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

[einspine]

What a beautiful sunset! Sure, Papyrus has seen his fare share since his arrival here, but this city. That ocean. It's like one of those romantic human movies with beaches, hot buff dudes with long hair and shades and surf boards shouting cool catch phrases as they "hang ten." The moment he arrives, he's soaked into the sights, from the distant lighthouse to all those shops. Ooh, should he visit them?

But where to start? What to do?

He reaches up to adjust his goggles, but something immediately registers as off.

"WAIT. IS THIS HAIR?!?!"

What in the world is happening here?!

[conniemaheswaran]

Indeed, it is hair, and furthermore, Papyrus is subjected to the incredibly unfamiliar sensation of feeling not with bones, but with skin. As he wonders over his newfound human-ness, an open-roofed sedan covered in pizza decals begins rolling towards the bus stop, carrying two teenagers. There is something oddly dreamlike about this memory, more than usual at any rate, with that odd somnolent sense of time and detail that is so often experienced in dreams.

[einspine]

He looks at his arms. And then he touches his face. And this is really weird? Like, easily the weirdest thing that has ever happened to him. How is this happening? And also, where is this weird place? That is also kind of pretty, and- ooh. Is that a car? A real car?!

The dream-like aesthetic doesn't register quite as much, as he tries rushing after the car for a closer look.

The dorkus.

[conniemaheswaran]

What happens next is... odd. Papyrus knows what's happening--the car rolls up, full of DJ equipment and two teenagers who introduce themselves as Buck and Jenny. They rather pleasantly invite him to a party--but it's all in that dreamlike state of the specifics just... not being there. For example, even the part that stands out the most, Buck mentioning them bringing stuff to set up for a friend's rave, Papyrus can't really remember the specifics of that conversation or even anything he said. It's like whoever's memory this is knows that this logically happened, but wasn't there to see this part themself.

[einspine]

This is so strange. Who are these people? Did they really invite him to a party? Why does this feel so normal yet so weird? He raises an index finger, tries to ask questions, but this all just flows by. It's so surreal. So weird. All he can do for now is follow.

Because it's a rave! And that's great. A real cool surface party! Maybe he's ghe guest of honor? He's smiling, even though it does't make sense. And even though it is very odd not to be his handsome, skeletal self.

[conniemaheswaran]

The odd, dreamlike sense of time Papyrus has been entrapped in continues as an indistinct journey blurs him from the bus station to an abandoned warehouse, a large portion of its back wall missing and the rest of it barely holding together. A gangly teenager with white, spiky hair is there as well, one moment on top of a platform high above the rest of the warehouse and the next hauling out some of the DJ equipment from the Pizzamobile.

[einspine]

Oh. Wowie. Did he really move so far in so little time? Does he have superpowers now in addition to being all fleshy? Though ab it disoriented, he'll follow that mysterious teen, waving as he approaches. At least the situation seems pretty fun. Maybe he'll succeed at making many new friends!

How perfect!

[conniemaheswaran]

And then... everything snaps into sharp focus. A dozen other teenagers dance on the floor, the lanky teenager from earlier expertly manipulating spotlights, tossing glowsticks to the crowd, and laying down some sick beats from atop a platform high above the rest of the party.

A spare few moments after time normalizes, a young adult, perhaps a bit older than the rest of the crowd, saunters in. Tall, with wavy black hair trailing past their waist, two croptops (one blue, one red), jorts, and a really cool pink crystal navel piercing. And they are (by human standards at least) very, very beautiful. They almost look related to Connie...

Smiling like a complete dork, they gawk at all the people, before without a moment of hesitation diving to the center of the dance floor and cutting a rug.

[einspine]

Oh! What groovy music. Papyrus nearly starts dancing to the beat when he spots that very mysterious adult with a VERY interesting piercing! Is that a gemstone? Is it real or fake? And what exquisite hair!

Well. Clearly he should mosey on over to this stranger and give a rousing greeting.

"WHY HELLO THERE, HUMAN!!! I CAN'T HELP BUT NOTICE YOUR VERY UNIQUE CRYSTAL. IT'S QUITE DAZZLING!"

There. Just like Mettaton would do it.

[conniemaheswaran]

Papyrus' loud voice proves to come in handy, slicing above the general noise of the warehouse and reaching the human's ears. Unfortunately, they, and many other guests, are somewhat caught off guard by it. A rather snooty-looking human with a scarf scoffs and turns away, but the original target of the message jumps in place and lets out a small meep before turning to Papyrus.

Blushing, they brush a stray lock of hair out of their face and stutter, "T-thanks! I... guess?"

[einspine]

A thank you already! Wowie! He's off to a fantastic start. Just look at him beaming. SUCH A HAPPY STRANGER. He brings his hands together, chuckling lightly.

"YOU'RE VERY WELCOME! I ADMIT, I HAVEN'T SEEN MANY HUMANS WITH SUCH A COOL CHARACTERISTIC.

...GRANTED, I ONLY KNOW ONE OTHER HUMAN. STILL! CRYSTALS ARE CERTAINLY NEAT. ALMOST AS COOL AS SPIKES!!!"

[conniemaheswaran]

((OOC: Stevonnie's face rn))

They stare at Papyrus, totally shocked, for a few moments, cogs obviously spinning at a furious pace. "Um." They raise a finger, then lower it. "Ah..." they clap their hands together, lips pursed, "...are you a Gem?"