"Viva La Vida" – Coldplay
What was it The Comedian had said? It's only a matter of time? Only a matter of time before someone came for him. Adrian Veidt supposed that was an inescapable truth for himself now.
He leafed through the grainy pages of that morning's edition of The New Frontiersman. Rorschach's journal was there, published in those right wing gossip pages. It had taken over a year for this final blow to be delivered. Adrian was honestly surprised to be greeted by the masked man's thoughts with his morning coffee. The corners of the world's smartest man's lips curved upward only the slightest bit. Clever, Rorschach, he mused.
It was only the first installment of the former hero's diary thus far, but there would be more. Adrian was certain there would be more. And he'd be waiting for it, no sense in stopping it now. The world was at peace. His goal had been achieved. He had saved them all.
His shoulders were heavy with the weight of his necessary sacrifice.
Perhaps his time as saint and savior for this world was coming to an end. Adrian gracefully accepted his impending extinction, because nothing ever ends, does it? When the man is gone the ideal survives.
*"Viva La Vida", I'm realizing, is so Adrian's theme song, in my opinion. Also, had to throw a little bit of V for Vendetta in here.