Hey guys, I didn't want to make an official thread in the Writer's Nook for this since I am certain at some point in the RP every memory in this will be used, albeit not in order. At the same time, I wanted to start writing some stuff out. So if anyone does happen to follow this... they are "ahead of the game" but if not, then that's fine. This is mainly for me if anything at all. [also corny title just for the sake of having a title] Note: I am labeling memories but there really isn't a rhyme or reason specifically except it will help me easier access which one I need and help me keep things in order. I will not be introducing memories in order. Thank you for reading! -cstar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Memory 4e "You do know they aren't going to do anything to you... right, Kaida? They're being as kind and accommodating as they can considering-" "It wasn't that, you're only hearing their catchup stories over the past two months. It isn't the same now." "Why is it any different? Is it because I'm still alive despite t-" "SHH. I don't want to talk about that." "But I'm not wrong, am I?" Kaida was standing at the foot of Seiza's bed. Her arms were crossed and she wasn't looking in Seiza's direction. Her hair was covering her face awkwardly, since it was longer than she usually had her hair. She was wearing a gray long-sleeved shirt and a pair of black capris. Meanwhile Seiza was still in a hospital gown with 8 machines hooking him in, and while none of them were hooked into his face it was still disturbing for at least Kaida to look at anyway. Kaida fixed her hair and turned back to Seiza with a look of irritation, "It isn't you being alive percy-" "Percy?" "Percy." "Per se?" "Per se--but rather because you haven't been awake in two months." Seiza let out a light chuckle which made Kaida react in worry that he was going to hurt himself laughing, but she immediately calmed down when she realized how over-dramatic she may have been. Seiza leaned his elbow on an armrest the bed had (mainly to help people get out of the bed.) and he leaned his jaw into his arm replying jokingly, "You mean to tell me that you weren't freaking out over the fact I could have been dead?" "They had you on life support I could only hope that-" "Kaida it's fine, I understand." "No you don't and I don't know how you are taking this situation so calmly." "Kaida-" "HOW are you taking this so calmly? We in a completely different world we don't know, you're injured-" "-Kaida-" "-and it's because of a really stupid event brought about by me and now you're sitting here in a hospital bed hooked up to machines and they're telling you that you might not be able to-" "KAIDA." Kaida shut up immediately and held up her arm in apology and her face was filled with horrible concern. Seiza placed his hand up to his chest, his hand shaking. After a few seconds he looked Kaida straight in the eyes and spoke in a pained tone, "I am not calm. I'm trying not to make you worry. It clearly is not working." Seiza took a deep breath and pointed towards the door and spoke, "Maybe you do need to get out of this room. I can only imagine how stir crazy you must be right now." "I don't want to leave you here alone." "Kaida, I need time alone." "Really? No one needs time alone." "Please just-" "I can wait until you're ready and then we can both get out of here together and get off of this crazy world,. Maybe head home but I know it must be killing you sitting in this room and I don't want you to be the only one suffering. After all you wanted off of the world so you could travel around and not be leashed to a-" "Listen L e m o n." The tone was in such a scary tone that it made Kaida back up before he growled, "I am going to say this in the appropriate language I should speak to a ten year old. You are pissing me off, get the- fugg out of here before I have to get out of this bed and throw you out." "B-" "One word. Try one word. I dare you Lemon. I dare you." Kaida clenched her fist and ran out of the room slamming the door behind her. She kept on running despite having no idea where she was. But she finally did stop at the end of a corridor. With a couple more steps she found herself slipping down the wall and hugging her knees right to her chest. She sat there for almost an hour before footsteps approached her and stopped. "Are you alright, Kaida?" Kaida looked up at the adult that had approached her and she growled, "Leave me alone." "Alright grumpy but wouldn't you rather go outside?" "No." "But it is really nice out. There aren't too many clouds in the sky." Kaida thought about it for a moment. She loved looking at the sky when it was nice out and the sky was clear. You could see a lot more stars and everything seemed prettier to her that way. Kaida shrugged and stood up replying, "Okay fine... I'll go..." "Alright, follow me." They lead her to the door for a courtyard. Kaida had a feeling she would be able to contemplate things a little better as she looked at all the constellations. It was easier to think when everything was cool and calm. As soon as the adult opened the door Kaida had run outside as fast as she could and she froze. It was very bright, she couldn't see and she just stood there terrified. There was a heat that burned at her skin, and before she could process anything fully she screamed and ran back inside. The door shut behind her and Kaida fell to the floor rubbing her eyes. The adult that was with her tried to grab her but she pushed their arm and away and flailed screaming, not trusting anything. After about five minutes she could see again and she looked at her arms, which were already a slight red. "Wow, I have never seen someone get a sunburn so quickly before." "A SUNBURN? WHAT IS A SUNBURN?" "It's when you get exposed to the sun for too long and it... well... it just really hurts and it gets worse the longer you are out in the sun." "Oh. That's... wonderful... only one problem. WHAT IS A SUN?!" "The bright ball of light in the sky?" "Oh wha-" "You can't tell me you've never seen the sun before." Kaida just stared blankly for the longest time, the adult let out a light chuckle before they help up a keyblade and casted heal on her. Kaida's skin was still red but according to the adult the pain should be gone from it. When they asked her if she wanted to go outside again, Kaida shook her head and stared at the door in horror.
Memory 5 Kaida was now officially forced to go outside and get fresh air. Despite the fact she herself had found out there was another half of the world that was night time all the time. They wanted her to get used to the sun, because on this world the night side was only used for research, medical bays, and places for people to eventually go to bed. Perpetual night sounded a lot better to her but that was clearly not an option. When they got her outside, the first thing she usually did was find a spot for shade. One place she had found and often frequented was a tree not too far away from the door but far enough out for her to not be scolded for not being in the sun. Sometimes she snuck a book or two outside and read about night and day. Oh how she wished there was a sort of sunset on this planet, she wouldn't mind that. When Seiza was in motion again, and they let him take breaks out, they usually did not let him out in the sun (due to the fear that since was much older than her and he was not in the sun for much longer, plus there was the fact he was still hooked up to some machines) but at the very least they'd let Kaida go with him outside in the night side. It at least made her feel encouraged enough to whittle again, mostly because Seiza mentioned wanting her to carve out a moon for him. A small one, but still a replica of the moon. She brought the wood outside when she was in the shade under the tree and found herself focusing in on the moon. She was not necessarily hating the world as much as she was missing being night all the time. Just from being outside in the dayside made Kaida lose a lot of her developed night-vision. One time, a kid from the academy asked her what she was still doing there if she was not part of it. She just got annoyed by them and told them to leave her alone whenever they approached her with such questions. She sometimes put up her hood to make her less noticeable and just hoped she would get out of there at some point. Kaida had to get a long sleeved shirt after a certain point, the sunburns were becoming such a health concern. Someone mentioned casually at some point, "Well at least she'll have a nice tan when it settles in." One day, Kaida was half asleep under a tree with her sleeves fully rolled down, on that day one of the adults mentioned to her that she needed to get out of that shade at some point. She was fully content with being in the dark, and she was certain nothing was going to change that thought. She heard a bit of motion in her half daze and saw something drop to the ground out of the corner of her eye. She looked up but she could not make out what the object was, but she did see the individual who dropped it. They seemed to be heading away from there and Kaida looked back over at the object. She certainly did not want this person to lose something important so she yelled to them from her shadowed hiding spot, "You dropped something!" The individual stopped and turned around mumbling, "Hm?" they looked around and saw the object and picked it up. When they did this Kaida could see it was some sort of pouch. "Oh, so I did...Thank you mysterious voice from somewhere!" They looked around before they found Kaida, who at this point was angled mostly away from them. She was hiding behind the tree though, and that was evident. "Ahh, Hello voice from over there!" they looked around before they stepped a little forward continuing, "Are you... hiding from some one?" Kaida shook her head and squinted to try and see them better, and was able to at least see them. Although the voice was a little high at this point, the person she was talking to was a boy about her age with blue hair. She looked up at the sky before replying, "Huh? Oh... not someone, rather, something." "Heartless?!" they quickly looked around as if alerted, while Kaida just looked plain confused. "No, uh... something else. But, you'll... you'll think I'm ridiculous if I tell you." The boy shook their head in respond and spoke, "You did me a favor when you let me know I dropped this. Last thing I would do is mock you for a fear. We're all allowed to be scared of things... it's what allows us be brave." Kaida thought about whether or not she should just go ahead and tell him, but it just seemed to slip out anyway, "W-well, they kick me out of the buildings every once in a while to get "fresh air" but um... I'm afraid of the sun..." The boy looked up to the sky and squinted their eyes, then shielded their eyes, "Well it can be pretty intense. But why would you be afraid of it?... I mean.. it's light." "Well... I come from a world where its "always night" and well..." Kaida walked a few steps forward, still staying in the shade, but getting close enough so the boy could see what she was talking about. On her arms were some pretty bad sunburns, "I got these in less than three minutes. And that's a new record when it comes to longest amount of time." The boy seemed to stare calmly at the burns and looked up at her, "Another world?... Cool! But the sun burning you isn't. so we'll just have to fix that!" the boy looked into a bag to his side and looked for something. He pulled out one of the academy helmets and held it up towards her, "Ta-da! Sunblock for your head! I just got accepted a few days ago, so I'm still learning, but this helmet should block out the sun from hurting your head at least. See if it fits!" Kaida stared at the helmet and accepted it, she then placed it on her head but everything felt awkward and very loose, "Is this right? I can't see a thing." The boy laughed at her before turning the helmet around and adjusting it so she could see him through it, "There... better?" and then he smiled. Kaida let out a quick gasp before grabbing the helmet, "Oh... OH IT WAS BACKWARDS." she couldn't stop laughing before she continued, "Yeah, that's a lot better." The boy laughed along before continuing, "Okay. now you have protection. Now you don't have to be afraid." he walked more out of the shade and held out a hand towards her, "Just roll downs your sleeves and you're good to go. I won't anything hurt you... I promise." Kaida hesitated for just a moment before rolling down her sleeves and accepting their hand, "A-alright..." The boy slowly started to pull Kaida out more into the sun saying, "Are you still afraid?" "Shh don't remind me." "Remind you of what?" "The su-" Kaida freaked out right then and pulled away and backed back into the shade. The boy sighed whole-heartedly before replying, "Okay... then I'll stay in the shade with you until you're ready to come out." "Uh-huh, right. Sure. It might take a while." The two sat in silence for a few minutes in the shade before she decided to formally introduce herself. She held her hand out towards them as if to shake their hand and spoke, "I'm Kaida." The boy did not return the handshake and instead smiled and spoke, "Hikaru." Kaida placed her hand down awkwardly before shrugging, "Hikaru huh? What made you pick a name like that?" "Not sure. I don't really remember my parents, but I was raised in the village so long as I can remember... What made them call you Kaida?" Kaida leaned back against the tree and spoke, "Oh well, we pick our names where I'm from, what we feel really speaks to us. That's why I ju- I'm not used to this whole not from the same world thing." "That's what this world is for. A home for those who have none... So I welcome you to your new home Kaida" Kaida was quiet and stared off and mumbled, "Thank you." she was wondering about whether or not she was regretting the fact she did have a home. And she wanted to go back for a moment there. But while having these thoughts, Hikaru touched his head against the helmet she was still wearing to see past the goggles, "You're welcome..." Kaida reassured herself about going out in the sun, she felt a sort or rejuvenated courage and decided to try it again, "Alright... alright, one more time." "Nah, I'm good" Hikaru kicked back and continued, "I'm used to life without the sun now. Don't think I can go back to that life. The warm sun against your body and filling you with such a happy sensation is not the life for me." "I wasn't aware people enjoyed being sad. Congratulations. I've now learned three or four things today." She waited a moment before she grabbed Hikaru's leg and tried to pull him out, "Alright smart guy I get your trick, get up." "No!! My dark abyss! Don't take me back!" Kaida dropped his leg and backed up more into the sun. She rolled her sleeves up and felt the burning immediately begin to worsen. Then she took off the helmet and placed it to the ground. Kaida took a deep breath and spoke, "Alright then. I will stand here until you get out of that shade." Hikaru waited a moment and Kaida found herself cringing from the pain before Hikaru ran over and placed the helmet back on her head, "Okay, okay, I've seen the errors of my ways! I have seen the light!" he waited a moment before smiling at her, "And now... so have you." Hikaru grabbed her hand and spoke, "Kaida, meet the sun." Kaida looked up as she spoke, "Hi sun, please stop hurting me..." Hikaru chuckled as he continued, "I think you'll get along with time... Time... ackk! I'm late!!" he started to jet off to a building as he yelled, "It was great meeting you! I'll meet you back here tomorrow to talk about the sun and junk!" He ran off again and Kaida shouted back, "Thank you Hikaru.... oh! Wait!" she pulled the helmet off of her head and ran after Hikaru, "Wait! You forgot your helmet!"
Memory 1a Spoiler: The workings and descriptions of Starlite Paradise Starlite Paradise, a world where outside of buildings, the only source of light is the stars and the moon. The huts outdoors look old, almost as if from some sort of medieval village in the country. But the outdoor appearance is not something to judge it from. Inside, everything seems pretty technologically advanced. Sure, there were things they did not have, but for a small world that is cut off from the universe, it does just fine. The village is set on low ground, around the village are the plateaus no one really uses. Beyond the plateaus is more flatland, and then mountains surrounding the leftover area. No one who ever went to the mountains returned, and considering how high and unstable they were, people just assumed those who left had met their end. The affairs of this world are different than most. They learn, they work, they do what they please. The world's calendar is based on the lunar cycle, and the moon travels around the sky in a circle indicating a day, the more to the eastern plateau it is, the closer to the Report moon it is. Curfew moon is to the western plateau. Report moon is where the day starts, and Curfew is where it ends. The village responds and gathers when a flare is signaled. The color signals the event. Red is the gathering flare for events and important announcements. Orange is the missing child flare, which usually the missing child responds to. The blue flare is the emergency flare, when something is going horribly wrong. And the white flare is the purity flare, which is the flare that shoots off during marriages and adulthood ceremonies. Families do not exist. Parents exist, but are not labeled as 'mother or father'. After a child is born they are moved from the family. There is a foster system, where all the kids go and are observed to see what their talents and hobbies are. They are then moved when they turn ten to a different home where they are put into a job category that suits their wants and needs. There are apprenticeships for ages before ten, which are commonly used. Parents are still acknowledged as parents, and kids often know who they are, and thank them on important occasions for giving them life, but other than that they are usually distant. Marriages still exist, with the soul purpose of fulfilling the feelings of love. Whoever they deem their soul mate, it is generally accepted. The two tend to be in the same job, but are not always. The village itself does not have a name, since they do not need to tell anyone where they are from. They worry about their own affairs, and it is very rare and generally frowned upon for people to "pretend" there are other places out there. Nothing truly happens to them other than them being excluded and outcasted. There are no "murders" or "penalties". On extremely rare occasions, banishment occurs. This has only happened 4 times in the village's history In this world, people wear bright colors in order to be seen easier since it is so dark. Especially children, who tend to be dressed in bright whites, yellows, reds, and greens. Adults can wear duller colors, and all adults are given a special mechanism that allows for light to shine briefly in the area in order for them to see things better. Blacks, navy blues, and browns are extremely frowned upon because they are intentionally worn to not be seen. There is no reason someone should not be seen in this world. The park in the south part of the village was filled with children, running around and letting off energy. They were playing games like tag, ring around the rosy, and there was one game of hide and seek going on. A boy was covering his eyes and counting to a hundred as best as they could, then they began looking for the other kids. There were a total of nine he had to find, and soon he was down to two. He looked up in the trees and found one of them, but one of them was left unfound. "Okaaay, the game is ooover. You do not need to hide as good as you aaaare." they looked around laughing and no one could find them. After a moment one of the kids said, "Ugh is it Lemon hiding again? We'll never find her!" "Lemoooon we are done with this round! Please come out..." A little yellow girl poked her head out from behind a tree and spoke, "I'm right here." The kids jumped and one let out a scream before the boy who was seeking said, "Hey! Did you move around? You aren't supposed to do that!" "There are no rules about that! I was hiding the right way. You just didn't see me move!" "Lemon's a cheater!" "No I'm not!" "Cheater cheater cheater!" "You're just upset because you lost!" "Cheaaaate- AH!" The boy was pushed to the ground and the girl shook him shouting, "I'M NOT A CHEATER!" "HELP HELP, LEMON IS HURTING ME!" "I'M NOT HURTING YOU! THIS IS HOW YOU HURT SOMEONE!" The girl held her fist up to punch him before someone grabbed it and spoke, "Lemon." Lemon let out a nervous laugh as she turned around and smiled at the adult, "H-hello Ms Ryu~" "Were you fighting again?" "N-no... he just... He called me a cheater and I didn't cheat!" The woman let out a sigh and then smiled and replied, "I'm going to take Lemon and talk to her, you all keep on playing." "But-" "Sh." Ryu took Lemon's hand and pulled her to the side so they were sitting alone. Lemon fiddled with her hands nervously, afraid of what she would be scolded about this time, and Ryu spoke, "You know, I was like you when I was younger. I could hide really well, and I did not really get along with the other kids. But after a while I learned to not let that get me angry, and I took my anger and frustrations out on something else." "A pillow?" "Nope... here..." Ryu opened up their bag and pulled out a carved out owl out of wood. Lemon's eyes widened in amazement as she grabbed it from Ryu and examined it, "You made this?" "Yes." "How?" "Whittling." the woman looked through her bag again and pulled out a half-finished carving and a knife. She quickly gave Lemon a little lesson, then got a piece of fresh wood out of her bag, and handed Lemon the knife, "You try it out." "You trust me with a knife?" "I taught you how to use it properly, I trust you'll use it properly. Please don't break that trust or I won't let you whittle." Lemon smiled and began to try and whittle. By the end of the time at the park, Lemon had made half of a dog, or at least she said it was a dog. She figured it may take her more practice, but she was happy about this new skill and was excited to see how much better it go over time.
