[He pauses a little, just to get his story in order. This is a man who has no idea what his world is like after all. It's like telling Ventus all over again.]
With the prodding of my new companion, a girl who'd noticed that the woman who fell from the bridge was my mother, I followed the leader of the rebel group to speak to him about my mother-- he was heading towards the Pulse fal'Cie because it had apparently captured his fiancee. In the fal'Cie's vestige, we found not only her but her sister, a soldier who'd quit to be able to find her freely, and a man who accompanied her because she was a soldier.
It was when we all came together that we found out it was the man's fiancee who had met the fal'Cie before it had even been discovered by the military. She had branded a l'Cie-- a person given powers to accomplish a specific goal for the fal'Cie. If they fail, the l'Cie transforms into a monster and has no trace of the human it used to be. However, if the l'Cie succeeds in completing this Focus, they become crystal and gain 'eternal life' as a reward.
[The huff that follows that statement shows just what he thinks of this so-called reward.]
The woman crystallized and her fiance and sister decided to attack the fal'Cie in revenge. The rest of us, we went along with it because with the military closing in on us, there was nowhere else to go.
We had fought the fal'Cie, but it forcibly inserted our eidoliths into our bodies, thus branding us and giving us the same Focus as Serah.
[He doesn't realize he'd said her name, but when he does a fraction of a second later, it's too late to take it back.
Hope starts to pace around his room, an unconscious action as he turns his dull eidolith around and around in his hands.]
While we were being branded, the military had begun to gun down the fal'Cie-- it had most likely died in the attack, because we never found its remains. But they had found us instead just a few hours later, and knew we were a threat as well, despite being Cocoon citizens. Naturally, they had orders to detain us-- kill us if necessary.
Obviously, the only thing we could do was fight back [kill] and run while they regrouped.
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[He pauses a little, just to get his story in order. This is a man who has no idea what his world is like after all. It's like telling Ventus all over again.]
With the prodding of my new companion, a girl who'd noticed that the woman who fell from the bridge was my mother, I followed the leader of the rebel group to speak to him about my mother-- he was heading towards the Pulse fal'Cie because it had apparently captured his fiancee. In the fal'Cie's vestige, we found not only her but her sister, a soldier who'd quit to be able to find her freely, and a man who accompanied her because she was a soldier.
It was when we all came together that we found out it was the man's fiancee who had met the fal'Cie before it had even been discovered by the military. She had branded a l'Cie-- a person given powers to accomplish a specific goal for the fal'Cie. If they fail, the l'Cie transforms into a monster and has no trace of the human it used to be. However, if the l'Cie succeeds in completing this Focus, they become crystal and gain 'eternal life' as a reward.
[The huff that follows that statement shows just what he thinks of this so-called reward.]
The woman crystallized and her fiance and sister decided to attack the fal'Cie in revenge. The rest of us, we went along with it because with the military closing in on us, there was nowhere else to go.
We had fought the fal'Cie, but it forcibly inserted our eidoliths into our bodies, thus branding us and giving us the same Focus as Serah.
[He doesn't realize he'd said her name, but when he does a fraction of a second later, it's too late to take it back.
Hope starts to pace around his room, an unconscious action as he turns his dull eidolith around and around in his hands.]
While we were being branded, the military had begun to gun down the fal'Cie-- it had most likely died in the attack, because we never found its remains. But they had found us instead just a few hours later, and knew we were a threat as well, despite being Cocoon citizens. Naturally, they had orders to detain us-- kill us if necessary.
Obviously, the only thing we could do was fight back [kill] and run while they regrouped.
[Notice he's not mentioning what his Focus was.]