[ HE'S GETTING SO MUCH LORE AND EVERY ADDITIONAL PIECE IS JUST MAKING HIM MORE CONFUSED ]
... Not exactly what I thought you meant when you said elected. [ and politics. he kind of envisioned something a little more. votes, and a little less. save us god scien. ] Is that how you wound up here? You left because you didn't want the people to be complacent?
[ is it any wonder why scien's ego is what it is when literally everyone thought of him as a god
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Yes. It's also a byproduct of most of my projects being done... No one had a great need for me anymore, I didn't want to keep doing paperwork for the rest of my natural lifespan, and it would be a disservice to my country if I solved all of their problems forever.
[ people with god complexes are the worst, actually.... ]
They have a replacement ready, or did you leave them scrambling for one? [ it sounds judgmental but he is honestly. mostly curious the only form of government he has experienced are mayors and a major corporation who suffers from nepotism he cannot imagine how you'd both go around replacing a god and also make them do paperwork.
well. that is sort of what sephiroth was in soldier but we are not going there ]
If I had a replacement ready that I picked out myself, wouldn't that ruin the point?
[ he left them scrambling. he really said go and survive without me now ]
The structures are in place and there's enough good, prominent people on the island that I trust it won't all go to Hades immediately. I wouldn't have left if I thought everything would fall apart just from my departure.
But I would rather take a period of momentary struggle rather than a century of stagnation.
If you'd trained a replacement from the start, you probably could've left earlier.
[ something something teaching a man to fish or whatever. he's not very enthused about it because it's not like he has strong feelings about it. he kind of thinks the people should have not put all their eggs in the scien basket if they are struggling now, because he is a bit of an asshole ]
Just how long do you live? You already mentioned a century before.
The only person I'd consider to be my successor died.
[ but scien also thinks people shouldn't have relied on him entirely, though he at least didn't set them up for immediate failure. he's just not kind enough to stick around forever ]
I'll probably live an average human lifespan now... is that... eighty...? [ he actually doesn't entirely know ] But I've already been alive for eighty-six years.
[ well. he inclines his head in a little implied "sorry" to hear his successor died, but also scien is 86 so maybe that is not so surprising then. damn. ]
... Eighty sounds right. [ the average lifespan in ff7 is probably a lot lower than that because everyone is fucking murdered all the time but we do have old people so sure eighty let's pretend cloud knows this. ] What's changed?
[ that he is eighty six now and is going to be human average AFTER? ]
Not really... It's just a byproduct of a temporary fix. I only wanted to prevent death for a brief time, so that people would be able to live out normal lifespans.
Not my business. [ and also he really is not the type ] What's even there to meddle about?
[ he just thinks it's wild to imagine the guy who was "god" of your island just. fucked off and joined a cult you are now a sacrifice too. like meeting rufus shinra behind one of those robes. ]
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... Not exactly what I thought you meant when you said elected. [ and politics. he kind of envisioned something a little more. votes, and a little less. save us god scien. ] Is that how you wound up here? You left because you didn't want the people to be complacent?
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Yes. It's also a byproduct of most of my projects being done... No one had a great need for me anymore, I didn't want to keep doing paperwork for the rest of my natural lifespan, and it would be a disservice to my country if I solved all of their problems forever.
So I left.
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They have a replacement ready, or did you leave them scrambling for one? [ it sounds judgmental but he is honestly. mostly curious the only form of government he has experienced are mayors and a major corporation who suffers from nepotism he cannot imagine how you'd both go around replacing a god and also make them do paperwork.
well. that is sort of what sephiroth was in soldier but we are not going there ]
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[ he left them scrambling. he really said go and survive without me now ]
The structures are in place and there's enough good, prominent people on the island that I trust it won't all go to Hades immediately. I wouldn't have left if I thought everything would fall apart just from my departure.
But I would rather take a period of momentary struggle rather than a century of stagnation.
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[ something something teaching a man to fish or whatever. he's not very enthused about it because it's not like he has strong feelings about it. he kind of thinks the people should have not put all their eggs in the scien basket if they are struggling now, because he is a bit of an asshole ]
Just how long do you live? You already mentioned a century before.
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[ but scien also thinks people shouldn't have relied on him entirely, though he at least didn't set them up for immediate failure. he's just not kind enough to stick around forever ]
I'll probably live an average human lifespan now... is that... eighty...? [ he actually doesn't entirely know ] But I've already been alive for eighty-six years.
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... Eighty sounds right. [ the average lifespan in ff7 is probably a lot lower than that because everyone is fucking murdered all the time but we do have old people so sure eighty let's pretend cloud knows this. ] What's changed?
[ that he is eighty six now and is going to be human average AFTER? ]
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So I've chosen that, instead of eternal youth.
[ just casually ]
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How'd you get eternal youth in the first place?
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But are you so curious about me?
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[ he says it a little deadpan because he's not... interested in having it at all. but it's wild of course he's gonna ask!!!! ]
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Normal lifespans...? What were you trying to fix?
[ why would he ever guess the disease that kills you after you reach 23 ]
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A so-called curse that leaves an island unable to age past their twenty-third birthday.
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ah ]
You're--from Lucas's world?
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[ a beat ]
Was? Was, now, I suppose.
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... Does he know that?
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Even if he does not agree, it is the one singular thing that everyone on that island actually knows about me. Everything else varies.
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Yes.
I don't think you the type, but don't meddle.
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[ he just thinks it's wild to imagine the guy who was "god" of your island just. fucked off and joined a cult you are now a sacrifice too. like meeting rufus shinra behind one of those robes. ]
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Not your business.
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[ but he'll tilt his head. moving on! ]
The other side seem livable at least?
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[ incredibly deadpan ]
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