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[moseyin]

Who: Cloud Strife et al
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Selvin-9
When: Early January


[Video comes on, but instead of showing somebody’s face it’s pointed at a sign for a specifically popular snowboarding and skiing lodge on Selvin-9.] If anybody’s heading over here to snowboard or something, I put up some obstacles on the south slope, off the path, for more of a challenge. Here-

[The shot moves over to the snow, where a person-sized sloppy approximation of a chubby snow moogle sits.] These guys. And some giant icicles, thanks for the materia Aerith. Anyway if you’re up for it and you wanna get timed or something, I got prizes. Nothing cool but like hot chocolate tins and junk like that.

[Okay now Cloud’s walking so there is an unflattering angle of his face occasionally as he trucks through the snow to get his own snowboard.] -oh right, I wanted a general opinion on something. What’s, uh, what’s the best birthday gift you ever got? [Specifically a question for girls but he’s afraid he’ll be REALLY obvious if he says that.]

Comments

[moseyin]

That's what Luna told me. [Yeah...Cloud gets that, definitely. Maybe he should give the guy a call; they haven't really hung out or anything, but that just makes Cloud all the more determined not to see him rot alone like he did after Aerith.] I didn't know her like you guys did, but I never saw her happy like I did then. She was like a giddy little girl.

[this_loser]

Yeah. I'm glad they at least had a chance to be together. [Please do give him a call. Prompto's doing all he can, but he's one guy, and he can't relate.]

I didn't know her as well as I would have liked. Guess I thought there'd be more time. [That was dumb, huh?]

[moseyin]

I think that's normal. Nobody goes around thinking about who's going to be taken away from them, right? [Some people do. Cloud definitely does, now.] Anyway, we'll get her back here. They brought her here once, it can be done again.

[this_loser]

....Yeah. [Maybe not before. It's something that'll be in the back of his mind going forward.] Right. Of course we will. [A quick, definite nod.]

So you know me. What do I call you?

[moseyin]

[Cloud still doesn't know exactly what Ardyn did to Luna...but he can guess. And he's not about to let the same thing happen to these kids fall into the same despair he and his own friends did after Aerith died.]

-Cloud Strife. Just call me Cloud. And let me know if you ever need something, alrighty? I'm kind of a jack of all trades at this point.

[this_loser]

Cloud. Okay. [Smile! Even if he's not particularly feeling it.] Glad to know you. And, um, thanks. That's nice of you.

[moseyin]

[UNCOMFORTABLE] Not really. ...chocobo fans gotta look out for each other, right? [Or something......that was so lame]

[this_loser]

Got that right! [Not lame at all. It's truth.] I'll see you around, okay? I'll buy you a drink or something!

[moseyin]

[wait aren't u like 16] Uhhh sure...sure, let's do that.

[this_loser]

[Wow. Rude.] Awesome! Tee-Tee-Wy-El!