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Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters/Pairings: Gen, Cloud
Rating: T
Length: 160,000 words
Author Links: [livejournal.com profile] sinnatious
Theme: Time Travel, previously recced by qem_chibati for Novel-Length Fic

Summary: Cloud has an accident with a Time materia, and finds himself in the middle of the Wastes at the start of the Wutai War. There are people to save... and for that, there are people who need to die.

Reccer's Notes: An epic fic with a solid plot, the addictive pace of a pageturner, and a whole lot of interesting character interaction between Cloud and other characters both expected and unexpected. There's quite a number of time travel fics in the FFVII fandom, but this is definitely my favorite.

As a personal note, I found that I got this story's full effect after two readings. The first time around, I got sucked into the plot and tore though the fic at a lightning-fast pace, rushing to see what would happen next. It was a great ride, but I was left a little bemused (though not unsatisfied) by the way the plot was resolved. Several months later I read through it again at a slightly slower pace, and the reason behind the story's resolution became clearer to me and this time I was definitely satisfied. (I'm smiling now just thinking of it.)

Story Links:
The Fifth Act at FF.net
The Fifth Act at AO3
The Fifth Act: Expanded Universe - LJ masterpost including a large number of related fanworks, e.g. spinoff one-shots by Sinnatious and other authors

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