[ sorry to give you a second memory before you even gave me one, but i'll let the rift answer the question for him. kabby please feel free not to respond and just give me a memory straight back!
but for now... they return to the audience chamber.
Now, there is one thing you know: that there have only been two people in your life who have loved you. The second is Terence, a better man than you have ever deserved, and whose youth you greedily enjoyed.
But the first is your father, the only family have ever had. Your father, who kept you from the streets of Oriflamme, took you in though you were not of his wife, and raised you as a prince of Sanbreque.
And there is your father, your lance through his chest.
All at once your heart cracks, twenty-eight years of grief, pain, love and loneliness flooding your veins like poison and corroding away the tight control with which you keep Bahamut's power in check.
[ at once, dion feels as though he understands and he doesn't. how can these fairies have such narrow vision, to think that rosamund must walk a certain path or surrender to corruption?
but then, sometimes there is only ever one path. one road to walk on.
and there is always someone held up, bleeding and made to be collateral to enforce compliance.
he looks at her, sympathetic. ]
I am glad, Rosamund, that you did not bow to their machinations. I much prefer the person you have chosen to be to the one they tried to make you.
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[ he purses his lips a moment before shaking his head. ]
I played that part myself, just as she had been hoping, I am sure, and led a rebellion against her. Though I had no intention of deposing my father.
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She was clever. And you cared too much to not do something. That's all right. Your heart was in the right place, Dion, don't doubt that for a minute.
What happened after?
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[ sorry to give you a second memory before you even gave me one, but i'll let the rift answer the question for him. kabby please feel free not to respond and just give me a memory straight back!
but for now... they return to the audience chamber.
But the first is your father, the only family have ever had. Your father, who kept you from the streets of Oriflamme, took you in though you were not of his wife, and raised you as a prince of Sanbreque.
And there is your father, your lance through his chest.
"... Kinslayer."
All at once your heart cracks, twenty-eight years of grief, pain, love and loneliness flooding your veins like poison and corroding away the tight control with which you keep Bahamut's power in check.
Tonight, the eikon wins the battle of wills, and the great wyrm rises over the city of Twinside.
The sight of the city ablaze fades first, but the sounds of the people screaming linger a moment longer. ]
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but then, sometimes there is only ever one path. one road to walk on.
and there is always someone held up, bleeding and made to be collateral to enforce compliance.
he looks at her, sympathetic. ]
I am glad, Rosamund, that you did not bow to their machinations. I much prefer the person you have chosen to be to the one they tried to make you.