#is this me wanting an actual battle against fallen celica? yes

[serenfloras]

posted this on my priv bird app but i’d do alm and celica’s battle as cheesy and dramatic as possible. they have a fuck ton of romeo and juliet-esque moments in that damn game already so just go full with it i am a lit student that would be a theatre kid were i richer. i will pepper in the drama as i rewrite it bear with me

so instead of “trust in falchion” or whatever the fuck that scene was meant to be celica instead /pulls/ falchion from the head of mila (idk if celica can wield it but since she’s also a “child of fate” i assume she can) and starts fighting alm with it. the royal sword gets fucking kicked out of his hands and he has to wield the weapon celica dropped before her soul was sold— beloved zofia. symbolic of the kingdom he was fighting for at the start. celica’s kingdom, his beloved’s kingdom.

is is clear that our girl celica is in full offense and barely in control of her soul anymore, her vision clouded by duma as if she were reborn (see: heroes), and alm wouldn’t dare hurt her. he can’t. so he keeps on defending, calling out to her, even as his body gets more and more bruises. we would be able to get this part playable because we deserved it, hordes of witches attacking alm while celica (who is undefeated) would just keep getting stronger. her portrait would be painful to look at, a princess fallen to the abyss due to a false promise. alm’s battle quotes would be painful, with whispers of “come back to me” or just calls of her name as his health diminishes.

it’s a scripted battle. he loses. you feel like you lose too.

alm loses beloved zofia too, and has no weapons as celica tosses him against the skull of mila. even so, as she’s about to kill him, you can see her eyes full of pain and tears rolling down her face. he smiles and places a hand on her cheek, saying that his life was always hers, and admits that this one battle he could never win. his stomach is pierced by falchion as he kisses her, the wicked spell thus broken.

celica finally comes to realize what has happened, her beloved dead by falchion’s blade, and she embraces him, crying out his name. *then* we’d get mila’s warm, soothing voice, speaking of a miracle caused by the children of fate, to trust in their love that the falchion blade would never bring him harm.

that scene of falchion healing celica happens but instead of celica it’s alm, and he falls right into her embrace, waking up. they cry and hug and she kisses him back, before they realize a bigger battle lies ahead. they had a mad god to slay after all. they swear to be by each other’s side, and celica hands falchion to him, saying she’d rather fight with her kingdom’s heirloom, another affirmation of her role as zofia’s princess.

hand in hand, they fight to free valentia from war and madness— together.