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

Re: Chiaki Nanami's Memory

[comeoutswinging]

Allenby jumps to wake in the seat, as if she'd been napping there or feel asleep during the previews... theaters are comfy and cold like that. But probably not this one.

Allenby wakes up about the point of the chase goes down, thinking it's just a movie until she recognizes the very familiar face of one of her hunting buddies, which makes her exclaim, rather loudly. "Oh shit! Chiaki's in a movie!"

But no, watching on, it's all but video games references she's way too in the future to get, like Tetris, but gasps as she see's Chiaki, the actress, get crushed by the 3-block and wiped out by the line clearing.

And then on the reset, it's only more shocking to see the thing from where she missed it. About the point where the tank is firing, Allenby stands up and looks around, only to find Chiaki watching to, and it makes her gawk.

"Chiaki! The heck IS this!?"

[line_piece]

...This is how I died.

[Chiaki's being rubbed a little raw by the repeating footage by this point.]

[comeoutswinging]

"D-died? But... you're... wait..." Give her time to think.

"So... did you get like, saved by showing up at Aquares Ixen? How can you be dead and here."

[line_piece]

Magic.

[It's a bit of a cop-out, but the best one she's got.]

Other than that, I'm not sure.

[comeoutswinging]

She looks like she's thinking a moment before turning back to her.

"Well... I'm glad you didn't... die. But, that sucks... That really sucks... getting that close to death." she says, looking at the video again, then back to her friend.

[line_piece]

It did. But it meant I could save my friends.

[comeoutswinging]

"Ahh... the heroic sacrifice..." she says, slumping back in the seat. "Still... it... sucks."

She's not sure what to really say about it beyond that as the scene constantly repeats.

"If you wanna talk about it, while we're here... I'll listen."

[line_piece]

[Chiaki looks around the theater, noting how many people got pulled into this.]

It's... a long story. A really long and complicated story, and not one I want just anyone to hear.

[comeoutswinging]

"Ah... right."

Seeing Chiaki look around, she felt a little less like it was against her and more for a sense of real privacy. It was a theater after all... quiet, sure, but not the most private of places.

[line_piece]

Sorry... it's not that I don't want to tell you if you really want to know. I'm just not ready for everyone to hear about it yet, and explaining it will take a while.

[comeoutswinging]

"Ahh... okay." she says, nodding.

"Well... I'm surprised it hasn't come up but... I kind of had a bad story to tell if you think it'll help take your mind off of this? It has a good ending at the least?" she offers to tell her tale of 'tragedy', even if it's exponentially less so.

She didn't die, after all.

[line_piece]

If you want to. It's not fair of me to listen to a story like that while holding back my own.

[comeoutswinging]

Well we're friends right. You'll tell me one day but... At least it's something better than watching that over and over.

[line_piece]

You're right. It's definitely better than that.

[comeoutswinging]

"So... I've mentioned I was a Gundam Fighter before, right?" She was sure everyone had heard it by now, anyone who bothered to listen at least. "Well... My Gundam had this thing in it, a Berserker System. I could fight stronger than ever but... I wasn't in control. It wasn't a fair fight, or a fun one."

She goes on after Chiaki lets it sink in. "So then, for a while I managed to not be forced to use it but, the tournament I was in was pretty damn rigged. My friends and I were put in unfair fights against eachother with stupid stipulations and stuff. Eventually I had t ofight against the guy I liked... again. I think. It's actually kind of fuzzy. I think I was fighting him but, I wasn't. But... I wasn't in any kind of control either. You see that berserker system fell into the hands of the guy trying to rig the tournament..."

[line_piece]

[Chiaki nods as Allenby explains, although once she hears the word 'Berserker' she can more or less predict the sort of place the story is going to go. Still, though...]

What ended up happening?

[comeoutswinging]

She's probably not wrong.

"Well, we got far enough in the tournament that the guy running it pretty much lost it. Thanks to my pit crew and their selfishness to be on top, I ended up being one of his pawns, put into some super-crazy powered up Berserker system."

She sighs a bit. "I can only remember wanting to fight. But it was more than just a fight. I wanted to fight one specific guy. This guy I was head over heels for. I never got to though. I ended up having it out with his team mate. And she saved me."

[line_piece]

That's the good ending, right? So nobody died?

[comeoutswinging]

"Actually...?"

Actually no, unless you count the bad guy as a death...

"I don't think so... Well... probably I think. The whole thing ended up in a war with everyone fighting off two guys. I imagine we lost a couple out there."

[line_piece]

That's a relief. It sounds like a complicated tournament.

[comeoutswinging]

"More or less. I mean, in theory it's a pretty legit practice but... it was a matter of time before someone tried messing it up." she sighs and turns around, knees in the seat to look at Chiaki.

"Anyway, I got better, we got back at the guy and saved the world. I don't remember if he's comatose or dead but... I suppose the biggest loss was having to give up on him." She hangs her head on the back of the seat.

Wait, THAT wasn't the point of the story. "Not the bad guy, the guy who's... girlfriend saved me from being some crazy berserker in a lame tripod robot."

[line_piece]

You liked him?

[She's sort of gotten that impression.]

[comeoutswinging]

"Domon? Yeah... I did but... He didn't like... feel the same. I was just a friend who helped him train."

Sigh and regret...

[line_piece]

I'm sorry. That sounds hard.