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COLLAPSE THE WAVE MEME

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!

Threaded | Flat

[Tower of Animus/Changed/Maison de Portes/Lifeaftr/maybe Exsilium/any other bullshit you want? Look there's a lot.

Notable changes: Portes Asch has major burn scarring around his eyes, Animus Asch got a tattoo of a broken chain around his throat, Changed Asch gives him some shiny gold inlay patterns along the backs of his hands and forearms, also he has an obnoxious supplemental magic sense now and might randomly leave magical background music on.

Also he has different clothes even though he still looks like a reject from a renfaire. Shut up it's an aesthetic.]

((Xavier Institute (twice), Halfbloodhill, Ascension, Eudio, Witchy Willows.))

Once upon a time she was a normal, broken, clinically depressed girl. But now she's that, and a little bit of a hedonistic sex freak, a witch, a demigod (twice), and a mutant (not twice, same mutant). And she's still a depressed broken person just for more reasons. She remembered Campbell Saunders dying twice. Once to his own demons, once to monsters. She remembers all these lives.

She remembers being happy. What a weird memory to have.

She's able to sing. Expertly shoot guns, bows, throw knives. She can heal with magic, manipulate light and sound. She's been stabbed, shot, blown up, and dated a lot of different people. It all just felt like too much in her head. Especially since she had the ability to hear everything for several miles.

That's what she needed, an even louder world. Joy.

Edited 2018-01-31 00:42 (UTC)

[Kind of amazing how little Casey's appearance has changed. That's what happens when you're a sloppy teenage boy, but he's still got his torn paint-splattered hoodie, his homemade hockey pad armor, and his missing teeth.

But he's had magical fire powers, he's been an actual for-real superhero in a superhero team, he worked for a spa as a bouncer and got turned into a pig and eaten...

A lot of strange things have happened to Casey, and not all of them stranger than home.]

Edited 2018-01-31 01:59 (UTC)

[[Syn, Animus, Purg, Destiny Strings, Marina, Sol Raveh, Route/VR just to name a few... not to mention various PSLs.]]

[He's been locked up in some places. He's gained strange new powers in others. He's had things given to him and taken away.]

[Still, through it all, he's a grumpy old man.]

[He's been trapped in a weird MMO world, a Pokemon trainer, a mutant...

... Like home wasn't weird enough. But that's okay. Kirino can roll with the punches. His appearance has barely changed--his hair's a little longer now but that's about it--his more unusual belongings have been stashed in his inventory for now.

His Altaria (slightly confused as she is) is out at his side though.]

[(Fabulae_Victoriana, Interstellar, Lost Carnival, and various meme threads)

By and large, the skeleton has been a skeleton. There were a couple times he died, a few jaunts where he was temporarily human, and several very different interactions with the fallen human.

There's coatings of orange crystal all over, and his feet are long and there's a tail flicking about behind him. There might just be a goose following at his side, distressed about it all. And, maybe, his skull is detachable - if those memes are influential enough.

In enough of those varying lifetimes, he learned of the looping time nonsense his home is going through, and it's easy to assume that somehow all the loops are catching up to him. Just give him a few minutes to figure out... whether the human who killed him, multiple times, is a friend...?]

[Ardyn is just a bit different; tall and thin as ever, with a patch of heavy scarring over a permanently closed left eye and a very tired and distant look on his face.]

[That's probably fine.]

[Honestly, it's hard to tell just how many different stories have just been crammed into Prompto. He's about the same size and shape he always was, twenty years old and slender with his stupid birdboy hair and slim-fitting black clothing.

On the other hand, he appears to be halfway changing into this handsome fellow, going dark and insubstantial while a few strands of him glow from within. Magically, he doesn't ping as daemonic, at least. He might, however, ping as at least half ghost.

Whatever he is, he's curled up on the ground, whimpering a little, arms wrapped around his head like that'll help him contain everything he remembers, somehow.]

Edited 2018-02-23 19:38 (UTC)

[ Yuuri doesn't look like she's changed much. Not at first.

Oh, she's dressed different but nothing that looks too outlandish for Yuuri. But then you take a closer look and some off details pop out. Her eyes, usually a warm, deep olive are brighter now -- gold, with just the slightest sheen of green to them. Her hair's loose, with none of her usually accessories. But going by the look on her face as she stands there, cradling her head in her hands like she's trying to ward off a migraine, there's been more crammed into her head than is apparent.

There's so much of it, a whole knotty mess of timelines and histories. Some that start off in Megurigaoka, some that don't. Some that end in Megurigaoka or some far off world, or a tacky mall in the middle of space. Sometimes she's a little younger, sometimes she's a little older -- there's no constants. Not even her name.

She's Yuuri Wakasa, Kotori, Clarita Lucis Caelum, Thorn -- all of them at once and trying to sort through them is just too much. ]

[The golden-colored tentacles coming out of his sides are new. So is the collar with violet liquid flowing through its tubing, but the tentacles are way more fun? The Persona's fun too but kind of a pain to have out when he's not actively using it.

The best cure for a headache is trying out all the fun things he can do with this combination of abilities.

Right now that means figuring how far he can stretch these tentacles. One might wave hello at you.]

[ since ryslig got in here, he's a demon - that's kind of a big change. wings, horns, hunger for human souls, the whole bit. but i guess when your sudden mix of memories is two horror games and the truest horror of all: failing your 1L year, you're probably a little more equipped for that.

maybe?

nah lbr he's still freaking out ]

[Whelp, Kokichi is wearing a different uniform than usual. He's also going to pretend that he's from a world where he escaped to Los Angeles, Japanifornia because that seems a lot better than remembering that canon update which happened in Wonderland.

This is fine. Totally. Gonna go troll people now.]

[...Okay, how many murdergames has she been in now?

The sole thing this headache is making her realize is that she seems to be a magnet for this kind of shit. Prayer's Pass was bad enough, and going to the afterlife and almost squarely fucking herself up? That was bad too? Even the fucking virtual reality, where she just...well, she ended up pretty happy there, but she's gotta wonder for how long, now. And those other memories...god, this is just a mess.

Don't mind the girl just kind of looking around everywhere she can while rubbing at her head, probably muttering something about 'the rules'.]

Edited 2018-02-23 22:11 (UTC)

[Zack turned into a killer robot and has a magical cell phone that lets him transform into a fucking magical girl.

Neither of these are his original form. What the hell.

At least the magical girl is waterproof.]

Edited 2018-02-23 22:09 (UTC)

[Excuse him for wearing something that's about a decade after his time. He got that from helping defeat the last murderous mastermind...

At least he's dealing with this better than most. You see, people tend to forget Wonderland when they leave for good, and he's pretty sure he got sent to the Hale residence at a later point in his life. So it all checks out.

Probably.]

[Fade Rift, Sanctum, Bete Noire, Spider's Walk, TLV (twice), Sky of Diamonds, Site B, I might be missing some! He's been...around.

Physically he looks completely normal! How the fuck did he manage that. But his left leg from mid-thigh down is a very sophisticated technological replacement. So there's that. His clothes look like they're from the middle ages, with a symbol stitched to it.

Mostly it's the combined psychological trauma you have to deal with, so, y'know, have fun with that?]

[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.]

[ ("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. ]

[Muffet seems like she might be having some trouble.]

[The timelines from home were... a lot, to start with, but she could more or less understand them. Different people living and dying, in different ways and orders and reasons, leading to different results- but in the end it was all one world, one story with the ending or the dialogue changed here and there and she owes Frisk so much more than she realized but it's at least something that she can understand.]

[But then there's stories and there's storytellings and a Storyteller, all for a place she's never been to and people she's never met except she has, and where is that island now, did something happen is everyone okay she needs to find them-]

[Except that worry for her friends sparks another series of memories and mental images, a group of friends too young to be adults and too old to be children and too late to stop the terrible thing starting to gather on the horizon before it comes down to shatter their peaceful lives with the words of a letter and the sound of a car hitting a body hitting the pavement.]

[And this is the one that's too much to hold onto right now- because even if the world changes, she should have still been the same...]

[...But then she flickers and blurs and suddenly that isn't a constant either.]

[For several long moments, a lovely young human woman in standing in the place where a spider lady was, and then she's a charming monster again, and then she can only hold onto herself with two arms or six and squeeze however many eyes she has shut miserably as she starts switching back and forth rapidly, unable to settle on one shape.]

[The memories were a lot, yes, but she could handle them.]

[This is more of a problem.]

Threaded | Flat

Asch | OTA | too goddamn many games

Maya Matlin | OTA | Where to start...

Casey Jones |OTA| HeyFreemMagic, Forest Covered, The Legion

Naoya | OTA | Too many games

Ranmaru Kirino | OTA | Holy Relic/United One/Xavier Institute

Papyrus | OTA | FV/IS/LC/memes

Ardyn [static noise] | ota | airlocked/lifeaftr/psls

Prompto Argentum | OTA | Airlocked, The Far Shore, PhanRift, Arimoi, Fate/ AU

Yuuri Wakasa | ota | Forest Covered, Airlocked, too many frickin AUs to count