PLAYER PLOT: attack on memories

[dreamsofwings]

Thanks to some selfishly-motivated shenanigans, Eren is going to use the Founding Titan's power to brain blast Ellipsa. Or…some of Ellipsa, since this is an opt-in event.

Affected characters will find themselves in The Paths (see above meme), a place out of time covered in white sand. Somewhere in the distance is what looks like a tree of light. No matter how much you walk, you won't reach it, it's always just in the distance/stretching into the sky. Normally this is a shingeki only sort of thing but thanks to Ellipsa magic, anyone can be affected!

What does this mean for your character? You have a couple options!

Option one: Memory share! This is pretty self-explanatory. Anyone nearby gets sucked into another person's memory! Both characters will be outside observers watching. These memories are not changeable. Other than that, go ham, see a lot or a little, try in vain to interact, whatever you'd like!

Option two: Idealised fantasy! Always wanted to hang out in the best possible ending? Now you can! Characters will find themselves living one of their fantasies. These are meant to be happy not sad or grim. Feel free to mashup your fantasies with whoever else gets stuck there with you. Whether or not your character realises they are in a fantasy is up to you.

Of course you can do both of the options above.

Option three is that this whole thing just doesn't affect your character and they go on living as if this wasn't a thing.

It's also up to you whether your affected character realises that Eren is the one who caused this. It won't be a secret, and since he'll be at least superficially connected to anyone in the Paths, that could work both ways. Eren will close this connection as soon as he realises what's been done, effectively slamming everyone back out into the real world. That transition will be abrupt and could be temporarily disorienting when your character wakes up.

Affected characters will fall asleep suddenly. The event lasts for one IC day, but since time in the Paths is completely meaningless, your character can feel like they were there for as long as you want. Hours, weeks, forever.

I'm aiming to post the event log on 10 December but I'm on UTC-8 time so it might be the 11th for some of you by the time I get it up.

This post is for plotting! Feel free to use the template below if you like.

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Memories shared:</b> <b>Idealised fantasy ideas:</B> <b>Anything else:</b>

If you have questions about the event, ask them here.

Comments

[dreamsofwings]

tbh it wasn't anything you haven't learned through rp osmosis anyway I think?
BUT if you'd rather a christmas miracle where Hiji sees him happy I'm not opposed! Like phew, ya boy did have some good times. And also child soldier training times w/e but those weren't bad in his opinion.

[mayoninofukucho]

Yeah, it wasn't anything new or shocking!

I've decided to go for the bad option. Hijikata will find out!! Merry Christmas! #Hohoho

[dreamsofwings]

It's ok, sometimes your babygirl commits genocide to save his friends IT'S FINE
also technically he...didn't! yet! /CRAUGHS INTO THE SKY

[mayoninofukucho]

It's not fine when you're a cop!! But watch that technicality become the loophole Hijikata uses to justify his continued babygirlification of Eren... "He hasn't done that yet! He hasn't broken any laws!"

[dreamsofwings]

HIJI HE'S A WAR CRIMINAL HE HAS DONE MANY CRIMES
just not The Big One hahaha
also he's known Eren for the better part of a year and he's only sort of a lunatic so it's fine, right? f i n e

[mayoninofukucho]

HE CAN SMILE... Hijikata can die happy (temporarily) once he unlocks this icon ICly!!
Eren has been doing so well, truly... unless it says more about Hijikata that in all this time he hasn't noticed anything off about him. But Gintamas are so strange (and even the Shinsengumi is frankly kind of criminal, from vandalism of public property to abuse of authority), he has a bit of an excuse... although this is kind of the opposite of an excuse, isn't it?

[dreamsofwings]

YOUR ICON IS KILLING ME LMAO

Someday hopefully soon Eren will unlock "crying" and then at long last "smiling." IT'S A GOAL

He does pretty okay for Eren, though this whole accidentally zapping a bunch of people into the Paths thing isn't going to win him points, whoops!

Hiji isn't completely wrong about Eren, like, a lot of his personality is just PTSD at this point (though some of that is self-inflicted, whatever). He's been through absolute hell, sometimes his own fault and sometimes not!

[mayoninofukucho]

The mayonnaise factory delusion is the only time we see him truly happy... and good going, Eren!! Don't give up! You can unlock all the emotions, like you unlocked multiple titan powers!

Yeah, that's a fair assessment! Just... man... all the things Eren's had to deal with (and made his friends/island/world deal with)...