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

[zanarkandian]

Part of him might have needed to hear those words. How many times had he watched people die? Kilika, Mi'ihen...and then he died himself, a horrible choice but one he'd had to make for all of Spira.

Being unable to save someone hurt like hell.

"You know that you're doing your best, Selph, we all are. We're gonna fight to make a big difference. Maybe we can't have everything, and we don't always win...and it sucks, and nothing can change that it sucks."

He sucks in a hard breath. "And it's okay to be discouraged, but...we'll help each other keep going, okay?"

[boomchucka]

Selphie knew all too well that they can't always win. Being tossed in jail, losing many of her closest friends and other things that won't come out of her mouth unless prompted were a few examples that came to mind. Every single one of them were beyond her control as she felt the sadness from every single loss of life in her scant years in the worlds she's been to.

She eventually placed her hands on the pane in front of her and nodded her head a few times. "Sorry but..."

She shook her head and forced a smile for her own sake more than anyone else's. "I'll be okay."

[zanarkandian]

"No rushing it, okay?"

Tidus hesitated with what to do now. They really weren't close yet, but she was just so down about it (understandably) that he wished he could do anything to make things better.

He knew a forced smile when he saw one, though, and after briefly considering the merits of Yuna's forced laughter idea, instead decided to settle for a brief, gentle squeeze to her upper arm.

[boomchucka]

"You're right..." Selphie agreed as she grabbed Tidus's hand and refused to let go for quite some time.

A grimace appeared on her face after a few minutes before Selphie covered her eyes with her free hand. There was a certain moogle at the house who knew very well how Selphie had reacted after the death had first happened before she'd been forced to talk about it. Her shadow would probably be turning in its grave if it knew that its light side was still beating herself up to a degree over an old, traumatic event.

"Jaelyn is gonna kill me," Selphie groaned with a shake of her head.

[zanarkandian]

Tidus stayed with her for that little while, gentle and steady. Not his natural area of talent, but he'd gladly try. When she spoke, though, he tightened his grip a little. Jaelyn was a good moogle, but he knew trouble when he heard it.

"Hey, you don't have to worry about that yet. And if you need anybody to run interference...I could? I'm pretty good at making a disaster in the house."

[boomchucka]

"If I disappear for a couple of days," Selphie continued as she eventually let go of Tidus' hand. "Just assume that I went training and took out a few monsters along the way."

Selphie laughed a bit. "Jaelyn can stay home though and keep the first aid kit handy."

[zanarkandian]

"Will do. And you can always call us, okay? I've gotten pretty fast at moving around."

He leaned back, his head finally starting to clear. They wouldn't be okay just yet, but...having companions helped.

[boomchucka]

"I will, don't worry." Selphie said with a small smile.

She's glad to have friends as she held a fist out to Tidus.

[zanarkandian]

Tidus lightly bumped his fist with hers, the glimmer of an encouraging expression there. It was rough, undoubtedly, but he was sure she'd be back on her feet when he saw her again.

She was strong, and he had full faith in her.