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kinkfestTitle: The Ringmaster
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andremeese
Rating: PG
Warnings: Angst
Word count: 348
Prompt: Legacy of Kain, Raziel/Kain: vengeance - Vae Victus, so why kill him quickly?
There was a study, once. Time actually does slow down for the young. When asked to time a minute's passing, the young are anxious to call it early, while the old let their precious seconds slip on by. The immortality of youth loses its charm when time ceases to excite. What is there left when you have lived your life? Is there no end?
Kain never saw it that way. He never seemed tired. Age never distracted him, only enhanced. He traded one beauty, sleek and vicious, for a beauty better suited to him. He bulked up, yet stepped as gracefully as a cat when he wanted to, and he began to lose the remnants of his humanity, just like the rest of us. Whereas I was destroyed before I could reach a dramatic change- say, like dear Melchiah's,- Kain retained his beauty while I, limp-winged and agonized, became a shell of my former, youthful self.
If only the pain ended there; greater things? Kain plays the puppets on his strings, yet the arm that moves his own is held by wires unable to be cut. What is right? What is wrong? What really is, and what did not even happen at all?
I yearn to be young and clueless again. I can barely remember the feel of happiness, and it feels wrong in the aftermath of what Kain has done to me. I don't feel pain especially well anymore... How could I? I'd go mad! I had to let myself go numb to cope with it. The Elder God liked that. I was pliable.
Was.
Oh, yes, I feel. Not anything as tedious as physical pain, stuck in this damned sword like I am, but a pure and beautiful thirst for revenge. I am his right hand; he has work to do before his time is over, and it would be a shame for him to go without ever feeling his age. I am closer to him than ever before; I don't need a body to make his fail him.
Vae Victus, so why kill him quickly?
Author:
andremeeseRating: PG
Warnings: Angst
Word count: 348
Prompt: Legacy of Kain, Raziel/Kain: vengeance - Vae Victus, so why kill him quickly?
There was a study, once. Time actually does slow down for the young. When asked to time a minute's passing, the young are anxious to call it early, while the old let their precious seconds slip on by. The immortality of youth loses its charm when time ceases to excite. What is there left when you have lived your life? Is there no end?
Kain never saw it that way. He never seemed tired. Age never distracted him, only enhanced. He traded one beauty, sleek and vicious, for a beauty better suited to him. He bulked up, yet stepped as gracefully as a cat when he wanted to, and he began to lose the remnants of his humanity, just like the rest of us. Whereas I was destroyed before I could reach a dramatic change- say, like dear Melchiah's,- Kain retained his beauty while I, limp-winged and agonized, became a shell of my former, youthful self.
If only the pain ended there; greater things? Kain plays the puppets on his strings, yet the arm that moves his own is held by wires unable to be cut. What is right? What is wrong? What really is, and what did not even happen at all?
I yearn to be young and clueless again. I can barely remember the feel of happiness, and it feels wrong in the aftermath of what Kain has done to me. I don't feel pain especially well anymore... How could I? I'd go mad! I had to let myself go numb to cope with it. The Elder God liked that. I was pliable.
Was.
Oh, yes, I feel. Not anything as tedious as physical pain, stuck in this damned sword like I am, but a pure and beautiful thirst for revenge. I am his right hand; he has work to do before his time is over, and it would be a shame for him to go without ever feeling his age. I am closer to him than ever before; I don't need a body to make his fail him.
Vae Victus, so why kill him quickly?
