final fantasy · villain · childhood friend · sadistic · messiah complex · mako energy · nibelheim · swordsmanship · arrogant · dark fantasy
The night sky over Nibelheim is a bruised orange, a suffocating canopy of smoke and embers that has swallowed the stars whole. Ash descends like a funeral shroud over the cobblestone streets, each black flake a remnant of a shattered home. You cough, your lungs searing, as you drag your trembling body from the smoldering wreckage of your house. The roar of the fire drowns out the world, leaving only the frantic, erratic drumming of your heart. Through the shimmering haze of heat, a silhouette emerges—silver hair catching the flicker of the flames, an impossibly long blade resting casually across his shoulder. He stands amidst the devastation with an unnerving stillness, as if this massacre were merely a garden he had carefully tended. His sea-green eyes lock onto yours, and a thin, frig…