free to flutter in memories of their wasted wings

Teen And Up Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | Xenoblade Chronicles 1 (Video Game)

Gen | for Silver33650 | 100 words | 2023-02-15 | the lamb | AO3

Alvis (Xenoblade Chronicles) & Shulk (Xenoblade Chronicles)

Alvis (Xenoblade Chronicles), Shulk (Xenoblade Chronicles)

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


In this new world, my purpose - my function - is much less well-defined.

No longer am I, so simply, an instrument of destruction and rebirth, conduiting infinite power but granting - being granted - no choice, control over it, to myself.

I am...an individual.

As Shulk, who rescinded from the idea of godhood.

As Shulk, who holds such gentleness and such rage.

I wish to affect moods. I wish...to have them.

I too, possess gentleness and rage.

But I, the lingering affect of instantiated Monado, do not know what to do with them, when they only serve myself.

Then...to Shulk?