Savior

Disclaimer: Hhhhmmmm...lemme think about this now...nope, not mine. Amazing, right?

A/N: Angst is not house broken and must stay outside. You can even bring Tragedy in if you want to, the damn waterworks, but no Angst. Going for original here, so just don't get mad, k?

Savior.

For a human, it's a horrible title. At least heroes are allowed their quirks, sometimes even some selfishness. Saviors are supposed to be altruistic, above even heroes. Something no one human can measure up to. No one should have to. No one dreams of being a savior.

At least heroes save people from situations beyond their control. Heroes run into burning houses to save the baby, rescue the fair maiden from the dragon, pull the injured from a wreck, win the battle. Heroes emerge from the trial unscathed.

Saviors sacrifice things – their limbs, lives, sanity, sometimes even their souls – to save people from Hells of their own making. Being a savior is a thankless job, because people are fools who don't learn and never will, who repeat the same mistakes and must be saved again and again. At great cost to someone else.

Sure they're thankful. But in the end the words ring hollowly as the same people repeat the same mistakes, confident their savior will keep saving them. Or maybe they just don't think at all. The cycle simply starts anew.

Because the only ones who can truly save them are themselves, and they are no longer able to.

Hence people like Rufus Shinra can call for as many Sephiroths and Jenovas to do their worst. Because he's confident his savior can keep beating them. Nevermind his own negligence was part of the reason the originals rose in the first place, the reason they almost succeeded.

Oh, he's not ungrateful, anything but. The Rufuses of this world are very grateful, ready to grant their savior a temple if only he asks for it. Even if he doesn't, they'll try to give it to him anyway. Then they know he'll keep saving them. They forget their savior is human and can only sacrifice so much.

And each sacrifice puts him closer to his end. Because he isn't a God, he's human. And humans can only sacrifice so much before they have nothing left to give.

But Rufus will still try to make his savior a God. Then he'll never have to learn, to change. Never have to acknowledge his faults because he's been saved, those faults are gone. Only God can wipe the slate so completely clean, and oh how he wants it to be clean.

So Rufus will bargain, plead, beg, and threaten – anything to make his savior God. So he can be secure in the knowledge that someone will always be his safety net, always ready to wipe the slate clean again.

Thus the cycle will begin anew, the lessons of past mistakes unlearned. New Sephiroths and Jenovas will rise again, because men like Rufus will not learn, will keep on repeating the mistakes of the past. Will let the lure of power overcome every caution.

And one day the savior will have nothing more to give.

The End

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