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Persephone ideal world session 2

In the flicker of a candle-flame, in the stir of still water, in the fluttering of flower petals, there is a voice.

Once, there was a maiden...
...who was the living embodiment of everything right in the world.
While she lived, no real harm could come to anyone. Oh, wounds, disease, even death, sure. But she stood between the world and anything worse.
"Except," she said, "I'm going to die." And no one listened.
"I'm going to die tomorrow," she said. And no one heard.
Into the silence, she said: "There's always an ending, after all."

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The phone displays the following:

Once, there was a maiden...
...who lived in a tomb, and the tomb was made in her image.
Because she lived in a tomb, she became like the dead.
She slept, and dreamed.
And sometimes, woke, and walked within the confines of her tomb.
"Why do you move?" her own ghost asked. "Why walk at all?"
"I am not trapped while yet I run," said she.

Wake Persephone from his dream. Convince him to return to reality.

Warnings: self-sacrifice/martyrdom is the big one. also avoidable references to sexual coercion and abusive romantic relationships.
No powers, whether imeeji or canon ones, function while in Persephone's ideal world. Also all corruptions are gone while in here, they'll be back upon leaving.
You can have whatever items you would have on you, except weapons. Technological items don't function, except for the phone, which only displays the instructions.
Weapons can either just be Not Here and return to your possession after leaving the ideal world or they can turn into a flower of your choice and turn back on leaving the ideal world.
Any character who identifies as male primarily and is 1) physically over the age of 20 or 2) identifies as/considers himself an adult temporarily physically deages to being a youth (so, physically a teenager). This is physical only and temporary, it reverses on leaving the ideal world. Basically the idea is "No Men in Persephone's ideal world". The deaging effect will resize your clothes along with you.
If you are in the same location as other characters, you can talk to them. ~~Please do, it would amuse me.~~

Edited 2022-01-02 01:51 (UTC)

You find yourselves standing in a garden, twilight shading towards night, and the moon is beginning to rise. It's a very beautiful garden, peaceful and serene, with all kinds of flowers: white lilies, blooming sakura, all of sensitIV's position flowers both past and present (especially wisteria). There are a few other flowers mixed in, too, like amaranth. An occasional shimmering butterfly will wing its way past.

In addition to the flowers, in the garden is a large pond: very still, very mirrorlike. There is also a tall, slender youth with long pale hair and purple eyes with constellations in them, here too. He is resting among the flowers, as if he is waiting for someone, though he has bit of a harried body language, too.

[you enter the wisteria maze. it's a lot like the one in Persephone's bedroom except even darker somehow.

the paths are winding, and you can either go straight through as the map leads or explore some. maybe out of the corner of your eye, you might see a slim, small shape for the briefest of moments, off the path.]

Edited 2022-01-02 03:08 (UTC)

[the shrine is...well, a shrine. very Japanese. very pretty, surrounded by gardens and located very close to a river. you can probably follow the path and explore around to eventually find the maiden's room.

Edited 2022-01-02 05:33 (UTC)

[so this house is set off to the side, a small house surrounded by a garden (more wisteria) and a still pool among the willows. in the distance, you can see a small village whose architecture can best be described as Sengoku crossed with cottagecore: this house is also like that, but with some sIV-y elements to it.]

Edited 2022-01-02 05:28 (UTC)

[[the maze leads downward, downward, downward. wisteria and sakura and white roses, except that this one, the ground is lined with rose thorns, sharp and wicked.

the entire path is lined with thorns.]

Edited 2022-01-02 07:06 (UTC)

[seriously don't worry about it]

[Well

time to just take a moment to admire the rising moon. Nyx will read the instructions in a second when he's less distracted.]

[HELLO]

[HERE IS]

[A VERY SMALL BOY]

[Who is a teenager, he is just smol]

....seriously?

[ . . . looking around the garden for a moment, before he goes to the pond. ]

. . . Excuse me.

[ —Well. This isn't completely unfamiliar, but you're gonna have to give him a moment because uhhhhhh ]

[ These are beautiful. He leans down to pluck a single wisteria bloom.

Also rules don't apply to the rock gender apparently. Now he's really taller than everyone. ]

Edited 2022-01-02 02:10 (UTC)

[ finally i am taller ]

. . . It's a beautiful view.

[To wake Persephone up from this, a dream. That's his goal. Him, of all people...

Hades looks around at the environment, furrowing his brow and noticing that his body feels a little weird. No dog ears, for one! And a little shorter, his muscle all wiry, and his hair doesn't go so far down his back. In fact, it's all pulled up into a messy bun, refusing to stay in place as it had some time ago.]

..... It feels a little bad to ruin such a lovely dream.

[But no dream can go on forever, right? You have to wake up eventually.]

[ stalls for a time just to admire the scenery before approaching ]

Um - are you okay...?

[ So, he's only a few inches shorter and noticeably skinnier, lucky him, but what the hell, Perse. Why is he like... generously, seventeen all of a sudden? ]

[ ...Nice of him to tailor all the clothes, though, this outfit should definitely be baggier now that he's like, 500% more waif by volume. ]

[He really did just get beaten with the puberty bat.]

Luci?

...mm. It's quiet.

[Okay NOW he'll read the instructions. Hm.]

[ And also super not the point! ] [ And shit, there are other people here, time to coordinate.

So, ~~presumably after talking to some of his fellow dream divers,~~ he'll approach — oh. Oh, you're a teen too, maybe that's why? ]

...Perse?

Edited 2022-01-02 02:12 (UTC)

[you were in Persephone's heart game, so you recognize him, even as a youth, as Kirsi.]

Hello again.

[it's easy to pluck the wisteria flower, and there's plenty more where it came from.

...huh. it's made of silk. not quite like Liyue's Silken Flowers, but like the finished product.]

This must be Persephone-san's dream, mm. . . ?

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Persephone ideal world session 2

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