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

[rivieran]

No. [ She speaks firmly. Ena will have to lay out all the facts as best as she can...As best as she can being the key words here, since how exactly the Dream Width works was still somewhat of a mystery to her. Quick note to self: something to research when they return. ]

This isn't a dream in the way you think it's a dream. We're inside the Dream Width. You've succumbed to whatever powers that rule this nebula and are trapped in a dream-like state, and this... [ She lets go of on of her hands to sweep her arm, motioning to the scenery around them. ] is related to you somehow. I am here physically. I'm here to get you. You can't stay here forever, Monika. We have to go back to the airship. [ She returns her other hand to squeeze Monika's hand again. ] We have to go home.

[peninhand]

[ Huh? What was she saying...? And why did it make so much sense? Like a headache, memories flooding back, the reality of this world being exposed for what it was-- ]

Ena...?

[ For the first time she spoke the name as though she recognized her, rather than as though she'd just heard it recently. The Dream Width, Vaikuntha, the Airships... And this place. Her memory. ]

I... [She paused. No. She refused. She was here with her one true love. She couldn't abandon that. She refused to believe it was a memory.] No... Even if that was true... This... This is the happiest I've ever been. [Eyes grew red and teary as she shook her head and looked down. That was everything she had ever wanted. Nothing on Vaikuntha would bring her as much happiness as this. She was no longer constantly questioning the reality of this world, she was no longer lonely and unable to speak freely to anyone. This was perfect.] Aren't we happy here...? Wouldn't you want to stay with me? Even if it's not real, this...

[ She paused and closed her eyes, unable to finish her sentence. Even as the reality of this memory slowly faded, she didn't want to let go of it. But that was wrong, she realized. Ena... What she felt for her at the moment, it wasn't real, was it? Just an effect of the memory. And even if it were real, she didn't deserve to be trapped in such a place forever. ]

[rivieran]

[ Ena tentatively watches the expressions cross Monika's face, and her own expression lights up with hope when she starts to see recognition in her reaction. Oh, she was so close to being successful! ]

It's okay. [ She speaks again with conviction. ] Because you can always find happiness on Vaikuntha, too. [ For a moment her mind starts to wander, wondering what that might be for her... No, concentrate. ]

I... [ Ahem. Ena clears her throat. She felt incredibly awkward saying this, but she knew Monika now would be happy to hear it, and she felt it crucial in breaking her out of the memory. ] I will still be with you when we get back to Vaikuntha. Both of us are still real, even if the scenery around us isn't. You don't have to worry about that. [ She gives her a moment, making sure she's not pressuring her. ] Okay?

[peninhand]

...

[ And lo, the memory vanished instantly as Monika finally came to accept none of it was real. It never had been, regardless of whether they were talking about the memory they had been in or what had occurred back then. But it didn't hurt any less regardless.

How... How had she nearly done it again? She had nearly trapped Ena in a dream forever. Would it have been possible? No matter the answer, she had tried anyway. And horrible as it was, she felt the most sorrowful she had ever been knowing it wouldn't come to pass. She truly was an horrible person who could only hurt others, wasn't she? ]

I... [She looked away, unable to make eye contact with Ena.] I'm so sorry.

[ Repressing tears, Monika would most likely try to avoid Ena and go back to a different airship. She... Wouldn't be able to bear with the guilt and sorrow she felt for a very, very long time. ]