[ChicletPrime]

Last Chapter

• okay, wrapping it up! didn't get a chance to do this last night and today my game is all up in its own grill with Fallen Crown, so lets just pretend i got through this quicker than i actually did.
  
• ... i am not sure. this bit - is this flashback to when Xavier saved the MC from the Forest when she went charging in after his illusion? 
  
• "A familiar person sits next to me. It were as if he never left." 
  
• wow, this looks like the exact same shot as from the very beginning of the game, when I went to a No-Hunt zone chasing something I can't remember now, the segment where Xavier was petting a Wanderer at one point.
  
• yeah, i don't believe he's real either. look at him. he an elf prince in moonlight, i would be rubbing my knuckles in my eye too.
  
• /stares off into the fanfic distance. 
  
• I reach out to touch faith and its really him, he came back.
  
• aww, he mostly apologizes for leaving without a word. yeah, i think i will hit you a few more time so i feel better.
  
• "Can you stand?" I lurch to my ungainly feet. "Steady. I can carry you if you can't walk. And even if you could, I wouldn't mind carrying you."
  
• gawd, Xavier is beautiful. he looks like a puff of wind would blow his petals everywhere but this guy is made of gleaming silver steel.
  
• oh my gosh, he IS carrying me piggyback!  yay!  at least I get Something at the end of this myth.
  
• the flowers are glowing softly in the dark. he makes me fireflies to accompany them.
  
• "Those aren't fireflies, you made them for me. You can't lie to me."
  
• yeah sweetheart. yeah, he can. admittedly by omission for the most part but for a man that tells the truth when he opens his mouth, he is frighteningly good at saying nothing you want to hear.
  
• "Do you remember Uluru, Xavier?"  "Of course I do. Our little planet." "Do you think Uluru will turn into a shooting star?" "Unlikely, its a very young planet."
  
• yeah, we're skipping over how planets and stars actually form which is just fine with me. this is a mythical place where stuff just appears fully fledged, including me somehow. maybe i dreamed it into reality because Xavier wanted a place where he didn't have to fight anymore. 
  
• aww. Xavier says softly that its flowers should be blooming now.
  
• this is a lovely scene, as Xavier carries the girlfriend through the "fireflies" and you can see the stars against the horizon at night as they travel. THIS is what should be happening in more of the story scenes, this kind of placement and setting.
  
• I say that the Wanderers are a serious threat, that sooner or later they will make it to Uluru too and it will become another Philos.
  
• "I'm tired, Xavier. What if I can't brandish my sword one day? What then?"
  
• /makes slobbering, chomping sounds, then burps.
  
• "You rest. I'll be by your side. Always. If you have nowhere to go, nowhere to rest your weary self... you can stay with me."
  
• "You always lie."
  
• aaaaand we're back in the throne room, flashback over. 
  
• He always has. He's always lied, again and again and again. He said hope would follow when when spring arrived. He said he'd take me to the new planet he discovered. He said he didn't want to be King but also refused to let me stand by another's side. He said he'd return when I miss him. He said when I become Queen of Philos, he'd be my knight. The song he made up is now a reality. Yet as thousands cheer my name, he abandons me.
  
• I retreat from the balcony to the darkness of the throne room.
  
• At that moment, a spaceship soars across the sky like a shooting star, disappearing into the night. My footsteps echo in this empty room. No one will be by my side. My star has left me. And this time... he will not return home.
  

I think its safe to say that I was whelmed with this myth. There were some good moments in it, mostly to do with Xavier and even Jeremiah, but I could not connect with the girlfriend at all, and the writing was vague and inconsistent. There was a little too much flashing forward and flashing back and it didn't have solid connections to string those displacements together cohesively. The writing was overall quite weak. 

We're gonna chalk this one up as  1) useful for the Cliff Notes but 2) emotionally very flat. Thank Yoshua they got better with the storyline(s) over time is all I can say. After the agony that was Lucid Dream, it was kind of a whiplash to wade through the sticky marsh on this one.