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[savante]

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“This is Lune. Leave a message.”

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AGLAEA 💃

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CID ⚡

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CLOUD 🍔

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JASNAH 💡

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JAYCE 🛠️

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JOHN DOE 👑

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KIMIKO 👋

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MARC 🌙

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SCIEL ☀️

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SHADOWHEART ✨

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STEVE 💪

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VERSO 🎹

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WADE ⚔️

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[coraza]

( uh, that is to say,, he should try to answer her question )

I liked it

[savante]

I couldn't say which instrument is more advanced or not. They're both complex in their own ways.

You play piano as well?

[ As for their next performance— Verso's been optimistically pounding the pavement and securing gigs for them, even though it feels uniquely strange to plan for the future after today, this particular day, this massive looming question mark over her head. She'll work up to letting Cloud know the time. Just can't decide yet if it superstitiously feels like counting her eggs before they're hatched, and if she ought to wait to say something until tomorrow morning, lest… well. ]

[coraza]

( he's trying to pay ya a compliment )

I don't think I could ever learn to play the guitar, is what I meant
I learned the piano as a kid. My neighbor had a piano and I took lessons with her mom
Not a lot going on in a small town like that as a kid I guess

[savante]

[ listen, ]

What did you prefer doing as a child instead? If the piano wasn't a passion?


[ Clearly, the easier distraction here is pivoting and turning to interrogate Cloud. ]

[coraza]

( looking at tifa

hmm.... )

I really enjoyed the time I spent with my mom

( mama's boy )

Didn't really find something to be passionate about until I joined the army though

[savante]

What was it about the army in particular?

[coraza]

You'll laugh

[savante]

Try anyway.

[coraza]

( he's gonna trust her on this.... also, he's on a mission to be nice to lune. )

I wanted to be a hero.

[savante]

From what I understand, an army isn't necessarily th

[ Lune doesn't laugh. She does kneejerk question the correlation, almost starts to poke a hole in it, but thankfully manages to rein herself in at the last moment; remembers in the nick of time to be gentle with someone else's hopes and dreams. (She, too, can be nice!!) ]

Is that what they were?

[coraza]

( okay, she isn't laughing or questioning him, at least not in text.... )

Yeah. Where I was from

( a pause. that sends, but the sentence is incomplete. he tries again: )

I told you about my village
It was a man from the military. Someone I looked up to. Was my hero
Sephiroth

( do you feel that crackle in the air, of something ominous? no? just him? ok )

I wanted to be like him

[savante]

[ It’s a rather stark and horrifying example of 'never meet your heroes'. She remembers what he'd mentioned before-- that Sephiroth was the one who burnt Nibelheim to the ground, and that Cloud had dedicated himself to stopping him.

What a worse betrayal, when done by someone you'd looked up to and once wanted to model yourself after. She has her own issues with her role models, but at least it hadn't been this. Lune flounders for a moment; she's still unsure what the right thing to say is, but she tries. ]

I'm sorry.

You can still define yourself outside of him.

[coraza]

( perhaps, now, too, lune could connect some dots about the scar on his back and chest alongside sephiroth. perhaps if she had some more context— isn't he doing great, though? at being nice to lune? giving her some mystery to chew on.

especially when he says something like: )

I'm past that. I'll kill Sephiroth and stop him this time

[savante]

[ It really is a gift. What better way to distract from your own trauma than focusing on someone else's?? ]

Hypothetically. If he were to show up here one day, as a fluxdrift. Would you want to kill him?

[coraza]

Yes.

( the quickest text he's ever sent. it's almost like he wants this to happen!! wonder why.. )

I won't let him hurt anyone.

[savante]

[ A pause. If she were writing this by hand, she'd be tapping the pen restlessly against the paper. ]

It's a distinctive name. I'll of course let you know if I ever run into him. What does he look like?

[coraza]

( someone is treating his sephiroth claims as serious? this is a nice feeling. )

Tall. Taller than Verso
Long silver hair, green eyes, and he wields an incredibly long sword

If you ever see him — get away from him. Don't let him know that you know me.

( this shit is so serious, lune )

[savante]

Noted.

[ lune is quite literally taking note ]

In the same spirit: If you ever meet an older man named Renoir, with greying hair and a cane, who speaks the same language we do... do let me and Verso know?


But especially me. Me first, actually, if you can.

[ She might or might not have some doubts about Verso being forthcoming with the information himself. ]

[coraza]

( let's hope his soup brain can contain another big bad's name. he pauses at her clarification, but doesn't have enough of a foothold to know what to ask. )

What'd he do?

spoilers for both act 1 and 2

[savante]

[ All the world's possible answers press against her skull, and Lune hesitates over her phone, unsure how exactly to answer that one simple question.

He killed my best friend. He killed everyone.
I would kill him, too.

Don't hurt him.
He's Verso's --

It's all too much and she can't blab the other man's baggage to a third party, not like this. So: ]

It's complicated. He's also dangerous. Don't engage him, but don't attack him either. Simply let us know.

[coraza]

Gotcha.

( okay... so, this is the exact opposite of what him texting lune is supposed to accomplish, isn't it? distract her from complicated shit, or whatever.

............... )

By the way
What do you do for fun? Other than asking me questions

( he's joking ok )

[savante]

I don’t do much besides ask you questions.

[ Jokes??? She’s got jokes.

The truth is, Lune’s still figuring out the whole for fun thing. So she has to actively resist the urge to mention her work and studies and more pragmatic pursuits, but she tries: ]

I play guitar, as you know, and sometimes write my own music. I read. Occasionally watch television. Why?

[coraza]

( nonchalantly, )

What about card games?

[savante]

I do like those as well. Solitaire, of course. Belote, Tarot, Nain Jaune, although I'm missing the game board for the latter.

[ She likes anything complicated, mathematical, trick-taking, and competitive. 😇 ]

[coraza]

( it's a shame he doesn't have his queen's blood deck here... )

I don't know any of those
I know War though