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FFX-2: Learning
Fandom: Final Fantasy X-2
Pairing: Gippal/Baralai
Warnings: Baralai POV, sap
Rating: PG
Summary: Baralai didn't believe an Al Bhed had anything to teach him.
I was brought up by a family who believed very strongly in Yevon and all the teachings. So I too believed, taking everything I was told as perfectly true. The coming of Sin was our punishment for relying on machina and fighting each other, the only way to rid ourselves of Sin was for a summoner to defeat it with the Final Aeon, the Al Bhed and their machina were the causes of our continued suffering, and the greatest gift in life was the blessing of Yevon. I grew up dreaming of being a priest or a summoner.
When I found out that there was to be an Al Bhed member of my squad, when I finally joined the Crimson Squad, I was incredulous. How dare he? He and his kind were the cause of our suffering!
He saved my life in battle, the first time we fought against an enemy that really was aiming to kill us. I was frightened. But he wasn't. He saved my life and then he took my hand, pulling me to somewhere where I could put my back against a wall, so no one could sneak up on me. And he stood there and fought at my side, shoulder pressed against mine. I resented him for it, but I was thankful, too. I was determined not to let him see me afraid again.
Still, in so many battles after that, we fought side by side or back to back. I was fast and he was powerful, and together we could, by the end, cut a path through most enemies.
After a while, we started talking after the battles. I learned how generous he was, how clever, and I started to listen to him. I still refused to let go of my own beliefs but I decided that, maybe, he wasn't so bad. That maybe not all Al Bhed were bad.
Somewhere along the line, I fell in love with him, and he with me.
When Lady Yuna brought the Eternal Calm, I think I would have been lost if it wasn't for him. Everything I had believed and held onto so strongly was just washed away. I had believed in the lies of the temples, unconditionally, even.
Gippal helped me most then. He told me how the Al Bhed felt about the temples, their beliefs in what Sin was and why it existed. He comforted me and gave me something that I knew wasn't a lie to believe in. He didn't quite understand why I needed it, but he gave it.
The last thing I learnt from him, and maybe the most important, because it was that kind of lesson he never taught me in words, was that Yevon's blessing counted for nothing compared to the real greatest gift in life; love.
I could never have been truly happy, I believe, if I hadn't met Gippal and learned those things from him.
Pairing: Gippal/Baralai
Warnings: Baralai POV, sap
Rating: PG
Summary: Baralai didn't believe an Al Bhed had anything to teach him.
I was brought up by a family who believed very strongly in Yevon and all the teachings. So I too believed, taking everything I was told as perfectly true. The coming of Sin was our punishment for relying on machina and fighting each other, the only way to rid ourselves of Sin was for a summoner to defeat it with the Final Aeon, the Al Bhed and their machina were the causes of our continued suffering, and the greatest gift in life was the blessing of Yevon. I grew up dreaming of being a priest or a summoner.
When I found out that there was to be an Al Bhed member of my squad, when I finally joined the Crimson Squad, I was incredulous. How dare he? He and his kind were the cause of our suffering!
He saved my life in battle, the first time we fought against an enemy that really was aiming to kill us. I was frightened. But he wasn't. He saved my life and then he took my hand, pulling me to somewhere where I could put my back against a wall, so no one could sneak up on me. And he stood there and fought at my side, shoulder pressed against mine. I resented him for it, but I was thankful, too. I was determined not to let him see me afraid again.
Still, in so many battles after that, we fought side by side or back to back. I was fast and he was powerful, and together we could, by the end, cut a path through most enemies.
After a while, we started talking after the battles. I learned how generous he was, how clever, and I started to listen to him. I still refused to let go of my own beliefs but I decided that, maybe, he wasn't so bad. That maybe not all Al Bhed were bad.
Somewhere along the line, I fell in love with him, and he with me.
When Lady Yuna brought the Eternal Calm, I think I would have been lost if it wasn't for him. Everything I had believed and held onto so strongly was just washed away. I had believed in the lies of the temples, unconditionally, even.
Gippal helped me most then. He told me how the Al Bhed felt about the temples, their beliefs in what Sin was and why it existed. He comforted me and gave me something that I knew wasn't a lie to believe in. He didn't quite understand why I needed it, but he gave it.
The last thing I learnt from him, and maybe the most important, because it was that kind of lesson he never taught me in words, was that Yevon's blessing counted for nothing compared to the real greatest gift in life; love.
I could never have been truly happy, I believe, if I hadn't met Gippal and learned those things from him.
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