Fic no. 103

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  • Date:
  • Wordcount: 11082
  • Rating: mature (sex)
  • Fandom: FF6
  • Characters: Vargas, Sabin, Duncan, Edgar, Duncan’s wife
  • Genre: slash, coming of age
  • Warnings: sexual content in which one partner is underage (15); implications of incestuous sexual contact; towards the end, descriptions (none particularly graphic) of a corpse, excessive alcohol consumption, and self-inflicted injury.
  • Point in canon: from Sabin’s arrival in South Figaro to the battle with Vargas
  • Location: mostly South Figaro

Vargas’s relationship with his father deteriorates as he begins to forge a connection with Sabin. But that isn’t the whole story, and over the years he comes to realise that Sabin doesn’t understand him either.

Notes: Written for [community profile]challengeonthebigbridge 2021. Both Vargas and Sabin are kind of dickish in this, and the ending isn’t particularly cheerful, given that the last we see of Vargas in the game is Sabin summarily dispatching him. I like to think he survives, though!
2021 retrospective note: this is my Problematic fic of the year, an attempt to deal with the weird FF6 plothole of Duncan’s “death” with bonus slash. I like to think I managed it well enough.