[01] First Promise || [Voice | Locked from Snow]

[ravaged]

[His voice is angry and hurting, yet quiet and scared all at once. If any of you had seen the videos posted on the comm, you'll recognize the voice belonging to the younger boy, who had been forced to go on the Purge and lost his mother.]

...I'd rather be on the train. At least I'd be dead by now. That's better than being a l'Cie.

Comments

[fangsofpulse.livejournal.com]

Somethin' wrong with bein' a L'Cie, kid?

[hopeandapromise.livejournal.com]

Yeah, because I didn't choose to become one! I'm an enemy of Cocoon now, when I never did anything wrong! And who wants to be stuck choosing between a Focus, or becoming a Cie'th?! Either way, it doesn't end well at all!

[fangsofpulse.livejournal.com]

So ya didn't want to get stuck with in this position. But ya are now. And there's only one way left t'go. Ya can either go forward to an ending where ya live. Or ya become a Cie'th. It's not the best of choices, but it's what ya've got t'work with.

[hopeandapromise.livejournal.com]

But I don't want either of them!

[fangsofpulse.livejournal.com]

Well it's what ya got. Either suck it up and face it or become a Cie'th. Makes no difference t'me after all.

[Voice]

[savior_n_black]

...Hope-san? You can't just give up. You've got to know that, right?

[Voice]

[hopeandapromise.livejournal.com]

What's the point in trying to fight if I'm a l'Cie? Giving up is better than doing what I'm supposed to do as one!

[Voice|| Locked] Poor bb ;3;

[savior_n_black]

No, giving up is never "better". It's just easier.

Is that what you want? The easy way out?! Are you so much of a fucking coward?!

[Voice|| Locked] safhgjksvaghkjafs ;3; sob sob sob /pats him

[hopeandapromise.livejournal.com]

[Hear that? He's yelling. Hope is so terrified and upset, he doesn't know what to do.]

What am I supposed to do?! We lived in Palumpolum and visited Bodhum, and they found a Pulse fal'Cie and they wouldn't let us go home! We weren't residents of the place and never came across a l'Cie, but we got shoved onto the train for the Purge anyway! And after that, Snow came to our group asking for volunteers, and he used my mom, and now she's dead!

And to top it all off, I've now become a Pulse l'Cie too! The one thing Cocoon hates more than anything! We're enemies of Cocoon, now- and we can't stay anywhere without someone chasing after us! [He pauses, but it's easy to tell he's shaking and terrified.] And if I do keep going, I either get turned into crystal or become a monster. I don't want either of those!

[Voice|| Locked] Y-Yeah. Ichigo's idea of "helping" is pissing Hope off >3>;

[savior_n_black]

Yeah, I get it; your life sucks right now! But would your mom want you to just sit down, and give up?! Huh?!

So you've got a shitty choice to make, Fine! But you know what, if you don't like your choices, then you just have to find a third option! And yeah, it'll probably be hard, and it'll probably take a lot more out of you than you want it to, but guess what; that's life!

You're not the first person to have bad shit happen to them! So what are you gonna do about it?!

[Voice|| Locked] XD Orrrrz playing him this way is so hard sob. I CANNOT WAIT TILL CHAPTER 4+ SRSLY

[hopeandapromise.livejournal.com]

You don't get it! There is no third option when you're a l'Cie! You either complete your Focus, and turn into a crystal- or you wait for time to run out, and you become a Cie'th. It's the same for everyone, no matter who you are. Once you're a l'Cie, you're done. Your life is over.

But I didn't choose this. I didn't choose any of it! So why did it happen to me?

[There's a silence here, as he's trying to calm down and listen to what's going on. Lightning's probably telling them that she's leaving, so he's going with her.]

...we're moving- but there's PSICOM all around right now. I'm not expecting much, and if we're lucky they might just shoot us and end it there. I don't know.

[Ichigo you will piss off the kid with your reasoning, and he will piss you off in his illogical angst. :|b This is going to end well.]

[Voice|| Locked] ...This will only end in tears :|;;

[savior_n_black]

Damn, no wonder you're wallowing in your own emo - you don't listen!

There's always another choice! Your choice! Just because that's the way it's always been, doesn't mean that's the way it will always have to be, alright?!

No one wants bad things to happen, they just do! The point of living is that you keep going, even when it's bad!

[Voice|| Locked] Yeah, Hope's. :'|

[hopeandapromise.livejournal.com]

My choice? I don't want either way, and I want to go back to normal! But that doesn't happen. It can't! Once a l'Cie, always a l'Cie.

[And he pauses, though his voice wavers, and goes almost to a whisper.]

...Just leave me alone, Ichigo. I have to go.

[user has logged off]

[Voice|| Locked] ;3;

[savior_n_black]

[ Sighing, and scrubbing a hand through his hair. Whatever, he would only apologize when Hope got it. No matter how much of a jerk the kid thought he was right now. ]

[invertedwind.livejournal.com]

Dying is hardly the better choice than living.

[hopeandapromise.livejournal.com]

It's better than turning into a crystal, or becoming a monster. I know that much.

[invertedwind.livejournal.com]

But if you die it's just over. At least this way you can still do something before, right?

[hopeandapromise.livejournal.com]

Being a l'Cie means you're doomed to die. I can't do anything about that. And no one trusts a l'Cie, so there's no point in trying to hide. If I lived on, it'd only be pointless.

[invertedwind.livejournal.com]

Living on is never pointless. I know it isn't easy sometimes, but I hope you'll give it a try.