Ahhh, I need to stop writing stupid poetry and finish my latest project... I'm sorryyyyy! But I started playing FFIX and I fell in love with Dagger and Zidane and Vivi and AWW IT'S SO CUTE. SO THIS IS HERE. IT'S ABOUT DAGGER AND HER NAME AND THERE ARE SPOILERS. SO HA.
My name is Garnet til Alexandros 17th.
I was named for the precious stone
The red gem that sparkles like fire
The beautiful crystal that is used to call upon him.
He is the great dragon that protects the innocent,
The mighty beast that sails the skies and directs the heavens.
I am also named for the guardian of my home
The benevolent eidolon that lends his name
Not only to me,
But to my kingdom.
My home.
The place I love and cherish.
I am the eighteenth woman to bear this name
The first sixteen were rulers
Powerful and intelligent and courageous women
Who led our armies to victory
Our home to peace and good fortune.
The seventeenth never grew to be a strong ruler
She had passed on before her seventh birthday
Never again to laugh or sing or read or dream.
I am not only named for her,
But I was forced to become her
Because her face was the same as mine.
My name is Garnet til Alexandros 17th,
And that is what my name means.
--
My name is Dagger.
I have no last name,
Because my name is fake.
I was named after the weapon of someone dear to me.
Like a dagger, I intended to be
Sharp, quick, dangerous, and untouchable.
But I often would find myself stumbling
A wonderful weapon in the hands of an untrained warrior
In need of sharpening and shining.
The man whose weapon named me
He gave me courage
He gave me strength
He gave me a voice.
I am called by this name because I have to hide.
I am called by this name because it is too dangerous
To run around with my "real" name
Still attached to me like a target on my back.
I am called by this name because
I'm meant to become nobody
I'm meant to fade into the abyss
Once I have filled this purpose.
Like a knife replaced once it is rusted and bent,
My name, and the identity that comes with it
Is meant to disappear when the battle ends.
But still I hear him call me
By this name
And I smile
Because more and more I'd like to think that
He who never throws away his weapons
Who respects them and cares for them
Would give me the same respect.
At first, he made no sense,
And I didn't trust him.
But I still titled myself after his blade,
And that is what my name means.
--
I do not know my own name.
I know that when I was very small, I lived here
In the village of people who could call out
And their words would be heard by eidolons,
The magnificent, incredible creatures of legend and power.
I know that, until the day this place was destroyed,
People would call my name and I would turn to answer.
Maybe they were my parents.
I don't remember.
I learned about the creatures whose power I could borrow
And I was so glad to know that I would never be alone.
But then I was alone, because my home was gone,
Gone, like my family
Like my hope
Like my identity.
I am an orphan of the village of summoners.
I do not have a name.
I am scared because I can't remember who I am
I am scared because maybe I'm no one.
I am scared because
I don't know the name my parents gave me,
And without it,
They are gone forever.
That is what it means to be nameless.
--
My name is Dagger.
With this identity, I survived my mother's death
And became a queen.
And I thought that was all.
I didn't need to be "Dagger" anymore,
And I threw away this name.
And then it was gone
--
My name is Garnet til Alexandros 17th.
I am the defeated queen of a ruined kingdom
And I have failed to protect my home.
I thought I could be "Garnet".
But when my world was torn apart before my eyes
This name that I had taken back had failed me.
The name "Garnet" became a meaningless word
And then I was called Dagger again.
But I felt like the nameless orphan that no one remembered,
Crumbling in the dust of another broken home.
--
My name is Dagger.
For a while, I got scared, and my voice flew away.
And still this is what he called.
He called for me and believed in me.
"Dagger, Dagger, Dagger."
He called for me.
And I couldn't answer, because my voice had left me.
So I went to find it,
And soon after he came to find me.
I used his weapon
My namesake
To cut my hair.
I had to get rid of the old "Garnet"
To become a better "Dagger".
I had to throw away the things of my past that I couldn't change
And to learn about the future that belonged to me.
Then, like a weapon in the masterful hands of a soldier,
I grew to be more dangerous, skilled, and brave.
I could finally protect the people I cared for the most,
That is the gift he gave me.
My name is Dagger,
And that is what my name means.
--
My name is Sarah.
It was written on the Eidolon Wall in my former home,
The place where I was born.
The man whose weapon named me
Found a message scratched into the ancient wall.
My father wrote it,
And that is the name he called me.
My father had survived the attack on my former home,
But he was badly hurt.
Somehow he had made his way to the wall.
And he wrote a letter to myself and to my mother.
And he told me that he loved me
And that I made his life beautiful.
I do not know who or what I was named for.
I do not know my father's name.
I do not know my last name.
I do not know if my mother was beautiful.
I do not know if I had any brothers or sisters
Aunts or uncles
Cousins or nephews.
I do not know if I've ever met my grandparents
And I do not know what my parents looked like.
I don't know these things, and perhaps I never will.
But I do know
That I am loved
And that I was destined to be the person
That I have become.
I know that the name I was given at birth has a special meaning.
The name "Sarah" means "princess."
I am Sarah
The princess.
The runaway.
The orphan.
The summoner.
The guardian.
My name is Sarah.
This is what my name means.
