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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Sephiroth kept looking over Terra the whole time that she found her words, eyeing every gesture, every small nuance of her body language as if he might be able to draw out some deeper meaning from it. The outside edges of his eyes softened as he really listened, really took her in.

Other things. After a few more moments of searching Terra's face again Sephiroth lowered and then turned his eyes and then his head away from her so it wouldn't be so automatic for him to look directly at her. It felt like a different sort of pain as he brought his wall up again finally between them once more.

"Yes. There are other things, but-" Reasons, excuses really, tumbled behind his eyes as their lids closed while he took a breath again in trying to collect them into a coherent thought.

"-it's the foundation of everything, Terra. It's not something I can just disregard."

Terra shook her head slowly. "I don't think you should disregard it."

She wished that she knew how to put her thoughts into words but instead she let the room fall into silence. Her fingers on her chest curled inward feeling her heart beat shutter in her chest.

Terra took a step forward stopping about a yard away. "Sephiroth." Her fingers moved in front of her lacing together nervously. Why were they being shown this? It didn't make any sense and it was turned into a spectacle for those who wondered across his memory. It was cruel and Terra didn't belong here.

Her tone was steady, her emotions safely locked away. "You shouldn't forget where you came from or who you are." It was hard but Terra didn't want to forget either. It hurt and it was awful but it was her life which made it important.

Shutting his eyes against it didn't help, those letters were burned into the back of his eyelids now. The monsters glowing in the various mako-pods, and the way that Genesis spoke to him rung deeply in the very depths of his ears still. What had happened to them all?

He didn't open his eyes again until Terra steadily said her final statement, carefully tracing the outline of the petite frame now stood a little in front of him. Her words might well have been lined with ice, sending a chill ever deeper into Sephiroth's concerns.

"That's just the problem, Terra. Where I came from, and who I am meant to be."

Her gaze steadily met his. "You know that I can't give you an answer." Her gaze betrayed the pain she felt. She wanted to help but it was something that he needed to face. Just as she needed to face her own past. There was more to learn and more to discover. She knew the frustration at knowing that you could become a monster. Though Sephiroth knew his future now and he had to decide what to do with that knowledge.

Terra thought to turn away and leave her friend with his thoughts. She felt helpless when she just wanted to help. There weren't many emotions that Terra was antiquated with and frustration was new. She didn't know what to do and she felt like she wanted to scream.

Event || In Your Worst Memory

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