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All for Nothing
Two years ago, we defeated Sephiroth. Our victory, however, was short-lived. Sure, we were paraded about as the saviors of the planet, hailed as heroes, but they never realized it. One of the plain facts about our journey, The fact that we, AVALANCHE, were not heroes, but victims.
The obvious reasons for this are not the ones that make us the victimized. Tifa and I had our innocence and youth taken away when our hometown was burned to the ground. Barret had a similar experience. Red XIII lost many years of his life to the Shin-Ra while he was Hojo's specimen. Reeve lost his job and his dignity. Cid lost all faith in the people who made him what he is. Yuffie's nation lost all respect and power. Vincent...he lost everything that made him human.
Yet those things are not the facts that made us victims. We were all short-sighted then. How could we not see it? I have looked around recently, only to realize all we did was in vain.
It saddens me to realize that the world has not changed. The Shin-Ra were evil, Sephiroth was evil, and Jenova was evil. We defeated or toppled each one, but we never saw the true evils of the world. We only saw the actions of those few as evil, and yet we never wondered why. We never wondered why the Shin-Ra were willing to kill the Planet, why Sephiroth did all the things he did, why Jenova killed off the Cetra.
I'm sure everyone has figured these things out by now. We were blind. We were always jumping to conclusions. We killed Sephiroth and Jenova, plus many of the top-ranking Shin-Ra officials. I look around today, and I still see the same evils.
Greed seems to run this world. The Shin-Ra are gone, but a dozen new groups have emerged just like them. People murder one another. Goods are stolen. There seems to be no good left in the world. Things are perhaps worse off than before.
The world has fallen back on it's old habits. The rich live in luxury, the poor rot in the gutters of major cities, terrorists and thieves run rampant, and the wars have started again. Will there be no peace? Will anyone be able to sleep at night?
We gave it all for nothing.
Nothing.
---I wrote this one around the same time as Awaiting Judgement, so I was kinda hard-pressed for ideas. Sorry for the short length, I'm working on another, much longer fic about Yuffie and Vincent, but it's not ready to be posted yet. Please R&R.
All for Nothing
Two years ago, we defeated Sephiroth. Our victory, however, was short-lived. Sure, we were paraded about as the saviors of the planet, hailed as heroes, but they never realized it. One of the plain facts about our journey, The fact that we, AVALANCHE, were not heroes, but victims.
The obvious reasons for this are not the ones that make us the victimized. Tifa and I had our innocence and youth taken away when our hometown was burned to the ground. Barret had a similar experience. Red XIII lost many years of his life to the Shin-Ra while he was Hojo's specimen. Reeve lost his job and his dignity. Cid lost all faith in the people who made him what he is. Yuffie's nation lost all respect and power. Vincent...he lost everything that made him human.
Yet those things are not the facts that made us victims. We were all short-sighted then. How could we not see it? I have looked around recently, only to realize all we did was in vain.
It saddens me to realize that the world has not changed. The Shin-Ra were evil, Sephiroth was evil, and Jenova was evil. We defeated or toppled each one, but we never saw the true evils of the world. We only saw the actions of those few as evil, and yet we never wondered why. We never wondered why the Shin-Ra were willing to kill the Planet, why Sephiroth did all the things he did, why Jenova killed off the Cetra.
I'm sure everyone has figured these things out by now. We were blind. We were always jumping to conclusions. We killed Sephiroth and Jenova, plus many of the top-ranking Shin-Ra officials. I look around today, and I still see the same evils.
Greed seems to run this world. The Shin-Ra are gone, but a dozen new groups have emerged just like them. People murder one another. Goods are stolen. There seems to be no good left in the world. Things are perhaps worse off than before.
The world has fallen back on it's old habits. The rich live in luxury, the poor rot in the gutters of major cities, terrorists and thieves run rampant, and the wars have started again. Will there be no peace? Will anyone be able to sleep at night?
We gave it all for nothing.
Nothing.
---I wrote this one around the same time as Awaiting Judgement, so I was kinda hard-pressed for ideas. Sorry for the short length, I'm working on another, much longer fic about Yuffie and Vincent, but it's not ready to be posted yet. Please R&R.