PHASE I [ ❓❓❓ ] And then the Flamines are there.
They just appear, suddenly, as if from nowhere. They’re a race of mercenary aliens, and fighting is all they know -- they’re definitely not going to be easy to kill by any means. They seem to have a natural resistance to magic: aside from very specific types of magic (in particular, light magic and anything highly spiritual), they absorb it. Light magic and spiritual magic can harm them, but it will take a lot to take one down.
They can be stabbed, if you can get that close.
But good luck.
Of course, they look like nondescript black shapes with masks until you knock the mask off...and then you can see the true shape of the Flamines.
They’re here to kill you all. :)
PHASE II [ ❓❓❓ ] As if that isn’t enough… it seems the Flamines’ arrival was the last straw for Cerealia and the Nexus Code. There’s a tear in the sky, and from it… the Nexus Code, where all of the lost friends from before, can be seen. It can be entered, even, though remaining there too long can be detrimental to your health.
But people are there.
Old friends, strung up and lifeless, can be seen there, unmoving.
And…
Then some of them move. They open their eyes. They remember how to breathe. And they’re able to return, able to stagger their way back into Cerealia and take their first breath of air in a long, long time.
Welcome back to the chaos of Cerealia, friends.
Unfortunately, you’ve got nothing but the clothes on your back while murderous aliens are rampaging, so hopefully you’re able to think fast. It’d be unfortunate to die so soon after coming back.
As for spiritual and magical characters who were not in the Nexus Code...well, when they return, they’ll find that they’re covered in old, dried blood, and their clothing might have tears in it, as if from a knife.
There are no scars, though, and they’re otherwise fine. Strange.
PHASE III [ ❓❓❓ ] As if this chaos isn’t enough… there are also the masks. Regardless of whether or not characters were around to receive them the first time, regardless what they did with them before, the masks will suddenly reappear in your characters’ hands. They can be tossed aside, but they’ll reappear again eventually, unable to be truly shaken.
Characters who received them before will receive the same mask they had before.
Characters who didn’t receive them before will receive a mask according to the trait that’s more prominent for them.
Either way...it’ll have a profound effect on the Flamines.
They will go after any character with a broken mask in a bloodthirsty rage, intent on murdering them. Characters with a barcode mask or bloody mask will be the next likely to be chased down intently by the Flamines.
Characters with a :( mask will be killed if they get in the Flamines’ way, though they will not go out of their way to chase them down.
Characters with a vine mask or feather mask will be treated with wariness, though they may still be attacked if they get in a Flamines’ way.
Characters with a grey mask will not be killed unless they are first the aggressor, as will characters with a bloody fingerprint mask.
Naturally there will be exceptions to every rule, but the masks will change how the Flamines’ generally act towards characters!
PHASE IV [ ❓❓❓ ] But something’s not quite right.
Regardless of the battles against the Flamines, it seems Cerealia’s just been under too much pressure lately. Something had to give --
And it’s the code building up the characters that really suffers.
Their code has been hanging on by a thread without CERES to maintain it, and now… it’s finally giving out. The glitches that afflicted characters before will be even more prominent now; they might glitch from place to place, or have their powers go totally awry in odd ways. There may be a lack of powers suddenly, or a sudden difficulty staying on the ground as gravity stops working on the character.
They might suddenly be unable to breathe, or go cold, or very nearly die --
But it can be controlled, too, with effort. Characters can learn to control the glitches, gaining an ability to almost teleport, or ways to tweak their powers in exciting new ways.
With a lot of effort, they could even possibly reverse a death -- but only their own, and only once.
BONUS [ ❓❓❓ ] There are also… birds?
Flamingos, to be exact. Who knows where they came from, but either way, there are plastic flamingos chilling all over the place. They’re just normal plastic; they don’t move, they can very easily be destroyed --
But if you touch one with your bare hands… it’ll have an interesting effect.
Characters will suddenly find that they have the abilities or the last person they touched -- but without any of the practice or ability to control it, of course.
Still, it might help with that pesky Flamines problem, right?
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It's like-- the difference between looking at a picture of something and actually holding it in your hands. You know what the thing looks like, maybe even what it's supposed to feel like, but you can't really feel it for yourself. Everything is in your head, not your heart. Or-- hands, I suppose. [ The difference between perception and reality, and all that, which is a difference she is more familiar with than she'd like. She says it almost immediately, though only once he's finished speaking. ] Or at least, that's how I've always thought of it. It's true that memories provoke emotions, but if you have no emotions to provoke....
[ Then that's not the same. There's a certain hesitation, however, in the way she says it. Not a lack of confidence, or understanding, but of conviction. Knowing what she knows now, although the logic may still be sound, if feels almost wrong to repeat it. Exhaling, she takes a brief moment to collect her mind before continuing. ]
I'm not surprised that you thought of him that way. He and I-- neither of us have been alive for very long. Not by human standards, that is. [ Her expression doesn't darken so much as grow intentionally more neutral in lieu of that as she considers how to answer that other question. ] And no. Most of the other Nobodies--....
[ She falters. To say, 'aren't much more than monsters,' of the lesser Nobodies would be awful and, 'they didn't care to,' of those who retained human form might be overly generous. ]
They aren't like us. Most of them were able to retain memories of their original lives, so they never needed to ask those sorts of things. They already knew what they needed to know.
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Still, he nods to show he understands anyway.]
As much as it sucks that you and Roxas didn't really get to retain your memories of who you were...in a way, don't you think that's a little better? It kind of means you can grow to be your own people here. [Um. Let's backtrack.] What I mean is like it's not fair to think you don't have emotions or hearts or anything like that but you can choose to be whatever you think you want to be instead of feeling like you have to be a certain way because of what emotions tell you. I don't know if I'm making sense...
[By this point they're off the building and he's really putting thought into this.] And if you haven't been here for very long, it's all the more reason you should explore what you want to do. Don't you think?
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[ Brows lifting slightly, she listens in silence, her head tilted by some small number of degrees. On the building or off the building, it hardly seems to matter to her, as he appears to have her full attention. Her first response after he's through speaking is to shake her head, but what she actually means is-- ]
No-- you're making plenty of sense. I know just what you mean.
[ Although it takes her a moment to shape her own thoughts on the matter into words, and with her hands folding together she casts a brief look skyward as if for assistance, then lets her glance slide across the buildings almost contemplatively. Finally, she says, ]
I never really wanted to be her. The-- person I was a part of before, that is. She and I... we can never truly be the same again. [ Naminé can - will, she still imagines - go back to being a part, but that isn't quite the same thing as being Kairi, is it? ]
But I was never sure whether I had any right to try to be someone else, either. To be-- me. To have my own life. No matter how much I wanted to. [ Despite herself, she feels a flicker of a wry upturn at the corners of her mouth. Tipping her head back down, she turns it toward the ground. ] It's funny - Roxas never seemed to think about that. Or at least, it never looked like it stopped him.
[ Giving her head a shake to clear it, she exhales. ]
Coming here... it made that decision for me. This place has given me so much more time and so many more opportunities than I could ever have imagined. And even though I'm still not sure I deserve it, I'm... grateful. So-- yes. I think, for someone like me, it's better this way. Because of that, I've had the chance to truly be free.