EVENT #7: THE SIGHT - OOC PLOTTING

[abraxasmods]

Event #7 - OOC Plotting

go to the IC event post

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Beginning on APRIL 18 - 24 (in-game) and following last month's eclipse, the Singularity will be in flux. All of the Summoned across Abraxas will feel the effects and will suddenly gain a window into the past of their fellow Summoned entirely beyond their control.

That's right, this is Abraxas' first MEMORY SHARE event! The purpose of this event is to allow characters to connect and share parts of themselves they otherwise might not choose to. Players are of course free to choose any memory they want (or multiple memories) for their characters, as well as choose who they want to share these memories with, although ICly, characters will not have a choice in this aspect.

Memory sharing for this event involves the following aspects:

• The effects appear to be involuntary. Characters cannot actively choose who they will reveal their past to and equally cannot choose which memories they will receive. The character receiving the vision will only have a split-second inkling before they are assaulted with an intense headache or migraine and nothing can stop the visions, while the character whose past is being viewed may or may not know exactly what's being shared or even what's happening at first - although the Arcana of each character will play a role, as well, in how two characters might interact during this event. For more details, see the Arcana Significance section below!


• Memories can be anything and are entirely up to each player! However, they should be something that was important to the character or left an impression upon them. Memories can last from seconds to minutes, or even longer. That said, experiencing a memory vision is an unpleasant experience. Players can decide the severity of the headache and which aftereffects they want. Effects can include pain, malaise, aural sensitivity, nausea, etc.


• Experiencing the memory itself can be as vivid or unclear as you want - players are free to determine this among themselves. One key aspect, though, is that characters' past selves in their memories will visibly bear their Arcana symbol somewhere on their person (whether that will be on their clothing, jewelry, or even a tattoo-like mark), similar to their appearance in the Horizon.

Additionally, there are two methods in which a memory vision can be triggered:

• In-person contact. This will be the method in which characters who live in the same faction will experience this event. Upon any brief physical contact with another, your character may trigger a vision in someone else or receive one. Contact does not need to be maintained throughout. The initial touch will be enough.


• Mutually existing within the Horizon. Anyone who might retreat into the Horizon to avoid the effects will find they're still connected to other fellow Summoned who are also in the Horizon at the same time. Within the Horizon, it will not be necessary to have any physical contact or even be near each other. Being connected to the Horizon together will suffice. This will allow for characters to experience memory share and visions with those from other factions!

As with all events, participation is optional in regards to the memory share aspect! However, all characters will be aware of what's happening to their fellow Summoned and will be affected by the subsequent impact upon the world at large.

Event Schedule

To allow for a bit of room for players to get things started, the event and wrap-up posts will be going up a little prior to the actual in-game date the event occurs.

The IN-GAME EVENT will ICly take place April 18-24.
The EVENT POST will go up April 16 for players to participate in.
The WRAP-UP POST for the event will be available on April 23 for players to view.

The event wrap-up will involve some (minor) character participation and decisions within their respective faction, and will have an effect on all characters within the game, so please be sure to keep an eye out for it when it's posted!

Arcana Significance

Each Arcana has been assigned a form, being either MUTABLE or FIXED.

Characters possessing Arcana of the same form will have the option to enter the memory together and see each other within it, although they will not be able to physically interact with the memory itself or alter it any way, similar to dream-walking. They will be able to speak to each other during the memory, however. This will give characters the opportunity to have a more intimate memory-share experience while reinforcing the (currently invisible and not yet known!) effects of sharing an Arcana form.

Characters possessing Arcana of opposing forms will not be able to enter a memory together, but instead will be able to have a neutralizing effect on the person experiencing the memory. Using touch, they can help ease the physical or emotional effects that might arise. While characters will not be able to stop the effect altogether, they can also help draw someone out of a memory early rather than the character being trapped in it for a longer period.

To determine which form your character's Arcana belongs to, see the table below.

Mutable	Fixed
Judgement	Death
Strength	Justice
Temperance	The Devil
The Chariot	The Empress
The Emperor	The Hermit
The Fool	The Hierophant
The Hanged Man	The Magician
The High Priestess	The Star
The Lovers	The Sun
The Moon	The Tower
Wheel of Fortune	The World

Ability or Transformation Gain

Characters will receive a gain of either one physical alteration, or one new magical spell/ability (limited to level 1 ability or the equivalent thereof) as a result of experiencing this unusual burst of activity from the Singularity. While this gain can be anything, we encourage players to consider linking their gain to what they've experienced during this event! To request your gain, submit it as usual on the upcoming Activity Check form.

For this event, you can choose to forgo your gain and receive it during the next event coming in June. However, you can only pick one or the other - characters who take a gain this time will not be able to take a second one for the next event.

As a reminder, gains do not require your character to learn or even willingly accept what they've earned. Rather, it's bestowed on the Summoned by the Singularity for unknown reasons. Your character can also discover their new ability or transformation immediately or it can be gradual. If you wish for your character to develop their gain over time, please let us know the limits of the final version of your intended ability will be, in addition to its limits when starting out, when submitting your request for approval.

Plotting Form

Due to the nature of this event, which can include revealing secrets and knowledge not all characters may want exposed, we encourage everyone use this plotting form to discuss how they'd like to be affected or have others be affected.

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Arcana:</b> <b>Arcana Form:</b> (Mutable or Fixed) <b>What memories will your character share?</b> (Please list any content warnings. You may also note if there are any memories that you would prefer only be shared among close CR. You do not need to stick with what you've written here - this is just to give other players an idea of what you have in mind!) <b>Are you open to having your character experience others' memories?</b> (If applicable, describe what types of memories you'd be interested in (i.e. another's childhood, something pleasant, lots of murder, etc.)) <b>Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form?</b> (This is optional! Characters of a matching Arcana form are not required to enter and experience a memory together.) <b>Is there anything you don't want to interact with?</b> (This can be on an OOC comfort level or just something you don't want your character to experience for any reason - no explanations needed. The purpose of this event is for everyone to have fun.) <b>General Plans:</b> (Anything else!)

Questions and Answers

If after reading these you're still unsure about anything, or your question wasn't covered, please feel free to hit up our Questions thread below!

What kinds of memories can I use?

You can use any memory you like! Memories do not need to be especially in-depth or revealing, so long as they hold some significance to your character. It can be an embarrassing moment, happy times making their favorite breakfast in the mornings, or of a beloved pet.

Can characters only share one memory at a time?

Not at all! Characters may share multiple memories strung together in flashes, if you wish for them to reveal several key moments over a period of time to another character. Generally, this would be linear, but it doesn't have to be. The choice is entirely yours!

Do the Arcana Forms affect who my character can share their memories with?

Not at all! The Arcana Form only affects if you can memory walk within the memory together or if you can calm another person down or end their memory vision early. Characters of any Arcana Form can experience standard memory flashbacks with anyone, however!

What if I want my character to only share a memory but not see any in return, or vice versa?

You're entirely welcome to have your character only participate in the "sharing" or the "seeing" aspect of the event.

Can two or more sets of memories merge with each other between characters?

No - characters will either experience the memory or they will be the one sharing it, but characters will not share and merge multiple sets of memories at the same time. However, characters can still experience each other's memories separately and individually.

Can my character use magic or an ability to protect themselves or another?

Because this is entirely related to the Singularity, magic and other abilities cannot ICly shield your character or other characters from this occurrence. If you want to opt-out OOCly from the event, your character can simply avoid the Singularity's burst of power for reasons unknown.

Will this affect my character's abilities or magic in any way?

No, this will not impact your character's magic or abilities in any direct way. That said, characters are welcome to experience some loss of control based on their emotional distress depending on what they see or share! Just be aware that the authorities will contain characters as needed before they can become a notable threat to themselves or others.

How will the factions react? Will anyone notice?

Yes - more information on how the factions will respond to this event will be on the IC writeup itself, as well as in the wrap-up afterwards. For a general idea, THORNE will be asking its Summoned to remain within the castle itself for the time being, the FREE CITIES will have more city guards patrolling in areas frequented by the Summoned, and SOLVUNN will have mages and kindly elders or neighbors going door to door to offer help as needed.

Please hold until the wrap-up post if you have something you'd like your characters to contact a faction leader or official about regarding this event, as there may be additional information available then.

Comments

Thancred Waters | Final Fantasy XIV | Strength

[funbreaker]

Character Name: Thancred Waters
Arcana: Strength
Arcana Form: Mutable

What memories will your character share?

- Memories of his childhood -- that is, way back when he was an orphan and was pickpocketing people in the cutthroat pirate city to get by.
- A variety of different memories could be fashioned from Thancred's days of flirting with well-to-do or well-connected women in order to get information from them. This could also include them finding out that he was more or less stringing them along and then him being made to regret that. : ) Fun times.
- There's the traumatic memories associated with when Thancred was possessed by the Ascian Lahabrea. These are bound to be very disorienting and confusing as it will be his memories of riding backseat as this ancient, evil force possessed him and did with his body what he wanted.
- The recruitment of Himeka into the Scions of the Seventh Dawn could be a fun one, for anyone who has CR with her!
- A desperate escape from a city where the Scions and the Warrior of Light were framed for crimes they did not commit. This involves one of his friends, Y'shtola, using a very dangerous spell to help them escape, at which point they ended up in the Lifestream.
- Thancred finding out that his sister figure, Minfilia, has been lost to him. It's a very sad and bittersweet thing and one of the more regretful moments in his life. This might be best for close CR.
- Saving his daughter from prison, traveling with his daughter, fighting some jerk for ownership of his daughter... general daughter things.
- There's probably more I'm not thinking of right now, but if you have a general mood or theme you want to aim for, I can probably think of something!

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? Absolutely! I'm down for Thancred to experience pretty much any kind of memory. We can discuss and figure out what might work best depending on prior CR (if any) and each character's background.

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? Yes, I'm open to it!

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? I honestly can't think of anything, memshare is always the good shit.

General Plans: Thancred will be finishing up his quest with Stephen and Yennefer during the first day of the event, but will be back in the castle from then on. He'll also finally be re-entering the Horizon upon his return. While he is not wildly tactile, he is also known for a good shoulder clap here or there, and so it should be easy enough to find a reason for the memshare to happen outside of the Horizon as well.

Since he will figure out that the process is much easier to avoid outside of the Horizon, he will start avoiding the Horizon after a day or two because he isn't super thrilled with the idea of people being able to randomly see into his memories. Still, I should be able to squeeze a few Horizon threads in before he nopes out.

This entire process and the side effects are all reminiscent of something in his canon called the Echo, which both Himeka and a few other close friends of his possess(ed). He'll definitely be thinking of that with all this going on and wondering if there's a connection.

As a side note, I'm welcome to work some discussion of his quest into this as well, since he'll be fresh off of it!

[gynvael]

SO I want. Daughter times. But as I don't want to take on too much either SINCE WE both know each other's canons etc how do you feel about establishing that they saw the memories in the Horizon and then we hook them up to talk about in may afterwards?

Nadine Cross | The Stand | The World

[nadine_he_loves]

Character Name: Nadine Cross
Arcana: World
Arcana Form: Fixed

What memories will your character share? CWs: Grooming, trauma involving children, dubious consent, child neglect, lots of death

- Nadine as a child in various crappy foster home situations, from just vaguely neglectful to emotionally abusive

- The first time Nadine is contacted by the entity known as Flagg, she was 12 and it was intense and has serious grooming overtones

- Nadine leaving her small town as an adult, through plague stricken streets littered with bodies

- Nadine finding a ten year old boy on the verge of death and tending to him after confirming his whole family is dead inside

- Various memories of traveling across the United States with Joe (the ten year old boy she saved) and a musician named Larry Underwood

- Nadine shooting some nice guy who was only doing his job

- Nadine seducing an 18 year old

- Nadine causing that same 18 year old to crash a motorcyle and leaving him to die on the side of the road, deliberately



Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? Absolutely, and I am up for anything!

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? Sure!

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? Nope, I'm open to anything!

General Plans: I am wide open and down to plan pretty much anything.

[shadowthief]

Inej would have so many emotions about that first meeting with Flagg, given her own history D:

Ciri | The Devil | Cadens

[wiedzminka]

Character Name: Ciri
Arcana: The Devil
Arcana Form: Fixed

What memories will your character share? hoo boy ciri's whole existence needing to be kept secret or hidden and the question of What She Can Really Do basically defines her whole character so. this should be fun. also, as a note this list isn't exhaustive and i'm cool with plotting other stuff as well! just what came to mind.

cw: violence, injury, death, suicide | also: spoilers for the witcher netflix

General, unlimited:

that time an army killed her family and burnt her whole city to the ground (cw: violence, death and suicide)

that time she killed a bunch of teens (and their horse... rip) because she screamed too loud

being a sad teen running through the forest and eating rats

Witcher training at Kaer Morhen, impressing her witcher uncles

general childhood memories of being a little tomboy princess

running from people like. a lot. like this scene trying to escape from some creepy witches (minor witcher 3 spoilers for early game)

Limited to close CR:

world hopping adventures! likely snippets and unclear. can be lighthearted or more serious, there are Options. Ciri will definitely try to explain them away with bullshit lies as much as possible depending on who sees what and how much she trusts them. it will be awkward.

the time she screamed a big ditch into existence (and toppled a monument not unlike the Singularity, though icly this is not something most people would know)

the wild hunt babeyyy (and being able to transport other people across worlds)

learning some reasons why people might want her blood and subsequently the time she tried to shoot up with creepy witcher juice and it didn't work out

dad Geralt!! being a dad to her! this or this but several Options available. good for embarrassing her dad CR with folks who also know Geralt but not necessary

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories?
yes yes yes!! tbh more interested in juicy drama and trauma than happy memories but maybe there is a little room for those, as a treat

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form?
kinda meh on this. open to ideas if you're keen on it tho. I do want Ciri to comfort someone of an opposing form! Also, would love having someone of an opposing form comforting her.

Is there anything you don't want to interact with?
can't think of anything specific. I'm going to be kinda vague on a lot of Ciri's memories due to wiggly-hands backstory stuff between the game and the show. don't wanna cause any headaches for castmates (or myself) lmao

General Plans:

Same-faction CR can run into Ciri around Cadens for the first day or two! Afterward, she's going to get freaked out and run off into the desert where people might also run into her if they are similarly inclined. She will try to retreat in the Horizon before realizing it's a bad idea, but this is a great opportunity for new CR to throw memories at her or vice versa! I'm interested in having her see memories of people she's never met if you are into that, and form an awkward foundation for future CR.

[shadowthief]

What if we trade tiny Inej on high wires with no net with Ciri’s Witcher training just so they can be like “i c u” at each other silently next time they meet 😂

Edelgard von Hresvelg | The Emperor | Thorne

[flame_emperor]

Character Name: Edelgard von Hresvelg
Arcana: The Emperor
Arcana Form: Mutable

What memories will your character share?

Imprisoned-Edelgard as a young child (and with a different hair colour) is imprisoned beneath the palace with her siblings and is experimented on by strange masked men. Note that this will be a very, very dark memory involving death, human experimentation and child trauma.

Ethereal Moon: Meeting at the Goddess Tower-on the night of Garreg Mach's annual ball, a now-teenage Edelgard goes looking for her professor Byleth, and finds her at the Goddess Tower, where they share a somewhat personal moment with each other. Not overtly romantic, but a perceptive character might pick up that it hints at a much deeper connection between the two. Also Edelgard has visibly aged from how she appears in this memory and Byleth hasn't??? that's weird, isn't it???

The Battle of the Tailtean Plains-Five years on, Edelgard has declared war against the Church and her revolution nears its end. All that remains is defeating the combined forces of the Knights of Seiros and their allies the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, in a battle that occurs on the rain-slick Tailtean Plains. At the battle's conclusion, Edelgard battles with and defeats Faerghus' last king, Dimitri Alexandre von Blaiddyd, the Tempest King, who curses her with his dying breath. This is a memory of war, and the Empire, and by extension Edelgard and Byleth, are undeniably the aggressors here.

The Battle of Fhirdiad-Though Dimitri loses his life at Tailtean and the Kingdom's army is shattered, Edelgard's true target is the Archbishop Rhea, who escaped with her Knights back to Faerghus' capital of Fhirdiad. Immediately marching on the capital, Edelgard demands that Rhea surrender, but the archbishop, driven mad by grief and rage, orders her knights to set fire to the city to slow the Adrestian advance, before taking on her true form of the draconic Immaculate One. Edelgard fights her way through the flames with her Black Eagle Strike Force, and with her High General's help, kills Rhea once and for all, but not without (an apparent?) cost.

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? Of course!

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? By all means. Emperor Club!

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? Maybe no memories of family death or suicide, on an OOC level. Right now that's hard for me to deal with. I'vehad the idea for the Child Edelgard memory for a couple years now, and I think I can manage that, but I'd rather not seek out any more in the meantime.

General Plans:

[bloomly]

hey! this is super late so i totally understand if you have too much on your plate, but would you be down for aerith and edelgard doing a memory walk together via horizon? since they're both mutable signs! i was thinking the Ethereal Moon: Meeting at the Goddess Tower memory might be good for them, but let me know what you think.

Ronan Lynch | Thorne | The Moon

[nightwash]

Character Name: Ronan Lynch
Arcana: The Moon
Arcana Form: Mutable

What memories will your character share?

• Ronan creating his own little brother.
• Ronan killing himself (another Ronan).
• Ronan's first kiss. :)
• Ronan being eaten by a demon. :(
• The worst dream Ronan ever had.
• Ronan's first encounter with his mentor.
• Ronan and Hennessy dreaming together. :)
• Hennessy betraying Ronan. :(
• A big reality-shattering spoiler.

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? Yes! Anything.

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? Yes!

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? No, I'm cool with big trauma.

General Plans: Ronan is not very forthcoming in general so this is a rare opportunity to get information out of him if you want to get to know him better. He's such a weird guy with a weird life. It's a lot easier to see it for yourself than to try to get him to explain it. Some of these memories will make more sense if you catch more than one of them for context. Or you can see all of them! He's going to hate this so much.

[londonbound]

mutually shared trauma!! :^)

maybe rhy can see the thing ronan was trying to explain to him in gross nightwash bath? I'm cool with everything being weird and making no sense lol

Rhy's offerings are over here if there's something that catches your eye!

also their signs match so if you want to do a walkthtrough of one of ronan's dreams i'm down

dante | devil may cry | the devil

[subhuman]

Character Name: Dante
Arcana: The Devil
Arcana Form: Fixed

What memories will your character share? I'm still working on a running list but...

Traumatic/Not Happy Events (CW: violence, death, murder?)

➤ Mother getting killed by demons and house burning down (presumably with his bro in it)
➤ Holding Trish's dead body after fighting Mundus (I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE TO FILL YOUR DARK SOUL WITH LIIIIIIIGHT...yeah that's a canon line.)
➤ Watching Vergil fall into Hell (literal)
➤ Watching having to kill corrupted Vergil for realsies
➤ General horror revolving around demons (he actually is scared of them, go figure)
➤ DMC2 JK that's too trauamtic for anyone.

Happy/Not Sad Events

➤ Cute childhood times with Eva and Vergil
➤ First time he got his (dingy) shop as a teenager
➤ The first time Lady gave him a loan.
➤ First fight with Nero in Fortuna OR entrusting Yamato to Nero
➤ Pizza night with Lady and Trish as they rib him (but he loves them he's happy)

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? Yes!

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? Yes!

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? Dante has mommy and daddy issues. But I'm cool with him confronting everything.

General Plans: I will PROBABLY be tagging out more with Dante rather than doing a top-level for him, but if you're not going to top-level and want to do a thread, just LMK! I'm happy to do closed starters.

Jasper | Judgement | Thorne

[leitstern]

Character Name: Jasper
Arcana: Judgement
Arcana Form: Mutable

What memories will your character share? Visitors to Jasper’s memories will discover thoughts related to: friendship, betrayal, family and loss.

• Losing his mother as a child and being adopted.
• Childhood adventures with Hendrik.
• The knighting ceremony where nobody acknowledged his presence.
• Manipulation by the monster possessing his adoptive father.
• Forsaking his humanity to become a demon.
• His experience of death.

• Want something merrier? How about when he bought out a bakery?
• Want something different? Feel free to ask!

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? Yes! Get in touch and we can discuss what would be best given their relationship.

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? Would be wonderful to see what happens!

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? Nothing currently comes to mind.

General Plans:

Jasper is a reserved man when it comes to sharing information about himself. This event is perfect for opening up conversations he would avoid.

[carmesi]

HMMM okay i love how unexpected their kind-of friendship is, and i would love to delve deeper into it? man, there are such good memory choices here. if you like, the forsaking humanity one would be interesting? but i'm happy to work with any other!

likewise, if you'd like to also walk into wanda's memories (mutable signs woo), here's a list of hers.

Commander Shepard ★ Mass Effect ★ Judgement

[earthborn]

Character Name: Commander Shepard
Arcana: Judgement
Arcana Form: Mutable

What memories will your character share?
(Content warnings for genocide, death, surgical trauma, fair, violence, ect)

• Prothean Cipher - A psychic projection of the experience and warning from an ancient dead race about the horrors of their total genocide at the hands of space elder gods (Eden Prime, ME1)
  
• The Void - seeing the massive bulk of the galaxy's biggest space station for the first time (ME1, Citadel Approach)
  
• Battle - Shepard's perspective on fighting in the shadow of a building-sized space elder god (Soveriegn, climax of ME1)
  
• Death - Shepard's death via asphyxiation in space (Prologue, ME2)
  
• Surgery - Briefly waking up mid-surgery and being understandably confused and unhappy about it (Prologue, ME2)
  
• Cool One-liner - Telling a space dinosaur that he talks too much before setting him on fire in the middle of his bad guy rant (Mordin: Old Blood, ME2)
  
• Dissolve - Seeing a crewmate dissolve into grey goo (Collector Derelict, ME2)
  
• Fights - Shepard has been shot at in space so many times, take your pick, experience the chaos
  
• contact me directly I will think of something specifically for you, Shepard has so much dang trauma, and she will never talk about any of it otherwise, i am begging you
  

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories?
Yes! Shepard is too nosy not to take advantage of this. But beware, she might try to fix things.

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? Yes, I think that would be fun.

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? I would want to have a conversation before interacting with anything to do with sexual assault, but other than that, I think I can handle most anything.

General Plans: panic and try to do too much and end up not doing enough :c

[unnecessaryflourishes]

I am absolutely here for Emet experiencing the Prothean Cipher memory! Do you want something of Emet's in return? And if so do you have a preference for like... overall tone? Emet is old as fuck and also has a Whole Heck Of A Lot of trauma, most of which he doesn't talk about.

y'shtola rhul | final fantasy xiv | the high priestess (thorne)

[aurasight]

Character Name: Y'shtola Rhul
Arcana: The High Priestess
Arcana Form: Mutable

What memories will your character share?
• A much younger Y'shtola trying to learn magic! For people who just want some softer things. This will also involve being nagged at by an old witch (who genuinely isn't so bad).
• Returning to the Waking Sands to find her comrades having been slaughtered by the Empire and comforting Yda. (cw: death, blood, descriptions of a massacre) Which will also feature a slightly younger Y'shtola with longer hair and teal eyes! And some minor character spoilers for Yda. :)
• Getting accused of TREASON and MURDER and running from the guards in Ul'dah. And using a forbidden spell for reasons.
• Nearly getting murdered by Zenos (cw: blood, near death)
• Some minor SOL moments with the Nights Blessed and learning more destructive magics. This is definitely for calmer things and a chance to see Y'shtola as a leader and partial "wise woman" figure for a group under really horrible circumstances.
• Really hazy and strange "memories" of being in the Lifestream...twice. Oops. This will be more of a surreal and brief experience of what happened prior and after and it likely won't make sense if you wanna go with the painful/crazy/wtf just happened route.
• While I won't be top-leveling anything with Endwalker spoilers since it's so new, if people want something specific from there, I can oblige. We've got...horrible monsters! Existential dread! The possible end of the world!

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? Absolutely! I'm down for anything and Y'shtola will be more than interested in trying to figure out what is happening and may/may not ask for volunteers or help...but will not push anyone to show her things, obviously.

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? Yes please! Super curious about this sort of thing playing out.

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? Nope, I'm good.

General Plans: We don't get to see a lot of Y'shtola's off screen stuff so some of this is gonna just be free form. However, I'd like the use this as an opportunity to springboard into CR with her either seeing people who remind her of canonmates or, in general, finding likeminded individuals or anything that seems interesting or has to do with magic.

But as I said before, the moment she realizes this is a shared phenomena and isn't an isolated thing to one person, she's going to want to sink her teeth into it and figure it out, so if anyone is up for being "guinea pigs" or even just being willing to let her test the difference between Horizon and person-to-person sharing, that'd be neat! And otherwise, would just like to tag folks that wanted CR on the previous meme.

[funbreaker]

As much as Thancred doesn't want memories of his shared around, if Y'shtola wants to test some stuff and asks him to help her by being a guinea pig, he would reluctantly agree. Because it's her, and there honestly isn't much she doesn't already know about him. So we could do something with that, if you wanted!

Rhy Maresh | The Lovers | Thorne

[londonbound]

Character Name: Rhy Maresh
Arcana: The Lovers
Arcana Form: Mutable

▶ cws that may come up in memories: violence, death, possession, self harm; potential nsfw but only if player is open to it ofc
▶ spoilers for a darker shade of magic & a gathering of shadows

What memories will your character share?

Open to all! He's not prone to talking about a lot of this stuff so this is a perfect way to learn a little bit more about your hot neighborhood lush

guess what! he's a prince! all sorts of memories from growing up in the castle with Kell (his adopted brother)

one time he was kidnapped and almost died! Kell bled on him to save him. Rhy was sad about it. Then, he pardoned his kidnappers because they just wanted to eat the rich and like he couldn't blame them tbh

one time he was possessed and did die! memories surrounding being possessed by someone else and not in control of his own actions, ultimately being forced to stab himself in the ribs and proceed to well and truly beef it

plot twist: he did not stay dead! who wants to see how Kell resurrected him with blood magic? it was very cool and very scary (disclaimer: he was dead for that part and didn't see it. you get to see him waking up and freaking out instead)

would you like to be the awkward third wheel watching Rhy reunite with his long lost pirate boyfriend? he's hot and his name is Alucard. No relation. The author simply did not realize.

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? yes please!!

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form?
More interested in having Rhy help characters with opposing forms or vice versa. If you want to do a memory walk thing, we can talk about it!

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? nah, it's all good

General Plans: reaches for more CR...!! I'm also okay with him sharing dreams with people he's never met through the Horizon. Rhy probably won't go into the Horizon much when he realizes that's happening, and he'll be staying in the castle as Thorne officials are asking. He'll be actively trying to help out others once he realizes there are ways to lessen the ill effects.

[funbreaker]

SO IT LOOKS LIKE both Rhy and Thancred have possession-related memories to share. I would kind of love for that to happen because I imagine it's a sore spot for both of them but realizing they have this big thing in common could be really cool for their CR!

Castiel | Free Cities | Death

[dirtytrenchcoat]

Character Name: Castiel
Arcana: Death
Arcana Form: Judgment

What memories will your character share?

01. Castiel tracks down internet hunters that go by Ghostfacers to be bear witness to the apocalypse.
02. Castiel beating Dean's @$$ but for good reason. tw: some violence, some blood, posturing, man pain.
03. Castiel molotoving Michael to give Dean and Bobby some time. Lucifer turns him into a human water balloon because of it.
04. Castiel remembering who he is.
05. Castiel unhinged.
06. Dean being willing to sacrifice himself and his vampire bff if there's a shot at getting Cas out of Purgatory too.
07. a probably very bloody battle of Castiel laying siege to hell to pull Dean out.
08. Cas meeting Lucifer.
09. idk stuff about heaven, being young and impressionable, getting remade/indoctrinated which is like a mostly dormant memory from season five that's essentially angel lobotomizing

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? yes, and i'm literally open to him witnessing just about anything. the great thing about him being an angel is that very little surprises him.

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? sure! if someone is open to that idk if anyone has a matching arcana with him yet bc i'm the new kid in class

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? nothing particularly on my mind since this is his first event but again, very little surprises him so he's a great one to just hurdle into shit like this bc of that

[shadowthief]

What a way for them to meet tbh. Lmao

Anakin Skywalker || Star Wars || Judgement

[chosenfordarkness]

Character Name: Anakin Skywalker
Arcana: Judgement
Arcana Form: Mutable

What memories will your character share? Memories can include but are not limited to

⤜ Anakin meeting his future wife
⤜ Anakin flirting with his future wife while also promoting fascism
⤜ (tw: parental death and murder) Anakin slaughtering the sand people because they killed his mom
⤜ Stuff with Palpatine filling his head with garbage
⤜ look, he's stable, they trusted him with a Padawan
⤜ dealing with prophetic dreams everyone brushes off
⤜ his monologue with Obi-Wan on Mustafar

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? omg yes absolutely, especially as a way to get closer to cr or gain new cr in other factions.

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? Gather all ye Judgements

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? not particularly, no

General Plans: If anyone wanted to know what it was like to live in a monk-like cult as an outsider, look no further. I don't have concrete plans, but given that Anakin doesn't really talk much about himself it could be a chance to force him to if that's what we so choose to do. I'm up for pretty much anything!

[unnecessaryflourishes]

I am like. just about to roll off to bed and my brain is only half-working, but using this to jumpstart some kind of CR between these two, y/n? Emet's arcana is in the same category as Anakin's, so dreamwalking is a thing that could happen!

Tea | Wen Kexing | The Tower

[yeshou]

Character Name: Wen Kexing
Arcana: The Tower
Arcana Form: Fixed

What memories will your character share?
CW: murder, child abuse

- A small Wen Kexing having his family murdered and threatening the killers.
- (cw: child abuse) Flashes of growing up as the right hand of the Ghost Valley Lord, being a teenage killer and being beaten.
- Various bits of flirting with Zhou Zishu and being soundly rejected/being told off multiple times.
- Happy times of having dinner with his adopted family, flashbacks to childhood games with Zhou Zishu, and scolding his little sister/daughter for her dating choices.
- Nearly being murdered by a sword immortal because he's a criminal.
- Playing up a crazed murderer act with the ghosts to maintain leadership by fear.
- Sad flute solos as he angsts about various things in his life.

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? Yes! Wen Kexing is pretty much used to being a terrible person among terrible people, so he's more sympathetic to tragedy and reactionary to emotional scenes. Confuse him with happy moments or have him talk through the painful ones? He can offer some comfort.

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? Oh, please, yes. He'll probably rant if it's an upsetting memory or argue, but I would love it. Bitter, feral child trying to learn to let himself live still wants to bite everything.

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? I'm pretty good with anything.

General Plans: Wen Kexing is very chatty but also super bad at accepting and logically working through his emotions? He feels a lot and avoids thinking about why he's feeling it. I'd love to get new CR and start a whole bonding exchange with him and other people that have rough pasts. Learning about others in general would be great for him.

[aquaveiled]

Hold up, GHOSTS?

Hennessy | Thorne | Moon

[impressionism]

Character Name: Michelle
Arcana: Moon
Arcana Form: Mutable

What memories will your character share?
- The big triggery one that I want to limit to only one or two people who've discussed it first is Hennessy's mother's suicide. It's her core trauma and it's the source of her recurring dream so it's really easy to trip over, but it's also incredibly awful for everyone concerned.
- her memories of her dream clones are up for grabs; basically she's dreamt 10 other of her, and all but one of them are dead now. There's a huge range of variety here of her reactions to them and/or significant events that happened to any number of them, and these can range from mildly weird to awful, depending. The big thing here is it's something very few people know about her as of this point. We can talk about whether or not it'll be just a general encounter or one of their deaths (or the event which killed a bunch of them at once if you're down for murder scenes.)
- Fun?? Memories??? Mostly involve stealing cars and driving recklessly and/or going around committing crimes with Ronan Lynch or her other selves, but these can be kept on the relatively lighter side, comparatively.
- I'm sorry she's just a mess without many happy memories, but we can dig for some if you really want; she'll hate it either way!

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? Yes, I am literally fine with anything given all the above.

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? Sure!

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? Talk to me if a memory includes child death. Talk to me anyway; Hennessy's a lot to deal with without warning and this event is possibly the thing she'll hate most thus far, so I want to tread carefully with her to avoid traumatizing everyone she encounters (and her!)

General Plans: Create interesting and crunchy CR!

[shadowthief]

IDK what to chooooose, but points to eyes, points to you. I want CR with these girls so I'm putting you on my dance card~

aerith gainsborough | solvunn | the moon

[bloomly]

Character Name: aerith gainsborough
Arcana: the moon
Arcana Form: mutable

What memories will your character share? the below list isn't comprehensive; these are just a few of the memories that jump out at me as potentially important enough to be triggered in memshare for aerith! if you're familiar with ff7 at all, and have other potential ideas for memories that you'd like to explore, i'm happy to hear and help brainstorm as well.

content warnings include violence, murder/death, experimentation, coercion, ecoterrorism.

for the more positive memories:

• aerith being gifted the flower cart from zack fair, and using it to sell her flowers... i think that this would be a really exciting and pleasant memory for her. she would often sell her flowers on the plate (which is like the upper side of the city, where people with more money lived) and i think having that cart made things both easier and more enjoyable for her. with this memory there's the potential to explore midgar a bit, for whoever is participating? and to see what life was like.
• the wall market incident, getting all dressed up to infiltrate don corneo's mansion to save tifa. wall market is a place that's almost like a red light district, with all sorts of potentially seedy/illegal things going on. however, there's lots of bright lights and interesting places, and the memory of getting all dolled up and feeling cute/pretty/what have you would be a pleasant thing for her.
• the mirrored memory of both zack fair and cloud strife falling through the roof of the church. this is a somewhat iconic scene for ff7, and witnessing/experiencing it, and subsequently the memory of the both of them essentially having done the same thing, might be interesting to explore aerith's feelings as well as to have the memory-experiencer see somewhere precious to her: her church and flowers.

the less positive memories:

• childhood in the shinra building - it's seen in remake that aerith and her birth mother stayed inn a small room where aerith colored lots of different pictures on the wall to make a mural. there would definitely be a pervasive feeling of fear in these memories, as well as loneliness and anger, and a lot of complicated emotions.
• to build off the above, the death of her birth mother is also a sad memory that would be hard. together with her birth mother, she escaped the shinra building, but her mother was mortally wounded, and died on the steps of the sector 7 slums station. at that point, aerith was entrusted to elmyra (her 'mother' in the series). this memory would be quite strong, but given that aerith was very young when it happened, it would also be quite traumatic.
• being coerced to return to the shinra building by tseng, and put into a glass cage by hojo - this is where hojo also tells aerith that he has kept pieces of her birth mother in order to examine her through a microscope, and other appalling things. this would be a very strong, negative memory for aerith, and there would be a lot of anger and frustration associated with it. this is probably the worst one so far.

i'm happy to prove clips/images/whatever might help in choosing something or just help make things easier to imagine - or like i said, if you're canon familiar, come at me with something! i'm down to make anything work.

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? absolutely! i'm open to the positive, the negative, and anything else in between.

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? absolutely! i think i would almost prefer this, just because i think it would make for a more interesting thread to be able to memory-walk together.

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? n/a - i'm open to everything.

General Plans: although aerith is in solvunn, i'm happy to have memshare threads with characters in other factions through the horizon. basically, if you're interested in doing something, i am happy to find some way to make it work! i happily welcome new cr as well as expanding on current cr.

[unnecessaryflourishes]

Wooould Aerith like to experience the catastrophe that nearly ended Emet's world and involved - among other things - meteor(s) falling from the sky, given the parallel between that and the calamity that ended the Cetra's civilization in FF7?

Emet-Selch | Final Fantasy XIV| The Emperor

[unnecessaryflourishes]

Character Name: Emet-Selch
Arcana: The Emperor
Arcana Form: Mutable

What memories will your character share? Emet's memories may include: discussions of planetary genocide or actions related to same, death (both of natural causes/illness and in the course of war or other catastrope), imperialism and related themes, discussion of mass sacrifice (willingly made), the literal apocalypse, and canon-typical levels of violence

=memories related to him being an Ascian=
-being called back to duty because one of his colleagues was killed
-shaping the Allagan Empire into what it was
-restoring Fandaniel's memories of his past life and recruiting him into the Ascians
-following Himeka around on one of her journeys - moments include casual lurking, being Highly Dramatic, providing Lore Dumps on the nature of the world, being grudgingly helpful, being absolutely ruthless about his (low) opinions of both Himeka and humanity in general, and one Actualfax boss fight

=memories related to the Garlean Empire=
-the discovery of ceruleum/development of magitek
-the birth of his first son
-the untimely death of his first son, due to illness
-being the mastermind behind the throne after his own (presumed) death, up to and including literally being shot by his own grandson (not that it stuck)
-any of the variety of the more mundane details of running an Empire; this can include anything from politics to his daily life (will be almost entirely headcanon)
-watching theatre!

=memories of his time before the Sundering=
-assorted memories of him, Hythlodaeus and Hemera (Azem). Can include shameless (if grumpy) fluff, him being frustrated at his friends and their tendency towards gremlin-ness, and the generic mundanities of life in Amaurot
-being called upon to unmake a creation gone wrong, shortly after having risen to the position of Emet-Selch
-Hythlodaeus sacrificing himself in order to help bring Zodiark into being and save their world from the apocalypse


This list is not comprehensive. If you're either canon-familiar and would like a specific memory not listed here or are not and have a general idea for the overall mood of a memory you'd like, let me know and odds are I'll be able to work something out.

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? Hell yes, but note also that he'll hang on to what he's seen in the memories and may use what he sees to his advantage in any future encounters if he feels it to be particularly beneficial to do so, especially in the case of revealed weaknesses or anything similar.

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? Absolutely!!

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? Nope, come at me with whatever!

General Plans: Nothing in particular, though Emet-Selch is not the most inclined to physical contact. I can definitely make it happen for in person meetings if need be, but doing it through the Horizon will be easier!

[fourarmedandangerous]

Edelgard would be interested to see some of his memories of Garlemald. The ceruleum stuff might be interesting, as it would give her insight into what Garlemald was like before it transitioned into the Empire, but the stuff regarding his son (especially his death) would be a point of commonality for them (both having lost family and it having a drastic effect on their characters).

Or if you have an Emperor HC that might be of interest to Edelgard, that would also be good!

Cassandra de Rolo | Free Cities | Strength

[enduringkestrel]

Character Name: Cassandra de Rolo
Arcana: Strength
Arcana Form: Mutable

What memories will your character share? OKAY SO. Who wants to see things she has no intention of sharing! Mooooost of Cassandra’s memories contain a whole lot of bad things. Trauma, death, blood, torture, violence… She’s been through A Lot the past few years. And also! There’s going to be some slight spoilers for The Legend of Vox Machina and the first campaign of Critical Role. Minor? Sort of? (Aside from the walking spoiler that kind of is Cassandra herself.) But still spoilers so I wanted to warn for that.



SPOILER SPACE






STILL MORE SPOILER SPACE






EVEN MORE SPOILER SPACE


▶ Cassandra getting her throat cut by Anders in front of her brother and his friends, and Keyleth healing her. (cw: blood, violence)
▶ the dinner with the folks chosen to be used as copies of Vox Machina and hung from the Sun Tree (cw: death, trauma)
▶ Being tortured alongside her brother after shit first went down in Whitestone (cw: torture, violence), possibly including the bit where he gave her bread
▶ The first time Cassandra saw people hanging from the Sun Tree (cw: death)
▶ escaping and fleeing the castle with Percy when she was a child and taking arrows to the back (cw: blood, violence, near death)
▶ In an attempt to find SOME kind of less awful memory for people to experience/see I’m thinking maybe bitty!Cass learning how to do roguish things. Picking locks, stealthing, etc. It would have been important to her.
▶ Play sword-fighting with her brother as a child (another attempt for a happier memory; but I figure it left an impression on her because it was one of the memories that came up when she was trying to break out of Sylas’ vampiric mind control)
▶ Just general childhood/growing up in Whitestone memories, pre-Briarwoods (also another attempt for happier memories). Possibly including her shoving one of her brothers in a pond. Maybe spitballs at Percy during lessons, too.

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? Absolutely!

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? Heck yes!

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? I might want to hold off on anything involving vampires or necromancers for the moment? Just because Cassandra has some serious trauma involving them and I want to save putting her through that for after she’s been in game for a bit and has some closer CR.

General Plans: Nothing at the moment, really? Just wanting to get Cassandra settled in and have her start meeting folks. (And sharing memories she'd rather not anyone see is the BEST way! XD) And get her into the Horizon so she can start exploring that space too.

Re: Cassandra de Rolo | Free Cities | Strength

[shadowthief]

I def want Things. The question is how trauma soaked for we want the swap to be >_>

Garrus Vakarian | Mass Effect | Justice | Free Cities

[thearchangel]

Character Name: Garrus Vakarian
Arcana: Justice
Arcana Form: Fixed

What memories will your character share?
WHAT A WAY TO MEET NEW PEOPLE - but I'm thinking most of these memories aren't going to be the most... fun... given the canonpoint Garrus comes from. And a good chunk of them are going to come with Reaper noises (aka giant space squid robots who harvest all organic life in the universe every 50000 years). Thinking about potential memories around:

- Invasion of Palaven (his homeworld, by said robot squid)
- getting his face blown up by a gunship
- Frustrations in C-sec (space cops)
- Husks??? Gotta love space techno-zombies!!!

... And maybe some lighter options, like driving the Mako Tank (loud-ish video).

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories?
Oh absolutely. I'm down for just about anything! It seems like a great way to make friends or be horrified by each other.

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form?
I am down for this, sure! Some of his memories are genuinely distressing, even if he's inclined to act like he's shrugged them all off. Garrus though... isn't the best at comforting people, but I am OOCly super down for his attempts if other people are too!

Is there anything you don't want to interact with?
Personally my big No's are things that involve child harm/death, or suicide, but that's about all I can think of. Garrus can handle a lot ICly, but I'd prefer to avoid those things, if possible.

General Plans:
Garrus is new here, so gen prompts sound good too! I'd like to get him CR in general, and honestly, what better way to do it than with having your memories dragged out into view :)

[fourarmedandangerous]

I am down for Mass Effect CR for Goro here, and I have two possible options here; Goro tries to fight Husks OR

Goro ends up in the Palaven memory and really, really, really wants to try fighting a Reaper. But he'd pace himself and aim for a Destroyer-class Reaper rather than one of the big Sovereign types. XD

just treat him like a krogan with slightly more arms than extra, it'll be fine. Garrus has experience.

Kell Maresh | Shades of Magic | The Magician | Thorne

[blackeyedprince]

Character Name: Kell Maresh
Arcana: Magician
Arcana Form: Fixed

What memories will your character share?
I have a few to choose from:

- that one time his brother slapped him
- that one time when he almost lost his magic, bled to death and almost died in general CW: violence and torture
- that one time when he travelled to parallel world to fight evil twins (and almost died) CW: violence
- good memories of shenanigans with his brother
- good memories of his world's magic
- mixed memories from Red London

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? Yes :)

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? Sure!

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? Nothing I can think of right now.

General Plans: Nothing extremely specific, but Kell has quite a few things he'd rather NOT be talking about. Some of it is trauma, some of it is at least sort of explanation why he's weird like that. He is, in general, rather guarded, so this is great opportunity for me to force him out into revealing some stuff. He also prefers not to pry into other people's lives/problems (unless they make it his problem than it's different matter) SO HEY another chance to drag him out of his shell.

In general, meet people, maybe help some people, embarrass not-really-a-prince and have fun!

[aurasight]

Hello! I'm fairly canon familiar and would love to have Y'shtola and Kell meet and get some CR. I'm not sure if you'd like to do a memory swap or experience, or if you'd prefer they just cross paths, but I'd be down for either!

If you do want to do memory things... Maybe having to deal with the twins? Or anything related to the magic of his world?

Mat Cauthon - Wheel of Time - Wheel of Fortune

[a_better_man]

Character Name: Mat Cauthon
Arcana: Wheel of Fortune
Arcana Form: Mutable

What memories will your character share? CW: child neglect, possession, implications of child abuse, violence

- Mat at 13 trying to comfort his little sisters as their parents drunkenly fight in front of them

- Mat as a younger teen having a screaming match with his drunk father

- Mat at 18, being told by his mother he's a terrible person who will do terrible things

- The attack on his village, specifically Mat saving his sisters

- Mat learning to juggle from an old Gleeman (bard)

- Shadar Logoth memories, where Mat becomes possessed by a cursed dagger and other terrible things happen

- Mat robbing the dead

- Mat having a Weird Moment with a man in a cage

- Mat being cured from his possession

- Mat literally noping out of his important potentially world-saving duties, against the pleas of everyone he cares about

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? Absolutely, open to it all

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? Sure!

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? Nope!

General Plans: Pretty open!

[falcony]

wrong account BUT for yen and mat i am leaning towards either mat having the screaming match with his father / saving his sister OR something to do about the possession / being cured / etc and I'm having a hard time deciding which

hythlodaeus | the empress | solvunn

[lackingtalent]

Character Name: Hythlodaeus
Arcana: The Empress
Arcana Form: Fixed

What memories will your character share?

Good memories:

• (headcanon) Having Hemera stay over one night, after one of her extended trips away from Amaurot fulfilling her duties as Azem. Features: Drinking, food, stories, good times, and probably Emet-Selch... in a slightly less cranky light.

• (headcanon) A meeting with Hermes, with regard to concepts. (Not related to MSQ. The scenario happens prior, and involves Hythlodaeus asking if some concepts rejected based on incomplete/incorrect paperwork can be moved to Elpis while the issues are fixed.)

• Meeting Emet-Selch and Azem in order to give them a little something (The Ifrita concept) to assist them in preventing a volcanic eruption. Why? Grapes.

Not so good memories:

• Fighting the Ladon Lord in Ktiseos. Have Hyth running around and cheerfully suffering while trying to keep up with three extremely powerful, extremely broken friends while being a complete normie.

• Palming off the seat of Emet-Selch onto an extremely talented mage friend. Comes with a ton of embarrassing stories about Hades' heroics. Bother him about them later ♡

• (headcanon) Childhood memory! Trying to cast fire, water coming out. This guy is absolutely not a conventional mage, so enjoy having your allusions about the ancients wrecked.

Bad memories:

• Hearing Meteion's report. Yes, it (probably) concerns your world.
• Sacrificing himself to Zodiark.
* I think Emet wants in on this.

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? Hell yes. I'm looking at Hyth seeing in-depth memories from close CR (here!) but I'm down for him seeing surface-level stuff from people not on the list. Hopefully it will allow him to make some new friends!

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? Yes please!

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? We're both down for anything.

General Plans: I'm only popping this here just in case anyone's interested in learning more about Hyth, his plan is to assist and help everyone else mostly! But by all means if there's anything that's grabbed you, please let me know and I'll write a starter up for you.

[endcaller]

Meteion's report....

Shuten-Douji | FGO | Devil

[sakaya]

Character Name: Shuten-Douji
Arcana: The Devil
Arcana Form: Fixed

What memories will your character share? (CW: Some body horror, Shuten being Shuten, please check her Op-Out/Content warning post in her journal).

Shuten's past life though these memories of her being an absolute monster and terrorzing/eating humans will be hazy and unclear. Anything before her time in Mt. Ooe is absolutely obscured.

Her numerous clashes with the Four Heavenly Kings, most notably the heroic Sakata Kintoki. You wanna watch a somewhat one sided UST filled fight? Here you go.

Shuten's death at the hands of the Four Heavenly Kings via super poisonous sake and her consequent beheading.

Her summoning into Chaldea and a mishmash of memories where you can see her chill out and spend time with different Heroes and the various whacky events that go on, such as Summer, Setsubun, (and Halloween, but hey that's not Shuten, that's Onicure, duh) and materials gathering, etc. It's just to have a stark contrast between her bloody days and her days as a Servant. Her conversations with Ritsuka would be quite enlightening as well.

There will be memories of her alternate Berserker self from the Shimosa Singularity, but she'll say technically doesn't remember that happening. But you know, same difference. CW: BODY HORROR: (The worst one during Shimosa is her playing with the insides of the main protagonist, so HAVE FUN WITH THAT NIGHTMARE.)

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories?

Totally open to any type of memory for Shuten to view and experience. Everyone at this moment tends to be her source of entertainment. Anything of extreme heroism or extreme villainy will have her praise.

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form?

If it comes up then sure! Just plot with me about it.

Is there anything you don't want to interact with?

I am open to anything! I play a character who isn't totally phased by much, but I will make sure to let others know if I myself am not jiving.

General Plans:

I have my April Catchall Post where I may just put my event top level there instead. I'll tag into the big post though, so I'm pretty flexible.

alina starkov | shadow & bone | the hanged man (free cities)

[solmate]

Character Name: Alina Starkov
Arcana: Hanged Man
Arcana Form: Mutable

What memories will your character share?

general cw for body horror and vague references to racism against fictional groups in these

your character may or may not have seen a pretty gnarly set of antlers sticking out of her collar bones, alina has a pretty traumatic memory of how she gets them (spoiler, it's the big bad trying to take control over her power, youtube link)

who doesn't like a good attacked by monsters and discovering you have magical powers moment? also many of the people dying in this scene are a direct result of alina's own intervening.

when you accidentally make out with the dude who wants to control you.... oops.... this will be fun to explain. there are some other scenes of him being sympathetic or understanding to her like this or others

alina pining after mal?? there is a good complilation of those of both child and adlit mal and alina here

alina cutting her hand so she can fool the grisha testers and hide the fact that she's the sun summoner inadvertently oooOOO and the guilt associated with the fact that she had the ability to rid herself of her country's biggest threat for her entire life and she just hasn't been doing anything about it.

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? yes! i'm down for some trauma bonding with cr. alina is also a good sympathetic pal for those who have memories with deep regret over their inaction/lack of action or mistakes.

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? no preference!

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? i can't think of any, but i'll let you know if it hits one of my ooc no's.

General Plans: i'm a sucker for mem shares, give me all of them to advance cr.

[wiedzminka]

HELLO i would like accidental chaotic discovery of powers mixed with ppl trying to control those powers against her will, pls

body horror yes

Kylo Ren | Thorne | The Tower (Fixed)

[photophobic]

Character Name: Kylo Ren
Arcana: The Tower
Arcana Form: Fixed

What memories will your character share?
I'm happy to offer any of Kylo's memories to anyone who wants them, including some that won't necessarily be obviously his— memories of a dark helmeted warrior hacking his way through resistance-aligned villages won't be immediately connected to Kylo, sans helmet and garb as he is here in Abraxas.

Writing out memories is a fair bit of work so I'll list some summaries in the first reply to this comment, then write them up as requested/find youtube clips etc. If you're canonblind and want a vague outline to see if anything I haven't offered appeals, there's a nice brief summary with pictures here, Kylo's canon point is before the "the stunning return of Emperor Palpatine", it's probably long enough that it's not a spoiler anymore but I'm blocking it out anyway because... yeah. What a choice that was!

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories?
Yes, absolutely! Especially if it will help open up CR that would otherwise be difficult. Come at me.

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form?
Please! I think it could be fun to mix up with the usual discussing-in-the-aftermath kind of thread. I'd be particularly open to showing people around Kylo's memories in a more interactive setting, if anyone wants to ask Kylo what the fuck he thinks he's doing— because he's more likely to explain himself in that context.

Is there anything you don't want to interact with?
No eye injuries please!

General Plans:
Among other sketchy powers, Kylo already has the ability to read minds and retrieve memories, which could mean he's a useful person to talk to about this stuff if you can get past the whole Kylo Ren of it all. Irritatingly, he will be actively taking steps to avoid physical contact as soon as he becomes aware that touch triggers memory sharing, because (ironically for someone who can probe the memories of others at will) he's an intensely private individual who'd much rather keep his past to himself. However, as he will be visiting the Horizon during the event, we can thwart his plans and have our characters swap memories without touching each other being necessary. I'm also down for contriving physical touch too if you want to go that route, though Kylo will covering up neck to toe and wearing gloves. It could be a little tricky, but not impossible!

I'm up for plotting/planning with characters who are interested in investigating the cause of the phenomenon, swapping tips with characters who are looking for ways to avoid being affected themselves, or unlikely teamups where Kylo can help guide people through the experience in general: this is not his first unwanted psychic connections rodeo!

If you wanna plot stuff with me feel free to reply to this toplevel, hit me up on starktech or send me a message on Discord (cryloren#2195) though I don't always get notifications there! This toplevel, plurk or pm to this account are probably your best bet.

Links and Memories

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...and some memories for it below! All of these are up for grabs, some of them may be more suitable for memory-walking than others, the list is not exhaustive. If any of these catch your fancy let me know and I'll write em up for you, grab youtube clips, etc! If you are canon-familiar and would like something I haven't listed, that's cool too, just let me know.

Childhood

Kylo's childhood memories are pretty fuzzy because he's had a dark psychic tyrant messing with his head since before he was born (yep). These memories are all from before he called himself Kylo Ren, so characters may have difficulty connecting the child Ben Solo they'd see in these memories with Kylo as he is now in Abraxas. You may have:

• up to age 9: little vignettes of bitty Ben Solo being palmed off on droids when his parents are too busy, accidentally breaking shit with his mind, overhearing his parents discussing him like a problem that needs solving, lots of uwu
• age 9+: Ben's parents palm him off on his uncle Luke because they think he can help Ben learn to control himself. Ben devotes himself to his studies, works very hard to become the very best like no-one ever was, but is still kinda unstable in worrying ways.

Becoming Kylo Ren

To try and work out what's wrong with this kid, Luke sneaks into Ben's bedroom while he sleeps and decides to take a peep into his mind with the Force. What he sees there scares him so much he decides to kill his nephew before he has a chance to do any of the awful things he believes he will do if allowed to live; unfortunately, Ben wakes up and fights back. You may have:

• the incident itself, where Ben wakes up to the glow of a lightsaber and defends himself before he can get executed
• Ben fleeing the training temple and getting advice on a new name/life direction from his creepy friend and later master Snoke
• you wanna meet Ren, the guy Ben murdered to become Kylo Ren, master of the knights thereof? He's hot
• snapshots of Kylo's training under Snoke, who is the Worst and wears a ferrero rocher wrapper as a robe

The many heinous crimes of Kylo Ren

Lots of being very murdery, usually wearing his dark warrior getup with a full face-covering helmet no-one in Abraxas (other than Rey) will recognise. You may have:

• a mixed bag of assaults on various enemies of the First Order, many of them massacres
• various interrogation scenes where Kylo tears his way into his prisoner's memories to retrieve information, could be with Poe specifically if you want
• that one time Kylo killed a god?

There is a light that never goes out

Times when Kylo wasn't actually very good at being murdery because he's only trying very hard to be evil. These include:

• Kylo praying to Darth Vader's ruined helmet for guidance when he's finding it hard to be suitably evil
• that time he killed his dad to satisfy Snoke but it did not help him resolve his internal conflict at all, this can be the scene itself or his dark master berating him afterwards while he looks extremely miserable about it
• his fight(s) with Rey where he basically just wanted to be friends
• that time he couldn't bring himself to kill his mom
• his decision to murder Snoke to save Rey and their sychronised teamup battle against Snoke's bodyguards
• any one of the many times Rey leaves him behind because she's just not into mass-murdering warlords and he goes wibbly-lipped over it but does nothing to change his behaviour

(please don't reply to this so I can edit it, thanks!)

Jon Snow | Game of Thrones | Emperor

[northerndragon]

Character Name: Jon Snow
Arcana: Emperor
Arcana Form: Mutable

What memories will your character share? I’ve listed them here! Please feel free to ask for others if you’re canon-familiar. The cave scene with Ygritte is off-limits, and I’d like to be careful with his death (mainly just to use it for interesting CR purposes).

Are you open to having your character experience others' memories? Absolutely!

Do you want to memory-walk with someone of a matching Arcana form? This is fine with me.

Is there anything you don't want to interact with? No, can’t think of anything!

General Plans: Just the basics. I assume if anyone hits me up, it’s going to be for “getting to know you” purposes. Jon is a character who is nice enough, and happy to tell people obvious stuff like “people hurt my family and it made me angry and sad,” but less willing to talk about his own emotional struggles. Some of these could be a short route to getting to know stuff he’d prefer not to talk about.

I’m super late to every single aspect of this event because of some personal stuff (COVID-related) — but since I’m still trying to do things with it, I still thought putting this post up might be helpful in case someone wants to tag in and needs a place to confer.