The Seven Sinners

by The Masked Wanderer

all credit goes to Wishing-Fire, whose seven sins challenge I am taking. This is about Ansem and his six apprentices, and what sins they embody.

5. Even

The Seven Sinners

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts

Even- Gluttony

Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge.

Pure, attainable knowledge.

It had driven Even to the point of madness at one time, and now it was all that was keeping him going. All of his life, he had wanted to know everything the universe could offer him.

Why was the sky blue? Why did apples fall from tress? How did air conditioners produce wind? How did transport ships travel across the dimensions?

But there was one question that Even had never been able to answer. Even now, working under one of the greatest scholarly minds in the universe, he still had not found the answer.

What was the heart truly made of? What was this amazing thing that filled beings with life? What was it that kept that life sustained?

This was THE question.

The ultimate question.

The question that no one had been able to answer in the lifetime of the universe.

A question that could never be answered.

Until now, that is. From the moment he had been enlisted as Ansem's apprentice, Even had spent day after night knee deep in his books. He had looked through thousands of libraries, examined thousands of scrolls, and performed countless experiments and calculations. But all had been in vain; there was no clear answer as to how a phenomenon called 'the heart' was possible.

But Even refused to give up. Everything had an answer, and everything must be answered. For what was the point of living in the universe if one did not understand the universe.

The universe was everything, and so was knowledge. Knowledge was the universe, and Even would have it.

No matter how many hours in the lab it took, no matter how many marriage proposals he refused, no matter how dangerous his experiments could potentially become, Even would have his answers.

Knowledge was everything, and everything was the universe. And Even would have his universe; his gluttonous nature would not stop until he had consumed everything required to understand everything, and become the master of all of time and space, as the greatest mind that ever lived.