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

[widenessofthesea]

Mm, well—

Wonder what that all meant.

[justfuckingtryit]

The change of scenery?

[widenessofthesea]

A bit more than that, obviously. The change of scenery, the strange dreams amid others' hearts, the flowers, why this place, and whether it was some divine design—

Isn't that a bit fascinating?

[justfuckingtryit]

The dreams in others' hearts isn't all that odd.

Usually it's a game, though. Here... I'm not sure.

[widenessofthesea]

Mm. This place—the Producers can't touch it.

[justfuckingtryit]

Exactly.

[widenessofthesea]

So, perhaps some divine machination...

[justfuckingtryit]

You think?

That place looked pretty deserted to me.

[widenessofthesea]

But there were still mechanisms that worked. Fruit that grew. Fountains that ran. The garden wasn't wilted. Something is keeping it going.

[justfuckingtryit]

Point.

So, some kind of automatic thing, like the defense system...?

[widenessofthesea]

Maybe something like that.

...there were an awful lot of flowers about, weren't there?

[justfuckingtryit]

There were.

You think there's some kind of connection?

[widenessofthesea]

I think we'd be remiss not to read at least a little bit into it, given the supernatural nature of what happened here. There's a lot of symbolism to flowers in all kinds of cultures.

[justfuckingtryit]

Do you know the symbols?

[widenessofthesea]

Well, not all of them. That would take some very comprehensive study, and you could probably write a thesis on that alone—

...but at its simplest, flowers often symbolize both growth and the ephemeral, because of what they are.

[justfuckingtryit]

That makes sense.

There's more specific meanings, though, aren't there? I thought there was a game about that a while back.

[widenessofthesea]

There's a lot, yes. At least from my own world, there's separate sets of meanings from a couple different countries—one popular in the western part of the world, and one popularized in Japan.

...though, the way Hellfire talks about flowers—and "botany"—doesn't really match anything I know at all, for example.

[justfuckingtryit]

Different flowers?

[widenessofthesea]

Something like that. You'd probably have to ask her directly, though.