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riverviewlogs2017-10-23 02:38 pm
alchemyfreak) wrote in riverviewlogs2017-10-23 02:38 pm
[Open - Memory Share.]
who: Edward Elric and Anyone Interested
what: Memory Share Event, First Person in the post, Dreamscape/Network in the comments
when: October 9th-23rd
where: Around the city for First Person, Dreamscapes and Network for the rest.
warnings: Individual Warnings Below
Notes: I've included some scenes that I have on Youtube for unrelated reasons if anyone wants those.
Characters may choose to contact Ed, bring it up next time they see him, or never mention it and just have that insight on a moment in his life without ever telling him they know. That's entirely up to player discretion.
(If you would like to use a scene from '03 that's not listed here or the subtitled version, I'm fine with that as well! Just let me know which scene so that I'm aware.)
1. Reunion of the Fallen (Short Reaction)
cw: assault
This can be broken down any way you'd like through the month but it might start with seeing the rock go flying and slam the first guy in the face out of nowhere.
The next flash is could be the second guy demanding, "who the hell are you?" This scene would be dark, as Ed's eyes are closed. You can't feel tossing the rock in your hand, but you're aware of the movements.
Third flash, you're speaking but it's Ed's voice. The scene is still black. "Come on, guys. A band of thugs in the forest, that's so cliché."
The same voice from before, "What was that short stuff?" In an instant you're up, kicking this guy straight in the face with the sole of your boot.
His group of friends descend to attack, the girl they were bothering previously already forgotten. Whether or not your character sees the off-screen pummeling is up to you and may also be a separate fourth vision at a later time.
2.Night of the Chimera's Cry (Faint)
cw: body horror, physical violence, body post murder, dark themes, children present
This one is very brief. There's a child in an alley crying out for his mother, military all around. Flashes may come in single second shots, broken up through the day or weeks, everything happens very fast.
"That makes five."
"Hasn't investigations found anything, yet?"
"Don't blame us."
One woman tries to remove the child from the cloth covered corpse in the alley, but he holds on. When she picks him up, he pulls the cloth with him, crying for his mother and screaming "No!" while revealing the body.
She's on her back, arms bent and covered in blood. You feel yourself gasp, and suddenly there are flashes of other memories. A distorted upside down face followed by a happy woman in a purple dress, smiling, sitting at a table, and then lying on the floor. The distorted image returns and you can see it struggling to breathe before everything goes dark.
In your mind you might feel yourself sinking to the ground as someone behind you shouts, "Ed! Pick him up!"
"Sir!" Then silence.
3. Hohenheim of Light (Father Issues)
cw: assault
From a distance there's a man and a woman sitting at a table on a porch of a large yellow house. The first flash may just be a visual of them, but as the scenes grow longer and more clear through the month you'll be able to piece together the conversation that's happening. Some characters may notice a resemblance between the man at the table and Ed.
"A long time ago I saw an eagle with wings as black as obsidian, your hair is the exact same color. I never thought I'd see it again. Thank you, for bringing such a beautiful memory back to me."
The woman at the table is blushing at the attention, "And thank you. What a lovely thing to say."
No time is wasted before you charge forward, "What the hell are you doing flirting?!" You launch into a punch, right hand nothing but glove-less metal, knocking the man straight off the porch to the ground below.
In case you didn't recognize the voice, the woman sitting there confirms that this is Ed's memory, "Edward, what the-?"
He's not listening, you feel and hear yourself shouting in Ed's voice.
"You're gone for over ten years, and I come back home to that?! Damn you, old man!"
4. Hohenheim of Light (Milk Rant)
cw: assault (probably best combined with 3.)
There's a man on the ground, presumably Ed's father if this memory is coupled with flashes of the previous one. He smiles up at Ed where you're standing on the porch, who seems aggravated at best.
"Edward," Your eyes widen in surprise at being addressed, before setting once more - still hostile. "So, do you still hate drinking milk?"
Immediately you jump off the porch, kicking him to the ground. "Who are you calling a micro-sized half pint who didn't grow up because he doesn't drink milk?!"
From behind, you hear three voices chime in "That's not what he said, Edward."
5. Arm Wrestling
cw free! Also available if anyone's interested, but I didn't write it up.
what: Memory Share Event, First Person in the post, Dreamscape/Network in the comments
when: October 9th-23rd
where: Around the city for First Person, Dreamscapes and Network for the rest.
warnings: Individual Warnings Below
Notes: I've included some scenes that I have on Youtube for unrelated reasons if anyone wants those.
Characters may choose to contact Ed, bring it up next time they see him, or never mention it and just have that insight on a moment in his life without ever telling him they know. That's entirely up to player discretion.
(If you would like to use a scene from '03 that's not listed here or the subtitled version, I'm fine with that as well! Just let me know which scene so that I'm aware.)
1. Reunion of the Fallen (Short Reaction)
cw: assault
This can be broken down any way you'd like through the month but it might start with seeing the rock go flying and slam the first guy in the face out of nowhere.
The next flash is could be the second guy demanding, "who the hell are you?" This scene would be dark, as Ed's eyes are closed. You can't feel tossing the rock in your hand, but you're aware of the movements.
Third flash, you're speaking but it's Ed's voice. The scene is still black. "Come on, guys. A band of thugs in the forest, that's so cliché."
The same voice from before, "What was that short stuff?" In an instant you're up, kicking this guy straight in the face with the sole of your boot.
His group of friends descend to attack, the girl they were bothering previously already forgotten. Whether or not your character sees the off-screen pummeling is up to you and may also be a separate fourth vision at a later time.
2.Night of the Chimera's Cry (Faint)
cw: body horror, physical violence, body post murder, dark themes, children present
This one is very brief. There's a child in an alley crying out for his mother, military all around. Flashes may come in single second shots, broken up through the day or weeks, everything happens very fast.
"That makes five."
"Hasn't investigations found anything, yet?"
"Don't blame us."
One woman tries to remove the child from the cloth covered corpse in the alley, but he holds on. When she picks him up, he pulls the cloth with him, crying for his mother and screaming "No!" while revealing the body.
She's on her back, arms bent and covered in blood. You feel yourself gasp, and suddenly there are flashes of other memories. A distorted upside down face followed by a happy woman in a purple dress, smiling, sitting at a table, and then lying on the floor. The distorted image returns and you can see it struggling to breathe before everything goes dark.
In your mind you might feel yourself sinking to the ground as someone behind you shouts, "Ed! Pick him up!"
"Sir!" Then silence.
3. Hohenheim of Light (Father Issues)
cw: assault
From a distance there's a man and a woman sitting at a table on a porch of a large yellow house. The first flash may just be a visual of them, but as the scenes grow longer and more clear through the month you'll be able to piece together the conversation that's happening. Some characters may notice a resemblance between the man at the table and Ed.
"A long time ago I saw an eagle with wings as black as obsidian, your hair is the exact same color. I never thought I'd see it again. Thank you, for bringing such a beautiful memory back to me."
The woman at the table is blushing at the attention, "And thank you. What a lovely thing to say."
No time is wasted before you charge forward, "What the hell are you doing flirting?!" You launch into a punch, right hand nothing but glove-less metal, knocking the man straight off the porch to the ground below.
In case you didn't recognize the voice, the woman sitting there confirms that this is Ed's memory, "Edward, what the-?"
He's not listening, you feel and hear yourself shouting in Ed's voice.
"You're gone for over ten years, and I come back home to that?! Damn you, old man!"
4. Hohenheim of Light (Milk Rant)
cw: assault (probably best combined with 3.)
There's a man on the ground, presumably Ed's father if this memory is coupled with flashes of the previous one. He smiles up at Ed where you're standing on the porch, who seems aggravated at best.
"Edward," Your eyes widen in surprise at being addressed, before setting once more - still hostile. "So, do you still hate drinking milk?"
Immediately you jump off the porch, kicking him to the ground. "Who are you calling a micro-sized half pint who didn't grow up because he doesn't drink milk?!"
From behind, you hear three voices chime in "That's not what he said, Edward."
5. Arm Wrestling
cw free! Also available if anyone's interested, but I didn't write it up.
First Person - 3 & 4
Keith felt like you didn't. He never really talked about it when it came to his mom having left, or the fact that he was alone for a long time as a kid. He never usually brought it up in general conversation, and people almost never asked him anyway unless they got wind of a rumor or something like that. If they did, he usually didn't like to answer.
Still, he was suddenly face-to-face with Ed as he walked through town one day, and he had seen that memory. It probably showed on his face.
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"Hey, you all right?" He carefully avoided the saying, knowing it would do no good in this situation. You look like you've seen a ghost hardly seemed like the most appropriate ice breaker when the answer could honestly be yeah.
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"You sure you're fine?" Chances were it was related to whatever hell was going on this month, but if Keith didn't want to discuss he wouldn't press it, mostly because they weren't exactly close enough for Ed to feel inclined to do so.
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"Ah, yeah... I'll be better when it's over, too," he agreed. "I've seen a few things that I'm not sure I should have." And he was pretty sure others had seen things he hadn't exactly been exited to share. In fact, considering Lola had seen the thing with his mom, he was more than sure of it.
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"You're not really at fault for that though, none of us can help what gets broadcast or..." You know, however else people were getting memories that they shouldn't be. Ed's were mostly network based, even if they weren't exclusively found on the network it was just easier to talk about in those terms. Maybe that had something to do with being uncomfortable with sharing in other people's dreams too. "Anyway, it's happening to all of us. I'm sure whatever you saw- the person gets it." He's just going to conveniently forget all of the things he and Jason had seen of each other's lives for this conversation, it was possible Keith saw something like that which would explain his discomfort with it but Ed could hardly say for sure.
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Just... making sure. He gave Ed an awkward look as he crossed his arms in front of himself. It was a closed off posture that he used often. Keith generally wasn't an open person, but even less so when he was dealing with an awkward situation.
"Cuz, yeah... I saw something of yours."
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His expression settles almost as quick as it changed, appearing slightly more guarded but no longer shocked - and not exactly angry. "We're not in control of these things, you didn't choose to see whatever it was." He'll stand by that first assurance, whatever Keith saw it wasn't voluntary, none of this had been voluntary for anyone involved. "There's- a lot of stuff I'd rather not be common knowledge, that's all." If he trusted anyone to keep something to himself though, it was Keith. They seemed to have that sort of mentality in common.
Ed glanced away, reminded of Nico the way Keith had closed himself off while speaking. Not really wanting to meet his gaze as he continued awkwardly, already afraid he didn't want to know the answer. "So. What was it?" Maybe he'd be lucky and it would be something benign like the broadcast with Lyle rather than any of the more horrifying moments that could have also come up.
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He nodded as Ed continued to explain that, yes, it was okay because it wasn't anyone's fault specifically except the person who might have caused this, and, well, that wasn't either of them. It helped relieve his worry a little.
"Okay."
And Keith was actually pretty okay with letting the whole thing just drop right there, honestly, but then Ed asked what it was he had seen. Keith frowned a little.
"Well, I got a pretty good idea that you don't exactly get along with your dad," he said. "You punched him pretty hard... hard enough to knock him over a deck rail." Keith wasn't sure just how often Ed and his father got into physical fistfights, though his father's reaction had seemed almost... amused? by the whole thing. But, he was pretty sure he didn't have to describe the whole flirting incident that preceded the attack. Keith had definitely gotten the impression that Ed wasn't happy about that.
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Edward actually visibly relaxes at Keith's next words. The whole thing would have been funny if he hadn't been so tense at the thought that Keith had seen something he'd rather no one ever saw. The fact that the implication was simply he didn't get along with Hohenheim? It couldn't have been anything too serious, he griped about the old man often enough in his youth - and if they weren't getting along, Keith hadn't exactly seen his death, which was also fine.
He also didn't need to think to hard to work out which memory Keith had seen. The day they'd gone back to the Rockbells to find him talking to Ross. There was a slight scowl at the reminder, but it was bland - muted compared to any expression that might have crossed his features at the time. He knew how Hohenheim died now, and that detail made holding onto any resentment a little harder.
"He left when we were pretty young. My mother waited years for him to come back before she died," Ed's gaze fell back on Keith again, a pointed look. "He deserved that punch."
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"He probably did," he said simply. "I didn't exactly have a great relationship with my parents, either. I can kind of understand."
Not totally, because situations and context, but he understood not getting along and having a rough time. He also understood feeling a little resentful because someone left. Maybe even more than a little. He sighed, looking down. He felt a little like he should explain.
"My mom left when I was young, and, well... my dad and I... I guess I just never really connected with him, especially after Mom was gone."