post palace hot pot party (week 7)

[townmusician]

[Yoon's Palace has faded away, but the fact the God of Conflict decided to show up and intervene again...

Well, that's! Not a good sign! To say the least! But there's nothing to be done about that right now, and Haruka isn't of the mind to really sit and wonder about divine conflicts and grandstanding and all of that, anyways. It's not his problem. The people who deal with that sort of thing on the regular can be in charge of all of that.

What he's in charge of (by virtue of being annoying) is... hot pot. Specifically rounding up everyone and dragging them out to a hot pot restaurant in the city.

He'll miss having money but... he'll just have to work hard to earn it back... Have fun, everyone. (Or maybe he can find a way to charge Mina for this?)]

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[gardenful]

[ Ah, so he's determined not to let them cause trouble, is he? It's kind of nice, seeing that sharpness in his eyes over something like that. ]

There's this guy, Sephiroth, who wants to destroy it for his own reasons. I don't know why just yet, but... we know that's what he wants to do.

[ Though it's more like she just can't remember why, the missing memory a block that she can't pass through. ]

Shinra is killing the planet too, just in a different way. Remember that lifestream I told you about? They're using it all up for technological advancement, and once it's gone... it's gone for good.

[imperiosity]

That dude's got way too much free time on his hands if he's wasting it on wrecking everything.

[In that sense, Shinra's motives are a lot more understandable to him even if what they're doing ultimately results in the same thing. Not that it takes away from how fucked it is to use dead people to power machines, but!!]

So you're trying to bring this Sephiroth guy down, and then you've gotta figure out what to do with these Shinra goons? Sounds like a lot for one group to handle.

[gardenful]

It sure is, but I know we've got this one in the bag!

[ She grins. ]

We're all in it to the end, because we figured that if no one else is going to then someone has gotta... and besides, you never know if you'll win unless you try.

[imperiosity]

[He huffs out a laugh at the confidence, because you know what, sometimes you really just have to keep that attitude up when the odds are stacked against you.]

Well, you got a point there.

[Because if he was in a comparable situation, he'd definitely want to try -- or rather, he'd want to succeed no matter what.]

Still, I know the planet's in danger in all, but how'd you even get wrapped up in all this? Shinra I get, but I'm assuming Mr. Edgelord there didn't just come out and announce his plans to destroy the world.

[gardenful]

That "edgelord" used to work for Shinra as one of their soldiers.

[ SOLDIER, specifically, but she's not going to get into the nitty gritty of all of that. ]

He's basically a science experiment... which he found out a few years ago and I think it made him spiral. So, he decided that he'd take the world down with him.

[imperiosity]

[It's hard not to see a bit of a parallel between her and Sephiroth, at least in terms of their background. While he doesn't have the details on what exactly was done to either of them, it would still be a point of commonality that most people couldn't exactly relate to, himself included. Still, that's where the similarities end, because he figures that even if Aerith discovered an unpleasant truth about herself, she'd never go that far off the deep end.

So maybe he's reading a little too far into this, but he'll toss the question out anyway.]

...You feel bad for him?

[gardenful]

[ Hmm. Does she? Aerith takes a few moments to really think about it before eventually shaking her head. ]

Maybe if he didn't go so far, I would. But the way he is now? No, I don't. He could have done anything else and he chose to destroy everything instead.