Shadow Event Log

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▼ A Feast of Shadows

 

Who: Anyone
Where: All over the city
When: December 16-20
Summary: The Shadow Event has begun! Follow the link for the event summary and post your threads here if you want. You're still free to make network posts of your own if you'd rather do that, though!
Warnings: Characters' darkest and most shameful secrets within, along with plenty of combat. Please mark any threads that will contain triggering content appropriately, since some characters have darker secrets than others.
Music: IT'S JUST AS BILLY JOEL WARNED

Comments

[terminally_clever]

[Fumi dismisses her own Persona as well, hanging back and watching with interest.]

Well, this discussion is yours.

[empiricalpride]

[Even nods in acknowledgement, and turns his attention to his Shadow. His voice is quiet as he speaks.]

You called me Vexen. From that neophyte girl, I could have accepted it, she knew no different. But to hear it from my own lips...

I had believed that I'd finished being him. That that was another life. Something I could put behind me, with my heart restored as it is, in this new world where my talents would be useful. I thought I could go back to being the person I'd been so long ago, before - [and he sighs] before the Organization.

Before Xemnas. Maybe even before Xehanort. I knew I was valued then.

That'll never be the case, though, will it? All that time spent working for nothing... spent being treated as nothing... but it's part of who I am. And to think about it hurt.

I felt. And how could this have been the truth? Nobodies cannot feel. ...And I was the biggest Nobody of them all in their eyes. Nothing was ever good enough for them - so how could it be good enough for me?

[Even looks aside for a moment.] It seems that it cut deeper than I thought.
Still. There's no logic in running from my feelings. I fought so long and hard to regain them - and here I am, ignoring what I felt all along, rather than seeking an explanation.
...Frankly, if I were to apply the same standards to my experimental data as I have to myself, I'd be a poor scientist. This was no statistical outlier. This was the main trend in my life. And I forced myself to ignore it, for the sake of my own pride.

We should start a new study, then.

We should. ...Or I should.

After all... you are me.

[The Shadow smiles, softly, tired - but looking as if a weight's been lifted from his shoulders.]

And I am you.

[With those final words - in a haze of blue light around the two of them, the Shadow fades into the air.
Even collapses to his knees.]

[terminally_clever]

[Fumi watches the whole display with bemused interest, only approaching Even once the Shadow has faded away.]

It sounds like you've lived in interesting times.

[empiricalpride]

[It takes Even a moment to realise she's talking to him. He manages a faint laugh.]

You could very well say that.

[terminally_clever]

You'll have to tell me about it sometime.