#bhunivelze

[uinre]

Look around you, and see the lies. How long is it going to take before you to wake up? Before you realize that maybe, just maybe, you’re a lie, too?

LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII (2013)

[imlilyyfromff13]

LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII (2013)

"The crystal age is just a legend from before the world was born. And it ended, before you were born."

[akimojo]

bhunivelze, murderer of his own mother and a deadbeat to his daughter, targeting lightning's maternal side by using hope and serah to manipulate her, only to be slain by her as she steals them back from his clutches both literally and figuratively..... lr you will forever be iconic to me

[ffxiii-et-al]

Bhunivelze

Soooo.... I'm working on a WIP about Hope's 169 years in the arc with Bhunivelze. After reading his tracer memories entries and finding out that he was 'remade' 13 times, each lasting 13 years, I thought how awful and harrowing the transformations would be, and what sort of forms Hope would've experienced only to be torn up again.

So naturally angst followed. I'm hoping it'll be up on A03 soon and I'll keep it "guest accessible" for a week or two before locking it down to protect against AI scrubs. So even if you're not an A03 member you can read it. SFW, but I tried to make it as unsettling as possible.

Here's a sample:

“Light?” Hope searched for what hurt him, wanting to protect himself, but there was nothing. He swore that he heard Lightning's voice. Was she here? As he struggled there was only blackness.  “Good.” Her voice came again. Good? He lived in hell. What was good about any of this? But it was! It was Lightning! “Light, please… help me.” He pulled against his bonds. More of a reflex now than an actual hope that they would come free, he wanted to go to her.

“I am helping you.” Her voice whispered, close enough to be disconcerting. “You can't save anyone the way you are now. I need you to be better. God can make you useful to me.” “Lightning…” he stammered reproachfully. “I-I'm sorry Light, I tried. I tried to help you.” He attempted to hide how heartbroken he was. “I tried to do what I thought you wanted. To help Serah, to save you.” “But you couldn't. You can't save anyone. But god will make you better, and you'll finally be useful to me.” The words struck him like a bullet to the heart. But as the poisoned words settled in his mind he remembered Lightning before she disappeared, she cared for him, she promised to look out for him, to protect him. He remembered her promise, her gentle smile, her hand on his shoulder when he looked up at cocoon, the memory he once thought was just a dream. “You're not her.” Hope returned through greeted teeth. He knew this, he realized, but his mind was broken, Light would never do this to him, and this phantom hated it when he remembered the truth. Bracing himself again he came back to what little sense remained in him. “She would save me.” He argued.  “Oh, Hope, of course I wouldn't save you,” she whispered. “You always were such a burden, and you couldn't save me. I'm relieved that God will finally make you worthwhile.” It's not her. He thought desperately. But even if it wasn't Light, it still told the truth, and hearing it in his friend's voice was more than he could bear.

“I'm sorry.” He choked down a quiet sob, overcome with guilt. He'd failed to save her, or Serah, or humanity. If this creature was to be believed at all, God would resurrect Lightning and use her too, all to clean up the mess he'd made trying to help her.  Would they hurt her like this as well?  At his sniffling, the false Lightning spoke again. “If you were sorry, you would stop resisting.” she whispered tenderly. "Now, hold still."

[t4thollstein]

[nirgilis]

Something-something about Caius' theme being included into "Almighty Bhunivelze."

Hope resembling "Lindzei"-side of Orphan, while Caius resembling "Pulse"-side.

FF13-2 having 3 different "Bhunivelzes."

Each of them corresponding with one of hypostases of Etro, mother, sister and daughter.

Snow over the trilogy showing metamorphoses from Hope to Caius.

View of crystalized Bhunivelze behind Caius, when the latter says to Noel "If it is your wish - you will die in her place," giving an impression that it's Bhunivelze who speaks to Noel.

Time of slaughter changing with time of salvation.

[friendofesteem]

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[ppnt690]

Doodle of Bhunivelze