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. ]
[ richard highwind. anyway, cloud has seen some of the paintings of people that he has no idea who they are so they must be jason's (imagine if i put zack in here. no), and while they are horrible and messed up, he does glance at them quickly ]
... To be honest, most of you kind of look like you could be related. This a thing with this guy? Picking up kids?
Guess he has a weird thing for boys who look like him.
Oh yeah. He loves adopting. [And also adopting boys with a certain aesthetic. COMICS?] He has about seven or eight of us. Well, not all of us are technically adopted, but same difference. He thinks he can fix things with all his money.
He gets real bent out of shape when he can't fix things.
Yes and no. Maybe a sliver of him thinks he can always fix the clown. But it's mostly his morals are sky-high, and he thinks if you kill someone, you're not better than they are.
So you're not telling me something I don't already know. You try convincing him the bad people should probably die.
Never been in the business of trying to convince other people that kind of junk. I do what I do, and if they don't like it, tough.
[ he shrugs. he says that when there is a picture of both tifa and aerith looking beaten and stabbed and judgmental all at once and he kind of winces. it's fine. the art gallery is fine ]
Pretty sure the closest thing I had to a mentor burned down my home town, so.
... Nibelheim was in the middle of the mountains. Closed off, small town, with nothing else to see except an old so-called "haunted" mansion and a mako reactor.
[ there's a pause ]
Mako's-- an energy source from the planet. [ to try and explain. he is also saying all of this as he walks away so he does not have to look at jason ] Honestly, it was a podunk little town. [ I can't believe he said the word podunk unironically. ] Lived there with my mom. I couldn't wait to get away from it, so I joined the army to make something of myself. Pretty much every guy around my age went too, but I'm the only one who made it to SOLDIER.
[ or so he thinks. this is fun. this is funny. he pauses in front of a picture of Tifa that is maybe just a tad on the realism side, laid out and bleeding and it sure looks like some kind of nuclear reactor she is in there! wow! what a coincidence. ]
... It's funny. I never liked the place, but I never wanted it gone, either.
[This is fine because Jason walks along beside Cloud and does not make eye contact with Cloud at all. Two dudes walking around an art gallery, not making eye contact because they're not sharing feelings.
He's surprisingly quiet, giving Cloud the opportunity to talk without any kind of dry jokes or sass. Not even when Cloud says "podunk" unironically.]
Doesn't sound too different than my world. Depleting fossil fuels and causing global warming, plenty of patriotic babies signing up for the army because they think it'll make them a man. Can't relate to living in the middle of nowhere, though. I'm a city boy.
[He slows down and stops a bit away when Cloud takes the time to look at the picture. He peers at it thoughtfully.]
I could probably say the same about Gotham. Friend of yours?
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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.
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[ wrong room! but close! ]
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[He lifts his chin to indicate the rest of the gallery.]
Good now? Ready to keep going through Galeria Infernum?
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[ 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. ]
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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?
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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.
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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?
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[ 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. ]
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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.]
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... That your mentor?
[ he's guessing. he's making a mean mug face and it does NOT look like a clown. ]
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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?]
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... That tracks. Never seen anyone who looks like that not be totally unaware of reality.
[ fucking rich people ]
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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.]
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[ 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?
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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]
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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?
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Surprise. We're adopted. Can't you tell?
[He is really going to bring weird family drama into this horror house of never-ending artwork. It's fine.
He would, like, point out Dick, and Tim, and Damian, maybe the girls, but he does not want to look at the paintings when they are still very awful.]
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... To be honest, most of you kind of look like you could be related. This a thing with this guy? Picking up kids?
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Oh yeah. He loves adopting. [And also adopting boys with a certain aesthetic. COMICS?] He has about seven or eight of us. Well, not all of us are technically adopted, but same difference. He thinks he can fix things with all his money.
He gets real bent out of shape when he can't fix things.
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Starting to get that picture. So, what? He wanted to fix the clown, too? Only way to do that is with him six feet under.
[ all clowns should die anyway ]
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Yes and no. Maybe a sliver of him thinks he can always fix the clown. But it's mostly his morals are sky-high, and he thinks if you kill someone, you're not better than they are.
So you're not telling me something I don't already know. You try convincing him the bad people should probably die.
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[ he shrugs. he says that when there is a picture of both tifa and aerith looking beaten and stabbed and judgmental all at once and he kind of winces. it's fine. the art gallery is fine ]
Pretty sure the closest thing I had to a mentor burned down my home town, so.
[ ZACK BEING SO ERASED ]
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What was your hometown like?
[It's maybe easier to talk about than shitty Sephiroth, or giving platitudes that just sound like pity. Minus the burning down part. Oops.
DON'T JUST FORGET ZACK. Very funny for any memshare and the people who get deep-rooted Zack(?).]
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[ there's a pause ]
Mako's-- an energy source from the planet. [ to try and explain. he is also saying all of this as he walks away so he does not have to look at jason ] Honestly, it was a podunk little town. [ I can't believe he said the word podunk unironically. ] Lived there with my mom. I couldn't wait to get away from it, so I joined the army to make something of myself. Pretty much every guy around my age went too, but I'm the only one who made it to SOLDIER.
[ or so he thinks. this is fun. this is funny. he pauses in front of a picture of Tifa that is maybe just a tad on the realism side, laid out and bleeding and it sure looks like some kind of nuclear reactor she is in there! wow! what a coincidence. ]
... It's funny. I never liked the place, but I never wanted it gone, either.
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He's surprisingly quiet, giving Cloud the opportunity to talk without any kind of dry jokes or sass. Not even when Cloud says "podunk" unironically.]
Doesn't sound too different than my world. Depleting fossil fuels and causing global warming, plenty of patriotic babies signing up for the army because they think it'll make them a man. Can't relate to living in the middle of nowhere, though. I'm a city boy.
[He slows down and stops a bit away when Cloud takes the time to look at the picture. He peers at it thoughtfully.]
I could probably say the same about Gotham. Friend of yours?
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