florescences | jing yuan catchall

[ they MUST scrapbook together!!! thinks about how i already sent out handmade albums yesterday evening in the mail, I Simply Did Not Think,

i'm just launching everyone a memory. in the middle of their cute task, elysia will get to see jing yuan's memories of the sedition of imbibitor lunae. SO glad you are canon familiar. ]

[ it's fine. they can make more and send more. really obey that rule. or just do it for fun because elysia loves scrapbooking.

she watches the memory, of a group of friends torn apart, of forbidden actions taken. it is a tragedy with consequences that elysia does not know the full breadth of. ]

... You all must have loved her very much.

We did. She was the best and brightest of us. You remind me a bit of her, in some ways.

[ not just their proficiency with the bow, but their free-spirited natures as well. the love they hold for everyone. baiheng was easily the most magnetic person of their quintet. ]

[ i never thought about this, but you're right.

bringing people back to life isn't quite the danger or the taboo in her world even if it's still not an easy thing at all, but she can imagine the grief it would be to cut down something that was even a facsimile of someone you love, after losing her.

there are similar pangs in her own past . ]

I'm honored to be likened to her. [ ... ] What happened next?

She'd love to meet you, I'm sure.

[ ... ]

It isn't a happy ending, I'm afraid. [ i will go ahead and use names, which she can just intrinsically match to faces since you're canon familiar. ]

Yingxing was cursed to become immortal, and along with Jingliu, succumbed to mara. And Dan Feng...

[ there's only a brief glimmer of the high elder, but he looks a little different. (jing yuan is imagining an overlap of dan feng and dan heng.) ]

...He was imprisoned and forced to undergo molting rebirth—the cycle of reincarnation for the Vidyadhara. ...He is gone.

[ she didn't think so. with that kind of ending, she imagined it wouldn't get happier for a long while.

what she knows of being mara struck is what she saw visualized in the execution. ]

Those are quite heavy consequences. What of Dan Feng's reincarnation? What happened to him?

His reincarnation, Dan Heng, unfortunately remained imprisoned for some time. But he was eventually freed from the Shackling Prison, in exchange for banishment from the Xianzhou Luofu.

[ ...It was the only way I could free him. ]

[ she thinks she understands. ]

You wanted to give him any kind of life outside a life of prison.

[ ... ]

Wouldn't that make you miss him?

Yes, I did. If he had stayed, the Vidyadhara high council would've tried to use him to their own ends.

[ he has to think carefully about her question, but eventually he nods. ]

...I do, in some ways. But I understand that he is not the friend I once knew. Nor do I expect him to maintain any ties with me. He should not be shackled to a past that does not belong to him.

[ Even so, I cannot help but want to spend more time with him. ]

[ thanks for the food.

elysia understand the implications. there's something very sad about the undercurrent of this, with much left unsaid. ]

Even so... understanding doesn't always make it easy, huh? It doesn't mean you can't get to know him, for who he is now.

[ no it is i who must thank you for tolerating with my brainrot...... disgusting.

That I might glance upon him from the shore is enough for me. ]

...I'm afraid that is not up for me to decide. [ "I am not him." ] But if he would allow it, then yes. I would be glad to take that opportunity. And I will not shy from extending my hand to him.

[ thinks about jing yuan sneaking aboard the astral express to make a "personal visit to see dan heng"... okay no more homosexual behavior, i hold out paw for a memshare...!! ]

[ it's not disgusting it's good content

she can sense the yearning in those thoughts. ]

If that's the case, I think you can meet halfway. [ a beat. ] Well, not unless you rescind the banishment, but I don't see why he wouldn't allow it, if he wants to be certain in himself. It's not like you're forcing anything, are you?

[ but ok fine

new reflective surface. new memory (20:23 to 26:23 if start/end coding doesn't work in the html

also i'm like guessing they didn't want to make a new model back then but technically... in the narrative she doesn't have elf ears yet in this memory ]

[ elysia's voice is so cute... and oohhh that is INTERESTING re: no actual elf ears yet.

jing yuan doesn't fully understand the memory shown, but he of course recognizes the signs of grieving. there are some context clues that he picks up on, namely, that they had survived a tragic battle. ]

...Your mutual friend. How did she become your enemy...? This 'Herrscher' you spoke of?

[ she has the cuuuutest voice inoue marina is the blueprint

it's a memory that holds weight to her, but still, she manages a smile. ]

Honkai is a force and a threat to humanity in my world. It can take over and make a vessel out of a person with Honkai resistance and adaptability, and that results in a Herrscher. In my time, after they're taken over, they no longer retain their humanity and cannot return to the person they once were.

[ ...ah. that sounds rather familiar, granted on a far more threatening scale than mara. ]

...I am sorry you lost her in that way, Elysia.

[ assuming she is receptive, he will put a hand on her shoulder and offer a light squeeze. ]

This was... not very long ago, was it?

[ it's difficult to tell given her age and appearance. ]

[ the chances elysia would turn away physical affection are minimal. she smiles up at him for the touch and puts her own hand over his. ]

It's all right. It was over 50,000 years ago. Many of my world's tragedies were in that era.

[ he will still make sure each time because he is a gentleman...

but ah, he offers a soft smile in return. even as distant as some memories might be, the grief still lingers like a silent echo. ]

...And what about your present era?

[ elysia's memories are always near and dear to her. she is made of memories, so they are bright in her mind like stars in the night sky.

always, always. ]

That is a world I'm more removed from. [ a beat. ] On purpose.

[ elysia... the woman you are... ]

Why is that?

Because I am from the Previous Era, and as a simulation, the Current Era is not one I should be a part of.

...A simulation?

[ HI3 I WISH I UNDERSTOOD YOU!! ]

Were you created then, as a projection of your former self?

[ elysia is like from the simulated universe equivalent in hi3 but instead of aeons it's elysia and all her friends ]

I'm a simulation weaved together by any and all of the memories I was able to upload with the technology that was invented.. You could say I'm a copy, but I also don't see myself as anyone other than Elysia.

[ oooohhh takes notes...

i'm guessing jing yuan would liken it to immersia, or memoria... or even the hall of karma. he considers her words, what he knows of her... and decides his opinion hasn't really changed—just his overall understanding. ]

I see. To me, you are none other than Elysia as well.

[ A name that symbolizes paradise. ]

[ she smiles brightly. ]

That's all I could ever want someone to see me as.

[ someone who is so wholly herself, who can only ever be herself, to know how strong and true her ego is.

how her sense of self can never waver. ]

[ he returns the smile, warmly. ...he's thoughtful for a moment. ]

Then, which world is it you plan to return to?

[ her past? the present? or somewhere else? he doesn't think her sense of identity would waver no matter where she goes, but he'd like to know what she might call her home. ]

jing yuan catchall

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