subway sounds, the sounds of complaint

Mature | Major Character Death | Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game), Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game)

Gen | for mellythird | 100 words | 2023-03-21 | the lamb | AO3

Minochi | Cole | Minoth & Ashera (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

Minochi | Cole | Minoth, Ashera (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

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

A curious thing - nice, clever bit of symbolism, or aggravating dramatic irony, depending on how you felt about it, or who you were.

Ashera's title: the Undying. Ashera's Blade: the ever-spinning Inferno Wheel.

She didn't want to stop for the sake of stopping (that was exactly the problem), and Aionios didn't have any real concept of hell, only purgatory, which you chose, and were only labeled a sinner for choosing by the inhabitants of the City, who couldn't, didn't, shape culture.

But of course, she, like he, was to be ever-foiled in her quest for some satisfying, purpose-serving, point-making finale.