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Challenge: [299] Birthdays
Title: Reassurance
Word Count: 138
Notes: What would even possess me to write for Eraqus, given that the only person I actively dislike more than him is Yen Sid, I cannot say. (Not that I don't think they have good points, but they both scream Intolerance in Favor of the Light and it makes me hiss.) I just. Yeah, blinky eyes is all I've got.


There are times when the light he seeks seems farther away than ever. When he worries that the worlds may never have true peace, and Xehanort’s words on balance linger in his mind.

His birthday is generally one of them. Another year closer to the end. Solitary meditation is his custom at these times, alone with his thoughts and the light of one candle for focus.

Or it has been. His apprentices are still so new, and he so occupied in his own dark thoughts, that he’s nearly forgotten they are there. Until he enters the kitchen and discovers them both waiting for him, standing on either side of a small cake whose candles are arranged in the shape of a key.

“Happy Birthday, Master.” they say together, and perhaps there is some light in the future yet.

Comments

[eternal-moonie.livejournal.com]

AMAZING drabble!!!

[spoke.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[iki-teru.livejournal.com]

Gah! The fuzzies! The fuzzies I say! They've given me a smile on this dark, dreary day!

[spoke.livejournal.com]

Success! Thank you! :D

[seishonagon.livejournal.com]

This made me angry, because you captured Eraqus really well and he makes me angry just by being there. Grrr.

In other words, well done. :)

[spoke.livejournal.com]

XD Doesn't he, though? Especially his whole final scene, because just no. Stop blaming the dark for everything, when you have such a case of Light-blinded. *snarlhiss*

A Darker individual might have suspected what was happening. :p /mini-rant

Thank you! :D

[seishonagon.livejournal.com]

Yes, this, so many times over, this.

Also, I am a teacher IRL, and I cannot stand that kind of intolerance in a teacher.

[rikushair.livejournal.com]

Awww... They baked him a cake. That's so cute! Well done!

[spoke.livejournal.com]

Thank you! They are kind of adorable. :)

[synchroshatter.livejournal.com]

I’m a bit surprised to hear you hate Eraqus, mostly because I think you captured him really well here. If he wasn’t focused so solely on the one path he thinks is right, he would have probably been able to circumvent a lot of the bad things that went down. (Though I do understand- I really don’t like Ansem the Wise, but guess who keeps appearing in my drabbles? D: )

Also, cake baking apprentices: made of adorable and win. <3

[spoke.livejournal.com]

Gah. I don't think I'd use the word hate, but now that I'm thinking about it, it does seem to fit. It's just. For one thing, I hate character bashing, and if I'm going to write anyone I'm going to try to do it well. For another, as mentioned elsewhere, he does have his good points. There is a sense of personal grace and authority, and unlike a lot of people who claim a Light alignment and then behave nothing like? You really get the sense that he holds himself to these ideals.

And yesss. Just a little more flex, a little willingness even to acknowledge that other people don't think like you and that whole thing could've played out so differently. This whole universe desperately needs someone who can treat the Light and the Dark as elements and not moral alignments. And don't even get me started on Ansem the Inappropriately Monikered. >:/

Cake-baking apprentices are the best kind, yes. :)