#Amodar

[kingsglaivus]

The parallels

[dresspheres]

Here are some more screenshots, this time for the characters from Final Fantasy XIII! As always, each character has their own folder. Please like or reblog this post if you're planning on use them. Some screenshots may be blurry or out of focus as I haven’t gone through them with a fine toothed comb.

Alexander (274)

Amodar (316)

Bahamut (73)

Bartholomew Estheim (1,109)

Brynhilde (149)

Cid Raines (1,447)

Dajh Katzroy (560)

Gadot (1,149)

Galenth Dysley (1,864)

Hecatonchier (24)

Hope Estheim (18,876)

Jihl Nabaat (1,117)

Lebreau (595)

Lightning Farron (25,157)

Maqui (484)

Nora Estheim (650)

Odin (234)

Oerba Dia Vanille (23,980)

Oerba Yun Fang (11,711)

Orphan (502)

Ragnorok (226)

Rygdea (348)

Sazh Katzroy (18,919)

Serah Farron (4,449)

Shiva (190)

Snow Villiers (20,012)

Yaag Rosch (1,501)

Yuj (446)

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[razieltwelve]

Rise and Shine (Vestige AU)

Lightning woke up to find a familiar face grinning down at her.

“Rise and shine, sunshine.”

She reached for a pillow and heaved it at Fang. The other woman smirked and caught the pillow out of the air. “Your puns are awful, and you should feel bad.”

“My puns are awesome, and you love them.”

Lightning rolled over. “Your puns suck, but I love you.”

“Yeah, yeah.” Fang hoisted Lightning over her shoulder. “Come on. They’re picking activity up in the Vestige.”

Lightning yawned as Fang began to march down the corridor, so they could get suited up. “Has anything come through yet?”

“Nope.” Fang waved jauntily at the techs as she set Lightning back down on her feet. The techs exchanged eye rolls and hastened to get the pair outfitted. “Nothing has come through yet, but we’ve already got a read on the size of the dimensional breach.”

“Oh?”

“At least one Category VI with another two Category Vs expected.” Fang stretched. The suit never felt quite right until she’d stretched, and it never felt quite complete until she and Lightning were in Odin’s conn pod with a neural link between them. Until that happened, the suit was just something to wear instead of the second skin it became once they were ready to go.

“That explains why they’re scrambling Odin. Who else is on standby.”

Amodar’s voice came over the speakers as Lightning and Fang made their way down another corridor toward Odin’s head.

Lebreau’s voice came through over the speakers. “Chaos is standing by, we’re just waiting for the pilots. Shiva is already ready to go, as is Bahamut.”

Fang chuckled. “Vinny and Yuffie are probably arguing again.”

“Probably.” Lightning nodded as a pair of mechanics opened the door into Odin’s head. The interior lit up as they entered, and they settled into the familiar harnesses and waited as the head descended and locked itself into place. The neural handshake was as quick and complete as always. Fang’s presence was less a ghost in the back of her mind and more a warm cloak that settled around her. “You good?”

Fang’s amusement came through the link. “You ask that every time. I’m good.”

“Good.” Lightning cleared her throat. “Serah and Lumina, any problems on your end. How are the repairs on Bahamut?”

“Green across the board,” Serah replied. “Vanille and Lumina supervised those repairs personally. The affected areas are probably better than they were before they got damaged.”

Lightning flicked a glance toward the display that showed the other conn pods. Her sisters were relaxed and ready to go. Snow and Hope were the same, the pair idly chatting about the football game they’d been watching. As for Yuffie and Vincent...

“Are they still not ready yet?” Lightning asked, a hint of irritation bleeding into her voice.

“They will be ready in two minutes or less,” Marshal Amodar said, speaking to all of them for the first time. “Otherwise, they will find themselves scrubbing Chaos clean with toothbrushes.”

In a matter of moments, Yuffie and Vincent were magically ready to go.

“All right,” Amodar said. “New intel has come through. There are three fal’Cie headed our way. A Category VI and two Category Vs. Estimated time of arrival is one hour. I want you to meet them in the shallow of the harbour at designated defence point alpha. We’ll use our point defences and mobile weapons platforms to shepherd them toward you.”

“How’s our sensor coverage of the harbour, sir?” Lightning asked. “Could they sneak around us?”

“Negative,” Amodar replied before glancing at Lebreau.

“Sensor coverage is at 100%. All sonar, radar, and other sensors that were damaged in the last engagement have been repaired or replaced. We’ve also placed an additional twenty sensors throughout the harbour to ensure better overlapping coverage. We’ll have to keep an eye out for any cloak or stealth abilities, but barring those, we should have eyes on them the whole time.”

“Our deployment, sir?” Lightning asked.

“I want Odin running point,” Amodar said. “You are to engage the Category VI and eliminate it as quickly as possible with Bahamut offering support. Shiva and Chaos are to engage a Category V each. Eliminate them if possible but focus on keeping them away from the Category VI.”

“Understood, sir. Moving out.”

“Sounds like a good plan,” Fang murmured as Odin began to move, the Eidolon almost unnaturally graceful despite its size and mechanical nature. “So far, whenever a Category VI has attacked, it has always assumed command over the lesser fal’Cie.”

“Yes.” Lightning ran through Odin’s various sensory modes. It was night time, so some combination of infrared, sonar, and radar was probably best. They could use false colour too, which should make the fal’Cie stand out even more from their surroundings. “The lower level fal’Cie tend to attack in a manner closer to wild animals.”

“How do you want to do this?” Serah asked as Bahamut moved behind Odin. “Usual plan?”

“That should work,” Fang said. “We can go ahead, get the fal’Cie all tied up, and you can try and get some good hits in while it’s occupied. How’s Bahamut’s lance?”

Vanille cackled as she settled into her place on the command deck. “The lance is perfectly functional!” Amodar gave her an amused glance and motioned for her to continue. “Remember, the explosives in the lance are not designed to trigger on impact. Once you stab the fal’Cie with the lance, you need to manually detonate the explosives. Assuming you get a good stab in, the explosives should go off inside the fal’Cie.”

“Nice.” Fang nodded. “Yeah. We’ll distract it. Just wait for an opening.”

[uinre]

Is that any way to talk to your commanding officer?

FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 (2011)

[fyresaber]

lightning farron and her father

thinking about the likely accidental death of lightning’s father and its role in her lore i mean trauma

he almost certainly died doing something stupid ("father was sort of a dangerous type himself") that lightning is unable to forgive, and suddenly things start lining up. her instinctual vitriol towards snow for not being the type of man who could protect her sister, her refusal to accept anything less than perfect on serah’s behalf, her assumption of a paternal role with consequent replication of stringent mistakes, her retrospection that had her father lived she would have rebelled against him.

lightning's primary villains across the course of the trilogy, barthandelus, caius, and bhunivelze are all father figures. as the emblem of maternity it is her destiny to reclaim that which was stripped at their hands. lightning also has three canon “daddy bear” (her first words in this universe) figures including her dad, amodar, and snow (her relationships with sazh and laguna aside). her eidolon odin is defined as her father, who is canonically the presence she is most comfortable and happy with. there are several quests in lightning returns, a game that revolves around lightning's introspection, that revolve around father-daughter relationships (okay babygirl we get it you had daddy issues!!). lightning offers to deliver the message to sarala that her father is dead because she knows how it feels to lose her father suddenly herself.

in addition to lightning's domination of the aforementioned father figures, lightning spurns her father only to forgive him through loving snow. in accepting snow in ffxiii she reconciles with the grudge she held for her parents, born from a sense that they abandoned her and left her and serah on their own in their deaths; that her father wasn’t strong enough to protect their family and that’s why they suffered the way they did.

and the culmination of this arc for her is that even when snow does fail to protect serah, she holds nothing against him. runs straight to him on her first day born again into this world to save him from himself, to hold him in her arms, to never give up on him. neverending faith. "he is still capable of miracles. i wouldn't accept anyone less into my family."

[meatymidnightmultiverse]

Surprisingly, Lightning was able to belch almost as loud when she was skinny. Girl just has that beast in her-

"I had a pretty fun time keeping up with the fellas in the GC when we were off duty. Even Amodar was surprised that I outdid him."

[suroy1974]

🌸🌷🌸 Sri Sarada Devi and Her Divine Play, Swami Chetanananda, Vedanta Society of St Louis, Pgs 627 & 628 Ch 31 - The Human Aspects of Holy Mother Holy Mother's Daily Life The greatness of a person can be ascertained through his or her small actions. In day-to-day life, everybody follows a routine. The Mother also followed a routine. She got up early in the morning, bathed, cleaned her teeth with tooth powder, meditated and repeated her mantra, worshipped the Master, had breakfast, cut vegetables, cooked food for her household, and served the devotees. When she was a little girl, she helped her mother with household work and cared for her four younger brothers. Swami Parameswarananda tells us that as a girl, the Mother bathed in the Amodar River. She carried puffed rice and fried eggplant or potatoes in a cloth with her and after bathing she shared them with her brothers like any other village girl. Imagining the Mother seated under a tree on the bank of the Amodar River eating puffed rice is a scene for meditation. Fancy breakfast food was not available in Jayrambati. When Holy Mother started to give initiation, she would buy jilipis or make halwa and serve it to the devotees with puffed rice. In her old age, when she had lost a few teeth, she would put some puffed rice in the corner of a cloth, pound it with a pestle, and make it into powder so that she could eat it. 🌸🌷🌸

[shrimplyshy]

just bury me with this au oh my god

[erioll45]

Lieutenant Amodar

[themelodicenigma]

I always feel a little lighter whenever I see people still talking about the FFXIII series. There’s quite a lot of varying things from it’s history in how it’s been perceived, and it almost feels rare now for people to really spend a lot of time talking about it and the characters. With that said, in something I’ve seen recently, I’ve always felt there was a bit of a mean-streak when it comes to Serah’s character and her relationship with Lightning.

She’s so misunderstood in a weird way XD I’ve seen it before, in my experience with Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, where because of XIII-2 Serah pretty much received the Raiden treatment by fans who were pretty disappointed in not being able to play as Lightning for the majority of the game. I think somehow by extension too, people are really sleeping on Serah and Lightning’s importance to one another as characters, and that definitely really bothers me.

Because it’s so...weirdly forgotten?

To start, there was an idea introduced that Hope’s influence on Light completes the arc of her character, which is definitely based on the scheme of the first XIII within their found mentor relationship that also had it’s dash of motherly/sister [hogosha] context based on the thematic essence of said completion. I’d say it’s kind of a two-way street for both of them for this sentiment, as the nature of the completing comes from how they essentially filled what was lost during the first game, the foundation of their relationship serving as reflections and developments of those lost—that is Hope’s mother and Serah. You pretty much can’t understand their relationship completely without understanding those, or even specifically, Serah’s involvement in Lightning’s character arc.

With that being said, what I find weird is that of which is almost severely overlooked—Hope’s influence on Lightning’s character completes what otherwise Serah already occupied, both being the complete set to the impact on Lightning’s character and arc. And in tow, like I mentioned with the Raiden reference, Serah’s agency in XIII-2 and how she’s represented in LR is SO overlooked in favor of Hope for some reason (and I don’t think it’s just for shipping reasons, either). How’d this happen???

Don’t get me wrong, Hope is more active in the actual story in the literal sense of helping Lightning as a party member in XIII and LR, but Serah literally is a crucial part of what defines Lightning as even BEING “Lightning” in the first place as she raised Serah as more than sister but as a parental figure [hogosha], hence the important correlation established in XIII for Serah and Hope. There’s even a quote on one of Amodar’s artworks featured in the FFXIII Archive Ultimania pg. 262 (I’m pretty sure it was originally in the FFXIII Ultimania, too): 

“Her success is her sister’s happiness. That’s Lightning’s reason for living and her greatest reward.”

And then of course, In FFXIII-2, an acquaintance of Lightning also says this to Serah:

Sergeant Blitz: Well, I just hope she hasn't forgotten about us after all these years. But whatever happens to the world, whoever you might have to face, make sure you find her. Your sister cares for you more than anything in the world, you know.

Lightning’s coworkers are close enough to her to know how important Serah is to her, probably because they are aware of the circumstance Lightning had to face in order to raise Serah. Serah continuously played a much more inherent role for Lightning’s arcs, serving as a vital part of her ambitions through the games. Serah herself was given much more grounding even in XIII-2 in a very awesome way, where her agency and strength as a character compliments the journey’s both her and Lightning take throughout the three games. 

FFXIII - Lightning losing Serah is what sets her story in motion, she even mentioned that if it weren’t for Serah, she’d have probably been a part of the party hunting the l’Cie. She gains support and supplement through Hope as she protects him as mentor/motherly-figure, developing in reflection of how she treated Serah and made her mistakes. It’s from this development that in reflection to her attitude towards Serah and who she’s had to be, without Hope there to supplement, she’d probably go too far and gotten herself killed. And of course, the ideals of Serah’s Focus and the group’s purpose were intertwined the entire game.

FFXIII-2 - Serah getting the spotlight now, begins her whole journey to find Lightning and gains an even bigger purpose within the circumstances of her disappearance. Lighting mainly does what she does in support for Serah and to atone for lost souls from the first game through Etro. The ending (included in Lightning’s part) is about Serah and sets up importance in LR plot of Lightning’s convictions. Hope is trying to find Lightning too and to help Serah—never giving up hope is a big theme, and Serah not giving up hope of seeing Lightning again, accepting death upon accomplishing this, comes to a very nice scene that truly emphasizes their love and conviction for one another. 

LR - Lightning's whole goal in the game is heavily about Serah, which Bhunivelze manipulates this, and the whole point of Lumina’s character speaks for itself.  This time, the completion of Hope is the one to protect her, and both involved in saving Lightning in the final fight with Bhunivelze, like, literally. Hope reaches Lightning to bring her back to the fight, but the whole moment, prior and during, is literally focused on Serah [Lumina], who Lightning herself also attributes to being saved by, because Lightning finally coming to a close about herself still involves her relationship with Serah.

There’s the idea that this plays out this way too because, Hope is kind of “active” in the sense that between XIII and XIII: LR, Lightning has more active interactions with Hope. While Serah, on the other hand, has a more embedded importance to Lightning’s character that is more of a constant influence and presence despite not having as many active interactions, so that when they DO have it, we understand its importance to the characters.

A lot of Serah and Lightning’s storytelling reminds me of KH. They’re always really searching for each other and have a big impact on each other’s characters, and Serah starting her whole journey in XIII-2 because of her ambitions to find Lightning, while gaining agency for dealing with the threat of Caius and death just to accomplish this—it’s awesome.

I think a lot of things about the FFXIII are either overlooked or misunderstood to extreme degrees. It’s not even in a way that is supposed to be controversial by the content’s standards, people just really be out here ignoring the actual content, as people do. Serah is one, Fang and Vanille’s relationship will always be one, and honestly, I think even Snow and Hope in the first XIII is a big one. For the latter, of course I can’t blame people for being annoyed with them lol As you know, to each their own in terms of characterization tastes, but I had no issues with them as the formula is familiar for me (or even Vanille’s character—she gets a lot of flak too in that game).

We need more Serah appreciation, though. lol

[logosminuspity]

wip grab bag - I swear it's WIP Nautilus City!

I SWEAR I HAVE NOT ABANDONED IT I'M JUST A SNAIL

Fang loped over from where she had been chatting with Amodar.

“Oh, are we comparing class cards? Been a moment since we did that.”

She sounded way too excited for her own good as she approached their shared desk space again. Lightning looked up and found the rest of their  squad mates gathering around as Fang flopped casually down into her rolling chair.

“I’m an S-class,” bragged Fang, putting her hands behind her head and flexing her arms. 

She looked insufferably smug considering she was talking about a horrible blood curse of unspeakable guilt that could turn her into an unstoppable, ravening beast once a month.

“That’s only when you go full loup garou,” interrupted Rygdea. He winked at Lightning before continuing to nettle Fang. “Otherwise you’re what? In C-class?”

“I’m a B-class, you prick!”

The devolved into good-natured bickering, before Lightning finally sighed and interrupted.

“Okay, but what do the classes mean? Like…in practical terms?”

“They are, for lack of a better term, power rankings,” explained Amodar. “Threat classifications, almost. Each level is indicative of thresholds for abilities. An imperfect system, by all means, but one that the department was rather keen on when the SCS was first established.”

Interesting. Lightning mulled over the class definitions as her squadmates each revealed their ranks. Rydgea and Amodar were C-class, Kimahri and Fang were in B-class (barring loup garou transformations), Cid was a D-class, and Ashe was an A-class.

“So Ashe has the highest class ranking in the SCS?”

Ashe demurred from the recognition. “That would be the captain. She has a full S-class ranking.”

Considering that she was a dragon, that seemed to check out, in Lightning’s opinion.

[uinre]

You’re our Captain Dangerous, aren’t you?

[fyresaber]

lightning jealous of snow from the first time she saw him laughing with her commander while amodar should’ve been singing her praises. her asking him to stay back and confirm his identity as if she hadn’t cyberstalked him the second serah mentioned she was seeing some guy. snow getting off his bike, following her into a corner as if he was entitled to it... it’s not the first time a pretty girl has given her his number in the wake of his heroics. but, oh, there is something familiar about her under that glower…

[razieltwelve]

The Sound of Thunder (Spoilers)

This post contains spoilers for the future direction of The Sound of Thunder. If you do not want to read spoilers, stop here.

The Sound of Thunder is basically inspired by Silence of the Lambs with Lightning playing the role of Hannibal Lecter and Fang stepping into the shoes of Agent Clarice Starling. 

The story opens with Fang be sent to interview Lightning in a secure facility. Amodar wants to get her insight into a case since someone has begun to commit murders that are eerily similar to those committed by Lightning. The critical difference is that while Lightning killed sister, she often focused her ire on the younger sister whereas the present murders seem to show greater anger toward the older sister.

Lightning’s sister, Serah, is currently in protective custody, her whereabouts unknown.

After a brief conversation, Lightning taunts Fang but takes an interests in her, revealing the differences between her murders and the present murders.

That’s where the first chapter finishes.

The basic idea of the story is fairly simple. Fang is going to try to put together the clues to identify the murderer while bodies continue to pile up. 

Things get increasingly tense when Yuna and Rikku are abducted. Yuna’s father is a powerful politician, and he demands that something be done. What disturbs Amodar and Fang is that the two aren’t actually sisters. However, when asked about this, Lightning tells Fang that it isn’t necessarily the blood relationship that matters, so much as the bond between the two. After all, she didn’t just target any old pair of sisters. Lightning always went after the sisters that were the closest.

It is during this time that Serah Farron apparently disappears from police custody. After consulting with the witness protection program, Fang discovers that the murders have occurred in areas not far from Serah. She believes that Lightning’s ‘admirer’ is trying to finish what Lightning started by killing Serah.

Lightning just laughs when she’s told this, telling Fang that her ‘admirer’ would never be so crass as to take what’s hers, not if they know what’s good for them. Fang points out that Lightning is stuck behind bars, but Lightning merely smiles and tells Fang that she’ll be out soon enough.

Fang begins to believe that Lightning knows exactly who the killer is. This belief is further bolstered when forensic analysis shows that the weapon and style used to kill the latest victims is archetypical of the veterans from Lightning’s old unit in the military. Many of them simply vanished off the face of the earth after the war, and still others were lost in the conflict but never confirmed dead.

With the days passing and Braska (Yuna’s father) growing more desperate, he decides to use his political clout to force a meeting with Lightning. Lightning was a former soldier, someone who loved the outdoors and a good bit of exercise. These days, she’s cooped up in one of the most secure cells in the world.

His offer is simple. If she can give information that allows them to save his daughter and Rikku, he will have her transferred to a new cell on a deserted island. She will still be confined, and the island itself is so isolated that escape would be meaningless, but she will get more time outdoors, and a cell that allows her to do some indoor exercise.

Amodar urges Braska to reconsider, but Braska is adamant. It is at this point that Fang’s sister, Vanille, disappears. Fang is horrified, especially when a cryptic message left at the scene suggests that the one responsible is indeed the killer. She seeks out Lightning’s advice, only to find that Lightning has already been transferred as is being held in another secure location.

Dr Jihl Nabaat tells Fang that she should hurry. As Lightning’s former warden, she protested the move, but was overruled. She doesn’t think that Lightning’s new minders will be able to hold her. They don’t know what they’re dealing with.

Fang hurries to the location where Lightning is being held.

Meanwhile, Lightning is being wonderfully civil. She has passed on information to Amodar indicating that the killer is a former colleague, someone who grew up in a broken home, someone who grew to blame someone in his life that he viewed as something between a sister and a lover for his ills. During their time on the front, they came to understand one another and she learned that he planned to enact his own bloody vengeance on the world.

His name? Caius Ballad.

During a seemingly uneventful dinner, Lightning begins her escape. Faking a seizure, she lures the inexperienced guards close enough for her to kill them and take the keys. She then takes their weapons and sounds the alarm. As the backup team rushes to her ‘cell’, Lightning begins to systematically hunt them down, wiping out the entire team. She does this by wounding some of the members to lure out the others and erode team discipline while using the bodies of the guards she killed as props to draw attention at critical moments.

Rather than attempt to escape through the front door, Lightning instead takes advantage of the building’s geography to escape first to the roof and then over to a nearby building where she kills someone else, takes their clothes, and disguises herself using a hat to hide her hair. She even changes her gait and simply walks out of the building as reinforcements rush into the original building.

Fang arrives on the scene shortly after, and Lightning actually stays to watch her. When Fang somehow manages to trace Lightning’s steps via intuition and cunning, Lightning ambushes her. Rather than killing her, Lightning knocks her unconscious, but not before leaving her with a few clues.

When Fang regains consciousness, she tells Amodar what she has learned, and she finds out that Caius Ballad isn’t really the one responsible. Instead, when they track him down, they find out that he’s been dead for years. In fact, it looks a lot like Lightning killed him herself. The isolated cabin he was in was also rigged with a trap that killed most of the team sent to apprehend him.

Following Lightning’s tip to investigate the ‘chains of the past’, Fang delves into Lightning’s history. She discovers evidence that after Lightning’s parents died, she and Serah became abnormally close. At this time, they were badly let down by the system. They lost their house. They had to resort to begging to survive, and Lightning ended up joining a gang to make ends meet. It was during this period that Lightning’s kills were believed to have begun. This relationship only deepened until Serah met Snow Villiers. This enraged Lightning who saw it as a betrayal.

Lightning went to war only to return and find that Serah and Snow were going to get married. It was around that time that Lightning’s killings began to ramp up. Fang believes that Lightning saw Serah marrying Snow as the last piece of her family abandoning her and leaving her all alone. It was notable that in the car accident in which Lightning’s parents died, Lightning never lost consciousness whereas Serah did. Lightning spent three days in that ravine trapped next to the dead bodies of her parents trying to get out of the wreck and save her sister. The other driver would escape charges due to political connections but would later be killed during a robbery gone wrong.

Snow would later be killed in a car accident, but the more Fang investigated the matter, the more certain she grew that it wasn’t an accident at all. That was when Lightning’s killings took on an even more gruesome style, culminating in the hideously awful murder scene where Lightning forgot to cover her tracks. Some of her hair was found on the scene, along with fingerprints. This was how Lightning was caught.

But something about the old case files bothers her. Looking more closely at the wounds on that last, pivotal set of murders, Fang notices that the older sister was actually harmed more than the younger one - something closer to the current murders. Moreover, the knife work isn’t quite as expert as in Lightning’s older murders.

She doesn’t know quite what to make of it, but as she delves into the archives containing Lightning’s old records, she finds a note about a location very dear to Lightning: an old beach house in Bodhum. It was never hers, but her family used to walk past it every day. Fang has a hunch, and she follows it to the beach house.

There, she discovers that although it should be abandoned, there are signs that it has been lived in recently. Preparing herself, she makes her way inside. She finds Yuna and Rikku huddled together in a dark pit. She tries to call it in, but there is a jamming device in place. She is about to leave and call for reinforcements when she spots a familiar bit of clothing nearby. It belongs to Vanille.

Fang can’t bear to leave. She presses onward and finds Vanille unconscious and strapped to a chair. However, before she can leave, she is ambushed and knocked unconscious herself. When she wakes up, she finds herself staring into the face of Serah Farron.

Suddenly, it all clicks in Fang’s mind.

Lightning was never the sole killer. She and Serah had been killing people together, right from the start, most likely beginning with the driver who crashed into their car and killed their parents. The reason they’ve been killing sisters is because they don’t very highly of them. They see them as not being close enough, of not caring about each other the way Serah and Lightning do. In fact, Fang remembers that as close as the murdered sisters generally were, there were always rumours of friction and occasional arguments - imperfections in Lightning and Serah’s eyes. After all, alone and with none one else to turn to, Lightning and Serah always had each other. How could they respect people who couldn’t even manage that?

When Fang tells Serah this, the other woman is impressed.

Fang also explains her suspicions about what happened later. Snow’s accident wasn’t an accident. Lightning sabotaged his car. Serah says that is exactly what happened, and she framed Lightning for the last murder to get her arrested and killed. However, Lightning surrendered and avoided being killed, and she was then put out of Serah’s reach for revenge since she genuinely loved Snow.

Her plan was to then commit more murders knowing that Lightning would be drawn out. This succeeded, and she went after Vanille to get to Fang since she thought Lightning found Fang intriguing, and Lightning hates it when people mess with her stuff.

Sure enough, Serah is still talking when Lightning arrives.

The two sister square off. In the midst of their battle, Fang manages to free herself and Vanille, and they run for it, saving Yuna and Rikku along the way. The beach house is destroyed in an explosion when Serah, who starts losing, detonates a trap she’d set beforehand.

This spells the end of the two sisters.

Or so Fang thought.

A few months later, having received a commendation for her efforts, Fang gets a letter. It’s from Lightning. She thanks Fang for a most interesting adventure, especially the chance to reunite with her sister. Fang doesn’t have to worry. Lightning has other scores to settle and other people to kill, and she wants to see how far Fang can go.

A few days later another letter arrives.

It’s from Serah. In her words, she tells Fang that the world failed her and Lightning. They spent years afraid, wondering what new horror the next day would bring in. She talks about how often Lightning came back home bruised and beaten from her work with the gang, and how often Serah had to steal and lie to get essentials. She tells Fang that she and Lightning are going to settle their score one day. She hasn’t forgiven Lightning for Snow, and she probably never will, but she has other people to go after first.

A few days later, two sets of murders begin. They’re no longer targeting sisters, but Fang knows who is responsible. She joins the special team Amodar is putting together to catch the two sisters.

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Author’s Notes

So, yeah, there is an unedited stream of consciousness of the ideas I had regarding where the story would go. Obviously, it’s very rough, but this was the ‘skeleton’ of what I thought might happen. Had I written it in full, I would have fleshed it out and tinkered with it a lot.

[spazzticrevenge]

Chapters: 28/? Fandom: Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Final Fantasy XIII Series Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Hope Estheim/Lightning Characters: Hope Estheim, Lightning (Final Fantasy XIII), Sazh Katzroy, Alyssa Zaidelle, Maqui (Final Fantasy XIII), Amodar (Final Fantasy XIII), Paddra Nsu-Yeul, Lebreau, Yuj (Final Fantasy XIII), Gadot (Final Fantasy XIII), Rygdea (Final Fantasy XIII), Alexander (Final Fantasy) Additional Tags: Romance, Drama, Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, fabula nova crystallis, Minor Character Death, Abduction, Fluff and Humor, Slow Burn, Hurt/Comfort, Family Issues, Family Feels, Crisis of Faith, Torture, Eidolons, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Friends to Lovers, Falling In Love, Angst, Child Abuse, Slow Dancing, Cuddles, War, War violence, Self-Harm, Crystogenesis, Kissing, Protective Lightning Farron, Religious Fanaticism, Domestic Violence Summary:

She was his guardian and he was her charge. They had beaten their fate and she had kept him safe. But when she awakens from years of blissful sleep into the birth of a new war, can she still protect him? Can she still keep her promise? They found strength in each other before, can they find that strength again?

[kingsglaivus]

So if i had to do some rewrites for ff13 i would probably open the game with how this universe started with Bhuni killing his mother and creating Etro, Pulse and Lindzei probably through murals like in LR narrated by Vanille or a cutscene. 

Then cut to the War of Trangression where we play as Fang and Vanille for a lil bit and watch cocoon get cracked like an egg and Vanille and Fang turned to crystal by etro.

Then we move to cocoon and see little Claire Farron in the hospital with her mother and sister. Their mother strokes their hair and starts singing Serah’s theme and we zoom out and the logo appears. 

We see Claire change her name to Lightning and joins the army and we see her training. Lightning can go on missions with Jihl and Yaag Rosch and Amodar. Light comes home and finds out Serah has started dating someone from NORA. Light goes on another mission and she comes across NORA just like in episode 0 and then she has her first meeting with Snow. In the novel Light mentions their mother would probably like Snow because of how their dad was she can have a flashback of her dad or something. We learn Lightning’s birthday is coming up.

Snow and Serah go shopping for Lightning’s birthday present and they overhear people talking about l’Cies popping up and the government are starting to take action. Then they hear 2 women with strange clothes have been wondering around.

So yeah these are just some ideas that i’ve had.