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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[worldmother]

[ The blade in her palm, Elly startles as Hunk blurts her name out, thankfully stopping before she has a chance to cut into skin. Her eyes wide, she hesitates for a moment before looking down at the monster at their feet. ]

Blood and flesh are the only things that can ease their pain. And this one...

[ Pressing her lips together, she searches for the words. ]

I can't begin to imagine the amount of suffering he's been made to endure to get to this point.

[chefbayardee]

[ She's trying to justify cutting herself open for some person? Monster? Weapon? It was horrible, it was insane. When Fei said their world went through some terrible stuff, this wasn't what he had in mind. It made him very, very angry. ]

I- [ Hunk hesitates, pulling back for a moment, before finding his resolve. ] You're not going to fix anything for anyone by hurting yourself!

[ And then he grits his teeth, staring at that blade. They have no idea what'll happen if she has an open wound in the Dream Width, and even then they'd still have to treat it, and- ] I'm not gonna just let you suffer for something that's not even real!

[ He's getting worried. Scared. Desperate. So he'll break them out of this dream like a bull in a china shop, if he has to. ]

[worldmother]

[ Her eyes search his face for some kind of answer, some reason for him to fight back against her. There's something about this that doesn't feel right, and that thought makes her head feel light. Like there's something she should see here, something that she's missing even as he barks at her.

"I'm not gonna just let you suffer for something that's not even real!" ]

...

[ It's strange. It's almost as if she knows that fact already, that she realizes that, no matter what she says or does, it won't change what will happen here. That she knows what will happen, but maybe this time will be different. Maybe this time she will be able to throw away the script and change fate for the better. ]

I know...

[ She looks away then, her hand lowering from the blade and hanging lifelessly at her side. Even if she can't quite pull her out of this nightmare-like state, she's aware enough to understand how futile it is. ]

I know that, but I... There has to be something I can do. I can't let them continue to hurt like this. To continue to fight among themselves because of the hand that fate dealt them. Because my people lied to them, and promised them an existence without pain. I can't just stand by and do nothing.

[chefbayardee]

But changing a memory doesn't change anything! [ She's digging into trying to help these things, even though it's not going to matter. As soon as she wakes up, those creatures disappear. And he's not gonna let her wallow in this. ]

Deus is dead, Elly. You and Fei helped kill it. [ And his tone becomes solemn. Talking about death is never easy, even if it's a horrible monster that raises humans like livestock. ]

You've already done so much to help them. [ Hunk looks down, towards the hand she almost sliced open. ] You've done all you can.

[ Because you're stuck in another dimension, unable to help rebuild all the damage and right all those wrongs. But maybe he doesn't need to say that. Maybe she'll realize what's going on, and he doesn't have to worry about her anymore. Maybe they can just leave this horrible place. ]

[worldmother]

[ There are few things that Hunk could say that would pull her out of her own head than that. Nothing that would hit so hard that he might see it so clearly on her face. Her head jerks up suddenly as she looks at him, blue eyes wide and wavering between his. And in that moment, she finally sees him and not some construct influenced by her memory of what had happened. ]

Hunk—

[ His name catches in her throat as she stands there, eyes suddenly starting to sting and burn with the beginnings of tears. She drops the blade still held in her hand, and as it quietly falls, the world too seems to fall away with it. Shattering like a glass as it hits the quickly fading ground, the pieces that hold this constructed world together begin to crack, as one reality starts to melt into the other. The anguished groans fade away, and the gravity around them begins to shift, leaving them both weightless and floating in the space between dream and Dream Width.

He might see it then, the masthead of an airship, waiting not too far ahead. But with how the dark expanse of space continues to bleed in, they won't have much time to get there before this world falls apart. ]

[chefbayardee]

[ Well, it was the reaction he was hoping for, but it still hurt that he had to rip Elly out of the memory like that. The shards of reality fell away, and Hunk instinctively braced himself as if they could draw blood. But lucky for her, Hunk was very accustomed to zero-gravity situations, and he was able to pinpoint the airship just a moment after his eyes acclimated. Even if magic was involved, drifting through space wouldn't be efficient enough for his tastes, so... ]

We need to go, grab on!

[ His hands move almost on their own, one reaching towards his friend and matching his pleading gaze as the other pulled the gunblade from his belt. The sounds of machinery were dulled considerably, but the glowing of the gun's barrel coupled with the high speed it was spinning made it very obvious that he was planning something.

Maybe he should've just grabbed her instead... ]

[worldmother]

[ Everything happens in a blur of motion and confusion. In one moment, she feels the world very violently begin to shift, then she hears Hunk shouting in desperation. She sees his hand, but her body moves before Elly fully registers what is happening, grasping his arm with both hands with the same kind of urgency mirrored in his voice.

If he's planning something, she hasn't put together the pieces. At this point, she's moving purely on instinct. ]

[chefbayardee]

[ They were casually out in the empty void of magical space, and that was terrifying to Hunk. He knew what normal space did to people without space suits. But this was magic space. Which means it was ridiculous.

So the moment Elly grabs his hand, Hunk pulls her in close, with a quick "haha, sorry!" awkwardly slipping out since she's engaged and older than him and this is just weird. And then he pulls the trigger. The energy built up in the gunblade fires off as a Magitek Laser. Normally, he'd have to ground his stance to make sure there wasn't any kick, but in space?

They start drifting towards the ship, faster and more controlled than aimless flailing. Sure he was worried that the laser could hit something, but he knows space, he knows science, there's like no chance of that. But the fact that they're out in the vacuum of magic space and haven't died is worth messing with.

So he tries to talk to her. ]

Are you okay?

[ No chance he's gonna broach the topic of what they saw quite yet. Maybe when they're inside. ]