Who You Gonna Call? [Sephiroth, OTA]

[3wingedangel]

WHO: Sephiroth and everyone
WHERE: Temba for Prompt 1 and the Ship for the other two
WHAT: May Adventures
WHEN: May
WARNINGS: Medical stitching in Prompt 1, ghosts in the other two

Stitching

Sephiroth sighed as he sat down with needle and thread after washing and cleaning his injured wing. He generally took care of injuries to his wings himself, since he was used to being where it was not usual for humans to have wings. He had learned how to properly care for them and he did so with skill and patience.

This certainly wasn’t a favorite activity, however, and even though he had a high pain tolerance, he still clenched his teeth behind closed lips as he set about closing the wounds to the lower left wing. It will no doubt be quite a sight for anyone who happens upon him during this situation—a tall man sitting on a crate, calmly pulling needle and thread through a large blue wing attached to his body.

Ghostbusting

The space trip comes while he is still recovering from injury to his wing during the fight with Billy and Stu. Not wanting to further damage it, or to be unable to be at his best to help others, he’s hesitant to leave the ship at first. He ends up spending most of his time there, although he does go help at the space station when he feels more confident to do so.

Radley calls him on the Network, highly disturbed about something soon after their arrival. He’s an odd case, probably the only person there who is actually familiar with Sephiroth’s world ... even though such familiarity is through video games about it. It boggled his mind to realize the games were based on real things and real people, instead of being fictitious as believed.

It doesn’t take long and Sephiroth discovers what Radley is upset about. The bizarre supernatural activity on the ship becomes increasingly difficult to ignore. It’s all the classic tropes of a haunting. Sephiroth being from a universe of supernatural activity and magic, he isn’t surprised by ghosts existing. But it’s certainly inconvenient and irritating to be happening right now when there is so much more they need to deal with.

Sephiroth soon takes to wandering about the ship, trying to entice the ghosts to bother him late at night. Every time they do, he tries to figure out some pattern to their nonsense, some clue to where they’re coming from and what brought them onboard.

Someone who is a lot less calm about ghosts may be startled by scenes such as Sephiroth standing with folding arms, watching objects move around the diner with a completely deadpan expression.

Ghostly Form

Sephiroth is not unused to seeing fake apparitions of Zack since his arrival. But when the violet light suddenly decides to appear in front of him as Zack, he can’t help but pale a bit. “Zack . . . ?”

It’s not Zack. It can’t be Zack. It wasn’t Zack when the Storms were coming and it’s not Zack now. But Sephiroth reaches out to the ghost for a brief moment before drawing his hand back. It’s hard to breathe....

The form vanishes and Sephiroth gasps, inhaling sharply.

Comments

Ghostly Form

[work_wife]

Yeah, it's been spooky lately. Robin doesn't mind calling that out. Of course she's seen so much bullshit that is creepy that this, in a way, wasn't as scary to her. In fact, she had been looking into it because it seemed harmless.

So of course she's not shocked to come upon someone who was dealing with an apparition. It's only when the vision disappears that she steps forward.

"Creepy, right?"

Re: Ghostly Form

[3wingedangel]

"More demented and sadistic," Sephiroth says with bitterness. His feathers are standing on end. "For the spectre to see into our minds and know who to pretend to be to have the deepest affect on us, they must be very cruel and not just mischievous."

[work_wife]

Oh. Wow. She didn't expect that at all.

"I mean, I would have called it luck, but if it affected you that deeply, yeah, that's fucked up."

Or maybe it had been a manifestation of his own will. The guy clearly had freaky powers after all.

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth nodded. "So far I haven't found any clues as to how this happened or how to stop it. It would seem that something from the space station or that planet must have came onboard, although it would be unwise to discount the possibility of a coincidence."

As far as he knew, he hadn't manifested any Zacks.

[work_wife]

That's really horrible to think about. Space ghosts. Ew.

"Okay. That's... Should we, like, hide? Is there a chant to keep the things away? A cleansing thing?"

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth looks amused at that.

"I highly doubt hiding has ever stopped any spirit. And right now we just don't know enough to say, although I imagine at least some residents have been trying various keep-away methods."

[work_wife]

Okay, that's a real point.

"I mean, I could imagine just putting salt by our doors. But, um, it's not something we think about back home."

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth looks skeptical of that at best. But he says, “You’re welcome to try that and see if it helps.”

[work_wife]

"I'll go get the salt then. Should i come back here? To, like, make a salt circle for you?"

[3wingedangel]

“You can show me how it’s done, but I’m not planning to just stand here in it,” Sephiroth says in amusement. If he’s going to try salt, he thinks walking around with some might be more productive.

[work_wife]

"Okay!" she says, before rushing toward the kitchens. "I think it's just about, you know, a circle. A barrier of earth against the spiritual or something?"

[3wingedangel]

“Hm. Yes, I’ve heard of such theories,” Sephiroth mused. “I’ve also heard iron is supposed to help. They’re not supposed to be able to go past it.”

[work_wife]

"Iron, really?"

She looks around at the ship around them.

"So I guess we have to wonder what this thing is made out of."