eeeeeeeee! I love this SO MUCH. And I imagine that Vince and Cid and Shera go off and find Akabane and make the BEST TRANSPORTER TEAM IN THE WORLD SQUEE instead of being all sad and apart and working crappy jobs.
Your Akabane is so damn perfect. Just PERFECT. He's such a difficult character to pull off. And I love the interaction between him and Cid. They have a really neat personality dynamic. You did a great job of blending the universes together so it didn't require a whole lot of explanation, too.