|| 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!

Comments

[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]

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

No, not usually... [He also hesitates a bit.]

[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.