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Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher
Who: EVERYONE
Where: THE ACTUAL MOON
When: Friday, May 27th through Sunday, May 29th!
Summary: THIS IS YOUR MOD-PROVIDED OPEN LOG FOR FOURTH WALL PROMAGEDDON!
Rating: May vary by thread, please mark accordingly!
Log:
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☆ YOU ARE HERE ☆
LOCATIONS OF NOTE:
• REDUCED G MOON BALLROOM
Accessible only via the balcony that connects back through to the regular ballroom, this unusual section of the moon base is the only major room in which the gravity more closely reflects that of the actual moon, as opposed to being artificially enhanced to better simulate the conditions Earthside. The dance floor is situated approximately fifteen feet below the balcony, recessed into the moon's surface where the rest of the base sits at ground level, and overhead a massive domed ceiling lets in a magnificent view of outer space, the moon's surface, and all the surrounding stars. The acoustics are just as good as those of the standard ballroom, and this dance floor will feature the same music as the other; the only appreciable difference is that in the Reduced G Moon Ballroom, gravity is mostly optional and you're liable to find as many couples spinning through the open air as you are with solid ground beneath their feet. Try not to get trapped in the middle with no momentum, or you might just need a rescue from some considerate stranger!
• REGULAR BALLROOM
A more traditional ballroom for the more traditional partygoer on the moon base: hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings, crystal chandeliers, and tasteful music. Of particular note are the balcony doors at the north end of the ballroom, which lead onto the observation balcony that overlooks the Reduced Gravity Moon Ballroom! Please don't block those doors; they're the only way in or out!
• DINING ROOM AND BUFFET
GOOD FOOD, GOOD MEAT, GOOD GRIEF, LET'S EAT! The dining room is an area accessible from both the ballroom and the hallway that leads between the reception area and the dorms, featuring scores upon scores of tables of varying sizes that might seat as little as two or as many as eight. On days when the party isn't in full swing, buffet-style meals will be served over a period of two hours at three times during the day — breakfast, lunch, and dinner. When the party is jumping, however, the table will remain perpetually stocked with entrees, sides, and of course a full complement of magnificent desserts for people to feast and snack upon as they so choose!
• DORMS AND SLEEPING AREAS
Your moon base home-away-from-home for the next three days! In the massive dorm wing of the base, you'll find vast corridors of hostel-style bunks available to be claimed. Unclaimed bunks will signal their availability by having their curtains open and empty bunk displayed; though the privacy curtains and beds themselves boast no particular security features, each bunk does come with a reasonably-sized trunk for storing a guest's belongings. Upon claiming the bunk, a guest will be prompted to register their trunk with a thumbprint, which thereafter will be used to lock and unlock their trunk. If you're worried about something happening to your belongings or valuables, feel free to lock them up for safekeeping!
• INDOOR GREENHOUSE AND FLOWER GARDEN
A secluded place where partygoers can retreat from the festivities for a little while, whether it be to catch their breath, for a tête-à-tête, or anything else that might involve the desire for a little more peace and quiet. Featuring small walking paths, real fresh flowers, and even a small inches-deep artificial burbling brook, the moon base garden looks to be a little slice of the planet Earth preserved here in outer space. Seems like all that's missing are the wild Pokemon!
• LIBRARY, MUSIC ROOM, SPA, AND ARCADE
An assortment of four general leisure rooms in the western wing of the Moon Base, most of which are fairly self-explanatory! So, if you feel so inclined, take some time to stop in, poke around, and enjoy yourself in:
▶ THE LIBRARY, which features muted lighting, plenty of hardwood paneling, and a quiet atmosphere for reading a book in one of the cozy armchairs or piling up a dozen to peruse at one of the available tables. You're welcome to find the usual Pokemon-ified standard fare of books here; unfortunately, research-inclined people digging for secrets about the moon base, Pokemon, or other such nonfiction topics aren't likely to unearth anything of any particular note this time. Alas!
▶ THE MUSIC ROOM, which boasts a wide array of instruments available for the guests to make use of, including a grand piano, a few guitars (both acoustic and electric), and a general assortment of other choices from the brass, string, wind, and percussion families.
▶ THE SPA FACILITIES, where guests are welcome to unwind and relax in the various pools, hot tubs, and mineral baths available. Swimsuits and towels are provided in the built-in changing rooms for anyone interested in making use of the spa!
▶ THE ARCADE, containing plenty of video games, games of skill, and other such electronic amusements for patrons to pass the time away with. Skee-Ball and Dance Dance Eeveelution are, of course, particular standouts from the array, but there are plenty of other traditional games to be found in here. You can also find playing cards, board games, and other low-tech amusements in here, as well!
• CRYSTAL GARDEN AND TERRACE
A beautiful garden-like area filled with growing crystals located just outside the moon base, visible from the windows in the moon ballroom and accessible via a warm-lit terrace that leads out onto what appears to be the planet's surface itself. It appears that some unseen apparatus is maintaining an area of atmosphere over the expanse of the garden, rendering it safe for guests to wander and explore even without the benefit of space suits or oxygen tanks. However, being a part of the actual surface of the moon, it is possible that perusing among the crystals will net you an encounter with a wild Pokemon, so be careful where you tread among the crystals!
This is the only area where wild Pokemon can be battled and captured, and being that it is on the planet's surface, note also that this area is subject to reduced gravity, similar to the moon ballroom! The wild Pokemon you can find out here are as follows:
Cleffa, Clefairy, Clefable, Staryu, Starmie, Lunatone, Solrock, Elgyem,
Beheeyem, Jigglypuff, Togepi, Carbink, Boldore, Gigalith, Aron, Crustle
All Pokemon will be Level 20-30!
• HOLODECK
At first glance, the holodeck appears to be simply a vast open room criss-crossed with yellow grid lines, looming in the northwest corner of the moon base. However, once inside, a visitor may find that the holodeck is much more than it appears: a virtual reality facility capable of recreating familiar places by a combination of transported matter, replicated matter, tractor beams, and shaped force fields.
Though the holodeck comes with a variety of standard preprogrammed environments to play with and experience — an average beach, a deep forest, an unremarkable porch in someone's generic backyard — its greatest facet is its ability to recreate environments and places from its users' memories. Been missing home for a long time? The holodeck can take you (and your guests) back there — for as long as you've got it activated, at least. Please remember to use it sparingly and in small doses, lest you become addicted to the fantasy and not the reality!
(Mod Note: To clarify, the holodeck is here to indulge a character's (and by extension a player's) imagination. You are by no means limited to just the uses detailed above; if you'd like your character to fantasize about being in a 1920s gangster setting and play around with it as a prompt that takes place on the holodeck, you can feel free to do so! Note that the holodeck comes with safety features that will prevent a character from suffering serious injury (either from themselves, from the environment, or from other people using the holodeck simultaneously), but it is possible to get some bumps, bruises, and scrapes from the experience! Feel free to ask us if you're not sure what you can do with it, but generally speaking it's there to be played with, so don't hesitate to play with it!)
☆ IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER: ☆
• THE GENERAL PROM SCHEDULE IS AS FOLLOWS:
Friday, May 27th — Arrival at the Moon Base; FREE DAY FOR OPEN EXPLORING!
Saturday, May 28th — Red Carpet Moon Gala!
Sunday, May 29th —route_29's 6-Year Anniversary!
• The premise for how your characters arrived on the moon can be found RIGHT OVER HERE! Feel free to be confused and bewildered by this...lunar-cy!
• We recommend putting your character's location in the header of your comment, or if you're doing multiple locations in the same comment, mark them clearly so people can find you more easily!
If you're a former or current player in Route and haven't submitted your Transfer Application for Victory Road, there's still time; you can find it RIGHT OVER HERE!
• To all of our players — whether you've been here for six years or six minutes, whether you've played a dozen characters or just one — thank you so much for playing here and making Route the great place it's been for all this time. We've had some great memories together, and it's been a delight and a privilege to play with and mod for all of you. ♥
☆ PROM DIRECTORY ☆
* Characters marked with an asterisk are not currently members of Route.
~
☆ QUICK LINKS ☆
THE PROM-SPECIFIC INFOPOST | THE FOURTH-WALL-SPECIFIC INFOPOST | QUESTIONS AND INQUIRIES HOTLINE | WALK THE MOON
Where: THE ACTUAL MOON
When: Friday, May 27th through Sunday, May 29th!
Summary: THIS IS YOUR MOD-PROVIDED OPEN LOG FOR FOURTH WALL PROMAGEDDON!
Rating: May vary by thread, please mark accordingly!
Log:
☆ YOU ARE HERE ☆
LOCATIONS OF NOTE:
Accessible only via the balcony that connects back through to the regular ballroom, this unusual section of the moon base is the only major room in which the gravity more closely reflects that of the actual moon, as opposed to being artificially enhanced to better simulate the conditions Earthside. The dance floor is situated approximately fifteen feet below the balcony, recessed into the moon's surface where the rest of the base sits at ground level, and overhead a massive domed ceiling lets in a magnificent view of outer space, the moon's surface, and all the surrounding stars. The acoustics are just as good as those of the standard ballroom, and this dance floor will feature the same music as the other; the only appreciable difference is that in the Reduced G Moon Ballroom, gravity is mostly optional and you're liable to find as many couples spinning through the open air as you are with solid ground beneath their feet. Try not to get trapped in the middle with no momentum, or you might just need a rescue from some considerate stranger!
• REGULAR BALLROOM
A more traditional ballroom for the more traditional partygoer on the moon base: hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings, crystal chandeliers, and tasteful music. Of particular note are the balcony doors at the north end of the ballroom, which lead onto the observation balcony that overlooks the Reduced Gravity Moon Ballroom! Please don't block those doors; they're the only way in or out!
• DINING ROOM AND BUFFET
GOOD FOOD, GOOD MEAT, GOOD GRIEF, LET'S EAT! The dining room is an area accessible from both the ballroom and the hallway that leads between the reception area and the dorms, featuring scores upon scores of tables of varying sizes that might seat as little as two or as many as eight. On days when the party isn't in full swing, buffet-style meals will be served over a period of two hours at three times during the day — breakfast, lunch, and dinner. When the party is jumping, however, the table will remain perpetually stocked with entrees, sides, and of course a full complement of magnificent desserts for people to feast and snack upon as they so choose!
• DORMS AND SLEEPING AREAS
Your moon base home-away-from-home for the next three days! In the massive dorm wing of the base, you'll find vast corridors of hostel-style bunks available to be claimed. Unclaimed bunks will signal their availability by having their curtains open and empty bunk displayed; though the privacy curtains and beds themselves boast no particular security features, each bunk does come with a reasonably-sized trunk for storing a guest's belongings. Upon claiming the bunk, a guest will be prompted to register their trunk with a thumbprint, which thereafter will be used to lock and unlock their trunk. If you're worried about something happening to your belongings or valuables, feel free to lock them up for safekeeping!
• INDOOR GREENHOUSE AND FLOWER GARDEN
A secluded place where partygoers can retreat from the festivities for a little while, whether it be to catch their breath, for a tête-à-tête, or anything else that might involve the desire for a little more peace and quiet. Featuring small walking paths, real fresh flowers, and even a small inches-deep artificial burbling brook, the moon base garden looks to be a little slice of the planet Earth preserved here in outer space. Seems like all that's missing are the wild Pokemon!
• LIBRARY, MUSIC ROOM, SPA, AND ARCADE
An assortment of four general leisure rooms in the western wing of the Moon Base, most of which are fairly self-explanatory! So, if you feel so inclined, take some time to stop in, poke around, and enjoy yourself in:
▶ THE LIBRARY, which features muted lighting, plenty of hardwood paneling, and a quiet atmosphere for reading a book in one of the cozy armchairs or piling up a dozen to peruse at one of the available tables. You're welcome to find the usual Pokemon-ified standard fare of books here; unfortunately, research-inclined people digging for secrets about the moon base, Pokemon, or other such nonfiction topics aren't likely to unearth anything of any particular note this time. Alas!
▶ THE MUSIC ROOM, which boasts a wide array of instruments available for the guests to make use of, including a grand piano, a few guitars (both acoustic and electric), and a general assortment of other choices from the brass, string, wind, and percussion families.
▶ THE SPA FACILITIES, where guests are welcome to unwind and relax in the various pools, hot tubs, and mineral baths available. Swimsuits and towels are provided in the built-in changing rooms for anyone interested in making use of the spa!
▶ THE ARCADE, containing plenty of video games, games of skill, and other such electronic amusements for patrons to pass the time away with. Skee-Ball and Dance Dance Eeveelution are, of course, particular standouts from the array, but there are plenty of other traditional games to be found in here. You can also find playing cards, board games, and other low-tech amusements in here, as well!
• CRYSTAL GARDEN AND TERRACE
A beautiful garden-like area filled with growing crystals located just outside the moon base, visible from the windows in the moon ballroom and accessible via a warm-lit terrace that leads out onto what appears to be the planet's surface itself. It appears that some unseen apparatus is maintaining an area of atmosphere over the expanse of the garden, rendering it safe for guests to wander and explore even without the benefit of space suits or oxygen tanks. However, being a part of the actual surface of the moon, it is possible that perusing among the crystals will net you an encounter with a wild Pokemon, so be careful where you tread among the crystals!
This is the only area where wild Pokemon can be battled and captured, and being that it is on the planet's surface, note also that this area is subject to reduced gravity, similar to the moon ballroom! The wild Pokemon you can find out here are as follows:
Beheeyem, Jigglypuff, Togepi, Carbink, Boldore, Gigalith, Aron, Crustle
All Pokemon will be Level 20-30!
• HOLODECK
At first glance, the holodeck appears to be simply a vast open room criss-crossed with yellow grid lines, looming in the northwest corner of the moon base. However, once inside, a visitor may find that the holodeck is much more than it appears: a virtual reality facility capable of recreating familiar places by a combination of transported matter, replicated matter, tractor beams, and shaped force fields.
Though the holodeck comes with a variety of standard preprogrammed environments to play with and experience — an average beach, a deep forest, an unremarkable porch in someone's generic backyard — its greatest facet is its ability to recreate environments and places from its users' memories. Been missing home for a long time? The holodeck can take you (and your guests) back there — for as long as you've got it activated, at least. Please remember to use it sparingly and in small doses, lest you become addicted to the fantasy and not the reality!
(Mod Note: To clarify, the holodeck is here to indulge a character's (and by extension a player's) imagination. You are by no means limited to just the uses detailed above; if you'd like your character to fantasize about being in a 1920s gangster setting and play around with it as a prompt that takes place on the holodeck, you can feel free to do so! Note that the holodeck comes with safety features that will prevent a character from suffering serious injury (either from themselves, from the environment, or from other people using the holodeck simultaneously), but it is possible to get some bumps, bruises, and scrapes from the experience! Feel free to ask us if you're not sure what you can do with it, but generally speaking it's there to be played with, so don't hesitate to play with it!)
• THE GENERAL PROM SCHEDULE IS AS FOLLOWS:
Saturday, May 28th — Red Carpet Moon Gala!
Sunday, May 29th —
route_29's 6-Year Anniversary!• The premise for how your characters arrived on the moon can be found RIGHT OVER HERE! Feel free to be confused and bewildered by this...lunar-cy!
• We recommend putting your character's location in the header of your comment, or if you're doing multiple locations in the same comment, mark them clearly so people can find you more easily!
If you're a former or current player in Route and haven't submitted your Transfer Application for Victory Road, there's still time; you can find it RIGHT OVER HERE!
• To all of our players — whether you've been here for six years or six minutes, whether you've played a dozen characters or just one — thank you so much for playing here and making Route the great place it's been for all this time. We've had some great memories together, and it's been a delight and a privilege to play with and mod for all of you. ♥
* Characters marked with an asterisk are not currently members of Route.
THE PROM-SPECIFIC INFOPOST | THE FOURTH-WALL-SPECIFIC INFOPOST | QUESTIONS AND INQUIRIES HOTLINE | WALK THE MOON
Agent North Dakota | Red vs Blue
[So this was not what North expected, but he's going to spend the first day scoping out the perimeter and testing out this new environment.
Mostly the Crystal Gardens and the Reduced G ballroom, because Space Dad is that predictable, it seems. He is, however, going to check at least most of the other rooms at least once.]
B - Saturday: Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance
[North has changed into more appropriate attire for the main event, although while he's not going to hold up the walls he's not exactly breaking it down. He has his Togetic with him wearing a little purple bow tie, and he's tied some extra ribbons onto his Sylveon.
But he also has a new Carbink hanging out with him that he seems to have acquired sometime over the previous night.]
C - Sunday: Farewell Moon
[Like Friday, he's mostly going to be wandering around scoping out the place. Unlike Friday, at some point he's going to wander by himself toward the Holodeck, with his pokemon all resting from the festivities. There's no expansive scenery changes or anything, but anyone who manages to catch the man unawares in the holodeck might just catch him talking to a tiny, purple flash of light in the shape of a little person.]
D - Wildcard
[Or hmu with whatever you want! His team that he brought with him is his Clefairy, Togetic, Blissey, Sylveon, and Floette. Please don't try to catch Treble
or do.]A
<Hey, North.>
[Sure is Tobias talking in your head.]
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Tobias?
[He turns to see where Rascal is pointing.]
...Tobias?
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[At least North isn't really freaking out.]
<Sorry about the thoughtspeech thing, it's the only way I can make actual words. I can't read your mind though, before you worry about it.>
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Who are we kidding, this is weird as shit.
Something sad crosses over his expression when Tobias apologizes for communicating in his head.]
It was a little startling, but it's fine.
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<Yeah. It's weird to get used to at first, but it's not so bad? The Andalites - the one who made the morphing technology - don't have mouths, so they had to build in the ability to use thoughtspeech since that's how they normally talk.>
[He spreads out his wings a little. His wingspan isn't huge, but it's still pretty impressive.]
<I missed my wings. Thumbs are great, but there's nothing like flying under your own power. ... Even if the gravity in this area is super weird.>
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Seems convenient. Can anyone hear it or is it just between you and me right now?
[When Tobias fluffs out his wingspan, Rascal does as well, stretching his much tinier wings and squeaking when he almost tumbles before he starts fluttering them again. North looks over and chuckles at his starter.]
Having reduced gravity is less weird for me than steady planetside gravity, but I guess that just speaks to how long I've been stationed off-planet.
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[He laughs a little at Rascal's antics. That's cute...]
<Maybe. I've been off-planet a few times, and we sneaked onto ships a number of times other than that. But it's not a lot, and usually the gravity they were generating was similar to Earth's.>
[He turns his head jerkily and watches an Aron trundle past.]
<... There's nothing for me to hunt here, really. So the gravity thing isn't a huge problem since it's mostly an issue with diving.>
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He's also going to get bored now and wander off, and North lets him but not before calling over his shoulder.]
Don't go too far, Rascal.
[He watches Tobias watch the Aron.]
It's not exactly a field full of Rattata, is it?
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A
But there's a little brown ball of fluff who insistently wanting to make friends with Rascal so there's not much he can do except chase him down as best as one can in low grav-
Oh.
That's North. That sure as hell is North Dakota.
Fuck, abort, about!]
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North, as if sensing his starter's distraction, turns to get a visual on Rascal and instead...
If he didn't know Wash was also an old man from Carolina, he wouldn't have hardly recognized him.]
Rookie-- Wash?
C
It's the little holographic dude that makes Church's voice stutter to a halt in his throat. He hadn't met the lil dude until the Meta's head, but AI time works differently from real time. He knows the name. It rattles something in what used to be Alpha.]
Theta?
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But he does hear someone call his AI's name, and the scars on the back of his neck ache as he looks to the door. He's silent, being caught essentially talking to a ghost. But said ghost, of course, is not.]
Hello!
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Uhhhh. [And we all know he's at his most articulate in situations like this.] ...Hi. Um. Having fun, little guy?
[Wait, this might not be a real thing, or if it is, then he literally walked in on Tall, Pale, and Polar having a moment, and not in a Tucker sense, so:] Am I inter--I'm interrupting, aren't I? I should just--leave? Go. I should go, right? You're doing a thing. Sorry.
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...No, you're fine. I was just...
[Catching up is what he wants to say, but this isn't the real Theta, the real Theta is-]
Never mind. Sorry, have I been in here a while? Did you want to use the holodeck?
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That was just a memory. Theta was my...
[son]
AI partner.
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[And the Meta had Theta, and if North had Theta, then North is dead.] I'm. sorry, dude.
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But the sympathy hurts. He's been holding onto the guilt for a while, hasn't even told York and Carolina that he wonders if he could have done more, if he could have been more alert, or more aware of his sister, if he couldn't have protected them, kept the Meta from getting Theta.
He doesn't know that he and his sister were not only an experiment, they were also bait.]
...Theta would love it here.
[Potential tense, not past. If he can be brought here after death, then Theta can too.]
In Johto, I mean. It's perfect for a kid.
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[Hm. That might not be helpful.] And, I mean, so long as he's careful to avoid all these crazy wild attacking animals--
I mean, he'd probably be... Uh. I didn't really know him. Well enough. To really say. You'd, um, you'd obviously, yeah. Y'know. You'd know. Better than I would.
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...You're not one of his Brothers, are you.
[it's not...really a question.]
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[It does sound like it's a rhetorical, which is good, because god knows he doesn't rightly know what he is compared to Theta, and even if he did, he wouldn't know how to put it into words.
But maybe he can use this room's holographic projections.
One at a time, he recreates each AI as he remembers them, Delta, Omega, Gamma. Eta and Iota, those names pulled from the Meta's mind. Sigma with a fire crackling around him. Theta, as if he hadn't just blinked out of existence. The last one is the hardest, hard to reconcile with the fact that Tex was an AI, was always an AI, just as hard to reconcile as his own origin. But Tex ends the lineup. He won't call her Beta. Can't think of her that way. There's one missing, but Epsilon was gone at the time. The lone survivor, now, as far as he knows.
They don't say anything, don't move save for Sigma's silently crackling flames. Just a representation. He wouldn't want most of them to act as he recalls from the brief interaction anyway. Church cups a hand under Delta as if to lift him. Just a projection, as he always was.]
I don't know. Is that what they are to each other? Brothers?
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They're not even his memories.
But then, memory was the key.]
That was how they thought of each other. Theta talked about his brothers and sisters, when he wasn't asking me questions. He...
[North looks away from the image of Theta, but only to glance at the other man.]
He and the others talked about an Alpha, always quietly and with a little bit of awe. Like they were talking about some kind of legend.
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Church quietly moves back down the line, beside Tex. Forms one more out of the air. Doesn't suggest that it's him, a blue-white armored form with a sniper rifle in its hands. Just makes it. Settles it beside Tex.
They're all dead. He can never go home. It's just Epsilon now. And knowing that makes it so much harder. Knowing that Epsilon is the memory (and memory is the key), the memory that gets made into him, into a better him, a more settled him, a him that understands his own history and can better fill in the gaping holes in his head. Knows that they're even there in the first place and why and how. Why even bother having the rest if the important one who was going to bring the Project to justice got out safely?
He has to clear his throat feeling tight and raw before he can speak.]
Did they think it didn't, y'know, exist? They didn't know where they came from. They didn't have those memories. Was it like...like something was missing, and they gave it a name collectively that made sense? [He can hear their voices calling out to him, excited, overjoyed. Sense obsession like a crawl over his skin. Searching for each other. Searching for him. He didn't understand it all before--finding himself here.
And he's a little afraid, to understand. Epsilon understood, and Epsilon fucked up Washington's head. There's a reason Alpha doesn't remember. But if Epsilon can...if Epsilon can, then maybe he can, too.]
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