|| First Strike ||

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

Whoa, okay! This is... ah. Not quite where I wanted to end up, to be honest. In fact, this doesn't look like the Lifestream at all. If I didn't know any better, I'd say I popped up on a spaceship or somethin'!

Imagine that.

Me.

In space.

[He pauses, slowly looking into the camera with bright blue eyes.]

...oh, don't even tell me!

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[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

[Sora listens through all that, frowning a bit.] Maybe so, but it still seems like people should be able to tell the difference between real monsters and fake ones. Part of facing down real monsters is standing up to that fear, after all.

Huh? Neither of them ever even mentioned those worlds. Aerith told me that she and Leon and everyone else grew up in Radiant Garden. I don't think she'd lie about that...

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

It's a sad world we live in, unfortunately, an' you gotta do what you can to make it better, y'know?

Yeah, no, I get you, but...

What the heck is goin' on here?

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's that sad...but I agree we should try to make it better.

I dunno...it'd seem like Cloud or Aerith would've mentioned another friend. ...Well, maybe not Cloud. It's tough to get him to talk sometimes.

Thread jack.

[beforethemoon]

If he knows Cloud and Aerith, I would have seen this guy around my school.

And, well, I haven't...

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

If he...oh yeah, I guess they would've been in school when you were...

[Sora makes a funny face. Now that's a weird thought.]

[beforethemoon]

What's that face for, Sora?

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

[Sora tries to wipe that look off his face.]

Uhh...it's nothing!

[beforethemoon]

Nothing?

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Just...thinking.

[beforethemoon]

About....?

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Just weird how stuff changes over time.

[beforethemoon]

Time... does that, Sora.

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. [He seems a bit more sad here.]

[beforethemoon]

But it's nothing to be... sad about. [He hesitates at the end of the sentence there]

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

[SORA WHY ARE YOU MAKING THINGS SO SAD FOR HIM.]

They never even talked about me...?

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

[BECAUSE ALTERNATE UNIVERSES ARE SAD?!]

Not that I remember...

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

[YOUR WORLD ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE SAD. IT'S FUGGIN' DISNEY.]

Okay, something's gotta be wrong when Aerith doesn't even mention me!

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Yeah...Aerith's definitely not the kind to do something like that.

Did you end up on another world when Radiant Garden fell?

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

But I don't even remember Radiant Garden... I just remember growin' up in Gongaga with my mom and dad.

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Not at all?

That doesn't make much sense...

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

And now someone else is sayin' I'm from Olympus Colosseum!

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've been there! And I remember seeing Cloud there first, too.

...But you don't remember that either?

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

No... I remember Cloud, but I also remember we met in Modeoheim, not a Colosseum.

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Maybe...you lost some of your memories? [After all, Sora had that happen to him...]

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

But I know where I live, where I grew up!

I was born in Gongaga, on the Western Continent. I moved to Midgar when I was thirteen an' I worked at ShinRa for half my life. I lived with Angeal an' Sephiroth there, an' I grew up with 'em. Aerith's from Midgar, too, and Cloud lived with me at HQ.