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fictionalized2012-08-19 03:33 pm
acperience) wrote in fictionalized2012-08-19 03:33 pm
fanfic; supernova
Title: Supernova
Series: Eureka seveN (manga)
Game:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
somarium
Character(s): Dominic
Warnings: Mentions of death.
Summary: Even an ordinary person can become a hero.
Note: Themes taken from31_days.
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Supernova
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16. beholden to dry, yeastless factuality
As a second lieutenant—particularly at his young age—it’s always been important to Dominic to act as reasonable and mature as he can. Juvenility doesn’t earn respect, after all, and if there’s one thing that will get people to listen to you—again, especially given his age—it’s that: respect.
He’s more straight-laced, more cautious, more logical than the average 20-year-old, and that’s how he thought it should be.
It’s not until near the end that he realizes that he’s the most foolish of all.
Renton may be an idiot, but he’s also the only one crazy enough to do exactly what Dominic should’ve been doing all along.
17. an alignment of the universe along moral lines
He’s working with the very same group he sought to defeat not long ago and the man he’d once respected more than anyone else is dead—by a man that Dominic now considers an ally—and it’s like everything has gone crazy—
Or perhaps, Dominic thinks, that’s how the world is.
He’d been convinced for so long that he was in the right. Now, though, he doesn’t really know. Maybe he’s still doing the wrong thing, but that doesn’t matter anymore. Right or wrong, this is what he feels like he should be doing. The “just world” he always strived for—it’s not one where everything has ended, and that’s all the reason he needs to fight on this side.
Everything everyone does is their own idea of justice. This is his.
And really, to Dominic, he’d be happy as long as it was a world in which Anemone smiled.
18. mindful of the sea, which shared things with the sun
Having lived in a world where such a thing no longer existed—
If there’s one thing Dominic wants to see in Somarium, it’s the ocean.
19. the fire in their midst roars and crackles
Everything’s gone straight to hell.
Dominic’s body feels like it’s on fire, Anemone is practically dying in front of him, and he knows that nothing but a wasteland lie for miles around him (again, again—isn’t this exactly what he never wanted to see again?). It hasn’t even been a day, and already Dominic has had everything he believed in turned over, has failed to protect the girl he loves, and has brushed shoulders with death.
He’s never felt more alive.
20. like cars from a wedding party honking their way through town
If you’d told Dominic before that one day, he was going to be piloting the typeZERO alongside Renton Thurston, fighting against Colonel Dewey, he’d have thought you were insane.
Now, he’s pretty sure that he’s the insane one—and it’s rather freeing, actually.
21. dismiss your last allies: hope and trust
He wanted so badly to be able to believe in the colonel.
22. ignorance is the worst doctor
—But even so, Dominic chooses not to surround himself in delusions.
They may say ignorance is bliss, but if that’s the case, then he would rather live in hell.
23. daunted, but not defeated
As far as Dominic’s concerned, it’s not the end of the world until every last one of them is dead.
But they’re still here—still believing, still fighting. And so, even though it seems like all hope is lost, Dominic knows.
It’s only over when you decide that it is.
24. words have no calories
All Dominic’s ever really done is offer pretty words. It’s no wonder, he thinks, that Anemone hates him, when he’s done nothing for her but give meaningless promises.
And yet, even now, all he can do is hand her another offer—
“Mightn’t you… think about dancing with me…?”
Still nothing but pretty words, but as Dominic sees his death approaching, he hopes that they’ll be enough to save her.
(And what he never told her but he’s sure she must know by now—
I love you.)
25. with every rinsing, the window opened further
Inaction, Dominic decides, is a crime. And even though he knows that he did everything he could to undo all that he did(n’t do)—
Carrying these scars, even if Estelle offers to heal them, is the least he could do to remind himself of everything.
26. brute strength meant only moral weakness
It’s an accusation he hears often—that the military is oppressing the people, that the military is doing nothing, that the military is useless.
It used to leave a bitter taste in his mouth, because they all seemed so ungrateful, and didn’t they realize that the army was doing everything they could? Dominic can recite the law of the military by heart—
—but now he realizes that believing in something and acting in accordance with your beliefs are two different things.
He really had been naïve.
However, even if he’s a deserter now, he knows that he’s still a soldier at heart.
—After all, isn’t the law of the military to “bring peace to the people”?
27. the sweet civility of angels
Anemone hurls verbal abuse onto him, insult after insult that might make anyone else wonder why they’d even bothered. Certainly, it still hurts slightly, no matter how used Dominic is to it and even if he didn’t really mind.
“I told you I hate you, remember!?”
He remembers all too well.
—So truly, from the bottom of his heart, he’s relieved to see that she’s back to normal.
28. as if we were playing hide-and-seek and he were the one counting
Call him selfish if you like—by this point, Dominic knows that it’s not about being selfish or selfless. He doesn’t care which one he is.
But even though he knows that Anemone doesn’t expect anything from him (did anyone ever, really?), he’ll save her.
At the very least, he’s good at subverting people’s expectations (or lack thereof).
30. beating a rainbow to death
It should go without saying, but when you’re about to die, you only have a few moments left to live.
Dominic made sure to make those last few moments his greatest.
31. life goes on, and you don't touch tigers
He’ll never eat in the army cafeteria or stay up late working on a report again. He’ll never fly a ship or ride his motorbike again.
He’ll never get to hear Anemone’s answer or see her expression when he gives her the sweets that he’s been holding onto. He’ll never get to dance with her or see her smiling face.
He’ll never have a future. He’ll never get to see the world he saved.
He’ll never get to see any of his wishes come true.
In the end, though, Dominic has no regrets.
Series: Eureka seveN (manga)
Game:
somariumCharacter(s): Dominic
Warnings: Mentions of death.
Summary: Even an ordinary person can become a hero.
Note: Themes taken from
31_days.16. beholden to dry, yeastless factuality
As a second lieutenant—particularly at his young age—it’s always been important to Dominic to act as reasonable and mature as he can. Juvenility doesn’t earn respect, after all, and if there’s one thing that will get people to listen to you—again, especially given his age—it’s that: respect.
He’s more straight-laced, more cautious, more logical than the average 20-year-old, and that’s how he thought it should be.
It’s not until near the end that he realizes that he’s the most foolish of all.
Renton may be an idiot, but he’s also the only one crazy enough to do exactly what Dominic should’ve been doing all along.
17. an alignment of the universe along moral lines
He’s working with the very same group he sought to defeat not long ago and the man he’d once respected more than anyone else is dead—by a man that Dominic now considers an ally—and it’s like everything has gone crazy—
Or perhaps, Dominic thinks, that’s how the world is.
He’d been convinced for so long that he was in the right. Now, though, he doesn’t really know. Maybe he’s still doing the wrong thing, but that doesn’t matter anymore. Right or wrong, this is what he feels like he should be doing. The “just world” he always strived for—it’s not one where everything has ended, and that’s all the reason he needs to fight on this side.
Everything everyone does is their own idea of justice. This is his.
And really, to Dominic, he’d be happy as long as it was a world in which Anemone smiled.
18. mindful of the sea, which shared things with the sun
Having lived in a world where such a thing no longer existed—
If there’s one thing Dominic wants to see in Somarium, it’s the ocean.
19. the fire in their midst roars and crackles
Everything’s gone straight to hell.
Dominic’s body feels like it’s on fire, Anemone is practically dying in front of him, and he knows that nothing but a wasteland lie for miles around him (again, again—isn’t this exactly what he never wanted to see again?). It hasn’t even been a day, and already Dominic has had everything he believed in turned over, has failed to protect the girl he loves, and has brushed shoulders with death.
He’s never felt more alive.
20. like cars from a wedding party honking their way through town
If you’d told Dominic before that one day, he was going to be piloting the typeZERO alongside Renton Thurston, fighting against Colonel Dewey, he’d have thought you were insane.
Now, he’s pretty sure that he’s the insane one—and it’s rather freeing, actually.
21. dismiss your last allies: hope and trust
He wanted so badly to be able to believe in the colonel.
22. ignorance is the worst doctor
—But even so, Dominic chooses not to surround himself in delusions.
They may say ignorance is bliss, but if that’s the case, then he would rather live in hell.
23. daunted, but not defeated
As far as Dominic’s concerned, it’s not the end of the world until every last one of them is dead.
But they’re still here—still believing, still fighting. And so, even though it seems like all hope is lost, Dominic knows.
It’s only over when you decide that it is.
24. words have no calories
All Dominic’s ever really done is offer pretty words. It’s no wonder, he thinks, that Anemone hates him, when he’s done nothing for her but give meaningless promises.
And yet, even now, all he can do is hand her another offer—
“Mightn’t you… think about dancing with me…?”
Still nothing but pretty words, but as Dominic sees his death approaching, he hopes that they’ll be enough to save her.
(And what he never told her but he’s sure she must know by now—
I love you.)
25. with every rinsing, the window opened further
Inaction, Dominic decides, is a crime. And even though he knows that he did everything he could to undo all that he did(n’t do)—
Carrying these scars, even if Estelle offers to heal them, is the least he could do to remind himself of everything.
26. brute strength meant only moral weakness
It’s an accusation he hears often—that the military is oppressing the people, that the military is doing nothing, that the military is useless.
It used to leave a bitter taste in his mouth, because they all seemed so ungrateful, and didn’t they realize that the army was doing everything they could? Dominic can recite the law of the military by heart—
—but now he realizes that believing in something and acting in accordance with your beliefs are two different things.
He really had been naïve.
However, even if he’s a deserter now, he knows that he’s still a soldier at heart.
—After all, isn’t the law of the military to “bring peace to the people”?
27. the sweet civility of angels
Anemone hurls verbal abuse onto him, insult after insult that might make anyone else wonder why they’d even bothered. Certainly, it still hurts slightly, no matter how used Dominic is to it and even if he didn’t really mind.
“I told you I hate you, remember!?”
He remembers all too well.
—So truly, from the bottom of his heart, he’s relieved to see that she’s back to normal.
28. as if we were playing hide-and-seek and he were the one counting
Call him selfish if you like—by this point, Dominic knows that it’s not about being selfish or selfless. He doesn’t care which one he is.
But even though he knows that Anemone doesn’t expect anything from him (did anyone ever, really?), he’ll save her.
At the very least, he’s good at subverting people’s expectations (or lack thereof).
30. beating a rainbow to death
It should go without saying, but when you’re about to die, you only have a few moments left to live.
Dominic made sure to make those last few moments his greatest.
31. life goes on, and you don't touch tigers
He’ll never eat in the army cafeteria or stay up late working on a report again. He’ll never fly a ship or ride his motorbike again.
He’ll never get to hear Anemone’s answer or see her expression when he gives her the sweets that he’s been holding onto. He’ll never get to dance with her or see her smiling face.
He’ll never have a future. He’ll never get to see the world he saved.
He’ll never get to see any of his wishes come true.
In the end, though, Dominic has no regrets.