the porcelain mannequin with shattered skin fears attack

Teen And Up Audiences | Major Character Death | Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game)

Gen | for MachineryField | 100 words | 2022-09-15 | the lamb | AO3

X (Xenoblade Chronicles 3) & Y (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

X (Xenoblade Chronicles 3), Y (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

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

"We're not Consuls. We're Moebius - the REAL Moebius. Always have been. Always will be."

"The real? But is it not so often said that X, Y, and Z make up the miscellany of the alphabet? That they deliver only superfluous, trivial meaning, not worth naming?"

"Y, what are you--"

Was this his arcane, obtuse way of saying to her that he, too, was afraid? That they were...meaningless? But Moebius didn't know fear! Moebius lived forever! It was a fact the same way Z was a fact!

And Z...

"We were never alive, X."

Never were, never will be again.