Title: One Legend, Two Destinies
Author: Grayswandir
Fandoms: Gundam Wing, Escaflowne
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing and Escaflowne are owned by Bandai/Sunrise.
Pairings: past friendship Van/Hitomi, some het, mostly slash, to be listed as revealed

GW VoE

Chapter Zero: The Theory

Fate and Destiny.

They are supposedly the guiding forces in the universe.

Fate. A means to an end. The ending or the beginning of a legacy.

Destiny. An action that you are driven to perform.

Often one is told that one's fate and destiny cannot be changed.

But what if two distinct people lived in the same body? If one started as one being and was suddenly stripped of that identity to be replaced by another, would the new entity have a new fate and destiny? Or would it simply continue to carry out the original one?

If the former is true, what happens when the original persona returns to power? Does that leave the new one intact and simply displace its destiny? Or does it melt together with that of the original?

If the latter is true, were there truly two destinies to begin with? Or were both merely branches that stemmed from the original?

Then again, the age old question that was fought over during the Destiny War also comes into play. Can you change your destiny? Yes. The outcome proved it.

But if you are not consciously able to control your life, can you control your destiny?

If you are of two beings, does your destiny become intertwined with the other? Or do you end up with two completely unique and separate destinies to fulfill? Perhaps.

Perhaps. . .

OLTD

(Apologies for this extended author note. Complete note with additional information is available through links on my profile.)

Calendar Set-up for Gaea

Based on the idea that the Destiny War brought unity to the people of Gaea, a new referencing was born. Before Destiny (BD) includes all time before the war and the remainder of the year after the war to the beginning of the new year. Gaea United (GU) is the new era. (Think BC/AD or BCE/CE.) However, to assist in the removal of confusion as time progresses in the fic, I shall be noting how much time has passed since the beginning of the story for all Gaea related times (well, when dates begin to correspond to proper events).

A Year on Gaea will be noted as a Cycle.
A Month will be a Color.
A Week will be a Sep.
A Day will be a Moon.

January will correspond with White (Green in Fanelia).
February will correspond with Purple.
March will correspond with Gold (Black in Fanelia).
April will correspond with Green (White in Fanelia).
May will correspond with Yellow.
June will correspond with Orange.
July will correspond with Aqua.
August will correspond with Red.
September will correspond with Brown.
October will correspond with Silver.
November will correspond with Blue.
December will correspond with Black (Gold in Fanelia).

Re-mastered Prologue August 4, 2012