melodiesoflife | Event || In Your Worst Memory

Characters: All Heroes of Light. Only those who signed-up can start a memory.
Where: Interdimensional Rift
When: May 27th - May 30th
Summary: The Heroes of Light relive some of their worst memories, with a twist. All characters participating in this will be physically missing from Crystallis for the duration of the event.
Warning: It depends on the memory.

Where you were or what you were doing— It does not really matter. Not any more. Everything around you freezes, nearly as if time itself stopped, as if the world was frozen in time. And before you have a chance to understand what is happening, you can hear a voice right behind you.

"Kali Shashidhwaja."

Should you turn around, you may see a child who seems to be the only one aside from you unaffected by what is happening. And as she stares right at you, it makes no doubt these strange words are aimed at you. But before you can reply to her, 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 know it. No matter what the answer is, it will only take a few seconds for you to find yourself sinking into a void, Crystallis vanishing into the distance. There is nothing but darkness as far as the eye can see.

And once again you feel different: all the powers from your Jobs are fading. Not only that, but you might find that your Crystal is gone and your clothes back to what they were before you woke up in Crystallis. It is silent, cold and before long it feels as though life itself is slipping out of you... And yet, slowly the world reforms around you. The darkness fades away and a new world appears, yet at the same time this is not a world.

This is a memory. The question is, is it yours or that of someone else?

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[Looking around, Yugi hadn't a clue as to where he was or even why he was here, but he soon spotted a few people sitting in other seats before he spotted someone he knew and knew they had a interest in games. His eyes looked over towards the screen as the scene soon started to play. He wasn't sure what he was seeing. It couldn't be real. He didn't want to think that.

As the last scene rolled around and the blocks started to fall. He slowly realized that was something he had dealt with before and as the final block fell into in, he was quick to cover his eyes. He didn't want to see it. He didn't want to see that block fall on someone he wanted to call a friend.

After a minute, he slowly removed his hand, looking over towards the other.]

Wh-What was that, Chiaki?

[Chiaki has a feeling that Yugi would probably recognize most of the game references in the video. And since it's easier for her to couch things in terms of game metaphors, that's how she chooses to respond.]

That was my Game Over screen.

[He pretty much got that to an extent, but he honestly didn't want to believe it. That seemed horrible. But she seemed to be taking it rather calmly to say the least.]

There's a difference between dying and a Game Over. Did that really happen to you?

The part where I was made into a Tetris did. The repetitions after that are just twisting the knife, I think.

[She briefly glances back to the screen before looking to Yugi.]

What I don't get... Is why it looked like you just accepted it at that point when you tried to escape before that. I mean you probably could have climbed those blocks if you tried after all.

[He just wanted to understand more than anything her way of thinking. Sure it was very much game related but that was all he knew.]

I think... I just wanted to defy my fate for a few minutes longer. I knew there was no escaping it in the end.

[It's hard to say, really. She was caught up in the moment.]

[He paused slightly, he wondered what she meant by fate, was it really her fate to die in such a way? Deep down he knew that really fate can't be defied, after all the other him had a fate and he was fated to wind up in Egypt in the end and then... He didn't want to think about it.]

I... Guess I can understand what you mean, at least. In my life I've had many people tell me about fate and that it was my fate to do certain things. But still... One having a fate to die is still awful.

It's fine. I knew what kind of risk I was taking. But it wasn't a meaningless death at all, despite how it looks.

[And it is fine. Mostly. But having it put on display like this is something she doesn't entirely know how to handle.]

You say that like you knew something like that was possible. What sort of situation were you in before you even came here?

[he just wanted to make sense of her, maybe get to know her better. Even if this was the oddest way to do that.]

A mutual killing game.

[She'd normally be a bit more cagey than that, but she feels like Yugi would understand the stakes of something like that without her having to say much more.]

[That sounds like the most horrible game ever. At least this was the thoughts that was running through his head.]

Why would you be involved with a game like that? It sounds terrible and I don't think I quite get why someone would even want to play it.

No... no one would.

[And in case that wasn't clear enough...]

I didn't really have a choice.

[He wasn't sure what to say if he had to be honest. he just knew that he didn't want to watch that again. It was however still fresh in his mind and he didn't want that reminder.]

I'm sorry that you didn't. It's still horrible. [He paused slightly.] Doesn't it upset you though? Even if it wasn't a choice.

[She shakes her head, expression remaining serious.]

No. I accomplished what I needed to accomplish before it happened, so I don't have any regrets.

[He had felt he had started to understand her a bit, but yet at the same time... he felt like he wasn't sure if that was really the case.]

So...what did you need to 'accomplish'?

Saving the lives of my friends. If I wasn't killed then, many more people would have died in my place.

So... It was you or them. [Now that kind of hit home for him. The situation he had found himself in before he came here was something sort of similar. He could understand putting others first before himself.]

I think I understand you better. I mean... I would save a friend before saving myself... That's what I did before I came to be a Hero of Light.

[He felt like he understood her better at least.]

Now I get why you don't regret it, but I wonder if there is something you do regret.

That's the kind of game it was. But I left all my hope behind and entrusted it to the rest of them.

[Chiaki smiles a little, dipping her head and closing her eyes in a brief remembrance.]

If there's anything... I think it's that I know I'll probably never be able to see them again. I'll never forget, and I know they won't either, but... when I think about that, it hurts.

[As she finishes those words, the projection stops.]

[He leant over slightly. Looking at her, trying his best to be comforting.]

It would hurt thinking like that, I mean it hurts being so far away from those who you love and they love you. But that is normal for a person. However... They are in your heart and that in a way is still a good thing. It's still a connection even if they aren't here.

In my heart, huh...

[Chiaki considers that as the dream begins to fade out. It's hard to say what conclusion she reaches.]

Event || In Your Worst Memory

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