Three Unnamed Ghosts

[mithrigil]

Title:  Three Unnamed Ghosts
Fandom: FFXII, FFTactics, Vagrant Story
Characters: Mustadio (and his ancestor), Delita (and a suit of armor), John Hardin (and the severed head of an Emperor).
Rating: PG.
Summary: Balthier carries on his legacy; Drace issues a warning; Larsa makes one last suit for peace.
Spoilers: Believe it or not, none. We know that

Comments

[lassarina]

Um. YES. OMG. Yes. *purr*

[mithrigil]

::bluuuuuuuuush::

[mariagoner]

I... want to like that last one but I'm so confused. ::emos with bangs:: What's going on? Why Larsa bound inside a stone? (Well, I know he's been dead centuries, but other than that, why?) And... who's the "poison" that he's talking about? And the scion? And what's ending with Hardin? And when is Larsa's ghost going to "reconvene" with his friends...?

Woe, I knew I should have paid much more attention to Vagrant Story's actual story when I played it, so many years back.

[mithrigil]

I don't think he's bound in the stone. It was a statue of him, implicitly. He left an impression, like Balthier with the gun and Drace with her armor.

The RAT is poison. And scion.

And this is entirely fanon, but Ashe and Al-Cid end with Hardin.

[mariagoner]

Aaaaaaaah, that makes more sense. Thanks for the explanation!

Necrocomment!

[moemachina]

I just found this story, and I wanted to leave a note saying that it was absolutely fantastic. I'm especially impressed by the tonal shifts between the three sections: amusement shading into dread and then resignation. I think you strike the right balance between spelling out the connections and leaving them suggestively enigmatic. And you pay so much attention to each individual sentence and word!

In short: three beautifully creepy eulogies.

Re: Necrocomment!

[mithrigil]

Thank you so much, not just for reanimating this thing, but for getting it. ::blush::