#lilyoftheancients

He had told them to double check that damn part. Multiple times! Now they had gone and squandered a test rocket worth thousands of gil AND it had crashed into one of the sectors. Heidegger had brushed it off but Cid wasn’t going to let one of his test rockets go rogue. Worse than that, what if it had hurt someone? Or was going to explode? There was fuel in the damn things. 

Thankfully, it was easy for Cid to find where it had crashed. The citizens of the slums — God, had it gotten worse since he lived here? — easily pointed him in the right direction when he asked if anything large had fallen from the sky. It was just his luck that he was led to a church.

Purple for a silly starter

(( ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! This is like… a ship I have sailed for a long ass time! And now I find a Seph that lusts after it as heavily as I do!?!??! MARRY ME. RIGHT NOW. REIOSNIODFSO ))

*CATCHES AERISEPH AND HOLDS IT REALLY CLOSE* CONGRATULATIONS YOU JUST ASKED ABOUT THE /RIGHT SHIP/.

Lemme tell you about me and Aeriseph.

I /LOVE/ Aeriseph. I /LIVE/ Aeriseph, I /BREATHE/ Aeriseph. (At least, when I'm playing as Sephiroth, but that's BESIDE THE POINT)

THE POINT is, here we have a pair of creatures, ALMOST human, surrounded by humans, sought and lusted after by humans to be used as test subject and guinea pigs, and both of them were very heavily influenced by the acts of monstrous humans around them, specifically the Shinra Company. Aerith was forced to live her life running from the Turks, while Sephiroth was placed in the front lines as their posterboy SOLDIER and primary human experiment, knowing no other life but that of a monstrous footsoldier.

And in the end, both of them end up with wills so solidified that they can end up in the Lifestream and keep themselves together, even if Aerith's will is kept together by compassion while Sephiroth's was by hatred. Their ideals are certainly clashing ideals and their persons, clashing persons. But by the end of it all, they're on the exact same level -- they've arrived at a stalemate. And they could pointlessly continue pressing against each other...or they could take the opportunity to see the other side.

I think that's what's the most beautiful thing about this ship, in my eyes. It's the opportunity, and the parallels between the two characters. Imagine if their roles were reversed -- it wouldn't be so hard! And now that it's just them, floating around for an indescribable amount of time in the Lifestream, watching over everything...I guess I just really love the idea of a relationship developing, of any sort.

And then comes the whole "if they met while alive AU," but I won't GET INTO THAT TODAY.