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Post by Claire Farron on Dec 30, 2022 15:46:13 GMT -6
"A Moment of Clarity"
"I can't put my finger on it..."
The idea of being free of the city, even though she herself grew up on a coastal town, was just wonderful. She could imagine it clearly and likely drew inspiration from a ranch Lightning had visited. "Well...if we're speaking strictly of mechanical transportation, you'd be right. Now, if we're speaking of mounting companions, that's something else~" she notes knowingly for whilst she had no idea how literal the dragon in dragonblades were (for now as one did not achieve Lumina's mercantile prowess by being uninformed), she certainly had dragon riding experience. Among other monsters. Seemed like Vordun was just such a companion, piquing Lumina's curiosity. Indeed it was narrowed down a fair bit but she opted to hold back her punchline for a moment, to think of some possibilities.
Admittedly, she had half expected Caius to say that she should tell Serah. Except his reply, the way he had thought it out and had some experience, delighted her. She found herself nodding along, contemplating the situation he found himself in. The difficulty was clear and the solution complicated. "Hmm..." she spoke softly still assessing her reply before finding her answer.
"Serah will pry too. So I think it's for the best that you told him. It's a difficult thing but if we use Claire as an example, she accepts me well enough, even if she had no memories of our interactions, yet alone separation. You just have to trust them and that goes for me as well." Lumina concludes this with a silent confidence, her mind made up on the matter.
"I do want to be certain though, there's no harm in letting more memories come back. It might explain the loss of some of my powers, too. I'm guessing that since Claire is here and whole, meaning her heart isn't fractured...Some adjustments were made. Namely, that my own heart isn't fractured. Serah always believed as much but I was never entirely certain. Memories, that's it. We're as strong as the memories we have of our self, as whole or broken as we can remember. If I could only remember the times I was a fractured person, it explains things. By Serah's time, I had lost my shapeshifting powers and merged with my other self. Though strangely, certain abilities still work, probably because we both had those powers." come to think of it, she had to wonder when or why she thought of certain abilities as uniquely her own and not a shared state of affairs.
After all, without Chaos, Lumina was only as strong as her other half.
Post by Caius Dragelion on Dec 31, 2022 17:56:39 GMT -6
The Dragonblades
“You’re the one whom said you preferred public transportation for the freedom of thought it gives you” Caius responded with a teasing tone and the slightest smirk as Lumina insisted that mounted companions were definitely a different story. Of course a companion creature was the best choice of all. But he understood what she meant – a rental creature wasn’t as effective. He knew, he simply wished to tease her since she had taken the liberty of starting that game herself.
When it came to Serah though, Lumina seemed more open to the idea of just telling her than Caius was. Even supporting Caius’ decision to tell Noctis about the events of Caius’ own timeline, including what that had meant for Noctis. Of course, he had decided not to tell Noctis the rest of the story – what he had learned as the fate of another timeline where Noctis defeated Ardyn using the Royal Arms, but at the cost of his own life. Whether this was the fate of the younger Noctis he had met or not, he didn’t know. But he had already burdened him enough by telling him about the world he was leaving behind, and that Caius had…
Lumina spoke of things that Caius only half understood, but he nodded along regardless. “The nature of this world is a strange one. We can only guess as to whether your abilities will return, or why they disappeared at all. It’s possible this world doesn’t follow the rules of your world at all” Caius brought up at that. “I mean. I’m supposed to be dead. Which also made telling Noctis about it difficult considering I was one of his charges at the time.”
He had mentioned that, right?
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Post by Claire Farron on Feb 28, 2023 19:15:55 GMT -6
"A Moment of Clarity"
"I can't put my finger on it..."
She certainly set herself up to be teased regarding public transportation. A soft chuckle came before a sense of deja vu. There was a possibility that what was inhibiting her was just fear. Existential fear at that, one which begged a sincere question that Lumina was likely trying to avoid.
Who was she, really? Further, was there a point of childishly holding onto a fragment of 'identity'? Somewhere, she had a distinct impression that if things were different and Lightning was the one trying to help her remember; that it would all play out the same way. Perhaps that's what this was...
When Caius continued, the mention that he was supposed to be dead; resonated deeply with Lumina. She genuinely looked...shocked, followed by dreaded familiarity. "Me too, after a fashion." Lumina begins, only to look pale for a time, then contemplative.
"Does it bother you?" it seemed, Lumina was bound to face this fear, this vulnerability and doubt. "I feel being here, has made me regret the way my life went. Even though...it wasn't a feeling I had when I was 'alive' and separate. From the memories, I was distinctly trying to become whole again. It wasn't about right or wrong, it was just acceptance for what had become. Forgiveness, for where I failed, to remember what was lost and...redemption. That I didn't have to keep making the same old mistakes."
Such as hiding things from Serah and dealing with it on her own. Everyone needed help from time to time.
Post by Caius Dragelion on Mar 4, 2023 20:28:19 GMT -6
The Dragonblades
Her too. She did know how it felt, didn’t she? Even if it was in a different fashion – having been once part of Lightning-Claire and eventually merged back with her. She had still been a person with her own life. Her own wants, needs and desires. And she knew what it felt like to have it be snuffed out. Though hers was likely instant, and of her own choosing. For Caius… How did you describe dying? The actual act of dying, not the whole merging back into your body and mind thing. How do you describe how that feels?
Does it bother you?
She asked her question. “That I was saved and brought here? Well, yes and no I suppose” Caius admitted softly. “I am grateful to have a second chance to live the life that I never got to have. I am happy here, happier than I’ve been in a long, long time. But you don’t forget the feeling of dying either.”
Caius chewed on the inside of his cheek in thought as it hit him how terrified he had been. “Even if you accept it, it’s scary. The dying, I mean. Everything just… Slows down and your last moments seem like hours of knowing you are shuffling your mortal coil, you feel it. I still have nightmares about it, it’s a feeling you never forget if somehow you live to remember.”
For a moment, he actually squeezed her arm fairly tight. It was not a pleasant subject for him at all, and thinking about it was one of the only times he felt true fear. It was not a feeling he wanted to experience again.
“It bothers me that one day I could be sent back, right to those final moments. With no warning, the life I created here could be gone and I’ll experience that feeling again, and then… Nothing. It bothers me that I will never truly return to Lucis, knowing I do not have a life to return to. They will move on without me, and as much as it bothers me. I have to accept that and move forward with this life. For whatever time I am allotted.”
He took a deep breath then as he listened to Lumina’s own regrets. “Well, for the time being. You’re here now. If you regret something, make it right in what way you can. I do not yet know what this world is, but I do know it’s given us both a second chance at this.”
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Post by Claire Farron on Mar 4, 2023 21:30:40 GMT -6
"A Moment of Clarity"
Alternate Reality
Frightened, so that's what it was. The word came to mind when she felt him squeeze her arm. By instinct, she offered a warm smile instead and opted to remain close. Listening to someone else put her own feelings into words, gave her a strange sense of comfort. "Oh! I'm not alone..." and she didn't mean it in a literal sense, for she couldn't be alone when her family was here. It was an isolation of the mind, a feeling that she couldn't reconcile because of how final her fate was. Lumina had no fear of death, she'd surpassed entropy, became Death itself and by proxy, her other self was being setup as an unwitting Goddess of Death.
"Serah's said something like that, quite a few times, actually. I just...I'm not used to autonomy. Where would I begin when I wasn't...in the driver's seat before? Do I just start with my regrets and branch out from there? If so...I worry my regrets are a rejection of all that I became, all that I am now." it was that fear and uncertainty that had largely left her living passively. Whether it was going along with Claire's antics or watching over the family's future through well timed manipulations and financial freedom. It wasn't really living but it didn't prevent her from empathizing with the fear of losing this new life. Nor could she come to grips with her own grief of not existing in that new world with Serah.
"...I don't think I've ever been good at living. I...just latch onto whatever crisis comes my way and find my strength to protect what matters most. Huh..." she couldn't help but touch the arm he'd squeezed prior, eyebrows furrowed as revelation after revelation threatened to erupt out of her heart.
"I...don't want to go back, because...I like existing. I want to...learn, to be a complete person. To live for myself as well as others." thus the revelations came forth, all at once and something else stirred inside Lumina. A voice, alien in nature, screaming NO!
Post by Caius Dragelion on Mar 10, 2023 16:50:06 GMT -6
The Dragonblades
An isolation of the mind. Something Caius had experienced even with the Dragonblades by his side. Even with the Farron family, even with friends like Celes that he considered akin to family. He was displaced from where he had once belonged, and even amongst those that were from it as well, he was still an outsider. He had experienced what it was like to die, and could experience it again at the drop of a hat. It was a very lonely feeling, to know that he was one of the few whom could say that on both counts. Even Lumina had Claire and Serah, that comforting feeling of nostalgic familiarity without it being completely and utterly tainted just by looking at them. Caius did not. He was a stranger, a non-entity, even amongst those he had once known.
That was his mental isolation.
Though being reminded that Serah had once died at least reminded him that he wasn't the only one here to die and then return in some form. And Lumina too, shared similarities. Freedom. What was freedom? True freedom to be your own person and make your own choices, and carve your own path in life. Caius had been very liberal with that freedom since arriving here, but even now he sometimes felt a little lost.
"Until I came here, my life was on a single track. To survive, that was it. I had no other options. Barely surviving every encounter with the daemons and limping back to the hunter's station clinging to what scraps of life I had left. Slowly growing stronger and making just enough gil to ensure I survived the next one" Caius admitted softly, his gaze growing distant as he found himself mentally back in Lucis once more. "And when that track came to its end, I spent the life left that I had bought myself desperately trying to make amends for wrongs that I had committed when my actions were not of my control. Until I came here, there had only been a single moment in many years, where my life had been my own. Where I could make a decision for myself that wasn't forced upon me. So I suppose I understand, in some measure. Coming here, surrounded by freedom. I don't always know what to do with it."
Autonomy. Being in the driver's seat of one's own life. She didn't know it, and for the longest time, neither did he. Their circumstances were different, but in the end, the result was the same. Lumina talked of not knowing what to do with it all, and latching onto what she could to find her strength. But she did know that she wanted to learn to live for herself, and others, and to live the life that she chose. Caius slowly nodded his head at that.
"It may be easier than you think. This world has given us both our freedom. Given you a family to cherish. A family that knows you, and greets you like an old friend instead of a stranger. The freedom to have those bonds, and to form new ones. That is the most mystifying, yet satisfying part of this autonomy. And you can lean on those to learn, to live, and to be."
He took a deep breath as they reached the square. However, Caius decided to take his freedom and move them in the opposite direction of where a certain statue lay.
"Speaking from experience. I am a far different man from the one whom died on that day. And even if one day this comes to an end, I will die as the person I am now. Who I chose to be."
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Post by Claire Farron on Mar 10, 2023 18:34:42 GMT -6
"A Moment of Clarity"
Alternate Reality
"So that's it, jeepers..." Lumina was running, from the very source of strength that she had, from the very bonds she'd worked hard to protect but most of all. Lumina was running from herself, who she had become and try as she might, she couldn't reconcile it, couldn't forgive it. Until Caius' wise words came to bear, that here she could and was going to be different from before. The freedom meant she had no excuses, no one to hide behind and claim she was there for the ride.
It wasn't the New World but the setting didn't matter, so long as she accepted herself, all of it; then she could live. Not as the saviour, nor as the precocious figure testing them self at every turn. With this self-realization, she felt warmth and light, which emanated from her form as she regained her true appearance. Bewildered for a moment, she took her glasses off momentarily, adjusting them before putting them back on.
"Simple enough." she admitted, her voice and appearance finally fitting her age... give or take 500 years. Their path had taken them away from a certain statue but when Lumina turned, she was looking within the direction of where the statue was. "Mind telling me more about this legacy you're leaving in Zephon, Caius? Starting with..." she'd point now, into the distance and upwards to catch the angle of the statue that had been avoided.
"You cannot accept this!!" the voice was becoming more audible in her mind. "Your precious youth, the advise of your Mother, everything that made you a person, cut away. You're merely a fragment of her, a dim ray of light, concealed by darkness!!!" this invasive voice screeched and for a moment, causing Lumina to visibly react as her arm lowered. Moving to touch the side of her head.
"Could we...find some place to sit for a moment. My power returning or...whatever facsimile of it, is draining me a bit. Like bugs in a computer, I guess."
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Post by Caius Dragelion on Mar 14, 2023 10:54:21 GMT -6
The Dragonblades
Suddenly Lumina had erupted into a flash of light. Feeling the pressure of the energy emanating from her, Caius held a hand behind his back, prepared to draw his sword if need be. He didn't quite know what to expect, but considering all that the Farron sisters had told him, he did his best to be prepared for anything. However, the moment came and went without issue. Lumina seemed relatively the same, except with a warmer glow and seeming fairly exhausted. That was when Caius noted that she no longer seemed to be straining to keep herself upright. When Lumina spoke up however, Caius began to piece together a theory. As Lumina adjusted her glasses, the mercenary placed a hand on her head when she wasn't looking. The motion fit like a glove. Even if Lumina didn't say exactly what had happened, the voice and all that came with it gave him some idea.
"Are uh. You alright?" Caius asked then, unsure if he would quite class that as "simple enough" as she had put it. Though it seemed that in all of this, his efforts to avoid that one eyesore had been in vain. Lumina had even seemed to figure out that Caius had been intentionally avoiding it. Well, it seems he had been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
“Oh, I just. Didn’t want that thing to color our first meeting" Caius brought up at that, far too casually. "Also, it gives me the creeps.”
It wasn't a bad piece of artwork and they had clearly worked hard on it. But Caius didn't really know how to appreciate art, especially when it was so big, and well... Of him. For everyone to see. It left him feeling very awkward, and unsure of how to even begin to process the fact this was a thing. Lumina then, clearly quite tired, asked to sit down. "Of course" he answered as he took her arm again and quickly rushed them to a bench. As far from the statue's view as he could get it.
"So that actually is what happened."
He had guessed, but he didn't know for sure until Lumina had actually said it. "How do you feel?"
He'd answer her question later. Her whole "power re-awakening" thing kind of needed a minute to breathe.
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Post by Claire Farron on Mar 14, 2023 12:01:31 GMT -6
"Reflection"
Radiance in Bloom
Lumina did seem out of it for that brief duration that she adjusted her glasses. Not registering Caius touch or moving much for a moment until she felt comfortable. When asked if she was alright, "I will need some help, physically." Mentally she never felt better, the wave of relief, the feeling of peace. What she was going to be fighting within her headspace, was threatened by such and desired to disrupt this feeling in turn.
"Colour our meeting huh~ No worries, you've made more than enough of an impression on me." although she had a hint of mischief to her voice, she quickly added, "Thank you..." She was still trying to piece together what had been unleashed with her power. It was alien and quite the buzzkill. Well, it tried to be but Lumina's good mood didn't falter.
Rushing to a bench, Lumina sighed in relief once she could sit down. It honestly felt like she was going to become dizzy if she kept on her feet. Now that she had a moment, she could address the question better than before. "When I first arrived, besides suffering a lot of amnesia, I felt...an excess energy about me, it's subtle but it amplifies certain feelings I have. I likely mistook it for a source of power in my world, stemming from the Goddess Etro. Her power over Death, I believed; was how I could sustain an independent form, just like in the past. The other parameters of my powers fell in line, so I thought it must be here in Zephon. When I lost a lot of my power, it was when Claire arrived or so I thought. Seems I've been holding myself back, from the beginning. Now that I'm...facing my fears, I feel...ecstatic, honestly." though clearly, she was tired too. She had every intention of pushing herself in spite of this.
"I can't imagine I'm making a great impression. Never been on a date before, I spent the majority of my teen years and early adulthood being Serah's Keeper. When I was 'free' due to separation, I spent that time talking up my other self to anyone who would listen, while protecting Serah's heart and soul inside me. I was...proud of my other self but she lost herself. When I ended up in Zephon, I resented her for some reason."
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Post by Caius Dragelion on Mar 16, 2023 18:45:56 GMT -6
The Dragonblades
"Not what I meant" Caius remarked with a roll of his eyes as he helped her to the bench. If this was supposed to be a "date", he didn't want her to see him as Caius the Kraken Slayer or whatever they were singing these days. If the prospect of a "date", according to what he had been told, was to get to know someone in regards to a romantic prospect. It would be a problem if he presented himself as anything but who he was. It was like with Celes, he had allowed her honor as a swordswoman, her capability on the battlefield, her courage and bravery and their own friendship get in the way of seeing her for who she was deep down. She was very much all of those things, but... There was so much more beneath the surface. While he had simply been going by Yuna's assessment that his feelings must have been romantic at the time, he had allowed himself to believe that he felt that way when he did not know Celes for herself, as she was.
There was a lot going into that story, but it had at least taught Caius to both look more thoroughly on the subject of a romantic partner, and to know that a partner was looking at him for him. Not the Caius of which the statue gave an impression.
Of course, Caius probably would have avoided the thing anyway. He didn't like looking at it, and even if Lumina hadn't decided on the spot that this was a date, he wanted her to get to know Caius as himself first. He at least owed that to her sisters. So it was that they were seated and Lumina talked about... Things. Some of which Caius didn't understand. Something about Etro and a Goddess of Death. Either way, it seemed she had a theory about her ability to retain a form, and had thought her powers being cut were because of some kind of similar rule. When in fact, she was... Holding herself back? Was he getting that right?
Well, at least she was happy. Though tired as well.
"Oh, so it is a date" he cheeked, teasing about the fact she had been fairly vague about that bit. "You've made a fine impression on me. Perhaps we should get you back to the house, however" Caius suggested at that. "We are not lacking in time to spend time together, and I would rather you not collapse."
She talked about how she had resented Claire (who was also her) for... Reasons. But what mattered was... "Well, that's changed now. You are who you are in this moment. And the Farrons clearly love you, seeing as they have all but shoved me at your doorstep within weeks of meeting."
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