#missingmywing

First impression

Akira: I did my best to go into the game with an open mind (though I'd already read a fic, and been aware of some art and stuff) so I guess my first impression was "quiet with hidden depths." Before I went through the game, I was one of those people who sometimes mistook shuake/akeshu art as soukoku.

Akechi: I already knew about him before going in, so I guess my first impression was "huh, interesting" and then at some point "I will literally fight for him, he's my kind of character" and then "[points at screen] it's HIM" and then "oooh, look at him go!" haha. I did have a (very short) period of being uncertain about him around the interrogation room, but. It was short.

Impression now

Akira: I can honestly say I never expected to like a protagonist as much as I do Akira. I love how I can enjoy most fandom takes on him (even if not all). Gay disaster. Thrillseeker and probably has some kind of Thing For Danger in general. Absolute sweetheart and best big brother figure. Has a Lot of Gender.

Akechi: omg he's just like me for real- no seriously. I see a lot of my own issues in him, just dialled up to eleven. I relate so hard. I love his tenacity and the way he goes "I'm done with letting myself be controlled." Also, he's Gay Disaster #1.

Favorite moment

Akira: It's hard to say? Off the top of my head, probably just "any moment where his actions are independent of the player." Stuff you can't control, because it shows he has a personality all of his own. More specifically... ok yeah I gotta go with "the world is going crazy, his cat is human, and Akira just keeps going "?" "!" "?!" at everything.

Akechi: Part of me wants to say "friends? teammates? to hell with that!" but it's not that. It's gotta actually be his speech/dialogue on 2/2. because the entire thing is saying "I will not allow myself to live a lie, I've done that, I've had it with it, I'm sick of it" and by god he's setting his boundaries. He's got this line in the sand and he's saying he needs his free will more than anything, and it's worth dying for. It just hit hard and is one of the things that's stuck so hard about him.

Idea for a story

HAHAHA. I have written SO MANY for these dumb kids, but I still have more.

Akira: Post-11/20 where he he accidentally keeps admitting he misses Akechi for whatever reasons come up. Which is more about Akira bonding and sharing stuff with his friends and teammates than it is Akechi, who'd mostly not be appearing in the fic.

Akechi: I have written two "Vampire Akechi" fics. I now have vague ideas for Werewolf Akechi. Every so often I also want to write something where he finds Mona when he ran away from home.

Unpopular opinion

Akira: Uh... probably that he'd actually go along with an accomplice route or willingly kill anyone, and that the Yaldy choice bad end isn't something I can easily see him doing. I see a lot of people liking these edgier ideas about him and I'm just... he's one angery boi, sure, and he might have thoughts and wonder about how things could go if he just went with his crush, or continued changing hearts like that, but. I don't think he'd do it.

Akechi: Where do I begin. I don't think either of his Personas are fake or manufactured, whether he got lab tested by Wakaba or not. I also don't think that he's trigger-happy about killing people, either; he sees it as a means to an end, but I don't think he ever wanted to be in this position, and he wound up just... getting used to it. On the flip side I also don't see him going "woe is me for I am a murderer and therefore monster" like... he knew what he was doing and if he was going to be like that in third sem or later then he likely wouldn't have got that far.

Favorite relationship

Akira: Not counting Akechi, I think I like seeing him hang out with Futaba the most? But also Ryuji and Sumire.

Akechi: Not counting Akira, it has to be a tie of Sumire and Futaba. Although I love watching him and Haru in the same room. The sparks flying (and him being intimidated by her) is fun both to read and to write. (I'd like to see more of him and the rest of the PT and also Sae in more than just roleswap/etc AUs too, though.)

Favorite headcanon

Akira: He arrives in Tokyo having internalised the idea from his home town and parents that he's supposed to grow up to get a good job, get married to a girl, have kids. He leaves Tokyo realising "oops I'm gay." (read: my playthrough has me see him as completely unhappy with the girls, only realising too late if he's committed himself. because of the sprites.)

Akechi: In any 'verse other than one that explicitly states he survived through other means (brought back via cognitive reasons like Morgana, or like in one of my recent fics) I like to believe that he survived the engine room through sheer persistence and a Goho-m, but stress and trauma and Call of Chaos (and maybe Maruki) made him forget those details.

I’ve really kinda been missing Love Potion No. 2!

Despite the fact that he is a massively successful shapeshifter, Sephiroth does have a favorite gift/hobby: Make-up. He calls it “Shifting the hard way”. He tried it on a dare from Tifa after she pointed out Cloud always did “Witching the hard way.” It was fun and terrible at the same time. He is getting pretty scarily good at changing his appearance manually now. But his favorite person to practice on is Cloud. He can make Cloud look damn beautiful. 

Now that it knows where Sephiroth is, Sephiroth and Masamune have become very close friends once again. Sephiroth always sets aside time to stand and do nothing with his friend who prefers to be an it and Masamune will take an hour or two to be living and breathing. Despite the rocky start, Masamune has also adopted Cloud as a friend. Cloud brings nothing, but joy to Sephiroth. Masamune also thinks Cloud’s dry wit and poor luck are hilarious. Worth being able to laugh for. 

Cloud and Sephiroth do love pouring through Grandma Catherine’s cookbook for interesting or funny spells she has. Some they plan to teach to friends (sometimes under Catherine’s instructions) and some they mark to “test out” later. Sephiroth still really believes Cloud’s magic is linked to love. If it’s for love, or someone who loves him, it should work. After the revive spell worked on a succulent Sephiroth accidently killed (and mourned) Cloud is also starting to suspect the same thing. 

Sephiroth has also become very popular at Seventh Heaven, not because he’s Cloud’s boyfriend, but because people really like watching him change. Sephiroth spent a good chunk of his life trying to deny a very natural urge in all shifters and now has Cloud and a bar of people begging him to go ham and change. He takes requests once a week. His favorites are from kids. Kids really have good imaginations and really make him stretch his shifts. 

I’m in southern Florida, actually! So we’ll probably see some heavier-than-normal rain, but nothing too terrible. (As long as the storm stays on course, obviously.)

To everyone in Michael’s path-- please take it seriously! Make sure you stock up on gas and supplies and follow evacuation orders if they’re given.

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

asks about my version of luxu / accepting!

Ava: Sitting on the clock-tower balcony together, eating huge overstuffed crepes he’d bought them and watching the sunset; he was telling her a story he’d read in a book, he can’t really recall now what it was, some stupid funny fairy tale that he though she’d like, and she was laughing. 

Invi: He couldn’t get sick, no, but he had fallen into one of the rivers in Daybreak pulling a stunt and was soaking and cold, and Invi scolded him and made him tea and helped him warm up; she used a Fire spell, and it was one of the first times he’d seen her use magic, so he started asking her about it, and they spoke about magic and she promised to teach him.

Gula: The two of them managing to get into the clock part of the clocktower and tearing an entire chunk of the inner workings apart and putting it back together. It took them two and a half entire days to do it both ways, and they were covered in oil and grease and bruises from the big gears and were exhausted, but it had been so much fun.

Ira: That time they locked themselves in the library for three days with a few plates of sandwiches and three pitchers of water, and spent the entire time reading and talking and writing up like pages and pages of stupid conspiracy theories about just about everything they could get their hands on, light and darkness and hearts and all that.

Aced: He’d made Aced pretty much cry with a prank that he hadn’t realized was too harsh, so he spent the day with him, draped over the much taller boy’s shoulder as they hung out and explored Daybreak, Luxu chattering Aced’s ear off over nothing in particular, pointing out interesting things in the town and generally trying to make up for hurting his brother’s feelings. It had been a nice day.

Make me choose

Ooh, that’s a toughie. But… Cloud, I know I love you, but do understand that I love Genesis the most.

Please forgive me, but you gotta understand, you know how Genesis gets less love from the fandom compared to you and the rest of FF7 characters, so of course he needs it!