Talking about fic: Dust and Flames
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estiriseThis was a Kamen Rider Faiz fic that I wrote. It spoils the last few episodes of that series.
Dust and Flames
by Estirose
c 2006
The title, "Dust and Flames", aptly describes what happens at the end of an Orphenoch's life. In this case, I'm talking about the end of Kaido's.
Dust.
Kaido had seen numerous other Orphenochs turn into dust and flames, but he wasn't prepared for his own slow disintegration.
He examined his hands, at the greyish, dusty skin. His death was coming soon, he knew it.
IIRC, Takumi was having a similar reaction towards the end.
But then again, the others were dust. The Orphenoch who had killed him the first time was long gone, killed by Inui Takumi. Kiba and Osada had died as well.
And soon he would join them. Go wherever Orphenochs went when they died. When they turned to dust.
Kiba's dream had died, and so had Osada's innocence. And him?
He'd lost... he wasn't quite sure what he'd lost.
It was easier to define what Kiba and Osada's losses than Kaido's, because most of Kaido's losses (his failure to attract Mari notwithstanding) were from before he became Orphenoch. Kiba's dream and Osada's innocence were both lost when humans started torturing Osada, in my mind.
Friends, yes. A longer lifespan, yes. But he was still there, the longest-lasting of Kiba's little trio.
He smirked. Trust him to outlive Kiba and Osada. Of course, unlike the two of them, he had *sense*.
Of course, he was the one always doing harebrained schemes and swearing to do things he never did... on the other hand, being less idealistic, he did survive better.
Not that he'd live much longer, unless somebody found a cure that didn't involve him turning permanently into his Orphenoch form. He liked his looks too much to spend the rest of his life like *that*.
Even if his looks were slowly turning to dust like the rest of him.
He examined his hands one more time. What was that phrase? Oh, yes.
Remember, he's slowly turning to dust in this fic.
From dust we start, and dust we become.
Some a little more literally than others.
Yeah, really....
But at least he'd live longer than the others. And he'd live well. Die well.
He swept the dust off and went back to his life.
And he so would, too.
-end
Kaido both fascinates me and annoys me; the least idealistic of the renegades, his heart was in the right place even if the rest of his body wasn't. He kept swearing to do the wrong things... and then he'd eventually come back to Osada and Kiba. It figures that Osada was the one doing most of the killing, but Kaido talks the most about it. And of course he survives the entire series....
Dust and Flames
by Estirose
c 2006
The title, "Dust and Flames", aptly describes what happens at the end of an Orphenoch's life. In this case, I'm talking about the end of Kaido's.
Dust.
Kaido had seen numerous other Orphenochs turn into dust and flames, but he wasn't prepared for his own slow disintegration.
He examined his hands, at the greyish, dusty skin. His death was coming soon, he knew it.
IIRC, Takumi was having a similar reaction towards the end.
But then again, the others were dust. The Orphenoch who had killed him the first time was long gone, killed by Inui Takumi. Kiba and Osada had died as well.
And soon he would join them. Go wherever Orphenochs went when they died. When they turned to dust.
Kiba's dream had died, and so had Osada's innocence. And him?
He'd lost... he wasn't quite sure what he'd lost.
It was easier to define what Kiba and Osada's losses than Kaido's, because most of Kaido's losses (his failure to attract Mari notwithstanding) were from before he became Orphenoch. Kiba's dream and Osada's innocence were both lost when humans started torturing Osada, in my mind.
Friends, yes. A longer lifespan, yes. But he was still there, the longest-lasting of Kiba's little trio.
He smirked. Trust him to outlive Kiba and Osada. Of course, unlike the two of them, he had *sense*.
Of course, he was the one always doing harebrained schemes and swearing to do things he never did... on the other hand, being less idealistic, he did survive better.
Not that he'd live much longer, unless somebody found a cure that didn't involve him turning permanently into his Orphenoch form. He liked his looks too much to spend the rest of his life like *that*.
Even if his looks were slowly turning to dust like the rest of him.
He examined his hands one more time. What was that phrase? Oh, yes.
Remember, he's slowly turning to dust in this fic.
From dust we start, and dust we become.
Some a little more literally than others.
Yeah, really....
But at least he'd live longer than the others. And he'd live well. Die well.
He swept the dust off and went back to his life.
And he so would, too.
-end
Kaido both fascinates me and annoys me; the least idealistic of the renegades, his heart was in the right place even if the rest of his body wasn't. He kept swearing to do the wrong things... and then he'd eventually come back to Osada and Kiba. It figures that Osada was the one doing most of the killing, but Kaido talks the most about it. And of course he survives the entire series....
