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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[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.

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[burninglight]

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

[Along with everything else.]

[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?