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

[not_most_days]

Mary frowned at the scene. She couldn't tell if Jade felt guilt for all of this. He didn't show anguish now, but he didn't seem proud of it either. It seemed more like a slow heavy guilt that he had just learned to wear. She'd met men who carried similar weight on their shoulders in her lifetime. She'd learned to do the same with some of the lives she'd taken.

But the death of a mentor...that was a heavy weight indeed.

"What did you do after this?"

[jadethenecromancer]

Jade didn't answer right away. Was there any sense in lying to her? If the memory kept on playing out, she would see for herself what he had done.

"You saw what I was like. As a child, I could never accept anything was impossible for me." His lips pursed in distaste as his younger self, now much calmer than he should have been, hoisted Nebilim's arm around his shoulders, gesturing Saphir to do the same.

"Death, too, was merely something to conquer. Something I could cheat if I just put my mind to it."

[not_most_days]

Mary frowned as she listened to his words as she watched the memory people walk by. She wondered what might have happened if Jade hadn't learned this harsh message, especially with an attitude like he described.

"Death is not something to be cheated. It will find its way in no matter where you go." She murmured this more to herself though.

[jadethenecromancer]

"Sadly, that is a truth I didn't learn for many years." Jade smiled bitterly. "Well, I suppose it would be more accurate to say I refused to learn it."

Without elaborating further, he followed his child self out of the room. The fire was spreading quickly, and it was all the boys could do to drag their teacher's body down a hall and a flight of stairs through the smoke.