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[atouchofstrife]

My father... I never knew him. Mom said I have his hair, and that I had his smile. I didn't like smiling even then because I knew it hurt her. Sometimes, she wouldn't even see me, but him.

ShinRa killed him. They said he went missing in the mountains, that one of the dragons probably got him, but he was a Strife. We were all Strife. We knew the ways.

I never listened to them when I should have. I don't remember all the ways.

...Huh. Curse day?

Comments

[invocadora.livejournal.com]

Your father sounds like a brave and honorable man, Cloud.

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

He was, I guess.

[invocadora.livejournal.com]

I don't remember my mother. Her face, the sound of her voice. But I know she was a good, kind woman.

You must know your father was a good man, too.

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

Did you hear stories of her?

He was my mother's life.

[invocadora.livejournal.com]

Some, yes.

As my mother was my father's before she passed on, and bringing peace and safety back to Spira became his life.

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine finding anyone like that.

[invocadora.livejournal.com]

Finding anyone like what, Cloud?

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

That I would waste away without them.

[invocadora.livejournal.com]

Oh. A love like that would be nice to find, yes. But my father didn't die of a broken heart. He did not survive his final battle with Sin.

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

Oh. I see.

[invocadora.livejournal.com]

Yes. Kimahri found me there, and took me to Besaid afterwards.

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

And now you are gonna fight Sin?

[invocadora.livejournal.com]

Ideally, yes. Whenever I can get back to Spira. It was reborn after my father defeated it ten years ago.

[cloudsinstrife.livejournal.com]

Good luck in doing so.

[invocadora.livejournal.com]

Thank you.