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

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[chocobosnap]

It wasn't his memory and he couldn't shut Ardyn up. No matter how much he'd tried even in their time together, he couldn't keep him quiet. He'd never managed and he certainly wasn't going to keep quiet now.

He was related to Noctis. On what planet did that even make sense?

He opened his mouth to say something but Ardyn said the line that sent shivers down his spine, and made him pale at the thought of having to spend more time entertaining the man.

His expression when Noctis was sucked in looked anguished, almost as though he might be sick. There was a light and a moment for him to catch his breath. Ardyn wasn't there.

"Noct." He choked out softly, but the memories were coming hard and fast, Noctis' anguish because he was missing, he hadn't really considered that, Ardyn taunting him with his gun, which just made him nauseous. At the same time, he'd been hanging there, in that cage, being told his friends would never come for him, how worthless he was except as a plaything.

Prompto swallowed and shook off his own memories. This was not his dream, these were not his memories.

Noctis was curled up, the memories had ended and there was only one thing he could do.

He dropped to his knees behind Noctis and wrapped his arms around him, squeezing tightly.

[warpstriking]

Prompto would find that, in this place, there was no floor. No up, no down. Only weightlessness.

He didn't hear his name being called, but certainly felt something solid behind him. The first solid thing since the Draconian had— No. That's not right, is it? There- there was somewhere else, right?

His head lifts slightly away from its resting place as a hand moves to rest atop of one of the other's. The feel of the wristbands telling him who it is without him even having to open his eyes. "Prom." I'm sorry. You should never have had to see that.

[chocobosnap]

To say it was freaky not to have a floor beneath him was an understatement.

Prompto responded by squeezing him. He'd seen it, it was too late to take that back, but he rested his head against Noctis' back. A solid presence in this place that was...nothing.

"I'm here." He said, holding him. "I'm here. Just...can you wake up now?" He asked, a little unsteady, there were things he'd seen and heard that disturbed him but he couldn't give up on Noctis.

"Airships. Airships Noct."

[warpstriking]

Trying to focus on that word brought up another memory. One that's far more recent.

Space. They're floating in space, the images of the Altar fading as he clung harder to the back of Ignis' shirt.

"Specs. Wake up..." Yet he doesn't stir right away, and Noct frantically looked around, trying to find a way to save them before it became too late. Relief flashed in his eyes as Ignis stirred, finally opening his eyes as Noctis' grip loosened. There was the ship the adviser was supposed to be on. But, he knows it wouldn't work. That they could both die if they're exposed to the Dream Width too long without the protection of—

He pushed Ignis away to safety.

[chocobosnap]

Prompto squeezed him and held onto him, he didn't like seeing him like this, floating in nothingness with little hope to get out.

"You're not alone." If only he could have done this in real life, if this was what Noctis was doing? If this was his future? He would give up his time away just to keep him company for however long it took.

To think this was awaiting his best friend, he was worried about it. It was terrible. "I'm here okay?"

Prompto didn't know how to fix this. He wasn't even sure how to get him to wake up.

[warpstriking]

Noctis let himself be held for a moment, afraid to turn his head and open his eyes to find that the other would disappear. Just another cruel attempt at comfort from the gods. Yet that didn't make sense with that last glimpse.

...not alone. I'm here...

Noctis pulled away, gently, and only enough so that he could turn. If or when he did, he gently wrapped his arms around Prompto, fingers grasping at the leather jacket.

[chocobosnap]

He could let him turn around, it was hard to say how long it took because this place was so strange, time seemed to be irrelevant like everything else, floating in a void of sorts.

"I'm here." Prompto repeated, pulling him to his chest since he was hugging him back and petting his hair.

"And you need to wake up. You were on an airship. You have to go back. Please?"

It was a small, unsteady plea.

[warpstriking]

Good. Because Noctis was going to regardless. Hug, cling, but not once shake. He accepted this, resigned himself to his fate. For it wasn't just his past, but his present; his future.

"Prompto, I-" I don't know how and I'm sorry are what he wanted to say, but like so many times, words failed him. Instead he shook his head. Prompto's here, but he shouldn't be. No one should see him like this.

His words weren't quite reaching the dreamer, the pull of memory too strong. "You do, too."

Go back. Go back.

Just like that. The memory ripped them apart, Noctis curling back into himself as Prompto's presence disappeared.

[chocobosnap]

"We can-" He sucked in a breath. "Together."

Noctis may not have been shaking but Prompto was slightly, he hadn't accepted anything - he wasn't ready to see this, or for it to happen.

Suddenly out of nowhere, Prompto ran out of time and Noctis was pulled from his arms, ripping them apart as the dream faded away, ripples of a new one coming to his consciousness.

"Astrals." Prompto breathed as it came into focus. He was staring at the First Magitek Production Facility and all thoughts of Noctis alone in that crystal faded away.