Intro Log || Melodies of Eternity

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Characters: All the "Heroes of Light" (only new characters can start threads).
Where: Aqures Ixen.
When: The 5th of March. The new Heroes of Light will awaken early in the morning.
Summary: The new Heroes of Light awaken in Aqures Ixen and are informed by their assigned Moogles of what the situation and what their destinies are. This a log for them to react to the situation, meet each other and be welcomed by the former batches of Heroes of Light.
Warning: Lots of distressed and depressed Heroes of Light.

Where you were or what you were doing— It does not really matter. Not any more. Within an instant, the world around you collapses. Reality twists and shatters... Or maybe you are the one who is collapsing and shattering away from reality as you knew it. No matter what the answer is, it will only take a few seconds for you to find yourself sinking into a void, your world vanishing into the distance. There is nothing but darkness as far as the eye can see. Even you feel different: all the powers you might once have had, are now gone. It is silent, cold and it feels as though life itself is slipping out of you.

At this moment, when it looks as though nothing but a never-ending void awaits you, a red Crystal forms before you. In this void, its warmth compels you to grab it. Upon doing so, you can hear a soft, soothing voice speaking:


"Wake up."

Soon, the void itself vanishes and is replaced by distant noises of engines. Had it all been nothing more than a dream? The soothing voice repeats its call one more time, but is soon replaced with a much less graceful "Wake up Kupo." Hand clutched on your Crystal, the call of the Moogle may finally wake you up. But you are no longer in your world, nor in the void. You are before the Crystal of Fire, in the third district of a city called Aqures Ixen. At this point, you may realize the engine noise actually originates from an Airship flying low over the city and headed to dock beneath the castle. As if it wasn't strange enough, your clothes have changed as well. They are now a reflection of the Jobs you are wielding. Last but not least, you are surrounded by Moogles, small and fluffy creatures who are more than happy to tell you about everything you want to know, about your 'destiny' as a Hero of Light, about what awaits you.

Or at least, they will tell you everything they do know, which isn't much in the end.

The only people around you are like you-- There are quite a few of them, all clothed in their Job garbs and most likely wondering what is happening. If somehow you do not realize it, the Moogle who woke you up will be more than happy to inform you there are others like you around. In fact, there are other Heroes who have arrived in the course of the past year and they will come soon! Like you, they have Jobs and a Crystal.

If asked, the Moogles will mention that the Heroes of Light - that is to say you - are fighting against time to save Crystallis from the Calamity that is about to awaken to devour the entire world. Well, that is if you don't die or crystallize first. A couple days ago, a lot of Heroes of Light crystallized or died out of the blue without any warning! Sounds terrible? Welcome to Crystallis.


The Other Heroes
— Shortly Thereafter —
Thanks to the efficiency of Mognet, it does not take long for the other Heroes to come around: those who arrived in this world within the past year. You may have imagined heroic and charismatic figures when your Moogle told you that there were other Heroes of Light in this city. You may have imagined persons with fearsome powers when they told you about how they managed to push back the Empire and defeat gigantic beasts in the past. And more importantly, you may have imagined them as people who would have all the answers to your, doubtlessly, numerous questions.

If so, you may be up for a tragic disappointment. Still, for the most part they know more than you on the situation and may be more than happy to fill you in, especially if your Moogle didn't tell you much.


The City of Aqures Ixen
— Anytime —
With Choco Egg day nearing, there are a lot fo Hypello working on the upcoming competitions and on making chocolates! Want to eat some? Too bad, the Moogles will hit you with the stick they use to make the chocolate if you try to eat them!

And besides the chocolates, there are a lot of things to do in the city for newcomers. Moogles are working hard in Mognet Office of the ninth district following the election of their new director, and while there are no Blitzball Matches today, a lot of Triple Triad players are gathered at the stadium. Why? Because they are working on the early preparations for the Triple Triad World Championship that will happen in May! Characters are also free to visit the city-- They can visit Airship Port in the twelfth district from where characters can board for free Airships from Shoopuf Airline.

Or maybe you could visit your new house in the 11th District, and get to know your new neighbors and housemate. Hopefully your neighbors are people you will get along with.


The Laboratory
— Anytime —
A location where a lot of Heroes of Light seem to be gathering is Palitutu's Laboratory. It is a place where employed characters can research into various topics. However, most importantly, characters can see a file with their name...

Should your character decide to go there and peek at their file, there are two possibilities. Either the file is corrupted and they cannot access it: too bad for them, but at least their life will remain a mystery. Or should you decide the file isn't corrupted, they will find a summary of their lives up to their canon point, as if written by a third-person omniscient narrator. On the column left to the text, to the top there is a portrait of them, and beneath it there is a 3D model of them. Said portrait and model can be switched to any year of their life. At the bottom there is a percentage, indicating 0%. On the right column, there are various links, most of which are grayed out. The clickable links lead to their Homeworld History and their future post-canon point history (corrupted file for unfinished canons).

At least, they can lock this file away if they don't want anyone to see it.

The Hospital
— Anytime —
Characters who have already been in Crystallis before do not wake up by the Crystal of Fire like everyone else. Instead, they will wake up in the Hospital of Aqures Ixen, in a room where there are over a hundred of other Heroes of Light like them-- Maybe even some familiar faces... Except they're all in Crystal Stasis.

A few Moogles and nurses will be waiting by the room, and they will welcome all characters waking up. However...

Upon exiting the room, they will find the Hospital is very busy. Nurses and healers can be seen moving corpses around on stretchers, and overall a very dark and tense atmosphere reigns over the Hospital. In closed rooms, some of the most skilled healers are trying to analyze the corpses and find out what happened. And these dead people? They are of the Heroes of Light who died on the 29th of February.


Melodies of Eternity
— Anytime —
If you are a Hero of Light who survived that accursed day, your crystal will shine at the very same moment the new Heroes appear before the Crystal of Fire. That means your character is now linked to the Crystal of Fire and will come back to life after a week if killed.

They will also receive their Moogle and their housing in the 11th or 14th District. But that probably isn't enough for the pain to go away.

Comments

[hopedout]

►►► MELODIES OF ETERNITY

[ Well, that definitely was A Thing that happened. Hinata can't say that he's not somewhat relieved that he's dead, but it still hurts that a lot of their companions are gone; either put in crystal or killed (whether or not it's in front of his eyes) and the notion just makes him sick to his stomach to the point where he wants to hurl, but he keeps it in.

And here he thought that he wouldn't have to see dead bodies again.

He seems rather gloomy for a tense couple of seconds, before he hears the all too familiar laugh of "Upupupu..." which causes him to swerve around and let out a very manly shriek. ]

Who's there?! [ He's totally expecting Monokuma and instead he gets. A moogle. That has the same color scheme.

(Just his fucking luck.) ]

Hello, Hajime. My name is Monoguri, kupo. I am here to assist you, kupo!

[ His face turns flat and he can't help but answer dryly: ] You're not planning on doing something weird to me, right?

Hah? [ There's a tilt of the moogle's head, as if Hinata called him crazy. But then, sarcasm drips from the moogle's tone. ] Of course not. That would be too excruciatingly boring to do for a newcomer, after all.

[ Okay, no, he's not dealing with this moogle, Leave Him Be-! He's just going to walk away and ignore it, even if it tries to follow him persistently. This is the worst. If he sees someone (perhaps a comrade!!) he'll ask: ]

Can you help me stop him from following me? [ Just thumbing the moogle behind him. Please help. Or not. ]

►►► THE LABRATORY (WARNING: MAJOR ENDGAME SPOILERS FOR SDR2 IN THIS PROMPT!)

[ Research, honestly, was a lot like investigation work. And the fact that he noticed a lot of people heading in this area means that there must be something important here. Eyes catch onto his name and he immediately decides to check it out. Hand on the mouse, unsteady, he clicks on his name, and out comes his file.

His rather detailed file. It states pretty basic things at first. Where he was born, the school he went to, and then he immediately freezes at certain, specific words.

Hope's Peak Academy. He knows it was the school he admired, but it then starts to talk about how Hinata was just an ordinary teenager, nothing special. But since he loved the school so much, to the point where he was desperate, he poured in all of his parent's money to become a part of the Reserve Course, in the hopes of eventually becoming a part of the main one. Which, naturally didn't happen.

He wants to stop reading.

But he continues, because he knows what's bound to be next.

The Kamukura Izuru Project. Followed by The First School Life of Mutual Killing. Which he actually has to pause at. Maybe there would be new information? Probably not.

He's so engrossed that he murmurs aloud, ]

"Kamukura Izuru kickstarted the Tragedy when he, along with fourteen members of Hope's Peak Academy participated in the first School Life of Mutual Killing. Supposedly, he killed all of them--" [ HA, HA, HA nope let's stop there. He's just going to delete this file or try to hide it or something.

Hopefully nobody's around to actually see this because then they'd know the truth about Hinata Hajime. That he was a killer. That he was dangerous. Hinata's face is pale at the thought of that because he doesn't want anybody to know that he was a part of Super High School Level Despair?? ]

►►► WILDCARD

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Melodies of Eternity

[jenovite]

[Hinata may recognize the young, silver-haired man as another who'd been part of their group, another survivor of a strange string of occurrences in which most of them died or turned to crystal. There's a strange spark that glitters in his emerald eyes, but whether it's madness or sadness is hard to tell. With Kadaj, it was always a little of both.

He'd only really seen the man in passing in their travels, but it was interesting to see he wasn't the only one who'd survived. His eyes dart to Hinata's moogle, then back to Hinata, gently shaking his head, making his hair fall hap-haphazardly into his eyes, but he didn't seem to mind.]

No. We're like them now, and they're all followed.

[hopedout]

... Really? I don't want him. Can't I exchange with someone?

[ He didn't ask for this at all in the slightest bit, just Leave Him Be!! ]

[jenovite]

Why should you? It has its uses.

[His own moogle bobs in the air behind him, looking more than a little distraught. She doesn't seem to be any more happy about this arrangement than he is.]

[hopedout]

He's not an it.

[ UGH at the very least, get that part straight, Kadaj. ]

[jenovite]

There's no need to get defensive. [And Kadaj smirks, emerald eyes darting to the moogle over his shoulder.] Unless you do like having him around.

Laboratory

[line_piece]

[And here's Chiaki, right there behind him suddenly as he's reading his file. She works here part time, after all, so it wasn't hard for her to find Hajime when he came in to have a look at things.]

...You can lock it down so no one else can read it if you want.

[hopedout]

Nanami-!

[ He calls her by last name on reflex (he's too used to it) as he almost jumps in surprise. That certainly is A Thing that happened. ]

I mean. ... Sorry about that, Chiaki. Do you know how to do it? I'm not exactly a computer expert, as you can tell.

[line_piece]

I can guide you through it, but I can't do it for you. You can only lock or unlock your own file.

[hopedout]

That's fine. Can you help me out, then?

[line_piece]

Yup.

[She steps up to the console, navigating to the correct inputs for him.]

Okay. Now just put in your name and hold your crystal up to the screen.

►►► MELODIES OF ETERNITY

[thegreatninja]

[Yuffie turns towards the boy, her lips curling into a smirk at his question.]

Sadly no.

[She remembers when her and Mooshoo were first assigned and that had been a disaster. She's sure that he'll see how awesome his moogle is eventually; it just takes time. Sometimes it takes a lot of time.]

They're suppose to help you though Mooshoo usually leaves me on my own.

[Some moogle.]

[hopedout]

[ He can't help but let out a ragged sigh; it's something that he can't help but run a hand through his hair for and just... it's annoying. ]

Do you know exactly what they're supposed to help with?

[ Just curious! He would ask his moogle, but his doesn't... want to share those details and instead dodges the question. ]

[thegreatninja]

[Yuffie has to start chanting 'do not troll' over and over in her thoughts as she watches the new kid. She's gotten in trouble for it enough times to know that it's a very bad idea.]

A lot of things, Mooshoo. [Yuffie waves her hand at the moogle that isn't at her side.]

Is super old, not that you can tell so he knows a lot of random stuff. Mostly mognet and touring around the city. Really basic questions like: "Where is food and where do I live now"

You know, that sorta stuff.

[hopedout]

[ He'd voice his thoughts on the whole 'why is it just those kinds of things' part, but he keeps his mouth shut. ]

I... see... [ It's not useful!! Except mognet. That sounds useful. ] And what exactly is mognet? It sounds like the internet.

[thegreatninja]

Nothing that useful.

[She wishes.]

Just sending letters to everyone. They'll even copy them for you to send it to all the heroes.

They also know the cities, mostly. Why not just ask him?

[She gestures to the moogle at his side.]

Laboratory

[rialynn]

[Some people know absolutely nothing about computers. Like Rialynn. When technology hasn't even advanced to indoor plumbing, it's no wonder that machines as advanced as those in the lab are a mystery and a wonder. But that's not why she came initially. She'd wanted to see how people got their Jobs. It seems like everyone she's met has at least one, usually two. She has none, and she prefers it that way, but maybe...]

[Her thoughts are interrupted when she hears someone murmuring near her elbow. She turns to see the back of Hinata's head, then her gaze travels upward to the screen. So...that's the same guy, right? She looks from Hinata to the avatar on the display. Mutual Killing? Tragedy?]

What kind of school is that supposed to be?

[Rialynn doesn't mean to intrude on his thoughts, but she can't help herself. At least she hasn't looked at his file long enough to connect Kamukura Izuru with Hinata Hajime.]

[hopedout]

Huh?

[ He can't help but flinch slightly, eyes growing wide as he quickly minimizes the screen. Having someone overhear him like that was unexpected, and he's glad for the slight misunderstanding, although the antenna on his head is more or less surprised. ]

I-It's nothing at all--! [ Hinata Hajime: the best liar. ]

He has antennae?!

[rialynn]

...Uh...?

[It was very clearly something, of that much Rialynn was sure. But she's not certain why he's so frantic to hide it from her. That's weird.]

Oh, well. Okay. If you say so, I guess.

[She sidles back a step. Maybe it was a school for assassins. She would rather not antagonize an educated assassin.]

yeah, his distinctive hair spike known as an ahoge is also kind of joked about as an attenna

[hopedout]

[ Look at Hinata and his harmless face. Does he look like the type of person who would become an assassin? (No.) ]

Yeah. Of course I say so. [ Ha... ha.... not suspicious at all. ]

[rialynn]

[Okay, this is definitely getting weird, even for someone as trusting as Rialynn. She flashes a quick, nervous smile, and backs up juuuuust a little more.]

Well, um...I gotta get going and, uh...talk to my friend. Over there.

[Hopefully a cop, because he's definitely up to no good, right?]

Laboratory

[playing_hearts]

Are you alright?

[He looks a little pale. Whatever is in his file must not be pleasant. Alice is careful not to look at whatever is on the screen. It isn't right to pry.]

[hopedout]

Huh-?

[ He seems to be a little out of it as he turns his back around to cover the computer screen, frantic. ]

I-I'm fine!

[playing_hearts]

[She smiles, just slightly.]

It's okay. I wouldn't want anyone prying into my private affairs, so I won't pry into yours.

[He's definitely stressed though.]

You can lock your file when you're done. That way no one can see it. I could also bring you some tea, if you think it might help your nerves.

[hopedout]

Thanks.

[ He can't help but smile, albeit a little awkwardly. ]

I'll... definitely do that later. But I'd appreciate the tea.