canon ℘ dialogue (relationship-dependent)

[theillchosen]

℘ Dirk's House
Zelos: I bet you lived a crappy hard life so far, huh? ...
Lloyd: Gee, you sure know how to cheer someone up, don't ya?
Zelos: Heh heh. Well, don't worry about it too much. So now what? Aren't you at your wit's end right about now?
Lloyd: Why do you say that?
Zelos: The Giant Tree, which we thought was all good, goes nuts, our cute little Colette comes down with some funky cold...
Lloyd: I'm...never gonna give up. If I quit, I'll never be able to face all the people who've suffered because of what I've done. So I'm gonna fight...to the very end. I can't give up!
Zelos: ...Hot-headed and stubborn as hell. Well...but I guess that's what I dig about you.
Lloyd: Yeah...you're here, doing "hot-headed" things with us.
Zelos: ...I know. Everything I'm doing right now goes against my mantra.
Lloyd: And what's that?
Zelos: Don't work for what you can get for free. Always stick with the winning team. An easy life is the best life...et cetera, et cetera.
Lloyd: ...I shouldn't have asked.
Zelos: Oh sure, you'd say that. But let me tell ya, you're better off avoiding hardship.
Lloyd: You say that like it's from personal experience.
Zelos: Oh hell yeah. My life buys hardship in bulk. The poor, handsome boy Zelos, envied for his status, looks, and beautiful voice, grew up with his life in constant danger! Heh.
Lloyd: Uh-huh.
Zelos: It's true. The Chosen is respected in name only. We're imprisoned in our own homes, always eating meals that are cold from being carefully tested for poison. Even our marriage partners are decided from the moment we're born.
Lloyd: I had no idea that Chosens have such a rough time...
Zelos: Chosens are treated by everyone like some kind of strange, inhuman creatures, separated from our parents as children and attacked by thugs...When will our suffering end?
Lloyd: Oh, I never knew...I'm sorry, I...I always thought you just lived a life of luxury, living in a big mansion, ordering your servants around, and playing all day long. But Colette was treated differently by everyone in the village so...I guess you were the same.
Zelos: ...Just messin' with ya. I'm just saying that if I suffered like that, my personality would be even cooler and I'd get even more hotties than I do now.
Lloyd: Oh, I see...wait, what? Are you saying all of that was a lie?!
Zelos: Hey, hey, woah, settle down.
Lloyd: ...Man, I'm never taking anything you say seriously ever again!
Zelos: Don't get mad, buddy!
Lloyd: Don't touch me, you stupid jackass Chosen!
Zelos: Hahahaha! Sorry, sorry. Really, really...I'm sorry.

℘ Flanoir
Lloyd: Who is it? Come on in.
Zelos: Hey man, you awake?
Lloyd: ...I just got sleepy right now. G'night.
Zelos: Whoa whoa whoa! Don't be like that! Come on, let's go talk outside for a bit.
Lloyd: Sure.
Zelos: ...On that day, Meltokio had a record snowfall. It looked just like this city.
Lloyd: What are you talking about all of a sudden?
Zelos: Ah, just a story about the past. I suddenly felt like talking about it.
Lloyd: Well, if you want to talk, I'm all ears.
Zelos: I was so excited to see snow for the first time, and I made a snowman in the garden with my mother. Then suddenly, the snowman fell apart. Before I knew what was going on, red snow began to fall.
Lloyd: ...Red...snow?
Zelos: It was my mother's blood. She was murdered.
Lloyd: ...
Zelos: As she fell, she grabbed my shoulder and told me, "You should never have been born."
Lloyd: That's...that's horrible!
Zelos: My mother probably loved somebody else. But because of the oracle from Cruxis, she had to marry the Chosen at the time--my father. And the old man had another woman as well.
Lloyd: But none of that was your fault!
Zelos: ...The magic that killed my mother was meant for me.
Lloyd: What?
Zelos: They targeted me because I was the next Chosen. My mother was caught in the crossfire.
Lloyd: ...
Zelos: The one who tried to kill me was Seles' mother. They executed her and Seles was placed under house arrest in the abbey.
Lloyd: So that's what happened.
Zelos: I never wanted to be the Chosen. I spent every moment of my life wishing I could just run away.
Lloyd: ...Chosens lead really difficult lives. I can only imagine what it's like. But I can still understand how hard it must be.
Zelos: ...Sorry, kinda hard to think of anything to say to a story like that, right?
Lloyd: Don't worry about it. But why did you suddenly decide to tell me?
Zelos: I should've never been born.
Lloyd: Wh...why do you say that?
Zelos: I'm not saying I still think that way now. But all my life, I've been rejected by my parents, shunned by the Church, and viewed as a threat to the royal family...I just wanted to run away.
Lloyd: But you're here with us, now, right?
Zelos: I dunno. Even now, to tell the truth, I get tired of all the problems. Sometimes I think it'd be easier if everyone and everything were just destroyed.
Lloyd: Zelos! How can you say that?!
Zelos: ...Did I piss you off?
Lloyd: Hell yes! Of course! It'd be a huge problem for me if everything was destroyed.
Zelos: But think about it. If everything was destroyed, you'd vanish, too.
Lloyd: [shakes head] I refuse to vanish. And so I don't want anyone else to be destroyed...I want you to live, too, Zelos.
Zelos: ...I think I'm gonna cry.
Lloyd: Don't make fun of what I'm saying. Tomorrow, once we're sure Altessa is okay, I'm going to challenge Mithos to a final battle. But if that's the way you feel, I'll be too worried to bring you along.
Zelos: You're going to fight? Do you really think you can unite the two worlds?
Lloyd: I can and I will. I'm not going to run away.
Zelos: All right, all right, I hear ya. I swear, your fervent enthusiasm is enough to melt all the snow in Flanoir...I'm in. I guess Ill give this not running away thing a shot.
Lloyd: Haha. Once the world is at peace, you can run away all you like.
Zelos: Gee, thanks. Man, I can't believe I'm joining the weaker side. This isn't like me at all.
Lloyd: What are you talking about?
Zelos: Nothing, just talking to myself. Anyway, let's get back. It's way too cold out here.
Lloyd: Yeah.

[next morning]
Lloyd: Hmm? Did Zelos drop this? Hey, there's a letter attached...
This is a symbol of my trust. Hang on to it for me, okay? I don't have the right to ask you for your forgiveness, but I still want you to forgive me.
       P.S., Don't tell the others.

Lloyd: What the?...Man, what the heck is he trying to say? He should make it easier to understand!

℘ Heimdall
Lloyd: What is it?
Zelos: ...Sorry. Did I wake you?
Lloyd: ...I couldn't really get to sleep.
Zelos: Then could I talk to you for a sec?
Lloyd: ...Okay then, just for a little while.
Zelos: Sorry about calling you out here in the middle of the night.
Lloyd: Nah, don't worry about it. What's up?
Zelos: I'll get right to the point. What's up with this Kratos guy?
Lloyd: What do you mean, what's up?
Zelos: Doesn't he piss you off?!
Lloyd: Zelos, why are you so mad? Um...do you really think you're in a position to be mad?
Zelos: We don't need to talk about me. I'm really good at conveniently forgetting things like that!
Lloyd: That's hardly something to brag about.
Zelos: I think...parents are there to protect their children.
Lloyd: Well...yeah.
Zelos: But this guy, he just goes back and forth, like he can't make up his mind. Doesn't he realize that it only hurts you? And then after all that, he challenges you to a duel?! What kind of family turns swords against one another?! This whole thing's nuts!
Lloyd: Yeah... Well, I guess that's true...
Zelos: You certainly don't seem that worked up about it. Doesn't he piss you off?
Lloyd: Well, right now, you're mad enough for the both of us.
Zelos: ...I hate parents like that. Parents who just jerk their kids around for their own convenience.
Lloyd: Yeah, when you put it that way, I guess he did kinda jerk me around.
Zelos: Exactly. I mean, he knew about the Eternal Sword and the Eternal Ring from the very beginning and didn't say a word about them!
Zelos: ...Uh!
Lloyd: ...What? What about the Eternal Ring?
Zelos: Uh...well....
Lloyd: Is Kratos the one that told you about the Eternal Ring?!
Zelos: ...S...so, Lloyd. After we've succeeded in reuniting the worlds, what are you gonna do?
Lloyd: Zelos, you heard about the ring from Kratos, didn't you?
Zelos: ...He...he knew everything. That humans can't use the Eternal Sword, the details of Colette's sickness, the way to make the Eternal Ring--everything.
Lloyd: Yeah, I guess when you think about it that way, he could have said something sooner.
Zelos: Exactly!
Lloyd: But even if he had told us, I don't think we would have believed him. So maybe he did his best to gauge when to do what and to set things up for us along the way.
Zelos: When you put it that way, I suppose that might be true. Now I feel kinda stupid for getting so worked up over it.
Lloyd: Not at all. ...Because you were upset, I think I've calmed down. I'm not worked up anymore.
Zelos: ...Oh. Well, that's good then.
Lloyd: ...Tomorrow, I'll fight Kratos, and then I'll ask him what he was thinking, and what he was trying to do.
Zelos: ...Tomorrow...if Origin's seal is broken, the worlds will begin to unite, right?
Lloyd: ...Yeah. Oh yeah, about that question you asked earlier...I'm planning to go on a journey to search for Exspheres.
Zelos: Huh?
Lloyd: You asked what I was going to do after the worlds are reunited.
Zelos: ...Oh, I get it. That sounds like a good idea. We should put the Exspheres somewhere people will never get their hands on them again...for the sake of living beings, as well as for the lifeless ones.
Lloyd: What about you? What are you going to do?
Zelos: Me? Hmm, good question. The institution of the Chosen will surely be abolished. So, uh... I guess I'll just tag along with you!
Lloyd: Huh?! Are you serious?
Zelos: Yep, I think it's an awesome idea, if I do say so myself. Zelos, savior of the world, on a journey with his faithful sidekick. What do you think?
Lloyd: Whatever, man. Do what you like.
Zelos: Okay then, it's settled! It's gonna be awesome traveling around with me, just you wait!
Lloyd: Yeah, yeah.

℘ The Cowards
Zelos: Where the heck is this place?
Sheena: Hang on a sec. Do you hear a strange sound?
Zelos: A strange sound?
Sheena: We'll be sucked into the magic circle!
Zelos: Aww crap! Let's get the hell outta here! Oww!
Sheena: What...Is this thing?
Zelos: What's that thing down there?!...
Kuchinawa: What's the matter? You'll be caught unless you hurry up and run.
Seles: Such a pathetic sight, Zelos.
Sheena: Wh...Why is Kuchinawa?...
Zelos: It's got to be an illusion. There's no way those two would be here.
Seles: You're so stupid. You've shut your eyes to reality for so long that you can't even tell what's real anymore.
Kuchinawa: You grew up in Mizuho, yet you still can't tell if I'm real or an illusion? You really are a failure.
Seles: It's so sad. How did someone so unworthy become the Chosen? It's no wonder he betrayed his friends.
Kuchinawa: Neither of you should have been born. Everyone would have been so much happier if you had not been born! You brought misfortune upon the people of Mizuho.
Sheena: I...I haven't brought misfortune to-
Kuchinawa: Can you really say you didn't? You, the coward who trembled before Volt and killed your comrades.
Seles: One betrayed his friends and came back shamelessly, and the other killed the people of her village...A fitting end.
Kuchinawa: Now, if you think you can run, run! You'll be devoured by the darkness and die!
Zelos: Dammit! We're gonna be eaten by that monster unless we do something!
Sheena: You've gotta be kidding!
Seles: Would you like me to save you, Zelos?
Kuchinawa: Beg for our forgiveness.
Seles: And pledge loyalty to Cruxis.
Mithos: That monster below will bestow eternal suffering upon you, if it devours you, you will neither live nor die. You will be trapped in the true darkness tormented in isolation forever.
Sheena: Forever...
Mithos: I can save you. Join us and defeat Lloyd. Then it will all be over.
Kuchinawa: Lord Mithos has agreed to let the people of Mizuho live.
Seles: And he'll remove the title and duties of the Chosen from you and transfer everything to me.
Zelos: ...Seles will gain the power of the Chosen?
Seles: Yes! What I've wanted more then anything else, the power of the Chosen! You'll let me have it, won't you? Just imagine, your life will finally have meaning and value.
Mithos: All you have to do is pledge your allegiance to me. As soon as you do that, you will be saved from the shadow's grasp.
Sheena: The people of Mizuho...
Zelos: Seles will become the Chosen...
Lloyd: Listen to me, both of you!
Lloyd: I've come for you guys, I'm right down below.
Zelos: Whoa, whoa, whoa...The only thing down there is that monster!
Sheena: Lloyd, don't tell me you were eaten by that monster!
Mithos: That Lloyd is the real illusion. The monster is mimicking his voice to lure you.
Lloyd: I'm not an illusion! Do you think it's better for the people of Mizuho to become part of the Age of Lifeless Beings? Do you think it's okay for Seles to become the next Chosen who could be sacrificed at any time?
Zelos: I...
Sheena: But...
Lloyd: Both of you have to decide for yourselves. But I have faith in you. I know you won't run away, even if what we're trying to do is difficult! Don't forget. Your lives have value just by being alive and being there!
Sheena: Just by being alive...My life has value?
Zelos: ...A traitor like me has value?
Mithos: Of course not. No life has any value just by being alive.
Lloyd: Shut up! There's a significance in being born. But if that's not good enough for you, I'll give them another value. They're both valuable because they're my friends!
Zelos: Heh, that's a pretty pathetic value, but I suppose it'll do.
Mithos: You reject my offer?
Seles: You know what I wish for, yet you still interfere?!
Zelos: Sorry, but I've got no choice. The guy who decided my value believes in me and tells me not to run away!
Zelos: I trust you, Lloyd. I, the sorta valuable Zelos, am headed your way!
Sheena: Looks like he beat me to it.
Kuchinawa: Are you running away again?!
Mithos: I'll raze the entire village of Mizuho!
Sheena: I'm not running. The people of Mizuho are waiting for us to reunite the worlds. Betraying that trust would truly be running away!
Sheena: Damnation or salvation...Guess there's only one way to find out.
Lloyd: Welcome back, you two.
Sheena: It's not like I can really run away from the fact that I was born.
Zelos: Exactly. Especially since we now have out new found pathetic value and all. I'm gonna try and face my challenges head on.
Lloyd: Yeah. Running won't solve anything.
Mithos: What possible value does one burdened to exist with cursed blood have? Sometimes running is the only way to save yourself. Humans are...So arrogant.
Lloyd: ...What is that?
Zelos: A spider figurine?
Sheena: But it's broken in half, it's kind of creepy.
Lloyd: Maybe it's an admonition to not run away.
Zelos: Heh. I guess that's one way to look at it.
Sheena: Maybe it is, I'm gonna hang on to it as a reminder.