Week 5

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[Five weeks in, and suddenly your numbers have been reduced by a lot. All evidence of Oda's methodical slaughter has been wiped away by the robots, but getting rid of the memories isn't going to be so easy. Not to mention the emotional scars.

Again on Sunday morning, you'll find yourselves with some new memories and some new items. Today, however, there are no new rooms.]

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday


(( ooc: Don't forget to turn in your AC for Week 4, submit your memory regains, and put in your Benefactor threads! ))

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[nightcure]

[ He hesitates. It's... a complicated question, and Noctis isn't sure he has the right answer. ]

I don't know. She asked you to do it, right? So she had a reason.

All you ever wanted to do was help her. You saved her from getting shot. Tried to make things better by saving her dad.

But it's not really my place to decide if you should've. That's for you to decide, hard as it is.

[helladoptera]

She said... the doctors said her lungs were failing. And her parents were in debt keeping her... alive. So...

[ She had even abandoned the timeline right after. She remembers now, in the haze of last week's memory, mentioning it to Chloe. Her Chloe.

But if that timeline still exists, then...

She's the one who robbed it of Chloe Price. ]

... did you have a nicer memory, Noctis?

[nightcure]

You did what you could to help her. That's all.

[ Eighteen years is way too young to have all this on her shoulders. Noctis wants to reach out and pluck that weight from her back, but... he knows it's never that easy. ]

You ever want to talk about anything else, I'll listen.

[ It's an offer that'll never expire. Noctis gently ruffles her hair. ]

I don't know if it's nicer. Things make sense now, though.

[helladoptera]

Yeah. I just... need some time to process.

[ She smiles. ]

That's good. Things making sense is... nice.

[nightcure]

Yeah. It hasn't been that long since you remember. [ He ruffles her hair lightly. ] You've got time.

[ He sighs. Man... it feels like forever ago since they looked at all those pictures. ]

You were right, about Ardyn.

[helladoptera]

That's one thing I have plenty of.

[ But the change in subject to Ardyn of all people is either sudden or surprising enough that it works as a distraction. ]

About what part?

[nightcure]

That makes two of us.

... You were right about him being a relative.

[helladoptera]

Wait, really? Wowser, I was joking about the long-lost uncle thing.

[nightcure]

Really. I don't know if he's an uncle, but he's definitely a Lucis Caelum.

[helladoptera]

Huh. How very... Game of Thrones. Did you remember anything else about him?

[ DID HE KILL MORE PEOPLE YOU LIKE DOES SHE HAVE TO FI- YELL AT HIM ]

[nightcure]

Oh yeah.

He stuck me in a crystal for ten years, brought eternal night to all of Eos, messed up my hometown...

Turns out he was the source of all the daemons. [ Pause, and he looks a little.,. sympathetic? ] But that part wasn't really his fault. I mean, yeah, he handled a betrayal pretty badly, but mostly...

[ He goes quiet. ]

[helladoptera]

[ Max is quiet, for a bit. ]

So he... made some really really bad choices, and one thing led to another, and... Do you think he's a bad person?