Event || Once Upon A Dream

[eternitymods]

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

yes hi I might be working out some personal rage issues here.

[littlemhigan]

Castor knows this. The smell of the room. The pregnant silences. The heavy tension.

She knows the sound of that voice. The laugh. The sound of blades being drawn.

She's on Illberd before she knows what she's doing. She's too late to save Raubahn, but the small voice in the back of Castor's head reminds her that none of this is real. Acting here won't change anything. Her rage is real though, and as her fist connects with Illberd's smug fucking face, it feels good.

She dances away from the retaliation, landing light on her feet next to...

Irhya.

Oh.

"You need te wake up," Castor hisses, "Ye need te get out of here!"

[omnicrafter]

The distraction Castor affords Raubahn gives him enough time to leap towards Irhya and sever her bonds in turn, much like he had likely done for Castor that day, somewhere distant but yet so nearby. She rolls around and leaps to her feet; notably, there is not a sword at her back, but a conjurer's cane.

"You're coming too, you fool," she is quick to snap, not about to let her stay there and take the bait. Raubahn is bad enough; they don't need two -- no, three heads on a silver platter this day. Seizing Castor's wrist, she yanks her none too gently towards the door and out onto the carpeted hallway.

She's not quite hit full recognizance yet, it seems, by the way she's muttering under her breath. "It should have been me... I should have seen it...!"

[littlemhigan]

Castor made to fight away Irhya's grip; to do for her what the Scions once did - and were about to do.

It won't change anything.

So she follows. She knows how long they have. She's played this scene in her head too many times not to. Once they're into the hallway, Castor spins Irhya to face her, grips her by her shoulder. Castor's hold is not unkind, but urgency and adrenaline makes it firm.

"Listen te me," she hisses as the other Scions begin to close in on them, followed unnervingly closely by Brass Blade and Crystal Brave alike. "Listen. Ye have te wake up, Irhya! Ye've seen all this before. It's happened, and ye can't change that now!

[omnicrafter]

Reacting instinctively to what's going through her head, Irhya's ears turn, flatten, and then come back to their normal position again, offering a half-clear impression of her feelings at that moment. Slowly, her hands rise, and she rests them on Castor's, her gaze darting about as her mouth starts to open.

"Ah..."

It seems like an aborted effort to articulate something, one that she instead decides is showcased better by closing her eyes and curling her fingers around Castor's.

"No... no, I suppose not..." A breath, and then, "There's really only one way this was ever destined to go..."

Ah, right. The very first smack in the face she'd received from having caused so many ripples in the pool, but certainly not the last by any means. It was ultimately what sparked her to drop her cane for a sword, and all the repercussions wrought of that unfortunate sort of self-discovery in turn.

Her cane drops to the ground. She steps on it for good measure, snapping it in half right before the scene crumbles, and sighs.

"If this is what we'll come to expect from this place from now on, I'm already over it."