post-hearts

[idolpro]

Who: Sleepyheads
Where: Honmachi Sakura Park
When: Day 326

[ After a long, long, long night, you wake in the dead zone, having slept more deeply than you've ever slept before.

Perhaps more restfully than you've ever slept before, even—do you remember your dreams? Is it all coming back to you, now?

For certain dreamers, the flower markings have disappeared, though if you wake early enough you can catch them glowing bright before burning away painlessly. With that, it feels as though maybe a weight's been lifted off your shoulders—maybe you really needed that sleep.

For certain dreamers, you may find yourself waking up with something new—was that always in your hands? Where did you get that from? Do you remember?

And, for a certain few unlucky dreamers, you may find yourself waking with pain, wounds or scars that remind you that what happened last night was not entirely a dream.

But then, who could ever believe it was a dream anyway?

The sun shines bright; Heaven's chain shines brighter. In the distance, white clouds roll toward the city, threatening rain.

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Please note: Characters may not fully remember their romps in other characters' hearts immediately. This is so that if you're still backthreading hearts, you can have your character not remember what happened or otherwise not be affected by the changes in the run until later.

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Comments

[rollplayinghouse]

Well.

You had a bunch of people inside it.

[selfpreservationist]

Yes... it's all still... hazy, but...

[he shakes his head to try and clear some of the fog]

[rollplayinghouse]

You remember it?

[selfpreservationist]

In pieces. I remember you were there.

[rollplayinghouse]

...Yeah. There were a lot of "yous" there that I talked to.

[selfpreservationist]

I remember the... library. What else was there...?

[rollplayinghouse]

There was... my room. Another bedroom. And... a child, outside.

[selfpreservationist]

...

What was the house like?

[rollplayinghouse]

...It was like... your childhood home, kind of. A little run down, with the portrait... But it was nicer upstairs.

[selfpreservationist]

... was it... just me, there?

[rollplayinghouse]

...Other than me and the other people who weren't supposed to be there.

[selfpreservationist]

So... Vergil wasn't there, then.

[rollplayinghouse]

[her brow furrows]

...His "heart" was... connected to yours. You told me so, and I crossed over, I think.

[selfpreservationist]

So it was...

[he looks... a little pleased]

[rollplayinghouse]

...You must have been there too, right? That's where I got this...

[her sticker]

[selfpreservationist]

Yes. I found Yamato, and I held onto her for a while... I think. Some of it is... fuzzy.

[rollplayinghouse]

Yeah, I did too. I went around with Vergil... it was pretty nice, actually.

Yours was nice too.

[selfpreservationist]

... really?

[rollplayinghouse]

Yeah. I mean, not all of it. Your basement could use some work. But...

[selfpreservationist]

... I...

[he chuckles a little]

I feel like you... were in there a lot. Or... for a long time. It's hard to describe. Just... that your essence was... everywhere.

[rollplayinghouse]

[/////]

I... tried to be quick looking at everything, because you told me things needed to get back into place, and that Vergil needed help too...

But I did get everywhere, I think. And I had to make sure all the "yous" felt... safe and loved. I guess.

[EMBARRASSING]

[selfpreservationist]

[he just smiles at her, and takes her hand to hold]

[rollplayinghouse]

[She takes it and holds it firmly.

Her hand is a little bit bloody, though]

[selfpreservationist]

... were you hurt?

[rollplayinghouse]

...Ah...

[she blinks and raises her free hand to her throat, where it also comes away slightly bloody]

...Yeah. In Nero's...