Paths of Our Fathers

This fanfiction, written by IluvAUs on fanfiction.net, is set post-Kingdom Hearts 2. It goes off of the somewhat insane fan theory of Riku and Sora being related to Sephiroth and Cloud, though it manages to avoid the typical Die for Our Ship implications that many others of the same ilk run into, and is fairly well written. It is complete, with a possible sequel in the works. Read it here.


 * Action Girl- Kairi's molding into one.
 * A God Am I- Sephiroth.
 * Alas, Poor Villain-
 * All Men Are Perverts - The boys seem a bit 'too' entranced by 'La Esmeralda Dance'...
 * And This Is For- See Crowning Moment of Awesome.
 * Anti-Hero -
 * The Atoner - Vincent has become this, post-.
 * Awful Truth - Riku's parentage.
 * Badass-
 * Batman Gambit-.
 * Big Bad - Sephiroth.
 * Big Damn Heroes -
 * Unfortnately, she underestimates the strength of her opponent.
 * Big No - As an obvious homage to the source medium, Quasimodo's Big No is kept in.
 * Cloud does one too. See Shout Out for specifics.
 * Black and Gray Morality - This gets somewhat lampshaded by Riku when he points out the possibility that
 * Body Horror -
 * Brainwashed and Crazy -  And to some degree,
 * BFS - But of course, with Cloud and Sora running around.
 * Call Back-
 * Calling Your Attacks - Lampshaded by Sora when Vincent's casting a spell on.
 * Also done in AMAZINGLY EPIC fashion.
 * Chekhov's Gun- Remember ? Yeah, that saves his ass later on.
 * The Chessmaster - Sephiroth.
 * Cooldown Hug -
 * Cold-Blooded Torture -
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome - Kairi, after witnessing, gets really pissed off, and proceeds to
 * Vincent also gets one on Notre Dame as he
 * Four words. Keyblade. Omnislash. Version. Five.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny - Kairi trying to get the boys' attention  Pushed into CMoF territory by the fact that
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming -
 * Curse Cut Short - Seifer was dangerously close to implying Hojo's parents were never married...
 * Deadpan Snarker - Riku has his moments. Especially in Halloween Town after Sora makes a really, REALLY bad joking comment.
 * And Vincent is also quite the snarker...
 * Quistis, in her introductory line to Squall.
 * Deal with the Devil -
 * Doomed Hometown- Well duh.
 * Dramatic Irony - Sephiroth and Hojo have a little discussion about The Reveal which Sephiroth, without too much testing, gave to Riku.
 * Also, Riku proceeding to mimic Sephiroth's actions exactly after giving him a definite Shut UP, Hannibal due to a lecture claiming they are Not So Different.
 * Dreaming the Truth - Riku, having dozed off in Radiant Garden's library, has a flashback to the moment his mother told him . His dream-child self didn't notice, but he now pieced together that.
 * Eldritch Abomination- JENOVA. Also, Sephiroth after his ascension.
 * Exact Eavesdropping - Of the 'Bob saying something important about Alice' variety..
 * Eye Scream-
 * Face Heel Turn-
 * Fake Defector -
 * Final Speech- Averted HARD.
 * Flat What - Cloud's response to Riku's first words after . Though, to be fair, they WERE Sephiroth's exact words right before he
 * Sephiroth also delivers one following Riku's.
 * Forceful Kiss-
 * Genre Savvy- Sephiroth can have his moments of this.
 * Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!- Kairi does this to Sora before her Rousing Speech to get him to fight Sephiroth following.
 * Go Mad from the Revelation-
 * Hannibal Lecture - It's a fanfiction with SEPHIROTH as the main villain. This trope is GOING to come into play.
 * And Hojo, well, being, is quite good at this as well.
 * Vincent and Sora receive some rather scathing ones during
 * Riku's one that he faces in his
 * Riku himself is pretty damn good at giving these as well.
 * Heel Face Turn -
 * Heroic BSOD - Riku appears to have entered one after The Reveal...
 * Sora entered a rather impressive one after ...
 * Vincent has also seemingly entered one after.
 * I Did What I Had to Do -
 * I Have You Now, My Pretty-
 * If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him -
 * Incredibly Lame Pun - Sora pointing out the Valentine's day tree in the Hinterlands speaking in reference to Vincent's location. Get it? His last name's Valentine, so...
 * Insane Troll Logic- Kadaj's reasoning and objective after his Motive Decay.
 * In the Blood - The source of Riku (and everyone else's) worries...
 * Killed Off for Real-
 * Kneel Before Sephiroth!
 * Laughing Mad - Hojo. Oh dear God, Hojo.
 * Little No - Riku's initial reaction as he realizes the Awful Truth.
 * Loss of Identity -
 * Luke, I Am Your Father -
 * Magnificent Bastard - Sephiroth. Holy. Crap. Sephiroth.
 * Mercy Kill -
 * Vincent also suggests the others do this to him after
 * Mind Rape - Heavily implied to have happened to . Also, the best way to describe what happens to.
 * Moral Event Horizon - Okay, so we already know Sephiroth crossed this line a LONG time ago, but the first time the heroes ever truly acknowledge it is when he, sending Kairi into an Unstoppable Rage.
 * Once again, Hojo has already been WAY across this line, but ? That. Goes. Too. Far.
 * After his Face Heel Turn,
 * And if the  wasn't bad enough, Sephiroth pushes himself to the point of evil singularity by , and then prodeecing to.
 * Motive Decay -
 * Motive Rant - Sephiroth delivers this to QUISTIS of all people, as a Batman Gambit to . In a rare moment of Genre Savvy, he.
 * Kadaj does one to himself.
 * My God, What Have I Done? - Vincent says the statement pretty much verbatim during his
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero -
 * Nice Job Fixing It, Villain- Kadaj, in performing a Limit Break of his own on the helpless heroes . Nice job fixing the heroes, Kadaj. And Nice Job Breaking Yourself.
 * No One Should Survive That -  This should have been lethal.
 * Not Quite Dead-
 * Oh Crap - When Frollo shows up to find Sora and Co. apparently
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You - Cloud is invoking this trope in his longing to fight with Sephiroth.
 * Paper-Thin Disguise - Technically any disguise the group takes on, but this is most obvious on Notre Dame.
 * Please Wake Up -
 * Post-Rape Taunt -
 * Precision F-Strike - Riku is none too pleased with not getting a straight answer. "Stop dodging the question, and answer me, damn it!"
 * And, in what could qualify as a CMoA for Vincent, he says to Hojo
 * Riku, once more, when confronting his mother, loses his temper a bit- implying she was a street walker.
 * Sora claims, rightfully so, that Riku's parents were never married when he discovers what almost happened to Kairi...
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech -
 * Redemption Equals Death-
 * Rousing Speech- Vincent and Kairi deliver most epic ones to Sora to get him to fight once more.
 * Sanity Slippage-
 * Secret Test of Character -
 * Sequel Hook- "It seems the Palamecian Empire has placed a fleet in the airspace of a neighboring world, in direct violation of the World Order."
 * Ship Tease - Very much in keeping with the source medium, the author has hinted several times towards Sora and Kairi being the pairing, though Sora's sometimes unusually strong reactions to what happens to Riku hint more towards the Ho Yay seen by yaoi fangirls in Kingdom Hearts.
 * Shout-Out - Oh so many Shout Outs to Final Fantasy VII...
 * "I'm not a child. I can do this."
 * "I'm not going to kill you. But that doesn't mean I have to save you."
 * Sora has a little talk with Cloud about his motive for going after Sephiroth. After denying it's about revenge, Sora calls bullshit, and suggests that he and his friends go to help, and Cloud inexplicably loses his cool, shouting "NO! Nooooooo!" while overturning a table.
 * The HECK is THAT?
 * Code Geass even gets a wink when Riku muses to himself.
 * Revenge of the Sith gets a nod in an exchange between Riku and Sora.
 * Shut UP, Hannibal -
 * Sora has a mental one in response to
 * Skyward Scream- Sora lets out an impressive one after
 * Stepford Smiler-
 * Super-Powered Evil Side - Sora's Antiform is treated as this, brought out whenever he's suffering from a particularly dark emotion.
 * Survival Mantra-
 * Tear Jerker-
 * Tell Me About My Father - In Riku's dream, he remembers asking about his father's whereabouts as a child. His mother tells him his father died.
 * The Tape Knew You Would Say That- Sephiroth pulls this on Cloud and the others when they arrive in the form of a holographic pre-recorded message.
 * This Cannot Be!- Kadaj, as an homage to the Tales Series, lets out a massive one when when he's about to be struck by an IN-DIG-NAY-SHUN based spell.
 * This! Is! SPARTA! - Twice in Wonderland, both times in the quiet form, delivered by Riku and Vincent.
 * Took a Level in Badass- Sora and Kairi, definitely. SEVERAL levels in Kairi's case.
 * Troubled Fetal Position - Riku, in classic Heroic BSOD form, takes this position after discovering the Awful Truth.
 * Turn Out Like His Father -
 * The Un-Reveal -
 * Unstoppable Rage -
 * [[spoiler: After tracking down Hojo, Vincent goes a little bit nuts on him...
 * Unwitting Pawn - Pretty much all of the heroes.
 * Villain Ball- Grabbed FIRMLY by Sephiroth in the end, complete with Just Between You and Me and Pride.
 * Voice of the Legion- Sephiroth gains this after he ascends to godhood.
 * What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Vincent says this to be sarcastic just before they land on Notre Dame, and it turns out that
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic -  Think about that for a second.
 * What Measure Is a Non-Cute? -
 * What Measure Is a Non-Human?-  This leads directly into...
 * What the Hell, Hero?- This happens TWICE in Wonderland. The first time is, the second is  . Kairi calls them both on their actions.
 * Well, Excuse Me, Princess!- Riku uses this when Kairi pulls her Big Damn Heroes moment.
 * Where I Was Born and Razed-
 * Batman Gambit and Kansas City Shuffle- Sephiroth has been running a massive one from square one.
 * You Are Too Late- Sephiroth began the final stage of JENOVA's fusion with Kingdom Hearts thirty-five minutes ago.
 * You Can't Fight Fate-
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic -  Think about that for a second.
 * What Measure Is a Non-Cute? -
 * What Measure Is a Non-Human?-  This leads directly into...
 * What the Hell, Hero?- This happens TWICE in Wonderland. The first time is, the second is  . Kairi calls them both on their actions.
 * Well, Excuse Me, Princess!- Riku uses this when Kairi pulls her Big Damn Heroes moment.
 * Where I Was Born and Razed-
 * Batman Gambit and Kansas City Shuffle- Sephiroth has been running a massive one from square one.
 * You Are Too Late- Sephiroth began the final stage of JENOVA's fusion with Kingdom Hearts thirty-five minutes ago.
 * You Can't Fight Fate-