Author's Note: Unofficial fifty-sentence challenge, like the ones on LJ. (They are numbered in Roman Numerals.) If you want to give it a pairing, it's Rikku x life. Rikku-centric. Timeframe spans from Rikku's childhood to the end of Yuna's pilgrimage. Enjoy.
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I. Change
Your father watches you put a machina back together and he wonders when you got to be so smart.
II. Break
The medics come tell your father the news, and you ask if he fixes machina, can't he fix mommy?
III. Full
Vydran tries to cook dinner, but you always like it better when Keyakku makes pizza; you go to bed satisfied.
IV. Smile
When the sun beats down and you sweat rivers and machina grease coats your fingers - that's the best.
V. Light
That boy you used to hate because he was such a meanie-head visits you and laughs and says you're cute; you say he looks like an angel.
VI. Dark
The angel goes off to fight a war.
VII. Blue
You love the desert like life itself, but sometimes you wonder, how blue is the ocean?
VIII. Dare
Brother wants to see you find that ocean; it's three days before Vydran finds you on the coast, delirious with thirst, but happy.
IX. Snap
Some days, Home isn't enough for you anymore, and you wonder if a part of you is broken.
X. Travel
Vydran has a salvage ship now but says no, you aren't old enough, and you say that's too bad 'cause you'll go anyway.
XI. Water
The ocean is bluer than anything you've ever seen.
XII. Earth
You've forgotten the way sand feels between your fingers; can you go home?
XIII. Fall
You and Brother spot an old red airship under the waves, but the lifting chains break and it drifts out of sight.
XIV. Chances
You find a boy in the ruins who isn't Al Bhed and think maybe you can prove your race isn't so bad, since you saved him and all.
XV. Small
Brother criticizes you for bringing Tidus aboard, and you never thought it was possible to feel so small.
XVI. White
Tidus talks about Zanarkand and you try to imagine it, but the picture in your mind is covered with static.
XVII. Open
You never thought a non-Al Bhed would be this willing to talk to you.
XVIII. Edge
Sin comes, Tidus goes, and you feel monotony waiting in the wings again.
XIX. Hurt
When you get back to Home, you're surprised at how much you missed it.
XX. Dream
Gippal dies and Tidus disappears and Mom is bloody and - and when you wake up, you cry.
XXI. Space
You sign up to help stop summoners from traveling, partly for the cause, partly to get away from Home again.
XXII. Belief
The summoner is your cousin, Tidus is her guardian, and for a minute you believe in fate.
XXIII. Orange
When Wakka is mad at you, you could swear his hair starts to glow.
XXIV. Yellow
You steal chocobo feathers from a fiend and tuck them in your pocket; they'll help you move even faster.
XXV. Near
Somehow you end up on Bikanel Island again, and you feel Home calling to you.
XXVI. Long
Keyakku dies, Home burns, and you realize what a long journey lies ahead.
XXVII. Plain
You think Yuna's nice and all, but what does Tidus really see in her besides simplicity?
XXVIII. Beauty
When Yuna dances, you almost could fall in love with her too, so you don't blame Tidus anymore.
XXIX. Drink
Tidus calls Jecht a useless drunk and you wish he knew his father sober.
XXX. More
Standing at the foot of Mt. Gagazet, you pray for more time.
XXXI. Material
Everyone's clothes are dirty and smelly and torn, but when you suggest skinning fiends, you get funny looks.
XXXII. Storm
The Zanarkand sunset is beautiful, but you wish for thunder and lightening and hail - anything to slow Yuna down.
XXXIII. Wise
You wish you could be more like Lulu.
XXXIV. Soul
Auron is an Unsent, you find out, and you realize in certain light you can see pyreflies under his skin.
XXXV. Battle
Fiend after fiend, closer and closer to Yunalesca, and you feel Yuna losing her battle for calm composure.
XXXVI. Loss
All the summoners and guardians who died before you, their memories playing in the pyreflies, and you only think of your mother.
XXXVII. Quiet
Yunalesca asks for volunteers to die and become an aeon; you stay silent, because you'll never give up living.
XXXVIII. Laughter
Yunalesca dies and everyone is mourning; are you the only one who wants to sing? She's gone! She's gone! Yunie's still alive!
XXXIX. Old
Yuna is seventeen, you are only fifteen, but your hearts feel as if they're eighty: you have not killed Sin.
XL. Fact
The truth is you're scared to defeat Sin; would it mean killing Tidus' dad?
XLI. Action
You run around Spira looking for the most powerful weapons - anything to keep you in motion.
XLII. Sigh
At night, you know Yuna comes to a decision when you hear her sigh and finally drift to sleep; you're still awake.
XLIII. Tide
You rip a hole in Sin and fly through; everyone else hears Seymour laugh, but you hear the ocean.
XLIV. Night
You kill Jecht and Tidus cries.
XLV. Tired
Sin is dead - shouldn't everyone be happier?
XLVI. Love
Mom died, Gippal left, Auron died (again), Tidus faded - who's left to love?
XLVII. Dead
Do dreams really die?
XLVIII. Drums
There is a parade for the successful guardians, and everyone cries when they see Yuna alive.
XLIX. Bone
Sometimes you miss them all so much that your bones hurt.
L. Free
Pops pulls that airship out of the sea for you and you smile.
