imeeji_frontstage | (no subject)

Uh, let me think. Abilities are 1000 points, right? I got 1100 from the game. If I get two memories, that will leave me short.

What are your abilities?

Let's see, that's 600 short? I think I can spot you.

As for my abilities-- well, there's Heart Weapon, Henshin, Aibou, and Buddy System.

We also have Charm and Heroes Never Die.

And Kohime and Sabre have made it very clear that they'll never forgive me if I get Heroes Never Die.

If you can, I'll pay you back.

[ points don't seem to impossibly hard to get here. ]

What does Heroes Never Die do?

[ starts leading the way to her room! it has not been decorated any more yet. ]

[they will never decorate their rooms.

maybe.]

Uhhhh. It.

[pause]

It sort of transfers your soul into an object. So.

You can't die? At leaat not unless that object's destroyed.

Most of Heart has it.

[she's following, and looking around curiously]

[ okay the room can wait a second ]

I'm forbidding you from getting it too. That sounds horrible.

I'm not!

Knowing how this goes, it'd be awful anyway, and the idea of losing my soul doesn't make me feel great even though some of my teammates think it's no big deal!

It still bears saying! But if you ever do, give me the object. I get the feeling Sabre and Catra would fight over it and it'd get lost.

[ ANYWAY flopping onto her neatly made bed. ]

Sit anywhere you want. Sorry about the mess.

[ there is literally only a shirt placed over the back of a chair. ]

I'm not, I promise.

[and she looks around the base room and-- sits on another chair? with her hands resting on her knees.]

Anyway, I'm here for moral support. Yeah. Yeah.

Moral support, huh? Not because you're curious about the difference between us too?

Well, if we're like Sabre and Kohime...

[she pauses.]

Actually, yeah. Yeah! I am curious.

[she pulls out her phone, and while she's at it, transfers 600 points to her.]

I already took 6 memories. I think they would've been from when our lives were basically the same. But maybe that changes today.

So what is the difference between them? Sabre keeps saying I should pay more attention to Kohime since she's what I'll care about, but won't tell me why.

[ pulling out her phone as well and navigating to purchases do do do ]

Since you were only doing one, did you want to go first?

Well... One of us left the Horde and the other stayed.

[she pauses.]

I don't know why, though.

[and then she purchases the memory]

Are you sure? I've done this already. I know that first memory can be kind of intimidating?

...And leaving the Horde meant leaving Catra. A Catra.

[ it's easy enough to put together, between snippets she's heard. ]

I'm sure. It might help to see it in action first.

Yeah...

Okay. Hopefully, I get something that might help us figure out which is which.

[and so, she presses play on the memory. which, honestly, leaves her with a whirlwind of feelings as she's going through it.

eventually, just settling on "heartbreak." heartbreak and devastation, because she's... reasonably sure they have their answer, what with, you know, the tiara and the transformation]

... Oh. It. It. It was me.

[ it's all so difficult to watch. not just because of how confusing it is without context, but--

how weird, to see such a painful expression on your own face.

unsure how else to offer comfort, she puts a hand on Adora's shoulder. ]

And you don't remember why?

No.

All my other memories-- we were so close? Being a Force Captain in the Horde was all-all I wanted?

[she sighs heavily, and looks back at her at the touch]

It doesn't-- It doesn't make sense.

Something must have happened. It had to. If...If you left and I didn't, there must have been something that pushed you to do it.

... Yeah.

Talking to Kohime's going to be a real pain after this. She's never gonna trust me again.

Do you want to wait to tell her? Until you remember more? I can keep quiet if you need me to.

You're new to this, so I'm just gonna tell you: that would make it ten times worse.

I'm starting to think everything involving them is just...complicated.

But what about you? All that stuff in the memory...

It's--

[she pauses.

she doesn't know what it is.]

... I don't know. I know I had to do what I did? But at the same time, it.. it feels like I made a huge mistake. And I don't know why.

[because there is SO MUCH to unpack there. so just focus on the situation]

I think all you can do is try to get more memories. More context. I mean, that's obvious, but...

[ comforting people is easier when they have cat ears and just want their head patted.

but even just imagining what Adora must feel like right now... ]

Look, I may not know much about me or you right now, but... If you did it, whether there was a reason it was a mistake... You were stopping worlds from being destroyed. You weren't letting someone use you as a weapon. That has to count for something.

[oh. that's-- nice to hear. even if she's not sure]

Thanks.

A-Anyway, I think that takes away the mystery of who's who. So... Your turn?

Definitely a little more nervous about it now than I was before, but...

[ she taps on the screen of her phone thoughtfully. ]

Should I do one at a time so we can talk about it or both now?