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Event: The Reveal Glass

Across the Pokémon world, characters may have spotted a falling star last night. Or at least, one would think that's what it was: a naturally occurring phenomenon, rather than a legendary artifact. Specifically, the Reveal Glass fell to earth during a fight among a group of legendaries started by the return of a long-lost family member. But it's probably best to leave them to handle all that themselves, while your characters deal with other consequences.

The Reveal Glass shattered upon impact, and the shards scattered throughout Kanto, Johto, and the Sevii Islands… And made their way into the hearts of your characters. But bleeding isn't the concern here. Instead, the impact will hit when a character first looks into any reflective service. An eerie feeling hits them as they're transported to the Mirror Dimension.

While this realm can be many different things for different characters, one thing is always true: It is a place of honesty, where true selves are revealed. Those struck by a shard will find themselves facing truths they are no longer able to hide, and now must accept. Fortunately enough, even those who haven't been struck will be able to enter the Mirror Dimension during this event via a reflective surface to offer help. By the end of the 29th, things will return to normal. Characters will be back in the usual Pokémon world and their hearts will be rid of the shards, but time is strange in the Mirror Dimension, and the experience may feel like it goes on far longer than a day. Or, maybe that's just the emotional exhaustion.

The Reveal Glass plot is here. You can swing by the event info post for additional details and FAQ, and play out your characters’ enforced therapy on this post. As with most VR events, this plot is entirely optional and your characters don't need to take part at all.

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He didn’t seem to notice the tears coming from his eyes as he does his best to reach out to Emporio and expresses his sympathies towards his plight. The pains of being so called Chosen Ones, a situation stemmed from circumstances out of their control. The loss of loved ones and people close to them. Delusion mad men out to destroy the world and reshape them in their own image. All of this is coming back to Harry.

“Oh dear. Emporio, I’m so sorry. This type of loss is still felt in me as it does with you. We all experience it in some form. I lost several people who are close to me other than my parents too: my godfather, some friends of mine, a couple of schoolmates, some of my teachers including one who I didn’t get along with. Every time I see these memories in my sleep, it almost felt as if I hadn’t left them even if it has been at least two years for me.”

"I just..." Two years is shorter than it's been for Emporio now, even if his body looks as it did back then. But he doesn't draw away from Harry this time, instead breaking down as the other reaches out to offer comfort.

"Why doesn't it stop? Why...Why even here, after it's over..?" he weeps, unable to understand it.

“Oh gee. I wish that there was a way to make the whole process of losing loved ones to be less painful than it would have been. That no one we know from home wouldn’t have to die for us from a cruel fate. But I don’t think that they want us to languish in our misery for the rest of time and not trying to, sniff, sniff, learn to recover from the pain. Not to let both their memory and sacrifice to go in vain.”

He’s still shedding the tears despite not noticing their presence. It almost felt like he is helpless to do anything to stop the pain that both he and Emporio have went through despite sounding like he is trying to his best to sound less grim.

"Then how can I make it stop?" he pleads, and perhaps that's the worst possible question. Because no doubt Harry himself knows that the answer is they can't, not immediately; but they can't bottle it either, and it's clear that Emporio has been doing just that. The boy- teenager in the reality outside this strange mirror realm- hasn't given a clue even once, that these are his feelings after all.

"I just...is it all the time for you too..?"

Harry didn’t have that many answers to the first question Emporio had asked of him as he too has a tough time to come with a good response properly without blanking out but he does have a solution to ease the emotional pain and scars they both bear. It is not easy but the recovery from the loss will not be possible without processing it in their own pace and way.

“I guess that it is all about learning to process the grief and loss as much as you could slowly every day. It is not an overnight process, I got to admit, but eventually we do come to terms with them. I didn’t have the time to heal from the loss easily when I was younger, that one going back from when I was only a baby. Everything happening in Wizarding Britain went in a frantic pace that losing a lot people became nearly a constant in my life. I couldn’t grieve properly or take the time to slow down for seven long years.”

"S...seven..?"

Maybe not the most confidence inducing statement, but that's more than twice as long as it's been for Emporio, so it at least puts something in perspective.

"...I..."

But maybe, what needs to happen now is just getting out of here.

Perhaps now could be a good time to leave this horrific scene and maybe find a way to recover from it. He did managed to help Radley to leave the mirror dimension earlier so he can lead Emporio away from this nightmare too. The question is: where is the nearest exit and how can they leave it without stepping on the floating bodies?

“You know, maybe we should leave this place quickly before that man you speak of tries to show up and get rid of us too.”

And therein lies the question.

"....how..?"

A question only Harry can answer- he got here somehow, didn't he?

“Um… Maybe we should get back to the shoreline and avoid stepping the bodies as we leave,” he suggests to him as he looks towards the shores from where he appeared in the dimension.

“Perhaps the exit could be in there.”

It's an impressive miracle that Emporio doesn't break into tears over the statement about bodies. But, if Harry is willing to do the hard part of helping the boy up to guide him away, he'll have some success. Let's find that exit!

Without saying anything urgent, he immediately gets started to get both himself and Emporio out of the dimension as he shows him the way that he had taken upon arriving in this place. He first offers him his hand so he wouldn’t get lost as they leave.

Once he does that, he carefully walks across the water, being mindful of where he steps on and avoiding any bodies that could be floating in the water.

Step by step. They'll get out step by step, and Emporio shakily takes that hand. He clutches it like a lifeline, and there might be a bit more to that in itself. What was it Emporio was worried about? People being taken down next?

Being killed...for him?

Emporio doesn't say nothing, and ahead can be seen their way out. Shining, like a mirror, now a passage for them both.

Just a bit more...

The other man is able to see the shining light that will take them to a safe passage back to the real world. They are so close in reaching it right now and honestly he could sure use a break after this. Having seen the floating bodies in the water did brought back memories of the battle of Hogwarts and remembering them did hurt Harry’s heart a lot but he hopes that Emporio will eventually recover from this.

They made to get out of the water and back on dry land where the passage awaits for them to get back to the real world. He does make sure to see if there are nothing dangerous trying to go after them but so far nothing alarming have been found within his line of sight so they might as well leave the dimension right away.

Out they go- through the light, and through the glass-

And rather abruptly things will be quite off balance, what with Emporio abruptly being a good deal taller.

"Oo-F!"

Excuse him, he's falling flat on his face in...wherever they are.

Where on earth did Harry enter the mirror world from anyway?

Goodness, it has been a while since he has seen the familiar sights of Olivine City before the Reveal Glass incident began. He is still feeling disoriented from arriving back from the mirror dimension but he can still see the city lighthouse not far from where they landed on.

And that is when he realized that they are now out of the dimension and back to reality: seeing the grass and rocks on the ground. He thought that they might have arrived at a city park.

“Phew! I can’t believe that we’re now out of there.”

"Ugh...I feel so nauseous..."

It takes time for the memory of what just happened to really catch up. Emporio holds his knees as he tries to stand, feeling more than a little fatigued. "I..."

Finally, he voices the most necessary question.

"Did that really just...happen..?"

“Um, yeah. It certainly did, Emporio. And to be honest, I initially thought that it was some strange dream I just fell into when I first started on this whole dimension hopping trip,” he sheepishly admits to him.

"Ugh...I..."

...What does he even say. He remembers it, but it's hazy and dizzying, like it's going through a filter. Not to mention what the material of the memories forming that place were like.

"...I'm sorry you saw all that," he manages, but even that doesn't feel like the right thing to say.

“It’s alright, there is nothing to worry about now: I was very familiar with that kind of scene myself back at home. Not exactly the most pleasant to see or witness but it was something that I could understandably relate to.”

"Still, it..."

It what, exactly? Emporio isn't sure. The teenager sighs, and looks away. "...I wasn't exactly...acting like myself back there though, is the thing..."

“…As in what was in the mirror dimension is real? If I had to guess, it seems like the mirror dimension tries to emulate whatever dark secrets and pain we still clung onto and it tries to amplify them greatly to mess with our heads.”

He had been to Radley and Bo’s mirror dimensions by now so he does have a feeling that the similarities despite their differences were there in some form.

"I guess..? ...I... ...I just didn't feel like me, in there. It felt real but it didn't..."

That might have a bit to do with having looked like a child the whole time. Disorienting, for sure.

“No kidding. The disorienting feeling of the place trying to mimic the worst moments of our lives did almost felt very real.”

That has him thinking. Maybe he and Emporio should try to forget what they went through with hanging out with each other for a little bit. Anything to distract them from what they have seen/went through in the mirror dimension for the time being.

“So um. Do you want to do something to keep those rough memories at bay for the time being?”

Does he want that?

Emporio chews his lip. "...What would you suggest?"

Because he...has nothing.

“How about if we can go to the nearest place to sit in and talk about other things instead?” Harry politely suggests to him, “Maybe even getting something to eat or drink if you’re up to it?”

Before he could say anything, one of his PokéBalls opens up to reveal a young Sentret appearing in front of them and greeting them in a cheerful tone, “Sentret. Sentret, Sentret. Sen, Sentret, Sen-Tret!”

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