Crog Eva- Broken Pawn
Canaletto POV on Crog Eva AU
He had woven the threads of time and fate, reworked them so many times, his plan had perfect
Eva was the perfect creation, the ideal pawn.
That Don Wei would rise back to fame quicker than before had been unforeseen, but it had been good, Eva’s despair had grown so much, and with a little push the humans at the school she was at had just made it grow more
So much despair and anger and loss
She would have been perfect
Except for that one fray in the threads
It had been an infinitesimal small chance
That the Crog ship would get shot down was likely but usually irrelevant
That Eva would escape that day, had been unlikely
That she travelled that way into the woods even less so
That so managed to take that exact path to meet the ship, had been almost impossible
Those events caused the fabric of the strings to fray
Canaletto had tried to reweave the threads, but he couldn’t
They kept breaking
Fate would not let itself be reworked
It had set itself in motion and he watched his plan begin to unravel.
He’d been beginning again tugging at threads trying to recover his creation… rework it to make Eva the person she needs to be
And then that ritual
That blasted damn ritual
He’d never apid attention to the Crogs dismissed them as warlike brute, a challenge that his pawn would overcome in the races…
Ironically it is one of those who should be her opponent who she now calls father
It is that damn bond that breaks it
He can see Eva’s despair sink away, see her drive to bring her mother back dim as she has a new family
She finds happiness and he feels his plans break
A ritual and adoption by blood, an ancient Crog ritual
One that brings someone into a family
And protects them from dark forces.
As soon as the ritual ends Canaletto felt his hold on the girl vanish, his influence around her gone.
As he reaches for her, tries to move those around her
He can’t
All his work
His manipulation of fate and time everything
Gone to waste
She’s a usauless pawn now, her despair is gone, her flame burns but it won’t do the job Canalrtto needs
She’ll be on Oban but it won’t WORK!
He cries into the void
He’ll still try to manipulate her, he can still try when she’s on Oban, and he’ll try to move the pieces…
He’ll still try to use his trump card…even if it will not be a winning hand
And if this fails, he’ll just begin again, he’ll find another
But he’ll bind the threads tighter not let anything fray
Make sure nothing had destroy his creation
And if that one fails he’ll make another
And if that fails another
And another
He’ll keep creating pawns
No matter how many it takes
He will have his powers back
He will
He just has to be patient
A broken pawn doesn’t mean he’s lost
He’ll win
He has all eternity after all.
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