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

[peninhand]

Ena... Was a Princess? Well, talk about an unexpected plot twist. Monika was visibly surprised at the reveal, but surprise soon faded away as Ena proved to have a weapon and seemed to have no qualms using it against people from other worlds. So... She was familiar with world hopping too? Her secret hadn't been the biggest one, after all. You really never truly knew people.

"Wait, no! I am none of these things... If I were an enemy I wouldn't have approached you this way." Obviously her approach wasn't working. "Doesn't that all seem out of place? We're having a discussion in the middle of a..." A zombie apocalypse? "Whatever this is."

[rivieran]

Ena was still tense. Her eyes narrowed though not out of suspicion, but as a way of trying to figure out who or what exactly this girl was. She did have a point. Or did she?

"We got here too late, we couldn't stop it..." she spoke softly, trying to swim her way through a sudden haze of thoughts, desperately trying to justify all the things the girl mentioned. Ena was still naive enough to trust in the goodwill of those offering their help. The thought that Monika might be there to harm them was still a possibility in her mind, but something...else was nagging at the back of her mind. "Are you here to warn us, then?"

She looks around at her companions - the two Humans were just finished with pulling a survivor out of the rubble and Verus was still chopping up bodies in a rhythmical fashion. Why hadn't they noticed this girl she'd been talking to? Not even the wolf by the Dwarf's side had looked at her, much less come to sniff her.

[peninhand]

Monika had noticed the same thing, none of those people were reacting to her... Maybe they aimed to keep Ena locked in the memory. Maybe Ena could remember how they behaved, but couldn't replicate what their reaction would be in such a situation. She didn't know, but that was another point that, she hoped, would help her snap out of it.

"To warn you, yes... But not about what you are seeing in here. It's a memory, something from your past..."

How else could she explain it...?

"You... You may die if you don't snap out of it." She paused. She didn't know if that was true, but being lost in outer space? That usually didn't result in positive outcome. "And... There are a lot of people who would miss you if you did die."

[rivieran]

"I'll die...?" Ena sounded genuinely confused as she parroted what Monika said. Usually such a statement would bring an internal Me? Die? Hah!, but something told her this... prophet was right. She could feel the panic welling in her chest, spreading up to clench her throat tight and causing her face to burn.

She turned to see the two Humans walking over to her. A brief expression of relief passed over her face, but just as she was going to open her mouth to speak the one in the colorful cloak spoke before she could. "It's probably Endo."

"...What?" She hadn't said anything. Or done anything! Just talk to this mysterious girl. The man now stood beside Monika, and yet he didn't seem at all bothered by her presence. Ena's gaze darted frantically between the two. What on earth? Was she seeing things?

"Not me! You go ahead! I'm busy here!" She whirled around now to see Verus speaking unprompted.

Something told her something was wrong, but she couldn't place what. "S-stop, don't!" she called out to her armored companion as he started making his way towards the sea of splintered wood, but he kept going. Her panic growing, she turned to Monika. What should she do?

[peninhand]

Monika stared at the other people spoke out of line. She could only imagine what Ena's distress was like... She remembered every loop of her own memory, the anger and fear she had felt whenever she had been cut off from the player, the sorrow when she had realized she wouldn't be there forevermore with her true love... But it was better that way, right? And Ena... This memory was so dark and depressing, she couldn't leave her here.

"They're just following a script... A script written by your memories. They're not real." Speaking of these people in such a manner, it reminded Monika of her "friends"... Though these people had been real at some point, but now they were nothing but a fragment of her imagination.

She rested a hand upon Ena's shoulder, taking a deep breath.

"You stepped into my memory earlier." She didn't want to speak about what had happened then, but she had to job her memories one way or another. "And you saved me. Can you remember my name? It... Begins with a M."

[rivieran]

"A... a script?"

She looked back to her companions as they gingerly picked their way through the ruined houses. Something struck her - she should be with them, right? Walking with them to... wherever they were going. She obviously was the one that was supposed to have spotted whatever it was that was leading them there in the first place. She wasn't supposed to be... talking to this random Human who had appeared from nowhere.

But then that led her thoughts in a different direction - she was seeing this girl and talking to her too. So why hadn't her companions reacted? There was some sort of disembodied voice that echoed around them, but Ena was so caught up in her thoughts she didn't notice what it was saying. She looked back to the girl. Was she right? Was the girl the real one and her companions not?

She stared deep into the girl's green eyes. Flashes of a house. A room. Unfamiliar scenery? All these images passed through her mind's eye, and for a fraction of a second she's not sure if she's just imagining these things, but it slowly dawns on her that all of those things were real. They were betrayed by the last survivor they find. He led them away and killed them all. She died and was revived on a new planet. And now, this girl...

The world suddenly stopped - raindrops hung in the air, and all the smells of a wet, destroyed village awere cut off. The others were frozen mid-step. But Ena paid no mind to them. Her frown deepened.

"...Monika?"

And in an instant, the whole dream world vanished, the two now floating in the space of the Dream Width.