Revisiting Old Friends, Part Two
Jul. 30th, 2020 06:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI’m going to write a series of six vignettes, each following a different conversation between the characters as they move through the Ancient Castle.
I think I’m going to call the piece “The Queen’s Tears,” and the story is going to be centered around the suggestion that maybe it was the queen who turned herself and Odin to stone. In other words, it was the queen herself who was “the evil wizard” that “attacked” the ancient kingdom.
This possibility will be articulated by Celes, and she’ll have the thought as she muses on her complicated relationship with Kefka, the idea being that allowing him to rest will be a mercy.
There isn’t much evidence in canon to support this, but I tend to think that Kefka probably intended to destroy the Empire from the beginning. He knew the cost of becoming powerful enough to do that would be his own sanity, so he cultivated Celes as the only weapon capable of defeating him (by being able to absorb magic, for example).
Celes knows this, and the person she confesses it to is Sabin, who was very sensitive as a kid but trained for a decade to become strong enough to “protect” his brother – which, given his specific talents, probably amounts to being able to murder his brother’s enemies.
This all sounds very angsty, but the point of writing this fic as a series of vignettes is that it’s the small moments of kindness and friendship that keep people grounded and sane during huge historical events. If I manage to pull this off, it will be a story about people who are comfortable with one another supporting each other as they deal with a terrible world on their own terms.
Also I just really like ancient ruins.
I think I’m going to call the piece “The Queen’s Tears,” and the story is going to be centered around the suggestion that maybe it was the queen who turned herself and Odin to stone. In other words, it was the queen herself who was “the evil wizard” that “attacked” the ancient kingdom.
This possibility will be articulated by Celes, and she’ll have the thought as she muses on her complicated relationship with Kefka, the idea being that allowing him to rest will be a mercy.
There isn’t much evidence in canon to support this, but I tend to think that Kefka probably intended to destroy the Empire from the beginning. He knew the cost of becoming powerful enough to do that would be his own sanity, so he cultivated Celes as the only weapon capable of defeating him (by being able to absorb magic, for example).
Celes knows this, and the person she confesses it to is Sabin, who was very sensitive as a kid but trained for a decade to become strong enough to “protect” his brother – which, given his specific talents, probably amounts to being able to murder his brother’s enemies.
This all sounds very angsty, but the point of writing this fic as a series of vignettes is that it’s the small moments of kindness and friendship that keep people grounded and sane during huge historical events. If I manage to pull this off, it will be a story about people who are comfortable with one another supporting each other as they deal with a terrible world on their own terms.
Also I just really like ancient ruins.
