COLLAPSE THE WAVE MEME

[rampantfantasy]

Collapse the Waveform Meme

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



image source

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

[founderinglight]

I would hope so. I'd... like to know that he can find happiness somewhere, even after everything.

[burninglight]

I don't think that I do, either. I feel like there should be someone else standing with me, or as if I both do and don't remember what happened to my eye. Like...I should not even be human, right now.

[motherfucking_ghost]

......I'm gonna ignore all the big questions right now. What are you doing?

[burninglight]

I should think I get to make even one choice not dictated by you or the gods, and you will not take that from me.

I deserve my hatred. I deserve to say 'I am Lucis Caelum no longer' if that is what I should wish.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...I don't have Osiris with me. Poor little guy's gonna be so scared. Or--

Or...

Chris? She...

I don't know. I'm really tired right now. Or at least headachy.

[burninglight]

I'm not sure where Hresvelgr is, either. Or...wait, no. Luscinia?

[uuuUUUGH]

I'm sorry--I think both of us are having the same problem.

[bloodyashes]

Imagine someone equally as athletic, but barely fifteen, four inches shorter than me, and with the stupidest spiked green hair you've ever seen in your life.

... Then tack on the best tactical mind of our entire generation, enough martial arts skill to take down any four of the next best out of the dozen or so best fighters Auldrant has to offer, and the second best talent for magic in the world to boot.

That is Sync the Tempest.

[He sounds somehow both annoyed and fond, and possibly also a little afraid.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Gesundheit.

[burninglight]

I once personally watched a twenty-two year old with a pair of knives and some magic almost singlehandedly retake a city occupied by a fully armed military with bipedal battlemechs.

It was easily one of the most attractive things I have witnessed in any universe to date.

[what's shame]

[burninglight]

You're an idiot.

[some things never change.]

[founderinglight]

...And from that I won't stop you.

[There's a difference, to him.]

Who you have been and who you choose to be from this or any other moment forward will not make my love for you disappear.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I don't know what a hurgusburgus is, okay!

[founderinglight]

Trying to get my memories in some kind of order by drawing out as much as I can and organizing it later.

[He taps the sketchpad with a knuckle.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Is it helping?

[bloodyashes]

...That sounds about right.

[For which of them? Doesn't matter. Both.]

Did I mention the part where Sync is actually three? Because he's actually three. At most.

[founderinglight]

Somewhat, I think. I can at least assign faces to timelines.

[andthenyoudie]

Oh.

[That's all she says at first, just oh, as she looms a little bit out of the way and regards him thoughtfully, her stance poised and at the ready like an autumn leaf clinging to its tree by its last threads — trembling on the wind, blown by the breeze, ready to embark on something new.

She looks at him for a long time, seeming to size him up, and then walks a little closer. Her way of walking like she's floating is vaguely reminiscent of an Astral, in its way — light, like her feet barely need to touch the ground to take her forward.]

You're the one he mentioned. I know you.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Jesus this is more confusing than when I time traveled in a loop.

[burninglight]

[There was something very distantly familiar about that presence, as if the memory of one like it was somewhere buried in a few too many timelines. Gentiana? No--she'd actually spoken to him, for one thing. For another, Shiva had never take a form like this as far as Ardyn knew.]

I can't say I'm familiar.

[founderinglight]

Well I would imagine so, since a loop is repeating instead of branching and also would probably feature the same people over and over again.

I don't know, I don't think any of mine involve time travel.

[burninglight]

Oh, so we're calling that 'love', now? Your ability to redefine terms to fit your own narrative remains astounding, Your Majesty.

[motherfucking_ghost]

There were a lot of me by the end if it, though.

[andthenyoudie]

That's all right. You know me, even if you don't recognize me.

[She tips her head a little to the side, ambling a little closer.]

I guess you could say you and I go way back, really.

[IMMORTAL HUMOR.]

You're remembering a lot of things all at once, I think. Things that make sense, and things that don't. But do you remember meeting a man on a rainy night? One who looked like someone you know, but wasn't?

[founderinglight]

Yes, Ardyn, doing my utmost to hurt the thing that took you away from me was love, blindly mistaken as it was. And you know damn well you would do the same to Xander for so much as laying a hand on Church so I'll not hear a fucking word otherwise from you.

[Hello yes they broadcast that part.]

[founderinglight]

...That makes me significantly less inclined to ask for details.

[He needs those last few sanity points.]