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

[studdedcouncilprez]

[Makoto remembered this awkwardness well. When they first got together she felt so helpless to even make a dent in the barrier that Futaba had created for herself. The rift was so wide, so desperate. Even with the advantage of foreknowledge she knew that she was going to have her work cut out for her.]

[So, instated, she's going to take a booth that was facing her. Trying her best not to make more of a scene, she pulls out a cell phone and... pretends to work on it. She glances out the door occasionally but mostly she waits for Futaba to make a first move.]

[There was a Plan B, but for now she wanted the conversation to be more on Futaba's time.]

[promiselisting]

[ Futaba is glancing over at the door too. And at Sojiro. And especially at Makoto. She's trying to focus on more internet trawling, but her nerves are too unsettled. Every time she tries to type something she ends up backspacing as much as she progresses. It's too frustrating, and eventually she just. Gives up. Closing her laptop and hugging it to her chest instead.

Glancing up at Makoto again. ]

D-did, um- [deep breath] Can you say when she's supposed to get here?

[studdedcouncilprez]

[Makoto stopped and looked up from her phone.]

Hmm...? Ah. The agreed upon time was 1:00 PM. If you see her let me know.

[She pauses again, looking down at her phone and then back up at Futaba.]

...am I making you nervous?

[promiselisting]

[ Futaba just... makes a small half-miserable half-disgruntled noise with maybe a word or two hidden in there that probably could be taken to mean "yes." It's rather reminiscent of the time that Ryuji asked her why she didn't just ask for help outright.

But really, it's more like everything strange and new makes her nervous, to be fair but. Right now they're a both a lot more focused on each other than anything else (Futaba's brief glances over towards the doorway aside). ]

[studdedcouncilprez]

[Makoto set down her phone.] I understand. I have a friend that is very much the same way. She's capable, intelligent, and a real wizard when it came to technology. Only... she feels greatly and is easily hurt.

One time it got so bad that she would close herself away and tried to make all the bad feelings go away. She hoped that would be enough to turn away the voices running through her head. Or... maybe she thought that she deserved that kind of life.

Its hard to say. I worried very much for my friend when I found out.

[promiselisting]

[ She... she doesn't understand why but there's something about this story that affects her. Her hands are shaking ever so slightly as she ducks her head behind her laptop, trying to figure out... what was going on. She didn't understand. She didn't understand...

Or did she? ]

Wh-what happened?

[studdedcouncilprez]

For a while, she waited and watched the world march by without her. I think were it not for something important, she would never had a reason to leave.

But then she wanted out. She wanted to live. Even though she didn't think she deserved it. Even though she was scared of what people may think. But she knew that if she wasn't able to change things, her house would become her tomb.

Her first step was to hope. The second was to reach out. The third was learning to trust again.

...

The fourth step was to remember how to smile. And how to laugh.

...

What do you remember?

[promiselisting]

[ One long deep breath, hands still shaking. Another. The answer seems to come on its own. ]

...the beach.

[ A gentle familiar voice reassuring her as it unwrapped the towel she'd tried to hide herself in, a banana boat, chasing lobsters (for some reason), feeling protected on all sides despite the crowd.

Feeling, for the first time in months, like she can talk without a heavy weight pressing down on her lungs.

But when... when was this? H-how-? She looks up at Makoto, a confused sort of desperation in her eyes. She doesn't know what's going on but... you do, right? ]

[studdedcouncilprez]

[Makoto's eyebrows raise and she takes a measured moment of contemplation. If this was her cognitive form of herself... would she be able to recall a memory that she wouldn't have had? Regardless, this person did recall a past event. Her ties with the true consciousness meant that even if she was just an idea, she was tied to Futaba's main consciousness.]

It is... [She pauses again, considering how to best answer this.] ...a memory.

Of something that has happened. Or something that will happen.

But I think the fact that it was remembered at all means that it is important.

Do you think you can hold onto the memory more? I am sure there are answers there for you if you want to find them.

[promiselisting]

[ That's. not... really all that satisfying. But... she'd dug only a little and found the fragments she had so far. What if she kept chasing them? Was that what this other girl meant?

Worth a shot, she guesses. She even puts her hands up to her temples, psyching herself up. ]

I remember... lobsters. One in each hand.

[ yup, that's it. That's the first thing that came to mind. ]

The sand was hot. [ She'd nearly burned her feet running to the banana boat... ] There were so many people, but... everyone was there. Like a shield.

[ Sojiro, meanwhile is watching, clearly confused and a bit wary, but again... getting Futaba to open up has been an incredible challenge. If this is actually working, he seems willing to let it play out, for now. ]