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Collapse the Waveform Meme

A meme for characters CRAU'd to heck and back.

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How many times now have you used that journal? How many places have you played that character?

How many friends, lovers, families have they found?

Well, here's some headache-inducing news: Ultimately, they're all the same person.

And now, the wave form has collapsed, and they actually are the same person. All of those memories, plus any new abilities and scars, smashing down into a single soul, a single incarnation.

On the bright side, at least whatever universe this is, you're not alone in it. On the less bright side, good luck navigating your relationships now.

Any CRAU character can respond to this meme, though of course, it's more interesting for characters who have been to at least two games. Meet your old friends, your new friends... Your friends' friends? Whatever. Consider noting down not only what games your characters have been to, but if you're open to three-people threads, for extra juggling-of-memories fun!

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...It's not something I would prefer to dwell on, admittedly. But it's survivable.

[He's not appable to Ryslig and I wouldn't go there if you paid me but god now I want a monster AU.]

I mean the killing game. Were you...

[He doesn't even want to say it, wringing his hands in front of his glowing chest.]

Huh. Maybe it's just my damage, then. I don't... you know. Don't like finding out I'm something different than I thought.

[BE NICE TO ZUZU SHITWEASEL, NAI.]

I didn't kill anybody in it!

[why is that the conclusion you jump to maya. no one would believe you could kill anything]

I just-- I mean, I tried to stop somebody, I don't... think he was gonna die--

[It's funny, really, because in a way he's doing it already. It's cute how he seems to find her distracting; that's a thought that makes her smile, too, because it means that deep down, there's a part of him that's resonating with her, reacting to her presence.

It means there's a part of Prompto Argentum that loves life. That's always a nice thing to see in people. Especially in the people who've had it as hard as he has.]

You just have to be yourself, that's all. I don't mean "be yourself", like what people say when they really mean "be yourself, but only the best parts, and still try to be sort of what the other person wants anyway". I mean yourself, completely, and don't worry about who I am, or what it means.

[She thinks a minute, and then adds: ]

That means you can get mad at me or hate me, if that's what you really feel. When you find out what I am.

["What". Not "who". That's curious, isn't it.]

No! No no no, Maya, I'm not accusing you, I just--!

[He's leaning forward, dismayed, hands on the ground in front of him, so earnest even when his facial features are so indistinct, shadows flickering in his distress.]

It's not something that should've happened to you, either, you're always so nice...!

[Fade Rift, Sanctum, Bete Noire, Spider's Walk, TLV (twice), Sky of Diamonds, Site B, I might be missing some! He's been...around.

Physically he looks completely normal! How the fuck did he manage that. But his left leg from mid-thigh down is a very sophisticated technological replacement. So there's that. His clothes look like they're from the middle ages, with a symbol stitched to it.

Mostly it's the combined psychological trauma you have to deal with, so, y'know, have fun with that?]

[THAT'S NO FUN.]

And not at all can I blame you, but if every man bore the same burdens, life would be a great deal simpler.

Oh!

[Of course that's what he meant. Why wouldn't that be what he meant.]

Oh. Right. I mean! It's-- it just shouldn't exist! It's super mean!

[Maya responds, fists up in her usual determined stance.]

[Little Hades, at least one aborted game, ALSO GUNS FOR HIRE because idc that he looked different and had another journal it's still him, PSLs maybe if you want--

Hi. Church has some tattoos! A big ol Kingsglaive in black on his back, the Blue flag over his heart, and, shit, looks like he had something on the inside of his right arm, but now it's a big burn scar. Instead of incandescent green, one of his eyes is light blue, and the other one is white. They glow in the dark. His left hand has some weird green energy in the palm of it. He can make a shield out of it! It's neat.

Bother him! For the love of god.]

[Hey Church you know a familiar face when you see one?

... Blue scarf though, darn. Also if you hadn't heard, Izunia kind of got a few more crows added to that tattoo.

He's. Also in a pink folding chair, scribbling away in a sketchbook like his life depends on it. The whole thing is very surreal considering that there's nowhere the chair could have come from if you didn't know that Lucis Caelums carry all kinds of weird shit out of habit. There's a can of soda balanced on the edge of his lap desk as well.

The drawings are pretty good, though.]

...Uh.

......Hhhhi? [He's super articulate in every incarnation, yes.]

[Pause, small wave. Still focused on the last few scribbles. Let him just...]

If you're going to ask about the pounding headache from multiple sets of memories colliding, yes, I've seen better days. If you're looking for Ardyn, we screamed at each other and I have no idea where he went after that. If you want to sit down -

[Whumpf, that's the sound of a folding camp chair hitting the ground next to him from the Armiger. And it's only then that Izunia glances up, with a faint smile.]

But it is always good to see you.

...Is it? I don't...think you'd think that. Cuz I think...someone's gonna come punch you for even talking to me.

You're family.

[He says that with an astonishing amount of blind conviction for someone talking to a person he only met once in his life in one singular universe.]

I'm always glad to see family.

No I'm not. Don't you talk to me about fucking family! [It's sudden and vehement and even he blinks like he's not entirely sure where it came from, but it's here and letting go of it is hard when it's familiar.]

...No matter how much he rejects me, he will ever be my brother. That seems to be the only thing that's constant in my life.

[consider: what if dad hugs her first]

[because that is what's happening.]

You should have come to me first. There is almost no iteration of any reality where I would have refused to help you.

Do I look like your fucking brother? I'm not--I'm not anyone's brother no matter what they say--except--Junpei? And--but, no, wait, Fuku--no. Delta? N...o, no, wait, I...

[well hey, that's a start]

Is...he alright? Was he worried?

...I'm...it depends. Sometimes I'm not, and other times I am. It's...lessened, in one case. I don't know what I am right now.

No, you look remarkably like the man my brother is fucking.

[Sips soda casually.]

And I do not want any more detail than that.

[Ardyn's head hurt. It hurt a lot, through no fault of the massive patch of scarring over his closed left eye. And speaking of eyes...yours are different, Church. But you're still getting looked at in honest-to-Shiva confusion, Ardyn slowly half-raising a hand like he isn't sure whether or not to reach out.]

I-...Leonard?

As usual, he was more worried about everyone else than himself, so I imagine he was fine.

[That's just how Ignis rolls.]

But if you mean 'was he worried about me,' yeah, I think he was.

...That sounds terribly like him. But I think I'm relieved to hear it.

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Malcolm Reed | ota | holy shit too many games

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Leonard Church | ota | VR/Route, Fade Rift, Sanctum, Airlocked, etc

+airleft alt continuity

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