Event Log: Memories Past

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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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► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► 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.

Comments

[knifecollecting]

[Jo winces at that revelation. Cheating on someone is not a good thing. Which, it sounds like Tinya knows that.]

And you knew that?

[unphase]

[she's kind of staring at the ground]

...yeah. I sort of caught them making out once. But he told me that it was only a--a physical thing.

[knifecollecting]

[Hopefully she continues so she doesn't see Jo's wince. Sometimes, men are dogs. Poor Tinya.]

It's not really my business, but he wasn't getting that from you?

[unphase]

[Jo Nah is Rimborian. Rimborians generally don't go for committed relationships]

No, it's okay. And not. . . exactly. Not at first. I made him wait. And he kind of goaded me into our first kiss.

[knifecollecting]

[Jo thinks that's bullshit. It's either a one night stand or a relationship that you stick to and respect.

Now she's a little mad. What kind of an asshole does that?]

He shouldn't have done that.

I'm sorry, I never got the notification!

[unphase]

[on Rimbor, all they do is one night stands or fuckbuddies. nobody gets into a relationship and sticks with it.

he hit her sore spot, her resistance to the idea of her mother running her life]

I. . . guess not? I mean, I wanted to.

no worries!

[knifecollecting]

[Jo thinks that sounds awful. How do you know if you really matter to someone?]

But you're second guessing yourself now.

thank you! <3

[unphase]

[on Rimbor, it means you stick around for more than one night. which, to Jo's credit, he did. she held out for a long time]

...a little bit. I guess? I've never actually. . . had a boyfriend before.

Re: thank you! <3

[knifecollecting]

[Hell, that would be rough. Jo remembers her first couple relationships being hard enough. This would just make things worse.]

Sounds like you went for the hardest one right out the gate.

[unphase]

[it was rough. it was nearly impossible to tell where she really stood with him because he never technically dumped his old girlfriend and she was stuck . . . not knowing for two months]

I guess so. It wasn't--intentional or anything. I just saw him and it felt like I'd known him all my life. Or was waiting for him.

[knifecollecting]

[So rough.]

Yeah. [Jo nods. She does understand.] Sometimes you click. That doesn't mean it's going to work.

[unphase]

[it's good to have understanding. she was expecting everyone to dismiss her as a silly little girl] I. . . guess not? It's just, I love him and he says that he loves me, but now that we're apart I'm second-guessing everything.

[knifecollecting]

[Jo remembers what it feels like. She's not going to just ignore it.]

Just because of the other girlfriend? Or other stuff?

[unphase]

[and Jo Nah was the first guy she ever had feelings for]

...both? I mean, my mom hated him and hated that we were together, but. He's a lot like my father? And they divorced. But I'm going, if he was willing to cheat to be with me, what does that mean? And is two months enough to really love someone?

[knifecollecting]

[Oh, don't ask her that, Tinya.]

I think you can fall in love with someone in an instant. [It's easier to answer the second question than the first. She looks away for a moment and sighs.]

You never really know what it means until the end.

[unphase]

[why not? :( ]

Really? [she looks hopeful]

The end of the relationship? [that's not so hopeful]

[knifecollecting]

[She's not that good at this stuff. Her relationships have never been normal.]

Yeah. Not everyone would agree with me. [But she knows it's happened.]

Maybe "end" is the wrong word. The next step, maybe.

[unphase]

[and she's never had a relationship at all before this]

Mother wouldn't. She hates everything about Jo and thinks I'm dating him to rebel against her. But I'm not.

[she releases a slow sigh] I hope we get there. To the next step. I hope it's a good one.

[knifecollecting]

You're a teenager. It's kinda of your job to rebel. Or for them to think you are. [Jo sure did that when she was a teenager.]

Just remember you can take it at your own pace.

[unphase]

[a short laugh] I might have rebelled enough just by joining the Legion. I thought she was gonna have a stroke when I told her. [she assumes a mock-pompous tone] A daughter of Bgztl, fighting the dregs of the galaxy? Unthinkable! [she goes back to normal] Dating a Rimborian was a cherry on top of the humiliation sundae.

I can. I just--worry. But there's nothing I can do about it now.

[knifecollecting]

You were doing what you wanted, right? What made you happy? [Jo might have died because she wanted to hunt, but she died mostly happy. Regrets, but just about what she didn't get to do, not what she had done.]

Yeah. Being stuck here does have some disadvantages.

[unphase]

Yeah. I love the Legion. I love Jo. [even though in retrospect, she wishes they'd taken things a little slower. and that she'd been more firm about him needing to end things with Spider Girl before he could get serious about her]

A few. At least the people are nice.

[knifecollecting]

[Jo's gotta admit that it's weird to hear her name in this conversation, even if she knows it's someone else.]

Most of them. [Not everyone, unfortunately.]

[unphase]

[it's a thing which can't be helped, unfortunately]

Who isn't? [out of curiosity]

[knifecollecting]

There's a demon here, Caedra. She enjoys chaos.

[That's almost the most diplomatic way Jo can think to say it.]