Final Fantasy VII 100 Word Challenge

Title: Mirror Distortion 1
Characters: Cloud
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100

Five years is an eternity when you're sixteen. It's hell in captivity and torture.

Sometimes Cloud wondered who he would've been if those years had not been stolen from him. He was grateful that his only memories of being Hojo's captive were indistinct, but it left him in a body and mind that were not his own. He worked hard to develop them both and told himself that he would get used to them in time.

It was no good. No matter how much time passed, Cloud would look into the mirror and always see the face of a stranger.





Title: Mirror Distortion 2
Characters: Sephiroth
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100

Hojo called him his property, and it would be easy to believe him except that he'd known for a long time how easily Hojo lied.

The President called him 'General' to his face and 'that creature' behind his back. The rank and file addressed him as 'sir'.

The Shinra papers called him a hero. The Wutaians called him a demon.

Lieutenant Fair called him Seph.

What Sephiroth himself saw when he looked in the mirror rarely varied: his flaws and his old scars exaggerated by his abnormal size and coloring, his glowing slit-pupiled eyes marking him out forever as Other.

Title: You’re So Vain
Characters: Rufus
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100

Pose. Aaand flick.

Haughty smirk, secure in his superiority. Aaand flick.

Mocking laugh, as if his foes lay helpless before him. Aaand flick.

Cold look of impending Turks doom. Aaand flick.

Suave, genteel smile, the sort expected at a dinner banquet. Aaand flick.

Rufus eyed the mirror one last time. If developing this particular habit didn’t drive his father to death – or at least extreme annoyance – he didn’t know what would.

He adjusted his impeccably white suit and gathered up the documents for the upcoming meeting. With a final flick of his hair, he was out the door.

When one of their own is against the wall, the Turks come out in full force for points. 50 points for them and a nice shiny trophy for a week! Avalanche tried to get a little revenge but 30 points was all they could muster. SOLDIER? Well, they decided to take a rest after their last win. I think they hit up the spa on ShinRa's dime.

The prompt for this week is #81 - Reflection

Mirror mirror on the wall, ah, never mind. This week use reflection to your best advantage - an image in a mirror, the water, window. Reflect back on the past, on feelings, on people you know or knew.

Does Genesis preen in front of every mirror? Is Rufus reflecting on past mistakes? Does Cloud notice how chocobo-like his hair really is from a puddle on the ground? Would Tseng rather not reflect on past nightmares?

Give the drabble a little more reflection in just 100 words.

And...my apologies for being a day late. I had a hell over the weekend, so when Monday rolled around, I just forgot it was Monday.