Event || In Your Worst Memory

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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?

Comments

1) Sephiroth / Genesis [OTA]

[shinrasfinest]

I knew, ever since I was a child...

[Zack looks on, having been thrust to the side and off the gangway by Sephiroth as he struggled to get his thoughts in order. The black-haired SOLDIER spreads his stance, leans forwards, ready to leap into action.

The sharp stab of an epiphany, as too charged logic nodes connected in Sephiroth's mind, is akin to a headache and he needs the space now to breathe, to process in it's aftermath. He's turned towards the wall away from the whole room, the focus of the memory shifts as Sephiroth continues.]

I was not like the others.
I knew mine was a special existence.

[One of the pods, towards the back of the room becomes more noticeable than the others' somehow. The rest of the scene becomes irrelevant as a hiss of compressed air from inside heralds the opening, the front of the pod falls forwards on it's hinge. The lifeform that had been kept inside coming forwards with it and looks as if it might begin to stir on the inside of the opened lid; curled up some on it's one side.]

But this...
This was not what I meant.

[It's underdeveloped, this Makonoid- and it's life quickly slips away now that it's been removed from it's mako-coccoon. The memory goes black for just a second as Sephiroth brings his hands up to look over them - almost as if seeing them for the first time.]

Am I...a human being?

[nodreamsorhonor]

"No such luck. You are a monster."

Two fireballs. One that threw Zack across the room and the other deflected off of the barrier Sephiroth threw up. Genesis floated down from the ceiling, wing spread open until his feet touched the ground. He was clearly not himself - his skin, hair and body showing signs of rotting, feathers falling from the wing, and a fever making the mako in his eyes burn far a sickly aqua in the black rings around them.

"Sephiroth, you were the greatest monster created by the JENOVA Project."

Zack was trying to get up and failing, but he was able to gasp out the obvious. "Genesis... so you are alive!"

A slight curl of his lips, Genesis flicked his hand through his hair, the once vivid red ashened and lank. "I suppose I am, if you can call this living."

[shinrasfinest]

He'd looked up just as Genesis had thrown his attack, therefore had been unscathed on account of the quick Mbarrier he'd cast to absorb the fireball that had been launched.

As Genesis came to silently land behind him and on the stairwell cutting through the middle of the rows of mako containment chambers Sephiroth firstly cast a sideways glance in the direction of where Zack had been hurled but looked further - not quite over his shoulder but with narrowed eyes in Genesis direction.

"What is the JENOVA Project?" He had turned some more to face Genesis, taking in the extent of his degradation as his once-friend had drawn attention to it.

--

In meantime, Sephiroth himself tried to avert his attention from the scene being played out before them- he was certain that he didn't want to see, nor hear the next part. It wasn't right though; this wasn't how it had happened-

Genesis hadn't a place in the sequence of events as his future self recalled them.