Why not?

[jessara40k_lj]

Seen a few times on my f-list [edit] and figured it's a good way to work out extra background for my characters [end edit].

Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my personal fanon.

But please name the fic you want that character from, and it might take a while for me to post my answers.

Note, I've altered the date because this is staying open for a while. If I just can't come up with three facts for a character I've been asked for then I'll tell you so.

Comments

[yottsu.livejournal.com]

*waves a hand hopefully*

Sephi? From the universe of "Keeper"?

It'd be great to learn some solid (or not so solid) facts about him. ^^

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

I'll try to avoid anything I've mentioned before.

1) When he was thirteen, shortly after his first wet dream Hojo gave Sephiroth a lecture on 'safe sex' as applied to SOLDIERs and other enhanced humans. It included clinical photographs of the sort of damage Gregori did to the women (and occasionally men) he picked up in the slums and left Sephiroth determined never to have sex with anyone who wasn't a SOLDIER or equally enhanced. Especially since Hojo finished with an order to send any females he had sex with to Hojo when he'd finished with them, if they survived, in case they might be breeding.

1a) One of the points in the 'safe sex' for SOLDIERs lecture was that you can't catch STDs (or most other diseases) from anyone with a lower level of Mako in their blood than you, which is one of the reasons Hojo takes any excuse he can get to give Cloud a physical, to make sure he won't have any chance of infecting Sephiroth with something. It's also why you receive a physical on declaring your intention to enter the next SOLDIER Entrance Exams, six months in advance.

2) This Sephiroth has a fundamental sense that he is inferior to other people, all other people, because he's been raised since birth with the awareness that he is a piece of property not a person. It makes for some interesting dichotomies when he thinks about the fact that he commands an army, but his quarterly visits to the labs reinforce his status in his mind.

3) Angeal was Sephiroth's first lover, Sephiroth was the one to make the first move and he just assumed sex was supposed to hurt for the one being taken. A combination of the fear of himself Hojo instilled with the lecture described in point 1) and his sense of inferiority described in point 2) kept Sephiroth from asking if Angeal would let him return the favour, and then he realised how much attention Angeal paid to him when he took Sephiroth, attention that Angeal didn't seem to expect him to return and how that made him feel like a real person. In addition one of the reasons Sephiroth bottomed at first was a reaction to Gregori’s ‘real men don’t get fucked’ attitude.

[empererpenguin.livejournal.com]

Angeal Keeperverse

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

1) Angeal is ten years older than Sephiroth, enough to give him pause when Sephiroh approached him and asked Angeal to teach him about sex shortly after they were sent to Wutai. He deliberately misunderstood at first, and gave Sephiroth sex ed lectures with porn magazines as illustrations, right up until Sephiroth kissed him. He was determined to do the right thing and refuse his underaged student, right up until Sephiroth said 'I understand, I thought you didn't see me as a monster, but I know I'm too dangerous for you to risk bedding me.'

2) At nineteen when he was accepted into the new experimental SOLDIER programme Angeal was shaping up to be a career NCO and his reason for applying was purely pragmatic; a man who's stronger and faster than other men an an order of magnitude is far more likely to survive in battle. Gregori was a seventeen year old cherry lieutenant fresh out of Officer Candidate School, at twenty-three Raven was already a mustang, promoted to lieutenant from sergeant and Hayden was the youngest, brought directly into the SOLDIER programme from basic training at fifteen because he was incredibly good at hand to hand.

2a) This, incidently, was one of the reasons Angeal complained the least out of the four survivors of the first generation SOLDIER enhancement process when they learned their first assignment would be mostly training one 'boy', who was intended to become ShinRa's General. Making snot-nosed brats into officers is one of the things career NCOs do.

3) Until Sephiroth Angeal had always bottomed when he was with men (without really enjoying it that much, which is why he'd only done that once or twice), limited his relationships with men to handjobs and oral sex, or stuck to women, who could handle his size better. So when Sephiroth made it clear he either expected or wanted to bottom, at least that first time, he made sure to be very careful, and pay enough attention to the kid that he wouldn't hurt him more than he couldn't avoid. All that first year he expected Sephiroth to ask him for a chance to switch rolls, but when that didn't happen Angeal started to realise how much he preferred to top. So when Zck joined them there simply wasn't any question in his mind; the newcomer could top with Sephiroth, but he would bottom for Angeal.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Aeris: Cetra Restoration 'verse. Preferences to things about her early life.

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

I'll do my best, but you might be waiting a while, because thei Aeris is really secretive about her early life, and about most things.

[merlechan.livejournal.com]

Oh oh! Um, Jean-Claude, the pregnant one.

*Am I too obssessive over it, I wonder?*

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

Not really, and I'll see if I can do anything for you. But I doubt I'll be continueing the series unless I get some really good inspiration for Damian's pregnancy.

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

1) Jean-Claude genuinely loves Anita, beyond reason, but in his darker moments he wonders how much is 'natural', and how much is the reaction of a mate to a true Sire. From what the other mates he had a chance to talk with at Julianna's presentation said any mate will feel a strong draw of some kind to any true Sire - at least until a Sire claims them.

2) Jean-Claude can't quite understand how lenient Anita is with him, how little she punishes him, and how light it is when she does punish him, although he's very grateful for that leniency and he can understand the reasons behind every punishment he's received from her.

2a) He also doesn't quite understand why Anita allowed him to forbid her to have full sex with Damian, or how he knew that he was a potential mate, and if he can't persuade Anita to give him another child to secure her immortality a bit better soon he'll bring up that idea instead. He thinks of children as unlikely to survive until they reach three years old, even knowing how much less likely it is for children to die young in modern times.

3) The Traveller was the one who explained the concepts of 'mate' and 'Sire' to the American government, and he brought Jean-Claude along as part of the delegation to do that. Jean-Claude found it very disturbing just how interested the senators they spoke to were when it came to the rights a Sire has over his mates.

3a) Even though the Mate Laws are a codification of vampire law and tradition when it comes to mates Jean-Claude found them draconian even before he knew what he is.

[cryptjo.livejournal.com]

Hey! :D

I got into your stories ages ago but then I got really into Saiyuki and kinda lost a bit of interest in this fandom...but I'm back again! I'm hoping to figure our where I left off in Responsive - I really love that fic!

And so, I'd be really interested to find out three facts about the Cloud in that fic, please.

Thanks for sharing your great fics! <3

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

Here you go.

1) Until Tifa's accident Cloud was only invited to join what the other children were doing when it was something they weren't supposed to be doing, and they wanted a scapegoat if they got caught. As a result he was seen as a troublemaker. But after the accident he was actively shunned, only his mother would even acknowledge his presence positively or for more than the moments it took to drive him away - usually violently, and other children were punished if they were caught around him.

2) Cloud spent so much extra time practising because he thought he needed it to keep up with the rest of his cadet class, and he believed that even with his extra training he wasn't good enough to be accepted into the filter units, and he was shocked that Sephiroth had decided to focus on him. So shocked that he protested to the teacher who broke the news to him, and that's when he learned he was already in the top third of the class.

2a) Cloud still attributes a lot of his ability to the fact that Sephiroth is his sponsor and the extra teaching that gives him access to. For instance he's convinced that without Sephiroth teaching him to use a materia unslotted he'd only perceive the standard spells.

3) Cloud doesn't understand what Sephiroth gets out of being so submissive. He'd fully expected that Sephiroth would be the one to take him, but he'd never wanted the sort of things Sephiroth asks for, even if he's willing to do whatever it take to make Sephiroth feel as good about their relationship as he does.

[(Anonymous)]

How about Sephiroth from Responsive?

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

1) Sephiroth isn't aware of this himself, but for the six months prior to his fourteenth birthday Hojo injected him with a daily cocktail of hormones and other drugs intended to increase his sexual desire and agression. And that's the real reason he forgot to keep control of his strength and killed the boy Hojo gave him to fuck as his fourteenth birthday present.

1a) Hojo gave Sephiroth some sort of present for his birthday every year, usually something which would help towards the purpose he was made for, for instance Sephiroth got his first sword as a birthday gift when he was five, but sometimes just something he wanted such as the leather pants he was given when he was ten. And Hojo never did any experiments on Sephiroth on his birthday unless it couldn't be avoided.

2) When Hojo discovered that some people simply didn't respond at all to Mako ShinRa authorised a 'test to destruction' experiment, with people snatched from the slums rather than soldiers, to find out if those people could be enhanced to any useful degree by Mako before dying. The answer was no, and the man who died from Mako poisoning after giving Sephiroth a blowjob was the last survivor of the experiment, and he had so much Mako in his system by then that any additional Mako would have pushed him over the edge into dying from it.

3) What Sephiroth doesn't consciously remember is that he was thirteen the first time he received a blowjob. From when he was nine he was restrained for some experiments and tests, and the frequency with which he was restrained only increased as he grew older. About a month after Hojo started giving him the hormones mentioned in point 1) a lab tech called Uchiha performed oral sex on Sephiroth while he was restrained, including sliding a finger into him to put pressure on his prostate. Hojo caught him just as Sephiroth climaxed, and he was furious, questioning Sephiroth about exactly when this had started. He gave Uchiha a furious lecture about not damaging Sephiroth's ablity to serve as a weapon and threatened him with joining Hojo's experimental subjects if he did anything like this again...then made sure Sephiroth wouldn't remember what had just happened.

[(Anonymous)]

Youko Kurama from.....what-it's-name...-__-;;

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

1) Youko genuinely does prefer to be the submissive partner in a relationship, but he was never able to admit it to himself before he belonged to Shuuichi, because there was no one he trusted enough and who was strong enough for him to feel comfortable submitting to them. He refused to acknowledge that he preferred submitting when he first had Patrons, especially since they didn’t really make it pleasant for him, and his lovers since then have always been weaker than him: both by power level, and personality wise. Up until Shuuichi.

2) Youko was celibate for the first two hundred years after he was freed by his last Patron before Shuuichi, the one who made sure he knew how to use his plant manipulation, and then he fell in lust/love with Sai, partly because Sai was totally unthreatening, and didn’t even see Youko sexually, or anyone else sexually for that matter.

2a) Youko returned to the Makai immediately after Sai was disgraced; he offered to take Sai with him, but he couldn’t promise Sai the safety he would have needed to accept that sort of offer, or any hope of playing Go against anyone but Youko himself.

3) Youko built up his incredible reputation as dangerous to cross by being very ruthless, even by the standards of the Makai (the ‘civilised’ parts especially), and by using kitsune trickery to make up for his lack of power. It never occurred to him to put the sort of dedicated effort Hiei or Shuuichi, or even Yuusuke and Kuwabara used to gain power as rapidly as they did, so instead he settled for a typical kitsune power development pattern, albeit a bit faster then usual, since he didn’t have a clan to fall back on for support.

[(Anonymous)]

Can I get really tricky and ask a hard one?

Rufus's story (Cetra Restoration) has been gnawing at me for a while. How did he come to be in Cloud's household and why does he act the way he does? Minor character, I know, but I'm really curious.

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

Can I get really tricky and ask a hard one?

Yeah sure. But this might take a while. You're asking me to specifically focus on his backstory, aren't you? I do have some ideas for how he ends up with Reno as a permanent protector, but not enough for what I want to do with their relationship.

[elfling-eryn.livejournal.com]

hmm....
what about Tseng? Restoration-arc

And, if you don't mind, Rowan, Indenture-period

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

I'll try...but I might not be able to get them up until Friday, or later. (Oh, and I'm working on a bit of Rowan's back-story, focusing on her parents, and how they reacted when their human lover got pregnant, it should go up shortly after Christmas)

Level of detail

[(Anonymous)]

I've only just begun to read your work, and I must say I'm impressed. The level of detail you put into your characters is wonderful. I also enjoy your style and the way your writing flows.

So how about Zack from the Restoration arc?

Re: Level of detail

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoy the detail I put into my work. Sorry abotu the delay in answering, but I didn't have internet access for the last couple of days. Anyway, here's what I've got on Zack.

1) Zack's surprisingly vanilla when it comes to sex in this AU and what he really enjoys best is gentleness. He puts up with cross-dressing because Aeris enjoys it, and does the 'innocent maiden' act because she's always careful with him when he does that. (Although he also likes letting her 'seduce' him.)

2) Zack isn't friends with Sephiroth in this AU, in fact he barely knows him because of how focused Sephroth is on Cloud.

2a) He is however friends with most of Cloud's guards, so he picked up on their sympathy for Sephiroth, and gets why they like and adore him.

3) Zack lost contact with his family after he was found to be one of the children Hojo enhanced just after ShinRa fell and he was taken as a slave and he never thought about trying to get back in touch with them later.

[(Anonymous)]

May I ask for Zack in "responsive"

And I would really like to know the details of cloud's and sephiroth's first meeting in this verse too
You wrote that cloud snarked back in a spar..
So.. what happened before chapter 1 to make them a couple?

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

1) Zack has a submissive streak himself, but nowhere near as strong as Sephiroth's submissive streak. I don't think he realises that he's submissive, any more than he allows himself to recognise the signs that Sephiroth is submissive, and he makes his disapproval of any submissive behaviour Sephiroth displays very clear.

2) Zack enjoyed it when Aeris asked him to wear woman's underwear for her, a lot more than he'd expected to.

2a) So he wasn't that upset when Aeris made it clear that she expected him to cross-dress for her in exchange for her help in disguising Sephiroth - as long as it was just for her.

3) Zack's so used to everybody going along with what he suggests and persuading other people by the force of his personality that it doesn't even occur to him that there's something odd about how easily Sephiroth lets Zack talk him into things.

As for Cloud's first meeting with Sephiroth, the first time he came to Sephiroth's attention was when Sephiroth took his cadet class on a minor mission, and Sephiroth overheard his reaction to the way a regular told them that the General would take care of them - Cloud said it was wrong and cowardly to rely on one man to do all the work.

And in their first spar Sephiroth said something about the way Cloud insisted on fighting on the defensive and Cloud snarked back about displaying caution - oh, but you're so used to being stronger than anything else around that you wouldn't understand the concept, would you?

I'm not sure exactly what happened to make them a couple, but they'd been doing jigsaws together before then, and chapter 1 was their first time.

[(Anonymous)]

Cloud from Cetra Restoration AU, please.

And actually, I do like to know how Cloud and Seph met the first time?

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

1) He was five when he underwent the Cetra warrior caste power awakening ritual and came out the Planet's Weapon. It wasn't intentional, but he'd already started wandering the mountains around Nibelheim, and he fell into a Mako spring while badly injured - badly enough that he would probably have died otherwise.

1a) Immediately afterwards he left Nibelheim to find the Planet's Heart so they could restore their people.

2) Honestly, Cid is probably the only reason he managed to get to Midgar, as he reached Cid's hometown and met Cid there while Cid was on leave. Cid actually deserted to help Cloud, and to the day Cloud doesn't know why. (Neither does Cid, although he recognises that he's probably better off under the Cetra than he would have been under ShinRa.)

3) The cavern Cloud and Aeris needed to get to in order to awake the Cetra was in Wutai territory. They met Sephiroth on their way there, and Sephiroth helped them, partly because he remembered Aeris from the lab, and partly because something about Cloud made him want to make the boy happy. He was also impressed by Cloud's sheer will and how far they'd got mostly on their own, especially as the two adults were following Cloud's lead.

[lolochan.livejournal.com]

I have a question about your new story, Small Town Prejudices. It's so short that it creates more questions than it answers.

So, can I have some info on Seph? I really want to know how he ended up with Cloud, but also about his early life.

I really liked that story, too, because you really modernized EVERYTHING in there. LOL

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

I have a question about your new story, Small Town Prejudices. It's so short that it creates more questions than it answers.

Well, it was just intended as a character study piece for the roads diverged community over on insanejournal.

So, can I have some info on Seph? I really want to know how he ended up with Cloud, but also about his early life.

Here you go.

1) His life before he was sent to join the black ops groups consisted almost entirely of training, testing and Hojo's experiments.

1a) He was trained to be a bit afraid of and intimidated by computers, and can barely use them even now - it took Cloud walking him through it almost a dozen times before he could order his groceries over the internet.

2) After Angeal died he seduced the groups hacker, Genesis, into getting all the records from his life and training and sending them to human rights groups and news companies throughout the country. As well as to the US President and Vice-president, who he was fairly sure didn't know about him. And to the heads of just about all the top level law enforcement and security agencies.

2a) As a result of the compensation offered to him in the wake of the scandal Sephiroth is rich enough to do whatever he wants for the rest of his life.

3) He settled in Nibelheim because it was a quiet town, somewhere he could hide away from the world and the media blitz he'd endured during the whole scandal.

3a) He met Cloud by hiring him to be his guide for his first month in Nibelheim, because Cloud seemed to be the only adult without a job around, and learned about Cloud's internet art sales, through a print on demand service, towards the end of the month.

I really liked that story, too, because you really modernized EVERYTHING in there. LOL

The aim was to transplant Sephiroth and Cloud to modern day US and still keep them recognisable.

Sephiroth in Cetra restoration

[skeptic7.livejournal.com]

What was his life before Cloud turned 16?
The Cetra had basically reprogrammed him to be totally defenseless and force to stick around Cloud. Was he able to leave Cloud's property? Did he have work within Cloud's household or elsewhere? If he wasn't quite married or a slave could he function independently or was someone acting as a guardian? Sephiroth seems surprizingly naive in Affection, did the brainwashing damage his brain?
What sort of legal rights do Humans have in Cetran society? Does Sephiroth fall through the cracks as being an enemy combatant?
Why is killing someone using a Healer gift forbidden and brainwashing allowed?

Re: Sephiroth in Cetra restoration

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

Not sure how long it will take me to get the three things done here, but I can answer a few of your questions now.

Was he able to leave Cloud's property?

Yes, provided he had guards with him.

Did he have work within Cloud's household or elsewhere?

Yes, he was taught to manage the accounts for Cloud's household and deal with the everyday running of Cloud's personal service, which is one of the things a high noble's consort is expected to do. In Affection he shifted that to Tseng because Tseng was always there and bored out of his mind.

If he wasn't quite married or a slave could he function independently or was someone acting as a guardian?

He wasn't quite legally an adult at first, so Cid was his guardian as well as Cloud's, but financially he's never been independent.

Sephiroth seems surprizingly naive in Affection, did the brainwashing damage his brain?

No, could you give me specifics about where you feel he's naive (preferably as a comment on the post)?

What sort of legal rights do Humans have in Cetran society?

Pure humans are treated as a fourth Cetra caste (warrior caste, healer caste and uncaste) but they come under the authority of the uncaste council governmentally, since Cetra believe adding a fourth council would destabilise things a bit. Theoretically they have the same rights as Cetra - and even if I haven't shown it Cetra can be enslaved for criminal activies, as well as enter indentures, it's just not very common at the moment since they're so rare, they generally have better employment prospects, and any who have been enslaved usually end up as bed slaves/breeding stock - but in practice humans face the sort of prejudices some minorities deal with today.

Does Sephiroth fall through the cracks as being an enemy combatant?

No, technically he's classed as an enhanced human, not a pure human, and enhanced humans are the one type of slave that's 'racially' based, and can only be free as consorts (or promised consort in this case).

Why is killing someone using a Healer gift forbidden and brainwashing allowed?

Because the Planet doesn't withdraw a healer's gifts for participating in brainwashing, and the techniques are developed from methods used to help people deal with severe trauma.

keeper

[astrakage.livejournal.com]

I was wondering when you were going to update Keeper. I have enjoyed reading it so far very much.

Re: keeper

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

I have been waiting to hear back from my BDSM first reader on the notes I put at the end of the next chapter, but since I've been waiting for so long I might end up just posting the next chapter anyway, once I decide which version to go with.

[ldyavalon.livejournal.com]

I seemed to have arrived a bit late, but as they're still up for the asking... Cloud from Keeper, please?

On a completely unrelated note, I just love the icon you use :)

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

Here you are.

1) Cloud is protective by nature, and Hojo's modifications to his mindset made him even more so. If he can protect someone he will, no matter what the cost is to himself, although he'll protect sephiroth over anyone else now.

2) Cloud doesn't really like Angeal, or approve of his involvement with Sephiroth, but he allows it to continue because Sephiroth cares about Angeal. He does however set some limits on how Angeal can act with Sephiroth and makes a point of demonstrating (and on some level testing) his power to keep Angeal from bedding Sephiroth.

2a) Cloud's honest opinion is that the way Angeal treats Sephiroth is borderline abusive, but currently he doesn't feel he has the right to deny Sephiroth even the little support Angeal offers him, especially not when Sephiroth seems to believe they need Angeal's support to get rid of Gregori and prevent future cadets being abused the way he was.

3) Cloud really enjoys the way Sephiroth's blood and semen taste, and he loves seeing the marks of his teeth on Sephiroth's body.

Nanaki Cetra Restoration

[(Anonymous)]

Does Nanaki or any member of his species, exist in the restoration-verse? If so, where are they?
Also, I've wondered about Vincent 'cause he's one of my faves other than Cloud. Is it possible he might show up in any future story?

Re: Nanaki Cetra Restoration

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

I can't give you three things about Nanaki, simply because I haven't thought that much about him, but yes, his species does exist, and they live in the same area Nankai comes from in-game.

As for Vincent, at the moment he's still 'asleep' in that coffin. Eventually he'll be woken up and since he's classed as an enhanced human Cloud will take him into his own household until he decides who he wants to belong to.

[(Anonymous)]

Shuuichi from Patron. Also, just wondering if Patron is still being written or has it been discontinued?

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

I'll see what I can come up with. I do want to write more of Patron, but the muses just aren't co-operating on it.

[darkfox.livejournal.com]

Hm, how about Asuka from Patron?

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

I haven't thought about her for a while, but...

1) She felt rejected by her clan and left them a lot earlier than she should have.

2) She feels slightly ashamed that she couldn't defend herself better and feels as if it was her own fault she was enslaved.

2a) As a result she's scared that her clan will be equally ashamed of her when they hear what happened to her since she left their lands.

3) She was very surprised to find that she enjoyed sex with Youko, at least sometimes - as well as by how gentle he is with her.