“Before They Named You Legend” — Gast’s Perspectiv

[Verse I — The Child] [(soft piano, intimate)] You were smaller than the stories That the world would someday tell A quiet boy who watched the ceiling Like you listened for something else They measured strength and promise I measured how you learned How carefully you held a question Before deciding how it burned You did not laugh like other children But you tried when I asked why And in those fragile moments I saw kindness learning how to try [Pre-Chorus] [(flute enters gently)] They spoke of destiny and power Of weapons yet to rise But I saw only loneliness Behind observant eyes [Chorus — Regret] [(strings swell softly)] Before they named you legend Before they forged your name You were only searching For someone who would stay I taught you stars and history But failed the simplest art — How to protect a child From the world that broke his heart [Verse II — Departure] [(guitar joins, melancholy)] I told myself that leaving Was the only moral choice That distance would end suffering That silence had a voice But absence is a teacher Far crueler than I knew Because the hands that guided you next Never loved you as I do I read the tales that followed The hero and the fall And wondered if one conversation Might have changed it all [Pre-Chorus II] [(voice softens)] Science seeks understanding But wisdom asks us when Knowledge without compassion Creates abandoned men [Chorus — Recognition] [(warmer harmony)] Before they named you monster Before the flames and fear You were a boy who listened When someone stayed near And though the world remembers The sword, the war, the scar I remember the child Wondering what people are [Bridge — Hope] [(music brightens slightly)] They say you found a daughter And learned another way That gentleness survived in you Despite what came to stay Then perhaps I was not foolish To believe what I could see — That humanity was never lost… Only waiting to be free [Final Chorus — Forgiveness] [(full but gentle orchestra)] If someday you should ask me Why I disappeared from sight I would not speak of ethics — Only say I lost the fight Not against science or ambition But against my own fear And I am sorry, Sephiroth… I was not brave enough to stay here [Outro] [(piano alone, fading)] You were never meant to be a weapon. You were meant to learn the stars.