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Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Mar 25, 2023 12:40:09 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Yuffie was largely distracted from the long suffering blue man beast and his efforts to stand up by Sarah's continued puzzlement over her nature as a ninja. She just looked back when she made her comment about not being into stealth and liking walking, and rolled her eyes dramatically. "Ninjas are the BEST at stealth! Where'd y'think the phrase, 'stealthy like a ninja' comes from?" she asked. Okay, maybe that wasn't a phrase and something she just made up, but, well, it explained the situation, right? "As for the walking thing, what, did you come from like, the no-sarcasm world or something? I was kiddin'! I was just sayin', I walked here. Though.... I DO do a lot of walking. A loooooooooot. Turns out, savin' the world really gets your steps in," she added. Yuffie didn't actually know what 'gets your steps in' meant, but she had heard some of the foreigners say it and decided to use it as a phrase instead of trying to figure out what the heck it actually meant.
"Right. Corntropolis. Totally what I said," Yuffie grinned happily. She also grinned at being called 'Miss Great Ninja' too. Wow, how gullible was this woman? Yuffie was definitely gonna have some fun here. "Nono, it's 'Great Ninja Yuffie'. You gotta say it all. I also accept 'The Single White Rose of Wutai', 'The Champion of the Earth and Sky', the 'Conqueror of Evil', or the 'Treasure Princess'. Ohhh, or 'The Legendary Dragon Blade', that one's new!" she added quickly, with pride.
She watched as the blue man stumbled out of the cave, following Sarah, as she turned to Yuffie for advice. How WOULD Yuffie handle someone stubborn enough to bleed out on their own? Well, a big part of her wanted to just leave him there. That'd learn 'im! If he didn't wanna be cured, they should just leave him to bleed out. But, well, that was kinda mean.
"We need to find a way to get him back to town," Yuffie paused to consider. "But you're obviously way too much of a dainty girly girl to carry him, and, uh, I'm more of a SPEED girl than a STRENGTH girl," she said. Totally different that SHE wasn't strong enough either, of course. "Ohhh, but, what if some super hot mega awesome ninja could summon us a chocobo? Then we could just, plop him on the chocobo, and get him to ride it back into town!" she suggested enthusiastically. Okay, it wasn't the best idea, since riding would probably open more wounds, but what else were they meant to do?
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Mar 24, 2023 7:53:10 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Yuffie gave a smug look as green light washed over the strange blue man, but her look faded when the wounds didn't heal. She paused, blinking. "Hey! What gives!?" she asked loudly, looking at the materia slotted in her arm, and giving it a shake. She even popped the materia out, and blew on it, trying to shine it with the palm of her glove, before putting it back in, and casting it again. Again, green light emanated, but it had no effect. "Hey! No fair! Materia ALWAYS works!" she pouted in confusion, giving the strange blue man an annoyed look. "What did you do!? You broke my materia!" she protested.
Maybe he was some weird materia proof species? She should shoot a fireball at him and see if that hurt him. That'd tell her!
...Even Yuffie quite quickly realised that was a bad idea and moved on.
She watched as the other girl got to work on trying to heal with her hands. Like some LOSER. Not using materia! Although, in this case, Yuffie supposed it made sense. "Maybe he's immune to healing magic?" she suggested. "Yeah. That must be it. Like, how some monsters are immune to fire. I bet he's immune to healing!" she said quickly. She wasn't sure how he was still alive in that case. Unless he wasn't. He did look kinda beat up. Maybe he was undead? At which point she should definitely cast that fireball.
"Name's Yuffie!" she answered when the strange woman called her 'young lady', jabbing a thumb at herself. "An' I got here using an ancient ninja technique, where you put one foot in front of the other one, and THEN you lift up your other foot, and put it in front of the first foot, making you move forwards. We call it 'walking'," she said, her voice's bubbly enthusiasm almost tempered by her teasing sarcasm.
"You dunno what a ninja is!?" Yuffie practically gasped. "A ninja is a super cool mega awesome badass who's trained in all kinds of fighting and martial arts and weapons and kicks butt!" she explained, throwing some air punches to demonstrate her enthusiasm. "And THIS is my shuriken. You can hit people with it, or, when they aren't expectin' it, THROW it, and then they're all like, 'argh, oh no, I've been shurikened to the face' and I'm like, 'HA! You didn't see THAT comin', did ya!?'" she explained cheerfully, as she flipped out her shuriken and mimed the general battle she was now imagining.
"Well, Sarah of Corntopia, it's nice to meet'cha. Like I said, I'm Yuffie, but you can call me The Great Ninja Yuffie," she said, thrusting out a hand in friendship.
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Mar 15, 2023 12:01:27 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Yuffie peered at the weird creature as it tried to get to its feet. It was clearly badly wounded, which was beginning to let her understand the situation. But she watched as he tried to stand, and sank back down, and seemed to catch a glimmer of something in his eyes. A level of intelligence. He wasn't an ordinary monster.
"Heeeey, wait a minute, you're a guy, aren't you?" she said, leaning forward, hands behind her back to peer at his face. "Don't worry! I'm totally experienced in this area! One of my best friends is like mostly dog. Or maybe mostly cat. I'll be honest, I've never been too clear on that. But his tail is on fire and he's super weird!" she explained. Or got as close to explaining as Yuffie ever did. "I got a curaga materia right here! I can heal you right up, then get you outta here. Don't panic, I'm totally a ninja. I can protect you. Nobody gets the drop on Yuffie Kisa-"
"Please excuse me, is everything alright in here?"
"WA-AGH!" Yuffie jumped out of her skin, flailing as her shuriken flew in the air, and then clattered down at her feet again. She span around to face the rather boringly dressed girl who had snuck up behind her. By contrast, Yuffie was dressed like, well, Yuffie. In a combination of a turtleneck sweater and crop top that was somehow both and neither, with fishnets on one arm and one leg, skimpy shorts that were left unbuttoned, bright yellow gloves and sneakers and big socks over the top, and her arm protector that looked more like a big pillow than practical armour, not to mention her ninja headband, she looked-
-well, awesome. Obviously.
"Hey! Don't go sneakin' up on people in a spooky cave!" she insisted at the blonde, scooping up her shuriken again defensively. "You're lucky I'm such a pro I wasn't scared at all or I might have shurikened you to the face!" she added. "And yes shurikened is totally a word, I'm a ninja, I know these things."
She glanced back at the suffering monster-guy, and paused between them.
"Relaaaaax, Dressy McRobepants," she said to the girl. Okay, the nickname needed work. "We don't need 'supplies'," she said, mocking her voice back at her. "We need MATERIA! And I got just the spell right here! Watch THIS!"
"Curaga!" she announced, casting the spell as the appropriate materia glowed in the slot on her shuriken, casting it onto Kimahri.
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Mar 15, 2023 10:08:33 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
"Exploring a spooky cave! Exploring a spooky caaaave! I'm not scared 'cause I'm explorin' a spooky caaaaave!" Yuffie sang into the darkness as she half skipped and half ran into the shadows. Okay, so it WAS pretty dark, and there were lots of stories of ghosts and stuff in the Headstone Forest. But she was Yuffie Kisaragi! The Single White Rose of Wutai! She didn't fear a ghost! She ate ghosts for breakfast!
Well, actually, she'd had this wicked sugary marshmallow cereal for breakfast and ever since then people had been avoiding her because she'd been so hyper. Which was, in fact, pretty standard, so she wasn't sure the marshmallow cereal was to blame. ANYWAY, the point was, ghosts didn't bother her, and everybody knew spooky caves was the BEST place to hide materia!
"Here, materia, materia, materia...." she sang out, which was actually harder to do than you'd expect with the word 'materia'. Okay, so, so far she hadn't actually found ANY materia in Zephron. Any amateur materia hunter might have given up so far. But not Yuffie! She just assumed that meant the materia that WAS there was even more powerful and rare, and just super well hidden! Besides, it didn't make sense that only people came across from another dimension. She had come across, WITH her materia, so it was logical to assume materia came across too, right?
And then it ended up in spooky caves!
She couldn't wait to show Caius when she came back to Dragonblades Headquarters with an armful of new materia! That'd be WAY cooler than his stupid gun sword thing or his teleporting trick he did. It was then that she heard a weird noise from ahead. A sort of grunting. Maybe growling? She approached cautiously, flicking her giant shuriken down in her hand.
And she spotted it! Barely noticeable in the filth and dirt, like it was camouflaged, but a towering blue monster! With a big broken horn, and two legs. Well, she'd fought a lot WEIRDER looking monsters. She jumped back into her combat position, shuriken raised, ready to fight.
And then she watched the monster, just sort of pathetically rolling there. Not attacking. Not even taking up a fighting pose. Well, what was she meant to do there? She wasn't just gonna throw her shuriken at a pathetically dying monster. But she couldn't exactly heal it, could she? It was a monster. It'd try to eat her. There was no point in making the fight more difficult for herself.
That was called strategy and clearly she had paid attention in Master Shake's training sessions all about the art of combat and strategy and really HAD just been resting her eyes, see?
"Um, hey, monster... thing?" she called out. "Look, this is kinda awkward, but would you get up and attack me so I can kill you without feeling bad?" she asked. "It's just, usually monsters attack me, and don't just sorta... lay there covered in dirt groaning, y'know?" she added.
"You ARE a monster right? And not just, like, a really fugly guy?" she asked. Okay, uh, maybe that was a tiny bit rude. Maybe she should have just said 'slightly fugly'. That would have been more polite. She wasn't used to being polite. To monsters. Or... y'know, people in general.
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Feb 24, 2023 17:39:40 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
"Um, getting yourself locked in a building?" Yuffie replied with an upside down grin when he asked what it looked like he was doing. However, she did at least look a little abashed when he commented on how she should learn how to use her equipment. "Uh, I TOTALLY know how to use my equipment. I just forgot to take the dumb safety cord off," she commented in frustration. That's what she got for using safety lines. She KNEW it would have been way more badass if she'd just gone without!
"I dunno, that still seems like a dumb name," Yuffie commented where she dangled, even as he explained why the Returners were called that. "You could have been anything! The Rebels! The Revolutionaries! The Night Ninjas! But you went with Returners? Maybe you guys need a PR department," she grinned mockingly, even as she hung there. "You should ask me! I'm great at coming up with names! That whole 'Single White Rose of Wutai' thing? I came up with that aaaaaaaaaall on my own!" she beamed. "Although, uh, obviously, everybody calls me that, 'cause I'm such a legend, you understand," she added quickly, realising she was basically admitting making up her own titles.
"Yeah, yeah, and I'm a materia hunter, so we're totally the same," she pointed out when he called himself a 'treasure hunter'. Took one hunter to know another one. "The world's greatest materia hunter!" she added for emphasis. Which was... well, not untrue! Not anymore. She was also this world's ONLY materia hunter, so there!
The rope snapped finally, and the thief lowered her to the ground, where she stood, swaying a little, dizzy from the sudden adjustment of the blood in her head. She swayed for a moment, and steadied herself against him. She wondered if this was what being drunk felt like. If it was, it made even less sense why all the grown ups were always going to the Happy Turtle. Who would want to feel like this!?
"Okay, you gotta listen to me, Bandana Boy," she said, "Because I know it sounds totally nuts, but I'm telling the truth!" Which, as an isolated sentence coming from Yuffie itself was hard to believe, let alone with context. "This isn't your world. It's not MY world either. Think about it! Don't you think it's weird you haven't heard of me?" she asked, jabbing a finger at herself. "Or Wutai! Or Sephiroth! Or Shinra! Or AVALANCHE! Or the big meteor that like, nearly blew up the entire world? For me, all that stuff was my world. Totally normal. But here, nobody's ever heard of it! Just like nobody's gonna have heard of your Empire or your Emperor or your Night Ninjas, which is TOTALLY a better name for a bunch of rebels, by the way! Trust me on this. You're not gonna find the Empire you wanna fight. And most of your friends probably aren't here either. Or, if they are, they're pretty scattered," she explained. "It's like, you've woken up in a brand new world, and everybody you know is scattered all over it. And you just gotta get used to it. I get it, it's totally weird. It's not like something that happens normally," she explained.
When he asked how she got in, she paused, and then pointed up at the cieling. "Skylight," she answered simply. And then she paused, and looked at the chord she had just been stuck on, still dangling. "Well, well, well...." she said. "Wellity, wellity, wellity...." she repeated for emphasis. "Who's dumb for bringing the chord NOW huh!?" she asked, even though she had been the one who had thought the chord was dumb, not the thief....
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Feb 15, 2023 3:30:52 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
A ninja, obviously, had super sharp senses. Yuffie had been trained basically from birth to always take in her environment. To be ready for anything! She had senses like a fox! Like a fox who was also a ninja! Nobody ever got the drop on her! She was RAZOR SHARP and super cool.
In her defence, she had been too busy thinking about how she was always alert to actually always be alert which is why she walked into the guy she didn't see. Besides! Maybe it was a cool, swish pick pocket move! She was a thief, after all. She could steal! YOU didn't know. Okay, so the fact that she hadn't stolen anything was beside the point, and the fact that she bounced off the towering guy to land on her backside also probably didn't do her any favours.
"Ohf! Watch where you're going guy!" Yuffie said on reflex, despite all of her thoughts about how she totally did that intentionally and was an absolute badass honest. She peered up, for a moment spotting those blue eyes, and the giant sword, and for just a moment, she thought-
Cloud.
Except, no. Then she saw the black hair. This wasn't Cloud. It was...
The memories came crashing back unexpectedly. Childhood memories of messing with a SOLDIER guy, that, if she was entirely honest, she'd ended up liking. He used to play with her when she wanted to play games, she was pretty sure, and he had always been sweet and kind when she messed with him. She'd had a lot of fun with him. Truthfully, Yuffie had thought her memories had gotten a bit jumbled; she had just been a kid after all, when she remembered him looking so much like Cloud. Cloud was a SOLDIER (well, no he wasn't, but she had THOUGHT he was a SOLDIER when they first met), and so was this guy, so maybe her thoughts had just gotten jumbled?
But now she saw him, clear as day, she remembered him. He really was exactly like Cloud. Except way more fun. His name came back to her in an instance.
"Uncle Zack!" she exclaimed, before cold horror hit her at what she had just said. A lonely child, in truth, Yuffie might have been Godo's daughter, but she was largely seen as a problem child around Wutai. Always wanting to run off and have adventures and fight for Wutai, even after the war had ended, she mostly grew up alone. Of course, it didn't help that the grown ups were always slightly nervous around her, being their leader's daughter and all. Nobody ever really played with Yuffie or went along with her childish schemes. Until Zack. And yes, maybe super privately in her head she sometimes thought of him as 'Uncle Zack' but she'd never ever ever say it out loud.
Until now. Accidentally.
"Uh, I said.... 'Um, cool, Zack,' nothing else," she said quickly, before scrambling to her feet and dusting herself off. "Wow. It's really you. I thought you were dead or something. You just vanished and like, stopped replying to my e-mails totally, which was RUDE, by the way," she remarked. Her e-mails which were always scams to lure him out to a place so that she could find some treasure by getting him to get rid of the monsters for her. That scheme had stopped working when he dropped off the face of the planet.
"None of the other SOLDIERs would even answer me! You were the only fun one to mess with!" she pouted. "You remember me, right? It's Yuffie!" she beamed proudly. "It's, um, it's been a while!" she added. "I actually DID save all of Wutai, since we last met! Well, kinda. Shinra fell apart and I was there, so, totally counts. Plus I saved the world! Are ya proud of me!?" she beamed, not quite aware of how transparently she was seeking approval.
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Feb 11, 2023 8:39:48 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Yuffie didn't know why Caius's records were broken or how a record made a noise, but apparently he sounded like one. She wasn't sure what kind of noise a broken record would make. A record was just like, boring paperwork about stuff, right? So she guessed it made a sort of ripping noise. Which she wasn't sure Caius was making. Unless maybe when he farted, and she didn't want to think about that. She wrinkled her nose at the thought. Who knew Caius was so gross? "Yep, well, that's me! I get the job done, look good, AND think about the little guy!" she said, striking a pose in reflection to what he said. Hopefully that would be the end of the Caius lectures, because she was SOOOOO bored of them. The guy seemed to forget that she was a genuine world-saver. She had been through all of this!
"Sounds pretty Shinra-y," Yuffie agreed when he told her about their enemies. Original Sin huh? What kinda dumb name was that? Might as well call yourself Team Evil. Still, wiping out villages and then pretending that they weren't wiped out, that was- well, actually, that was EXACTLY what Shinra did. Like, EXACTLY. "Seriously, we should compare notes, 'cause, Shinra did that once too," she pointed out. "I mean, they didn't use magic. They just, like, used actors or whatever, but, Sephiroth burned down a town and murdered everybody in it, then Shinra rebuilt it and put actors there to pretend it never happened. SUPER confusing," she went on. Luckily Cloud and Tifa had explained it to her. Several times. Because it took a while to sink in. "But don't worry! 'cause I can totally kick their butts!" she decided. After all, they couldn't be worse than Shinra, right? "They've never messed with you now you have Yuffie on the team!"
He went on to explain how he wasn't attracted to people physically, which Yuffie thought was a bit odd, but, oh well. "Huh, that explains why you're not droolin' over me then. Got it," she nodded. Simple explanation. It made sense.
And then the race was on! Of course, Yuffie hadn't expected Caius to immediately use Vordun, but it WAS kinda cheating while bending the rules to be in his favour.
Which was childish as hell.
"YEAH! Go for it Caius! That's the kinda childishness I'm talkin' 'bout!" Yuffie cried, punching a fist in the air. She ran for a moment, but there was no way to keep up with a dragon.
OR WAS THERE!?
She held up her wrist, red summon materia glowing. "Chocomog, I choose you!" she yelled, as the rampaging chocobo, moogle on it's back, appeared. Yuffie flung herself up onto its back also, hunched behind the moogle. "Okay, Chocomog! PUNCH IT! Let's catch that dragon!" she grinned as the chocobo took off, racing down the path behind Vordun. Moving surprisingly fast, of course, but it was a summon that attacked by running DIRECTLY at stuff....
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Feb 10, 2023 16:08:36 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Yuffie turned to face Caius as he lectured her once more on why she had to be careful and had to save people, and not just be reckless. She sighed, walking backwards for a moment as she talked to him. "Okay, whoa, time out, Caius," she said, making a 'T' with her arms. She almost tripped, of course, walking backwards, so turned back around which kind of ruined the gesture. "Listen, I know I already told you about Wutai, but I dunno if you understand. Shinra, that's the bad guys, went to war with my home. 'cause they wanted to build a Mako Reactor. These big smelly things that make electricity for 'em. They had loads of 'em all over the world, and they were pretty dangerous too. Sometimes, they'd blow up and wipe out whole towns. But, they wanted more to provide more energy for the Shinra peeps. An' I guess they were running outta places to set 'em up or whatever, 'cause they decided the best place to build one was in Wutai. So, they went to war with us," she explained. "I grew up in that war. All the civilians in Wutai, never knowin' when Shinra and their giant robots would come rollin' in to try an' kill us all. An' why? 'cause they wanted to make a reactor. Wutai was our nation, our people, Shinra had no claim to it. We were separated by an ocean! But still they came. An' they killed so many of us," she continued.
"I'm the daughter of Godo. The ruler of Wutai. I'm Wutai's princess, basically, to put it in words you foreigners understand. And it was my destiny to be the greatest warrior in Wutai! When I was old enough, I was gonna save us all! I was gonna win the war! 'xcept, I didn't, 'cause, before I could grow up, the war ended. And we lost. My Dad, he surrendered, 'cause he didn't want to lose any more people. And I... kinda hated him for that," she went on. "But that's what I'm tryin' to say! I dedicated my life to savin' my home. To freein' it from Shinra and kicking their butts all the way back to scummy Midgar! But, I knew I had to be careful. 'cause, the thing is, I wasn't just Yuffie Kisaragi: super hot badass ninja. I was the 'princess of Wutai'," she made big air quotes as she said it. "An' if I got busted bustin' up Shinra troops or smooshing Shinra robots or anythin' like that, it could smash the peace we had. An' thousands more Wutaians would die," she explained.
"So, what I'm sayin' is I get it. I'm super badass and hot and SUPER HILARIOUS an' people think I don't care 'bout other people, but I do. I spent the last five years of my life fightin' a battle against a bad guy who can't ever know that's what I'm doin', 'cause if they do, everything I'm fightin' for could be lost. So what I'm sayin, Caius, is that I know. I know 'bout lookin' out for others. I'm not jus' a SUPER HOT pretty face, y'know? I got DEPTHS. You jus' don't know about 'em," she finished her little rant on her history, before waving a hand to indicate that she was ready to move on.
"Yep! That's right! I'm always reviewin' the basics. In fact, every time I go out to start a new adventure, y'know, a whole new place to explore or a new mission, we seem to stop an' SOMEONE explains how everything works again. It gets kinda annoyin' after a while," she grinned.
"Hey, well, that's good, 'cause, I don't date super old fogeys anyway," Yuffie replied when he told her that he was more interested in someone his own age. He obviously knew he had no chance with her anyway. That was the whole point. Although he apologised for giving her the wrong impression. She just grinned at that. "Not your fault. Nobody can blame you for lookin' at my smokin' hot bod!" she beamed, striking another pose.
"So, you never got to be a kid?" she asked after a moment, taking in what he had said. Yuffie had grown up in a war, but had always found time to play. Sometimes with the other side! She still remembered the funny Shinra SOLDIER she used to mess with all the time. "Wow. That sucks," she said after a moment. She paused to consider for a moment, and then she jumped up on a nearby rock, pointing to the sky. "Well, there's nothin' else for it! Caius WhateverYourLastNameIs, I, Yuffie Kisaragi, hereby do swear to teach you how to be a kid and have fun!" she declared into the air. "You gotta learn all the stuff you were missin' out on!" she told him, hopping down from the rock.
"An' that can start out...." In the distance, she could see the town. She grinned. "...with a race! Race ya into town!"
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Feb 1, 2023 2:25:28 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Caius was pretty blunt about how he knew Yuffie, but Yuffie was too hyper at seeing Cloud to care. She did just however fix a grin when he said about her insisting she join the Dragonblades. "They're heroes, Cloud! They go around fighting bad guys and helping people. Aren't ya proud of me?" she said with a beaming smile. She knew what Cloud thought of her after the little... incident in Wutai. So she was eager to prove to him that she was still a hero. Not that she hadn't ALWAYS been a hero. She had just, uh, maybe gone about it slightly the wrong way. Yeah, that was it.
The mildly annoyed expression on Cloud's face when he first saw Yuffie went completely over her head. People always made that face around her, and at this point, Yuffie just assumed it was what most people's faces looked like. But she did notice the look of surprise. For a moment, she thought maybe he didn't know about Tifa either, but she was pretty sure Caius had said they'd met. He was obviously just surprised to see a badass like her. He probably figured whatever weird thing that brought them here would never have been able to catch her because she was so awesome. Or something. Yeah, that must have been it. She wasn't trying to convince herself of that at all. It was totally true.
Cloud tried to slow her down, which meant she did eventually stop to listen. The situation with Sephiroth was... complicated? They weren't going after him right away? She paused, a little confused, enough to fall silent for at least a moment. Okay, Sephiroth had been acting weird when she saw him too, but, he was Sephiroth. He didn't exactly act normal most of the time. "Isn't he like the son of a weird alien goop monster that sometimes is the goop monster itself and went insane and sometimes grows loads of wings for no reason?" Yuffie asked. "I mean... isn't he always complicated?" But Cloud wanted a plan. She supposed that was Cloud for you. Actually wanting to think things through.
But then Yuffie did something that, well, might have come as a shock to Caius. Because she... deferred to Cloud, accepting his role as leader. "Okay! But when you're ready, I'm ready! I've still got my materia, and I am super ready to kick his butt!" she exclaimed, throwing a few rapid punches to show off that her ninja skills were still top notch. She wanted to know that she had Cloud's back, even if the fight was not quite what they had expected.
However, Yuffie's expression completely changed when he asked about the others. Yes, she had known Tifa was there, but had he just said Aerith? The expression that flickered across Yuffie's face was difficult to describe, because Yuffie herself wasn't quite sure what she felt hearing that. Aerith? For a moment there was hurt, there was sadness, there was even what could be called love, a flicker of almost tears in her eyes, and she looked over at Caius, and back to Cloud, utterly shocked. For a moment, the cockiness was gone, and there stood the lonely little girl who was always trying to make people like her. The girl hiding all of her insecurities behind an unchecked ego and brash confidence. A girl who had failed the only person who had ever really cared for her without any jokes or sass or annoyance, and who had watched her die. And now she was... back?
It was, of course, plausible. After all, they'd killed Sephiroth too, and he was back. But she hadn't... ever expected... Ever... thought...
"She's... alive?" Yuffie said quietly. And then her face broke into a smile. But this wasn't Yuffie's usual grin of mischief and silliness. This was a genuine smile of a teenage girl, suddenly delighted. "Aerith's alive!? Caius, Aerith is alive!" she exclaimed, spinning and tugging on Caius's sleeve with excitement. "H-how is she? Where is she!? Ohhh, did she ask about me? I gotta see her!" Yuffie exclaimed, her energy suddenly bursting back to the front. And then, once again for Yuffie, her expression fell more sombre, and more serious. "There are... things I gotta say to her. Things I never got to say..." she explained, her tone slightly sorrowful again.
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Jan 31, 2023 15:34:30 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Yuffie trailed along behind Caius, but rolled her eyes as he started to lecture her on how the job wouldn't be easy. While he was talking (and not looking), she just puppeted 'blah blah blah' with her hand while mouthing the words, before rolling her eyes and letting out a big sigh. "You don't have to lecture me, Caius," she told him with said dramatic sigh. "I've been doing this hero thing for a while. This ain't my first rodeo, y'know?" she explained. Before pausing. "Which is SUPER impressive since I still dunno what a rodeo is..." she added thoughtfully. She'd always meant to ask Cloud about that. He seemed like a rodeo kinda guy. A rodeo-er. Good at rodeoing. However that went.
"I'll totally help save the innocents! I've been fightin' for the innocents ever since I was like, eleven. I told ya, didn't I, all about Wutai? How it got unfairly taken over by the Shinra? And I totally kicked their butts and saved my nation!" she explained with some enthusiastic fist throwing once more. "Well, Cloud helped a little. And mostly Shinra just sort of self destructed through being TOO EVIL, but uh, I helped!" she added enthusiastically, running with a slight hop and a skip to catch up with Caius, leaning in front of him to peer up at him with her usual enthusiasm.
"Yes, me!" she remarked into his face, before she took a little jump to pose in front of him, striking a look, hands on her hips with them cocked to the side. "Don't think I haven't noticed you looking. I know I'm a total BABE," she explained cheerfully. "So of course Cloud woulda been into me! Just, missed my chance, that's all. Probably for the best. He's like, way too high maintenance for me," she said with a sniff, turning back around, and continuing on. Before tactfully slowly down because she still had no idea where to go so needed to follow Caius.
"Tinkering with machines? Yuck. I hate machines. The only good robot is a SMASHED robot," she said. Probably best not to mention to Caius what happened when her and Mikoto tried to build the Robocibo. She looked at him when he said he didn't know Fort Condor. Well, that wasn't a surprise. "Yeah, it's a game. You play it with this board and these pieces and... it's fun! I was super good at it!" she said cheerfully. He said he hadn't played games like that since he was small, and she peered over at him. "No games? Huh. That sounds boring. Well, what did ya do for fun growing up? Just tinkling on machines?" she grinned, making it clear that (for once) her mispronunciation was intentional.
