#switch!au

but jason and nico talking in italian inside the argo ii . i just have so many feelings over the exchange. like, just imagine jason's weird accent when comparing with nico's way of talking. u hear noises and then nico's voice answers it and damn they are actually talking in another language??

(and they are totally doing it cause jason doesn't trust the others since nico is uncomfortable with the greeks and he always does the things that make his pack feel at ease–)

hazel knows some words cause jason is an excited lil shit and needed to practice while nico was away from cj and also because nico shared a little with her, so she can grasp some of the conversation if she wants. reyna would learn it later, when she is going to deliver the athena parthenos to chb, since she wants to know and she doesn't miss on the others things that make jason go all nerdy (he totally is a language nerd, thank u very much) and frank learns it alongside chinese after the war cause he let his became a lil rusty so he need to study more.

So AU time

The Mahiru and Fuyuhiko meetup still happens

Peko thinks she killed Mahiru 

She’s actually unconscious but Peko leaves.

Fuyuhiko ends up doing the killing blow.

Everyone else including Peko is convinced that she did it

Before they vote Fuyuhiko reveals everything and that he did it.

Fuyuhiko gets executed and Peko becomes one of the survivors 

[accepts your 3 very smooth rocks and adds them to a growing pile behind me. eats the leaf.] yes of course here you go 

basically, kaito went to space, had an existential crisis about completing his life’s dream at an early age, and got into Christianity to help him from spiraling out of control. he wants to find a way to bridge the gap between "the stars” (science) and his religion bc they’re both still super important to him and becoming a priest is what he deems to be his first step.

For @vintagemintcakes

I had made a better image but it waas deleted…

Project G, the first project, was deemed a success. Hojo was unhappy with that, but Hollander proved himself to be...inadequate as head of the science department. Hojo took it over. His own specimen Sephiroth was healthy and viable, but ShinRa only wanted one. Since Genesis worked out, Sephiroth was put up for adoption. Hojo made it a closed adoption, and considered the matter over with. 

Genesis seemed to flourish physically as the Project G and SOLDIER Project specimen. Mentally, however, he had a horrid temper at the best of times. He was a being of destruction at the worst. Hojo eventually had to give the child a creative outlet and Genesis collected quite a bit of poetry and books to amuse himself. Sometimes he wrote a little himself, but usually tossed it away. Hojo never read them. Genesis seemed to like the idea of being a hero and it helped with his behavior when he was reminded of the ideal. 

Sephiroth was always a quiet child. He never would make friends easily in Banora. A lot of the locals thought he was strange, but kind. Spoiled, but also capable of being generous. Angeal Hewley befriended him anyway. They never talked about their class differences, that Angeal’s family struggled to provide while Sephiroth seemed to get what he wanted all the time. Nevertheless, Angeal often wandered home with things he needed after briefly mentioning it in Sephiroth’s presence. 

Sephiroth always suspected his parents were...disappointed in him. That they wanted someone more boisterous or a natural leader. That was probably why he ran off to join the military with Angeal. He didn’t expect to excel there. He and Angeal were fast risers, well-liked among their peers, and great fighters. They soon ranked as high as the Great Genesis in status. Genesis didn’t know what that meant. He snapped once at Sephiroth...and blinked when Angeal came straight to Sephiroth’s defence. Despite a rough start, the three of them did become good friends, though Genesis was always a bit jealous of how close Angeal and Sephiroth already were. 

Hojo didn’t know who Sephiroth was at first. It was after some testing that some matches came up. He realized these Hewley and Rhapsodos boys were the discarded specimens from the J Project days. They had come back after all this time after all. He watched them for a while, Sephiroth a little more. It was an odd feeling, knowing one of them was probably his biological son. Still...the scientist in him was curious. How would these boys react to the mixture Genesis got nowadays.