open ✨ life can be harsh, it can be bitter.

[starshower]

Who: Tifa Lockhart feat. Cloud Strife & YOU
What: September catch-all. Tifa tries to find something else she enjoys outside of Heavenly Blanc, and drags Cloud along for the ride.
Where: Where the threads happen
When: When the threads happen
Content Warnings: N/A

𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦. 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘧𝘧, 𝘭𝘦𝘵 '𝘦𝘮 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘦. 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚍 & 𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚊 ★ 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚗 𝚌𝚘𝚘𝚙 ★ 𝚋𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎 ★ 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚍 ★ ♫

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[starshower]

[It's worth more than he thinks. She isn't seeking his sympathy but knowing that someone else out there understands is enough. He saw it with his own eyes, as if he were there, and that's as close as anyone is going to get without being on the plate when it happened.]

It's alright.

[She smiles at Damien, as if their conversation had been casual all this time, and like it had never taken a bad turn.]

Just means I've gotta build a new one from the ground up, once all this is over. [Besides being here, she means everything else—Shinra, Sephiroth, rebuilding Sector 7.] And it's gonna be bigger and better.

[abeautifulgame]

I believe you.

[he pauses for a moment, falls silent for a moment, and then, at great lengths:] Too bad I won't get to see it, when you do. [look at him, bringing the conversation back down! it's what he's good at today, apparently]

[starshower]

[Tifa doesn't seem too downtrodden by his comment.]

Who knows, maybe you will. [She knows that likely isn't possible, and that they won't stay here forever—others have left, and their time will come eventually too, but it's still fun to think about.] I'm gonna need some ideas after all. I think it'd be neat to try bringing in a little bit of inspiration from other places. Other worlds, you know?

[And in that sense, maybe he could imagine what it would look like, too.]

[abeautifulgame]

[he hums]

Maybe.

[wouldn't that be nice? if he could go with her, when they all inevitably escape from here? never mind the fact that he's not sure the people who have disappeared before them have had the option to choose. (never mind the fact that he's not sure they even actually went home at all.) it's still a nice thought. it would keep him from dying. it would keep him busy, stimulated, assuming he'd have to learn a whole new programming language to be able to hack things in her world. maybe he would join her resistance group. being the good guy really isn't his thing, but -- ]

[ -- but there's a lot of buts and maybe he should get out of his head. he shakes it a little, trying to dismiss it] Well, you're welcome to anything from Chicago, aesthetically-speaking.

gonna start pushing to a wrap!

[starshower]

I'll be sure to remember that.

[There are plenty of things she thinks she can draw from already, in this world alone. The Merlaut for one, has given her a few ideas alone. Now it's just a matter of being able to recall the details when she returns home, and figuring out how to incorporate them into a brand new bar.

With all of that said, she has one request for Damien.]

Hey. You think you could keep what you saw a secret?

sounds good to me!

[abeautifulgame]

Assuming I can ask the same of you.

[while she didn't see anything tooincriminating, in the grand scheme of things, if she compared notes with some of the other people that got something from him? well, that might not end well. especially not if it's Ren. kid's too damn smart for his own good]

[starshower]

Only seems right to return the favour.

[In spite of the conversation's tone from earlier, she's feeling a lighter now. Like she was able to get something off her chest, and a small weight off her shoulders. She smiles up at him and brushes herself off as she straightens.]

Better go find the rest of my memories. Good luck.