#kuja and zidane bodyswap

[leonawriter]

....thinking about it?

People probably would notice that Zidane is ‘different’ if there was a body swap really quickly, because they handle things so differently?

Sure, Zidane can get quiet when stressed, but he’ll also brush it off if people ask about it until it gets really big? Whereas like we saw with the Black Mages later on in the game, if Kuja is stressed he tends to snap back at people first and think about what he’s doing later.

And, as has been said - a subtle thing that people would pick up on would be how Zidane’s got more of a taste for popular theatre, whereas Kuja seems to like the high classics and stuff like that, so there’d be ‘Zidane’ quoting from something that both Tantalus and the rest of his close friends know damn well he doesn’t read.

He’d miss cues with people, he’d probably get defensive about some things more than he should - and others things less than he ought. Like... imagine being one of Zidane’s friends and he just doesn’t react to something. Even knowing freaky shit was up between him and his brother, that’d be... really creepy. Especially if it’s something like... how people are treated. Or if that ‘how people are treated’ involves ‘someone is using words to refer to Zidane that normally... he’d have said something against this by now’.

Not to mention things like, Kuja does have a tail, but he prefers to hide it away (somehow). He’d probably feel awkward keeping it out all the time like Zidane does, forgetting it’s there, getting it caught in things, and so on. Or he’d forget who he’s supposed to be, and tuck it away and then someone would say something about it.

And now I’m thinking ‘people would probably expect him to be flirting with girls but Kuja’s idea of flirting, if he does have one, is probably markedly different from Zidane’s’. Either he’s putting on all the charm ever, or he’s completely awkward and doesn’t know how to do this what’s he doing dear gods and espers above someone save him.

...I didn’t know I wanted this and now I do.

Also: Kuja getting into a drama debate with Tantalus while pretending to be Zidane, and loses track of what he’s supposed to know and/or say halfway through, and starts acting and talking and referring to more Kuja things than Zidane things, but Tantalus is too caught up in this Awesome Discussion to be bothered with asking what’s up yet, or to point out what’s going on, so-

Okay what if. What if this happened before Zidane got back to Alexandria in the epilogue, and when Garnet asks what took him so long, this Long Look passes between the Zidane and the rest of Tantalus before he goes “well, there’s a long story behind that...”