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FFVIII: Overwritten
Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII
Pairing: Squall/Xu
Warnings: Angst
Rating: G
Summary: Xu, sick with jealousy. For![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
over_look.
It wasn't that Squall was a bad commander. That, in fact, was one of the things that really sickened Xu. Squall was a good commander, and he'd be a brilliant one if he worked on his people skills a little. She couldn't even blame his success on his popularity, because ninety percent of that had been gained because he was good at what he did, and not just because he looked good (though she allowed herself the comfort that he was good looking, so perhaps that had gained him a few more supporters).
There was a time that she had held that kind of position, commanded that amount of respect. She'd been second to Cid, and he'd been second only to Garden's sponsors. She'd been the one people followed with their eyes, the one people sidled up to during festivals to ask favours of. She caught those same people sidling up to Squall, nowadays.
It wasn't that she really wanted it for herself, either. It was just -- well, she deserved that much, surely. She'd been a SeeD when he was still struggling to lift his gunblade. She'd taught him. And then he'd been given the rank of commander, elevated above her, suddenly unquestionable, untouchable, given rights she'd never even considered having. He'd overridden her, overwritten her place in the whole story.
She'd curse him, hate him, work to destroy him, something, just on principle, if she could.
But the most galling thing about it all was that she didn't really want to. That, in the end, she loved him, too.
Pairing: Squall/Xu
Warnings: Angst
Rating: G
Summary: Xu, sick with jealousy. For
over_look.It wasn't that Squall was a bad commander. That, in fact, was one of the things that really sickened Xu. Squall was a good commander, and he'd be a brilliant one if he worked on his people skills a little. She couldn't even blame his success on his popularity, because ninety percent of that had been gained because he was good at what he did, and not just because he looked good (though she allowed herself the comfort that he was good looking, so perhaps that had gained him a few more supporters).
There was a time that she had held that kind of position, commanded that amount of respect. She'd been second to Cid, and he'd been second only to Garden's sponsors. She'd been the one people followed with their eyes, the one people sidled up to during festivals to ask favours of. She caught those same people sidling up to Squall, nowadays.
It wasn't that she really wanted it for herself, either. It was just -- well, she deserved that much, surely. She'd been a SeeD when he was still struggling to lift his gunblade. She'd taught him. And then he'd been given the rank of commander, elevated above her, suddenly unquestionable, untouchable, given rights she'd never even considered having. He'd overridden her, overwritten her place in the whole story.
She'd curse him, hate him, work to destroy him, something, just on principle, if she could.
But the most galling thing about it all was that she didn't really want to. That, in the end, she loved him, too.
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However, I find this whole situation very fishy. You've been through this before and as far as I saw it was quite dramatic and drawn-out, and yet here you are, back again under a different name, doing the exact same thing you did last time? You and Nikki discussed it, as far as I'm aware, and she told you that your feedback is not helpful to her, as she's done again in this thread. So why are you here, doing it again and being just as rude and stubborn as ever?
She's been perfectly calm and polite to you and asked you to stop, and you haven't. I think this shows exactly where the problem lies in this situation. I'm a big fan of constructive criticism and I've left it for people who didn't accept it before, and I've learned that hounding that person, yelling that they must accept what you say, does absolutely nothing but upset them, make them unwilling to listen to you, and show you up as somebody with no manners and no respect for them as a writer.