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

[promiselisting]

[ It's... perhaps not entirely surprising, but she flinches a tiny bit as his hand brushes against hers. But there's nothing threatening about the gesture, or his face. And there's just this feeling... somehow, that she can trust him?

There's pieces moving in her head. She's still sharp as a tack, even now. The inexplicable familiarity with he greeted both her and Sojiro. Her code all over his phone. The nagging feeling in the back of her mind. The fact that she felt like she could trust him? Even though Sojiro was struggling to get her to open up right now. It's coming together into an impossible conclusion, but it feels... right?

He's talking about her.

She... she really made him feel that way? Made him feel that much? Her hand trembles under his, just a bit, but it's not from fear, and her free hand is suddenly darting up to rub at eyes that are more than a bit wetter than they were a few seconds ago. ]

I- I didn't...

[ She didn't know. She hadn't realized. At least not in actual words like that, which somehow made it so much more real. ]

[masqueraid]

It's been a rough, hasn't it? ( he can tell. he knows by how she trembles— wonders if she's scared to trust after what she's been through up until now. there was no way ren could truly understand the terrible circumstances that she'd grown up in... but he could be there for her now.
he could do that much. )

I'm sorry... that I wasn't able to help you through it. But from here on, once we meet— I want you to know that you never have to be alone again. We'll be a team, we'll get through things together... just like whatever is happening to us now. ( and then he finally shifts, coming out of the light and revealing his eyes, which glistened to highlight the weight of his words. and the grip on her hand tightens just a little. )

Let's go home together, Futaba.

[promiselisting]

Ren...

[ Saying his name is like flipping a switch in her head and it all comes back. All of it. The time spent alone, facing her Shadow and the cognitive being masquerading as her mother, slowly inching her way back out into society, the Phantom Thieves, the rise and fall of their popularity, becoming a wanted fugitive, Sojiro demanding answers, Akechi's final, terrible trap... and Ren, Ren being there the whole time. Helping her every step of the way. Giving advice, or just listening... even stepping between her and her uncle when he'd-

She can't help it. She ducks against him, and as she does, she's back to her normal height and weight and build. And while that hasn't added that much strength, she's using every bit of it to cling to him like a rock in a storm.

She's trying to find the right words, and they're coming all out a jumbled mess against his blazer, but hopefully he'll get the point. ]

Y-you did. You do. I promise. You- You're home.

[ It's perhaps for the best that the memory version of Sojiro was one of the first things to have faded out of existence, when Futaba had first started to realize, to remember. Both so that he didn't interrupt in a bout of fatherly protectiveness, but also so that the two of them were spared the probably distressing sight of their adoptive father disappearing right before their eyes.

That being said, there's still a just-finished cup of coffee sitting just behind the counter. Maybe a sort of thank you? ]

[masqueraid]

( as soon as she pressed into him, it's an immediate reaction. his arms reach up to hug her gently; it isn't a possessive squeeze or a suffocating embrace meant to protect her from the harshness of the world around them. it's just a reminder that he's there, alongside of her, ready to face whatever comes their way together.

everything had become clear again... including what they had to do, he thought— reaching up to press a hand on the top of futaba's head.

ren hadn't even realized he'd closed his eyes, but when they open again, and the familiar surroundings of the café are starting to fade... he looks down at that cup of brew on the counter.

and he smiles.
"thanks, boss. and— don't worry. i promise to take good care of her..."

it was likely just one of many battles they'd have to face in their time in this strange world and it's void. but they'd do it... as the phantom thieves. )