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

[founderinglight]

I take it you can't -

[Hell, there was something there for a minute. Come back, stray thought. Come baaack.]

...focus on one of the more normal ones and shift it that way?

[photoshooter]

...You can do that?

[To be fair, he's been hyperfocusing on this one distressing thread of existence. It's really upsetting, okay.

He thinks about it, then tries to hold onto what seems to be the core of who he is, or at least the most oft-repeated story: Eos. Sunlight. So much fun, even when they almost die. Noct.

Noct, Noct, Noct.

Like that, he solidifies. Mostly. Prompto's still a little faint overall, but he's person-colored again, not a shade. Not a ghost. Mostly.]

[founderinglight]

A guess, based on something I was talking about with Goro once at the Station.

[Assuming Prompto, like, remembers the station, but if he didn't wouldn't he only know the name Caster?

Ugh, this is too complicated, he needs diagrams.]

Any luck?

[photoshooter]

...I think so.

[His voice sounds more present, at least. Goro. That's something to latch onto, too, so he tries--yes. Goro Akechi, the bees, the ones too small to really hurt anybody.

He looks down at his arms to find they look that much more familiar, and he sighs a sigh of relief.]

It's safe to look. I'm still kind of ghosty, but, like. Not a creepy midnight haunting kind of ghost anymore.

[founderinglight]

[Good enough. Izunia opens his eyes and looks up, and immediately sighs with relief. Yeah, sorry, Prompto, he wasn't really. Prepared for that.]

What was that?

[photoshooter]

[He chuckles faintly.]

I'm not sure I ever got an answer. I got... summoned? But not like heroic spirits got summoned. And something went weird, and everyone started... changing. B-but we were still people, I swear! I was the only one who looked like I did.

[founderinglight]

It's not your being human or not that concerns me, Prompto, calm down.

[Come on how many times now have you found him and Stone napping on each other by now. He doesn't have a problem with nonhumans unless they look like they're gonna start dripping Scourge on things.]

It's just the memory of the Scourge that gives me trouble.

[photoshooter]

[Mm, well. Prompto looks down, fidgeting, and concentrates on holding his own residual horror at a distance. He's been other things, too, a hero and a Master and a victim, and so on and so forth...]

I... I thought the idea of turning might freak you out, too.

['What's the matter, boy? Never seen a man turn before?']

It freaks the hell out of me.

[founderinglight]

...It's not something I would prefer to dwell on, admittedly. But it's survivable.

[He's not appable to Ryslig and I wouldn't go there if you paid me but god now I want a monster AU.]

[photoshooter]

Huh. Maybe it's just my damage, then. I don't... you know. Don't like finding out I'm something different than I thought.

[BE NICE TO ZUZU SHITWEASEL, NAI.]

[founderinglight]

[THAT'S NO FUN.]

And not at all can I blame you, but if every man bore the same burdens, life would be a great deal simpler.