AN: So, for the past week or so, I've been slowly gaining this urge to write, but not any of the stories I currently am working on. Those are such massive efforts that require my full attention and I won't do half-assed jobs with them. However, while I had this urge, I had no idea WHAT I was looking for to write. Enter SlvrSoleAlchmst1. Through no actual plan to help give me something to write, she managed to show me (via some example, mind you, which I dunno, maybe we can convince her to post? C'mon, let's all pester her!! XD) exactly the sort of thing I'd been looking for. So, here you have it. First-person, letter format.
Special thanks to Suzaku from Lelouch.
Requiescat
Dear People of the World,
This is my requiem.
Tomorrow, I will die. It is not what I want, but what I must do.
I leave the kind and gentle world in your hands now. It never appeared in all its glory and beauty for me, but I shall go complete and whole in my belief that it will happen. That it is happening. My only remaining wish is that you take good care of this newborn world. Like any infant, it is fragile and needs to be nourished with love and kindness. Please keep it safe from those who wish to harm it or turn back the wheel of time to a darker era. All that ends with me.
Yesterday, I destroyed much of your old ways of life. I know that, and a good person would make apologies. I will not. But I will give you new ways, and I argue that they are better ways. Happiness is there, without the constraints of race, nationality, gender, title, and wealth. I urge you to find it, relish it, share it. Make friends, take lovers, and aspire to be the gentlest person you can be. Live life without fear or suppression. Then make your own decisions on whether I was a good person.
Today, I do not allow myself the regret that stems from the deaths of others, for that would be to regret the creation of this new world. It would mean I regret and forsake the lives of the dead who are the foundation for this life. To be honest, I do not believe a human body and mind can withstand that much guilt, so I do not feel it. I have made myself worthy of my bloodstained title of the Devil. It is not what I wanted, but what I must do.
Tomorrow, my death will herald the beginning of a new world. One without the hatred you so rightfully bestow upon me. I will be reduced to far, far less than everything I once was. There will be no more casualties of my selfish wishes, no more blood to stain my vengeful hands. I will become less than zero.
This is my Requiem.
I Am,
Lelouch vi Britannia
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