Disclaimer: FF7 is so obviously not mine. Although I, like everyone else, wish I had rights to it... (sigh)
When Sephiroth dreamed, there was always pain. For him, it was inescapable. In reality and in not, there was only suffering.
For years and years, it was the same. Millions of different places, different times, different scenes… but in the end, everything coalesced into a single truth.
Pain. And he wanted for nothing except for it to stop.
And, one day… it happened. For a brief, magnificent moment, everything stopped.
All the pain disappeared, and in its place was nothingness.
The pain returned all to quickly; the reprieve couldn't have been for more than a few seconds – but those scant moments were glorious.
And Sephiroth would never forget.
So he decided that one day, he will end the pain. He will make that nothingness happen, no matter what. Even if everyone and everything, for a few moments, had to share with the suffering he endured for his entire life.
…All
that mattered is reaching that moment of blessed emptiness.
…And as he woke to the harsh sounds of training and war, Sephiroth could have sworn he heard a harsh, mad, laugh.
I'm not sure if I managed to portray it right, but this is supposed to parallel Cloud's dream in the first part.
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