Anniversary Event: Defying Fate

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Who: Everyone
When: April 8th-11th
Where: Vaikuntha
What: The Heroes of Light relive the three days leading to the Apocalypse, again and again. With this come the chance for them to save the world, but also to explore opportunities otherwise out of reach. Will they find a way to save the world and prevent this terrible fate from coming true?
Warnings/Notes: Depends on the threads.

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Re: The First (Few) Loops || Sephiroth (cw: intended suicide, Prompt 2)

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1) The First (Few) Loops

Nothingness, yet still somehow aware is a state of being Sephiroth wasn't unfamiliar with at all. In his experience, he's been here twice before, after all. Yet it was only just as identifying the void began to cross his thoughts that the voice rose out as if from all around him.

He didn't recognize the voice-

Out of seemingly nowhere Sephiroth suddenly sat up with a sharp exhale of breath. Back in the main living space of his residence at Curti, mid-rep within a set of situps. Yet naturally, his body was still caught in those near-enough automatic motions so breathing came in again as he laid back on the mat. Feeling all the senses yet again, the sweat between his bare back and the mat, how warm he felt due to the exercise, the rhythmic thumping in his chest as his pulse steadily returned to resting level. His eyes closing under the pressure of racing thoughts as he forced himself back into calm-neutral, panicking would be detrimental.

Surely he couldn't just continue with the routine now. It was as said, they'd been given another chance and Sephiroth wasn't one to squander an opportunity. He made a silent promise; Ramaa was going to pay for this. But first, he had to know what pieces were in play.

Sephiroth made for the Curti center first, keeping his awareness widespread and listening out for others who might also have been sent back - if it would be him alone, it would prove harder with only one more go at events.

[ooc: Feel free to encounter Sephiroth in any later/early loop as well. His initial steps won't be much different, reuniting with the same people at the start of every loop is all good. Might help the sanity a bit.

Though he wouldn't have joined Tyzias' linkshell right away.]

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2) That Loop that He Needed to Know; one of the 9th's, Afternoon.

By now it was clear that they might all be stuck in these loops of the last three days for a lot longer than anticipated. Albeit Sephiroth hadn't yet done much to influence any of the events, more like observing and connecting them in his mind first before really taking some time to think about where his very particular type of pressure might be exerted to best adjust an outcome. With all the chaos all across Vaikuntha, it was going to be no small task.

Yet, for one with the experience of being a part of a sea of souls yet still retaining himself, reliving the same events didn't yet seem to be having much of an effect on his mental state. Sure, Sephiroth would begin to feel the strain at some point, but it would have to degrade his strong sense of will away, first. He was focused entirely on one goal; averting the end of this reality, to which for now he seemed inextricably bound to.

For that he needed knowledge; so much more than he might be able to garner though, while still bound to a mortal coil. Sephiroth needed more, to know this World as personally as he'd known his own. Then perhaps he'd be able to see clearer; besides, he'd be alive again the next loop-around.

Jennifer was sent screeching through the halls of the Curti center, looking for assistance, as the poor mog had come home to the scene of Sephiroth's suicide. Expertly executed by turning his katana on himself and falling onto the blade, the sword cleanly pierced right the way through his body. Even the pool of blood seemed pristine, undisturbed as it had congealed underneath where Sephiroth had slumped onto the kitchen floor.

Considering the workers at the Curti center had all but abandoned their posts by now, likely there wouldn't be anyone to help clean up the house, or dispose of the body- and what does it matter anymore, given events to come.