The Villagers: Chapter One
The Greatest Hero (Villager of Focus: Father Nikolai)
Genre: Friendship/Spiritual
Every day, I try to grasp what is what. I ask many people about this sort of thing, and they all say the same thing.
"Father Nikolai would know."
I've had many a talk with him. He is a very kind, very gentle man. If I could describe what speaking with him is like in one word, I would say….refreshing. It is….refreshing to know someone like this….especially after fighting so many ravenous beasts and merciless apparitions. If I could feel, I would say I'd feel appreciation, yet he tells me he is merely doing the will of the Lord by being as merciful as he has.
I am sure that I have heard much of the Lord before the….the incident. Alas, I must ask again as every word, every image in the past has fled me.
What Nikolai teaches me would….no…..it does fascinate me. How this whole world and all life on it came to be in a mere week….how He would fight so hard to have His children freed from oppression, how He would protect His faithful from certain death, how He Himself came to the world in the form of an ordinary man, how He healed the sick and burdened in miraculous ways, how He fed the starving through incredible means, how He even raised people from the dead, and in spite of His great deeds and kindness, was betrayed, abused, and murdered….and yet He saved mankind through those events and later came back to life, how He returned to the Heavens in such a way that the mental picture I had would have left me with a light, almost ticklish feeling on the inside had I my emotions still within me it was so majestic….how His friends and later their friends spread the story far and wide, how He changed the heart of a nation that once stood to oppose His people to being the most devout city of all, how His power still works wondrous feats to this day, and one day, be it soon or in the far distant future, He will eradicate all evils from the whole universe and restore it to harmony….
….No more monsters….no more Dracula….it sounds most ideal.
I still have no clue how to think about the entirety of what I have been told, yet something in my heart….resonates with this….
….I almost could have sworn I felt a brief sense of emotion….who knows?
Father Nikolai frequently asks me to attend Mass on Sundays, and while I cannot at the moment….I think….I think I most definitely will when my mission is complete….
Perhaps I may have a miracle happen to me and be restored to who I once was, before everything within was erased and the chase for the ultimate glyph began, but if not, starting over doesn't seem like a bad option, either.
Whatever He has planned for me.
A/N: Hi guys! Bet you didn't expect to see any Castlevania related stuff coming from me, eh? Well...I wouldn't blame you...I'm not a huge fan of it. Too much macabre and spooks, not enough color and cheer. Order of Ecclesia, though, is an exception for me. It's not as dark or creepy as the other games (muted colors and howling ghosts that reappear in mountains that are stacked with fear, sure, but it's a bit lessened and actually more focused on a sort of "Ohana" theme, adding a real sense of heart to it), the gameplay is super fun (honestly, other than the Giant Skeleton, Blackmore, and the last and bonus areas, I didn't find it that hard), and I really like the plot as well. And though many accuse Shanoa of being bland, cut her some slack, she kinda had her memories, even her knowledge of how to feel properly, ripped out of her by the ultimate glyph (FAZOODLE IT ALL, BARLOWE!). Another reason I liked OoE better than the other titles is because of the villagers. They were, for the most part, nice and people of good faith, and they added a bit more charm to the game, which is something I really like. And thus, I decided to write this little fic series right here! :)
Just so you know, there's only 1 1/2 pairings in this drabble series. There's LauraXMarcel *dodges incoming rotten cabbages* Laura is always saying she's looking for a man (there's this one voice clip in Sound Mode where she says "Albus? That man is awful...but I like the way he looks!" that cracks me up so much...even if I'm 90% sure she pronounced Albus' name wrong XD) and Marcel said he was interested in her after you complete all of his sidequests, so, yeah. Oh, and then there's Abram having a slight implied crush on Shanoa (of course, she doesn't quite...get him...so it's definitely a one-sided thing), considering what he says after you complete his last sidequest.
I had a wonderful warm and fuzzy feeling inside me while writing this one (similar to the feeling Shanoa described she would have had if her emotions were still in tact), and that is due to the fact I am an outspoken Christian. God is just fantastic beyond words, and He has never let me down once. I don't think I can imagine life without serving and loving Him, and it's because of Him that I am able to write and draw and play video games and view his gorgeous world and simply live a comfortable life. All glory to God! :D
(if you're not a Christian though, I don't judge. We were given free will, and I won't question your decisions on how you're using yours (besides, we're not supposed to do things like judge or hate))
Also, Through the Cracks of Time as well as Water and Fire are far from cancelled (if anything, the former should get an update quite soon!), I'm just hitting a few roadblocks with them, and as for Chanson de Represailles, it's on hiatus for now, but I am far from abandoning it. I never thought writing an FFVIII AU set in the French Revolution would be so tricky to write, but oh well. I'll think of something in due time!
Anyway, next up should be Jacob's drabble, something that's a mix of humorous and sentimental.
