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Let me tell you a story.
It's about three SOLDIER brothers who weren't what they thought they were.
Their relationship was complicated. Full of respect, unspoken love, envy, hatered, going mad and in the end dying, after either going mad or starting to hate themselves.
They all had their own unique styles, but all of them had one thing in common. They all had cyan colored eyes, but they never questioned why they were like that.
Eventually they learned why they were like that and that was the thing which ended in one to hate himself, the other became a mad man and third started a war.
The oldest one of the three had black hair slicked back. He was a tall man with a broad and muscular structure. He weared a standard SOLDIER First Class uniform which included navy blue knitted tank top, black pants, SOLDIER logo which was kinda like a corset and it had suspenders, leather boots, shoulder guard and leather gloves.
He was rational, calm and he valued honor. Eventhough in the group there wasn't really any leader, the oldest would stop the two other if they did something stupid.
He always wanted to protect as many as he could and did the best he could to achieve that goal of his.
Second one was also a tall man who had beautiful silver hair with side bangs and he was the best soldier in the whole country. He weared a long black coat with silver pauldrons, black boots and trousers. The top of his coat was open to reveal his chest, with his leather SOLDIER suspenders crossed over it.
No one was as good SOLDIER as he was. Actually he was unormally better than others, but no one ever thought about why. He just was and because of it people startet to admire him.
Eventhough he was admired a lot he never was arrogant or selfish. He was clam, professional and valued his friendship with the two other men.
His nickname was silver soldier and his weapon was a katana named Masamune. Masamune was about two meters long and he used it with his own powers.
The last one of the three had short brown hair. He had long red coat with black clothing underneath, crossed leather straps, black boots, shoulder guards, the same SOLDIER logo corset thing as the oldest and a large red sword.
He was arrogant and prideful. He never opened up to anyone else but his two friends.
Eventhough he considered Silver Soldier as his friend, he still envied him and wanted to become better than him.
He always carried a book with him called LOVELESS or if he didn't have it in hand he would quote it always when it fitted in the moment. He was so obsessed to the book and its poem that he started to believe it was true. The poem was one reason why he became deserter in the end.
I could say that they were like best friends, but unfortunaly it ended soon. It all started as a one-on-one duel between the Silver Soldier and Deserter. It escalated quickly and the oldest had to intervene. Because of this the Deserter wounded, but he assured that it was just a minor wound.
However soon he learn that it wasn't. It didn't start healing. On the contrary it started to get worse. He wanted to know why it didn't heal and soon he learned that he wasn't a normal human.
He learned that he had JENOVA's cells in him which made him something more than just a human and that his friends were the same as well. Except that he and the oldest were considerted as failed experiments and Silver Soldier had been success.
At that time I would have believed that the Deserter would have told his friends about his discovery. But he didn't and so he disappeared. This is how he became a deserter.
After being alone for a while he decided to start full filling the LOVELESS poem's story. This is how his own war started.
During the time the Deserter was missing, the oldest also found out who he really was and he started to hate himself. He thought he was a monster and that he didn't deserve any honor anymore. After this he also disappeared.
When the two disappeared Silver Soldier didn't seem to be worried. He continued working as first class SOLDIER, but after some time he started to queston his purpose and what had happened to his friends.
One day he found out the truth behind his past and it chanced him. He wasn't anymore the professional and caring soldier. He became a mad man. First he began to hate those who had made him and then, over time, he started to hate the whole world.
The end was not good for any of them. The oldest was killed by his prentice. However he did find peace.
The Deserter's death itself was maybe the most peacefull. He died after his final battle against the oldest's prentice. In the end prentice realized that the Deserter just wanted to regain his pride as SOLDIER and be healed of his degradation. Content with his restored pride he died peacefully.
Silver Soldier's ending was the most complicated and it's still not sure if he really died.
Many times people, includeing myself, though that he had dead, but then he reappeared. And when I saw him last time, he said that he will never be a memory. Which can mean that he will come back again some day.
To be honest I feel really sorry for all of them. They were friends, but because they found out what they really were they separated from each other. The oldest started to hate himself, the Deserter became a deserter and Silver Soldier became a mad man who tried to distroy the world.
Maybe if they had know right from the start who they really were, they would have stayed as friends and as the good guys until death would have come to knock on the door.