Welcome to Ghibli Hills Dressing Room Event Meme

In this post: meet new friends. (If you need a code to make a character journal, try this post.)

> Post with a character-- you might want to introduce them by name, canon, and AU if applicable in your comment title.
> Tag around! Tag canonmates, tag people from canons you've never heard of, tag original characters. Do what you want and have fun.
> If you're having a hard time thinking of hooks, feel free to use one of these:

1. The sign you cannot remove. Your character has somehow acquired a mysterious sign that cannot be removed by any means-- until the post is over, or until you get tired of it. Suggestions include, "Will sell soul for [a new laptop]", "Ask me about [that one time in band camp]", "Needs [a hug]."

2. The helper. A robot has come up to you and very politely insisted that you help other people! Whether you have the best disposition for it or the worst, you've been chosen to go around making sure people are happy and comfortable and well-fed… and have possible been given a box of ultra-bland nutritional bars to assist in this task.

3. The clubhouse. Everyone wants to belong, right? There are some tables set up with brochures advertising clubs with bizarre titles like "The Died Multiple Times Club" and the "Experimented On As A Child Club" alongside the more mundane "Handicrafts Club," etc. Which one is your eye drawn to? Which one are you avoiding?

If none of these sound appealing, tag around with your own ideas!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"The end is nigh." Surely even you could read the sign and comprehend that.

The end is definitely not nigh.

And I think that sign's just for you.

You wish to lecture me on matters you can't understand? Don't make me laugh.

I don't have to understand everything to know the world isn't ending. We're stopping that.

You can't stop two thousand years worth of momentum. The world will end regardless of what you do.

Well it wasn't ended by you.

["wasn't"]

And what, exactly, do you mean by that?

You don't remember? Did you lose your memories too?

Enlighten me.

...you lost, Van. You died.

...I see.

And what happened after that?

...I don't know. I'm still missing a lot of my memories. I know that miasma flooded the world, and we had to get rid of it...

Did you accomplish that impossible task?

Yes. Thousands of replicas had to die for it, but yes.

...You fools. Those replicas you sacrificed had the potential to live free from the Score, and you destroyed them for what purpose? To perserve the original world that is doomed to die?

Do you wish to see Auldrant as nothing more than a lifeless husk? Is that the purpose you've decided for yourself, replica?

Of course not. But I don't believe humanity is bound to the Score. It never was, everyone just... followed it, thinking they didn't have any other choice. But they won't anymore. My friends won't let that happen.

You've destroyed any chance that life would survive after the Score. Your friends will inevitably fail and Auldrant will die.

I should've finished you off myself when I had the chance.

You're wrong.

And if you had, you still would have been stopped. Dusk... Asch, Jade, Guy... Tear never would have let you succeed.

...It is a pity that they couldn't have seen reason but it's too late for that now. The original world will die and nothing will grow in its place.

Enjoy the time you have left, replica. It will be short.

...I died too. I was brought back somewhere else, but I'll never see Auldrant again.

Jade didn't, though. And he has a memory from two years after my death; everyone's still there.

Two years time is not enough. At best, you and your friends merely delayed the inevitable.

[pause] Where were you brought to?

[sigh]

A place called Aather. The world is being... eaten, I guess, by darkness. The people there, Personae, have a lot of power, but they need us to fight back the darkness. So they're helping us.

And why can't you just... believe in us, a little bit? I know what you were doing was to save the world. But you... you've failed. The only option left is ours. Can't you just hope, for everyone's sake, that we were right, and Auldrant is safe?

Aather...You're delusional.

Hoping for the good of the world does nothing. If you genuinely believe that your friends are capable of overthrowing the Score, then you don't need wishes from me.

I don't need your wishes. I just thought... you'd feel better, if you'd let yourself think something other than that the world is doomed.

And I'm not delusional.

Don't waste your time.

[pause] ...Then tell me more. I'm sure you can make your stories seem at least somewhat feasible.

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