You're at the reintro. You're at the heartgame. You're at the combination reintro/heartgame.

[idolpro]

Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.
- Pablo Neruda

✦

bought a bubblegum scented sword so the last thing
my enemies realise is how fun and cute i am
- wolfpupy

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Re: 3/3: THE BATTLEFIELD

[gravitydefier]

[even without memories, something about the battlefield, the concept of war, feels familiar.

(he notes the things he observes.)

he walks...towards the pond.]

Re: 3/3: THE BATTLEFIELD

[ninuanni]

The surface of the pond is mirror-smooth, and reflects velvet-dark night sky, moonless and glimmering with stars—and each and every one of those stars is falling.


It is peaceful here. And you know: here, in the water, is the way home.

Re: 3/3: THE BATTLEFIELD

[gravitydefier]

[he wades into the pond.

in the water, somewhere...beneath the surface? so he's going to dive under the water, then.]

Re: 3/3: THE BATTLEFIELD

[ninuanni]

It is dark, in the deeps, like the dark of the sky had come down into the water itself. In fact, it is too dark to see anything; you can only feel how far the dark stretches: a welcoming void.

To find Her, drown yourself in a circle of stars.

...But you haven't found anything yet, and your lungs are starting to strain.

Re: 3/3: THE BATTLEFIELD

[gravitydefier]

[in a circle of stars...he remembers the circle of stars from the surface of the water.

he had told Zhongli that he thought it was selfish to try not to at least live. but this would be drowning with a purpose. is this the way forward? wherever this is...

and he fights his body's instincts to go back to the surface, to try to breathe, and forces himself to stay here.]

Re: 3/3: THE BATTLEFIELD

[ninuanni]

It's hard to drown yourself, even intentionally. Every instinct of the body fights against it.

...But you hold yourself under, and you let the water fill your lungs as you submerge yourself completely.

It seems as though the water reflects the void not just on the surface but underneath, for it is dark, too dark to see anything—but there is not need to be afraid, for here the void is right, it is warm, it is good—and though it looked to only be a pond it's so, so much deeper than that, and you find yourself like a weight, sinking

down, and

down, and



down.









You emerge from the water to a starry sky.