Unitas-Concordia

by Celestos

AU. There are three things that set a first-degree exorcist apart from any other human being: their ability to summon a light-based weapon capable of killing shadows, their instincts telling them to use that weapon… and that apparently, they smell. Shou Marufuji had no idea of that last one. Not until Judai Yuki walked into his life, anyway. Eventual Anikishipping.

1. Prologue: exitium-creatio

Unitas/Concordia

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To Faith, with love.

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Original.
exitium/creatio
a prologue

"In the beginning of all things, there was light.

The light came from one place and yet, it also came from all directions, ending silence with sharp awakenings and forcing life out of confines. It destroyed, and in that sense, created; giving birth to chaos from peace, but in that sense, starting the flow of time and space itself, and thus, through destruction, the light brought creation to the world.

And yet, isn't that contradictory?

Because if the light created all things, then there could have been nothing but light at the start, but there was the darkness, gentle and nurturing, keeping within itself the secrets and the potential of life. Those essences all slept within it, having been created by darkness - but the dark did not allow them to exist, not truly, and so life existed, and yet did not exist, until the coming of the light.

When was life truly born? When are we truly alive? From the moment we taste air for the first time and our first cries sound out? From the moment our hearts, or our brains, or our other organs, take shape in a mess of fluid and voices? From the moment two essences fuse together, in the wake of human unity through convergence in coitus?

There are too many questions in this world. Whichever side you argue for… there is always an answer against it. All things regarding creation are nothing but contradictory.

Perhaps that is the reason why the darkness and the light have coexisted from the time of all beginnings, in the earliest reaches of space - even before the concepts of time and space themselves existed in the way that we now know them.

The world, indeed, is a series of contradictions. And this is why, following on from this perspective, the twin forces of light and darkness, and the two dualities of creation and destruction, have loved each other from the universe's beginning, and hated each other, too."

- Excerpt from 'The Ways of the Universe and the Nature of Man: The Alchemist's Reflections on Nature'. Unpublished manuscript, author unknown, approx. early twentieth century. Translation from German by A. Daitokuji.

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Author's note

'destruction/creation'

Welcome to a project that I've already half-written for convenience's sake! This has been on-and-off and in the works since September 2015. I just couldn't bear the idea that this ship gets so little love...

The title is officially written as 'Unitas/Concordia'. However, FFN really seems to dislike slashes. Assume the title hyphen is a slash.

Chapter One will be out on 3/3, faster than the usual 'schedule', being that this is only a brief prologue.

I hope you enjoy the chaos, and the ride that comes with this.

Yours, Celestos