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[yaoibanshee.livejournal.com]

Challenge: [181] Watch
Title: Salvation
Word count: 144
Notes: No spoilers I can think of, deals mainly with pre KH1 events. Cut quote is from Watchmen.



They writhe beneath him, twisted blackened hunks of steel and flesh – buildings, people - now nearly indistinguishable from one another amidst the smoke and choking stench of darkness. Too late did they realize what terror he’d brought among them, what they’d brought upon themselves. Too late did the old sage learn of his mistake in allowing such an abomination to proceed - far too late to save the five who, in their childish enthusiasm, had looked to him for guidance.

Now he had but to watch as his plague, his legacy spilled forth into the streets, snuffing out human existence as it sought to devour the very heart of this world.

They would call him “Seeker of Darkness,” and one by one, countless worlds would fall to ruin in wake of this catastrophe. And they would wonder why he had not saved them.

Comments

[oreo-81369-17.livejournal.com]

o_o holy crow~ i love these short ones that get so much across~ this was amazazingly written~ especially the last line~♥♥

[yaoibanshee.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! ♥

[greedchan.livejournal.com]

Aaah.
This one was good.
xD; I'm not one of the more eloquent readers, but this was super interesting to read.
Also your cut quote made me roffle. xD; *has so much fun with that quote ALL THE TIME*

[yaoibanshee.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The quote was actually the main inspiration for the drabble, lol. XD I likes it very much.

[yaoibanshee.livejournal.com]

P.S. - OMFG your icon is freaking amazing!! XD Would it maybe be okay if I stole it? You know, with credit and everything.

[greedchan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, dude, go for it. xD

[nimoe.livejournal.com]

The cut-line quote makes this perfect. :D

[yaoibanshee.livejournal.com]

Yay thank you! :D Just finished reading Watchmen so the challenge really made me want to pull from that. Glad it worked!

[tunasaladsonnet.livejournal.com]

This is terrifying. But you know, in a really well-written, amazing way.

*__*

[yaoibanshee.livejournal.com]

Lol thank you. Yeah, it did come out rather dark. Oops. >.>

[hotasphyxiation.livejournal.com]

Oh wow... this is really impressive. I love this characterization- the way you wrote him invokes such a sense of a hideously twisted ego, a mind immersed in darkness- it's so ridiculously perfect. :P Amazing work, here, especially taking into account the fact that you used so few words.

[yaoibanshee.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! It actually came out shorter than I'd intended, so I'm really glad that came across. :D

[kaiyabeck.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely mind-blowing. Usually the assumption is that all of the apprentices were completely willing to sacrifice themselves for knowledge, or that they didn't know how far their research was going until it was too late.

What you've written is so incredibly dark. The idea that Xehanort was the puppetmaster behind the project-- that he knew he and his colleagues would be lost to the darkness and just didn't care-- brings a wonderfully twisted side to his character.

And the Watchmen quote is disturbingly appropriate. Wonderful job.

[yaoibanshee.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Well, to be perfectly honest, I like the other apprentices more than I like Xehanort so I tend to defend them by vilifying him, lol. XD But really, it just seems unlikely that none of them had any idea what they were doing. It wasn't all just an innocent mistake in the name of science and knowledge. And since he volunteered for the experiments I have to think that Xehanort had more going on in his head than he shared with the others.