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Reno ([personal profile] midgarhorizon) wrote in [community profile] onepassingnight2012-04-01 04:39 pm

So You Want to Sell Your Soul...

The city, Midgar was full of people. Soulless, faceless people that ate and breathed and worked and slept. People who didn't have a prayer when it came to protecting themselves from the evils of the world. The monsters that lurked in the darkness, in the streets at night and threatened their very lives as they lay sleeping. Then there were the creatures that inhabited the city, just as monstrous and inhuman but somehow more honest about wanting to destroy you and for what reason.

The Turks were the last bastions of defense against the evils that was AVALANCHE led by Fuhito. They were the only thing separating the world from teetering beyond the brink of despair and falling into destruction. Everything they cared about would disappear. Homes, lives, family. They were a family. Drastic measures had to be taken, consequences notwithstanding. They were underpowered, short handed. There was no way to win against these guys. Reno could not let any more fall to Fuhito and his bunch. He had lost too many people he was willing to call friend. This was where it ended.

This room.

Reno held the grip of his EMR tightly, knuckles turning white with the force, standing in front of an impressively carved oak desk. It was an audacious plan, one that could backfire or cause any number of unexpected things, but it was their one last hope. They needed help, more power, something, and Reno was going to sacrifice himself to get it- not that he had that much humanity left anyway. Not with most of his friends six feet under. He was a lone turk against the world.

The person behind the desk was sitting in an over-sized winged back chair, facing the large floor to ceiling window overlooking the city basking in the glow of mako. Nothing was going to get done like that, he had power to buy and a soul to sell. He walked forward and grabbed the chair to swing it around.
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[personal profile] tasercopter 2012-04-12 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
Reno wasn't advising he team up with AVALANCHE, that was for sure. That hardly counted as "teaming up", as far as she was concerned. More like a brief overlapping of goals. "Good one, babe, but no. At least we could've all had deep fried chocobo in that case. Nah, more like the legendary Black Materia. Sephiroth uses it, tries to destroy the Planet, stuff happens."

She shook her head with a world-weary air, not worrying about his denial. She was the one from the future, after all. "Man, I don't envy you havin to live through all that. What a fucking nightmare." Not just Meteor itself, but everything after, up until a few weeks ago. It really had been like a waking nightmare.

But then, suddenly, she grinned, as if all misery were forgotten so easily. "Don't worry, the boss brings Shinra back."
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[personal profile] tasercopter 2012-04-18 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
He was lucky, as usually she didn't let guys get by with calling her babe at all--maybe if she really liked them, but it was rare. However, she'd give herself a pass.

"Oh, there's other stuff. A lot of it. There's a plague, then Sephiroth comes back to life again... But I don't want to take all the fun out of it for you. And what if I mess up the future? Wouldn't wanna do that." She laughed, just joking about these reasons, but it was a companionable kind of laughter. Reno knew what it was like, joking aside. One thing after another. Same shit, different day. Also, it was hard to condense everything, and she knew that the more she said about it, the more unbelievable it was likely gonna sound. Besides, she probably wouldn't be so eager to necessarily believe dream versions of herself, so why would he? Though at the same time, if she can't believe herself, who can she believe? "When're you from, anyway?"
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[personal profile] tasercopter 2012-04-28 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
"If you don't know about all this shit, you must be from before me. Trying to figure it out. See what I can do, give you a little advice. A heads up." She hasn't seen much of a difference in the lives of the other people she knows in these dreams. Even if they don't know her as a woman, they seem to know about most of the same things.

Besides, who doesn't want to give their past self advice?

"Wutai, huh? Been a couple years for me since then." She thinks this over, remembers what happened there. "So hey, is Rude a guy too, where you're from?"
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[personal profile] tasercopter 2012-04-28 12:06 pm (UTC)(link)
She laughs, amused by this reaction. That tells her what she wanted to know. "Yeah, she sure is, unless there's something she's not telling me. But I know she's not that good at keeping a secret." Especially not from Reno.
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[personal profile] tasercopter 2012-05-15 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, she doesn't need it, and she looks damn good." It intimidates people, and that's hot, as far as Reno's concerned. "Huh, can't imagine her as a guy, though." She looks him over. "But I couldn't picture me as one either, and I look good--so he probably does, too." Makes sense to her.
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[personal profile] tasercopter 2012-06-05 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
Well, here was something that sounded familiar. Reno nodded. "I know, right? I keep telling her, that strong, silent act doesn't exactly reel in the guys. Not to mention the fact that she has the worst taste in them."

Reno's amused and almost pitying headshake was perhaps not fair to Rude, but it was fondly meant, in its way. "She really should follow my good advice. One of these days, maybe she'll learn."