A birthday present for @winterofherdiscontent: faithful sailor on the sin ship Jynnic and artist extraordinaire. Another piece in my ongoing gothic AU - this time from Krennic perspective. I hope you enjoy it. :)
He is hard, unbreakable. It is the only way to be.
There is a weak spot in every man, if only you know how to find it. Like a sheet of glass there is that point of vulnerability: strike it with something sharp and it will shatter, a thousand sharp diamonds radiating outward. There will be a tiny flaw in the design, a minuscule fissure, overlooked by the untrained eye. But he has the vision of a raptor - precise, unblinking. Find the defect, apply the right pressure. He has destroyed many a rival in this way.
Enemies, in turn, have tried the same tactic against him. They waste their cunning and their time, hurling themselves against a sea wall that will not be breached. For Krennic has always known that he could have no weak points, and so he has shaped his life accordingly. In the edifice that is his ambition there are no joins, no yielding mortar between the bricks. He has carved himself from solid stone, and any hand raised to strike him will break itself in the attempt.
He is marble: smooth, white, pristine. Distant as the moon, cold as death to the touch.