all these years and i'm still finding room for cloud feelings

Writing fic the other day, it occurred to me that Sephiroth calls Cloud by his first name while all ~Jenova'd~ but would've used "Strife" (or Private Strife, Cadet Strife, whatever) when sane.  Like, during his puppet mindfuckery it'd be a perversion of the intimacy that comes with using a personal name, but while he's actually capable of human interaction there'd be distance with the use of the surname Strife and most likely an awareness of their differences in authority.

Crazy-->fucked-up version of intimacy
Sane-->surnames and more professional distance

I think there's something sad and ironic in all this.

i just found this interesting in terms of, well, intimacy and its issues, idk