[Memoria; Thread, Closed]

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Characters: Rinoa, Vayne, Zidane
Progress: Ongoing
Summary: The trio have experienced their fondest memories and dearest wishes. Now it's time for the nightmares.
Location: Memoria
Date: Backdated to early February, 1804
Warnings: Nightmares!

Well, this was fun. Not. Rinoa was starting to dread every time they reached a setting she recognised. So it was with a sinking feeling that she stepped into the beach by the old orphanage. The lighthouse stood tall above the rocks, and the ocean waves broke along the sand. It was a peaceful, wistful place. The place she had promised to meet Squall...

Why was she here? She was here... to meet him. The sorceress had anticipated their actions; she smiled as the SeeDs came running, weapons at the ready.

"Rinoa! No!"

"SeeD," she jeered at them. "Come to pierce the heart of the sorceress?"

They tried, but not hard enough; their hearts weren't in it. She felled them one by one, and last she left the one in black, the one who looked at her differently from the rest.

"Rinoa, you're not like this! Remember, we promised, I'm your knight!"

"No more," she said. "You can't win. I am a descendant of Hyne."

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[tantalus-born.livejournal.com]

Zidane had no idea what to think about this one, as the rather polite, friendly girl appeared to be...killing some people he didn't recognize. He almost wanted to try and stop her, to reach out and shake her free of what must have been something very unpleasant, but he knew it didn't work like that.

He glanced over at Vayne, frowning, then back to Rinoa. Ah hell. "Hey! Snap out of it! It's not real!" As if he were capable of not trying to help a pretty girl...

[dynast-king.livejournal.com]

That was unexpected to say the very least. Vayne suspected that this could not possibly be a memory of Rinoa's as he had heard no news of the demise of the SeeDs once in his employ. More troublesome yet, was not what he was seeing, but that he was seeing something from Rinoa's life. Had the monkey not said that one did not see memories of others here?

Beyond that, such violence seemed entirely out of line from what Vayne new about the young woman. Yet at the same time, he found himself awed at the sheer power she exhibited, just as she had in Alexandria some months ago.

"Will that stop her visions?" Vayne asked of Zidane. If so, would it cease those of their own also? "Have you any reason why I can see beyond the setting?"

[livelyangel.livejournal.com]

She finished off the last SeeD with an explosion of magic, her whole body thrumming with power. Triumphant-

No. Not triumphant. Rinoa snapped out of the vision and lurched over, literally almost sick with horror. She'd killed her friends and enjoyed doing it.

"No," she gasped. "That wasn't me, I would never - never..." She looked at Zidane desperately. "They can't be real - the last vision I had and this one can't both be true. I'm not like that." She was looking between them both almost pleadingly now. "Whatever you saw... I'm not like that."

[tantalus-born.livejournal.com]

Zidane just shrugged. He had no idea what would pull someone out of a Memoria vision, especially given that these aren't behaving like they did last time. When Rinoa seems to snap out of it herself, he finally reaches out to put a hand gently on her shoulder.

"Hey, it's alright. Nobody said you were like that." He offered that reassuring smile of his, giving her shoulder a squeeze before tugging his hand away again. "This place is acting weird, we can't really believe anything it shows us either way, I think."