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[alwaysbeenasmiler]

This icon is lyric-less.

I need to remedy this... but it is hard because this icon is so very atmospheric.

OHEMMGEE. I don't even know.

I am actually leaning toward this song.

And discovering quite by accident that I can fall in love with an icon.

This song could also work as a Kain/Cecil song in my spectacular head!canon.

Comments

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

I think that it sort of fits in their past and makes almost a natural conclusion into their future.

"Before the world you know was like it is,
I held a lover once and I was his...
And we walked along the river in the sun
But he's a lonely man, so this was done."

That sort of fits their past, and how things used to be. Back when Cecil was a dark knight and him and Kain had established a natural path that sort of fit concurrently and together. But then Cecil became a Paladin and suddenly they couldn't be together all the time, because Cecil had a duty and Kain felt like he and Cecil couldn't follow that same path.

And the line that breaks my heart with the d'awws.

"How many days and nights will come and go,
When the only light you'll see is from my glow."

Because it's Cecil.. it's Cecil speaking that line to lone wolf Kain, it's almost like an entreaty. It's a very poignant song and almost a plea for them to walk together again, to coexist. Like the moon promising the wolf that it'll always be there even if he can't precisely always touch him. Reassuring and yet poignant all at the same time.

Just so many d'awws.

[glacialphoenix]

Ahhh, I see.

I've always headcanoned that Cecil had this very odd conflict regarding being a dark knight - on the one hand, I've always viewed him as the self-sacrificial sort, which carries on into defending people as a paladin. The idea of shedding your own blood to kill others that might threaten those you care about sort of works along that line. On the other hand, he's such an incredibly gentle soul; it's equally difficult for him to carry out duties that distasteful. Kain, on the other hand, is very settled in his dragoon identity, very anchored, and when they interact at the beginning of the game I think you can sort of see how these play against each other and buttress each other. So I guess I'm saying that I can totally see how the different paths thing works out.

And I do love the 'only light you'll see is from my glow' line as well, because I think Kain holds Cecil-the-paladin in far too high a regard compared to himself, in that he's always deemed himself in shadow due to Cecil's light. Not that Cecil himself will ever see it that way, of course.