I'M RAEL

Teen And Up Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game)

Gen | for meownacridone | 100 words | 2023-01-18 | the lamb | AO3

Minochi | Cole | Minoth & Marubeeni | Amalthus

Minochi | Cole | Minoth, Marubeeni | Amalthus

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel

He has to win. He can't but win. Everyone's telling him, you're gonna win, you're gonna get out of this, look how far you're gonna go--

The emphasis of it all is staggering - sheer impetus exploding toward future he doesn't see, can't see, knows it's his own fault he's not gouging his eyes out for seeing.

He's gotta win. They think he's a winner.

But his opponent is the back-turned-double-headed eyes of the gunning Quaestor-Praetor.

That man? Not a winner by any stretch of the imagination.

What he is? An operator who hates with a vile, vociferous passion to lose.