Yamanaka Ino (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
intraspective) wrote2009-11-30 05:30 pm
intraspective) wrote2009-11-30 05:30 pm
Room 504, Monday Evening
Paperwork was not Ino's very bestest friend ever, no.
Especially when she probably didn't know enough about the subject to fill in all the blanks. This was not stopping her from going through the pile and filling in anything she did know, mind, but it did mean she was gathering a list of questions that Ino was pretty sure the village only wanted so they could totally be insanely nosey.
Did it really matter if he had siblings, after all?
Ino was pretty sure he didn't, anyway, but that wasn't the point.
Once you'd ascertained that, oh hey, no they were not a threat to Konoha and yes were willing to swear on this, Ino was of the opinion that the rest of it was garbage.
This did not stop her from doing it, of course, but it did mean she was muttering to herself about utter idiots who needed a book written for a visitor as she steadily worked her way down the questions. Music was on, the door was half open and Ino was working on her bed.
[Open door, open post!
ETA: The phone call with Reno is chronologically last, plz. The content of the call is NFB!]
Especially when she probably didn't know enough about the subject to fill in all the blanks. This was not stopping her from going through the pile and filling in anything she did know, mind, but it did mean she was gathering a list of questions that Ino was pretty sure the village only wanted so they could totally be insanely nosey.
Did it really matter if he had siblings, after all?
Ino was pretty sure he didn't, anyway, but that wasn't the point.
Once you'd ascertained that, oh hey, no they were not a threat to Konoha and yes were willing to swear on this, Ino was of the opinion that the rest of it was garbage.
This did not stop her from doing it, of course, but it did mean she was muttering to herself about utter idiots who needed a book written for a visitor as she steadily worked her way down the questions. Music was on, the door was half open and Ino was working on her bed.
[Open door, open post!
ETA: The phone call with Reno is chronologically last, plz. The content of the call is NFB!]
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"If there's a chance why shouldn't you take it?"
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"Wouldn't know where to start. An' that's assumin' there's a chance. I can't take down Sephiroth. Zack wouldn't be able to, either."
Nibelheim. Packing up the SOLDIER that was bleeding out on the stairway, and the infantryman who was in worse shape still. Shipping them to the mansion, with Hojo. Don't look back, just do the job. Leave the worrying to Tseng. Tseng was the one who damn near wanted to screw the kid anyhow.
"Seems easier from the outside, maybe. Not havin' all the pieces."
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"Real thing was worse than the remnants were. An' I couldn't handle one of them. The real thing... He ain't a bad guy, in Zack's time. He ain't nothin' for the kid to worry about right now. Does him a world of good, for a while."
That was... only kind of lying. More or less.
"Trains him for a bit, since Angeal ain't doin' him any good."
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No, kidding.
"Remnants are clones?" she checked. "Okay. So he's good for now, but..."
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That last sentence was said in the sort of drawl that suggested that Reno would pay to see Rufus shoot their mommy's disembodied head a few more times. Please.
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...
Ino was torn between frustration and stress-fuelled hilarity, really. Seriously. Ow.
"Why does he snap?"
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And if it wasn't safe, then he would take whatever measures needed to be taken to ensure the safety of Gaia. That went without saying.
"On a mission somewhere, Sephiroth found files on the being we call Jenova," he replied. "Who he's been told his entire life was his mother. Guess he had problems with ShinRa keepin' most of her body in a tube to be experimented on an' used in the SOLDIER project, yoto. Figured that her rightful place wasn't as some kinda science project, an' that instead, the two of 'em should be rulin' the planet together."
Not right in the head by that point, that Sephiroth.
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Suck it up. And bitch. A lot.
She chewed her bottom lip at that. "Can't say I blame 'im for not wanting her experimented on. Wouldn't want my mom in that situation either, you know?"
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Which hinted somewhat at exactly how shitty ShinRa had been, so far as things like 'human rights' went, perhaps.
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The sad thing was that that made more sense than some other things in that explanation. She could only thank Fandom. Her world had demons, not aliens. Totally different thing.
"So he figures destroying the world is a good idea for revenge or somethin' 'cause of his fake-mom?"
Her head hurt.
"The SOLDIER project--and Jenova?" That was a separate question. She just wasn't sure she could phrase it right so he got it fragmented.
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Okay, deep breath, now. It was never any secret that Jenova cells were used in the SOLDIER project, but Zack probably didn't understand what Jenova was, so this could be touchy territory.
"When people join SOLDIER, they go through a series of alterations, zoto. It's a cross between bein' doused in mako, fused with Jenova cells, an' some kinda technological whatevertheshit that they have put in their heads. The Jenova cells make a lotta the difference, yo. They take on some of her traits, like bein' able to take stupid amounts of damage without dyin', but it means that they're genetically impossible to tell apart from shit like monsters, among other things along those lines, yo."
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"Zack asked if he was a monster." Flatly. "I told him he wasn't. You sayin' I'm wrong?"
She didn't want to be wrong.
"Any other traits?"
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The kind that made Reno wrinkle his nose and want to kick him in the shin for being so damn optimistic all of the time.
"There's other shit, too. They're immune to certain scientific procedures, they're more prone to bein' genetically manipulated in other ways. That kinda thing. If you're worryin' about SOLDIER boy so far as that goes, there ain't no point. You'll be happy to know that Zack gets to stay Zack."
In spite of Hojo's best efforts.
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"'bout the mental part," she started, then stopped, and then just...
Well, silence on her end.
Ino was thinking.
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She tucked her legs up under her chin and studied the sheet of paper she'd tugged out to scribble on. Details, here.
"Jenova cells. Mako. Whatever piece o' tech gets stuck in 'em--that make mental manipulation easier too? Not genetic level. Or--not just."
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A pause.
"The DMW is there mostly to regulate their growth, I think. Keep 'em from overloadin' themselves an' gettin' too strong too fast, or somethin'. I ain't no SOLDIER-scholar or nothin', here. I just know what happened an' what didn't."
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It was like he was talking in code.
"I was just thinking. That's all."
Ino, get better at diverting the conversation.
"So if they were strong willed before, they'd be strong willed after?"
Better.
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Mind Wave, Reno. Digital Mind Wave. But it wasn't as though he ever gave a shit what it meant for.
"I figure they'd be just as strong after, yeah. Why?"
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That was a stall, yes. Pretty lame one, even, and she knew it.
"Wondering." She tugged her hair sharply. "'Bout the 2nds and 3rds taken and turned into full monsters. That's all."
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... It would be very, very scary if Zack had a 'Digital Muffin Wanker' in his brain.
"Thing you gotta wonder ain't so much about the resolve of the guys that Genesis turned over, Rookie," and now Reno was really getting a feel for how close Ino had gotten to Zack, considering just what she knew, here, "it's how nasty Genesis had to be in order to take that many of 'em, and break 'em all."
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She bit her lip, hard, for a moment then asked in a soft voice, "What if they ain't broken, really?"
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"The Sephiroth clones were," he attempted. "The Ravens weren't, though. They were trapped somewhere in their own heads, so far as I can tell. I'm just figurin' that since Genesis an' Sephiroth were so damn similar in some ways, it was probably the same story, there. Not trapped, so much as just not all there no more."
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Ino ignored that thought.
"Genesis ones ain't that strong physically," she answered. "What 'bout the Sephiroth ones?"
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