Hi | Zack, Kingdom Hearts | OTA

[icangothedistancetoo]

The video switches on to a perky young man who looks strikingly similar to someone else already on Gaia. He's wearing a newsboy hat, which doesn't fit well amid all the spikes, and he seems younger, but maybe that's the effect of him not having changed his hairstyle.

"Hey! So wow, that was a trip. Kind of fun, though! Better than falling off a cliff.

"So what's up around here?" He looks around hopefully. "Is there ... anybody from home here?" He doesn't know yet about anyone, including his Seph.

"Oh, I should introduce myself! Zack Fair, professional hero! I'll take care of whatever ails ya! Damsels in distress, dragons, Heartless ... whatever's gone wrong, you can count on me!"

He sobers and winces a bit. "Uh, except for the ... uh ... you know, everybody dropping down through the sky from other worlds thing. Not sure how to fix that yet." A confident grin. "But I'll help figure it out!"

Comments

[icangothedistancetoo]

... You need to look for a decent job now that you're here!

[givemeabeat]

I'm far away from the organization, so I should probably get a job, yeah. Huh didn't think about it until now.

[icangothedistancetoo]

[Zack nods enthusiastically.]

Maybe you could play your sitar somewhere!

[givemeabeat]

I could do that! Yeah! Who wants to hear me play sitar though? I guess I can write my own music and go from there.

[icangothedistancetoo]

Maybe there'd even be an opening at the hotel! I'm sure people would like some tunes while they're dining out!

[givemeabeat]

In the cafeteria? That might work. I'll have to ask Tifa.

[icangothedistancetoo]

Yeah! I'm sure she'd say Yes! And we could set up a stage and stuff!

[Zack is latching onto this as a way to be helpful. He is very enthused.]

[givemeabeat]

Awesome! I'll tackle her down in a bit, man.

What about you? What kind of job are you going to do? Wait I never asked...are you a kid?

[icangothedistancetoo]

Cool! Yeah, we are so doing this!

No, I'm not a kid! I'm a professional hero, taught by the best: Sephiroth!

[givemeabeat]

I met him! Interesting fellow. He seemed depressed...

[icangothedistancetoo]

He did? Guess he didn't say why....

[Probably depressed about Zack being missing.... Probably about being taken over by an evil artifact too....]

[givemeabeat]

Wait! There's two Sephiroths. One was pretty okay, but the other one was depressed. I think the depressed one is the one who opened the portals.

[icangothedistancetoo]

… Two Sephs?

The depressed one doesn’t have blue wings, does he?

[What if he opened portals trying to find Zack?]

[givemeabeat]

Yeah, two. Nope, he doesn't. He's the one with like six different wings or something like that. The other one was pretty chill but he can't open his portals anymore he says.

[icangothedistancetoo]

[Zack looks worried for both Sephs now.]

I wanna talk to the one who’s probably mine…. The other one too, especially if he doesn’t have anybody.

[He can’t stand to think of any Seph being sad.]

[givemeabeat]

Ask Tifa about where both are. She might know. We can wait for the sitar show to move forward.

[icangothedistancetoo]

Great! I'll do that. But you can ask about the sitar show so that can still go too. Hey, maybe I could get Seph to come to it!

[givemeabeat]

Sephiroth seems like the kind of guy who listens to classical music while drinking elderberry tea.

[icangothedistancetoo]

[Zack laughs at that.]

You know, you're right! I used to drag him to rock concerts every now and then, though, to broaden his mind!

[givemeabeat]

Who did you go see back in our world?

[icangothedistancetoo]

It was mostly little local acts, nothing really big. Except one time we had to run security for one of the big ones! That was really cool.

... Then there was the time Seph got mistaken for a member of a glam rock band in town.