To be knocked down so low

[scrappymkii]

[Chanda had won.  The Rakshasha were beat.  The Cerberus Gaia had proved is worth when even the Destiny alone proved insufficient.  There was no reason to feel bad...

That is, until Shinn heard the news of Aprillius Five's destruction.  Chairman Durandal... was dead.  Maybe Rey was too.  And then there were countless other people who were killed by

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[allnaturalseed]

Don't go blaming yourself. One person can only worry about so much at a time without going crazy.

[scrappymkii]

I know... it's just...

The Chairman's gone. And it feels like all that's changed is we've traded one evil for a greater one.

[allnaturalseed]

That's... pretty much the story of our life here.

[scrappymkii]

It feels like the Battle of Jachin Due changed nothing. If battles like that can't change anything... then more of them will keep happening, won't they? And they won't accomplish anything either.

I want this to end, Miss Athha. I just... the only thing I can bring to the table is swinging a sword.

[scrappymkii]

Right.

Still... it's just like every time Djibril makes a move, he outdoes whatever atrocities he's done before. We can't keep beating around the bush...

The next time Requiem fires, it might be Independence-1 he targets.

[scrappymkii]

[Luna has a point. But so many times it just feels like everyone else grows around him, succeeding and surviving by their own merits rather than anything he does. It's a pain, yes... but one that also leads to a hunger.]

I want to end this, Luna. The Destiny is supposed to be ZAFT's most powerful weapon... and I'm going to use it to stop Djibril. He wouldn't dream of retreating and losing his only remaining trump card... Requiem'll will be where everything's decided, and I'm going to see to it that man finally gets due justice.

[pilotofsilence]

[Comforting hand on shoulder.]

...

[Hang on he's still thinking on finding things to say.]

[scrappymkii]

[Dammit, leaving a demoralized Shinn to break the ice? That's cold, Shiro. That's fucking cold.]

... He was my friend, Shiro. I still think of him as one. And Rey might be dead too. There's... so many things I wanted to ask him.

And maybe I never will.

[pilotofsilence]

[Don't blame him for being awkward in these kinds of situation :|]

...Yeah, I understand sort of.

But you can't just stand here and mope around, we still have a long way to go to end to conflict.

[scrappymkii]

For now... I'll just settle for killing Djibril. We can use Requiem and blow Axis and everyone on it to smithereens and then just worry about Silentium.