MEMORIES

[unfamiliardawn]

Who: People who have forgotten something
Where: Places convenient for remembering things
When: Day 398-ish

[MEMORY TIME!!]

Comments

CW: Child abuse, terminal illness

[counterlighting]

[Time for a SECOND MEMORY!!
Unfortunately for everyone who happens to be passing by when Nyx plays this one, it's not very pleasant to watch. It's a long montage of a small sickly child growing up in a family that doesn't want him at all.]

. . .

[He doesn't really react dramatically or anything, he just stays very still, staring at the screen for a little while after the memory ends. It's not like anything all that dramatic happened in the memory, after all. It was just his life.
...Maybe he wasn't expecting his life to be quite so pitiful, though.]

Re: CW: Child abuse, terminal illness

[bondsofsuffering]

[Well, he'd been on his way back from the graduation, but...

...

A few taps on his phone, and let's just delivery drop a 3 foot version of a cute nighttime bunny plushie on Nyx. Yup, that's what we're doing with today.]

[counterlighting]

[Well. That successfully distracts him, because it's hard not to be distracted by a 3 foot tall stuffed bunny monster(?). What is this? Why is it here??? What is he supposed to do with it????? o_o]

[childeishly]

[ childe is a little drunk, the buzz giving him reprieve from all the negativity swirling in his head. he’s browsing the conbini for something to snack on, thumbing his phone to put in yet another form upgrade, but oops, memory. he stills as it starts replaying, confused because how, and then he realizes… so time to kill another phone. ]

[ anybody that wanders into the conbini will find him leaning on the sword he stabbed through the phone eating sushi… with his hands… because if nothing else he KNOWS he can’t chopsticks while blitzed. ]

[skyshard]

[ wanders in, probably should have wandered back out immediately. looking at the situation before him, he just stares as it hits him whose memory was just broadcast.

cool. this is fine, why not light more things on fire than just the house at this point. ] Was ... [ gestures to... Childe and his immediate surroundings ] that all necessary?

[childeishly]

[ he looks at his sushi, because clearly this is what aether is addressing. ] I couldn’t find a fork and I’m not using chopsticks. [ … ] Im too drunk for chopsticks.

[leaveofabsence]

[ He lets Childe eat one more piece of sushi with his hands before he unwraps a pair of disposable chopsticks from the counter and sits beside him to pick up the next piece.

With one raised eyebrow: ]

While I understand the convenience of this store, you can find much better quality sushi at the dining establishment in Odaiba.

[childeishly]

... [ leans into zhongli and sighs. ] But that's faaaar. [ shuts his eyes. ] If you'd accompany me, then the trip might not be so bad.

[firstworldproblem]

Does destroying your phone help?

[childeishly]

[ his eyes dip to the phone as he tries to lodge another sushi roll into his mouth. inevitably shrugs after a few minutes. ] I thought it might make it stop.

[quickpersuader]

[Surely Kino won't end up with any super weird memories this time, right?

In the first memory, they're in a country that's apparently maintained by machines. It's all well-kept and the food served by machines is just fine, but they spend quite some time looking for living, human residents. It's only when they get up on the observation deck of a sky scraper that they can spot people through a sniper's scope - everyone's staying in houses far away from each other and remaining only on their individual property.

In the second memory, it's a continuation of the country where everyone wears cat ears for... some reason? Kino and Hermes leave, and as they drive away, they have a cheerful and amused chat about how cute and funny the ears were. Apparently the country comes up with a new "tradition" for every traveler that comes along, and while they both have guesses on new "traditions" the country might try next, they're looking forward to telling other travelers to go see for themselves without spoiling it for them.

In the third memory, Kino and Hermes are in a forest when it appears they'll get caught up in a rainstorm. They find an abandoned school building and take shelter in one of the old classrooms, despite strange human-like figures made of blue fog or light with only eyes, no faces. These blue people watch Kino and Hermes while drifting out of the way to avoid ever touching them. Kino doesn't make any motions indicating they see the blue people, but they spend the rest of their night narrating their actions for even simple things like declaring the room in need of cleaning and going out for a few minutes to find a branch to use as a broom. Once the morning comes they clean up their camp and mention not leaving anything behind before driving Hermes out of the building, turning back briefly to say "thank you" to the blue people before driving away.]

So even creatures like that really exist...

[Well. That was interesting!]

[worldlyafflictions]

[Honestly just showing up to watch (again?)]

Kino-kun's memories are pretty chill when they're chill.

[skyshard]

[ This memory doesn't sit well at all, especially so soon after the LobbyQuest incident.

So, that's how it is? Even with all that power, he still can't save someone that needs it? However, Aether doesn't really outwardly react to it once he comes back to reality, staring blankly ahead of him.

Frustration tears at him, and he reaches up to hold his head in his hands even as his body trembles. He doesn't know if it's from shock or anger or something else. The emotions of remembering Lumine properly now, and knowing they were forcefully separated once before by some god makes him extra bitter. He has to make sure they stay together more than ever now, somehow, but suddenly he's wondering if they leave here will they simply be separated again? How unfair can things possibly get?

Upon initial broadcast, he will be sitting next to Zhongli, and ultimately end up saying nothing. Instead, he simply goes limp to one side to flop against Zhongli's side, half-burying his face against the man's jacket in silence.

If someone wants to approach him later on, when he's alone, concerning the memory, he can be found curled up in a tree, clearly having the intent on wanting to avoid others by taking cues from certain antisocial birds . ]

[inspiteful]

[ Skylark saw the memory earlier, but it didn't seem right to try talking to Sora when he was preoccupied. So he finds Sora in the tree later, looking up from where he is on the ground. ]

Hey there?

[childeishly]

[ he's feeling a little bit better, but he's not going to just drink himself into a frustrated stupor. he drops down alongside aether and leans into him. ] ...Aether.

[leaveofabsence]

[ Oh Celestia.

On so many many many levels.

When Aether presses against him, Zhongli reaches up to place a hand on his back and move his hand in slow smooth circles in the hopes of offering at least some small amount of comfort. All while his own unspoken thoughts are spinning with why would they prevent Aether and Lumine from leaving their star? ]

I knew that the two of you had been separated, but seeing it is a different matter all together.

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Oh]

[...oh]

[He's got on a face mask covering his face from the nose down, but he sure is coming to look for Aether after that]

[glidinglight]

[ It's awkward to watch yourself get kidnapped on the big screen. And scary, and humiliating. But most of all--it's kind of surreal, watching it happen from someone else's point of view, seeing it as a movie and not really experiencing the emotional attachment that one would assume would come with a memory like that. But then again, for her, it's just like watching it happen to someone else--someone who happens to have her face. Their faces.

For Aether, though, she can only imagine what he must be feeling right now. And so she goes looking for him, of course. Somehow she didn't expect to find him curled up underneath a tree, but rather surrounded by friends.... ]

So this is where you've been hiding.

[ice_69]

[orchid's been feeling kind of down since the door choosing game, but maybe getting another memory will help?

oh whoops it doesn't, it involves more door choosing and horrible death

just going to sit down and stare at the floor for a while now]

[crossmyheartandhope]

[He's got on a face mask covering his face from the nose down, and he goes very still after seeing that - approaches, careful, to set a hand on her shoulder]

[calmthefoxdown]

[ I can't believe a unitmate is from Terrible Games World and now in Terrible Games Hell. ]

... Orchid Swan?

After Egg Game

[angleordevil]

[This memory plays.

TL;DR he finds a man assaulting a woman he knows and bodies him and. sucks the life out of him with his touch?! once that man flees, he uh, awkwardly kind of confesses to the woman he saved.

So that's a lot. Frosty appears to be just kind of bluescreening?]

Re: After Egg Game

[scarvedforlife]

[ Buddy why are your memories like this. ]

... Frosty? Still there?

Re: After Egg Game

[onemoreknight]

...Frosty.

Re: After Egg Game

[nohalation]

[o]