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This sketch is an illustration for my FFX fanfiction saga, Love Her and Despair, in which Lulu becomes Sin.
The symbolism is derived from Tarot. The Eight of Swords card indicates a prisoner who doesn't realize that he/she may have some way out.
The following is an excerpt from the chapter where Auron discovers Lulu in the nightmare heart of Sin:
Rising, Auron nearly tripped over a sword thrust into the snow. Black chains linked it to another sword standing nearby, and another, all of them linked in a circle like the posts of a child's carousel. More heavy chains formed spokes radiating from a central hub, which was...
Lulu. She stood like one more sword, straight and defiant, buried to the knees. A tangled mesh of black straps, barbed metal and rusted buckles encased her from the neck down. A leather band covered her eyes. Another twisted her arms behind her back. Her wild mass of hair was hopelessly snarled in the eight chains stretched from sword-hilts to iron hoops cutting into her upper arms, wrists, calves, hips, ribcage and throat. The snow around her legs was stained red. To add insult to injury, the weapons staking her to the mountainside were swords that he had once wielded: Chaos Blade. Beastmaster. Blurry Moon. Shiranui. Kotetsu. Murasame. Masamune.
Auron knew the cruel vision might be another trap, but if so, this lure was more effective than the last.
"Lulu." He hurried towards her, stepping over the chains. Fleeting contact with one made him stagger: a powerful jolt of electricity had shot through his ankle. He snatched his hand away from another chain that burned.
I believe I may have annoyed Yu Yevon. So she had remarked during their last encounter in the Via Purifico, when she had defied her master's bidding to come to Auron's aid. How many days ago? How many hours, minutes, seconds? Realization struck with the same bitter rage that had possessed him when he saw Yu Yevon sinking into Braska's final aeon. Then as now, he wanted to lash out, but a friend's body stood in the way.
The symbolism is derived from Tarot. The Eight of Swords card indicates a prisoner who doesn't realize that he/she may have some way out.
The following is an excerpt from the chapter where Auron discovers Lulu in the nightmare heart of Sin:
Rising, Auron nearly tripped over a sword thrust into the snow. Black chains linked it to another sword standing nearby, and another, all of them linked in a circle like the posts of a child's carousel. More heavy chains formed spokes radiating from a central hub, which was...
Lulu. She stood like one more sword, straight and defiant, buried to the knees. A tangled mesh of black straps, barbed metal and rusted buckles encased her from the neck down. A leather band covered her eyes. Another twisted her arms behind her back. Her wild mass of hair was hopelessly snarled in the eight chains stretched from sword-hilts to iron hoops cutting into her upper arms, wrists, calves, hips, ribcage and throat. The snow around her legs was stained red. To add insult to injury, the weapons staking her to the mountainside were swords that he had once wielded: Chaos Blade. Beastmaster. Blurry Moon. Shiranui. Kotetsu. Murasame. Masamune.
Auron knew the cruel vision might be another trap, but if so, this lure was more effective than the last.
"Lulu." He hurried towards her, stepping over the chains. Fleeting contact with one made him stagger: a powerful jolt of electricity had shot through his ankle. He snatched his hand away from another chain that burned.
I believe I may have annoyed Yu Yevon. So she had remarked during their last encounter in the Via Purifico, when she had defied her master's bidding to come to Auron's aid. How many days ago? How many hours, minutes, seconds? Realization struck with the same bitter rage that had possessed him when he saw Yu Yevon sinking into Braska's final aeon. Then as now, he wanted to lash out, but a friend's body stood in the way.
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