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Written quite a while ago for possible insertion into the main Shattered story.
Title: Shattered Knights
Fandom: Final Fantasy 8
Character(s): Seifer
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etoilegyrl
Rating: T-ish
Other: Post-game, fits into the timeline/universe of Shattered
Do you know what it feels like to have your very soul ripped away from your body? To lose something that has become an innate part of you to the point that the most torturous death would be a welcome relief from the pain of losing it. You are left with a gaping hole inside, one so large that you feel hollow inside. Almost like a tree, dead and empty inside, but still looks healthy and normal outside. Until one day when it can no longer deal with the pain and collapses in on itself. That is what feels like when a knight loses what has become most precious to him. The one that is a part of him, and is more him than he is. When she chooses to break that connection, and separate herself from him, breaking the sacred bond, it destroys the knight completely. He becomes a shadow of what he was, broken inside and out. There is always concern over the mental state of the sorceress with no knight. That she will inevitably go insane without her knight. They never think to consider what the knight is like without a sorceress. It is a feeling that no one else could even dream of understanding, even if they cared enough to try. It is only possible if it is experienced firsthand, a fate I would not wish on my worst enemy. It is what happened to me. It is the same thing happening to Squall now. They always said we were just alike and now we truly are. Fragmented beings. Knights with no one to protect. Shattered souls.
Title: Shattered Knights
Fandom: Final Fantasy 8
Character(s): Seifer
Author:
etoilegyrlRating: T-ish
Other: Post-game, fits into the timeline/universe of Shattered
Do you know what it feels like to have your very soul ripped away from your body? To lose something that has become an innate part of you to the point that the most torturous death would be a welcome relief from the pain of losing it. You are left with a gaping hole inside, one so large that you feel hollow inside. Almost like a tree, dead and empty inside, but still looks healthy and normal outside. Until one day when it can no longer deal with the pain and collapses in on itself. That is what feels like when a knight loses what has become most precious to him. The one that is a part of him, and is more him than he is. When she chooses to break that connection, and separate herself from him, breaking the sacred bond, it destroys the knight completely. He becomes a shadow of what he was, broken inside and out. There is always concern over the mental state of the sorceress with no knight. That she will inevitably go insane without her knight. They never think to consider what the knight is like without a sorceress. It is a feeling that no one else could even dream of understanding, even if they cared enough to try. It is only possible if it is experienced firsthand, a fate I would not wish on my worst enemy. It is what happened to me. It is the same thing happening to Squall now. They always said we were just alike and now we truly are. Fragmented beings. Knights with no one to protect. Shattered souls.
