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

[carnageandclass]

Now she isn't the type to sound much like a intelligent person but she knows mistakes when she sees them. But she knows that from making them, you have to press on no matter what. Letting the enemy see you crack is a huge mistake and can cost someone their life. But she has to wonder...is this why she has that confidence from before? She never saw Iryha cowering or whimpering because some jerks decide to give her the upper hand up until now. So...was it?

"Then if you feel like it is far from it, then get stronger. Channel what you're feeling right now into a force not to be reckoned with. Make them see that you are a force of your own. If those people believe in you, then you need to have that as well."

[omnicrafter]

A beat. Irhya sucks in a breath and lets it out slowly, letting her hands drop to her sides despite the itch in her fingers. It's bad enough that Midgardsormr stripped her of her gift to begin with, but... perhaps that is precisely where he was coming from.

Well... nowhere to go but up. Literally, in this case.

"Mm. Sorry, I... I suppose I cannot argue that. Let's just keep going. If we can make it out of Thanalan, at least..."

At the top of the hill, footsteps meet them from the other direction, followed by the pattering of a few sets of chocobo feet against the sands. Alphinaud and Pipin meet them, along with a carriage poised for a convenient getaway. At Alisaie's behest, their rescuer explains -- it should figure that everyone seemed to see something was going amiss except the people who really needed to.

It is evident from the time that they board the carriage that Alphinaud is taking this equally as badly. His hood remains over his head, as if he is too ashamed to even show his face to her yet, and he says nothing, lips pressed into a hard, self-reproaching line. She grips the edge of the seat and slumps back as Pipin and the merchant ferrying them to (relative) safety discuss the circumstances that brought them here.

"I'm," she pronounces, "really stupid."

[carnageandclass]

The tension she can feel is so much that someone can cut through it with a butter knife. Everyone sitting in the wagon cannot help but ponder what to do next and she seems to be the odd one out who is looking straight ahead. And then she hears Irhya belittle herself again. This memory must be really hard for her to try and face isn't it?

Maybe that is why her first attempt at trying to get her to wake up fell flat.

"I wouldn't try and beat yourself up so much, darling. That situation is never good for anyone and you did what you thought was needed. I don't know all the details but when people start to lose limbs and throw accusations around quickly, there isn't much we can do in order to survive."

[omnicrafter]

"...Eh?"

Irhya's eyes snap up after a pause to let that percolate, right up until she catches the oddity of Camilla's words. For a few moments, her gaze darts around restlessly, as if re-assessing the situation. Alphinaud; Pipin; Bremondt... Camilla.

Camilla, who has just witnessed everything, even though... even though she is...

...What?

"Are you-- wait--"

One of her hands flies to her forehead as she's overcome by a sensation not unlike the Echo, but somehow entirely different. It's not a flashback of someone else's, no... more like a dam of her own making being broken down instead.

The desert itself starts to shimmer around them, as if engulfed by a mirage large enough to swallow them all. She squeezes her eyes shut; no one else seems to notice. Perhaps that is exactly what this is...

[carnageandclass]

Camilla takes the miqo'te by the shoulders gently, trying to keep her steady. She's not sure what is happening but the scene around them is shifting around.

"It's alright, you're just realizing what is happening now."

That she's only dreaming of this moment. Those faces from home are not with her...but Camilla is real and staying beside her.