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!

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

[motherfucking_ghost]

[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.]

+airleft alt continuity

[founderinglight]

[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.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Uh.

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

what's in-meme continuity I don't even know

[founderinglight]

[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.

[motherfucking_ghost]

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

[founderinglight]

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.

[motherfucking_ghost]

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.]

[founderinglight]

...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.

[motherfucking_ghost]

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...

[founderinglight]

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

[Sips soda casually.]

And I do not want any more detail than that.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Your brother.

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

[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?

[motherfucking_ghost]

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

[burninglight]

[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?

[motherfucking_ghost]

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

The fuck happened to you eye, dude?

[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.

[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.

[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?

[motherfucking_ghost]

You're a guy?

You're Ardyn.

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

[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.

[motherfucking_ghost]

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

[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 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.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Gesundheit.