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

[peninhand]

Monika beamed at the compliment and was quick to take the poem to read it. After having read only poems the "player" had written with the game's program, seeing that well written of a poem was like a breath of fresh air. But--

Its meaning... It leaped at Monika's eyes upon first reading it, but she read it twice over to be sure. Leaving this place, being happy elsewhere... The implication that she wasn't happy here and had just given up. It was all true, but for it to be written so clearly on a poem, given by her love no less.

"That's..." She closed her eyes, fighting back tears before looking back at Madhuri with reddened eyes. "Very well written. You're... You're a much better writer than I'd have ever imagined."

She looked back down at the poem. Why did the words stir something...? Going outside... But that wasn't possible, was it...?

"You should pick happier things to write about though..." She looked back up and forced a smile. Needless to say, that was a smile that wouldn't convince anyone. "Ahaha. We have our happy ending, so we don't need to linger on the sad things any more.... Right?"

[songbird_slayer]

She was quiet and folded her hands before her. She hadn't done something like that in so long, and she hoped... oh, she hoped...

Madhuri was without her handkerchief and regretted it. The message was expressed the way she desired, but now she needed to see that the door was there and they needed only to step through it.

The tiefling slid off her hat. "Monika, dear, I haven't lived the life that I have without knowing when someone is in great pain. You talk of happy endings, and I truly believe it's what you desire. But that sadness you feel will always remain, so long as you stay here."

No bird enjoyed the bars of their cage.

"I've just made the impossible possible. I am the key... your key, Monika, and I'd love nothing more than to open that door for you."

[peninhand]

She couldn't deny, everything Madhuri said was the entire truth. And as she spoke, the memory visibly started fading, ever-so slightly. Even though one might have snapped already by now... Monika didn't want to snap out of it. Not when she felt so happy.

"I... I don't understand."

Oh man, she sounded way too down and depressed, didn't she? Upon realizing that, she immediately put back on a happy and cheerful facade.

"Gosh, I'm so slow! Ahaha! Are you telling me you found a way outside for me? That would be so wonderful, but..." Her eyes shifted to the side. She wasn't doing a good job at sounding happy when she felt like crying. "How can you be so sure?"

[songbird_slayer]

It was like a mask that slid on and off, and she did it so easily. Her heart sank. The Dream Width really would just dump her back into this box... she had to find out if there was some way to prevent that from happening.

She'd like Greyhawk or Vel La Moore, maybe.

"I'm sure because the Prime, and the Dream Width, is but a series of doors. But the trick is willpower. You have to be willing to step outside."

She plopped her hat back atop her head and reached out for her.

"You deserve to be free, to grow, to live."