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

[omnicrafter]

Realization is slow to break, but when it does, it hits Irhya like a brick. She inhales sharply, and not as a result of the wave of energy that flows past her.

"...Ah, yes... I suppose I do tire of this charade."

And then, it's just gone, leaving them back floating in space.

...That's right. This is her reality now. Never mind that she'd never willingly suffer the same situation twice if it meant life and death. But that Nanamo herself was the one who had to come to her rescue, to pull her out of a place of guilt for her... it's more than a little embarrassing. It's not that she wouldn't know, surely; it must be the same for Castor, after all, and any others who might have ever shared the same fate, in any given world. The Scions each lost things, individually and as a whole, but Nanamo... Nanamo lost time.

Irhya is staring straight down into the abyss below them until she takes her savior's hand after a long, tense stretch, leading her to the airship waiting to take them away from here.

"I'm sorry. You should not have had to see that."

[nanaimo_bar]

"In truth it was enlightening, if naught for a memory I would naught wish to repeat." She squeezed Irhya's hand gently as she followed, her Samurai garb dissolving back into her usual clothing.

"Are you all right, Irhya? As much as I worry, that ordeal could have been stressful."

Also dwelling on the moment of the poisoning was bringing back bad memories for Nanamo as well, but she shook it off as best as she could. "But if you wish to talk about it, I am welcome and open."

[omnicrafter]

Irhya only laughs nervously in the back of her throat. What is she supposed to say? Never mind that the very sight of it must make her feel terribly responsible for the whole thing, but that it was the catalyst for a number of stark changes in her life, things that extended far beyond the Scions or Nanamo herself...

"We were all blaming ourselves," she tries, her mouth dry. "Everybody, for every reason we could find. Alphinaud came down on himself hard for being an incompetent leader. Tataru surely must have lamented that she had nothing but words to offer anyone. Raubahn... I can scarcely begin to imagine how he felt, more than anyone else. But that the rest of the Scions dropped everything in order to ensure I escaped, even over themselves... to be honest, I didn't understand it at all."

One of her hands runs over the top of her head, pressing her ears down only for them to spring back as she passes over them. "That thought festered for a while. It went from a faint trace of contempt to an almost palpable temptation to run away and never look back. And then..."

And then all those ugly things manifested in front of her, stared her right in the face, drew their sword, and quite literally tried to cut her down. It's still mildly amazing that the only people still holding onto that secret are those who bore witness to the whole thing at Whitebrim.

"...Mmm. I suppose sometimes it takes just such a strong dose of reality to set one straight after something like that, though." Crossing her arms, she adds shortly after, "Anyway, that you were able to blow a hole in that scenario so quickly without stumbling over any lingering feelings speaks a great deal about you."

[nanaimo_bar]

"I had not realized your group almost shattered from the situation," said Nanamo. "For that I am sorry. If only I had been more attentive to the situation at hand, perhaps I could have avoided the whole ordeal for everyone. Clearly I was mistaken."

"Mmm. To be honest, I was focused on the job ahead. Once I get home I will most likely ensconce myself in the house with a bucket of that confection they call ice cream. I cannot admit that I would love to scrub this from memory, but I was a victim as much as you were."