please god, not in front of the founders

General Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game)

M/M | for minorthirds | 111 words | 2023-04-29 | Xeno Series | AO3

Shulk (Xenoblade Chronicles)/A (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

Shulk (Xenoblade Chronicles), A (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed DLC, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek References, Drabble

And still the warmth lingers, even in untouchable places.

"I...I thought we were going to die."

Living within Origin's old-life suspension system doesn't exactly instantaneously and surefiredly afford you the fearlessness that is necessary to face down such a being as that. Even with his existence, his "life" in Aionios being such a hollow projection as it was, Shulk felt that pervading fear even more fully than he had when facing Zanza.

A system whose object was destroying them, if not by force than by mere omission.

We all were going to die. But no person this tightly interwoven lacks such a sense of self.

"Not possible." A spoke softly, with a lilt of nostalgia. "You were never alone."