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[residentmerc]

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[residentmerc]

... Well, that's one way to put it.

[ it's not wrong, it is just very. yuffie. ]

We do. Fight stuff.

[turbulency]

To save the world?

[residentmerc]

[ MAN his castmates talk A LOT about their issues ]

... Yeah. That's the end goal. Can't really afford to be stuck here like this.

[turbulency]

[ sweet cloud ]

Yeah. Even if you're not on a time limit, it's probably... urgent.

[residentmerc]

... Yeah. There's... something coming.

[ he is looking off into the distance for a second blankly before he shakes his head. thats fine and normal anyway: ]

Any deadline waiting for you back home?

[turbulency]

[ ............ okay

he thinks about it a moment before, ] My high school graduation, I guess?

[residentmerc]

[ what the fuck is a high school ]

... So, nothing pressing.

[turbulency]

[ smiles, amused ]

Graduating high school is a pivotal moment in a young man's life.

[residentmerc]

... Is it?

[ seriously what is high school ]

[turbulency]

[ help ]

Yeah, it's when you stop being a kid and have to go into society as an adult.

[residentmerc]

... Aren't you a little old for that?

[ kids in ff7 leave home at stupid ages ]

[turbulency]

[ HELP he was not expecting that

he blinks ]

You must come from a pretty rough place.

[residentmerc]

[ ... well yea but: ]

More like a small town. You're right, not everyone leaves home that young.

[turbulency]

Well, I left my hometown at 15. [ not that long ago tho ] Did you leave home as a kid?

[residentmerc]

For school?

[ wild. going to school. but: ]

Not really a kid. It was... the spring before I turned fourteen.

[ NO THAT'S A KID ]

[turbulency]

[ SO... THIRTEEN? THAT'S BABY? ]

That's... really young. Why did you leave?

[residentmerc]

Most guys leave around that age back in the country. [ he means countryside and not country-country. he does not explain this. ] Tryin' to get jobs to send money back home or make a life for themselves. I joined SOLDIER.

[ no one... can hear... your caps ]

[turbulency]

[ ...? ]

Who?

[residentmerc]

[ taken aback because RIGHT ]

Oh, uh... Special military group back home.

[turbulency]

You joined the military at... thirteen...?

[ O_O ]

Why?

[residentmerc]

Was just sort of the thing people did. Most of the guys my age left for the city same time I did. Though I joined SOLDIER because...

[ there's hesitance like he doesn't know if he should share this before there's a half-sigh ]

That's where you went if you wanted to be a "hero". [ wry. ]

[turbulency]

[ man that's crazy ]

You mean what Aerith said about saving the world? But she made it sound like there weren't that many of you.

[residentmerc]

No, that's... more of a recent thing. SOLDIERs were the big names in the war, so...

[ how do you explain you fell into war propaganda at 13 ]

[turbulency]

[ ? ]

Then what was heroic about it?

[residentmerc]

What, never heard that shit about protecting your people by joining the military?