[ "You really won't listen? You'd really listen to her rather than me? After everything?"
Yuka's first memory takes whoever is witnessing it along with her to a beautiful, alien landscape. Everything is made of crystal - trees rise in diamond branches, everything spirals in on itself in intricate glittering fractals. Beneath all of the glamour, though, it does resemble a scene out of the modern world - some of those crystal spires appear to have originally been lamp posts, as if this is a crystalized city park.
In this memory, an oppressive rain pours down over the sparkling hills. A short distance away, the actual scene plays out - Yuka and Kyouko are both there, but instead of their usual close-knit affection, they're facing off against each other as enemies.
"...Goodbye, Reflector Heart."
Yuka's powers in this memory seem radically different from what they are now. As she says farewell to her closest friend, a black circle spreads across the ground at her feet. A vine made of shadows rises from within, wraps itself around Kyouko's wrist, and hurls her with incredible force. She lands painfully, in a heap of mud and shattered crystal.
"Stop it! I don't want to fight you! I thought we were supposed to be partners, weren't we?! We're supposed to be fighting together, not each other!"
The duel goes on, a lot of the words exchanged left ambiguous by the lack of context. Kyouko pushes onward relentlessly, determined to get through to Yuka despite the countless dark vines lashing out at the world around her. Eventually, she will, but even then, this was never something that could be neatly resolved for good with hugs or encouraging words. It was never that simple.
The whole memory plays out less like something being experienced directly, and more like watching the events play out as a bystander. The real Yuka watches on from the sidelines quietly, a resigned expression on her face. She speaks, as much to the world as to anyone in particular. ]
Why would you show me this now? Did you really think there was any chance that I'd forget about what I did...?
-2- It's her brother or something
[ The other memory is a much more mundane one; however, Yuka doesn't even appear to be present for it.
The scene is pretty straightforward - it's Kyouko and Yuka's first meeting. Yuka alone on the school roof, trying to teach herself ballroom dancing off of youtube videos, followed by Kyouko walking in on her unexpectedly. It was an embarrassing incident, and a little ridiculous, but Kyouko pushed past the weirdness of the moment and the two got to talking like friends pretty quickly.
The only thing is... well, this was before they were Reflectors. So, to an unfamiliar observer, it just looks like Kyouko meeting some tall boy who's never appeared in this world. Regardless, the real Yuka - this time watching from just elsewhere on the same roof - looks to be in full-on panic mode, as if anyone seeing seeing this will cause her to burst into flames. Frantically, she tries to think of how to get out of having to explain this should anyone ask... ]
[[OOC: Conveniently, these backstory scenes have both been threaded out on museboxes in the past! The exact details have changed slightly (specifically the mechanics of Paragon Diamond's plan), but if you're curious, the general flow of the action can be checked out here for scene 1 and here for scene 2.
Yuka's memories are materializing in the third person - anyone who shows up for them will see them as if they were there as bystanders, along with Real Yuka.]]
Yuka Ichijou | OTA
[ "You really won't listen? You'd really listen to her rather than me? After everything?"
Yuka's first memory takes whoever is witnessing it along with her to a beautiful, alien landscape. Everything is made of crystal - trees rise in diamond branches, everything spirals in on itself in intricate glittering fractals. Beneath all of the glamour, though, it does resemble a scene out of the modern world - some of those crystal spires appear to have originally been lamp posts, as if this is a crystalized city park.
In this memory, an oppressive rain pours down over the sparkling hills. A short distance away, the actual scene plays out - Yuka and Kyouko are both there, but instead of their usual close-knit affection, they're facing off against each other as enemies.
"...Goodbye, Reflector Heart."
Yuka's powers in this memory seem radically different from what they are now. As she says farewell to her closest friend, a black circle spreads across the ground at her feet. A vine made of shadows rises from within, wraps itself around Kyouko's wrist, and hurls her with incredible force. She lands painfully, in a heap of mud and shattered crystal.
"Stop it! I don't want to fight you! I thought we were supposed to be partners, weren't we?! We're supposed to be fighting together, not each other!"
The duel goes on, a lot of the words exchanged left ambiguous by the lack of context. Kyouko pushes onward relentlessly, determined to get through to Yuka despite the countless dark vines lashing out at the world around her. Eventually, she will, but even then, this was never something that could be neatly resolved for good with hugs or encouraging words. It was never that simple.
The whole memory plays out less like something being experienced directly, and more like watching the events play out as a bystander. The real Yuka watches on from the sidelines quietly, a resigned expression on her face. She speaks, as much to the world as to anyone in particular. ]
Why would you show me this now? Did you really think there was any chance that I'd forget about what I did...?
-2- It's her brother or something
[ The other memory is a much more mundane one; however, Yuka doesn't even appear to be present for it.
The scene is pretty straightforward - it's Kyouko and Yuka's first meeting. Yuka alone on the school roof, trying to teach herself ballroom dancing off of youtube videos, followed by Kyouko walking in on her unexpectedly. It was an embarrassing incident, and a little ridiculous, but Kyouko pushed past the weirdness of the moment and the two got to talking like friends pretty quickly.
The only thing is... well, this was before they were Reflectors. So, to an unfamiliar observer, it just looks like Kyouko meeting some tall boy who's never appeared in this world. Regardless, the real Yuka - this time watching from just elsewhere on the same roof - looks to be in full-on panic mode, as if anyone seeing seeing this will cause her to burst into flames. Frantically, she tries to think of how to get out of having to explain this should anyone ask... ]
[[OOC: Conveniently, these backstory scenes have both been threaded out on museboxes in the past! The exact details have changed slightly (specifically the mechanics of Paragon Diamond's plan), but if you're curious, the general flow of the action can be checked out here for scene 1 and here for scene 2.
Yuka's memories are materializing in the third person - anyone who shows up for them will see them as if they were there as bystanders, along with Real Yuka.]]