Shadows of the Stars

KINGDOM HEARTS III (2019) LARXENE: Actually, it’s still too early to call. Depends on how she sees it. If she believes her magic is darkness, that’s what it will become. Accepting her power, whatever it is, is the only way to set her heart free. So what will Elsa accept? Light or darkness? I know I wanna know.

lightning probably had dreams and aspirations but she gave it all up for her sister

“Don’t!”

Stop, Aera! To die protecting me… How foolish. Me, a monster who can be killed without dying!

To be cut down by a despicable man who could cooly strike from the blindside was more foolish still. Such a man should have never been permitted to ascend to the throne.

That was why he had thought to seek the guidance of the gods. As he clutched the dying Aera, he had stretched his hand out to the Crystal on the altar. What was fit for a man who continued to slaughter the innocent was not a throne but a bolt of judgment.

O gods, now is the hour of judgment! I beseech you, reveal your will!

So had he desperately wished. The sacred stone the gods had bequeathed unto the human world would show him what ought to be, and would light the right path. It had to.

But that wish had been denied him. With a shock and a violent flash of light, the Crystal had flung Ardyn and Aera away.

“I proclaim with the authority of the king! The House of Caelum has hereby become the founder of the Kingdom of Lucis! Let it be known that all who defy Lucis shall give their lives as forfeit!”

Somnus’s triumphant voice rained down from above onto the fallen Ardyn. He forgot to do so much as stand. He could not move an inch.