COLLAPSE THE WAVE MEME

[rampantfantasy]

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!

Comments

[motherfucking_ghost]

Your brother.

Your brother who is Ardyn. Yeah? Yeah. You're those twins. Not the other twins.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[The good thing is that at the end of the day, Church is still Church.]

The fuck happened to you eye, dude?

[founderinglight]

I'm not sure what other twins you're talking about, so yes, we're those twins, Ardyn and Izunia, habitually stealing each others' names for various violent purposes, are you going to sit down?

[burninglight]

[thank the six for that because if anything's an anchor right now it's that church being himself is a universal constant.]

I was-....there was something I had to fix. [He raised a hand to the scars on his face, sounding as if he was trying to remember what happened.] Something I did that I had to...take back.

[founderinglight]

[A small, slow exhale, that of someone who is making an effort to keep calm.]

You're my ridiculous spiteful brother, as always.

[bloodyashes]

He wasn't physically hurt aside from the eye, at least. That much I can confirm with certainty.

[burninglight]

[...Slowly, hesitantly, he lowered the sword--keeping it tightly grasped in his hand just in case he changed his mind.]

I'm not your brother anymore. Or if I am, it's in so few realities that it's ceased to matter.

[burninglight]

Oh, heavens no--I'd more readily fear for whatever crossed his path, quite frankly.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Jesus, I hope what you wanted to take back was a fucking eyeball. [somewhere in time and space kaiba is yelling] At least you can tell a cool story about it, maybe chicks'll dig it.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Probably not? I'm very...confused.

[founderinglight]

Don't be stupid. You were always my brother. That's...

[When did his hands start shaking?

He stops, inhales, exhales slowly again.]

That's the weight I was unable to bear. The red-hot truth that I couldn't handle lest it burn straight through me. You were always my brother.

[burninglight]

...well, you're really not as wrong as you think.

[for fuck's sake]

Leonard, don't be stupid--focus, I know it's difficult here. You know who I am, right?

[founderinglight]

...Fair enough, I suppose. Well. Last I was aware you had a stated intent on marrying my brother, or at least getting engaged to him, though I'm not sure why you're adding the extra step, which very much does make you family, at least from my perspective. Fair?

[motherfucking_ghost]

You're a guy?

You're Ardyn.

Nobody calls me Leonard. Other than T--Be--All--? Quuuuueenie. She does.

[bloodyashes]

...I'd pay most of what I own to see him and Sync fight. Just for the experience.

[motherfucking_ghost]

What extra step?

[burninglight]

I'd pay to see Ignis fight a lot of people, myself. He makes for quite the astounding spectacle, no pun intended.

[founderinglight]

You agreed to get engaged but didn't actually get engaged? If I'm recalling correctly?

[He's not sure why you did that.]

[burninglight]

You've long since lost any right to call me your family, Izunia. I don't care what manner of weight rested upon your shoulders, for it was nothing placed beside what you put upon mine.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Yes?

[burninglight]

Right. Ardyn I--Luci--...T-Tenmyouji.

[It occurred to him that he might have a few too many names to keep straight.]

You're...the person who knows me when I don't know myself.

[founderinglight]

That's an extra step and I don't understand why you did that.

[motherfucking_ghost]

We're gonna? I think?

[motherfucking_ghost]

You could not possibly be more wrong, cuz I don't even know myself at all right now, holy shit.

[founderinglight]

You don't get to choose that. Spurn me in your own heart all you wish, but you do not get to decide mine.

[It's sudden and vehement and his only lifeline to his tenuous hold on reality.]