Event Log - Total Recall

[lucetimods]

Who: You and you and mostly me and you
What: Everyone's been Shifted in their own way
When: A hero doesn't care if this event last a whole ten days
Where: Everyone can blaze a hero's trail
Summary: It's that special time when the Malnosso collect all their recent experiments and apply them all at once to measure effectiveness. Although invaluable as research, it tends to leave the subjects looking just a bit mad.
Rating: Rated H for HEROIC

So there is a mod post and it pretty much tells you EVERYTHING you need to know. This is a mass log for people to comment around on if they don't want to make posts. Or even if they want to make posts anyway. There will be at least one more of these later in the event! ENJOY!

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AND STAY GONE!

[fourteen]

[ If only Xion knew that Guy has no idea. She honestly assumes he knows. It might even slip out - if the topic weren't so sensitive, so awful as to be something she'd never mention unless pressed, outside of Luke himself. She truly believes Guy already knows. He's so inscrutable that it's not hard to believe.

She leans back on her hands, staring off down the road, in the direction of a certain bridge in town. ]

We met ... gosh, I think it was in the fall. Almost two years ago. We became friends pretty fast, and we talked every so often, but it wasn't ... really close, you know? Not yet. Something had to happen, first.

One day he came up to me while I was standing on a bridge. I think I was upset about something. [ A quiet laugh. ] I don't even remember what. But we started talking. He ended up telling me what he was. Is.

[ She tilts her head, and some of her hair slips forward, over her shoulder. She reaches back, tucking it into the braid that lays on the back of her neck. Thinking about this makes her feel so old. Unconsciously, she lowers that hand to tweak at her ring instead. Luke's ring. ]

He told me he was a Replica. And when I heard that... I told him I was one, too. Am. [ A quiet laugh. ] You'd know if you met Kairi. We're almost identical.

We ended up just hugging for the longest time. We were both so overwhelmed. Finding another Replica... someone who was just like me... [ The corner of her mouth curls up. ] Luke is really, really special to me. I'd do anything for him.

Re: AND STAY GONE!

[relinquishing]

[He listens to her story with very little reaction on his part, forcing that composure he so carefully prides to remain his ally. Even as she brings up that Luke had mentioned his replication.

Even as she mentioned she was exactly the same.

...

He hadn't known. Luke had never told him.

And suddenly, Luke's attachment to her is so much clearer.

Questions pop up. Questions, concerns, wanting explanations and answers, wanting to know more about this girl that had so quickly taken up his best friend's heart. If she was a replica, then what exactly was she replicated for? What knowledge did she have of the world, if any? If they were both so new - both still so curious and naive in their lack of memories - was it really a smart idea for them to be together like this?

That last thought was a dangerous one - one he particularly didn't want to travel. It was their choice. Replica or not, she had as much of a right to a decision as Luke did. But it still eats at him. Enough that he wants to pepper her with questions. Any question.

But no. For once, he stays remarkably quiet, letting the busyness of his thoughts simmer down before he finally speaks.]

Friendships blossom in the strangest of ways sometimes, don't they...

[His voice is soft and unreadable in its tone, drifting off for a long moment before he seems to perk up again.]

Regardless of the discomforts along the way, I'm glad you two found each other. Kind of a weird twist of fate, isn't it... I can understand it's not really the easiest thing... being the only one of something in a world for so long. [Not quite on the replica end of things, but... like it or not, he gets how lonely it can be.

Not like he's about to open that can of worms any time soon. But whatever.]

But honestly... in the entire time I've known him, I have never seen Luke quite as happy as he is around you. I figured there was something different there.

[His smile stays simple and neutral - carefully controlled from years of practice.

"I'd do anything for him", hm?

It was a bit of a weighty claim, love or not. It was hard to devote to someone so thoroughly. To trust someone with your entire being, regardless of what happened to you in the process.

God knows that Guy would never be able to empathize.

But he holds his tongue.]

[fourteen]

[ She rests her chin on the heel of her palm and watches him. He is a master study in perfectly maintained neutrality, and it sends up red flags for her.

Is he always hiding something? What? And why?

Still, her mouth quirks. ]

I'm not the only replica from my world. And I know he's not the only one from his. But we felt like we were alike...

[ ... ] I'm glad he seems happy. He makes me happy. The happiest I've ever been. [ Though there's a sad cast to her smile, a knowledge that haunts behind her eyes. ]

Relocating

[relinquishing]

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