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[teal-deer.livejournal.com]

Challenge: [159] In Another Life
Title: No One Mourns the Wicked
Word Count: 236

He is not.

This is what defines him: the fact that he is nothing. His Element is Nothing; he is the Prince of Void, the Lord of the Abyss.

He is the empty shell of a person who never was in the first place; a being who was in all likelihood little more than a vessel for a greater darkness, a box opened by meddling in memories.

Nothing. No one. In many more ways than his brethren.

It is said, that when both Heart and Shell are destroyed by the touch of the Key, the original self is reborn anew.

What happens when there is no self to return to? When there was never anyone in the first place?

When the shell is all there ever was?

Even if the shell, when young and unaware of the black heart inside it, once dreamed of starlight and spires, of other worlds and kings; even if the shell later hoped and wished and strived to be something more, he is still a shell, a hollow and empty thing, unworthy of life.

There are those who do not get second chances; there are those who do not get other lives; and their wishes and hopes and dreams will be naught but dust on the wind. There will be none to remember their name, none to sing their songs.

There will be Nothing.

And perhaps that's all there ever was.

Comments

[fox_the_kitsune]

Ooh... pretty. /Brain dead.

[oreo-81369-17.livejournal.com]

ooooo i like the idea of them being reborn if the heartless and the nobody are destryoed~♥

[teal-deer.livejournal.com]

I actually got the idea I think from a Nomura interview I read once... I forget where, alas, but I think at some point he said that this is the case (I'm not sure)

[oreo-81369-17.livejournal.com]

oooo that's so cool~ ahahah that makes the second game...that much sadder and happier hahahhaha

[misskass.livejournal.com]

*shivers* Oooh, very good. I especially love the last two lines, as well as the idea that the original will be reborn once the Key has killed what they've become.

[teal-deer.livejournal.com]

Thank you ^_^ And as for the original being reborn, I... thought I heard once that Nomura actually said this was true. I could be wrong, but... eh.

I like the idea too ^_^;

[idiosynacophony.livejournal.com]

omg this is amazing. <333333333

I especially love the way you use lines from the game! And the interpretation of the challenge... ~flail~

♥♥

_{Also WICKED REF! ♥}

[teal-deer.livejournal.com]

&hearts

I thought the wicked ref was appropriate considering the character in question~ Glad you liked the piece.