Fic no. 055

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no. 055 CES Game

  • Date: 23 January 2021
  • Wordcount: 16849
  • Rating: mature (mature themes)
  • Fandom: FF6
  • Characters: Locke, Edgar, Celes, Sabin, Setzer, Rachel
  • Genre: gen, angst
  • Warnings: suicide attempt (not graphic), suicidal thoughts, offscreen character death, vomiting (not graphic)
  • Point in canon: post-canon
  • Location: mostly Figaro Castle

Only three of the party go to Kefka’s tower. Magic vanishes from the world before Locke has a chance to revive Rachel, and reuniting with his friends doesn’t go smoothly. Having failed both his quests, there seems little choice but to succumb to despair.

Notes: 2021 retrospective note: this fic was a sort of farewell to FF6, or at least to writing unprompted Celes/Locke, which was one of my principal themes of 2020 (and I have stalking the FF6 fandom to thank for this change of direction). I wrote it in a weird rush of inspiration while self-isolating at the beginning of the year and sat on it for about two weeks before posting, simply because it was so much darker than anything I’d written before. Then I started writing stuff about Some Dead Guy and that was no longer a concern, ha.