Kuja snarls, and brings the conjured blades down. She has to die. She deserves to die. He’ll kill her himself if nobody else will, stop her from hurting anyone ever again-
No.
He stops, looks down… and the magic releases, as Trance fades. He’s exhausted, and looking down at her, beaten, broken…
You’ll regret it if you don’t.
He sighs, and kneels, staring directly into her eyes, maintaining eye contact. “Life is pain, you’re absolutely right. It’s painful, sad, and there isn’t nearly enough of it for anybody’s tastes… So until one finds a solution that satisfies, all one can do is cherish the time they’ve been given. As for what I will do now… probably something very stupid. But… Zidane would have done it. And he’s a better person than I am.” He switches to Chemist- his magic is useless right now- and produces, of all things, a potion. “You could help us, you know. Go not gently into that good night, rage against the dying of the light? You said, once, that I might have been an ally. And- you’re right. If our positions were reversed- if you’d been created on Terra, and I’d been made to live on Crystallis- I can’t honestly say I’d have done any different.” The item is contemplated carefully, and then offered. To hell with what anyone else thinks. “You deserve death, for everything you’ve done. But then, so do I, and I’d be a terrible hypocrite if I didn’t at least offer the chance at redemption. After all, if our positions were reversed, our lives exchanged… wouldn’t you have done the same for me?”
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No.
He stops, looks down… and the magic releases, as Trance fades. He’s exhausted, and looking down at her, beaten, broken…
You’ll regret it if you don’t.
He sighs, and kneels, staring directly into her eyes, maintaining eye contact. “Life is pain, you’re absolutely right. It’s painful, sad, and there isn’t nearly enough of it for anybody’s tastes… So until one finds a solution that satisfies, all one can do is cherish the time they’ve been given. As for what I will do now… probably something very stupid. But… Zidane would have done it. And he’s a better person than I am.”
He switches to Chemist- his magic is useless right now- and produces, of all things, a potion. “You could help us, you know. Go not gently into that good night, rage against the dying of the light? You said, once, that I might have been an ally. And- you’re right. If our positions were reversed- if you’d been created on Terra, and I’d been made to live on Crystallis- I can’t honestly say I’d have done any different.”
The item is contemplated carefully, and then offered. To hell with what anyone else thinks. “You deserve death, for everything you’ve done. But then, so do I, and I’d be a terrible hypocrite if I didn’t at least offer the chance at redemption. After all, if our positions were reversed, our lives exchanged… wouldn’t you have done the same for me?”