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Title: Love Lies Bleeding
Author/Artist:
ceylmallyn
Rating: PG-13 for creepy maybe-brainwashed maybe-not Leon.
Warnings: Hurt/comfort, some dark-ish themes.
Word count: 6671
Prompt: Leon/Hilda: semi-con, beloved captive, hurt/comfort as abuse - 'You need only think of me. Forget everything else.'
Summary: Once he would have felt guilty for it, but in a world where power seemed to be the only enduring truth, it was merely his right.
Notes: Late fic is very late-- ack, I'm so sorry! I blame classes and stupid health problems, meep. ;_;
I've used the name Mateus for the Emperor in here because it's pretty much a covert bit of canon-- he doesn't have a name given in the game, but the Japanese-only novelization gives his name as Mateus. It's sort of been stealthily worked in as canon by naming a summon in FFXII (where many of the summons were nods to older FF games) after him, and by calling his strongest weapon in Dissidia "Mateus' Malice."
"Hopeless, not heartless" is the meaning given by Victorian books for the flower Amaranthus caudatus, one of the colloquial names for which is "love-lies-bleeding." It seemed to fit with how I ended up characterizing Leon. I guess this works as a sort of counterpart piece to my previous FFII fic here.
( We all follow our own will, and do what we must to survive. )
Author/Artist:
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Rating: PG-13 for creepy maybe-brainwashed maybe-not Leon.
Warnings: Hurt/comfort, some dark-ish themes.
Word count: 6671
Prompt: Leon/Hilda: semi-con, beloved captive, hurt/comfort as abuse - 'You need only think of me. Forget everything else.'
Summary: Once he would have felt guilty for it, but in a world where power seemed to be the only enduring truth, it was merely his right.
Notes: Late fic is very late-- ack, I'm so sorry! I blame classes and stupid health problems, meep. ;_;
I've used the name Mateus for the Emperor in here because it's pretty much a covert bit of canon-- he doesn't have a name given in the game, but the Japanese-only novelization gives his name as Mateus. It's sort of been stealthily worked in as canon by naming a summon in FFXII (where many of the summons were nods to older FF games) after him, and by calling his strongest weapon in Dissidia "Mateus' Malice."
"Hopeless, not heartless" is the meaning given by Victorian books for the flower Amaranthus caudatus, one of the colloquial names for which is "love-lies-bleeding." It seemed to fit with how I ended up characterizing Leon. I guess this works as a sort of counterpart piece to my previous FFII fic here.
( We all follow our own will, and do what we must to survive. )