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Re-reading this story, I noticed that there are some things that may be confusing to those who are just not me. So I'm here to clarify some details.
Basically, I'm making the whole cloud, sephiroth, jenova thing come together. I thought of questions like why cloud and sephiroth? I mean that Jenova can very well recreate an ancient that she has 'possessed' from a way way way long time ago, when she first crashed landed on gaia. Then I came up with this.
These explanations may just cut all romanticism that I have tried to create in the one-shot. I have warned you so beware. I am spilling it out very plainly. That way, those who read and don't understand, will now understand and will hopefully re-read it again this time understanding what I was trying to say and get the romanticism and everything that I have tried doing.
No 1) the female cloud was there because its currently in another gaia. I believe I explained in the before story talking. But I'm just going to repeat. How this happens is that, you know the saying that there is many worlds like ours but the only difference is that some things change like gender and personality or being somewhere else or making different decisions? In this one, the differences are the time and Cloud's gender. Pus its good for the story.
No 2) the poems are all made by me. Its basically saying that I'm going to tell you a story that might be different than what you usually think of when you think of the three, and to ask you to keep an open mind on the possibility of this story. And that not to judge a book by its cover (or in a comic I saw, don't judge a book by its movie) and telling you that in this story, they will split up.
No 3) just in case you got confused, the tantrum she was having was due to a knight she saved who made everyone think that he did the saving. I would get pissed if I did something and some one else took what I did as their own to add their own ego. Especially if we made a deal to settle things before that. Come on, who wouldn't be pissed?
No 4) you know some times you can communicate with someone else when you don't speak? Yeah, that's what was happening between them at the moment of their promise and when thy returned to each other.
No 5) I imagine sephiroth to never want to receive a hair cut and that cloud would be in mental pain if his hair were not spiky. Its just the way they are. So to put more romanticism in this, seph would never cut his hair and cloud would never change his hairstyle even if they were reborn over and over again was because they promised they wouldn't change. Ever. In my culture, before we are born we ourselves choose our attributes , parents, time of birth and physical features. That's why, because of the promise, the refused to change their hair each and every time thy were reborn.( although my culture doesn't believe in rebirth…)
No 6) jenova is a child. A child who believes her importance in this world is to bond her parents. That is her purpose and duty. To bond her parents. Plus she wants to have her family. Which child doesn't?
No 7) why do you think cloud was reborn as a guy? Coz he/she couldn't do a thing to save the one she cares about when she was a girl.
No 8) yes. Sephiroth got 'loved' I wouldn't say raped exactly… lets just think that somebody put an overdose of Viagra in his prison food.
No 9) sometimes, when you are very connected to somebody, you just know what is happening to them? like how parents just seem to know that you went to a party instead of the library even though you wiped out all the evidence? Or the way a girl can be doing her work and suddenly look up and say with sureness like no other that her guy just did something with another girl? Yeah. Cloud just knew that her husband got freaky with another and killed himself for it. ( repeat No. 7)
No 10) jenova killed cloud. A knife in the throat. Thinks that that isn't a confirmed way of bonding them and wants to ensure that they are properly bonded. Villagers disagree so she dislikes them. Crash landed in the gaia we know in ff7
No 11) the people there also didn't approve of seph/cloud and are discouraging them. She thinks that if everyone was encouraging of their relationship, they would bond the way they were supposed to so she infects the ancients and becomes them. In the cannon, jenova crashed in gaia and started to take the forms of the cetra. the cetra had no way who was killed and infected and thus controlled by jenova coz nothing would change about them. They then invoked the planet to fight off jenova.( somebody correct me if im wrong) so this is the reason jenova took control of the cetra.
No 12) the reason she calls herself mother. To hide away her identity and coz mommy would like her to be a mother.
No 13) why does jenova hate the lifestream? Coz it takes mommy and daddy away from each other of course! Remember, she is still a small child. Child talk still there.
No 14) in the cannon, (anime) after zack got beaten by seph in the mako reactor in Nibelheim, cloud runs up and stabs him. Sephiroth then stabs cloud and hangs him over the railing. ( sword in cloud, sword behind railing, cloud behind railing) clouds eyes glow, seph is shocked, cloud pulls the blade through him thus coming over the railing once more, sepg gets freaked, he cuts jenova's head off and jumps down the railing. ( if im wrong, someone pls tell me) so yeah, seph froze after dangling cloud over the railing coz jenova shouted at him not to giving cloud a chance to do what he did.
No 15) don't you think cloud strife was a sad case? Cloud has always loved seph. So when he was going to finally give up, jenova and seph panicked
No 16) basically the poem says that that's all im going to say and that you may feel sorry for the characters if you wish. And im just gonna repeat whats stated. The ending is yours to think about and choose. If you want it to be happy or sad. You think of the fates of these characters. Im not gonna tell you. If your happy, let it be good. If your not… well its up to you how you want to kill them.
If you still need clarifications, please feel free to ask me. It would make me very happy if you guys and gals would review so pls review 4 lil ol me!
Thx to my (*sobs)2 reviwers! I luv u! im glad you liked it!
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