hadriel_logs | Event Log: Memories Past

Event Log: Memories Past

Who: Everyone
What: Memory Share Event!
Where: All around the city
When: November 14th-20th
Warnings: Please remember to tag all warnings for memory shares!

Have you ever looked through someone else's eyes? Heard through their ears, spoken with their tongue? The gods have tried to teach some of you empathy, but it's time you learned the hard way, exactly what the others here have been through. For a week, every time you brush skin to skin with someone, you'll experience a memory of theirs: happy, sad, it doesn't matter. All that matters is that it feels real to you.

The first touch may come as a surprise- it lasts only for a split second but may feel like an eternity, where you're trapped in someone else's memory. After that, it could be more expected, and some may even figure out how to control it and share specific scenes from their past with others. Or, you might wear gloves and long sleeve shirts for awhile, nobody's judging.

Maybe curtail the handholding for awhile- or go right ahead, if that's your thing. After all, you never really know somebody unless you've walked a mile in their shoes, right?

► This log covers November 14th-20th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well
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► If you die in a memory, you don't die in real life, but if you do die in real life please let us know here.

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As always, Kain is being responsible and patrolling around, just performing his normal guard duty. He wanders all over the place, and for the most part is having an uneventful day. That is, until he accidentally bumps into someone else, and they end up pulled into another place and time, a memory far removed from here...

Kain is holding a bouquet of roses, eyeing a beautiful young woman in a castle garden.

"Kain...Return to me, my pawn...Deliver me the Crystal..." Kain falls to his knees while his allies look on in concern. Is he really about to betray his friends... again?

On a bright, calm day, Kain is beside a dragon, stroking its scales fondly as he talks to it in a soothing tone.

"You... are... mine!" Kain falls to the ground writhing as something starts to break inside his head, an intrusion that he can't seem to stop, as a towering figure looms over him in the darkness.

Out of breath, Kain pauses in a desert hideout to toss an unconscious person in among... a bunch of other knocked out people. This doesn't look suspicious at all.

Crystalline figures charge all around in a chaotic mass. They're on a field of battle, and Kain is right in the midst fighting, giving his all, as a few others with him are likewise fending off against the crystal fighters. But there're highly outnumbered...

[ooc: pick a memory, any memory and I'll elaborate further!]

[Tyki really should be more careful today, he's already experienced the chaos of this irritating event more than once and if he was a smart man he'd play it safe and just stay inside.

However, few can accuse Tyki of being a brilliant man. At least when it comes to decision making. And he gets what he deserves for not listening to that nagging voice inside that says 'stay put' when he bumps into Kain when wandering about the city.]

[Whoops! When they bump, something suddenly happens, the scenery changing as it turns into one of Kain's memories. At least it's a rather peaceful one, on a warm day with a clear sky overhead. Kain is there, as well, gently stroking the scales of a dragon, who's settled comfortably on a castle tower.]

[As for Kain, he occasionally gets a downcast expression at times, but is overall being gentle and calming to the dragon itself.]

It's all right... we're the dragoons, and you will always be important to our order. You're important to me.

[Tyki is amazed. In his world, there is a lot of paranormal going on, but very little in the way of things that are magical. Supernatural things for Tyki are monstrous and awful, there's nothing so lovely in his home. So seeing this memory is something almost addictive for him, it's so beautiful and wild that he's lost in it. And he's still for a moment after seeing Kain that way, trying to hold onto the memory and commit it to his mind. He doesn't think he'll ever see something so amazing again.]

[Kain continues fussing over the dragon, for a bit, before an idea comes to mind. He smiles at her, a genuine expression of true happiness, which is often quite rare for him.]

We're not expected anywhere for a while, at the moment... Shall we go for a flight?

[The dragon is more than happy to oblige, of course, growling agreement. Kain jumps into the air in a fluid motion, before settling himself upon her back. Then, they're off, soaring high into the clouds, wind whipping past them as they move fast across the sky. It's a delightful, liberating sensation for Kain, who is clearly enjoying every moment of this.]

[The memory fades out as they're mid-flight, the blue sky gradually returning back to the present world.]

[Tyki isn't sure that he wants to come back from the memory, not yet at least. It's something he'll hold in his mind, to look back to when Hadriel seems bitter and dull to him. It was wonderful, and he doesn't know if he'll ever experience anything like it again.

There are no dragons in his home world. And he's glad, honestly. Such a beautiful creature would be used in the war, and he'd hate to see something so amazing exploited.

He's not sure what to say to Kain at all. Or if Kain even knows what happened. So he's silent for a moment, ready to simply head on if there's no need for words.] Excuse me, I was careless.

[It takes Kain a few moments to regain his bearings, to remember where he is and what's going on. That was... incredible, it had all seemed so real. For those moments, it was as if he was truly back there, back home, stuck in the moment itself. It had been as if none of this here had ever happened. The best part, though, was how uplifting it had been to return to that place and time. He's rather disappointed he'd left it.]

[The return to reality is quite shocking, but even more so is the fact that someone else is here with him. He hadn't realized... and now he's wondering just what really happened.]

Did you...? [Kain clears his throat as he tries to steady himself.] You caused that somehow? You saw it?

As far as I know I had nothing to do with it. It happens upon contact, it seems. But yes. I saw it. [Tyki pauses just for a moment, while it rushes through his mind again. The beauty and power of that moment, how wonderful it really was.] I think we've got someone else to blame.

[It's still so fresh in Kain's mind, as if it had just happened. He's feeling rather bittersweet at the moment... on the one hand, he got to re-experience such a literally soaring moment in his life, but on the other... it's over. It's done. It's something very much in the past, and unfortunately staying there. He wishes he could return to it again.]

The gods, I assume? It seems like their style of meddling, though this one is... less terrible than a lot of the other things they've done.

[The truth was, Ianchus was walking towards Kain, hoping to greet him--but perhaps the other was a little distracted--it ends in a little bump, even as he starts to speak: ]

Sir Ka--oh!

[The moment they accidentally make contact, Kain gasps in surprise as something... changes all around them. Rather than Hadriel, they're now in a castle garden, with Kain looking very hopeful as he holds onto a bouquet of roses. He's eyeing a beautiful blonde woman, who's slowly approaching his location. He's concealed a bit beyond a wall, needing a little time because he's incredibly nervous about what he intends to do.]

[This is it. Today, right now, is when he will declare his love for her.]

Rosa...

[He says her name in a whisper, then steadies his nerves. But then someone else enters the garden, a silver haired man walking right toward Rosa. The other man, Cecil, hasn't noticed Kain, who stays where he is to watch what unfolds...]

[Cecil and Rosa are talking and laughing together, both of them in high spirits. But then, as Kain watches, Cecil hands her a bouquet of roses himself. Rosa makes a delighted sound, and then the two of them embrace and kiss.]

[Kain's head lowers and then he turns away. The bouquet in his own hands falls to the ground as he drops it, deliberately stomping it into the ground. That's the point where the memory fades...]

[Ah, he'd heard about this phenomena happening before, another game of the gods' but--

He steps back, more out of a polite respect than being put off, but he frowns in...something like a kind pity as he looks at Kain, reality reasserting itself around them. He himself certainly isn't a newcomer to unrequited love...when you love like Ianchus does, that's inevitable. But he can imagine how it would affect a man like Kain, who's shown himself to be so shy and quiet. Gestures from those people are more meaningful, take more courage.

He doesn't say anything, just sets his lips and waits for Kain to say something.

[As that memory fades, Kain looks around, blinking, as if waking from a dream. It takes him a moment to fully return to the present. Even when he does, he's still distracted by the heavy emotions suddenly hitting him. It feels as if it had only just happened, the rejection striking him anew.]

[He belatedly realizes he's not alone, which makes him redden, turning his gaze away. That's definitely not a part of his life that he'd ever have wanted to share. Yet it's too late to take it back, one of the worst moments of his life has now been shared against his will.]

[After a long silence, he finally speaks up.]

No one was ever supposed to see that.

[Ianchus looks down, then away, wincing.]

I apologize. I won't tell anyone. I'll pretend I didn't see anything. I promise. [He takes a moment to look back at Kain, his jaw trembling slightly--ah, he wants to tell him that it's alright, that it has no bearing on who he is, to be rejected, that Ianchus doesn't judge him for it, but who is he to say something like that?]

[Kain is still reeling from the emotions of that memory, taken aback by how strongly it's all struck him. It had stuck with him in a way all of this time, but it had shifted to the background, a quiet thing, a scar that only bothered him if he focused on it too much. But this... it's like it reopened the wound entirely. He hates being brought back to that state of mind.]

[It's pretty difficult having just shared it with someone else. After all, he's not the sort to wear his emotions on his sleeve. He keeps it all in, repressed. So it's really hard for him as he tries to hold it all back now. He thinks he can trust Ianchus. He doesn't seem the sort who'd use this against him.]

Good. That's... I'm trusting you on that. [He pauses, looking away, still in an odd state of needing to collect his emotions.] The gods are up to something again, apparently.

Apparently. I'm sure if they wanted a reaction out of us they're doing an excellent job. They're experts.

[He watches Kain closely, that tinge of sympathy still in his expression. He can imagine what he's feeling, having something like that brought back to the forefront of his mind. It's clearly something he tries to keep forgotten, as if it hasn't happened.

Ianchus is no stranger to that, either.

He considers his next words carefully.]

...I saw nothing. Of course. But, if you'd like to talk... [He lets that invitation trail off.]

[That was far stronger than some mere memory ever could be, more intense than a dream. He hates it for that reason, hates that all of these feelings are now unearthed once more. He'd done a fair job of repressing it all, or so he'd thought. But now... Well, he's not so sure what he wants. He wouldn't have willingly brought it up, that's for sure, but... it was brought up for him. It's too late to take it back.]

I... well... Perhaps. Though I'm not even sure where to begin. It's hard to talk about...

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Event Log: Memories Past

Kain Highwind | OTA

3 please!

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LATE SORRY also I changed my mind, 1 please!!

NO PROBLEM!!! it totally works too, behold some of Kain's issues

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