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middaeg2020-04-13 05:31 pm
unyieldingmarch) wrote in middaeg2020-04-13 05:31 pm
[Closed] When you can no longer run...
Who: Edelgard von Hresvelg & Various
When: April 2020
Where: The Mirror House
What: Memory Share.
Warnings: Warnings for the following: Violence, language, blood, death, warfare, religious/anti-religious themes, human experimentation, mental health, insanity, and body horror.
Some OOC Notes:
This is going to be a closed catch-all for Edelgard's memory share threads. I will be posting individual starters in the comments, so please assume that all CWs that apply for this log apply to each thread.
I apologize for those that missed my initial plotting post at the beginning of the month, but I've got a lot of threads planned and won't be able to take on more memory shares at this time. Thank you for your understanding, I'll make sure to hit more people next month!
Edelgard's Mirror, The Beginning:
The mirror, Edelgard's Mirror, is an ornate affair. The kind of thing that one would expect to find associated with someone who's influence has shaped a continent's future, for better or for worse. It has an eagle motif worked around the edges, though with considerably more going on. Wings ringed with golden, thorny vines and topped with roses made seemingly out of ruby, the wood has a more bony appearance, as though it'd been carved out of the remains of some great beast. The mirror at the center calls, and pulls the viewer inside...
When: April 2020
Where: The Mirror House
What: Memory Share.
Warnings: Warnings for the following: Violence, language, blood, death, warfare, religious/anti-religious themes, human experimentation, mental health, insanity, and body horror.
Some OOC Notes:
This is going to be a closed catch-all for Edelgard's memory share threads. I will be posting individual starters in the comments, so please assume that all CWs that apply for this log apply to each thread.
I apologize for those that missed my initial plotting post at the beginning of the month, but I've got a lot of threads planned and won't be able to take on more memory shares at this time. Thank you for your understanding, I'll make sure to hit more people next month!
Edelgard's Mirror, The Beginning:
The mirror, Edelgard's Mirror, is an ornate affair. The kind of thing that one would expect to find associated with someone who's influence has shaped a continent's future, for better or for worse. It has an eagle motif worked around the edges, though with considerably more going on. Wings ringed with golden, thorny vines and topped with roses made seemingly out of ruby, the wood has a more bony appearance, as though it'd been carved out of the remains of some great beast. The mirror at the center calls, and pulls the viewer inside...
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If... he even knew how to. He'll just have to think of home, right, like Edelgard said.
Soon enough, the dream world around them dissolves like sand, and what appears to materialize in front of Edelgard is a frame of a mirror, not of her's evidently enough, but Soundwave's.
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Edelgard doesn't hesitate. She looks to Soundwave for approval, and if it's given, she'll lay
her hand upon the glass. She's done this at least once now, and this is generally how it seems to work!
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The surface rippled, showing a view of a space station first, floating in space, and then the view of its interior, a large open space, metallic walls and alien in design, with mechanical beings can be seen walking around and chatting up casually. Outside the mirror made it difficult to show their true size, but it won't be long until they are both sucked into the vision.
Once in there, Edelgard may realize just how ...absurdly large everything in the room is, like it is an abode made for giants than for small humans. The mechanical residents in the park come in varying shapes and sizes but the common ones range between 20-30ft tall.
So far, there's nothing to indicate what memories this is, but it may be a chance to tour around in his commune in the meantime. He still knows the place around in the back of his head, after all.
"I hope their size did not shock you much, Edelgard." Just a hint of humour in his mostly toneless voice. He's still the same height as before, even in his own dream. "Welcome to Sanctuary Station, a station built between the cooperation of Cybertronians and humans. The centerpiece of my dream."
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"It's startling...but your kind are very, very different from my own."
She'll freely admit she's bewildered. How do such massive beings exist? She's a simple medieval woman!
"Our worlds are clearly from vastly different times. Such technology is thousands of years beyond Fodlan, I think."
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It's not a view most Cybertronians share, Soundwave didn't before for years, but one single experience had changed his view.
"Thousands or possibly longer. Even the human world in my time, while undoubtedly far advanced than yours-" No offense, of course. "-their technology is primitive compared to ours."
While they chat, he'll take her around to see all the other rooms Sanctuary Station has to offer. The bar and theater are much livelier. Bunch of Cybertronians drinking or some others performing on stage, singing. There's even a floating mecha shark reciting poetry. It's just basically showcasing how they all are living a normal life and having fun in this space commune- no different than how humans normally live their peaceful life.
"What are your thoughts so far? On mechanical lifeform."
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"Not too different from humans, really."
She looks up at Soundwave, focusing on the towering individual...
"Honestly I see people enjoying themselves and living their lives. You just happen to have a different body, is all."
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He hopes so, anyway- he pinned a lot of things in faith alone. Cybertronians and humans have a complicated history together, but that is a story for another time, as there seems to be a commotion coming from a nearby room. Curious, Soundwave steps right up to the door and peeks his head in.
Ah, he recognized this memory.
Inside, they'll see memory Soundwave with a couple of other humanoid and non-humanoid Cybertronians around, one green Cybertronian in particularly doesn't seem to be in the same group as the Decepticons, should Edelgard take note of the different badge. He's arguing with someone not present in the room, further away from the station in fact, but their voices can be heard all the same.
Soundwave watches as his memory self blows up and then defeated, even as the two mechabirds try to reassure him. He talked about his dream of a peaceful world, but here it's being trampled over.
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She frowns, and puts a gloved hand against his armored leg. Unsure if he can feel it or not...but she suspects that he's deeply troubled by these memories.
"Betrayal always stings. Were you and this other one close?"
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"No. But I was betrayed by someone close before this." Or he thought he was close, if not a friend to Megatron. Apparently not. "Galvatron was the leader of our faction at the time. I trusted him to build a society for us, he had the wisdom, but he deceived me and the Decepticons. His true ambition lies in conquering and seeking endless war, not peace and salvation."
In hindsight, it was something he should've seen it coming, his own naivety was at fault back then. Still. Galvatron pissed him off, but what really got to him was his own Decepticons following him.
"I didn't realize many of own people seek war instead of new lives." Most of them came back though. but it still hurts him knowing a large portion followed the bloodthirsty conqueror instead.
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Those were the kinds of people that missed her true goals, the kinds of people that projected their feelings onto her war, and her goal. The ones that called her a bloodthirsty monster, while killing thousands of people in the name of faith.
"For what it's worth, I'm sorry for what happened to you."
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It's for the safety of every living being in the galaxy that Galvatron had to be put down. He was nothing more than a rabid monster
"But that is in the past. Galvatron is no more, and the chance for peace for my people is still possible. I suppose I should apologies that I do not have any good memories to show you."
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It's not an immediately useful thing, nor is it practical, but it is nice to know that such things are possible. Now, even, with humankind finally free from that old lizard's talons.
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"And it is a glimpse of a possible future for your people. Perhaps in the next hundreds or thousands of years from now," He adds. Knowing how incredibly short a human's lifespan is and that Edelgard is presumably from a less advanced era, he could see how it's a wonder. "I suppose I should be grateful that it also grants me the opportunity to revisit my commune. Even if it's all just a reflection inside a mirror."
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She tries to sound encouraging. It's probably not a good memory to revisit, but at least he gets to see something he likes, and that matters. Especially so far removed from home.
"For the moment, though, perhaps we should get out of here and return to the mirrors."
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Satisfied, he gives her a nod.
"Let us leave."
And with that, their surroundings start dissolving.