#strifebound

The last few weeks had been interesting, to say the least. The energy in Edge has shifted, with people seeming to look forward to the future more brightly. Now that the stigma had been mostly eradicated, children were finding homes and shelters, businesses were being revived, and hope filled the air. It was like a plague had been cured.

While that was nice and heartwarming, Tifa’s focus was primarily on her family. When her friends left to return to their respective lives, she set her sights on Denzel and Cloud.

Now that he was no longer sick, Denzel came out of his shell more, laughing and playing with Marlene and doing more around the house. He was acting more like a child his age, which gave Tifa warmth to witness. Cloud had returned home, no longer hiding in the ruins of his memory.

It was still and adjustment, though.

How long has it been since they’ve been able to explore a world by themselves? Far too long, and at least this time Aether had given her a warning that he was going off by himself to explore. Which meant that Lumine had more time to unwind and to be by herself, for although they hold their brother dear, sometimes small amounts of time apart is needed for them both.

They know they look out of place in this world, afterall someone of her appearance isn’t exactly common. This planet seemed rather normal so far based on what she’d been gathering, but they knew all too well that appearances, more often than not, can be deceiving when it comes to other worlds. For there was no such thing as truly normal, there had to be some sort of oddity around here.

Lumine hadn’t even been fully paying attention to the surrounding area to even realize there was someone there until she spots him right out of the corner of her eye. In which promptly causes them to turn towards the man with distrust very clearly residing in their eyes.

“ Are you looking for something? Or are you here on a job? Because I’d really prefer to not be in the presence of some random man I don’t even know, no offence. “

Maybe Lumine shouldn’t be so harsh and blunt with their words but, it’s pretty much a habit at this point when it comes to people who don’t outright say what they’re doing. Because who knows what kind of person he is? For all they know, this man could just be yet another person who couldn’t care less about life and wanted to destroy it. Not like it’d be a first for Lumine.

@strifebound​ said: “  i’m here now.  i know i wasn’t before.  but i should’ve been.  and i’m not going anywhere.  i’m not gonna let that happen again.  ”  (waves at you from around a corner)  SOFT(ISH) ANGST PROMPTS | ACCEPTING

Aerith shakes her head before she offers Cloud a WARM smile. There’s so much he doesn’t know about her, just like there’s a lot she can’t know about him. Aerith always smiles, even when she’s not feeling alright. She had become used to it through the years. She thought her loneliness would have consumed her, but she belongs somewhere now. She has friends. Maybe Cloud acts weird sometimes, and he’s hard to read, but he came for her. Thanks to him and the others, she’s not trapped in Shinra building anymore. And hopefully, they will deal with Sephiroth, all together.

"You looked like you needed a hug.” A pause. “Also some coffee.” She sounded amused either way, ears perked straight up as she finally let go of him and took a half step back to squint.

 Terra gave a heavy sigh as he sat at one of the tables in the Junon bar, staring into his cup. In all his haste to gather information, he had failed to heed the biggest piece of information he had gotten over the past few days, that Rufus’ inauguration ceremony was going to happen soon. He figured he had time to get information and get out before it happened.

 Turns out he didn’t. Terra could hear music blaring out on the streets and people celebrating. He also thought he saw a bunch of imposing figures head downstairs as well. His worst guess was that the Turks were here, and if they were, he didn’t want to be.

 But he was stuck.

 There was no way to get out of the town now that it was closed off for the parade. Any moment now, It’ll head past the bar and people out on the street will cheer for the man that inherited the Shinra company. It made him sick.

 He just had to stay put and hope that he didn’t get caught. If anything, he could probably pass for an off duty SOLDIER in a place like this with few questions asked. He just had to stay put.