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[solas_ion]

Hey. You.

[Leaning his head on one hand with a bored look on his face, Lancer pointed lazily at the Pokegear's camera with the other.]

Yeah, you. If you're listening to this, I wanna hear about what kinda legends and stories your world has. I'm bored out of my damn mind and could use somethin' interesting to talk about.

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[baremyfangs]

If they're enough to give me nightmares, you don't stand a chance! But if you're sure -

[solas_ion]

I'm sure, I'm sure. Now you've got me all interested.

[baremyfangs]

What do you think of being a puppet of a god?

I was born on a world called Gran Pulse. I was orphaned pretty young thanks to another world's - Cocoon's - l'Cie and falCie. A falCie is the creation of a god and a l'Cie is the creation of a falCie. The falCie wanna be one with their creator again, so they use the l'Cie to do their dirty work.

Needless to say, I was pretty furious with the falCie who caused the death of my parents and so many others. I vowed to destroy it. My sister and I became l'Cie for that sole purpose. We wanted to get close to it. I didn't really want Vanille to be involved in the final battle, but she was stubborn. We ended up fusing together and become a beast called Ragnarok.

(She shudders.)

Our duty - our Focus - was to destroy a world; destroy Cocoon.

[solas_ion]

I think it sucks, to be pretty blunt with you. Gods and I don't really have the best history.

[But he listened regardless, free hand drumming lightly on the table in thought. Weirdly enough, the story didn't seem to faze him one bit.]

So how'd it turn out? Did you get your revenge on it?

[baremyfangs]

Got that right! (Her grin is fierce.) To hell with all of 'em.

Actually, in the end, she and I didn't fuse together like we were supposed to. She was scared of the power, so I ended up becoming the beast all on my own. I cracked Cocoon's shell before a Goddess - named Etro - intervened. She put Vanille and I into a Crystal Stasis.

We ended up sleeping for hundreds of years.

[solas_ion]

[That earned her a low, impressed whistle.] Hell of a thing, handling power like that all on your own. Turnin' into a monster ain't exactly what I'd call easy.

[Not that he'd know or anything.]

That how you ended up here?

[baremyfangs]

Nah, it's - (Her nose wrinkles and she shrugs.) - kinda like losing all control. Nothing can stop it or me.

(Is it even her?)

Not exactly. Vanille and I woke up, joined up with Sunshine - Lightning - and a lot happened. We're all branded; we've all got our own Focuses. I was put back to sleep not long after I met her. It was for the best, I think.

I helped her sister, Serah, like that. Then Vanille and I were woken again to see the end of the world. It's up to Light to decide how it ends. We're on her side.

That's how I came to be here.

[solas_ion]

No kidding. Think I might know the feeling.

[A shrug.]

Sounds rough. You think she'll manage okay?

[baremyfangs]

Been a monster yourself?

(It's like driving an out-of-control car and calling it your body.)

She's done it all so far. I wouldn't trust anyone else more. Besides, I'm one thousand, six hundred and twenty one. Might be approachin' twenty two soon.

I've lived long enough.

[solas_ion]

Yeah. Used to be pretty famous for it, actually. Bones twistin' all out of place, blood everywhere, blind rage, the whole package.

[That didn't get Lancer to blink either. Instead, he frowned and tried to run some quick basic math in his head.]

I'm...damn, I ain't sure on an exact year, but I'm technically somewhere around two thousand or so. Spent most of it dead, so who knows if that counts. Turnin' thirty-somethin' next January, I think.

[baremyfangs]

Sounds like quite a sight! (As well as hella painful.)

Huh! You are an old man. No wonder you didn't blink. (She's impressed.) We gotta celebrate it if we're both around for it.

[solas_ion]

Only ever heard about it secondhand, but I guess I looked like one hell of a mess. Hurt like you wouldn't believe the day after, though.

[Another shrug. Lancer had to acknowledge that after a certain point, most crazy shit just completely failed to faze someone.]

Sounds like a pretty good time to me. Ain't often I hear a story that can match the ones I've got.

[baremyfangs]

You don't remember? Well that's nice. Cuts on the guilt trip.

(Which she has twenty-four-seven-three-sixty-five.)

Likewise! We should get drunk and eat cake.

(Because maturity.)

[solas_ion]

You'd think so, yeah.

[THIS IS FINE he is a perfectly well-adjusted former demigod.]

But hell, ain't a problem in the world booze and cake can't fix.

[baremyfangs]

It's never that easy.

(Again: to hell with it all.)

I keep tellin' Sunshine that. She never agrees.

[solas_ion]

She the uptight serious sorta person? Sometimes you just can't get that type to have any fun.

[baremyfangs]

She's a hero, through and through. She wants to do it right or not at all.

I'm not made out of the same stuff as her.

[solas_ion]

There's a lotta different ways to be a 'hero', kid. You and her both might just be surprised.

[baremyfangs]

(Kid? Hey now, he has four hundred years on her. ...okay maybe she'd do the same thing.)

Maybe. I've been pretty selfish in the past, though. All I cared about was Vanille.