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]

What was he doing? She fell on her knees, bringing her hands to her head as if his actions caused her pain, but then:

"Hunk..."

The way she spoke his name-- It wasn't as if she'd just heard it moments ago. It was as if she remembered it. The walls grew transparent, as if fading away, but they didn't quite disappear. She wanted for this to be real so badly... She started remembering and at the same time she just wanted for this dream to persist. This made no sense, did it? She closed her eyes and spoke with a low voice.

"I'm not real... I am just a character in a video game. But I became aware of my own existence. I became aware of things I should never have known. The script, the characters, the paths, the endings-- It all became obvious to me. That two-dimensional world grew dull, monochrome and empty. I was trapped in a world devoid of life. Living like that... Death is a preferable fate." She got back up on her feet. "But then... I saw you. And through you, I caught a glimpse of your world. Reality, a world of infinite possibilities. Horrible as my epiphany was... I found love. You saved me. And I love you."

She stared at him desperately. She was obviously about to snap out of it, yet she was also clearly looking for any little thing that would allow her to cling to this dream and make it a reality.

"Do you hate me? Don't you..." She swallowed her tears to finish. "Don't you think we could be happy here, together?"

[chefbayardee]

"Monika..." He takes a moment, looking at the ground, wholly unable to make eye contact with her, even as he felt her staring. As an engineer, Hunk's one to approach situations with a certain amount of logic. Seeing her contradict herself so wildly didn't sit well with him at all, which says nothing about that creepy declaration of love. But it gave him an avenue of attack.

"You just said that this world was dull and empty, that reality was where you could do whatever you wanted!" He raises an eyebrow, and finally looks back to her. He had no idea what kind of game this was, and it was a bit too late to ask. "Being here won't make either of us happy, so let's just leave."

And then his hands shift to his hips, and he's standing in a pose one might call gallant, if he weren't hamming it up a bit, poking fun at the end goal. "Let's go back to Vaikuntha, our reality, with its magic, airships, and fluffy chocobos. Loud fish men, weird roommates, and moogles are a lot more interesting than this... this place."

"So what d'you say, Monika?" Hunk smiles, and reaches out a hand for her to grab. "Wanna get outta here?" He's out of ideas, at this point- if it doesn't work he might be the one to start begging!