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never thought about that... but if that's the case, what's the significance of that weird doggy like thing?

The Happy Ending by mistressmarionette

Once upon a time, Fai began, There was a little boy who lived in the north alone with his kitty...

One of my favorites on fanfiction.net. It was what first caused me to start looking at Fai closer than just face surface. Awesome story. heart

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I Capture the Castle by Mizu-Tenshi

Fai's magic cannot bring back the past. Ashura's dreams cannot create a future. Only snow and ice lie in Celes. Only the castle will remember their story. Some spoilers

Another fabulous story and great theory (though this one is much more thorough). My inspiration for Clad in White, as well as a HP fanfiction I found a long time ago. sweatdrop

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Jealousy by mistressmarionette

Kurogane has made some rather biased judgments about Fai. Whoever said Fai hasn't made any about Kurogane?

This story gives me the creeps every time I read it, which is why I love it so much. It's absolutely amazing, and makes you think about Kurogane and Fai and the details to just how they came to meet.

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Sometimes I Wish by Luinramwen

Two long years after everyone has gone their separate ways. Except for Fai and Mokona... A peaceful, wistful little vignette.

Before chapter 120, this is what I honestly thought would happen, and it almost broke my heart. Think about it. What else could have he done?

I needed to make and print some screenshots for reference (I hope my color ink doesn't run out O_O; ) and I felt I should share them here. ^^ They're from the second beginning of the anime, and while I know Beetrain or whatever makes really stupid mistakes, I'd like to believe that CLAMP had something to do with anything that involves their past. I mean, since it IS such a censored channel I can see why they changed Kuro-mu's past (POO!), but with things like intros I don't know why they would change it. It looks pretty accurate to me.

Okay, enough talking, here are the photos of Ceres:

Here's what I think now:

Fai wasn't put in prison for doing something wrong, he was locked up for having such strong powers. They couldn't risk him putting people in danger so they just kept him away from people since he can't control his magic.

Fai says he wants to die (and who can blame him? If you lived your whole life in that crappy cell...) and he says "but before I die, I want someone to love me" which means that no one loved him before. That also supports the idea that he was always in the cell.

For whatever reason, Ashura-ou gets him out of the cell. I believe that Ashura-ou, before Fai, was the stronger magician or whatever in Celes, and he was able to give Fai his seal/tattoo, hence why Fai was allowed to be set free. Ashura-ou "adopts" him or something like that and teaches him about his magic and how to use it and everything like that.
However...

Since we wouldn't know why Ashura-ou would decide to give Fai the tattoo and adopt him or whatever, I think Fai made some kind of lie (he said he made a lie, right?) to him and had to live up to it, only to, in the end, have Ashura-ou find out the hard way and... tadaa.

And I'm guessing that this lie had something to do with FWR. ;P

Well yeah. Fai obviously put Ashura-ou to sleep, and like I said above, it probably happened after Ashura-ou found out Fai's secret/lie the hard way and it (the secret/lie, whatever it may be) was so bad that Fai had to put him to sleep so he could escape, perhaps from guilt.

Ooh, ooh, I just thought of something~! What if, uhm, some long time ago or something, Ashura's, uhm, relative(let's make it, uhm, a sister, because, uhm, yeah) got killed by, uhm, some sorta ancestor of Fai's (let's call it, uhm, a jealous great-uncle). So then some person in the royal family(let's call it, uhm, another great-uncle) imprisons Fai because he's the only, uhm, person left in that clan because the great-uncle was his guardian and then he committed suicide? So, then, after Ashura's great-uncle dies, he then lets Fai out, and then, yeah.

Or or or maybe Fai's family was originally the royal family, and his mom and dad were king and queen, but then the aforementioned great uncle of Ashura(not yet born) took over and threw them in jail and then it turned out that the queen had a baby who turned out to be Fai-fai who was a girl and is still a girl just looks like a boy who then got thrown in a different cell all alone. Then Ashura gets born somehow, great-uncle and everyone else dies, and then Ashura takes over and, yeah.

i don't personally think that he was running from ashura-ou. i think he was protecting him. I KNOW IT SOUND FARFETCHED BUT LISTEN. when they are in the country of shara, kuro-puu said thatfai started to get nervous when they mentioned yasha but got worse when souseki-sama mentioned ashura.

so my theory is thatmaybe yasha had played some part in fai past.
also i don't think that ahura did anything wrong because when fai and kuro-pon landed in the country of yama kuro-pii never noticed anything wrong with fai during the 6 months they were there. and don't u think that fai would h ave been a little scared if he had to live with ashura for 6 months. i know it doesn't make almost any sense but there must be something there that helps us!!!