Waltzing with Destiny

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~Song~
Dark Waltz (Hayley Westenra)

~Pairing~
Noctis & Stella/Lightening

~Footage~
Main - FFXIII/Versus
Extra/support - FFAC, VIII, X2, Drakengard2

~Story~
Noctis, prince of a half-dead kingdom, wakes alone in his throne room. Yet the remnants of his dream remain with him; dreams of a beautiful girl, of dancing, a battle and loss. He tries to continue with his daily life, but he is continually haunted by images of the girl. He remembers dancing with her, and tries to speak, but she fades away into the fireworks of his imagination before he can say a word. The dreams grow stronger and stronger until one day he walks outside his fortress to find soldiers, an army, waiting for him. Suddenly he remembers; the girl was no dream, she was real. The same soldiers before him now had trapped them, and though he had reached out, tried to rescue her, she had slipped from his grasp and they had taken her from him, and left him struck with amnesia. In a flash, he looks back over his memories in a new light; dancing with the woman he loved, kissing her, losing her...
In a burst of anger and determined for revenge, he charges the soldiers and a bitter fight ensues. Yet Noctis can feel Stella's presence standing behind him underneath the moonlight, moonlight which she will never feel again. As he fights, memories of their past together flood his mind, and as he prepares to go down in a blaze of glory, a shining white light suddenly appears...
Stella descends from the sky and all the soldiers stop to stare at her, as does Noctis. He runs to her before stopping, unable to believe his eyes. Slowly, she closes the distance between them, placing her hands on his shoulders. There, in the rubble and the night, the two of them dance. Noctis is so absorbed that he doesn't notice the single soldier raising his gun...
Both he and Stella fall to the ground, and visions of Stella's previous death merge with the present, history repeating itself. Yet just as Noctis closes his eyes, it seems to him like a great light sweeps them both into the heavens. Images flash across his eyes... and then Stella reaches out and takes his hand.

Noctis finds himself in an unfamiliar hall. A dance hall. Wonderingly, he looks up only to find a beautiful girl, dressed all in white, waiting for him. It seems that although they could never be together in life, here they can dance for eternity.

~

Yeah, so I finally got some inspiration :D I love this song, I love this game (can't wait till it's released in its entirety), and this vid was surprisingly easy to make, it just kind of flowed with the song. Due to lack of clips (and the fact that I couldn't choose which I liked best), Stella and Lightening have been kinda merged into one character. I call her Stellning :P And I've also used Yuna, Rinoa and Lenne to represent her at various points. Sorry bout that, but with a little stretch of the imagination, and a pinch of artistic license... :P

Hope you enjoy!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• final
• fantasy
• XIII
• versus
• Noctis
• Stella
• Lightening
• Dark
• Waltz
• Hayley
• Westenra

[StripyPurpleScarf]

Thanks guys :D

[Luna95cat]

why the, "I love pie" part??? That was a moment of passion, not comedy!!! XDDD lmao anyways good job.

[myifinity1]

beautiful =)

[TheKyRa902]

so beautefulll ohhh .....!!! 8->  :X

[AnnaNoxFleuret]

Nice video!!!!

I like this music!

[tbone0702]

beautiful

[sapphirerose34]

Very beautiful vide!

[ShnGm01]

Very Nice!

[MysticHedwig]

I really loved the feel of it, especially with the dancing scenes! It had an incredibly magic feeling :) 5/5+fav :D

[Hichanchen2]

Oh this is beautiful...well done my dear^^

I really love the atmosphere