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HEARTFORGE - LiliS (Session 1)

You are in the heart of a massive forge. In front of you are tools, and your objective is clear - to use them to channel the strength of your heart and create.

What are you creating? Who can say. Only you - and only you'll know if - and when, it's good enough. The stories before you are not yours right now, but you'll make them yours soon enough.

And you will survive.

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[ Annnnd here's some worry. ]

... This has gotten really intense.

...mmn. I feel like... this is really important.

We have to protect ourselves. So-- we have to build the stroooooongest shield ever! Big and strong enough to protect us from anything!

Yeah, so we should load up as much as we can with each person doing as many as they feel comfortable with.

For the item, if it's something like a shield... how about a dome like our abilities? That should protect us on all sides.

Edited 2022-04-08 08:50 (UTC)

[ Wei Wuxian's heart is borderline sticking to the back of his throat with this next foray. His first life was rife with suitable memories and sentiments, even if he doesn't explicitly remember every single detail.

At the very least, he's fairly successful at smothering down the more invasive thoughts.

. . . Or so he's trying. ]

Its resilience will also be crucial.

[ Nodding, there's worry swirling around, but there's an equal confidence that they as a team can manage this. ]

I'll add in as much as I can.

Oooh! A dome is perfect!

I'll give it all I've got too.

It's a decent representation of us, at least.

[ A little bit quieter, reading over the rules for this round. You will suffer is playing on repeat in his head. After a moment, soft, ]

Works for me.

[ He knows he's got — good memories for these key words, but man. ]

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[ Is that worry he feels. ]

Alright. Let's get through this together, like we do.

[ There's definitely some worry. ]

Yeah. —Sorry ahead of time. I can... do some of these key words, but they're not gonna be fun.

You don't need to apologize to me- but are you okay with sharing them? I don't think any of us would want you showing stuff you don't feel comfortable with.

[ ...That's... well, the whole tenor of his emotional broadcast sure did just change. Lupine frowns. ]

—Yeah.

[ Pushes a hand through his hair. ]

Hey, I take all my memories here publicly. Not in the dorm, but. That's just because I'm not looking to subject anyone to anything ugly. [ Lipquirk. ] If any of you ever wanted to come with me, you'd be welcome to.

[ It's — hard to articulate exactly why he feels that as strongly as he does, but maybe Aster will get it through the permabond in here anyway. LiliS is just... his people, and he's theirs. All for one and one for all, or something corny like that. ]

If you ever feel like you'd be more comfortable having someone there with you in case a bad one happens, I think most if not all of us would be willing to join you. But otherwise, I'm content to be told whatever you think I need to know, and I'd do the same for you.

[ On Aster's end, there's that feeling of trust, but also the recognition that they don't necessarily need to bear everything for each other in order to have that trust. Just a comfortableness to ask each other without offense achieves that same feeling for him. ]

[ ...Man. Lupine shifts, arms crossing over his chest. The tiniest smile. ]

—Right back at you.

[ Lucky, that's what he is. He knows not everyone gets this. ]

[To forge their protection, she's willing to cast her subconscious thoughts to the times she's felt the most beat down.

And the memories come. One after another-- three of them.

...but just like in those memories, she puts on a smile that she doesn't fully mean. She understands now though. Why she wants to always smile. If she isn't smiling then she can't possibly hope to make others smile. That's why it's so important...

However, more importantly-- she gets a little choked up when she finally sees the members of her troupe. It's just a small chunk of memory in theory but she finally has reclaimed the memory of the faces of the people who are so very important to her.]

Everyone...!

[There's a great deal of warmth and affection just from that; even if it doesn't cover up the unpleasant feelings. She loves them a whole lot and just seeing them is really the best gift she could have asked for.]

Well... that should be a good start!!

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[Attempting to fortify the barrier once more, this time she thinks about the people she wants to see again, because she knows who they are now. And she's granted with a memory of infiltrating their school.]

[ —Shit. He doesn't want to, he knows what came out the last time he tried to do a memory-share for pain and they're going to feel it, but — losing this time around is going to hurt worse, so.

His turn hammering on what's slowly becoming a shield does not produce the same memory as last time, though; instead, it's a different game memory (mind the CWs), which leaves him shivering convulsively for a long moment after it ends. Fuck whatever gamerunner originally put that together, Izzy. ]

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[ But free is easier, right? A memory of being set free. He definitely has one of those. He does his best to focus on it, and—

—oh hey. About half of a memory he bought before, plus a little bit extra. ~~Start at the second video and keep playing until 4:10.~~ Lipquirk. Well, he'd figured on 'jail' being a pretty regular occurrence, but. Nice to have it confirmed, he supposes. ]

[Another hit and another memory-- this one about an accident during a rehersal for the troupe's halloween show. A robot zombie malfunctions; causing one of their members to take an unexpected fall. He's unconscious for quite some time, leaving everyone worried about him.

After only just regaining her memories of everyone; this leaves her heart racing especially hard.]

...that was really scary... b-but it was okay. I'm so glad...

[ Hey, Izzy's Ideal World, one more of your greatest hits. Full-body paralysis for a while, until he screwed up by choosing to skip.

Lupine winces a little and just — offers up an apologetic half-smile. ]

That one was... less awful, at least?

[ —Look, he shared the second half of this memory already, but the first half of it (~~go until the first video ends~~) literally ends with him being beaten unconscious, so like.........

Wincing a little. ]

Hopefully that — helps.

[ It takes Wei Wuxian some deliberation before he settles upon a decision, a memory which had been a critical turning point during his first life.

In summary, he's beaten by a group of soldiers and their leader. He's already anticipating death, having been close to it before reaching the beginning of the memory, and also is physically in a lot of pain. Almost as if he's been cut into and had something taken from his body. It continues, on and on, until the end. Just as Wei Wuxian is dropped unceremoniously from the sky, down to a cold, lifeless burial site of a mountain.

He feels lightheaded by the time the memory ends. It's enough to make him lower down to a seat upon the floor. Apart from the residual stress, pain, and terror, among others, guilt begins to edge at his thoughts. ]

[ please note: WWX's physical appearance in this memory is rather different- foreign, even, compared to the present. It takes place during his first life, in his original body. This is from even later in his first life, but, just to give a rough idea. Something like that. ]

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beat me and beat me and beat me...

if only i could see you one more time...

pain

free

fear

trapped

+ 1 beat me

beat me + fear + pain