Title: Honor Thy Father
Theme: #5; The Critical Moment
Game: Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu
Characters/Pairings: Lex, Langbolt


One of the hardest things in the world is to see your father die. Especially when you must be the one to kill him.

Lex slowly approaches the castle, axe in hand.

His father. The man who raised him. Sure, they'd never gotten along very well, but Lex had always respected him. Even when they were at each other's throats, he never once wished to see his father dead.

Lex swallows as he reaches the castle and faces Langbolt. He has no second thoughts or regrets about this. His father's actions were unforgivable, and he had to be stopped. Of course, that doesn't make it any easier.

As he finally makes eye contact with the man, his heart pounds.

"Dad."

Langbolt glares down at him, the light reflecting off the blade of the holy Swanchika as he steps forward.

"Traitor," he spits. "I am your own father! Have you no shame?"

Lex's gaze hardens.

"I don't like this any more than you do, dad," he says firmly. "But father or not, you had no business doing what you did, and you must be stopped before this goes any further."

Langbolt does not answer, only keeps glaring at his son.

"This is fate. There is nothing that can be done to change it," Lex says.

There's a moment of silence as Lex tightens his grip on his axe.

"Goodbye, dad. I'll always remember you as the harsh, but respectable man you once were," he says.

He charges forward and delivers the killing blow.

As Langbolt's body falls to the castle roof's stone floor, the second prince of Dozel slowly turns away and does not look back.