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[swatsflies]

Yeah? Did he ever save you from any sticky situations?

[He's actually thinking of Squall now and making comparisons]

[powersouls]

He's always been there whenever any of us needed him.

[As for specifics, though...]

There was one time when he dressed up as a girl to sneak in and rescue me. It was kind of impressive.

[Obviously the dashing, heroic story Zell was looking for.]

[swatsflies]

What??? Really?
Why would he need to dress like a girl?

[Though he could see it working with Cloud's face.]

[powersouls]

I was trying to get information from someone, and he only accepted women into his mansion. Cloud thought I was in trouble, so that's how he got in. He wore a wig and everything.

[That's... the delicate way of putting it, right?]

[swatsflies]

[A wig and everything. Everything???]

Wig and a dress, or EVERYTHING everything?
Whoa.
I don't know if I should feel bad for him or be impressed.
That's some dedication, man.

[powersouls]

[Wait what.]

What do you mean, EVERYTHING everything?

[swatsflies]

You said everything.
Did that include...
Make-up? Anything else?

[powersouls]

Make-up, perfume, and a tiara. He was very convincing.

[Was he, Tifa? Was he?]

[swatsflies]

That's some dedication.
Any other stories?

[Give him all the dirt \o/]

[powersouls]

What kind of stories do you want to hear?

[swatsflies]

How did you meet up again?

[powersouls]

We grew up together, but he left our hometown to join SOLDIER. We ran into each other again in Midgar.

[It's a pretty vague explanation, but getting into Cloud's trauma and how she actually found him would be pretty awful to do to him.]

[swatsflies]

so he met Zack there. Cool.
How hard is it to get into Soldier anyways?
Cissnei was talking about how Shinra took in a lot of orphans
and they usually joined Soldier or the Turks.

[powersouls]

[UGH CISSNEI. Zell, you are nicer than she is.]

It's hard. They're really picky about who they take. Most of the people who join up end up as regular soldiers and cadets. What about SeeD?

[swatsflies]

Yeah, it's pretty hard.
This year only four of us made the cut.
You have to complete the necessary training, take a written exam, and pass the field exam.

[powersouls]

Wow! That's really impressive. How long did you have to train for?

[swatsflies]

A few years. Some people have trained longer!

[powersouls]

What did you do, exactly? Once you passed?

[swatsflies]

Once we're SeeD, we are deployed around the world on missions.
My first mission was actually to help a rebel group.
They wanted the town free from Galbadia control.

[powersouls]

[REBELS, HUH.]

What's Galbadia? Is that a corporation or a government?

[Assumptions, Tifa!]

[swatsflies]

A country ruled by a military dictatorship.
Their President was an arse.
We had to fight against them during the field exam, too.

[powersouls]

How did you get assigned to that? Did they hire you, or did SeeD just decide to step in?

[swatsflies]

We got hired.
But Headmaster Cid also decided to step in.
He approved of the mission without waiting for approval.

[powersouls]

That's amazing. No one would be able to do that where I'm from. ShinRa is too powerful.

[swatsflies]

Timber is the place fighting for independence.
We took out some soldiers stationed there for threatening a guy's kid and cat.
They can be a bunch of assholes.
Think winning the last war went to their heads.
Balamb Garden is located in neutral territory. We usually are hired on to combat against Galbadia soldiers from towns who can't really defend themselves.
That was our field exam before becoming SeeD.
We were dropped off at a city called Dollet and had to fight our way in.

I heard about what ShinRa did from Jim.
To your hometown. That's pretty messed up.