Eclipse's Heart Game ☉ Session #1

[idolpro]

You drift like you're floating in water. It's almost relaxing, actually. As long as you don't think too hard that what you're floating in may be bottomless, because under you lies only a deep darkness that only the ocean can provide.

Then, something grabs you and drags you deeper, down, down, down into the abyssal depths. You can't breathe, but that's not on the forefront of your mind now, is it?

There is a mounting sense of anxiety and dread.

Who do you want to become? Will you even get to see tomorrow? What if all roads lead to ████████? Can you still stay '███'? If people see the ████ you, will they think less of you? Will they feel cheated?

You want to live. Even if it's a ███, even if your hands must be covered in █████, you want to live. You want to be '███'.

Finally, a voice pierces through the darkness. It's a woman's voice.

"My, how unfortunate. Your journey ends before it even begins.

"... Just kidding. That would be terribly boring! I suppose I can do the boy a favour just this once."

You feel someone grab your arm and pull you up to the surface.

...

When you come to, you are standing somewhere else.

Comments

[intheshade]

"Oh, he's been trying to look towards the future. As much as he is also anxious about it, but that's a normal feeling I think.

It's just also much harder to put terrible experiences behind him than he would like. Or rather, there's not much else he knows to do besides put them in a box and try to move on."

[weenwoon]

[He hums thoughtfully.]

Ah... that may be the problem, yes? Rather than a thing to be locked away, the past is more akin to a tangled ball of yarn. And there is no peace without order. The past, too, has a place to occupy.

[It's so much easier to talk about this when you don't have traumatic memories!]

[intheshade]

"He would probably say putting it in a box is also putting it in order, of sorts. Some scars you do not wish to show because they invite too many questions or pity.

Ahh, but that's beyond my authority to talk much more about. I'll let that one handle it.

If you really insist, you can head into the city and follow the signs."

[weenwoon]

[Levity nods. It's not that putting it in a box is wrong, as such, but you have to know what you put there, why, and where to put the box itself. If the things in the box still haunt you, there's not point to the box.]

That one? Do you mean Eclipse himself?

[intheshade]

"If you want to get technical about it, everyone else you'll meet here is Eclipse, in some sense. I may be the only exception, and even then he's not entirely sure!"

[weenwoon]

[Oh! Well, that's a little easier for Levity to understand. He had a dream similar to this a while ago.]

Well, then... I'll be sure to say hi to him! And to the part of you that is him, too.

[intheshade]

She smiles. It's a little more real.

"Safe journeys, Levity."

The city waits.