⇨ SHABONDAMASHII

[ringleaders]

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 92 - Day 99
Where: Shabondamashii Bathhouse
What: With the Silver Mirror claimed and the animals of Eden relocated, it's time for the carnival to kick back and enjoy an interdimensional bathhouse and the surrounding festival city. Meanwhile, the scattered shards of the Mirror have an unexpected effect.
Warnings: Dark/Light halves acting weird.

THE BIG CLEANSE↴ As the carnival recovers, the Ringmaster has brought it to the gates of a famous interdimensional bathhouse to rest. She won't be joining you for most of it, though she will be checking in frequently and available by radio. She's fixed a large portion of the Silver Mirror after it shattered, but it seems like pieces are missing. She doesn't want to rest until the missing shards are dealt with, and the Mirror itself is locked away safely. ► YOUR OTHER HALF: The shards missing from the Silver Mirror didn't just disappear - after breaking apart in Eden, fragments of the object embedded themselves in the spirits of those not already touched by its powers, and those that had been the most fae-touched. That means, your characters. The effect of this, explained in more detail on the plotting post, is that some characters will be splitting into two versions of themselves: the Light, and the Dark. This doesn't mean good and evil, of course, it's far more complicated than that. Splits can start happening at any time after arriving in Shabon, and initially characters won't know how to rejoin with their twins. Later on, it will become apparent that they need to reconnect via the shard of the Mirror they share... of course, in order to rejoin, you have to have both halves, and not all twins will be as eager to go back to the way things were before. This plot point is optional. ► SPA DAY: When you're not engaging in metaphysical division, you are free to enjoy the many luxuries that Shabon offers. Things will mostly have an east-Asian bend, like what you would see in the movie Spirited Away, but as long as it doesn't affect the setting much, you can honestly have whatever spa-type services available that you want. Food is served both in restaurants and 'buffet' style. There are also well paid sex workers here, if that is your thing, but make sure to tip well. ► FESTIVAL TOWN: The city surrounding Shabondamashii is largely meant to catch the business of interdimensional tourists. There are frequent parades and other events held, and the architecture is very closely packed. It's easy to get lost if you leave the bathhouse, but it's definitely worth it if you like party. You can pick out a few outfits for yourself and some fun nick nacks, but nothing that would normally require mod approval.

Comments

[whattaprick]

Lambert shrugs, indifferent.

"It doesn't seem like Yuya sees it that way. He said 'we died when it happened' and they got reincarnated." So it seems like either they have different memories of the event, or radically different interpretations of the same events. It's no skin off his nose, either way, but it's obvious this is maybe something Reira doesn't really grasp.

"Thanks for telling me about it, though," he says, after moment. "Even if he told you not to."

Oops.

[soft_focus]

"Already knew!!" the fox snarls, puffing up.

Reira as well scowls, no longer calm in the slightest. "You were the one I talked to before I made the promise..! You already knew everything I promised not to talk about..!" And.... "...And he isn't Zarc...! I keep telling him that, because he keeps getting sad about the things Zarc did, but that's not Yuuya..! Yuuya didn't do any of those things, just like Yuugo didn't! Zarc became different people..!"

"If Zarc becomes someone new, it is New and not Old!"

[whattaprick]

Lambert touches a hand to his chin, unruffled by the fox daemon and Reira puffing up. He's seen worse displays of temper.

"Does Yugo ever talk like that?" Because he has a very hard time imagining it, somehow. "Maybe Yuya just got the part with all the guilt. Does he even remember doing all the things Zarc did?"

[soft_focus]

"No..."

"Easier conversing," huffs the daemon.

"He says he remembers, mn...remembers now, I guess..."

[whattaprick]

It all more or less adds up to this Lambert believing his initial assessment was right: Yuya has some nerve telling other people to get it together when he apparently feels so shitty about his original self he wastes time feeling mopey about it.

"Well, if that's what he wants to believe, I guess that's how it is."

[soft_focus]

Uhhh...

What. "...What do you mean..?" Reira asks, simply confused again. "...Just because he has Zarc's memory doesn't mean he's 'Zarc'. That's not how having memories normally works right? Even if you remembered the dying part," she adds, deciding to accept that not existing is 'dead' in this case, "...It's still someone else."

It is in reincarnation Reira, and surprise, that does sort of mean they're the same. "It's just something someone else did, before him."

That literally shaped his existence...

[whattaprick]

"It's not just about having memories that makes someone who they are," Lambert says, after taking a moment to consider it.

"It's also who they choose to be. Yuya wants to think of himself as Zarc. We don't have to agree with him, but it'd be like..." He glances at her daemon, then smirks. "Like me telling you I know what shape your daemon ought to be, like I know you better than you know yourself."

[soft_focus]

Just. It's that 'just' that gets her confused, and she takes a few moments to think before she speaks.

"...I thought having someone's memories would mean 'not at all' being them. Not...'just'," she continues slowly- visiblt trying to parse sense in the new information.

"...He can't fix what's over, anyway..."

[whattaprick]

Lambert shakes his head.

“Don’t worry about it.” He means that for both. “You’ll understand when you’ve lived a little longer.”

[soft_focus]

"Hnnnnh..." Her sigh is fortunately more relenting than irritated- she really isn't going to understand this she supposes. At least Lambert agrees..?

"Adult answers from adults..." the daemon mutters all the same, expressing their joint frustration toward not being old enough.

"...I just hope I can get older here then..." She determines in the end. It would be better than nothing. And... "...I... ...I think I have to say sorry to Yuuya, about some of this.."

Her daemon simply nods.