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

[jadethenecromancer]

"If you can predict what's coming, you have a means of changing the outcome, do you not?" That had been why, even after abandoning the Score, their group had still looked to Ion's reading of it for guidance. Not to obey it blindly, but to better understand what was coming. The future may have been written in stone, but once you had the stone in front of you, you could start working with the chisel...

"We already know there are multiple timelines with different versions of each of us." Professor Nebilim's doppelganger flickered through Jade's mind. He dismissed the thought. "I couldn't care less what some other Sephiroth from another timeline did. You possess memories that he didn't. As far as I'm concerned, that alone makes you a different individual, and you alone are responsible for what you choose to do from here."

Jade frowned, his voice growing a little more stern. "And as you colleague, I certainly hope you're not about to bow down to something as flimsy as fate or destiny."

[shinrasfinest]

"Logic suggests." At first he sounded as if he were agreeing with Jade, and even followed the gesture with a curt nod. But after a short humph of a shrug Sephiroth pulled his gaze all over the floor and then back up to Jade's face again.

"Unless it all already happened, and I just don't know that yet. I'm pulled from a time previous."

To so many others from his own reality. For a fleeting moment he pondered on why that might be.

But the fact remained, Jade referred to the Sephiroth from the previous cycle, whom he had dreamed of. If there were one thing that the silver haired warrior knew for a fact it was that he was certainly not that man. He would never cultivate such loyalties, such bonds with so many other people just to cut them all as if they never mattered on such a whim. For such a desperate grab at ultimate power.

"I have never believed in a fate that one doesn't carve out for oneself. Don't worry about me."

[jadethenecromancer]

"I will hold you to that." Apparently satisfied with the answer, Jade turned away as if to leave, before adding: "Faith in an inescapable destiny is, ultimately, little more than a coward's way out of accountability, and a convenient excuse not to improve or think. I have no patience for anyone that weak."

If Jade sounded more firm than usual, it was because he had seen firsthand what disasters could be wrought by mere irresponsibility. Not just from others, but from himself as well -- the pain he had caused by refusing to face reality for a good decade would have repercussions for years to come, for thousands of people. Neither young age nor unfortunate circumstances excused that -- but neither could he continue to uselessly drown in his guilt and do nothing to repair the damage.

As unpleasant as reliving that memory had been, at least it had served as an effective reminder of what needed to be done. Perhaps that was why Jade felt a need to get involved in Sephiroth's situation, too. It was really none of his business, but remaining passive while a comrade was in trouble was an irresponsible thing to do, after all.

For now, however, he had said all he wanted. Unless Sephiroth had something further to say, Jade would let him go and give him a chance to pull himself together.