Ineluctable Fate

"Even when you are in pain, you never say it. You just joke your way out of it. ...I know, because that's how I was."Baldinar Le Mudias, Prime Minister of Kounat, was not always evil. Some part of him to this day remains virtuous, despite his actions, clinging to that desire to see everyone safe and happy, to protect everyone even if now he had threatened those very people he promised to protect. Once, he was simply a man in love who wanted to protect his country and the world, well-liked, well-trusted by his people. And then one day he was a bit less loved, a bit less trusted, and he slowly turned to walk a path that never should have been.Grief is an awfully misguiding presence. One must be careful not to follow it to the ends of the world.(A story about Baldinar's descent into villainy, expanding on some of the cutscenes from GC and GC:DC. Works from the rest of the Useless Drabbles series are considered mostly canon to this one--- though some of that writing is a little outdated and will be revisited in this one, lol. Updates approximately once every 2 weeks! Currently behind on updates.)