DDFF Meme: Day 19: Saddest Dissidia Moment

[railenthe]

The kicker is, my answer to this one is kind of pathetic. It was a foregone conclusion: that Kain, Yuna, Tifa, Laguna, Vaan, and Lightning would not be making it to the other side of this fight. Their journey would end at the Rift, where they would fight to destroy the source of the endless horde of manikins.

Knowing it is one thing.

Seeing it is another.

 

 

As I said earlier, knowing it’s coming is one thing.

Actually seeing it is another.

After all of those fights that led up to actually being able to get to the Rift, seeing them come out of it was the one thing that cemented the fact that no, they were not coming back.

Then we watch them go down, one by one. Last to drop is Lightning, looking like she could keep going except she forgets what ‘up’ means and drops.

Then we cut to Cosmos’s throne, which is being assaulted by the horde that had gotten past the others (who are now DEAD mind you) and the Warrior of Light, fighting off a horde no smaller than the one that took down Team Canon Fodder a while back—except he’s soloing this bunch.

Except he starts to go down.

Cosmos shouts his name (which we don’t get to hear) and he manages to stand back up.

But, he can’t keep fighting. He goes down again.

That’s when Cosmos decides she’s had it. She rises from her throne—and I do mean rises, she stands up and then she rises into the air, glowing with power—gives the manikins this icy stare—

He shouts, “Cosmos!”

And everything vanishes.

Cut to the Warrior of Light, battered and bruised but still alive—and he sees the others around him, ‘sleeping’ in Kain’s Undisclosed Location—and he sees the other others, who didn’t survive the Bolivian Army Massacree.

Shinryu is already stirring, spiraling upwards to purify the group—which includes an unconscious Cosmos—while WoL looks on in obvious confusion and more than a little shock as the six who flat in the air, outside of the range of Shinryu’s purifying light, start fading away.

And the last thing he sees before he loses consciousness himself is Lightning, smiling at him—now here I made a ‘WHAT IS THIS I DON’T EVEN’ face, because it was Lightning smiling—and she nods, as if to say, “You’re in charge of this now. Don’t screw it up.”

And then they’re gone.

Much later, the Warrior of Light wakes up in the Sanctuary.

He doesn’t remember any of this.

Not the fight. Not the lost comrades. Not Kain, who was the spear to his shield. Not Lightning, who for the most part acted as his second-in-command whether she was aware of it or not.

…Even his name is gone.

When all of this hit me, there was really only one thing I could say: “DICK MOVE.”

…well that was AFTER I got past the squeaky thing that passed for ‘awwww’ and ‘oh god’ at the time…

Comments

[jiangryudo.livejournal.com]

Totally agree.

That whole scene was so engrossing, coupled with that flare of music when Cosmos lunges and it all becomes a moment of stirring "NO WAI!"

I was pretty gutted when I realised the implications for Lightning and co - I mean, whilst I understand why S-E had to do it, did they REALLY have to DO IT?!

(ToT) ... BRB sniffling forever for everyone.

[railenthe.livejournal.com]

She had to know what would happen if she diverted her energy from sustaining the world's cohesion, too—she stops and protects her last defender—

Which I remind one and all, breaks the rules set up by the Great Will in the first place! She took direct action!

And yet the cycle still end with her and her forces defeated and subsequently purified. They live to fight another day, but the cost…

[jiangryudo.livejournal.com]

Yes... That was the most moving part, I think, the fact that she took direct action to protect WoL and thus stand for her warriors and forsake the world...

And yes.. that cost.... D: