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A/N: These drabbles are all the result of putting my music playlist on shuffle and writing to whatever comes up for the length of the song. Not every lyric of each song applies to them, but each drabble was inspired by the song listed. Most of these drabbles will center around the original game. The sequel might make its way in a few times. These may include up to full game spoilers for both games.
Song: Foundations of Stone, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Soundtrack
Focal Character(s): Lloyd, Mithos
The foundation is, perhaps, the most important part of the building. It supports whatever is built upon it. A foundation can't be moved, or so they say. Sometimes, though, Lloyd couldn't bring himself to believe – or maybe he just didn't want to believe – those words. He knew full well the foundation he was built on, and that it didn't always line up with others'. In fact, it tore at his heart to think he couldn't move others' foundations.
But what were they, foundations? Experiences, memories, that made a person who he or she was. And he wanted so badly to move certain foundations, but he knew that Mithos's foundation was unmovable. He'd spent too many years building on that foundation to move now. But Lloyd wasn't convinced that Mithos's foundation was holding him up any more. In fact, it seemed more to Lloyd that Mithos's foundation was good and solid, but Mithos hadn't figured out how to build on it properly. He'd so contorted the building that it was falling despite its solid foundation.
Foundations can't be moved. But, Lloyd thought as he turned toward the Tower of Salvation to try one last time, sometimes the building can be.