Event || Once Upon A Dream

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Who: All characters who signed-up!
When: May 31st - June 04th
Where: The Dream Width (+ Curti Center & Airships)
What: Event log for the Once Upon A Dream Event! Should your character have their own memory, start your own top-level with said memory. If not, then tag around in other characters's memories! Furthermore, feel free to use the Mingle threads at the Curti Center and in the Airships for non-memory related CR. Please refer to the OOC Post for details and plotting. Plot Memories and the second Airship Mingle will be unlocked on May 25th.
Warnings/Notes: Memories with specific warnings will be marked as such by their players.

Please use the following form for your memory's title line:
CHARACTER'S NAME | MEMORY TITLE | WARNINGS (IF ANY)
We will add links to your memories here as the event progresses!

Mingle: Curti Center | Airships #1 | Airships #2
Plot Memories: The Dream | The Nightmare | The Premonition
Holographic Messages

Adrien Agreste | Then and Now
Aqua | Thorny Pathway | cw: spoiler for kh 0.2
Castor | Lord of the Inferno | cw: fire, mind control
Ena | Zera Hamlet, Reprise | cw: mutilated corpses
Futaba Sakura | Early Days | cw: references to verbal abuse/neglect and auditory hallucinations
Ignis Scientia | For The Life of the Chosen | cw: spoilers, violence, death
Irhya Pendhula | The Parting Glass | cw: violence, amputation
Johnny D'Amico | United Earth Prisoner
Kanji Tatsumi | You're a BOY, you know! | cw: bullying, mild homophobia
Lelouch vi Britannia | Julius Kingsley
Monika | Just Monika | cw: spoilers, possible horror, possible deletion
Nanamo Ul Namo | A Good Memory
Noctis Lucis Caelum | Light of the Crystal | cw: chapter 13 spoilers
Okuyasu Nijimura | Lending a Hand | cw: blood/injuries
Prompto Argentum | I'm not one of your experiments! | cw: episode prompto spoilers
Selphie | The Answer | cw: gore/death
Takashi 'Shiro' Shirogane | The end of the beginning | cw: end of season 2 spoilers
Tidus | A Broken Dream | cw: death, bullying

Comments

[regalblaze]

Ignis' attention snapped to Reno as words hit him, shock and terror just making his skin crawl. Ravus, however, didn't hear Reno- didn't see him either. His attention was solely on Ignis and the attempt to pummel him into the ground.

But as much as distraught Ignis was from what Reno said, he had to keep up the fight- Ravus doesn't see Reno, but he does see him. The fight continued for a long while, Ignis energy reaching a critical point when he finally, finally manages to knock Ravus down and stab his electricity infused dagger through his magitek arm, rendering it useless for a moment.

For a long moment, Ravus didn't move. Ignis was on one knee, trying to catch his breath. Eventually, the older man stands up, still with Ignis' dagger in his arm and heads toward where Noct and Luna were. But... not to attack Reno.

"I always knew..." Ravus' voice was now barely above breathing, calmer, and filled with sorrow, "...that you would face your fate without fear, fulfill your duty without regret."

Ignis followed close after him, tired and battered, feeling lucky that he managed to subside Ravus' anger even just a little bit. But...

"...But part of me... always hoped..." Ravus crouched down, cradling Lunafreya's face gently, "...that I might see you happy one day... burdens lifted."

Ignis squeezed his eyes tightly as Lunafreya's ethereal form appeared in the air and Ravus desperately tried to reach her. "Sister, please... don't go!...please, don't leave me..."

[shinra_dog]

That was about what he expected. Reno sighed and his shoulders fell, nodding to himself as he let his foot rest -- phasing straight through the girl beneath him. He stood there, ankle-deep in Luna as Ravus held her.

"Ignis... Ignis, open yer eyes."

Reno finally began to walk toward him again, through the corpse and through Ravus, through Luna's spirit, like a phantom himself. He basically was. "Ignis, this isn't happening -- not right now. It's not real."

[regalblaze]

Ignis did open his eyes. And froze in the spot. What... what is going on?

"What do you..." he took a step back, frowning. His head gave a vicious thump, making Ignis wince. "-there's-- there's no way this isn't real... how?"

How is he doing that? What is going on here? He felt tired- so tired to even think. Yet, he didn't allow himself to sit down and take a breath for a moment. He doesn't understand what's going on.

"What are you doing?" Ignis stopped paying attention to Ravus and people laying on the ground, now directly addressing Reno.

[shinra_dog]

"I mean, I'm sure it was real. But it's not happening now." Reno frowned. This was, admittedly, the worst case he'd seen, but he had no doubts -- this was a memory. He'd just never known someone to be unaware of it before.

"This is all you." Reno had no power here. He couldn't touch anything, change anything. He could only wait until it was over. If Ignis didn't know, maybe he was the only one who could change it.

"Is this why you were worried for Noctis? When you arrived on the Ragnarok, is this the last thing you saw?" Reno's eyes probed Ignis', searching for any kind of answer in the other man's expression.

[regalblaze]

So this was... some sort of memory? But- how did he get here? Damn it his head hurt. It feels as if he was fighting Ravus for hours without an end. Carefully, he steps closer, his eyes locked on Noctis, before he looks up.

Sure enough- another "him" is standing there where he was earlier, playing the memory out. He nods slowly. "Yes, this is why I was worried. However, the last thing I saw--"

As if on cue, Gladio rushes in and the Memory-Ignis instantly walks up to him, asking about Prompto. However, Gladio's attention seems to be on the white-haired man.

"Ardyn-!" Ravus all but snarls at him and goes for his blade, only to be blasted away by Ardyn's magic as if he was a mere feather.

"He's the last thing I saw..." Ignis felt dread go down his back as the MT's forced him down on the ground and Ardyn effectively knocking him out with his shoe. The memory ends there, leaving Ignis and Reno to stand in the rain, on the Altar as the people fade away.

[shinra_dog]

"Ardyn!" Reno bared his teeth and reached for his weapon, stepping forward instinctively before he realized again that it would have no effect. He clenched his fist instead and let it fall to his side.

"That bastard..." He grimaced. "I didn't know he was from your world. I'm sorry."

[regalblaze]

Ignis grabbed Reno by the shoulder, seeing that he wanted to step forward. Since this is a memory, the guy can't do anything about it. Still- the way he says Ardyn's name-

"...you. You've met him before." It's more of a statement than a question. And you can bet your everything Ignis will want an explanation. The memory, however, is starting to blur and will eventually kick them out from it because they are conscious, but-! He needs to know!

[shinra_dog]

Reno nodded, still feeling disgusted at the sight of the villain. He stared at Ardyn until the scene began to blur... but it wasn't restarting. Now that Ignis was aware, Reno realized, the memory might end.

"The last world I was in," Reno admitted to Ignis quickly, unsure when the dream would collapse. "Find me when you wake up!"

[regalblaze]

The last world what-? Reno's voice was muddled with the sound of rain and magitek troops rushing in and knocking down Ignis from the memory. He himself can feel his consciousness melting away as the memory was coming to an end.

He will definitively have a long chat with Reno about this. Once his feet are set firmly on the ground.

10... comments... !

[shinra_dog]

"Ig -- find -- !"

The scene before him faltered then failed as Ignis, the present Ignis, disappeared. The rest of the memory fell to pieces after that, throwing Reno back into the blackness of the Dream Width.