#shame on you square enix for not letting them kiss

[epicwin64]

Very cute, nice job

for the cloti confession event <3 Cloud prepared some candies for his lil angel but first some hugging ━☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ ——— ✦ commissions ✦ twitter ✦ INPRNT ✦ Redbubble

[usagi-mitsu]

Werlyt & Gaius - a bunch of thoughts.

I am a little late to the party. I know. But I just finished the Emerald weapon and before I go to try out the „not Zenos“ weapon as in „Diamond“, I need to get my thoughts on the story straight.

Perhaps I have been spoiled by 5.0s brilliant MSQ and cannot appreciate the inherent beauty of at least decent writing any longer. But this felt so wrong and out of tune with the rest of the game. I started writing this 2 hours ago! I wanted to one in bed by now! XD But I had to get it out of my system… so….

Spoilers for the MSQ and Werlyt incoming??? And no I did not re-read this so not just spoilers but also writing errors incoming. -.-

The good

These fights are epic! I have only ever cleared the normal versions, but I loved those. They are amazing. The callbacks to Eula (her being a woman here! When did they discover that???), Regula (may he rest in peace) and Gaius himself in his prime were delightful. But I could do with a little less rotating, ok? A dragoon has positional, you know? And being allowed to pilot my very own mecha was like *chefs kiss*. On that front? Well done Square Enix!

I am also glad they were able to get another use out of Porta Praetora! That place looks amazing with the wide open field and the lake – and Ala Mhigo across it. It was one of my favourite Stormblood areas and I am always glad to return there. And of course… being able to visit the allied camp again… And Werlyt itself. It’s simply a beautiful place. It reminds me very much of southern Greece. If you’ve watched the movie Mamma Mia you know what I mean.

The music too was really nice. But I don’t think I’ll… you know… listen to it on repeat as I am doing with other parts of the soundtrack.

I’ve also loved how much amazing lore we got about Garlemald and especially the garlean military. And the military abroad. The way soldiers not from the mainland get treated. I love learning about these things.

Gaius

The man. The legend. The guy yelling in Prae.

He’s so very boring here. He has so much potential as a character and maybe I’m missing something, but all throughout this story he has been nothing but passive. He’s a reactive character in this storyline. You know. The guy who made deals with Lahabread (the d is intended), tried to take over Eorzea, lead a whole army, stood idly by as the moon dropped, almost died but then decided just not to die and then though „hm… I’ve got so much freetime now. How about I go and hunt some ascians?“ That guy is NOT a reactive character. He is active. He goes out of his way to make shit he wants happen. And in here? He seems too starstruck and devastated by his adopted kids actions to actually have one clear thought.

The only explanation I have is that he might have gotten hit in the head by something on his way to the ruby weapon. I get why he would rely on Cid for help, but the WoL??? The alliance? If you wish to be an ally and help or something, fucking act like it. You were a former legatus and I expect you to live up to your name – even after retiring.

And yeah.. I guess it’s hard having to watch your kids willingly, knowingly dying. But you fucking raised them. You are a big part of the reason to why they are in that predicament. So like… Aside from that I don’t even get why you are in this story at all.

And for the record: I’m not sorry for him. I’m just flabbergasted by all the bullshit we’ve been learning about him.

To be quite honest, I think this story could have worked just as well or maybe even better, if we got another man as the „hero“ of the story. I am talking about none other than our engineering, hammer-swinging, ex-enemy - of course talking about Nero!

The MSQ has long established that his research into the Ultimate Weapon had been taken, twisted and turned – Estinien had to experience this first-hand. I’m not saying that Nero was in need of a redemption arc and I cannot remember if these weapons were of his creation or even stem from anything he did, but it would make so much more sense for me, to have him confront his past in the garlean military like this and be responsible for the death of his former colleagues. Soldiers that he served with, whom he faught with. Give me Nero and them working together to get the weapons going and him bonding with them as his pilots to a degree. Comrades. Not that strange familiar bond that Gaius appareantly has with them. … Scratch that: Let Gaius be the father figure. Him being that wouldn’t change Nero’s relationship with them, but maybe his with Gaius as his superior.

The story wouldn’t even need to try and redeem Nero: He has already gone through major character development with the MSQ and the Omega raid tier. It would simply be Nero, confronted with the things he created, hopefully instilling more morals and a sense of responsibility for his creations. Heck: Let Cid yell at the guy! Seriously! Cid sticking around to help out would make so much more sense if it was Nero instead of freaking Gaius! Cid hated the guy! He might be a professional, but he is not one to torture himself by staying around a guy he (as far as I know) detests.

Make Nero the central figure and give Cid and Gaius the roles of „angel and demon“: One desperately trying to reach out to his old friend, reminding him why they became engineers and trying to make him realise that he can’t just run around designing weapons and leaving the scematics for everyone to read; while the other has trouble letting go of his imperial past and is struggling to see the errors of his ways – if Nero was wrong, than he (Gaius) was wrong too -and of course they did all of this for their home, to further their cause, and to bring peace to the savage lands of Eorzea, who had been fighting amongst themselves for so long… You get the point.

And you could still have these gundam themed fights. But I think everything would make so much more sense in general.

But speaking of which-

The children

I do not truly care for any of them. And that is a shame: I do think there are great characters and dynamics hidden behind these very few cutscenes. When they were first introduced I was wondering why I was suddenly watching „heartwarming“ cutscenes of my foes as children – until I realised that I was supposed to care and that they were supposed to make me feel pity for Gaius. I was supposed to feel bad for him, because they died and he blames himself. But while their fates so far have been gruesome, I cannot say that I am sad they died. They chose to die as they did. There were a myriad more options. And they chose that.

Actually. Their whole story makes me feel like they were huge masochist from the very beginning. They could have just run away and gotten help from someone more competent than them, but they stayed in an abusive military arrangement just so nobody else got hurt?? Please. Use your brains next time. And for the Berserk-like torture scene? I mean. I get what was implied here. But was it necessary? As a writer myself I follow the rule that torture and sexual violence should never be used in a story, unless it must be in there for the story to work or to bring across a vital point important to the story or it’s moral (or if you are writing porn and you are into it – but we are talking official in-game content here). But the violence towards these „children“ seems unnecessary for the plot and the violence of their deaths by piloting the weapons is already gruesome enough. Sometimes it’s better to leave things like this out – the emotional torture of feeling stuck and having a martyrs complex would have been enough here, I think. If the rest of the story had been well written at least.

(I believe my utter lack of sympathy shows how little character developement they had. I love tragic characters, who choose to suffer for the good of other people – even better if those people don’t even like them. It’s just my thing. And those kids are just… well.)

Their reasons and especially why they were making Allie out as the one who would need to survive was also just… weird. Like. I feel like 75% of what happened would not have happened, if they actually talked to each other, used their brains and had done something about their problems. But no…

These characters are also so exchangeable with basic anime/j-RPG character tropes… I only remember Alfonse, Rex and Allie – because I just did the Emerald weapon. And right afterwards I thought, „huh. So… Fullmetal Alchemist?“ Which brings me to my third point …

…the story at large.

„Pacing is a virtue“ or was it patience..? Anyhow: The author of this story should have had more patience with his story and characters and taken a bloody break! And I am not talking about the obvious blunder of „How is Allie feeling?“, „she is in shock and you cannot talk to her“ turning to „oh yeah if you are careful you can talk to her now“. I mean. WTF. That was MAYBE 10-20 in-game minutes of dialogue.

But everything was moving so very fast – and not even in a good way. There are few things better than a fast paced, action rich story about a group of young people trying to safe (their) world. But if you try to cram in two expansions worth of character development and story telling into about two hours of content each patch.. Well, then you get whatever the hell this is.

Gaius is a very interesting character and while I did not understand why they needed to bring him back in 4.4 (?), I do see how he could be a good asset for endwalker. And his involvement in 5.0 with Estinien was just a dear delight. So I am not opposed to learning more about him, to watching his character grow and changed with time. But I am not ready for badly written content of which 50% get told by suddenly induced echo-sequences. I mean – weren’t there rules for the echo at some point???

I’m not sure which one of the devs said it, but the feature that let’s you play an NPC is super convenient for them to tell the story, because before they could only show what happened where the WoL was.

And that’s just it. Rule number 1 in writing anything is „Show don’t tell“. It feels like they literally turned this one around for these cutscenes. While Valens torture and diet-Fandaniel-routine were very much „show“, the rest of the story was one long cutscene of exposition: We get exposition by Cid, by Gaius, by echo, by Gaius and his crew again, then by Allie. Before having to watch scenes we are not there for.

BTW. Dear square Enix: Your writers are capable of writing amazing villains, antagonist and despicable assholes. You don’t have to write „asshole, must die“ on Valens name card. And I also think the „WoL, strike here“ sign above his head was a tad bit too much. Nuance, dear writers. Nuance. Or perhaps I just got spoiled by these last few foes in the MSQ.

When I said I wanted to just be able to punch a bad guy for once and not feel bad about it, I did not mean this! I meant that I just wanted to play training dummy with Danny-Boy.

(Oh! And as far as I’m concerned you can just… sideline Gaius … „would be killer“ and the lady? Make them targetable NPCs with Dialoge to read. Let them stand somewhere accessible and comment on the latest developement. But ffs don’t give me hour long speeches about how you are going to kill Gaius if he does something you don’t like. The guy could and would wipe the floor with you if he felt like it. -.- So. Please. Shut up.)

Conclusion

Basically. I have to finish the Diamond weapon. But I doubt it will change my perception of this story line even in the slightest.

To be perfectly honest though … bringing Gaius back, having this story with and about him, forcing a sort of redemption ark here. It feels like they are really „grooming“ him to be a morally grey ally in Endwalker, with perhaps a big part to play in the endgame. At this point I wouldn’t even be surprised if they pulled a GoT and made him „King in the North“. Or if they had him die a heroic death to save the world, but especially his country. And to do so they need us to think his sacrifice means something. Or that he is the right person to lead Garlemald into a new future (I don’t think he is). But: For one, neither we (the players) nor the characters need to find him worthy of throne or death by heroism for his sacrifice/ascension to work. To be a useful tool for the story, only the other garleans who might oppose the alliance and scions need to deem him or his sacrifice „worthy“. And only they. And Ishikawa-san has all of 6.0 to accomplish whatever the hell she needs him for. He did not need to be the center of his own botched redemption ark. If that’s what they wanted to do. Or maybe I’m looking at this all wrong and all they wanted was to give the writes in training some literal training grounds to test their abilities.

But! On a positive note: I have yet to be told that raids and other side content are canon to any degree. So when playing the next story quests I’ll blissfully ignore all that happened in Werlyt and if it get’s mentioned (because they do that sometimes when you’ve done certain content) I’ll just ignore it.

Happy ignoring! Also: GIVE ME MORE NERO CONTENT!

[windrocklibrary]

Galemont Talks About: Things That I Recall From E3 Conference (now that they’re over)

These are a collection of things that I mainly remembered the most in regards of the 2018 E3 Conference and my thoughts on it. They’re all a combination of things that I both like and not really like. Either way, all of these are my own opinions and spins on it.

Disclaimer Note #1: Yes, I like video games. No, I don’t/can’t play them or rather to an extent that I can play MAJORITY or ALL of them. Why? Because I’m poor -- so I might as well revel around other people’s emotions and mine (makes me sound like a vampire or something).

Disclaimer Note #2: I won’t include the sideshows or extras (e.g. Nintendo Treehouse). I am going to state things based on the things that are presented at the conferences.

ELECTRONIC ARTS (EA)

Frankly not the most memorable for me. They mentioned not much from EA other than sports games like Fifa, NFL, and NBA (ones I remembered at least), Battlefield V, Command & Conquer Rivals, and Anthem to name a few.

I kind of like how the folks at EA are somewhat self-aware on what they’re doing when talking about Battlefield V, stating that they want to depict their own image of WWII; though that’ll probably start a conversation for some folks I can imagine. It’s a bit of a downer for me considering that people are applauding at the information that there won’t be any lootboxes. Whether or not this will be true is beyond me.

Anthem looks interesting, to say the least. Though it’s such a shame that they didn’t mention, let alone, showed much. So with that being said I can’t say anything and even be very excited about it. We’ll see how it’ll go.

MICROSOFT STUDIOS

Lot’s of games. They showed off first party games like Halo: Infinite, Gears 5, and Forza Horizon 4. Ori and the Will of the Wisp was pretty neat and made me somewhat interested in trying out the Ori series.

The reveal of Devil May Cry 5 and Jump Force was very wild! The rumors that I often hear regarding DMC5 since last years Game Awards were very enticing, it was very cool to see it actually be true on E3.

Seeing Jump Force was surreal, especially when you’re watching Naruto, Goku, Luffy, and Frieza beating up each other in a hyper-realistic depiction of New York City’s Time Square; the shot of Ryuk and Light from Death Note is pretty wild too--would love to see what other Shounen Jump characters to be revealed there.

The trailer for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice looks very slick, kind of expecting it to be shown here especially after the teaser during the Game Awards.

The Amazing Adventures of Captain Spirit looks charming; a story that sets in the same universe of Life is Strange makes it interesting in my book. The game’s also free.

I’m super glad that Studio MDHR is making an expansion for Cuphead! It has always been a dream of mine to for Cuphead to have an expansion of some sort and I’m actually really excited that it’s real! They even made Ms. Chalice a playable character so that’s cool!

The game Cyberpunk 2077 was almost thought to be a myth until now. It’s essentially one of those games where you heard it and you’ll never know when the game will actually be released or revealed again; so seeing it back up again is pretty cool especially with their own flares for an introduction. Hopefully, it won’t go off into dark again.

BETHESDA

What’s the deal with that big dude during the Rage 2 presentation? He was like silent for a straight 15 seconds or something, some said that maybe his prompter bugged out? Who knows. Most of the presentations there were a little awkward, though it’s probably because most of them aren’t exactly used to standing in front of a big crowd or something.

Speaking of awkward, the Andrew W.K. live performance was whacked. He didn’t sound good there if I have to be honest, I don’t think most of the audience were jazzed about it too.

Wolfenstein: Youngblood was interesting, DOOM: Eternal caught me by surprise. Most of the other games shown there were interesting but didn’t really move me a lot.

Frankly speaking though despite the often awkwardness, there were some funny moments as well. Todd Howard’s presentation was a fun one to me; he was very self-aware of the jokes that went all over about him. I’m glad that Fallout 76 was expanded more in this conference because it was showed on Microsoft’s; it’s going to be an online multiplayer experience but apparently, it’s pretty divisive among folks, I personally think it’s neat--the nukes, however, is probably going to be a little sketchy in my opinion.

They also announced Elder Scrolls VI. Well, I say announced, it’s basically a tease; then it’s over.

DEVOLVER DIGITAL

Same thing they did last year: a satirical shitshow that makes fun of the conferences. It’s pretty fun, but admittedly I kind of got bored with it and I just want to see games more than them losing their minds. I say that because most of the jokes they do are basically beating on the same old topics that have been talked by folks for so long. Their conference is basically a self-contained story-arc, this one being the continuation of the previous one and I’m sure they’ll probably continue it next year.

They did show some games. 3 I believe. A battle royale shooter (I think?) called SCUM, a frenetic and comical platform shooter called My Friend Pedro (the one I’m most interested), and something called Meta Wolf Chaos XD which is a remaster of the cult favorite FromSoftware game of the same name. I’ll probably need to look it up on that more, looks fun.

SQUARE ENIX

Not really intrigued with it to be perfectly honest. Some of the things that they showed there have already been shown during the Microsoft conference (Kingdom Hearts 3, Just Cause 4, and Shadow of The Tomb Raider). While they did somewhat expand on it a bit, it kind of lost the impact that I think it could’ve had.

They announced an expansion of sort for Final Fantasy XIV Online along with a crossover with Monster Hunter World, showed Dragon Quest XI, and a new title called Babylon’s Fall by Platinum Games that is basically a teaser. Speaking of teasers, they also teased another new title called The Quiet Man; which admittedly has the strangest trailer.

Somewhat disappointed that they didn’t show anything about Final Fantasy VII Remake. It’s been so long since they announced it and showed a gameplay footage of it. Hopefully, they’re doing alright because the longer it goes on like this, it might become stale.

UBISOFT

The things that they showed there feels rather unsurprising because I kind of expected the things that they would do at the conference.

Kind of happy that they showed their new Just Dance game as their first thing, that way they cut the fluff and make the rest of the show focus on larger titles. There’s also a dude who tripped himself into a television.

Beyond Good and Evil 2 showed a new cinematic trailer, featuring Jade--but evil or something. The presenters said they want to show a gameplay footage but they showed very little. Joseph Gordon Levitt popped in and talked about putting people’s creative work into Beyond Good and Evil 2 (at least, that’s what I recalled)--didn’t really go into details on the incentives though.

For Honor got a new update featuring Chinese warriors into the mix, and they’re making the game available for free to grab for a limited time until June-18-2018.

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 was showed again but explained a little more there, it looked interesting despite feeling like another generic rpg shooter. It looked interesting, they mention how they’ll do season updates throughout the year for free and I thought that’s cool. I do hope they’ll do well on this one.

Starlink: Battle for Atlas was showed a bit more again there and good golly they made a surprise with Star Fox crashing the scene, especially making Fox McCloud being playable with his Arwing. Pretty slick. Yves Guillemot even made a surprise by giving Shigeru Miyamoto a gift and I thought that was adorable.

The DLC for Mario+Rabbids Kingdom Battle that features Donkey Kong was shown there, looks neat but didn’t show much, it was explained in further details during the Nintendo Treehouse though.

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey was announced there and it’s surprising to me considering that Origins was out since last year. It looks pretty I’ll say that much. You can also play between two characters in the game: Alexios and Kassandra. It also looks like they’re making the game very action rpg-esque, kind of like Origins.

PC GAMING SHOW

This flipping conference went on for WAY too long. 2 hours for crying out loud! I also fell asleep halfway through or something because many of the things they showed there weren’t fascinating to me.

Satisfactory won the award for the punniest game title.

Lot’s of SEGA games are coming to PC, ones that caught my attention being Shenmue I & II and Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza 0.

 Untitled Publisher, a publisher that’s new to me announced 3 new indie games--2 of which I found the most interesting: Bravery Network Online and Overwhelm.

The game Maneater is basically a game about you being a shark and I have an iffy feeling it’ll shed a bad light on sharks for the public (I hope not).

Took so long for them to show Ooblets, a game that I’m very excited for, showed a new trailer though it showed some things. Wished there was more though.

SONY

The conference kicks out with The Last of Us: Part 2. Ellie is pissed as hell and I have no idea why and I’m scared. She also kissed a girl so that’s something. It kind of caught me off guard because I didn’t follow the previous game and its DLCs, so the whole information of Ellie being a lesbian is pretty new.

Resident Evil 2 Remake is revealed and it looks slick. The fact that Capcom released and announced games lately that actually looked cool as heck is wild. Hope it goes well for them in this one as well as DMC5!

This year’s E3 Conference showed off not one, but THREE samurai games; two of which were shown off in Sony’s conference: Ghost of Tsushima and Nioh 2. Not complaining, they all look slick.

Kingdom Hearts 3 also appeared in this year’s E3 Conference not once, but THREE times as well at different conferences. I should’ve mentioned before that every trailer did show something different, with the one in Sony having the most difference. It looks like Kingdom Hearts 3 is going to have Ratatouille and Pirates of the Carribean joining in.

I remember wanting to see more of Death Stranding and know what the heck the game’s about, and they showed some gameplay footage during the presentation. Still have no clue what it’s going to be about though.

There’s a weird looking game called Control, something to do about a girl with a gun who has telekinesis. Looks minimalistic and clean; it might be good too.

Spiderman features a handful of villains beating up on Spidey in the end. It’s a gameplay footage and oddly I don’t feel that intrigued by the trailer for some reason.

NINTENDO

Surprisingly not a lot of big games were announced on Nintendo Direct. I’ll say it here and now that the majority of the Nintendo Direct is mainly for the new Super Smash Bros. Aptly named as Super Smash Bros Ultimate. Needless to say, a lot of people were happy and so was I; though I’m surprised and mildly sad they didn’t show anything about Metroid Prime 4.

The first thing they showed was a mech game called Daemon X Machina. I first thought it was Armored Core, but the surprising part is I somewhat half-correct. The game was actually made by the same people who made Armored Core! Pretty funny to me considering that the design of the mechs in Daemon X Machina and Armored Core looked very similar. The trailer was wicked sick too so I’m sold.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 got a new DLC called Torna: The Golden Country that is available this September, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses is also announced to come out next year. So I’m sure the fans of those series would be very excited.

Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu & Eevee got a small spotlight there, but it’s mostly on the accessory Pokeball Plus. Turns out, every Pokeball Plus comes with a Mew for free inside; which to me is basically a way to make people want to buy the accessory then (that’s marketing ploy right there). This is interesting to me because it reminds me of the message in the last Let’s Go trailer that mentioned: “you’ll meet a special Pokemon”. This could either mean Mew or something else. So we’ll see.

Fortnite is on Switch, not a surprising thing to me and I think it’s good for the game and the devs who made it. I personally think Epic Games deserve the success with their game in my opinion.

Overcooked 2 is coming soon and now features online co-op which is great! Killer Queen Black looks interesting and my personal favorite Hollow Knight is finally out the day the Direct was on! If you’re into metroidvanias I highly recommend Hollow Knight very easily--the game is generally worth having as well in my opinion.

Super Mario Party was also revealed and I’m genuinely happy; it would feel weird for a Nintendo console to not have a Mario Party game. It also has a Goombah as a playable character there too!

The Direct also bust out a montage of games; the ones that caught my attention were Dragon Ball FighterZ, The World Ends With You, Splatoon 2 Octo-Expansion, Wastelands 2 Directors Cut, Megaman 11, Paladins: Champions of the Realm, Arena of Valor, and Ninjala.

Now for the big one. Super Smash Bros Ultimate. The announcement was great and crazy long, and you can definitely tell that Masahiro Sakurai and the devs were busy when they made this game. It’s essentially a port of the Wii U, but it’s brand new and it adds so many things it might as well be a new game. The game’s biggest feature is the fact that they’re having ALL of the characters throughout the history of Smash Bros. ever; being someone who got introduced to the series since Brawl, seeing Snake and many other old characters was super cool.

They also showed off new characters as well. Princess Daisy is finally in Smash and that was very exciting to me; she’s treated as something called Echo Fighters, which is a fancy term of a character that is a clone but with some variations (other Echo Fighters being Lucina and Dark Pit). They showcased Inkling and what they can do, and in the end, they announced Ridley from Metroid.

END

And thus concludes the many things I found interesting in 2018 E3 Conference. I think this year’s E3 Conference has been rather modest as so many of the games are mainly coming out next year--and these are the ones that are meteoric as well. As to who won E3, well that’s beyond me, especially considering all the factors on what makes someone win E3. If you’re talking about the number of games revealed, I’d say Microsoft. If regarding the games released in 2018, I’d say Nintendo. Either way, I just want to see great games that are fun for people to play with. If the anyone can have a good time and be genuinely happy with a game; then that’s a win in my book.

[ookamikasumi-fanfics]

Diabolic 4

Summary: Vincent Valentine is kidnapped by the ghost of Sephiroth for a very personal mission. 

(S/VV- After AC) COMPLETE

All characters property of Square Enix. This story was written for the intent of Personal enjoyment. No money was made from this work.

Warning! Rated NC-17: hard-core Yaoi content, adult language, mild violence, non-con seduction

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~             Four ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Vincent awoke moaning. He was on his side with his back up against a warm firm body. A body with a hard-on pressing between the cheeks of his ass. A hot hand was slowly stroking his cock to painful hardness while long teeth nibbled at the back of his neck right at the edge of his hairline.

“Ah, you’re awake.” The voice was deep, velvety and amused.

Vincent shoved away, dropping onto his belly. “What the…?” He turned to stare.

Lounging on his side, Sephiroth’s cat-green gaze and amused smirk was less than a kiss away. “My, my… You look awfully surprised.”

Vincent turned his back to his tormentor and pushed to sit up. He’d regained a good portion of his energy. He had his wings back, he could feel them though they weren’t visible. Not a big deal. They normally weren’t visible. Out of sheer habit, he kept them tightly folded down against his spine. “You got what you wanted from me.” He winced. Damn it, his ass hurt! “So, leave me the hell alone!” Moisture slicked the cheeks of his butt. He closed his eyes and felt his face heat ferociously.

“If you are referring to your ass…” Serpent quick, he grabbed Vincent, locking his arms around the smaller man’s waist. “On the contrary…” He pulled hard, lifting Vincent bodily and then twisted and pushed, shoving Vincent belly down among the sheets. “I’ve only begun to get what I want from you.”

Vincent pushed up on his hands and snarled. “What the hell are you doing?” The hair at the base of his neck was grabbed and pulled until his head was tilted back. His back arched sharply until he was up on his elbows. He gasped, more in surprise than pain. It didn’t actually hurt. In fact, it was more than a little exciting. His face heated even more. What the hell kind of kinky pervert was he turning into?

“What do I want? Isn’t it obvious?” Sephiroth hooked his arm under Vincent’s hips and pulled, bringing him up on his knees. “I want to fuck you.”

“Again? Right now?” Vincent felt two long fingers slide down the seam of his ass. He shivered hard. “Couldn’t you wait ‘til tomorrow, or something?” Couldn’t he wait until Vincent had at least had a bath? He stank of sour sweat, and spent sex.

“What for? We don’t actually need recovery time. It’s not as if either of us is human.”

Vincent flinched. Blood and hell, there was no need to rub it in! The fingers pressed against Vincent’s anus, and abruptly slid in without any resistance what so ever. Vincent felt a stab of shame and winced.

The dark angel chuckled. “Oh yeah, you’re wide open now.”

Vincent bit back a mortified groan. He honestly hadn’t thought his face could get any hotter.

Sephiroth swirled his fingers around within, drawing shivers that raised the hair all over Vincent’s body. “Mmm, you’re still full, dripping in fact.”

Vincent started in shock, then grabbed the wrist gripping his hair. “Bastard!” He couldn’t get his hand at the right angle to loosen the fingers knotted in his hair. “Let go of me, I’ve had enough!”

Sephiroth tugged on Vincent’s hair giving his head a shake, and shoved Vincent’s hand back down. “Calm down. Because you’re so wet in there, this is going to feel a lot better than the last time. No friction what so ever.”

Vincent growled. “Says you.”

“Oh absolutely.” The chuckle was deep and velvety. “It’s going to feel much better for me too.” He shoved, pressing Vincent’s head down among the pillows, while leaving his ass up.

Vincent gasped and grabbed for the sheets with his right hand, the fingers of his left still didn’t want to work properly. Again, he was doing it again…!

A hot thickness pressed against his anus for only a moment then it started sliding in, and in… There was a small bit of sting but it was barely noticeable beyond the rigid heat filling him. He took in a deep breath to hide the moan threatening to escape.

Sephiroth groaned with obvious pleasure. “Oh yeah, no friction, but still snug.” His hips made contact with Vincent’s ass. “There, all in.” He dropped over Vincent’s back, setting a palm on the mattress, and nestling right between Vincent’s wings.

Vincent shuddered under him. So tight, so full, so hot, so…good. He choked on his own thoughts. Some depraved part of him was perfectly happy to be fucked – and it wasn’t his beast.

Sephiroth pressed a kiss to the back of Vincent’s neck. “Ah, your wings are back. I can’t see them, but I can definitely feel them.” The dark angel lifted a hand and trailed his fingers along the folds of Vincent’s left wing. “No feathers.” He traced the delicately arching bones. “Not like mine at all. You have the elbow that folds down and then up like mine, but it ends in five long bones jointed together. Mine only has one. Yours feels like its built like an arm, ending in a hand.” His palm slid down Vincent’s left shoulder exploring the tightly folded wing. “How do you get them to fold up so small? They reach your ass, but barely extend past the width of your shoulders.”

Vincent shivered and writhed. No one had ever touched his wings before. But then, no one knew they were there. “Damn it, stop touching them!”

The dark angel chuckled, his voice dark and velvety. “Are we sensitive?”

Vincent growled and bared his teeth. “Shut up, and leave my wings alone!”  

“I’ll take that as a yes.” Sephiroth chuckled, deep and low. “Or is it that we’re getting impatient?” He rolled his hips. His cock pressed then rubbed against that spot deep in Vincent’s ass.

Hot fierce pleasure throbbed at the base of Vincent’s cock, making it drip, and then washed up Vincent’s spine delivering fine shivers. A moan escaped his throat.

Sephiroth chuckled. “I think you liked that.”

Painfully embarrassed by his body’s traitorous response, Vincent’s temper flared. “Fuck you!”

“I’d rather…” Sephiroth pulled back, withdrawing slowly. “Fuck you.” He slammed back in with a grunt, striking that delicious spot within Vincent perfectly.

Pleasure slammed Vincent so hard he cried out, and shamelessly writhed to make it last.

The dark angel stroked the side of Vincent’s throat with his long tongue. His voice purred directly into Vincent’s ear. “I’d say you definitely liked that.”

Vincent tucked his head away from that tongue, and that voice, clenching his teeth to keep from answering. He did like it. It had felt incredible, so incredible he couldn’t help but hunger for more.

Sephiroth grabbed his hair and pulled his head back up. “Oh, don’t be shy.” His tongue swept along Vincent’s jaw. “It’s only pleasure. Just enjoy it.”

Vincent turned his head as far as he could to look back at his tormentor, and spoke through his bared fangs. “I don’t want to enjoy anything with you!”

The dark angel’s green eyes narrowed and his mouth tightened. “Well, that’s just too damned bad.” He released Vincent’s hair to dig his long nails into Vincent’s shoulder. He pulled back and slammed in, hitting that exquisite spot perfectly.

Carnal delight seared Vincent in the balls, arching his spine and forcing a guttural cry from his throat.

“By the time I’m finished with you--” The dark angel rolled his hips, grinding deep. “You’ll be so addicted to me--” He reached under to grasp Vincent’s violently hard and dripping cock. “You won’t be able to think my name without getting a hard-on.” He thrust with power, then again, and again, stroking Vincent’s cock in time to his hard merciless thrusts.

Vincent shuddered and gasped under the onslaught of wave after wave of ruthless and pitiless ecstasy, very much afraid that his words were already true.

Sephiroth groaned. “Damn, you feel good.” His thrusts increased in speed and power. His hips struck Vincent’s ass with loud sharp smacks. His hand tightened on Vincent’s rigid flesh, stroking it from the very base at his balls to the edge of the flared and steadily dripping head.

Unable to resist the skillful and determined carnal assault, Vincent succumbed to his body’s ravenous hunger and shoved back against Sephiroth’s driving thrusts.

“Oh yeah…” Sephiroth groaned in obvious pleasure. “That’s much better.”

Climax rose and knotted tight in Vincent’s balls. He thrust back harder. The sound of flesh striking flesh punctuated his gasping cries. He was almost there.

“Enough.” Sephiroth closed both arms tight around Vincent and pushed forcing him down onto the sheets. “Enough, Vincent.”

“No! Don’t stop!” Vincent snarled in frustration and fought the arms that held him, too far gone to even consider what he was saying.

Sephiroth grabbed Vincent’s long black hair and jerked his head back. His lips pressed against the shell of Vincent’s delicately pointed ear. “Do you want to cum?”

Vincent stilled, torn. He shouldn’t. He shouldn’t want this…this vile pleasure. But he did. Tears streaked down his cheeks and he closed his eyes. “Yes.”

Sephiroth nodded. “All right.” He released Vincent and sat up.

Vincent rose up on his knees and turned, trembling with lecherous desperation.

The dark angel spread out his wings and reclined back among the sheets, stretching out in a fine display of sleek muscle. His long mane of silver hair spilled down the sides of the round bed. He held out his hand. “Come here.”

Vincent’s heart slammed in his chest. He wanted nothing more than to escape this nightmare of carnal sin, but his body wanted nothing more than to give in to it. He crawled across the sheets to the hand offered, and took it with his right hand.

Sephiroth smiled and tugged on Vincent’s hand. “Is sex with me really so terrible?”

Vincent knelt at his tormentor’s side and looked away. His gaze locked on the rigid curve of Sephiroth’s cock, and his own cock throbbed. He wanted it, Sephiroth’s cock, back in his body. He closed his eyes and a small groan escaped. “You are the world’s greatest calamity.” He opened his eyes to look down at the carved beauty of Sephiroth’s face. His cat green eyes were dilated open, and the lips unsmiling. “Doing anything for you goes against everything I believe in.”

Sephiroth sighed. “I told you before, the man who sought the world’s end was not me. That was Jenova wearing my body.” He sighed and lifted his other hand to scrub at his eyes. “Vincent, I need you. Please, stop fighting me.”

Vincent curled his lip baring a long tooth. “Stealing someone else’s body is wrong.”

“Do you honestly think I don’t know that?” Sephiroth scowled up at Vincent. “Believe me, I know better than anyone just how wrong it truly is, but I don’t have a choice, I must live!”

“Why?” Vincent dug his nails into Sephiroth’s palm. “Why should you get to live again when others…” The sweetly smiling face of a dark-haired girl holding an armful of flowers flashed across Vincent’s memory. His heart twisted hard. “When others do not.”

Sephiroth looked up at the curving ceiling. “Just as I survived dissolution in the life-stream…” He turned to frown at Vincent. “I strongly suspect that Jenova will also find a way to survive.”

Vincent stilled. The planet-killing nightmare…again? His fingers tightened on Sephiroth’s hand. “Blood and hell, is that really possible?”

The dark angel pushed to sit up next to Vincent with his knees crossed. “I am very strong, or I would not be here now.” He turned to face Vincent. “But Jenova is stronger, or I would not have lost my body to it to begin with.”

Vincent hunched his shoulders “I can’t…” He shook his head. “I can’t believe this.”

“Believe it. There is already something moving in the life-stream that doesn’t belong, that won’t belong, and it feels far too familiar for my personal comfort.” Sephiroth cupped Vincent’s chin, forcing him to meet his cat-green gaze. “I may be your personal nightmare, but Jenova is mine. When that monstrosity rises again, I have to be there. For that I need a body, Vincent, one that can be trained in time to defeat it.”

Vincent shook his chin from Sephiroth’s palm. “We tried everything, everything…” Memories of never-ending battles slashed across his inner vision. He closed his eyes and forced it away. “And we failed.” He opened his eyes and narrowed his gaze at Sephiroth. “It took the planet itself to defeat it.”

Sephiroth smiled. “I am an extension of the life-stream, the soul of the planet, right now. That won’t change when I step into a new body. If I call, it will come.”

“The planet will come when you call?” Sour humor brought a crooked smile to Vincent’s lips. “That’s quite an ego you have there.”

Sephiroth smiled just as crookedly. “I earned every bit of it the hard way too.”

Vincent lifted his brows. “You’re saying you deserve your ego?”

“Absolutely.” Sephiroth grinned. “It’s part of my charm.”

Vincent choked on a laugh. “You have charm?”

Sephiroth stilled utterly his eyes going wide.

Vincent stilled. “What…?”

Sephiroth reached out and grabbed the back of Vincent’s head bringing their mouths together for a hard kiss.

Vincent jolted in surprise. What the…? A hot velvety tongue swept into his open mouth to stroke across his. Unholy lust arose with savage intensity. He grabbed on to Sephiroth’s broad shoulders, shamelessly sucking on the tongue that sought to tame his.

Powerful arms closed around Vincent and pulled him down.

Vincent sprawled across the broad chest under him. He pulled his mouth away, startled.

Sephiroth grabbed Vincent’s thigh and tugged it over him until Vincent straddled his hips. “Ride me.”

Vincent frowned. “What…?”

Sephiroth reached up to cup his cheek. “Take me into your body and ride me. I want to watch you cum.”

Vincent’s cheeks flushed with heat. Sephiroth wanted him to sit on him? He scowled. “I’m not a girl!”

“I never said you were!” Sephiroth grabbed Vincent’s left upper arm with one hand and pushed up on the other elbow. “You and your damned shyness.”  In one swift smooth motion, he sat up with Vincent in his lap. He closed one arm around Vincent and crossed his legs under them. “Apparently I have to teach you everything!”

Vincent shoved at Sephiroth’s arm. “This is a girl’s position!”

Sephiroth brought his face close to Vincent’s. “It’s a position where my dick goes in your ass. Get over it.” He tightened his hold around Vincent, lifting him, and reached under. “Stubborn shit…”

Vincent felt the hot brand of Sephiroth’s cock centering on his anus. “Wait…!”

“No.” The demonic angel relaxed his arm.

Vincent slid down. The broad hot length of Sephiroth’s cock surged up into him, impaling him between one breath and the next. Vincent threw back his head and shouted in sheer shock. It hadn’t actually hurt, but it had surprised the hell out of him.

Sephiroth leaned forward, tipping Vincent back against his arm. He dropped his head and captured one of Vincent’s nipples with his lips, and then his teeth. He tugged, then licked.

Bolts of erotic fire seared Vincent all the way to his balls. He gasped and grabbed onto Sephiroth’s shoulders, twisting in pure reaction. The cock in his ass shifted and pressed against something. Exquisite heat clenched in his balls. Excitement surged up his shaft and dripped. Vincent choked out a moan. He’d found the pleasure spot inside himself.

Vincent gripped Sephiroth’s broad shoulders and rocked in the dark angel’s lap, searching for it. A jolt of erotic heat flashed through him marking his success. He’d found it, but it wasn’t enough. He needed to hit it harder.

Sephiroth glanced up at him briefly, flashed a smile, then turned to seek Vincent’s other nipple with his teeth and tongue.

Vincent groaned, and pushed up a little with his knees. He dropped down and struck. Carnal pleasure burst in him deliciously, but it still wasn’t enough. He needed to go higher, and fall faster. He rose again, pushing up a little higher.

Sephiroth’s hands slid under his ass cheeks to help him rise.

Vincent was beyond caring. He just wanted to feel that hot delicious burn that would make him cum.  He dropped.

Sephiroth’s hands closed on his ass to help push him down hard.

Pleasure detonated. A hoarse shout exploded from his throat. That was it. He closed his eyes and pushed back up again with determined speed.

Sephiroth leaned back just a little, keeping one hand under Vincent’s ass to help him lift, and grunted with each drop.

Vincent dug his nails into Sephiroth’s shoulders and rode him, rising and falling at break-neck speed, impaling himself over, and over… He didn’t care how loud his moans were, he was going to cum, and cum hard…

Sephiroth closed his arms around Vincent, lifting him higher, dropping him harder, his groans joining Vincent’s.

“Vincent.”

Vincent opened his eyes.

Sephiroth’s cheeks were flushed pink, his parted lips a rosy red, and only a breath away. His green eyes had dilated wide to black orbs outlined in emerald, and they were focused on Vincent’s mouth.

Vincent didn’t think, he simply leaned forward and kissed the lips before him.

Sephiroth groaned and fell forward, pressing Vincent back down among the sheets, breaking the kiss.

Vincent gasped for breath, for sanity, for relief from the burning need gripping his balls.

Sephiroth grabbed Vincent behind the knee, down on his thigh, and shoved Vincent’s leg up high. He surged in hard, then hammered into him, striking that hot spot perfectly with each hard thrust, over, and over, and over…  

Climax rose in a screaming white hot tide. Vincent gasped out cry, after joyous cry…

A long velvety tongue, then sharp teeth pressed at the side of Vincent’s throat.

Vincent’s heart jumped in alarm. He’s going to…?

The teeth sank into his throat, swift sharp burning slices.

A small whimper was surprised out of Vincent. The sudden pain sharpened the erotic pleasure waiting to burst. Climax detonated. He fell into the rapacious inferno and screamed out his ecstasy, clawing at the broad shoulders that held him down.

Sephiroth sucked greedily while thrusting hard and fast. He stilled and moaned. The hard shaft throbbed, pumping fluid deep inside Vincent’s body.

The beast that shared Vincent’s soul rose, drank, then submerged again. Vincent barely felt its passing.

-VV-

Vincent awoke tangled among the sheets alone. Morning pinked the floating curtains in the four archways. The dark angel was gone, leaving nothing but the scent of spent passion on the sheets.

Vincent sat up and groaned. His neck ached. He’d forgotten that Sephiroth drank blood to keep his corporeal form. He lifted a hand and brushed the side of his throat. The bite had already healed over somewhat. He could feel new scars.

The rest of his body felt like it had been beaten. Sex had a habit of doing that, especially hard sex. Vincent closed his eyes, his hands fisting in the sheets. In the end, he hadn’t even tried to resist. He hadn’t wanted to resist. He’d wanted Sephiroth to fuck him until he came.

And that’s exactly what he’d done.

Vincent shoved the burning memories aside and rose to his feet. His knees trembled under him and moisture trickled down his thighs.

Vincent grabbed the sheet from off the floor and wrapped it around his hips. Bath, now… Even if he had to heat the water himself.

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