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caughtinanetwork2012-04-25 10:57 am
sorcery_fledgling) wrote in caughtinanetwork2012-04-25 10:57 am
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[Dream] Be careful what you wish for
[All Rinoa had wanted was to just take a nap. But really, seeing all these dreams being broadcasted on the network suddenly should have been a warning not to.
She was just... tired. She wanted to sleep, was all.
And so she did, curling up on her bed at her house to doze off. It wasn't going to be a nice nap, though. Oh no. Today, she was going to pay for that nap.
Her dream opens up to an auditorium. Up above on the podium is a woman in a deep black and purple feathery outfit, looking dazed. Down below, laying on the ground unconscious is a boy in a long gray coat.
The woman above suddenly collapses, but not before releasing all of her magic power. It's not an attack, but a "dying" sorceress passing on her powers before death.
Down below next to the KO-ed boy are five other teenagers, along with Rinoa. Vatheonites would recognize Squall and Selphie standing not far from where Rinoa is. Another one of the teenagers, a blonde girl with a whip suddenly shouts something, but Rinoa can't hear it. One moment she's trying to get to her feet, exhausted from the battle, and then she looks up and...
Nothing. For a long moment, everything's just white.
Rinoa then stands up, but something is clearly wrong. She's moving more like a marionette, with someone pulling on her strings. Her thoughts are blank, but she can still feel. She's terrified and panicked as her body moves without her command over towards the boy on the ground.
When she reaches him, she kneels down next to him and lifts up his torso and brings her head down next to his ear. What comes out of her mouth isn't her voice:
"Oh, my loyal knight, Seifer. The sorceress is alive. The sorceress demands."
Someone else is speaking through her, someone much more dangerous and powerful than the sorceress they had just dealt with.
"Find the legendary Lunatic Pandora, said to be hidden beneath the ocean. Only then shall the sorceress provide you with dreams again."
The boy sits up, partly in thanks to words and magic Rinoa - or more correctly the Sorceress inside of her - administers to him. As he gets up and walks away, he says, "As you wish, Ultimecia."
And then, for one last moment, Rinoa is left kneeling there, her eyes empty but slowly widening as, not normally visible to the naked eye but visible in this dream, the spirit - or consciousness if you will - of another woman exiting her body.
In that long moment, Rinoa realizes what has happened to her - what she's become - and manages one single thought:
Squall... I'm scared.
And then she collapses and everything goes dark.
[Upon waking, Rinoa lets out a terrified, blood-curdling scream as she jolts up from her bed. In her panic she knocks her SFC/Dreamberry hybrid thing off of her bed, where it had been laying next to her. It skitters across the floor, bouncing before it has a nasty face to face meeting with the opposite wall.
The last thing it records is Rinoa sobbing as she collapses to the floor, curled up into a ball before the feed cuts.]
((OOC: Rinoa is having something of a panic attack so her responses probably wouldn't be immediate and likely not entirely intelligible at first.
Also, I guess I should credit Square-Enix for this scene and the scene in Disc 3 in which Squall is sent back to watch the scene in Disc 2, since most of the dialogue that happens there is revealed only when he goes back. But yeah, credit to them since I pretty much ripped everything straight from the scenes in the game, including the dialogue. There's a wee bit of interpretation/headcanon in there, but not much.))
She was just... tired. She wanted to sleep, was all.
And so she did, curling up on her bed at her house to doze off. It wasn't going to be a nice nap, though. Oh no. Today, she was going to pay for that nap.
Her dream opens up to an auditorium. Up above on the podium is a woman in a deep black and purple feathery outfit, looking dazed. Down below, laying on the ground unconscious is a boy in a long gray coat.
The woman above suddenly collapses, but not before releasing all of her magic power. It's not an attack, but a "dying" sorceress passing on her powers before death.
Down below next to the KO-ed boy are five other teenagers, along with Rinoa. Vatheonites would recognize Squall and Selphie standing not far from where Rinoa is. Another one of the teenagers, a blonde girl with a whip suddenly shouts something, but Rinoa can't hear it. One moment she's trying to get to her feet, exhausted from the battle, and then she looks up and...
Nothing. For a long moment, everything's just white.
Rinoa then stands up, but something is clearly wrong. She's moving more like a marionette, with someone pulling on her strings. Her thoughts are blank, but she can still feel. She's terrified and panicked as her body moves without her command over towards the boy on the ground.
When she reaches him, she kneels down next to him and lifts up his torso and brings her head down next to his ear. What comes out of her mouth isn't her voice:
"Oh, my loyal knight, Seifer. The sorceress is alive. The sorceress demands."
Someone else is speaking through her, someone much more dangerous and powerful than the sorceress they had just dealt with.
"Find the legendary Lunatic Pandora, said to be hidden beneath the ocean. Only then shall the sorceress provide you with dreams again."
The boy sits up, partly in thanks to words and magic Rinoa - or more correctly the Sorceress inside of her - administers to him. As he gets up and walks away, he says, "As you wish, Ultimecia."
And then, for one last moment, Rinoa is left kneeling there, her eyes empty but slowly widening as, not normally visible to the naked eye but visible in this dream, the spirit - or consciousness if you will - of another woman exiting her body.
In that long moment, Rinoa realizes what has happened to her - what she's become - and manages one single thought:
Squall... I'm scared.
And then she collapses and everything goes dark.
[Upon waking, Rinoa lets out a terrified, blood-curdling scream as she jolts up from her bed. In her panic she knocks her SFC/Dreamberry hybrid thing off of her bed, where it had been laying next to her. It skitters across the floor, bouncing before it has a nasty face to face meeting with the opposite wall.
The last thing it records is Rinoa sobbing as she collapses to the floor, curled up into a ball before the feed cuts.]
((OOC: Rinoa is having something of a panic attack so her responses probably wouldn't be immediate and likely not entirely intelligible at first.
Also, I guess I should credit Square-Enix for this scene and the scene in Disc 3 in which Squall is sent back to watch the scene in Disc 2, since most of the dialogue that happens there is revealed only when he goes back. But yeah, credit to them since I pretty much ripped everything straight from the scenes in the game, including the dialogue. There's a wee bit of interpretation/headcanon in there, but not much.))
[video]
The older version of his rival from some weird alternate world or something!]
...why? Why do you know him?
[video]
And who did he mean, exactly?
Upset but confused, she found where the Dreamberry had landed and picked it up.]
Know who?
[video]
Seifer. How do you know him? He's from where I'm from. He shouldn't be there and he shouldn't be listening to creep body snatchers either if that is what was happening.
[Resting his forehead his hand and now mumbling to himself.] Geez. What is this place?
[video]
Seifer... You know him?
[This was... strange, to say the least.]
I met him last year, at least in my world's time. He's - was a student at Balamb Garden, training to be a mercenary soldier. But recently he turned against Garden and joined Sorceress Edea. Although it seems it wasn't exactly her he was following.
Body snatcher I guess is... one way of putting it. Seifer's... I don't know what he's thinking anymore.
[video]
I know him, but he isn't...that isn't him.
[A wave of his hand at the dreamberry.] None of that was him. We're both from Twilight Town. He doesn't go to any place called balloon or Baa Lamb Garden. And other than needing to call the shots around town and making the Disciplinary Committee, he's normal.
[A beat.]... this is just weird. Something straight out of Pence's books.
[video]
The Disciplinary Committee... with Fujin and Raijin. He had that back at Garden with them. Your Seifer sounds pretty similar to mine, although I hope yours doesn't go off the deep end.
...Honestly, I'm sort of half surprised but half not. We all come from different worlds. I suppose "doubles" are possible. Maybe.
[video]
Rai and Fuu as well, huh? [Maaaaan. He wondered if there was another version of him. How weird that would be!
He wasn't going to ask. He was afraid of whatever the answer is.]
This is seriously messed up. I can barely handle one of him... [Talking to himself mostly.] He even has the same scar.
That body snatcher isn't still like... in you, right?
[video]
[The whole thing was weird, even by Vatheon's standards. Sure, this was a possibility and she admitted that. But after the dream she had, talking about Seifer - let alone two of them - was a little unsettling.
Talking about Ultimecia is even more so, and it shows in the way she hunches up and looks away when Hayner asks her his question.]
No.
[video]
Yeah. We all kind of grew up together. [Something like that. Just sticking to Seifer conversation.] Does Seifer have dumb nicknames for people? Mine favors chicken wuss, blondie, and lamers. We fight all the time.
[video]
I think so. I've heard him call someone Chicken wuss before.