I should be getting my course schedual soon, or at least that's what this new information booklet is telling me. We have a new principal, Veld Dragoon, and he's holding an assembly before classes start to make sure we are all on the same page. There's rumors of a dress code, I'm not cutting my hair.

Anyone know if this is true or not?

You know how life sort of sneaks up on you? Or I was told that it was supposed to. That's a lie. Life didn't sneak me anywhere. Nope, it threw me headlong into things. I dragged my feet at first, but it's over now. I'm repeating two years of High School now, but most everyone is, because the school blew up.

Yeah, that makes absolutely no sense at all, does it? I'll elaborate.

When I was fifteen I started at Midgar High School. It was the largest school in the city, and catered to all walks of life. It upheld all the appearances of a melting pot, having randomly thrown us together to try to make adults out of us. I tested into high level classed (aside from math, but that's not the issue) and started on the football team.

My "father" was thrilled. My whole life I'd been taught to fight. My mom, Jenova, doted on me, I know that now, and I know why now, because there were things going on behind the scenes that none of us were supposed to know about.

I'm going to have to jump back a good number of years now, so forgive me. Before any of us were born, there was a very wealthy man named Finn ShinRa. Finn was the sort of man that could buy the moon or something poetic if he wanted, but he wanted an army of monsters instead. Rich people, I've decided, make no sense.

He hired four young and upcoming scientists to start his research project. They were a set of married couples, the Gasts and the Hojos. Linus and Lucrecia Hojo were darker than the Gasts, far more twisted and ambitious. They had very few ambitions other than being part of some new world order, whereas Ifalna and Dr Gast were hippies. From the purest sense of the word, I mean that. They are good people.

The four intrepid scientists made their way to a small island where the people spoke a strange language and they worshipped a warrior goddess from beyond the stars. Her name, they learned upon speaking to her, was Jenova.

Jenova immediately entranced Lucrecia, or perhaps it was the other way around. Regardless they took the goddess of war back with them, and only Lucrecia knew of promises of a battlefield.

The experiments began then, and they outlasted old Finn ShinRa. They resulted in the setting up of a school, under Principal Rufus ShinRa. Rufus had a set of "control" students that he didn't think would amount to anything. Little did he know that there's nothing mundane or normal about people.

The first round of students is the one that I was in, along with the little hippie girl that lived next door to me. Aeris Gast, half drugged out of her mind, and yet, probably the most put together person I've ever met. Along with us was a mental patient, Vincent Valentine, who isn't as bad as he wants to think. Tifa, a little witch with a soft voice. Shera was the other special addition, programmed to be a planner, pushed to being mental perfection. Tseng, who was supposed to be a corporate pet. We were supposedly the experimental students, the ones that would get somewhere in Rufus' army.

The mundane ones are the reason we have a second chance. Reno, Yuffie, Elena, Zack, Cloud and Cid (rest in peace). Cloud and Reno aren't normal any longer though, and that is my fault, I suppose.

You see, Reno wasn't normal in any sense of the word and I suppose I wasn't either. Attraction wasn't something I wanted or understood, I was male, captain of the football team, the best and brightest. My "father" Dio, would not understand me wanting to go to an art school, let alone being gay.

I threw the biggest game of my High School life. I came out of the closet, I was thrown out and I moved in with Reno. Because of that, Cloud took my place in more ways than one, but together the whole group of us stood up and made something change.

We lost a friend, but we're free now. With side effects that are to be expected. I still want to kill things, but a pack of matches and pills from the Gasts are keeping Reno and I sane. Glasses help my eyes, Cloud's always around.

In fact, strange as it may sound, living with Cloud, Tseng and Vincent may be the first thing I'm looking forward to. Super powers be damned, now I have to get into college. We have a slew of new teachers, some councilors, and Principal Veld Dragoon.

I'm going to be normal if I have to burn a town down, I swear. (joking, Spike)

In light of recent poles placed in my home, Cloud, Se and I are having a party.

Likewise, Cloud, Ris, Yuffie and I are challenging Vincent, Tseng, Reno and Elena to a drinking contest. Because we want to see Vincent pole dance or do something hilariously entertaining and Se has cameras everywhere.

Don't even think of wussing out, geeks and emo-kid. You've only got one chick and we've chosen two very small ones.

qbsephiroth's Halloween party:

all4science dressed as Optimus Prime, and it suited them all too well.
bestoftheclones dressed as Dr. Crusher from "Star Trek".
cendrillo dressed as a new member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Bitter Dreamer, and it suited them disturbingly well.
cloudrox1 dressed as a goblin.
drakonlily dressed as a mummy.
firefly99 dressed as Toni Braxton's uncle.
first_seventhe dressed as Mary-Kate Olsen with her very own conjoined Ashley.
goddamnpilot dressed as a Level 7 sorcerer.
hisphoneismine dressed as a nature.
jenny_ova dressed as a Marriott International employee.
lovesongsonwar dressed as James Polk.
magichipcookies dressed as a 1960's hippie child.
mtgreno didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
notaclonereally dressed as a rabbit.
prettiestclone dressed as the Fresh Power Ranger.
qbsephiroth dressed as the Governor of Illinois.
reunion dressed as a referee, and it suited them disturbingly well.
shelenack dressed as Kathie Lee Gifford, though it looked more like a new superhero: Dream Sidekick.
snapeinmidgar dressed as the main character of "The Apartment".
snapettes dressed as a police officer.
sneakywute dressed as Courtney Love.
toughestclone dressed as Jennifer Lopez.
trashengineer dressed as something grand, but what, specifically, you can't tell.
vingetsfuzzy dressed as Shaquille O'Neal riding a squirrel.
witchtifa dressed as the President of Togo.

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So I learned to play Magic, was dragged about the mall by Elena in an effort to "clean up my image" and helped Strife learn how to use the toaster oven. YES the OVEN, all by himself. I'm proud.


Also I got accepted for the Internship with "Bodies of Fortune" yeah, its a skin mag for guys, but eh, I can put up with boobs I suppose. Freshman internships are never paid, but eh, I'll live.

Well, I am sorting through Jenova's private journals. She's an avid note-taker, I think I have mentions of EVERYONE here, even people that have not been screwed with. She's also got three separate books dedicated to her "family" life. Why she married Dio, how she killed the poor bastard… and a letter to me.

( I don't know if you want to hear it )

I suppose I'm a home owner now, so maybe this will solve some of the living situations? Tseng, Cloud and anyone else, feel free to move in, not like I need this big place to myself. I'm sure the Gasts would like room back.

Oh, and Elena and Shera? Can I ask you guys for help with something?

((so wants to buy a magic deck and learn to play for Reno, but both he and I have NO idea about them))

This having friends thing. Life is getting back to … hell, my life's never been normal. Reading these reports makes me feel physically ill. The things they wanted to do make me sick because, to be honest, I can see myself doing them. It isn't that I don't think I'm a person; it isn't that I WILL do them.

But I could. If that makes sense.

I think I need to stop reading these for a while.

I've never done the costume parties before. Dio hated the idea and well, mo-Jenova scared people anyway, all by herself. And yeah, my basement's kinda just like all the scary movies I like.

Reno seems unusually excited about the whole thing and that makes me think he is plotting against me. I'd ask his friends if he has any strange kinks involving vampires, but I doubt they'd like the question.

Stacy is also plotting against us, she had an unnecessary amount of fabric littered around and is begging us to go to a costume show with her. Reno said yes before I could ask… little shit is plotting.

And I just got the paperwork together to change my name.


Safer Sephiroth or Sephiroth Safer?

...my hair is STILL green. It's finally starting to fade to a color that makes me not look like a treeperson and more like moutain dew's best customer.

I'm not the best at math, but I know this.

White hair + Lime Jello = Green.