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FFIV: For the Greater Good
Fandom: Final Fantasy IV
Pairing: None
Warnings: Angst
Rating: G
Summary: Edge overthinks. For![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
mount_ordeals.
Gramps says he's running away from it all. Shirking his responsibilities and abandoning his people when they need him. The truth is, Edge needs himself to himself for a while. Edge needs himself quiet to absorb all that's happened. He doesn't need to see the ruins of the home where he was born, where he took his first steps and learned to read and learned to fight and sat on his mother's lap even when he got far too big to do that.
He doesn't think the people of Eblan have much need of a heartsick, sulky prince. Or king. No matter what Gramps thinks. He's sure he knows what's best for Eblan and it's for Gramps to rule as regent for a while while he goes off and sorts himself out and stops thinking of the way his parents died.
Until he stops thinking of the darkness within everybody just waiting to be tapped.
He's not scared of the responsibility. That's not why he's running. And that's kind of scary because there's such a lot of it, so much to oversee and so many people to know and befriend and keep loyal. That ain't his game, so he should be more worried than he is, but the old slick confidence comes back easily on this score to say 'you'll do fine, Edge'.
Maybe there's a voice in his head that belongs to his mother saying he'll do fine, too, but she's biased and a figment of his imagination anyway. And his father, well, forget that. His father loved him, but Edge was never quite what he expected.
And hey, Edge doesn't mind being unpredictable.
Anyway, he's not worried and that makes him worried so he runs away until he is worried, only it isn't really running away, it's for the reason that everybody uses when there isn't a better one; for the greater good.
Someday, he thinks, he might be a great philosopher.
And he grins at that thought. That would be unpredictable.
Pairing: None
Warnings: Angst
Rating: G
Summary: Edge overthinks. For
mount_ordeals.Gramps says he's running away from it all. Shirking his responsibilities and abandoning his people when they need him. The truth is, Edge needs himself to himself for a while. Edge needs himself quiet to absorb all that's happened. He doesn't need to see the ruins of the home where he was born, where he took his first steps and learned to read and learned to fight and sat on his mother's lap even when he got far too big to do that.
He doesn't think the people of Eblan have much need of a heartsick, sulky prince. Or king. No matter what Gramps thinks. He's sure he knows what's best for Eblan and it's for Gramps to rule as regent for a while while he goes off and sorts himself out and stops thinking of the way his parents died.
Until he stops thinking of the darkness within everybody just waiting to be tapped.
He's not scared of the responsibility. That's not why he's running. And that's kind of scary because there's such a lot of it, so much to oversee and so many people to know and befriend and keep loyal. That ain't his game, so he should be more worried than he is, but the old slick confidence comes back easily on this score to say 'you'll do fine, Edge'.
Maybe there's a voice in his head that belongs to his mother saying he'll do fine, too, but she's biased and a figment of his imagination anyway. And his father, well, forget that. His father loved him, but Edge was never quite what he expected.
And hey, Edge doesn't mind being unpredictable.
Anyway, he's not worried and that makes him worried so he runs away until he is worried, only it isn't really running away, it's for the reason that everybody uses when there isn't a better one; for the greater good.
Someday, he thinks, he might be a great philosopher.
And he grins at that thought. That would be unpredictable.
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