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Locke & Setzer...a game between two desperado's
***I don't know if it's appropriate to post this here, but I thought...hey...wtf why not. What have I to lose. If you're a fanatic fan of Final Fantasy III (VI) or not...I hope you appreciate the philosophical debate that two risk takers throw themselves into. It's poetic to some extent...but it's very emotional at points and requires a little (a shitload of) story background. Regardless, I hope to get feedback (preferably negative being the sado-masochist that I am). Please endure...I mean...enjoy. :)***
brief character bio:
Locke is a Member of the Returners (Lockean Revolutionaries), Martyr/Hero, Worlds foremost Adventurer/Treasure Hunter....and a very bad actor.
A Trail-Worn-Traveler searching the World over for relics of the past.
Setzer is a Professional Gambler, Worlds sole Airship Captain, Wannabe Gentleman Scoundrel, Ex-Contractor of the "evil" EMPIRE with a knack for actually getting everything he wants...except getting married.
A blackjack-playing, world-traveling, casino-dwelling, free spirit.
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Locke: If there is one thing I’ve learned from my experiences, You can’t trust your loved ones to fate.
Setzer: And if there is one thing I’ve learned from my experiences, it is that your loved ones make their own.
Locke: What!? I don’t deprive a person of their liberty. I return it.
Setzer: How can you return something that was never taken?
Locke: ….
Setzer: I don’t think you are a very trusting person.
Locke: Hmph. with that you’re right.
Setzer: Why might that be?
Locke: Can’t be betrayed if you’ve never trusted.
Setzer: I’ve had it. That has to be one of the most faithless logs of cluck feces I have ever heard.
Locke: ….
Setzer: You say you seek redemption yet you deny the very people who would give you the opportunity?
Locke: You don’t know anything about me.
Setzer: Watching your sincere though spontaneous act at the Opera House told me everything I needed to know in addition to the story you just spat
Locke: Eh? And what exactly did you find out?
Setzer: *sigh* You’re a two-faced desperado of the most fantastic breed that has ever endeavored such an adventure as the one we are flying in.
Locke: Are you calling me a con-artist?
Setzer: YOU JUST PULLED A BLUFF ON THE MOST NOTORIOUS GAMBLERS OF ALL TIME AND BEAT ME AT A GAME YOU HAD NO CLUE HOW TO PLAY!
Locke: One bluff doesn’t make me a con-artist..
Setzer: Ha! There is your contradiction and a double standard at that!
Locke: What the fuck are you talking about.
Setzer: You expect me to trust you, but you won’t trust anyone yourself. I find it curious that you believe that only you can be trusted.
Locke: This is ridiculous! I know I’m not perfect.
Setzer: You think you’re more perfect because you seek redemption and that’s exactly what you think.
Locke: Don’t insult me again.
Setzer: A threat?
Locke: A shadowed promise.
Setzer: Why should I trust you to keep your promise? What collateral do I have that you would keep your word? You might end up a coward.
Locke: ….. I’m not afraid to ….
Setzer: You’re not afraid to hurt people, but you are afraid to be in pain yourself! Your principles are as distorted as you think hers might be.
Locke: Don’t bring Celes into this.
Setzer: Fine. But admit that you have to forgive and trust again. In fact, she may not have been guilty. After all, SHE DID WARP KEFKA TO WHO KNOWS WHERE! At least that’s what I heard.
Locke: ….
Setzer: You’re worse than Edgar when it comes to women, and he doesn’t know anything.
Locke: Maybe you’re right.
Setzer: Feeling guilt doesn’t make you a better man. Change does.
Locke: ….
Setzer: ….. Well …. Say something!
Locke: I’m leaving when we get to Narshe.
Setzer: And what about Terra?
Locke: What about her? She knows who she is now.
Setzer: She’s a CHILD! The others wouldn’t look after her like you would. And I’ve seen the way Edgar looks at her. He’s a certifiable pervert.
Locke: Edgar isn’t THAT bad.
Setzer: And you trust him?
Locke: More than I trust you!
Setzer: What have I done that deserves your distrust? The kidnapping? I have a fetish for blondes if you haven’t noticed And I didn’t just abandon you and your friends when you were stuck in Vector. Did I also mention that…..
Locke: SETZER! ….. just shut the fuck up, I’m convinced already. And thanks, I guess I owe you one.
Setzer: Happy to hear. So one more round?
Locke: And have you win back the pot? Save it. I think I know when I’m in over my head.
Setzer: Everything has been over your head, including my airship. You have no talent for flight.
Locke: Ha! Edgar is the one with no talent. He’s too comfortable on the ground.
Setzer: At least he knows how to fix what you break.
Locke: That was an accident. We were trying to escape those claws.
Setzer: Don’t remind me of those cranes. The Black Jack’s scars will do that well enough.
Locke: Since we’re on the topic, where did you get your scars.
Setzer: These? It’s a long story I need time to write in my memoir.
Locke: You’re writing a memoir? Of what!? Poker and Flying?
Setzer: No….That wouldn’t take long to write.
Locke: Your infamous business ventures with the Empire?
Setzer: Perhaps. But more so on broken promises that went with them.
Locke: ……oh. Wow. Didn’t think you were the sentimental type.
Setzer: I am.
Locke: Man, I thought I had you figured out.
Setzer: Did you now?. Let me tell you something. There’s one thing I don’t get about you.
Locke: I knew you were full of it earlier!
Setzer: You’re ring.
Locke: Yeah well…hard to explain
Setzer: Are you going to write a memoir now?
Locke: No, it’s just hard….to talk about.
Setzer: Compared to everything we’ve already gone over? How could there possibly be something more gut wrenching?
Locke: There’s only a little more than this, but I’ll tell you in a moment
Setzer: ……..Just spit it out Locke.
Locke: This ring is a token of the promise I never got to make.
Setzer: Engaged?
Locke: ……
Setzer: Doesn’t matter. You’re still a desperado.
Locke: She fell before I could...
Setzer: …….You and I are so different but so alike. I can’t tell you how much I mean that.
Locke: Weren’t you were just insulting me earlier.
Setzer: Weren’t you insulting me earlier? You should know I don’t like being called infamous. It makes me sound like I’m a cheater.
Locke: Your sleight of hand needs to improve.
Setzer: Preposterous…
Locke: Don’t even try to hide it from me. You cheated Edgar for three whole hands. After that, you tried to teach Gau how to pick pocket Sabin without getting caught.
Setzer: How’d you find that out?
Locke: Ha ha! He didn’t try to pick pocket Sabin when you set him loose.
Setzer: Let me guess, he tried to…
Locke Yeah, and now I’ve got this spastic beast child stalking and hanging on my ever move.
Setzer: I’m sorry for your troubles.
Locke: Don’t worry, I won’t hold you responsible.
Setzer: Why is that?
Locke: I already taught him to pick pocket while we were in ZoZo. Here’s your purse.
Setzer: …So all I did was convince him to turn on you….
Locke: I can deal with him. But it’s apparent you can’t.
Setzer: Well that’s just swell. That kid is nothing but havoc. You saw what he did to my crew’s clothes didn’t you.
Locke: Wait…all of their clothes?
Setzer: No not all, but if it weren’t for Sabin, they’d all be wearing my curtains.
Locke: Sabin told me Gau somehow got him into dropping his purse down a chasm. I can’t tell you how much I laughed when I asked Gau how he did it.
Setzer: *chuckles* You and Sabin display quite a bit of affection for that kid.
Locke: Yeah. Watching Sabin with that kid helped me remember my childhood. I use to pity the kid. Now I envy him.
Setzer: You were an only child?
Locke: Felt like it. *deep inhale* *sigh*
Setzer: Let’s not get mushy now.
Locke: I didn’t plan on it. But thanks for listening
Setzer: Apologies. Even I need to lighten my load.
Locke: What weighs on you?
Setzer: Like I said, broken promises.
Locke: At least you made them.
Setzer: The only promise I swore to keep has thus been kept. I was talking about someone else’s broken promises.
Locke: You’re not talking about Celes are you? I was there at the toss. You lost….
Setzer: It wasn’t her.
Locke: I’m getting the feeling you don’t wanna talk about this one.
Setzer: I don’t know what the hell you’re feeling, cuz I don’t have a care.
Locke: Spit it out.
Setzer: The promise was made, but it failed for the same reason you couldn’t make yours.
Locke: ….That’s….
Setzer: It’s what?
Locke: It’s just sad.
Setzer: Well it wouldn’t be anything else now could it?
Locke: You don’t have to go sour.
Setzer: Thanks for the input.
Locke: Here’s to two poor bastards.
Setzer: I thought you didn’t drink?
Locke: It’s water.
Setzer: Good as any drink if not better….as long as it isn’t deep..
Locke: Here’s to that too.
Setzer: I hate the Sea.
Locke: I can’t get use to it either.
Setzer: It’s all the tossing up and down. Even in a hurricane the turbulence doesn’t give the same effect. I just get sick. And that’s why the airship.
Locke: You have good taste.
Setzer: In vessels, friends, and women!
Locke: You sound like a pirate.
Setzer: Ever since I met your troupe I’ve been one. High time I changed my business. I’ve tired of ferrying the Empire’s garbage.
Locke: Tell me about this so-called garbage.
Setzer: Well let me tell you! None of my crew were privy to the knowledge so this should be a treat.
Locke: Let’s hear it.
Setzer: Roughly 20 years ago I moved Titan-like beasts of incredible description.
Locke: ……Holy Shit! Why didn’t you tell us before! Where did you pick them up?
Setzer: On the eastern edge of the continent of Vector, there’s a base and a bridge to the other continent.
Locke: The Sealed Cave.
Setzer: I never believed in those myths all my years until then.
Locke: Now I know where I’m going next.
Gau: Mr. Thou told Gau tell thief that we here!
Setzer: ….uh oh.
Locke: THAT’S TREASURE HUNTER!!!
Gau: Why you yell?
Setzer: Gau, Locke doesn’t like it when you call it as it is.
Locke: I’m gonna rip both your lungs out!
Gau: RUN AWAY!!!
Setzer: Please don’t take what I said seriously.
Locke: …….
Setzer: I uh…I’ll see you on deck.
Published 6th Feb 2012
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