Spoiler Warning for anyone who hasn't played Chrono Trigger and doesn't know...

Of course, if you didn't know or haven't played, you prolly wouldn't be reading this anyway.


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This just popped into my head this evening, while I was playing CT (for the fourth or fifth time.)  Crono was sacrificing himself to stop Lavos, and I was reaching for the tissues again--

But then, a few seconds before he's burned away, I noticed something.

Just before him, just before he washes away in the light, I saw something that looked like the Hero's Medal (Remember how they showed it looking in Frog's Cyrus flashbacks?).  I think it may actually have been the Chrono Trigger-- It's been a while since I played all the way through, and I stopped to write this-- but how would Crono know that as he was dying?


Thus, I give you this-- a brief insight into the mind of a dying boy.




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The light...


So bright it burns--burns everything--Lavos, the Queen...

me...


It hurts, the light...


Burning me away...


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So easy to let go... just let everything go...



All I have to do is release the power, and fall into the darkness...


Just let the light die...



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....No...

No, I can't let go...  The light has to go on... the light MUST go on...

It has to stun the beast, to give--to give everyone time to get away...



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...'Crono?'...



...'Crono, stop!  What are you *doing*!?'...


...'*CRONO*!'...




...Marle...



She's calling my name...


.........She's crying...



Marle shouldn't cry...



If I die...  if I let the light burn me away...




....she'll cry....




But Marle has to live...

She has to...


I WON'T let her die...



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...Can't go on...



...m'running out of light...





............what's that?



something's...



sparkling...




The Medal...


Frog gave it to me when we went after the Queen...



The Hero's Medal...





....Am I a hero, too...?



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The *light*----!









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