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New Novel, FINAL FANTASY VII Lateral Biography TURKS: The Kids Are Alright [SPOILER THREAD]

Octo

KULT OF KERMITU
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Octo, Octorawk, Clarky Cat, Kissmammal2000
So the last part of the book is before AC starts? and then there is some sort of overlap with Kadaj?

I'm getting really confused here. Don't really want more Kadaj at all :sadpanda:

So No Post Advent children? I was hopeing that maybe we'd read about a slightly happier Cloud after advent children or something :p

Also this^ X 1000000000000
 

Strangelove

AI Researcher
AKA
hitoshura
So the last part of the book is before AC starts? and then there is some sort of overlap with Kadaj?
The majority of the book, except perhaps the last chapter I've yet to get to, is set before AC. From the looks of it, before Cloud disappears.
 

Dashell

SMILE!
AKA
Sonique, Quexinos, Pinkie Pie, Derpy Hooves
Do you know if it has like a cliffhanger or something? This novel seems so random and I wonder if it's going to be a series or something
 

Strangelove

AI Researcher
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hitoshura
Rest of the summaries cover the second half, "Who are you?"

31. On their way to Under Junon, Evan reflects on how he met Kyrie, Fabio and Leslie.
CI: Mireille Dudley (Kyrie's grandmother)

32. Evan and Kyrie encounter a girl on a chocobo, asking about the medicine for Geostigma.*
CI: girl on the chocobo

33. Rude falls victim to a failed attack by two men (Keogh and Fabio) while fixing the helicopter. Reno talks with Doyle about Shinra until he gets a call from Rude: Fabio and Keogh are dead.

34. While taking a break at a pond on the wastelands, Evan and Kyrie come face-to-face with a 'red monster'. Evan's attempts to get rid of it backfire when he shoots and blows up their own truck. Then Kyrie starts to sink into the water, now seemingly turning back.*
CI: red, dog-like monster (Red XIII)

35. While following Evan in the helicopter, Rude and Reno reveal that it had been Doyle who was listening in on them, thinking Shinra were up to no good. When Fabio heard about the helicopter, he decided to take it to help Evan. Meanwhile Tseng and Elena are at a beach house in the newly rejuvenated Under Junon when they hear commotion outside. A young girl has been brought to the town by a talking red beast, which Tseng recognises as Red XIII. Tseng goes to the office of the town doctor, Dr. Eugene, and recognises the girl as Kyrie.

When Tseng goes back to Dr. Eugene's Kyrie has left. He finds her talking to a young man behind the doctor's office. The boy has the same silver hair and the same eyes as Sephiroth--he introduces himself as Kadaj. He goes to shake Tseng's hand, and as Kadaj leaves both Kyrie and Tseng collapse. When they come to, Tseng warns Kyrie not to trust Kadaj, who Kyrie saw as an old acquaintance she thought had died in a fire, if he should appear again.*

Reno and Rude, having found Evan, are bringing him to Junon. Tseng will use Evan and Kyrie in their search for Jenova.
CI: Dr. Eugene, Kadaj
Mentions: the former Turks, Hojo

36. On the helicopter ride to Junon, Evan sees Nanaki outside and thinks back on how he save Kyrie and him. When they reach Junon Kyrie, who thinks the Turks had something to do with Fabio's death, suggests they try to escape. Their plan is cut short as soon as it began when Elena shoots Evan in the shoulder. While in Dr Eugene's, Evan has a 'dream' where he sees Fabio, who touches the site of his injury. When he regains consciousness Kyrie explains that he had been in surgery for five hours and in bed for two days, and the doctor said he might never get the full use of his arm back. However, Evan feels no pain or discomfort in his arm at all.

37. Although Evan is ready to give up on looking for his mother, Reno suggests to Tseng that they just whip him over to Nibelheim in the helicopter. Tseng agrees to this, but it is himself and Elena who will be going. Reno and Rude are to take over Tseng and Elena's duties and wait for their former coworkers to report in.

38. Dr. Eugene is surprised to see Evan out of bed. His shoulder had been shattered, he should be in tremendous pain moving around, and he was supposed to be in restraints that he couldn't have gotten out of himself. Elena tells them that the Turks will take them to Nibelheim. Evan no longer cares, but Kyrie wants to go to look for Gould Arde.

39. When they reach Nibelheim they are confronted by suspicious villagers and a bearded man with a guy--who Kyrie soon recognises as Gould Arde. He explains that Tyran Arde is his step-father, his real father having died in the war. They had never really been that close, and Gould has no plans on reuniting with Tyran.*

As Evan is ready to leave, Kyrie asks Gould about Annette Townshend. He reveals that Foley had been distressed because, while he had feelings for Annette, she would accept him because her son didn't like him. Annette had stayed in Nibelheim not even a week before leaving due to work, before the day the Lifestream destroyed Meteor. Annette had been in charge of tending to the test subjects living in the village. Gould gives them a letter sent to Foley by Annette. The letter had been sent from Icicle Inn. Evan and Kyrie return to the helicopter and head north.
CI: Gould Arde

40. Back in Junon, Reno and Rude are still waiting for the old Turks when Doyle and Leslie arrive. They've come looking for Evan. The day before he died, Fabio had taken Vits to the doctor where he was told that Evan needed to be look at urgently. Fabio considered Shinra the reason for his parents' death, so would not just ask them for the helicopter and instead tried to steal it. Rude says they are going to go look for Evan.

41. While Tseng and Elena wait in the helicopter, Evan and Kyrie visit Icicle Inn. They go to the guesthouse to enquire about Annette Townshend, but the lady at the desk doesn't know anything. However, she says the proprietress might but that she isn't in today. Evan and Kyrie stay at the guesthouse, and while Kyrie goes to get some things from the shop Evan reads the letter from Annette. It reveals that the money she left at home was for Evan, to have an operation. Annette had taken the job of being a 'villager' in Nibelheim for one year, with the possible penalty of death if she disclosed any secrets she learnt, in order to get money to pay for Evan's operation. She sent her contract back to Foley when it seemed she was going to be staying away from Nibelheim for longer.

When Kyrie comes back, there is a knock at the door. The proprietress Windey has come to talk with Evan. Back in the helicopter Tseng and Elena are listening in through a bug planted in Evan's bag. Windey tells them about the strange people in black who appeared in the village two year earlier. Annette had come to take them back, but by the time she got there they had all headed further north. But two months later Annette returned, saying she needed to carry out her work, and headed into the snow fields. She never came back. Windey tells Evan he shouldn't go looking in the snow fields, as the eruption of Lifestream has left crevasses all over, many hidden by the snow.

Meanwhile Reno and Rude ask about Evan and the others at Nibelheim, but are met with an unwelcoming reception. As they are taking off, Reno notices another set of landing marks on the ground. He tries to contact Tseng but to no avail.*

Back at Icicle Inn, Tseng and Elena are now in the room adjacent to Evan and Kyrie's, listening in on their conversation. Kyrie suggests Evan goes to Junon to find the doctor his mother mentioned, Dimitri. Tseng recognises the name--Dr. Eugene Dimitri.*
CI: Windey, receptionist

42. When Evan and Kyrie seem to having come to the end of their conversation, Elena suggests Tseng gets some rest. He refuses and suggest Elena do so instead, but she seems to have little intention to do so. Tseng goes to the window and looks out... And there is that silver-haired young man looking directly at him. He makes up an excuse and goes outside.

While Kyrie is in the shower, Evan hears a knock at the window. Thinking it must be Tseng or Elena he goes over and wipes the condensation away to find 'Fabio' standing there. He tells Evan to come outside and talk to him, or else he'll kill Kyrie. Evan goes, unarmed, out of the guesthouse. Elena soon follows him. Tseng makes it to the spot he saw Kadaj, but there are not even footprints where he was.

'Fabio' leads Evan to a small guards' hut, where he says he wants to show Evan something. It's the picture of Jenova he had seen in Dr. Drake's office. There's dark stains all over the picture--blood. Suddenly it's Dr. Drake standing before him. He tells Evan how he had learnt Jenova was in the Shinra Building from the real Drake, only to find nothing there. He returned to Drake, feeling betrayed. For a second he saw in front of him a silver-haired man. He says it was him who took away Evan's pain, thinking he would know something about Jenova. Taking the form of Evan's mother, Kadaj undoes what he did before, leaving Evan in agonising pain.

Tseng finds Evan on the floor oh the guards' hut, but is attacked by Kadaj. Kadaj disappears when he realises that Tseng doesn't know where Jenova is either. Elena follows the footsteps in the snow to Tseng and Evan.*

43. With Tseng and Elena going to search for Kadaj, Evan rushes back to the guesthouse to check on Kyrie. Outside the room he hears voices coming from inside. Kyrie is talking with her old friend, Kadaj. But then there's a gunshot, and Evan opens the door to find the silver-haired boy he'd seen before on the floor. Kyrie fires again and the man on reception comes rushing to see what is happening. Out of nowhere Kadaj now has a sword in his hand, threatening to kill them. They manage to get out of the building, but Kadaj is right there, outside and in front of them. They start running but Kyrie stops. The guesthouse is on fire. Evan pulls Kyrie back up and heads for the entrance to the village.

Tseng and Elena had returned to the helicopter. Tseng is checking a rocket launcher as he asks Elena to contact Reno and Rude; turns out she already had let on where they were, and that the other helicopter is on its way now. Elena takes off towards the village, where Evan and Kyrie have just reached the guards' hut as the helicopter reaches the village, when suddenly Kadaj leaps from the ground and on the the helicopter. As the helicopter begins to move north, Evan suggests that they can beat Kadaj.

44. Over the snow fields Tseng and Elena are still fighting Kadaj, while Evan and Kyrie try to keep up. Evan has a plan to get Kadaj using the crevasses as a trap. But when looking up to find him, they hear a voice in front of them. Kadaj is standing there, and provokes Kyrie to lunge at him. Kadaj leaps out of the way, and Evan grabs Kyrie's hand before she slipped. But suddenly the snow beneath her feet crumbles away, leaving her hanging on to Evan's hand. Just then Kadaj offers to help. Evan, unable to pull Kyrie up on his own, agrees. But Kadaj simply stabs Evan in the shoulder, as Kyrie falls to the bottom of the crevasse.*

In the helicopter Tseng is looking down on Kadaj, standing over Evan. He tells Elena to fire a missile. Elena hesitates and asks Tseng if he is serious, but Tseng gives the same reply.

Reno and Rude, along with Doyle and Leslie, arrive at their destination. Elena tells them to get ready to attack. Reno sets up a machine gun, but when he finally sees that Evan is down there he is not willing to follow Tseng's orders to fire. After Rude say a 'malfunction' cut off the radio, Tseng tells Elena that they will attack alone. He tells Elena to preform the attack, but she instead insists on piloting the helicopter.

Down on the ground, Evan hears Kyrie's voice calling him. After Kadaj removes the blade from his shoulder, Evan slides himself towards the crevasse.*

Rude spots Kyrie in the crevasse about 3 metres down, still alive. Leslie and Doyle try to shoot down Kadaj with the machine gun hope that with him gone they can save Evan and Kyrie. The bullets hit Kadaj but have no effect, then he disappears. Reno and Rude turn to find him standing on the nose of the helicopter. He stabs the windscreen, shattering the glass. Rude veers the helicopter to the side and throws Leslie and Doyle out. He then takes the helicopter up higher, but Kadaj has gone. He's now sitting in the back of the helicopter. Reno and Rude both jump from the helicopter. Once they've escape, Tseng fires a missile at the other helicopter and explodes it.

45. Evan reaches Kyrie, but the force of the explosion cracks the ice apart and they both fall into the depth of the crevasse. However, they find themselves in a strange, bright white place surrounded by voices--the Lifestream. Eventually Evan wakes up to find himself and Kyrie in a pipe-like tunnel of ice, made two year ago when the Lifestream erupted. They make their way through this maze, looking for a way out.

Tseng tells Reno that he and Elena are going back to Under Junon, while Rude is going to Healin to get the third helicopter, in order to collect Reno, Doyle and Leslie who are looking for Evan and Kyrie.

Evan and Kyrie hit a dead-end, but Kyrie notices several shapes just ahead. They are bodies, all dressed in black, frozen and preserved. Also there is the body of Annette Townshend. When Kyrie checks her, she finds some letters she was carrying: a report to Foley about the escapee test subjects, a personal letter to Foley, and a note to Evan. Just as they are leaving they notice one more item, a small warm mass wrapped in Annette's handkerchief.

But as soon as they've turned around, they hear Kadaj's voice behind them. As they try to outrun him they pass a hole leading into the Lifestream. Evan suggests that they jump in, but then the handkerchief falls to the ground and unravels. Inside is a piece of Jenova's flesh. As Kadaj tries to grab it Evan kicks it into the Lifestream. Kadaj jumps in to get it, but eventually is consumed by the Lifestream and vanishes into particles of light. Not long after, Leslie, Doyle and Reno find them.

Mentions: Vincent Valentine, Cid Highwind, Barrett Wallace
Test subjects: Kaitlin Starks, Edmond Starks, Trevor Shaun, Ezra Monty, Ian Modeus, Rick Fergus, Lisa Tutti, Senna York

46. The epilogue started off straight where the last chapter left off, but soon moves ahead to the end of/just after AC. Evan, Kyrie and Vits are now living together, and when the Lifestream spring appears in the church, they take Vits there to get cured.*

No real cliffhangers, story over.
 

Octo

KULT OF KERMITU
AKA
Octo, Octorawk, Clarky Cat, Kissmammal2000
nnnnnngh lots of Tseng and Elena in various hotel rooms nnnnnnng
 

Strangelove

AI Researcher
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hitoshura
Also because I forgot (I actually left out a bunch of other finer details because lolz, there has to be some point in translating the whole thing and making people wait). Cloud, Tifa, Marlene and Denzel appear again in the last chapter, that's where the 'we're not related by blood but we're a family' Cloud quote Tres posted came from.
 

Homura Akemi

Just a lurker now ;3
AKA
Black★Rock Shooter, Hatsune Miku, Rin, Rin Okumura, Zack Fair.
Hmm it's not half bad :D thanks for translating it though.
btw are you going to translate it fully, like everything all the dialogue?

also When Cloud says about the Not related by blood is he talking about just Marlene or his whole family?
 

Octo

KULT OF KERMITU
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Octo, Octorawk, Clarky Cat, Kissmammal2000
also When Cloud says about the Not related by blood is he talking about just Marlene or his whole family?

This^, because I can see this is going to be a vitally important point in the LTD and I really wish I was joking but I'm not.
 

Homura Akemi

Just a lurker now ;3
AKA
Black★Rock Shooter, Hatsune Miku, Rin, Rin Okumura, Zack Fair.
This^, because I can see this is going to be a vitally important point in the LTD and I really wish I was joking but I'm not.

srsy I know what you mean...
 
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The Twilight Mexican

Ex-SeeD-ingly good
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TresDias
Thanks for all this, hito. You're a god.

By the way, is there anything romantic between Evan and Kyrie? I think I remember seeing "Evan's kanojo" pop up somewhere toward the end in a conversation involving Kyrie, but I didn't put too much effort into making out the surrounding context.
 

Vendel

Banned
Also because I forgot (I actually left out a bunch of other finer details because lolz, there has to be some point in translating the whole thing and making people wait). Cloud, Tifa, Marlene and Denzel appear again in the last chapter, that's where the 'we're not related by blood but we're a family' Cloud quote Tres posted came from.

Cloud said "we're a family of friends" right? And he was probably holding a picture of the rest of AVALANCHE as well.
 

Strangelove

AI Researcher
AKA
hitoshura
Hmm it's not half bad :D thanks for translating it though.
btw are you going to translate it fully, like everything all the dialogue?

also When Cloud says about the Not related by blood is he talking about just Marlene or his whole family?
I think it's Kyrie who originally says that, after Vits calls her Evan's "girlfriend" which she refutes, saying instead that they're family even if they are not related. Cloud says that to them as they are leaving, "we're not related but we're family, the same as you."

The plan is to translate the whole thing as an actual novel would be.
 

Strangelove

AI Researcher
AKA
hitoshura
Thanks for all this, hito. You're a god.

By the way, is there anything romantic between Evan and Kyrie? I think I remember seeing "Evan's kanojo" pop up somewhere toward the end in a conversation involving Kyrie, but I didn't put too much effort into making out the surrounding context.
Because you skipped to the end and spoilt yourself, am I right? :awesome:

They're an item, yeah. The late page is them in bed together. So yeah.

Re: stuff I left out of summaries: finer points of characters' backgrounds like Kyrie, some events in the story and subplots. Part of it was because I already had to keep going back and adding bits to the summaries when stuff became relevant later one, like the first chapter. But it was also because just spilling everything now would take the fun out of the completed translation.
 

The Twilight Mexican

Ex-SeeD-ingly good
AKA
TresDias
Because you skipped to the end and spoilt yourself, am I right? :awesome:

Hush you. :awesome:

hito said:
They're an item, yeah. The late page is them in bed together. So yeah.

Wow. We finally got a couple in bed in a Final Fantasy? About fucking time.

hito said:
Re: stuff I left out of summaries: finer points of characters' backgrounds like Kyrie, some events in the story and subplots. Part of it was because I already had to keep going back and adding bits to the summaries when stuff became relevant later one, like the first chapter. But it was also because just spilling everything now would take the fun out of the completed translation.

We'll be looking forward to it. It wouldn't be quite as cool if we knew absolutely everything already, you're right.

Of course, I probably shouldn't speak for everyone since I have the book and some -- though more limited than yours -- capacity to decipher it for myself. :monster:

Thanks for all the details about the battle with Kadaj, by the way. You could have been lazy and glossed over most of that, but you gave us enough that we could easily visualize it all.



Anyone else find it interesting that Evan, Kyrie and Evan's mother (and the Turks too) basically saved the world by delaying Kadaj's timing of coming into contact with the remains of JENOVA? Kind of a cool way to give them some significance without creating yet another world-shattering crisis.

It doesn't contradict or lessen the relevance of details we already knew about On the Way to a Smile and AC/C -- and arguably helps those stories make more sense, as some of us questioned the convenience of Kadaj and his brothers not manifesting on the surface until that moment when the Turks just happened to be making off with what they neeeded to resurrect Sephiroth. So Kadaj did try before that, but failed on his own, and so Sephiroth made some help for him.
 

Octo

KULT OF KERMITU
AKA
Octo, Octorawk, Clarky Cat, Kissmammal2000
I think it's Kyrie who originally says that, after Vits calls her Evan's "girlfriend" which she refutes, saying instead that they're family even if they are not related. Cloud says that to them as they are leaving, "we're not related but we're family, the same as you."

They're an item, yeah. The late page is them in bed together. So yeah.

the same as you

in bed together

girlfriend


:awesome: See? I can use bizarre shipper logic! It aint no trick to work your ship when you dig dig dig with a shovel and a pick in a mine (in a mine!) where a million quotes shine!

....not sure where that came from sorry...
 

Octo

KULT OF KERMITU
AKA
Octo, Octorawk, Clarky Cat, Kissmammal2000
Yeah but I'm awesome too. Its ok you can say it :monster:
 

Strangelove

AI Researcher
AKA
hitoshura
Hush you. :awesome:
You actually saw that? I'm surprised you didn't just skip to the end of my post :awesome:

Thanks for all the details about the battle with Kadaj, by the way. You could have been lazy and glossed over most of that, but you gave us enough that we could easily visualize it all.
ngl, I actually really liked the Kadaj parts and kind of wish we got to see more of this Kadaj in AC (why was i about to in Jurassic Park). All the Jenova-esque shapeshifting and teleporting everywhere. I never minded Kadaj anyway, so his being in it doesn't really bother me.
 
I made my own cut'n'paste fanfic!

"Meanwhile Tseng and Elena are at a beach house..."
"Tseng agrees to this, but it is himself and Elena who will be going."
"While Tseng and Elena wait in the helicopter..."
"Back at Icicle Inn, Tseng and Elena are now in the room adjacent to Evan and Kyrie's. Elena suggests Tseng gets some rest. He refuses and suggest Elena do so instead, but she seems to have little intention to do so...
"Thinking it must be Tseng or Elena he goes over and wipes the condensation away..."
"Tseng makes it to the spot..."
"Elena soon follows...."
"Elena hesitates and asks Tseng if he is serious, but Tseng gives the same reply...."
And they lived happily ever after.
 
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