#the scene of the operation was so real shit

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[Image Description: A drawing of Cloud and Sephiroth, both shirtless, standing before a softly glowing green background. They stand apart from one another, holding eye contact, both of their expressions pained and sorrowful as they hold eye contact with each other. Sephiroth’s cut-short hair falls loose around his bare shoulders. His left arm has been replaced with a shining black metal arm, laced through with green mako energy. Cloud is holding the metal hand to his face, pressing his cheek against it. Sephiroth glances in agony to Cloud’s right shoulder where there is a hand-print scar, black, and streaked through with red, like lava under the surface. A similar scar marks the center of Sephiroth’s torso where Genesis stabbed him. They both look… hopeless. End image description.]

Den of M[arionettes]
Whumptober 2020

Art by @tomowowowo, story by Boomchick

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Day 15: Possession | Science Gone Wrong 

“It is not so much that I mind the work or the outcome.” Hojo said conversationally.

Sephiroth said nothing. Watched, dispassionately, as one of Hojo’s surgical machines ripped the bone of his forearm. As another inserted the metal screw at the end of a thick metal bolt. He watched it twist into his body with grim acceptance and did not let the pain show.

“It is the lack of responsiveness that I object to.”

Sephiroth felt the Other moving in his mind. Closed his eyes to focus. To try to stop it.

‘Stubborn,’ the Other accused, the thought flowing through him like one of his own.

“For all intents and purposes the re-attachment should have been a full success.” Hojo was saying. “And yet the decay set in almost immediately. Now why do you suppose that was?”

Sephiroth’s back arched up off the table as the metal drilling down into his forearm went deeper. He felt his neck tense, his tendons tighten, but he did not scream.

‘You hurt no one but yourself through this.’ The Other was joyless in his mind for once. Almost sullen with disappointment. He had been ever since Sephiroth had cut off the arm.

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