[Jan. 4th] [Final Fantasy VI] So Much Lighter

[wallwalker]

Written for 31_days (although I can't post it there because I haven't had an LJ in forever.)

Title: So Much Lighter
Day/Theme: 1/4: The girl was lighter without her heart.
Series: Final Fantasy VI
Character/Pairing: Kefka/Terra
Rating: SFW/Teen (see Notes)
Content Notes: Depicts a consensual but unhealthy relationship (emotional manipulation and power imbalance.)

The other generals thought that he had forced this onto Terra, and weren't they fools for thinking such things? As if it were not far more satisfying to him that she had asked it of him. He was the only company she'd had when they'd all feared her, the only one who would slip over to her cell, just to talk to her, just to give her another hand to hold beyond her own. She already belonged to him, had given herself over by choice; this was only the final step in the process he had started so long ago.

Kefka had to admit, he wasn't a great fan of patience. Waiting for her to warm to him had been excruciating and slow, when only images of fire and death had danced in his head. She was such a pretty young thing, so innocent, and he had used that to its full advantage. Her power - the things that she had been capable of - had hurt her heart so greatly, and it was only pain and fear that had weighed her down. No wonder, then, that when he had offered a better way - a way that she could be who she was without being afraid of that girl - she had leapt at the chance. She had accepted his will, had allowed him to own her, heart and soul - because she trusted him, because he had feigned patience and made himself the most important person in her life. And now she was his, and he would never let her go, would never let anyone take her from him.


And in the end, it had been the best thing for her as well. She was the same as him - so much lighter and freer without her heart.