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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this is gonna go great

[judicatus]

[ gabranth is still sitting on the ground, still collecting himself, but he does hear bucky's voice. more importantly, he recognizes it.

he stares up at bucky — blankly at first, but then with a narrowed eye. ]

You're sorry.

8D

[wipedclean]

[Oooooh boy he knew this was a bad idea, he should’ve just turned around and walked away.

But he’s in it now, so he sits down too... nearby, close enough for conversation, but not close enough to be familiar.]

Yeah. I know it’s not nearly enough to make up for it, but... I just wanted to let you know.

[judicatus]

[ at first, his only response when bucky sits down is to look away. after a moment or two of silence, however, he lets out a deep sigh. ]

Each of us fully meant to kill the other. Had your blade missed its mark, I would not have halved my efforts to mark you with my own.

[ it was inevitable, perhaps; a consequence of the situation that particular world had thrust them both into.

not that the thought brings him much comfort, of course. ]

[wipedclean]

[Bucky shrugs.]

I know. It was a war, and I absolutely would’ve killed you. Looking back, knowing what I know now, I probably would’ve tried to find a way to avoid taking sides all together, but at the time... [He shakes his head.] You don’t need an explanation from me and you probably don’t want one. All I’m saying is, I’m sorry. You don’t have to accept it of forgive me or whatever, I don’t deserve it, and I’m not doing this for closure or getting rid of guilt or what have you. I’m just telling you.

[judicatus]

Neither of us were given a choice.

[ he doesn't expect bucky to feel any guilt over it. hell, it's not as though gabranth feels much guilt over the things he had to do in that world, or any other world, for that matter. and yet...

he sighs again, but this time it's more of a huff. ]

And if either of us is to be possessed of any guilt, I should think it better reserved for those sins we've committed by our own hands — not the hands of whichever cruel gods would guide us.

[ the gods know he has enough to atone for in ivalice without adding his deeds in the drabwurld onto the pile. perhaps this other man feels the same way. ]

[wipedclean]

[That all sounds an awful lot like what everyone keeps telling Bucky. It’s not his fault, Hydra made him do it, yadda yadda yadda. He sigs deeply.]

We did have a choice, though. We could choose how much we fought, and how hard. There was a point I could’ve said no. I didn’t have to go to that battle, but I did.