LR: FFXIII - A Blade Called Love

_{The blade is an eternal burden
That we both embraced
If fate will not let us be
Then we will not let fate be
We cannot live without the other
Neither can we stop the pain
The moment we are separated
Death will claim us both
Yet we have each other to share
Whatever pain we go through
We belong together, forever
No matter if fate says otherwise
No one can understand us better
Than someone whose heart is pierced
By the same blade going through yours}

Yeah, I know. I'm cruel, ruthless and heartless. That's who I am. When everyone draws fluffy and pretty stuff, there goes Me and she shoves a giant knife through both Hope and Lightning's chests. Way to go. (?)

In any case, I did this for Lightning Week in Tumblr. First day's prompt was our favorite relationship concerning her, so... obviously, it had to be Hope and her, if you know me well enough. It's largely symbolic, of course, and I chose their LR incarnations because it's in the third game where all the sides of their relationship, emphasis on its darkest ones, are properly shown. And face it, Lightning and Hope's relationship is far from being all pretty and fluffy and perfect: it's a particularly tragic, brutal love story if you pause to consider it.

Done by SAI and Photoshop.

Hope you like it!