unkindled_madness: (looking down)
Sephiroth ([personal profile] unkindled_madness) wrote in [community profile] polylogs 2021-09-12 04:57 pm (UTC)

II

Sephiroth wasn't interested in experiencing the place so much as he wanted to get away from the crowds, and he wouldn't have allowed himself to be ushered inside with just anyone. He imagines he can tolerate Gideon, and he appreciates the dim and the relative quiet. The colors are reminiscent of Midgar, cold and uninviting and therefore comfortably familiar.

As they move through, the changes in his own reflection are far less dramatic. His outward appearance has always reflected the otherness he feels, and he's cultivated it--growing his hair long, rejecting the standard SOLDIER uniform. His reflection shifts to show his chosen uniform: the long black coat and gloved hands and white pauldrons. His sword, too, appears in his left hand, a part of his identity. The truly uncanny parts are subtle. His reflection's eyes glow more prominently, and somehow, it appears more distant from the glass than it should, throwing off his spacial awareness. He takes to keeping a hand against the glass to feel his way.

He doesn't comment on Gideon's reflections, much as this place might want him to, and it doesn't surprise him to find something barring their exit. He doubts it wants anything so easy from them as their names. Still-

"Perhaps without the expletive," he suggests dryly.

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