[Voice] Looking for Patterns

[halfdarkened]

If anyone's up for it, how about some show and tell about the nightmares? ...I'll share mine on the board if anyone's interested in sharing theirs. Maybe there's a connection.

Comments

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

That still doesn't make any sense.

[Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

We're in a city in a castle. Best I can do is make guesses.

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

Why would they go through the effort of giving us all nightmares just to learn something they can already find out?

[Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

Because some of us have moved on from our pasts or their inner demons. Others haven't.

[Private to Woody]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

But it didn't. [His tone is an attempt at being reassuring.]

[A pause and a sigh.] I don't know. But we need to see if there is.

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

That doesn't change anything.

[Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

Why?

[private to Xion]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

...You don't need to be. It was my fault. I let power blind me in my dream. Just like it did before. Just this time everything went as wrong as it ever could have.

We both took down loved ones and had everything we cared about taken away. Guess that's something...

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

If they can find out what are memories are, they could tell whether we're still afraid of something or not. Giving us nightmares doesn't make that any different.

[private to Riku]

[whodoyou-see.livejournal.com]

I guess...

Are you alright?

[Voice]

[cowardly-hero.livejournal.com]

No offence, kid. But I doubt there's anything in common with your dreams and mine.

[Private to Riku]

[ugotafriendinme.livejournal.com]

I know, I know. [Trying to wave it off, gives a sigh.]

What was yours about?

Re: [Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

Depends on whether they sample all or some of our memories, I guess. I'll leave memory and heart theories to Ansem the Wise.

You got any theories?

[private to Xion]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

...I need eight hours solid sleep.

[Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

...You're probably right.

[private to Riku; now locked as tight as she can make it]

[whodoyou-see.livejournal.com]

[she feels you, Riku.]

...If it helps any in figuring this out, I don't think it's the Organization. I asked Axel, and he didn't know what it was either. And the Doctor said it wasn't happening outside the city. Maybe that means something?

[Private to Woody]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

[Long pause.]

Most of mine have a similar theme. ...My worst one I could turn myself into a white firebird. I was so powerful... King Mickey told me to protect Disney Town. I was unstoppable. I took down anything that tried to get close. I had to leave for the mountain because I kept setting things on fire. And one day, an army came. Their armor shone in the light despite being black. ...It was easy... I looked into their helms afterwards. ...It was all family and friends I had killed.

[private to Xion; permalock at his best]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

[His voice certainly sounds intrigued.]

Really. Considering Axel's good at working all the angles, I'd think he'd know.

Darkness is taking over outside, and nightmares are taking over in here. ...Xion. I don't know if you can even answer this. I know you're walking a fine line. ...But what IS Paixao? None of us have memories of it. Did the Organization create it, or did the Castle do it by itself?

...Are you okay?

[private to Riku]

[whodoyou-see.livejournal.com]

I... don't know. I never really thought about. I guess I thought they made it, but I don't know how they would have.

...I need eight hours solid sleep.

[Voice]

[cowardly-hero.livejournal.com]

No, I'm naturally right.

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

Not really. I don't know a lot about this place.

[private to Xion]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

...Would Axel know?

Hm. [It's a note he hums that's somewhere between understanding and a barely amused laugh.]

Xemnas, would probably consider tired members... Inefficient. Can't believe I'm saying this, but finding the answer to these nightmares would benefit the Organization, too.

[Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

In this one case, yes.

[Voice]

[cowardly-hero.livejournal.com]

How can someone even force someone to have nightmares anyway?

[voice]

[valiantdefender.livejournal.com]

Sounds like they're picking at things that were already there, instead of dropping in something from scratch.

I wonder if there's something in the city that's doing it and it can't work past the walls.