[Closed] When you can no longer run...

[unyieldingmarch]

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...

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[unyieldingmarch]

Edelgard watches the exchange quietly, interested in the technology at first. But then the content of the memory becomes plain. Soundwave had been duped, used as a pawn. Betrayed? By someone called Galvatron.

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?"

[peacewithouttyranny]

Betrayal is always something that gets a rise out of him, especially when it's from someone he trusted. Edelgard planting her hand on his leg is a bit surprising, his head turning to face her, but he appreciates it.

"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.

[unyieldingmarch]

"I can understand that, in my own way. War sometimes is necessary, but some people love war for the sake of it. Those people are...difficult, and dangerous."

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."

[peacewithouttyranny]

"Thank you, Edelgard. Despite my... anger for his deceptions, I tried to give him a second chance. Unfortunate that he was too stubborn to let go of his obsession with conquest... and was too dangerous to let live."

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."

[unyieldingmarch]

"No need to apologize. You've shown me a wonder already. An advanced society living out in the stars is certainly a marvel."

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.

[peacewithouttyranny]

Maybe it was somewhat silly of him to apologize. The memory may have not been a good one, but the tour around an alien ship was certainly nice.

"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."

[unyieldingmarch]

"Small victories like that are still victories."

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."

[peacewithouttyranny]

He appreciates the encouragement. It's too easy to dwell into the negatives, sometimes. Before they leave though, he turns to look at his friends with his memory-self, watching in quiet fondness for it may be the last time he'll 'physically' see them.

Satisfied, he gives her a nod.

"Let us leave."

And with that, their surroundings start dissolving.