HEARTFORGE - LiliS (Session 5)

[idolpro]

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.

Comments

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

Re: DISCUSSION

[at_heart]

[ And here we go, here are the higher stakes. Have some trepidation, he still doesn't know how their last round shook out. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[wonderofwonders]

Time to counter attack!!

[The past is the past, she's blazing forward as always, no regrets! She's proud of what they did no matter what.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[at_heart]

[ —Baby. Also wow, these keywords are way less miserable than last time, his lips quirk up. ]

That's the spirit.

gift to a friend

[at_heart]

+2

[at_heart]

[ ...this one, he's pretty sure he can do. He even has something in mind for it immediately, and for once that's exactly what comes out: bolstering Ali during Hurricane and Nemesis's combined Ideal World. A Dirty 20, as the kids call them. The memory goes right up until she returns the favor by blasting the doors off the church door with him and Angelo's aid. ]

—Heh. Well, I think she'd say it counts.

[ And you know what else, he's going to double-up: have their fundraising live for Zari, too, even though this one makes him rub the side of his nose. ]

It's not all bad here.

dignity

[at_heart]

Re: dignity

[syckophant]

[Eichi Gives Lupine some dignified speeches during Sanctuary!]

Re: dignity

[at_heart]

[ Eichi is the King of Dignity in here, it's true. Lupine is also going to be making the tiniest face (wrinkled nose), because that conversation's a little more embarrassing to have replayed from Eichi's perspective. Especially if it goes on long enough for the blood offering, that heartbeat when Eichi thought he was going to be attacked—

R, rubbing the back of his neck and looking elsewhere. ]

doubt

[at_heart]

+1

[at_heart]

[ Well, there's a guy in his memory he's mentally referring to as Sketchy Guy, does that count? It's not self-doubt, but maybe it'll help anyway. The first half of this memory, until they take the wrong elevator, and — again, Lupine is noticeably relieved when the memory cuts off. ]

...It's a kind of doubt, anyway.

Re: doubt

[wonderofwonders]

[She didn't want to have to dig up certain memories again but... if it's "doubt"... then those moments were probably the best ones for it.

So she shares one of them-- though she tries very pointedly to think of happy things while it's playing and ignore it the best she can because she doesn't want to worry the others....]

Re: doubt

[at_heart]

...Better than mine.

[ Soft, and — well, ordinarily he'd put a hand on her shoulder, but in this game he can just kind of. Project it at her, can't he? Warmth and comfort and just... caring about her. ]

Re: doubt

[wonderofwonders]

It's... better than the other one. About my family.

[She tries to smile but. It's not like her usual smiles. She can pretend but... the truth is, she's worried. About a lot of things.]

devastating social awkwardness

[at_heart]

[ hosts, or possibly other idols, wtf ]

+1 [cw: there's some borderline nsfw beyond the cut-off point]

[at_heart]

[ ..........................................he knows he can handle this one, but he's already wincing. Please. Please, she's baby. ] [ And out it comes, his second meeting with Tea and the first time he ever got someone else's memories on his phone, and oh thank god it ends when Tea says "We wizards are the squishy sort, you know," because if it hadn't he would have simply expired on the spot. ]

...Yeah. Well.

[ Stupid heat in his stupid face, it stopped just short of Ear Nonsense. ] [ Also enjoy ALL OF HIS FLUSTER, both in the memory and from remembering it, followed by a surge of relief he tries to shove down as hard as he possibly can when it stops. ]

existential uncertainty

[at_heart]

Re: existential uncertainty

[syckophant]

[Eichi will use the memory of himself before Imeeji for this. CW: death/isolation in hospital

Seventeen years, in and out of hospitals. More in than out, truly. Day in and day out of Eichi lying in his hospital bed, his head angled toward the window as he stares out of it. During the day, he often sees people out there, walking around, running around, doing various tasks as they go.

People outside the window, far from where he is. Where his body refuses to free him from. There is a short time in which a red-haired boy joins him in his hospital room, but it only serves to deepen the soul-crushing loneliness when his arm heals and Eichi is once more alone. Always alone.

And eventually, it is in the same hospital room, alone, that eventually it ends. After being left alone for the night, seemingly stable enough, Eichi's eyes close, and his breathing stops, and nothing manages to get it to start back up again. Where will his soul go? This sad, lonely boy, who could not even bring himself to believe in a god?]

Re: existential uncertainty

[at_heart]

[ ............................................ ] [ The best part of this is definitely the constant empathy bond, so that he can feel everything in the memory and everything after it and... ]

—You...

[ Sorry, his mouth is a little dry. That was... so much, all at once. ]

+1

[at_heart]

[ —And he's sorry to pile on here, but. It's important. So he pushes out a breath and... shares the conclusion of his time in Izzy's Ideal World. The memory is a little distorted, a little fast-forwarded, but you get all the weariness, all of the — Am I alone here? Am I even really talking to Izanagi? How long have I been in this 'world'? feelings.

He came out of that game feeling unreal, too, which is why he clung to so many people during the endgame. Just. Needed confirmation that he was actually a person who actually existed and actually — made any kind of impact on anyone else, heh.

It's a ride, and he winces when it peters out on the way out of the garden. ]

confident/shameless

[wonderofwonders]

shameless [it's like. baby!nsfw but there are Implications]

[wonderofwonders]

[A memory of confidence or shamelessness doesn't seem impossible. And it is in fact not. One shows itself.]

Wahahahaha!! So much fun!

1/

[at_heart]

[ ............................................ ] [ This is the 'Tsukky keeps kidnapping his cousin' situation all over again, except this time he knows about it. ]

Re: shameless [it's like. baby!nsfw but there are Implications]

[at_heart]

Well. The important part is that you had fun.

+1

[at_heart]

[ Despite having a lot of things he's currently embarrassed about right now, Lupine can still drum up something for this: just a short conversation, where he is literally called shameless for being willing to walk around in just a tanktop and what are basically pajama pants.

Eheh. Could be way worse. ]

Well, if it's comfortable...

[ SHRUG. ]