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Arrival: So you've just arrived in Nyoi-Cho. Congratulations! You must be so excited about having your wish granted. Or maybe you're upset that the result wasn't quite what you expected? If that's the case, then that's too bad! There are no take backs and no redoes, so you're stuck with what you have! Maybe you should have been more careful about how you worded that wish...

Oh well. There's no use in dwelling on it. You're a magi now, and that means adjusting to a whole new lifestyle! Maybe one of the townspeople can help you out.

Only... they're acting a bit strangely, aren't they? They're all too happy to show you around, but there's something unsettling about the way they're behaving. Almost cheerfully dissonant. Any questions about the history of the town are met with blank stares and brief silence, before they plaster a smile onto their faces and change the subject. Any attempts to tell them about your duties as a magi or anything else that relates to the magical will get similar reactions.

Isn't there anyone normal here that you can talk to at all?

Home Improvement: The houses that the magi are given access to really are something, aren't they? There's almost no limit to what they can do! Why don't you create the house of your dreams, or maybe recreate and relive your favorite childhood scenes? Invite some spectators over to marvel!

A Corrupted Soul Gem: You neglected to take care of your soul gem, and now you don't feel quite yourself anymore. You feel like you're losing your sense of self - all you seem to be able to focus on is your old regrets and past failures. What's happening to you?

A Successful Mission: Congratulations! You met up with your first Witch, and you fought valiantly. For your efforts, you've been awarded a grief seed - and with it, access to a brand new power! What sort of power did you get? Is it a useful one, or is it not so useful? Maybe you've mastered it beautifully, and now you're showing off to all of your friends. Maybe you're having a hard time keeping it under wraps, and now you're wreaking havoc across the town without meaning to!

A Dreadful Nightmare: You had an absolutely horrid day. As you drift off to sleep, your mind dwells on all the injustices you've had to endure. In response, your bed swallows you up, and your room shifts into a horrific Nightmarescape. What sort of Nightmare are you? What kind of Nightmarescape do you create? Hopefully your fellow magi can stop you before you cause too much damage!

Wildcard: Feel free to use any information from the FAQ or the World Info page to make your own prompt!

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[That voice]

[That voice makes her stumble, her heart going from zero to pounding in her chest. That voice, THAT VOICE...!]

[She whips around, sees HIM, sees him after so long, after thinking he was dead for weeks, he's THERE]

[She breaks out into a run to meet him partway and everything else be damned, she's going to grab that boy into a hug and if he doesn't beat her to it, going to spin with him because there is too much joy to be contained]

Omg, Dirk...Dirk, its you! [And she's laughing and crying a little bit, but mostly laughing.]

Holy shit.

[ A hug is definitely a thing that's happening. Dirk hugs her tightly, exhaling shakily. It's a thing. He shouldn't be glad she's here, god damn he should be giving her a shake wondering why the fuck she gave up the opportunity of a lifetime (hypocrisy of it dutifully ignored) but instead he's overcome with relief that he's not going to have to go at this shit alone again.

It probably makes him a shit person, but he kind of guesses at this point that's simply an inevitability. So fuck it, she's here. Suddenly this place doesn't seem nearly so impossible to triumph over. ]

I didn't think I'd see you again.

[Tight hugs are definitely a thing. She had to break down and be built up over and over again because she kept losing the people who were supposed to be with her. Just having Dirk around would have made so much easier, but at least he's here now.]

[She hasn't been this happy since she remembered hugging Rose.]

Awww, c'mon Dirk, have more faith in me than that! One thing you can count on is Roxy never going down.

[And, oddly, this confidence is one hundred percent genuine.]

I knew I was gonna find ya again.

[Also forgot her plethora of accessories. Got mom scarf, a light green and black scarf, a locket, a choker with a half heart, and a ring that's intertwining the Void and Light symbol. Just....all this stuff she never owned before.]

[People keep giving her shit and she feels she has to wear it all the time, this girl.]

Edited 2016-01-21 16:00 (UTC)

[ He's not letting go yet. Not yet. He'll notice all her new additions when he can pry himself away, feel more than torn between freaking the fuck out and maybe having a tiny emotional meltdown as soon as he's got a minute or two to himself.

Just... holding her tight and letting himself stew in guilty relief. ]

Wasn't worried about that. Mostly I was just hoping you'd stay safe and sound on the beach.

Edited 2016-01-25 11:20 (UTC)

Beach? Omg, did we get somewhere with a real beach? [She actually sounds excited for that. Because someone may or may not have increased her love of water in her soul.]

[Irony, that, for water world girl.]

Sorry, Dirk, some more shenanigans happened. Last thing I recall from home is finally gettin' to hug mom after John and I fixed shit. However we did that. My mems are kinda all over the place.

[But still holding him, gently rubbing his back.]

Been six months since I last saw ya, at least.

What? No. We just saw each other. [ And he had an embarrassing emotional meltdown all over her. It was fantastic. And by that he means no, it wasn't. It was awful. ]

What happened to your memories?

Guess ya dun remember, huh? Yeah, sounds 'bout right.

Sooooo.

Basically.

My soul got shattered. [And quite probably whatever universe they were in unless she was fucked off into the void at the time.] Not by you, before you go on some weird conclusion jumping! But some dicks who go wandering the multiverse doing shit like that.

So this lady whose like 'no, we can't let this be a thing' made a place where she can pull in people like that and help them fix themselves back up. But it's a whole Process, where we gotta get back a piece at a time.

And since my soul got broke, I'm missing a ton of memories and skills. Well, not so much now. I think I have most if not all my skills except the one I really fuckin' want back and I got a good chunk of memories. Enough to figure out what the fuck is even going on in our timeline up to when we all fuckin' got killed except me and John. The after is all vague, just know there IS an after.

Your gem broke?

[ He pulls back immediately to find a trace of the black stone. His hand half goes for her chest and then he thinks better of it, remembering that personal boundaries are a thing and all of the ways this could go wrong if she doesn't remember.

What does she remember if she doesn't know she doesn't remember.

It's suddenly awkward. He feels his gut drop, keeping any unease off his face as best he can.. which isn't very effective when someone knows him better than he thinks he knows himself. ]

... Okay. Alright. You're fine. [ Nnnn... ] The after is a place called Waverly Beach. In Jake and Jane's time.

My gem? [She looks confused.]

[She frowns, and she's looking him over very intently. Her hand moves to her chest. What was he reaching for? She hadn't remembered anything about her chest. Hell, the scar from is on her stomach, not her chest.]

Did I seriously not remember a special rock by now? I mean, I guess it'd make sense with how often there WAS a special rock for everyone else... [Rat team is also team Special Gems of Power sometimes.]

And I don't mean that far. I don't remember a beach. I remember when I first met mom without it being a dream bubble or...you know....that time when the blue bitch troll fucked shit up. As far as I can tell, it's immediately after John and I fixed the timeline.

I don't remember how. We just approached everyone on a platform under Skaia and everyone, 'cept you was there. Jake, Jane, Shades with his troll fusion, John's group of kids, some trolls. Fuck, even Wren, uh, Tavros? Yeah, Tavros were there.

But if Jake and Jane were there, you shouldn't have....well, I guessed maybe you were still traveling.

[ ... ]

We all showed up. After... well. [ He lets out a breath. ] After it was over. The game. So I don't know. Maybe you beat the game and went there, or -- [ he gives his head a shake. ] I was there for seven months with Dave, Jane, you, Jade, and briefly, Jake. Then I showed up here.

[ Uh... ]

Dave's here too.

....

[There is a pause.]

[And because it's Roxy, she does, in fact, know all sorts about how the multiverse likes to fuck with people.]

[And he looks confused about John and her fixing shit. He doesn't know. He doesn't know and it makes her chest ache because she remembers that. She remembers going for weeks thinking everyone was dead and how everyone had to run around her soul to fix her before she did something she couldn't take back.]

Oh, for fuck's sake. [She sighs, looking put upon.] Timeline shenanigans.

[She sighed.] I remembered....where it looked like we lost completely. Thought we did for weeks, that the place I was gonna return was dead. But then I remembered something after. Meeting mom, knowing who Kanaya was, it was after all that. But it's just been that one so far.

I don't remember a Waverly Bay or a beach. But I could still be her because yay. Amnesia. [So troublesome!] But I've been in Kyriakos for the last....like six months? 189 days.

[But there is something else she has to address. Dave. Oh, Dave she knows. Mostly from Wren, but she knows.]

[She reaches up to touch his cheeks, smiling brightly.] I'm glad you had him with you.

Edited 2016-01-25 13:03 (UTC)

That fits.

[ He's sure of it. It has to be. ]

You just barely got there. I was in Waverly Bay for seven months, the timeline fits. Then I made the wish and ended up here - maybe, maybe you just don't remember it yet.

[ He needs this truth more than he's needed anything else. Her hand touches his cheek and he feels a sharp drop in the pit of his stomach her words hitting home. ]

... No. You shouldn't be.

Could be. I mean, Ruby was in another multiverse nexus 'fore Kyriakos and those mems were rarer.

Though funny timelines match up. Kyr was a fragment of a kingdom in the void so time was weird.

[She frowns.] Why not? You wanted to meet him, didn't ya? Like I did with mom.

It's a long story that's not all mine to tell.

[ ... sigh. ]

...so something on Dave's end. With his Dirk?

[Frowning and because she's used to this game...]

You're not him.

What? No.

[ Well yes, and he is, but he's not going to get into that just yet. ]

You got that "I'm taking responsibility for shit that's outside of my control" look. Don't. It doesn't do you or him any good.

So Imma be glad because second chances and family meetings are good things.

No, I'm taking responsibility for something that was directly within my realm of control. I fucked up. We're good now but that's because he's old enough to take care of himself.

....welp, I see I was right why I'm rat mother hen. We're shelving that for now, but I owe you a mandatory feelingsjam.

Possibly a feelings journal.

Rat mother hen?

Kyriakos assigned us to teams. Mine was Rataoskr, but that's a mouthful.

We are team 'we try really fucking hard to be good guys, but we're conditioned to be horrible at emotions and pragmatic survivalists.' There are times where I'm the most competent functional human being out of six people which should tell you how much of a fucking hot mess we are.

Not really, no. You're usually the most competent functional human being out of the lot of us. But that's interesting.

Oh my fuck, really? No wonder we imploded. I'm not a good standard.

But, hot mess aside, they're adorbs and they're mine. I'll introduce ya one day. And my other friends. A lot of 'em are into tech, they'd probs love to pick your brain.

[ ... ah. ]

Roxy. You... you can't go back. The wish is a one way trip.

Yeah, I know what they said.

I can wait for the others to fig it out. If nothing else, Ed's power can rival mine. He'll come eventually and then be so smug 'bout it.

Edited 2016-01-30 14:03 (UTC)

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