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]

I'm not...sure it actually happened anymore, but then it basically happened to Wyoming? So. Fuck if I know.

[burninglight]

Don't you dare act as if those are the same situation. If I were to tear Xander's arms off like the insect he is, I'd not be doing the same to the person I claim to protect in the process.

[founderinglight]

Why is it so impossible to get into your thick skull that I didn't think that was you?!

[Is that a yell or a sob, Izunia.]

[burninglight]

[He thought for a moment or two, scanning through fragmented memories of the rain of Altissia before finding some result in another city entirely; a recollection of someone who was and wasn't Noctis, and a cryptic conversation only those party to it would understand.]

I think that I might, yes.

[burninglight]

...Is this a human cloning thing or an artificial intelligence thing?

[bloodyashes]

...Replica thing. Limited basic task programming, but the fighting skill is all his.

[burninglight]

Because I don't care! I don't care what you thought, what you wanted to do, or anything you believed you were doing out of your blind and stupid affection!

I care about what you did to me, Izunia!

[burninglight]

[cloning, gotcha.]

Makes perfect sense.

[andthenyoudie]

He told me about you. So I thought I should stop by; I think you've earned the right to cross paths with me by now.

[She smiles faintly, tucking her hands behind her back.]

I think you loved me, once. But now I'm pretty sure you hate me.

[founderinglight]

[You know who this is? Someone who doesn't know that Wyoming is a state so I can't have him question that.]

I am increasingly glad that time travel isn't possible on Eos, even if I would very much like to use it to punch my idiot past self away from his mistakes.

[burninglight]

...Should you be what I presume, I suspect the answer to that varies rather wildly.

[Along with everything else.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Might've helped, anyway.

[andthenyoudie]

You can say it, if you want to. I don't up and disappear when you guess my name, like Rumpelstiltskin.

[She tips her head again, birdlike.]

There's something strange going on, here. A lot of different things are converging in ways that they shouldn't be. A lot of different "you"s are all getting tangled up into the same one, and that's not supposed to happen.

But in all of them, your name is "Ardyn", isn't it? So. Which one would you want to be, most, if you could only pick one?

[bloodyashes]

[Technically a clone is not a replica, the former is just a genetic double but look that's getting into Episode Prompto shit and we don't wanna go there.]

Also he's a lot closer to you in the 'hating all of existence' thing, which might say something about the kind of people I tend to be most fond of.

[founderinglight]

Whether you care or not doesn't mean that it doesn't matter!

[The desperation in his voice... seems to surprise even Izunia. He actually stops, one hand fisted in the ends of his scarf.]

...I wish we knew how to do anything other than fight over this, over and over again.

[founderinglight]

Worth trying.

[He picks up the pencil again and flips to a new page.]

Probably wouldn't work, but worth trying.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Never worked for me, but meh. Cathartic, maybe.

...Pretty sure I can't draw.

[founderinglight]

...Took me years to develop the skill. Started with technical drawings, actually.

[This is easier and less emotionally fraught to talk about sure.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Ah, yeah, I don't have the patience for that.

[Oh look. He's actually gonna sit. Nerd.]

[founderinglight]

[Want a drink while you're at it? Surely there's more of...

Okay maybe not the Dr Jalapeno, Church probably does not want that.]

I was patient even prior to the two thousand years old part. Someone had to keep things in some form of order.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Yeah? You think you were it?

gabranth || ota || exit void, eachdraidh, eudio, recolle, etc

[judicatus]

[ ("etc" for anyone else who remembers some livejournal games... it's been a minute!)

in any case, only the drabwurld left any physical marks on him: the space where his right eye should be is sunken, scarred, and encased in a fine yet uneven patch of glittering silver. every other world has left only memories — memories of a steam train and a dark wood, of an impossible city that knew no conflict, of fey wilds ravaged by war, of...a world without the color blue? and dancing, smiling fruit?

it's all a bit much. he needs to sit down. ]

[founderinglight]

There's a reason Ardyn never had a formal royal advisor in the sense that most of the others did. Scheduling, politicking, crossing the Ts and dotting the Is - all of that was mine.

And trying to get him to sit down to sign even a slip of paper, when he'd rather be out healing or training or riding a chocobo or tinkering with some old fool contraption? The utmost exercise in patience.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Well he wasn't fucking king, so I guess he didn't have to sign anything.

[founderinglight]

...You've never been in politics, have you.

[Officially king or not there were so many things to sign.]