*hello, Cuddy's house! arrived a little later than he'd hoped, but knocks on the door anyway. is wearing a hooded sweatshirt and jeans, hands in his pockets, looking around at all the Christmas decorations on the street. the mako glow of his eyes is a little more evident in the dim, snow-lit evening*

*it's rather late at night, but is still awake, staring at the ceiling and hands behind his head. hasn't been sleeping well since October, and on top of that is still acclimatizing to the extra energy the mako treatment has give him - gigai don't absorb mako quite as well. it's first snow of the season outside, making everything hazy and muffled.

has taken to wearing sweatpants to bed since Aeris started sleeping over most nights, but is grateful for her presence. looks over at her sleeping next to him and sighs quietly, brushing a lock of hair away from her face*

Dammit, Cloud, pick up! If you don't come back, you're going to lose her!

Haruhi, Roxas, Axel. Are you guys okay?

Sometimes love sucks.

Hey, Tifs?

COME ON, GUYS, HIT ME. ESPECIALLY NOW THAT CRISIS CORE IS OUT, I JUST KNOW I'M SCREWING HIM UP SOMEHOW.

I'D ASK FOR CONCRIT ON ALIZE AND MARLENE EXCEPT ALMOST NO ONE'S PLAYED OKAGE AND ALIZE HAS LIKE ZERO CANON SO I'M JUST KIND OF WINGING IT. ARE THEY CONSISTENT, AT LEAST?

LOL CAPS

[has left Aeris sleeping while he sits on the end of the bed, dialing Tifa's number on his PHS]

[one ring. two rings.]

I let them down. Again.

How did this happen?

[Zack's currently under the impression that Rufus has gone his father's way and arranged to have Aeris' gigai destroyed, which did something to fuck up her soul, that Cloud has succumbed to Sephiroth and is not coming back, and that Sephiroth!Cloud killed Tifa, Denzel, and Marlene, and is going after the rest of the group. Oh, and that the Planet's subsequently fucked. So comments from the people in question will be ignored.

ETA: So Zack's going to eventually "find out" that Aeris wasn't killed, but kidnapped, and being experimented on, and Zack is going to be forced to watch possibly while being experimented on himself. No idea if this is actually going to happen, or Zack is only going to perceive it happening, or what.]

. . . Guess this is where I say I'm sorry, Axel.

Though Haruhi still didn't deserve the things you said to her.

*there are bowls of popcorn and bottles of soda in the living room, and mugs if anyone wants hot chocolate. Also a stack of DVDs of various genres, from horror to action to comedy to cartoon. Mostly action. Zack is crouched in front of the TV, setting up the DVD player*

*pokes his head in Namine's 'room', is wearing street clothes and a jacket*

Hey there Sunshine, I'm going out to buy some things. Want to come with me?

((Note to anyone involved with Zack and the family virus, I'm just putting it so that Zack saved up enough for an actual (albeit kind of small) house, so that they all won't be trying to cram into the bar. |D; While Cloud and Tifa are gone the kids from both 'families' are kind of sleeping in whichever of the houses they want to; Zack's house isn't very far away.))

*having just sent Marlene and Denzel to bed, comes back downstairs and sprawls in a chair behind the bar, propping both feet up on the surface while he pours himself a drink. It's started raining outside, and the bar's been closed since Tifa left, so there's nothing to clean up. Takes a swallow, sighs, and stares at the ceiling. Doesn't look particularly at ease*

*is waiting outside the church with his bike; he wasn't sure Colette and Lloyd could find his house, but he knows they know where the church is due to the geostigma stint all those months back. Has his sword out, though, since monsters still roam around this area*

Taken and edited from mitethe's translation of the Loveless interview.

( MASSIVE OOC-IC CHARACTER INTERVIEW O' DOOM™. )

((OOC: Let me know if you want to switch to prose and I will~))

*is just coming in from a minor monster extermination job, dirty and bit tired, but took the job in the first place to take his mind off of the fact that Demyx never answered him on the journals. Is still worried about how he and Ari fared, but can't do anything about it. Stops his motorbike on the side of the road just inside the city, pausing to take out his PHS and check the journals one more time for an answer*

C'mon, Dem . . .

Hey, Tifs?

Does Cloud know Rufus asked you to the ball?

*has finished his day jobs early for once and has time to kill, idly lounging on his bed and staring at his PHS, debating whether to go hang with Aeris or with Cloud and Tifa, since Aeris semi told him off for not spending enough time with his friends instead of her*