glad he did after our little heart-to-heart in the box. Maybe he would have went off the rails there if he had stayed alive.
[He glances at Cloud. Okay, he feels a little bad for the guy. But he's not sure saying "sorry, buddy, for your trauma" will help in any way. So instead:]
...Want to destroy it?
no subject
[ ominous. anyway, he shakes his head and finally looks away from sephiroth ]
Yeah, but twenty gil says we do that and there's ten more that pop up. Not worth the effort.
no subject
Maybe he’s a bit interested in what made this dude go bonkers.]
We’re in this shit hole for who knows how long. Might as well take advantage of what we can in the rooms that keep messing with us, right?
[Jason is an agent of chaos and I, personally, hate it. He steps forward and reaches up to grab the edge of the painting and
yank it down onto the floor. Then he steps on it.]
no subject
well. he's not going to lie watching jason step on baby sephiroth is satisfying, and the cool thing with paintings is if you step on it hard enough you go through. because they are canvas.
so cloud joins in ]
This your idea of a good time?
[ he says, having stepped through sephiroth's dumb stupid face <3 ]
no subject
He gives Cloud opportunity to smush them dumb Sephiroth painting. For what it’s worth, nothing bad seems to happen (right now).]
Nothing brings faster stress relief sometimes than just breaking shit.
[The gives the corner a lil stomp to break the frame.]
It’s something I can fondly think about when we end up getting jumped by paint and brushes in about three minutes when we keep going.
no subject
[ wrong room! but close! ]
no subject
[He lifts his chin to indicate the rest of the gallery.]
Good now? Ready to keep going through Galeria Infernum?
no subject
[ but yeah, he'll take point and keep walking. but he will also keep away from looking at the paintings of the ff7 party. and also maybe lup is there, for fun. ]
no subject
Jason follows alongside Cloud. He also isn’t trying to look directly at the paintings still, but he can’t help any glances.
Dislike all the Bat family ones, honestly. But there is also one with a tall and armored woman in it? She is with a kind of ugly, malformed looking buff guy in a blue and red spandex onesie.
Jason sort of slows down to look. But when he does, the two of them are laid out in rubble, broken and blood. Hm.]
You think they ever get tired of the mind games?
no subject
anyway, jason asks and cloud turns to look. wow. what a beautiful painting of people fucking dying. terrible that there is more of that around now that he is actually looking and not deliberately ignoring the gallery.
how come sephiroth is the only one not dyin!!! bitch!!!! ]
... Somehow, I think this is just the start of it. [ he nudges jason lightly ] C'mon, let's keep going.
no subject
He glances back, refocusing when he's bumped.] Right. [Down the hell hallway. Which just leads... into another room gallery area?
These new pictures he frowns at. A lot of them are the same people that have shown up before, but they are in various terrible instances.]
You feeling watched again? How long have we been in this damn place?
no subject
[ is the feeling maybe guilt at seeing a bunch of people they know dying? maybe. maybe! who can say. cloud resolutely ignores them and keeps walking ]
I'm not getting the same feeling as when we were with those mirrors, though. So maybe they won't crawl out. [ ... but yeah, uh; ] Downside is it might mean we're stuck here a while with just bad art for company.
[ It's Not A Great Time. ]
no subject
He's feeling a smidgen guilty.]
You know, if they did, I wouldn't even be surprised. I'm not surprised by anything anymore, and it's only been a few rooms.
[He glares sourly at the artwork as they keep going. It really is just all very bad now. There is nothing good in this life anymore.
He pointedly looks away from an Alfred one, but he does slow to a stop in front of a Bruce one so he can mean mug it a little.]
no subject
... That your mentor?
[ he's guessing. he's making a mean mug face and it does NOT look like a clown. ]
no subject
If you have money, you can always look regal and put together even being murdered.]
Yeah. That’s him.
[Is it weird when a black-haired, blue-eyed man keeps adopting children who look exactly like him?]
no subject
... That tracks. Never seen anyone who looks like that not be totally unaware of reality.
[ fucking rich people ]
no subject
He has a savior complex. So he thinks you can try to save even the worst people.
[And, look, at the core of it, Jason gets it, but he does not want to live by that standard. Sometimes, bad people need to die. That's what he believes in.]
I guess you'd hear a different story if you asked someone else. Like Dick, or Gordon, or Gordon's daughter. All the people benefiting from the little charities he does.
[Or people he saves at Batman.
He turns away from the painting to keep walking.]
no subject
[ cloud is thinking not just of sephiroth but also everyone's favorite scientist hojo and like. honestly. most of fucking shinra. yikesies. he keeps going and also okay he gets it his name is cloud he can't mock people but also ]
Dick?
no subject
What're you, five? [STOP, HE WILL LAUGH. Poor Dick.] His name's Richard. [That explains it.] He gets that a lot.
He'd tell you the other guy has some issues, but he's trying to do his best. Maybe. Unless Dad is mad at the golden boy this time around.
[me having to dunk on dick in front of you]
no subject
anyway cloud looks a little ? at the richard = dick thing, but also he is distracted by something else, which jason had not mentioned when complaining about his mentor before. ]
Dad?
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)