Post-Event Reaction Log!

[lucetimods]

Who: Everybody
What: Post-Event Reactions
When: Today (and tomorrow too)
Where: Anywhere
Summary: Most of Luceti was back to their normal selves. Not only that, but they now remembered their trips to other worlds. So how 'bout that?
Rating: Whatever

This is for today and tomorrow, since not everyone will be fully reverted until then. Remember to tag your characters in!

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Prose or Action is fine by me! April 9th

[selphie_t]

A lot of things had happened in that past week that Selphie could barely begin to process them. The name Michaelangelo lingered in her memory like a bitter tasting medicine. She'd never even met him formally and yet there was that overwhelming sadness that took over Selphie whenever someone she was close to left her behind to go home. She didn't have the tears to cry this time as she sat quietly in her bedroom, holding a teddy bear close to her in the stillness.

She didn't want to talk about things she didn't understand. She didn't want to be around anybody at the moment. Selphie just wanted to be alone with her thoughts as she grabbed one of her notebooks from her school lessons and stuffed it into her bag. She slid her nunchaku into its place on the belt she'd found before she pulled her sweater over her head. She walked without a sound through the house before finding herself in the foyer. She slipped on her boots and jacket and left House 11 for the day.

She walked, alone with her thoughts for hours before eventually she found herself at the dock where the Brittania was moored. She sat down on the dock before pulling the notebook out of her bag along with a pen. As the wind blew through her pigtails, Selphie wrote down her feelings.

Two years in Luceti. Ceodore -- her first love. Earthquakes. Malaria. The drafts. The missions. All those events that she'd forgotten. Having her memories tampered with. All the anger and frustration she'd felt. She wrote it all down and when she felt empty, the closed the book and let it slip from her fingers into the water. She watched it sink with a sad smile before lifting her gaze to stare at her surroundings.

After some time, Selphie rises to her feet and heads back for House 11. This time, she was at peace.

[falenandawn]

[Freyjadour had noticed her absence, but rather then follow, her choose to give her some time alone. He knew Selphie was just as bothered as he was by the tampering the Malnosso did with their minds.

To rewrite a new family into his memory, to make him forget his connections to his friends back home..... It was never something either of them could handle easily, and he was sure Selphie just needed time before dealing with people, just as he did.

So if she ends up taking the teleporter back from the dock, she'll eventually come across Frey leaning against the railing of bridge on the path back to house 11, staring into the water below.]

[selphie_t]

[Selphie's stops just as she takes her first steps onto the bridge and she knows that Frey's feeling the same way that she did.

They really were a lot alike as she eventually walks up and leans against the railing next to her friend. She looks down into the water before leaning against him.

She's at peace with herself and she hopes to send that feeling to Frey. He looks like he needs it.]

[falenandawn]

[He lets her lean against him, actually calmed a little by the casual closeness and relaxing slightly in response. He just needed time. Time to once again push away more false memories, time to absorb the information he'd learned.

He spends several moments just staring out onto the water before speaking- focusing on the memories of one, far more grander river then another, false one.]

....Thanks.

[selphie_t]

[She feels him relax and smiles.]

No problem.

[falenandawn]

You doing better....? [He returns the smile with one of his own, still not facing her, but instead continuing to stare out at the water.]

You were gone most of the day.

[selphie_t]

Yeah. I just needed to think.

[falenandawn]

I'm glad. When I saw you leave, I was worried, but I thought you needed time.

I myself have been doing some thinking, as well.

[selphie_t]

I guess you could say that I was holding stuff back and I couldn't keep it in anymore so I had to leave for a bit.

What about?

[falenandawn]

[He nods in agreement, understanding what she means.]

I dislike the fact that the Malnosso can so easily erase my family from my memory.

[Simple enough to say, but there was more to it that he really couldn't put into words. It felt like a betrayal to their memory, to forget them so easily. His parents... his aunt... he wouldn't ever see them again. Memories were all he had.

And Lymsleia was sure to be upset with him, over the fact he had forgotten her. And so many other people he held so precious to him... He forgot them all.

That wasn't even touching what Ryouhei had told him.... he wasn't quite ready to confront that. Not yet.]

[selphie_t]

Yeah... me too. Don't worry though, they'll get what's comin' to 'em one of these days.

[They'd taken just as much from Selphie but she didn't have anyone to get mad at her for forgetting them.]

I'd actually forgotten my friends from home once. To forget them again isn't something I wanna think about.

[falenandawn]

They will. Eventually, we'll find a way to end this.

[Rather then answer, he just gives her an understanding look, and nods. Losing memories of such people...]

[selphie_t]

[She always knew that of all the people she knew in Luceti, Frey was the one who would understand the most. It seems like their topic has come to a close as Selphie stands up and looks in the direction of their home.

Home. In a place like Luceti, they had a place to call home. It was strange yet comfortable.]

Ready to go back or do you wanna stay out here a bit longer?

[falenandawn]

....I think I'm ready. You? [It was... odd. Nowhere else in the world would honestly be 'home' to Freyjadour but Sol-Falena, but....

This place truly was becoming kind of a 'home' away from home, in spite of everything.]

[selphie_t]

I'm ready to go.