gautsome: (i wont hesitate)
gautsome ([personal profile] gautsome) wrote in [community profile] victory_road2021-03-08 10:52 am

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[There's no vibrant smile when Sylvain opens the line. There isn't even a Sylvain for that matter. It's just text on a screen, a message carefully tapped out.]

Hey.
I'm looking to talk to someone who has left this place and come back again. Either actually leaving, or just that weird sleeping thing.
I... Have some questions. I could really use some help.
paladinlost: (blow)

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[personal profile] paladinlost 2021-03-08 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cecil rarely, if ever, uses the Gear's text function, but for a question like this...]

I've slept. I've progressed. I've remembered. Ask away.
Edited 2021-03-08 17:15 (UTC)
paladinlost: (anonymous)

>Private

[personal profile] paladinlost 2021-03-09 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Easily.



No, that's an unfair answer. I know for a fact that there are other worlds out there with similar properties, lands I forgot for decades and remembered in bits and pieces when I was brought here. That knowledge is its own sort of comfort. Even if I return home tomorrow and forget everyone, I may just as well find my way to another land and remember once more.

And even if I do not... Aerith told me, over a decade ago, that even we are apart and our minds forget, our hearts are connected. Experience and chance meetings have taught me that she was right. You might not remember exactly why you cared, but that feeling will remain, somehow.

Besides, we learn more and more about this world with each passing year. Perhaps we'll find a way to keep our memories before this all ends.
paladinlost: (soft)

[personal profile] paladinlost 2021-03-09 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
It is, truly. It's hardly a far-fetched theory, either. After all, we've had plenty of people leave in body, then return with their memories of their previous stay intact. Even if they did not remember while they were home, those memories were still triggered and recovered somehow.

[The trick is figuring out the 'how', and possibly the 'why'.]
paladinlost: (thinking)

[personal profile] paladinlost 2021-03-10 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
My own magical ability is limited, but perhaps my experiences with multiple worlds can compensate for that. I know there are many people here who would prefer having the possibility to choose, even if they personally wish to stay.

This would be much easier with direct access to the local 'divinities', of course, but Arceus is sadly not as easy to contact as Cosmos or Materia. We'd have to manage without.
paladinlost: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] paladinlost 2021-03-13 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
From what I can tell, Arceus likes us, actually. Which hardly means communication is easy, mind you. Still, it may be sympathetic to your plight.

To ensure we can remember this land, the first step would be to find out why and how our memories are erased in the first place. Is it a side effect of traveling between worlds, is it a deliberate choice by the magic that has brought us here?
paladinlost: (sighing)

[personal profile] paladinlost 2021-03-21 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, believe me, it can be even worse when they do have your best interest in mind, but no idea how to achieve it. Cosmos' sacrifice may have allowed my comrades and I to return home safely back then, but watching an unarmed woman burn alive was still an horrifying experience.

For all of its power, Arceus remains a Pokémon. How much does it understand the hearts of humans, be they local or summoned?
paladinlost: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] paladinlost 2021-04-04 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Why would I not be? That happened decades ago; I've had plenty of time to make my peace with her decision, even if I wish she'd tried looking for other solutions before choosing death.

Stabbing the culprit a few times helped, mind you, but I've no doubt you can think of at least one reason why that is currently not an option for us in this world.
Edited 2021-04-04 05:48 (UTC)
paladinlost: (err)

[personal profile] paladinlost 2021-04-05 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, I must have miswritten the circumstances. There was no religion involved; she summoned us to war endlessly in her stead, grew attached to us, chose to defy the cycle and the system in order to free us from her world, and died in order to do so. We did not worship her, nor did she ever ask us to, but we always valued her advice and her attempts to counsel up.

Besides, she chose warriors as her champions. We'd all seen worse before, even the children.