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

[warpstriking]

The fact that Ignis is muttering doesn't sit well, but they are both exhausted so he lets it slide. They have a lot to process and still have to find those who were sensed floating in the Dream Width. Not to mention finding Prompto.

"Starting to wish I'd left that bastard as an ice statue." But damn, if it wasn't cathartic to run him through with the Trident. He'll leave that mental image for Ignis to ponder as he goes to get the tea prepared, instead focusing on trying to reach Prompto and hoping he isn't caught in a nebula of his own; then a message to those on the airship he was supposed to be on.

He doesn't look up right away as he takes the cup, glad he has practice texting one-handed. He also doesn't mind if Ignis looks over his shoulder.

"Right, got it." He sends the one to the group he was assigned and sits back. Nothing else to do but hope it went through and wait for the tea to finish steeping. Please let the iMog work out here.

"Tried sending a message. Hopefully it gets through."

[regalblaze]

Prompto is definitively the priority right now. They need to catch their breath though before they go back into memory nebulas. It is extremely tasking, especially if you jump from one memory to the other, which Noct probably did.

But- that's Noct. Not wanting to leave anyone behind. And Ignis is proud to be his advisor.

Ardyn as an ice statue? That paints an interesting image and makes Ignis' eyebrows rise slightly. Is permafrost a thing? Maybe they should keep him frozen forever.

He doesn't look over Noct's shoulder, of course. Ignis respects Noct's privacy- before and now. He actually really doesn't like going through his things unless he really has to.

"Good. In the meantime, have the tea and take some rest. You could take a nap in the infirmary," Ignis says. "If Prompto is trapped in the nebula, we will need strength to get him out."

[warpstriking]

Not entirely of his own volition, at least. But, yeah. He couldn't leave anyone behind, and it's eating him up inside that he has to stop now. For their sake and his own.

"The Glacian," he explains in two words. "Should've taken a picture before I shattered him." Whoops. Ah, well. Maybe there will be a next time. That'd be awesome. Still, thoughts that can be saved for later. When it wasn't crucial he calm down.

He pockets the device, deciding instead to impatiently toy around with the string on the tea bag, watching the attached bag bob up and down in the cup. "Yeah," he knows. It took a lot out of him trying to reach Ignis, especially with how many times he seemed to just go through him. "I'd rather sit." And, well, not be alone at the moment. Much as he doesn't say it. The implication's there.

He takes a careful sip, glad for the warmth.

[regalblaze]

"It sounds like you won Glacian's favor," Ignis says with a small smile. He's infinitely thankful that some of the Astrals support them without threats. It is one thing challenging the King and putting him through trials, but it is completely different jeopardizing his life, unleashing a full attack on him and everything around him.

Ignis will forever give his thanks to Ramuh and Glacian- if the Glacian didn't trouble Noctis but from the looks of it, she didn't.

Giving Noct a look, he nods. Yes, he can tell he doesn't want to be by himself and really, Ignis doesn't want to leave his side either. Not with that vivid memory of himself telling Noct to go on alone. It still sends a sinking feeling to his stomach.

"Then you can lean on me. Your brain needs a bit of rest before taking on another memory," Ignis says gently, holding out his hand for Noct's empty cup- once he's finished with his drink.

[warpstriking]

"Yeah," he smiles faintly. "Though I'm starting to wonder if I had it since Tenebrae." And he doesn't mean a recent visit, either. Not with that nostalgic glint in his eye. Also, yeah, he still doesn't like Leviathan all that much. But he knows better than to curse Her name. Though something in the back of his mind wonders what the harm in it would be. Her suddenly appearing in Vaikuntha?

"Shiva was Gentiana all along," he finally explains, ignoring the look in favor of finishing his tea.

Though he's silently glad Ignis doesn't insist on a nap in the infirmary, handing him the cup once it's drained. Again, hating that he's right but not bothering to argue. He's too tired to do so and the type of tea in particular was already lulling him to sleep as it is.

...No word from Prompto.

[regalblaze]

Ah. Gentiana. She came to them to engage Noct in the trial of Ramuh. No wonder Noct thinks he had her blessing ever since Tenebrae. She was there when the Prince was injured and tied to a wheelchair.
Ignis doesn't curse Leviathan's name, but he doesn't give her his blessings either. Her stubbornness, even after so many pleas, got Noct to the brink of death. He can't be grateful to her for that.

"Rest now," Ignis says, putting the cups on the empty seat next to him. Perhaps there aren't many things Noct wants to dream about right now but, "Carbuncle will watch over you," Ignis adds with a small smile.

As will he.

[warpstriking]

Noctis is only grateful that the Tidemother helped save the train from the daemons. That is literally it. But instead of thinking about it more, he's already finding his eyes blinking closed.

"Get some... rest too, Specs." He said, trying to hide a yawn there and quite unsuccessfully. His eyes drift closed as he prays for a dreamless sleep, slowly leaning on Ignis as he dozes off.