Good End Meme

[alephbet]

Congratulations! Ruana and Jason are dead, Zo got a pat on the head and a cookie - nobody's really sure where Riki went - and you've found a way to restore the destroyed worlds. Zo can send you back to your homes any time you ask him. You're free!

But, once you go, you're never coming back. And you won't ever see the friends you've made here and suffered unimaginable horror with again. No take-backs - your life in the Tower is done.

Maybe now's a good time for some tearful goodbyes. Or, you could always stay in the tower... Without the experiments and the monsters, it's not such a bad place, is it?

(Post with your characters, what they're doing, whether they're staying or going, etc.)

Comments

[fuhgeddaboudit]

[yeah she's going. Gurl has shit to do and eldritch horrors to fight.]

[oathshackledbird]

Are you ready to go?

[Diarmuid is smiling. Really smiling. Perhaps more than one who only has death waiting for him back on his world should be.

Or perhaps not since he's not going back to his world. Or maybe it would be better to just say it's not his world anymore and stopped being so as soon as he swore he would not ever leave Waver's side again.]

Do you think your old man can get a hug before you go?

[heavenscorpse]

[V/V doesn't know. It's hard to say, when humanity could be destroyed just because of her leaving. She should go back and check, to see if there's anything she can do. If there's a chance that her not going home will cause ruin then she can't stay.

...But humanity is going to die out anyway, and she'd like to live somewhere where there are people and a bright future...

But isn't that abandoning them?

She'll wander the dormitory floors aimlessly, unsure of who to talk to about this.]

[tohko_amano]

[Oh, V/V, there was no way Tohko was just going to let you be without saying goodbye. She didn't really know about V/V's internal struggle, but when she saw her friend, she smiled and ran up to her, a large pack on her back.]

V/V! Hang on a minute!

[fionnuisce]

[Waver seemed awfully calm about the situation. As always he had that notebook in his hand--most of it useless now, but there was still some information on the Fifth War he'd surely end up needing.]

[A sigh. Goddamn, if he'd been gone for any notable period of time by their perspective then he was going to catch holy hell from the head of the Archibald family. What a pain.]

[puppy_lancer]

So you're just gonna go?

[Lancer appears behind Waver, crossing his arms.]

[alephbet]

[Home is where he's meant to be.

Home is where the curse of God will fall upon him once more, plaguing him with eternal reincarnation into lives of suffering and misery, and each of his bloodlines will suffer the same fate.

But home is where he has work to do. So home he goes.

First though, he has some people to talk to.]

[lightofhumanity]

[Aleph was one of the few new friends chaos had made in the Tower, so when he saw the person, he did smile and nod.]

So..are you going back, Aleph?

[no_longer_a_king]

Arturia has no idea what to do. On the one hand, she has a duty to fulfill--a duty to all the worlds she managed to fulfill--and should go back to the world to continue her duty.

....on the other hand, she isn't sure she wants to go back. For the first time in her life she has the right to choose her path for herself and there is nothing left for her in her world. But is it right?

She's long since given up the idea of being a knight despite every fiber of her being acting like it. She betrayed her Master once. She'd damned herself to eternal fighting to make up for it. So Arturia wanders the library, lost in thought. People will be leaving soon, are making plans, and yet she still has no idea what to do.

[withak]

[Katsuya has a brother to go to, a duty to uphold, and little incentive to stay.

Well. There are people here he's become fond of. It would be a lie to say it doesn't pang his heart to think of never seeing them again.

But never seeing Tatsuya again causes him far more pain.]

[acceptedoblivion]

[He's silent for the longest time, because he has a feeling that even if he doesn't go back... there won't be much left here, either.]

Going back, huh.

[technologic]

[April should, needs go back. Back to the wasteland and the immortal life that she knew was waiting for her, the life that she doesn't want. But she had a world that still needed rebuilding and a group to lead, so she had to go back. But she doesn't want to leave just yet.

So April finds herself sitting in the meadow floor for now, as she's usually done before during her stay in the tower, staring at the ground in thought. She didn't want to admit that she was sort of hiding away from the inevitable goodbyes she would have to say.]

[alephbet]

[Unfortunately Aleph finds her there.]

Hey. [He sits down next to her, not yet saying anything else.]

[kindofademon]

[He's kinda dead back home, so. Even if it's boring now, Ryuunosuke is staying.]

[nonacquiescent]

[Aw, come on, go back home and end everyone's suffering from the fact you exist, Ryuunosuke.

If Waver didn't have loads of other reasons to go home, getting away from Ryuunosuke would definitely be enough reason to go. Have a scowl.]

[doctor_dismemberment]

[It's finally over. People are relieved, they're starting to make their final plans and say their goodbyes, and home is just a short ways away. Richtofen stands up on a table, raising his voice to be heard over the commotion.]

Attention! Yes, attention? If you all could look over here for a minute, please...

[He flips the emotional crowd of people off.]

Fuck all of you, I hate you, I never trusted a single one of you. I hope that all of you die painful deaths, und I want you to know that when I take over my world und have my precious babies rip every living thing on my planet open with their teeth... I'll be thinking of you people. I will imagine your ridiculous features on the tearful faces of each and every pathetic soul that I kill, und it will be almost orgasmic to watch as the light fades from their eyes.

Shitheads.

[LATER HATERS AHAHAHAHAHAHA]

[puppy_lancer]

[See this? This is Lancer flipping you off with both hands.]

Well, fuck you too! Glad you're leaving!

[A pause.]

No, wait, hold on. Let me take a second to kill you first!

[scentofmakai]

[Home.

Not without regrets, not without saying goodbye to everyone here he's grown fond of. It's not a long list, but it's there.

There are people back home waiting for him, though. He can't stay too long.]

[technologic]

I would ask if you're going, but that's kinda obvious. [Speaks up his short teacher from behind him.]

[hystericull]

[Maybe at one point he'd felt he needed to stay.]

[Why leave behind a place where you'd gained so much, only to return to where you'd had nothing? Even if some of the experiences here were horrible, and even if they'd shaped him into a bigger monster than he'd ever thought he could become, it was still who he could have become back in the Veil. And it's not like he was without his fair share of wonderful moments. Even the darkest places had a few patches of light.]

[There was nothing left here. All the time he'd wasted faffing about, wondering whether or not he would leave, had he been given the chance, suddenly felt incredibly foolish. If he'd gained anything from his horrifically long stay in this hell, it was the knowledge that forward was the only direction he was supposed to go.]

[And forward he shall go. The memories made here will always be memories, no matter where his physical body is. The relationships he'd unwillingly kindled? ...They weren't worth stagnating for. As much as it pained him to throw them away, he would never admit it.]

[Farewell, Animus. It's been motherfucking real.]

[lightofhumanity]

[Gamzee, there was one cocksucker who wasn't going to let you leave just like that. So, when his back was turned, the troll would feel a snowball hit his back, and when he turned, he would find chaos, smiling.]

I take it that you are going to leave?

[lethechained]

[....]

[... It's wrong, she thinks, to hesitate. She knows where she should go and what she should do, and yet--]

[It's hard, letting go of the place that, even though it caused her so much misery, also caused her so much joy. It's hard letting go of the people, rather, who made it worthwhile. It's hard and everybody understands.]

[But even if she finds herself afraid, even if she finds herself reluctant and anguished - or rather, refrains from naming these things - she know the choice isn't really hers at all. If the others go, she must follow. And so she waits, restlessly and anxiously, at first in one place but before long taking to wandering the tower, visiting places full of memories both fond and unwelcome.]

aquarium?

[terreifying]

Hey.

[Rei is much the same way. She wants to go home. She had to go home. Yet, she can't say goodbye to all the friends that she has made here.]

I wonder what'll happen to all these creatures once we leave...

[She mutters, half to herself.]

[justabignobody]

[Well... Riku is certainly going off back into his time and world - he has to. There is a promise he has to keep and a Nobody he has to capture, no matter what it might cost him.

Though... given how much stronger he has grown in his time in the tower... this just might not be quite as much of an issue as it would have been without this detour. Hopefully.

Goodbyes come first though, as heavy-hearted as they may be.]

[swordedpast]

[ There should be no hesitation. There should be no illusion that he has a choice.

Archer is a hero. He belongs to the world, not to himself. (He never had one of those "self" things in the first place, really.) There's only one rightful way for him to escape his fate, and that's his original plan. That's by wiping Shirou Emiya from existence, the way it always should have been.

And yet memories from this world linger too long in his mind. Cooking breakfasts in the mornings. Listening to the admonishments of Sabers clad in black and white. Holding Rin Matou in his arms. Merely talking to people he would have ignored except to cut down in his own world.

He lingers, too. ]

[no_longer_a_king]

....You're having trouble, too?

[She never thought when this day would come she would think twice about returning and yet here she is, doing just that.]

[evokingfool]

[Minato is going home.

He knows the fate that awaits him at the end of his journey, the surprises will happen just mere days later on October 4th, as well as the months ahead. He will return home to lead SEES, bring closure to the mysteries behind the Dark Hour and to his friends...and make his fateful choice.

Afraid? Maybe, but he knows what he have to do and he choose not to turn his back.

Before he leave, Minato make his last, final round at the tower and maybe see his friends before his departure. However, he's taking his time with his walk.

Minato wish to take his time.]

[stalemates]

[There's no way Lambda's staying, now that she can go off and find her precious Bern again. This is how it's meant to be, forever travelling between worlds in search of her.

Later, bitches.

Although she won't just leave, she has to go out with a bang! So it might be raining gummy bears.]

[withak]

[Katsuya finds the source of the gummi bears pretty quickly.]

Someone's in a good mood.

[puppy_lancer]

[Even though this Tower isn't the most ideal of places, Lancer has gotten into the habit of calling it home. He relishes the friends he made, the silly scrapes he had gotten in, the experiments that he had withstood. There's definitely a part of him that doesn't want to give this all up.]

[But he knows he has to. He needs to fulfill his promise to Ayaka in his world. And he knows that his friends all have their own matters to return to. Even his brother is leaving with his Master from another world. Just knowing that his friends will be happy makes him less hesitant about leaving.]

[Nevertheless, he takes a moment to step through the floors first. To relax one last time before he has to plunge back into the hell that is the Holy Grail War. Maybe, to even say goodbye to whatever friends he runs into.]

[oathshackledbird]

Have you decided to go back?

[The voice is soft and tentative. Diarmuid really doesn't want to know the answer because he can guess it. And he doesn't like it. He doesn't want his hero to return home and to a war that can only end in his death.

Why can't their be a way for them both to be happy and live on?

Why is he the one who gets to continue when they both deserve that chance?]

[attheclocktower]

[... well, Xion isn't alone in not jumping for joy that everything's over, but she might be one of the few who seems... outright upset at the prospect of going home, and she's handling it in probably the worst possible way: by withdrawing to the highest observatory floor, curled up in a tight ball near one of the windows, tear tracks evident to anybody who might get close enough.

There is a very quiet but very violent debate taking place in her head right now. She has no future to go home to. She'll lose all the friends she's made here. She'll have two months to live at most. She'll be forgotten, just as Namine and Riku had said she was when she'd first arrived.

Unless...

Unless she did what Sora said. Unless she found the possibility that Aqua and the others from that city had revealed to her. There was a future where she lived, but how did she make it? For all she knew, she could screw things up, make everything worse, just by trying to fix things. Was she willing to take that risk?

But what about Sora? The one in her universe... would he be trapped asleep forever without her? What right did she have to stay here and live if it meant dooming him and possibly more back home? And most importantly what if everyone else was going home, as they no doubt probably would? It wouldn't be like she'd have much choice then, would it?

Living... living without her friends wasn't an option either.]

Oh, the Horror.

[chevalier_mal_fet]

[It's quite possible he's absorbed some of his Master's Mad Optimism during the time he's spent in the Tower, but Lancelot is looking forward to rejoining his particular War for the Grail. Yes, they'll take the cup, and when they do, Kariya will use his wish wisely, saving not only the girl, but himself as well. And himself-- he'll face his King anew with the slate clean between them, honor satisfied and restored.

He'll go freely without the Enhancement, spare his Master and himself-- they'll use strength of the bond they've forged here to defeat their opponents cleanly. Yes, though he will miss some here he considers to be boon companions, it will be good to return to the World.

Perhaps it's for the best that they came to this place of Trial, after all.

With all this in mind, Lancelot takes leave of some of his favorite haunts before gathering up his Master and leaving the Tower forever.]

Re: Oh, the Horror.

[puppy_lancer]

You going too?

[Lancer was sitting by the side of the lake, smoking a cigarette.]

Everybody's clearing out, it seems.

[bow_of_the_galadhrim]

[He's ready to go home. To embrace his friends and family, to go back to a life that wasn't as horror-filled as Animus had been. True, it wasn't so horror-filled with most of the administrators dead but the place haunted him still. Walking these halls would only force him to recall each death, injury and loss that he and his friends had suffered here. And no matter what he did, he would watch the mortal die, just as he did back in Middle Earth. At least Middle Earth offered him solace in the form of a sail to the west, leaving these hither shores for absolute peace.

With him, he would take the memories of everyone he had come to care for, he would share tales of this place with others that were the least gruesome. He would tell of the strange holidays celebrated by the people here. He would take with him a love that would have been otherwise impossible and return to a friend to keep a promise he'd made to him. And he would take with him all the horrible memories he'd have otherwise gone without. Memories that would force him to sail as soon as possible. There was no peace here or anywhere else.]

[tohko_amano]

[Of course, after all they had been through, there was no way that Tohko could just let Legolas go without saying goodbye or having a parting gift. So, in the halls, he'll have the book girl running towards him, a pack on her back carrying all the belongings she had acquired in the Tower, and a huge smile on her face.

And a book in her hand.]

Legolas! Hang on!

[ghostytrainer]

[When it was all said and done, the choice was harder to make than John thought it would be. Really, the tower really WASN'T so bad like this. And the things he'd been through here with his friends made the thought of saying goodbye unbearably difficult.]

[But in the end, no matter how hard the choice was, the tower wasn't home. Johto was home.]

[He's not leaving just yet though. Gotta do one final round of every wacky floor and say some goodbyes first.]

[idkworldruler]

This had to have been one of the most idiotic moments of my life. [Just one of them, of course. He's going to have plenty more once he returns to New York. But first he sighed and looked at his little notepad while darkness falls over his face.]

But I suppose it wasn't all for nothing. [The other Children of the Eye and Pyramid will be most interested in what he had learned.

He glances over the rest of the crowd who hadn't left yet.]

...This isn't going to be the last time we see each per, I'm sure. [That was a statement.]

[altitonant_emperor]

[Hidetoshi was leaving. That had been almost a foregone conclusion the moment the chance was offered with the deaths of Ruana and Jason. He had a life to return to and start living in earnest, a family to painstakingly rebuild, and more importantly, he planned on having a long discussion with Mitsuru-san on persona-users and their activities. See what he could do to help out with that. Normal he was, but he wasn't incapable of lending a hand.

A driven person like himself, where all his personal goals lie to be accomplished within his homeworld, had very little reason to stay in a place like here.

Yes, he had learned things in the Tower he would have never learned in his world and made companions, no friends he can honestly say he would been a lesser person for not meeting, and he had seen a good friend he had thought dead in his time. It was filled with potent memories, for the better or worse. But it wasn't home and never would be.

He's in his dormitory room, packing his belongings. Preparing to say his goodbyes to others before departing without a trace of hesitation in his mind.

There was no real sense in loitering after all.]

[destructiveprinciple]

[This was just another prison even if the wardens are dead.

Avenger had no true qualms about leaving it behind him.]

[fusedstars]

[Hei had no home to speak of. His world, the real Hei's world, was not an option. And the facility was another place he'd rather not willingly go just yet; and the managed so well without him. It didn't take him long to figure out some...other news as well. Lucy, was fine, married in the arms of another. Disheartened as he was, his wish did come true at least: she was happy, and that's all he could ever want. He would place faith in the spouse's abilities.

You can find him and Mao the mogwai either around the kitchen, cooking a farewell feast, or near a teleporter. He had a good idea as to where to go, and who to see. He was already geared up too, weapons loaded. Another warzone was waiting, and he intended to return a favor. He placed Mao down, pushing him away a bit.]

Sorry, you can't come with me this time. It's way too dangerous for you, Mao.

[The mogwai looked up, teary-eyed and shaking it's head. Hei smiled, grabbing it into a hug. He really got attached to the little guy.] I'm sorry.