Ashes

I just found this incredibly beautiftul song:

Thing is, I've been listening to Les Friction for years, yet somehow I've never heard this song before.

Upon hearing it, I was reminded of two characters I haven't thought about for a long, long while. Lilly and Anton, from Song of The Unbroken. They went through a lot together, and would've gone through even more throughout the story. I had the entire plot and character arcs planned out, and knew exactly what would happen and how the series would've ended.

Anton and Lilly would become closer and closer to each other through the stories, so close in fact that Anton asks Lilly to be his wife. She says yes. They both become Stalkers, and Anton's Stalker name is Ash, while Lilly takes the name Phoenix. They're both fighting with their friends to save Equestria, together until the end.

They marry, and seem to find some hope of joy in this bleak world they call home.

On their wedding night, they're just about to have sex for the first time. But then the town is attacked by the True Believers, and they're both forced into battle to defend the town against the attackers. In this battle, Anton is hit by an arrow, that burries itself in his right eye. Lilly holds him in his arms as he says the following:

"Jag älskar dig. Så mycket."

He dies in Lilly's arms. Yet he dies with a smile on his lips, happy to be in the embrace of his wife. The last words he speaks are words of love. After the battle. Anton's body is cremated, and Lilly swears revenge against the True Believers, that she will not rest until every single one lays dead. It could've been an incredibly strong part of the story, and a huge turning-point for the characters. Especially Lilly, who becomes consumed by her desire for revenge. Gone is the young unicorn who wanted peace and an end to all of the suffering in Equestria, replaced instead by nothing but anger and rage.

Once, she and Anton shared a dream. That dream is shattered together with Anton's last breaths, and it tears Lilly apart.