Gundam Drabbles

by tati1

Drabbles on the Gundam pilots, starting with 'Party Night' why Heero couldn't kill Relena, and including a 'why Wufei hates women'. Oneshot series The Weapons of Their Destruction now added!

10. The Weapon of His Life in Death

The Weapons of Their Destruction

By tati1

Summary: This is a series of five drabbles, going backwards through the G-boys, about how the guys felt about their Gundams. Zechs and Treize not included.

A/N: All information you may not understand is directly from the manga Episode Zero or from the Gundam Wing show.

Drabble 02: The Weapon of His Life in Death

By tati1

Duo had never bought into the shit Father Maxwell had tried to feed him. No loving God would have let Solo die. No loving God would have permitted the Maxwell Church Massacre.

The God of Death, however, would have. The God of Death did not ask to be liked; did not expect to always do good deeds; did not expect to be understood. He did his job to get what he wanted. Duo understood that, and in that understanding, willingly took on the burden of administering death.

Wufei thought it merely proof of Duo's insanity that he went by the title Shinigami, but Trowa and Heero understood, and despite Duo's outward I-love-everyone appearance, all the pilots knew better than to push him far enough to let the God of Death out. In exchange, Duo tried to reserve his hatred and his private, private madness for enemies, where it was okay for him to taunt those he killed as they died. It was perfectly alright to revel in their screams as their mecha blew up with them still inside, and just dandy for him to laugh as he blew up yet another enemy base housing thousands of life forms.

Deathscythe was his weapon of choice of course, and later Deathscythe Hell replaced it. He held a deep affection for his Gundam; it helped him to claim the God of Death's name, and helped him to do the God of Death's job. Deathscythe gave him the power to choose who lived and who died, and as he dragged his unwilling victims into his personal world of torment, Duo always found it delightful that he could enjoy these lives in his Death.

Letting go of Deathscythe was hard, perhaps even harder for him than it was for Quatre, especially since Heero wasn't there this time to catch him as he finally tried to see what life outside of death could really mean.

Deathscythe and its alternate form of Deathscythe Hell had helped him to gain his revenge, but he wondered if he could actually live when he was still so dead.

End.