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

[chefbayardee]

Hunk was glad that Shiro told him to brace himself, because he had but a moment to stand up and nestle himself into the curves of the wall before the speed, the light, the connection with Black. It was beyond anything Hunk could imagine. Sure, they'd used those weird mind-melding hats during training and they synched up to form Voltron all the time, but this?

Well, he loved Yellow more than he loved some meals, but they hadn't meshed like this yet. And man, did he want to. The speed was a bit much, but he'd get through it- it was a memory, after all. But that wasn't what captivated his attention, it was Shiro. He was laughing, riding the high of piloting a psychically-linked, winged lion.

And Hunk found himself laughing. Well, not so much laughing as whooping and cheering, like someone fully invested into a roller coaster ride. His eyes were wide, and the adrenaline was palpable, a concerning fact given that Hunk tried to keep his nerves in check. But that didn't matter, not right now, because he just synchronized with the Black Lion.

"Whoo!" He shouted, not caring for volume control. The Black Lion was definitely louder. "That was awesome, Shiro! Do... do you think we can do that?" And then he just sort of collapses a bit, sitting on the edge of the cockpit, taking deep, deep breaths. And grinning like an idiot.

[spaceforged]

He remembers the first time. He'd been so focused on protecting the team and getting Zarkon that he hadn't gotten to really experience the wonder of the moment. At least this time they both get to experience the rush and the feeling of being so much more than merely a person or even a Lion. He breathes out as they phase through space and into the expanse within, the glass-like floor reflecting the stars as he passes through Zarkon and takes the Bayard from his hand.

His Bayard.

He grins at Hunk as they appear on the other side of Zarkon's mecha suit and he holds up the bayard. "Now you know what happened." It reshapes into the small Bayard shape in his hand and he waves it once before storing it in his armor. "I think we can break out by finishing this fight as far as I remember it." His grin returns, making his eyes bright grey. "I felt the edge of this when I saw through the Lion's eyes before. If I can do it, all of you definitely can."

[chefbayardee]

"Really?! That's so cool!" Hunk sounded like he was a child told he'd be going to Disney World, because to be honest he figured that sorta trick was just for the Black Lion. "I mean, we drilled through the ground once, but..."

And then his eyes glaze over with wonder for a moment. Yellow was already a bit of a wrecking ball, but if he could get cooler somehow? More armor? A giant rocket so he could be an unbreakable torpedo? Or maybe-

Wait, they're still in a dream. Fighting Zarkon. Whoops. "S-sorry, I zoned out for a second there. You got this under control, right Shiro?" Hunk chuckles at his own question- Shiro knew this was a memory and how it ended, and this was Shiro he was talking to. His leader always knew what to do, and the chance at having the freedom to just contemplate Yellow's untapped potential had Hunk grinning ear to ear too.

[spaceforged]

Both his eyebrows go up as he mouths, 'drilled through the ground?' Curiosity flickers in his eyes and he wants to ask more about it. But they have a job to do. He nods, turning back to the controls as the memory moving towards its conclusion. "I've got this."

He leans onto his controls, straightening his back and calls out. "Form Voltron!" It's the same as it ever was the five falling into a whole unit. But it feels differently being slightly outside of that and yet completely within it.

He turns them face the approaching Zarkon as the team together moves to meet him. There's no blasts of energy this time. "This is our last chance! Let's finish this!" He throws the left control forward and they run Zarkon through.

"Hunk. This is going to hurt! ...Brace yourself." He watches the hands close over the head of Voltron and sucks in air just before the energy lashes into the cockpit and forces him back in his chair. Even the echo of it hurts, he grunts with the effort to move and directs Hunk's attention with a jerk of his head to the console frantically flashing. "This is what happened in here."

Maybe it's a clue. Maybe they can learn what happened to him. He summons his bayard and rams it into the slot and twists. Light rips along the tracks and lights the cockpit up like a beacon.

[chefbayardee]

Hunk just exhaled, relieving some of his tension with a smile at Shiro's confidence. Seeing his friend handle all of this pressure as an outside observer just solidifies that Shiro is basically the coolest guy he knows. So when the order comes out to brace himself, Hunk moves to one knee, gripping part of the cockpit with one arm for dear life.

As the energy courses through his body, Hunk just grits his teeth and growls. He and Shiro both know how this ends, so he's allowing himself to be done with Zarkon. So very done, in fact. So as Shiro gestures towards the blinking console, as the bayard goes in and everything lights up, Hunk's eyes went wide. There was no mistaking that it was beyond amazing to see Shiro in action up-close, but Shiro wasn't Hunk's goal anymore.

"How long until you disappear, Shiro?" That was his goal. Hunk shouts it over the din of the fight, over the adrenaline and stress, memory or not. His mind was on full alert, taking in every single detail. Somehow, the end of this fight threw Shiro into Vaikuntha, and Hunk needed to find out how.

"What am I looking for here?" His tone is confident but still concerned. Hunk wouldn't get another chance at this, and he was desperate to get it right.

[spaceforged]

"Right now!" He calls out as the light gives way to the weightlessness of the Dream width and a different space. The pain fades away back into the past as Shiro reaches out and grips Hunk's arm. He won't let either of them drift too far away from the ship. He can see it approaching at a steady pace gleaming silver in the glow of the stars.

"The Lion told me to use my Bayard. I don't know what about that battle caused me to disappear. But, now you've seen it. What happened right after that?" That's something he's wanted to ask but had been reluctant to do it when they'd both been off balance. It feels right.

[chefbayardee]

Hunk was ready for the signal, he was taking in everything he could, and then... the flash of light put them back in the Dream Width. There was nothing to work off of. Nothing! So he's mad, he's furious that the one chance he had to help Shiro, the one chance they had to figure out how he ended up in Vaikuntha, was gone in just a flash of light. They were so close.

But then Shiro's gets a good grip on his arm, and Hunk's forced back into reality. They don't know what happened or how. Maybe the quintessence of the lions and Shiro reacted with the quintessence from Zarkon and his crazy suit? A reality-altering explosion that forced the lions apart and threw Shiro into another dimension altogether. It didn't sound impossible...

"The Lions separated and Black was still out of commission. Pidge and Keith had to grab him so we could get back to the Castleship and escape." He sounds sad. Remorseful. He wanted to help Shiro and now he can't. "When we got out of there, Black still hadn't woken up, and you were gone."

And then he whines a bit, even letting out a small sniffle. "I... I didn't see anything aside from that light, Shiro. I'm sorry."

[spaceforged]

Shiro snags the line thrown out with his free hand. “But you did. You saw what happened from my perspective. There’s some sort of clue there. Whether the lion is responsible...” The thought feels a bit like being betrayed so he doesn’t let it linger. Not right now. “Or Zarkon and I both bonded to the Black Lion at the same time triggered some sort of phenomenon. We’ll find out.”

The line starts being wound in and he glances down at the ship, adjusting his grip. “So...all of you checked Black and the cockpit was empty?” The last thing he remembers is the Lion telling him to use his Bayard. “Just because the end isn’t pivotal...doesn’t mean what happened right before it isn’t.” He adds as he stares out at the expanse of this space.

“It’s a start. That’s more than we had.”