I fricken love this! The atmosphere you've constructed for Vector is perfect - the creepiness of the lab, the way the other soldiers begin to gossip about Celes, the way Kefka gradually goes from a pristine soldier into the eccentricities we know of him in-game. I love that he's still rather lucid here, and that Celes is willing and interested in his philosophies! That's one thing I've always wanted to know about them - I think they'd have formed a connection due to their infusions, being the greatest success and biggest failure of the lot.
And I love how Celes is conflicted about humanity now - she feels more of a connection with the lab specimens than her fellow soldiers, but she still mourns the loss of Kefka's humanity! AUGH. There is so much subtlety to their relationship that just GETS ME GOIN' I dunno; it's one of those things where they've known each other for so long, and they both change so much over the course of their friendship/acquaintenceship/whatever and there's SO MUCH MORE POTENTIAL FOR SWEET, SWEET MELODRAMA THAT WAY. And this fic really captures a lot of that feeling. Celes' kiss here - the last of many over the years, or the first and only...? HNG. Yeah. This is awesome; THANK YOU!!
Re: What Was Lost, Celes/Kefka, PG (Warning for needles and mental illness)
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I fricken love this! The atmosphere you've constructed for Vector is perfect - the creepiness of the lab, the way the other soldiers begin to gossip about Celes, the way Kefka gradually goes from a pristine soldier into the eccentricities we know of him in-game. I love that he's still rather lucid here, and that Celes is willing and interested in his philosophies! That's one thing I've always wanted to know about them - I think they'd have formed a connection due to their infusions, being the greatest success and biggest failure of the lot.
And I love how Celes is conflicted about humanity now - she feels more of a connection with the lab specimens than her fellow soldiers, but she still mourns the loss of Kefka's humanity! AUGH. There is so much subtlety to their relationship that just GETS ME GOIN' I dunno; it's one of those things where they've known each other for so long, and they both change so much over the course of their friendship/acquaintenceship/whatever and there's SO MUCH MORE POTENTIAL FOR SWEET, SWEET MELODRAMA THAT WAY. And this fic really captures a lot of that feeling. Celes' kiss here - the last of many over the years, or the first and only...? HNG. Yeah. This is awesome; THANK YOU!!