Disclaimers: Jinky will never own Tales of the Abyss. She merely owns a copy of the game, but not the game itself.
Author's notes: Gah! This will be the… what?… tenth time I finished the game. I really want to play tales of symphonia, but I just can't find the game! Wah… Anyway, this was inspired by their OST "Meaning of Life"…
Title: Meaning of Life
Summary: What is life? Did my life ever even had a meaning? "I'm a replica. I don't have a meaning…" "I'm the ashes of the sacred flame… I don't have a meaning…" And yet they lived on. Neither did they both know that they gave their lives a meaning. His life for his, and the other way as well.
Pairing: Implied AschLuke and LukeAsch
"I'm a replica! I should die instead! I'll disappear in your place!"
"I'm the ashes of the sacred flame… You took the meaning of my life! I will die instead!"
The two red flames spoke those words – each wanting to die for the other. For them, their lives are worthless – lives taken by the other. Luke wants to die because he is a replica of Asch and that he could give everything back, and Asch wants to die because everything was taken by Luke and now did not have anything to live for.
However, there is a question unanswered…
Even though it's obvious that they both want to die, why are they still striving to live? If they want to die, maybe they could have just went to the oracle knights and allowed them to kill them. It would have been easier to commit suicide than go through all that trouble to save Auldrant. Why? What is pushing them through all that hardships?
Luke wants to live… He doesn't actually want to die.
Asch is afraid of death… and yet he wants to die.
Luke wants to die in Asch's place. He wants Asch to live.
Asch wants to do the same thing. He wants Luke to live (even though he doesn't show it.)
In a way, without the both of them realizing it, they are living to protect the other. Luke wants to die for Asch to live, and Asch wants to die for Luke to live. They are protecting the life of the other. It isn't because they want to save their world or anything – well saving Auldrant is part of the reason – it is because the other part of themselves is alive.
Asch is living because of Luke.
Luke is living because of Asch.
Asch saved Luke a couple of times without even realizing it…
And Luke saved Asch from dying without realizing it too.
It seems rather… weird… for someone like me to witness these things. I am rather jealous of the relationship between these two. I am born without having a reason to live. I continue to search for my own reason silently, and even though I believe that I have found it, it isn't like their reason of living. I live for the sake of many. I live with a responsibility. But they live for each other.
Luke obviously can't live if Asch is dead…
And even though he doesn't show it, I know that Asch would feel the same thing.
They are both significant for each other. Luke fights because of Asch… because he wants to be recognized by his original, and Asch fights because of Luke… because he wants to prove that he's real. Without the other, they wouldn't have much of a reason to live. Luke is the meaning of Asch's life, and Asch is the meaning for Luke's life.
Inwardly… I'm jealous…
I hope that I can find my own meaning of life like they did…
To live because of someone else…
I hope that I have someone like that too…
- Ion
Author's notes: Meh… just a drabble that was playing inside my mind. It's rather weird to have Ion talking that way. But well… gah. I could have Guy saying that, but it would be weird. I don't really know… What the heck…? I'm confused with my own fanfic?! Well… no matter. Reviews please!