(open) can't hold on or life won't change

[forethinking]

Who: ren-chan & you!
What: as per usual, a bunch of prompts in the comments!
Where: literally everywhere
When: through the month of ooc october.
Content Warnings: for now, nothing. will be warned in the top level!

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[forethinking]

Huh?

(Oh. Interesting piece of information. Ren's eyebrows quirk, curiosity pushing him to ask more.)

You're from Midgar?

[activatingcombatmode]

Yeah, sure am.

[Zack gives a short salute.]

I wasn't born there but I spent most of my working career there.

[forethinking]

I'm glad you're with your people.

(He is lucky to have people from home here as well, but he knows not everybody has such luck.)

Working as?

[activatingcombatmode]

[Zack pats his chest. He's actually wearing a SOLDIER uniform that looks an awful lot like the one that Cloud Strife wears.]

As a soldier. But I consider myself a For-Hire Mercenary these days.

[He grins. But then that falters just slightly.]

Guess work might be a bit slow in this place...

[forethinking]

(And he did notice that, but there's a hum as a response. Is Cloud like that as well? He should ask him later.)

We can't die.

(Wrong person to bring up murder to, Zack, sorry! Ren will have you as a prime suspect should anyone suddenly drop dead. Congratulations!)

You should consider another line of work.

[activatingcombatmode]

Whoa, wait a minute. Who said anything about people dying?

[Zack snorts. He waves a hand.]

I meant more along the lines of mercenary work killing monsters that are giving people problems. I'm not an assassin.

[That's too much like Turk territory for him!]

[forethinking]

Those don't die either.

(Odd choice of words, then, Zack!! Ren's still asking about you.)

We had an invasion not long ago.

[activatingcombatmode]

For real? Monsters don't die? What the hell happened?

[Now his curiosity is perked. He wants to know about this if only to protect his friends should it happen again.]

[forethinking]

The little robots just decided to attack everything a while back.

(Ren himself doesn't know the details, sorry, Zack. All he knows is that he stood his ground and fought them off Heavenly Blanc. If Zack has good observation skills, he'll see the faint outline of a dagger inside his jacket.)

The world hasn't learned about death yet, it seems.

[activatingcombatmode]

Damn... That's pretty messed up. I hope everyone got out okay in the end.

[He is still curious about what the hell happened there and how can a world exist without death? ... Then again it makes him think of Sephiroth. The man did say he's been alive a few times over again so the whole no-death thing shouldn't be that farfetched to Zack. And maybe Zack can just forget a certain fact about his own existence.]

I wonder if this world ever will figure something like that out. Kind of morbid to think about. I don't like it.