shhh one more meme and then chill

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The Goodbye Meme


It's taken a fair amount of time, but it's finally happened. Your character's evolved into everything you've wanted them to be, the CR you've wanted them to make has been made, and they've become a better (or worse) person for it. But now? The madness is over. The Dark Hour has been eradicated; every last Shadow has been wiped out. Even now, though, it appears as though you've got a difficult choice to make. There's the option to stay in Prospero or to return home, no strings attached.

This is going to be a difficult decision for your characters to make. Will they take advantage of this golden opportunity and return home? Or will they stay behind, working together to make this town a better place to live despite the fact that they may never see their homes again?

Instructions!

-Post here with your characters
-In the subject line, write whether they are leaving or whether they are staying (or leave it open, should you decide to play out both possibilities)
-Optional - Write a little blurb about who your character has become, or about how your character is feeling about this general situation!
-Everyone tag each other!
-Cry thousands of tears.

Comments

Lancer | Fate/Zero | Undecided

[croibhristeoir]

[This place no longer needed protecting.]

[What was the purpose of a knight if not to fight and protect others? Living normally was foreign enough, living normally in an age where he didn't belong was quite another. Even more so if those he grew close to here decided to leave as well. What would be the point of staying?]

[On the other hand, leaving was a death sentence. Which was fine, it was not death that concerned him in the slightest. Diarmuid's problem was far more complicated than that, when it came to the idea of leaving.]

[Servants who died and thus returned to the Throne of Heroes forgot all the events of their previous summoning. He would lose everything. All of the Fourth Holy Grail War, all of Prospero and everything that had transpired...gone. As if it had never happened. Then he would return to being a Servant, and how many more times would he repeat the same disappointment? How many more Masters were like Kayneth, how many women like Sola? It would end in misery an untold number of times, and he wouldn't remember enough to know he could've had better.]

[Either live out a human life as Diarmuid, left only with the memories of those he loved... or return to existence as Lancer, serving a knight's purpose but with all the pain of repeated betrayals.]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

...Niisan.

[Of course Issei would have sought him out.]

and a 'well if shirou isn't here' route...

[ex_cashcow493]

Diarmuid!

[ One Very Short Maiden approaches. What do? ]

Issei Ryudo | Fate/stay night | Going Home

[stripping.livejournal.com]

[He had a duty to his temple. He had family to go to, and school to finish properly.

He had a proper place and a proper time.]

Ryuunosuke Uryuu | Fate/Zero | Staying

[kindofademon.livejournal.com]

[Home: dead.

Here: People to kill, Caster to be with, people to bug and bother and everything that was better than just being dead.

Uh, duh?]

Ledah | Riviera: the Promised Land | Going Home

[gaveupfeeling.livejournal.com]

[A Grim Angel was meant for duty. He had given up his emotions for duty, and even the thought that they might be taken away again could not and would not sway him.

He had a mission. A mission he had not yet completed.

And after that, while he was not on his mission, he would sleep. That was how Grim Angels were meant to function.]

Eater | Blaze Union | Going Home

[harpbeat.livejournal.com]

[Eater's reasons are different based on which Eater you'd like to thread with, of course.]

V/V | Angel Notes | Staying

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

[It's just a better world here. A living world, where people and life have a future. There's nothing she can do now to help the world she left - this is a place where she and everyone have a life ahead of them.]

April Sinclair | OC | Going Home

[techno-logical.livejournal.com]

[April has a goal she needed to achieve and there are people counting on her to achieve it, to fulfill the promises she made to them.

So staying here isn't even an option.]

[gaveupfeeling.livejournal.com]

...April.

[What would he say to her? What was there to say?]

did someone say angst? Going home

[revivedpianist.livejournal.com]

[Don't get him wrong. He wanted to stay and live a fairly normal life in Prospero. However, duties are duties. Revenge is Revenge. He couldn't stay. As much as he wanted to and all of that. It was fun while things lasted. All these years of learning -- All these years of making friends he'd keep dearly to his heart. None would be forgotten even if he did leave.

After all, he'd miss them.

Though, that doesn't seem to be enough to say goodbye to all of them. He wasn't one to say goodbye to anything, since he had a feeling that fate would bring them back. So catch him before he leaves, since he... doesn't really have the guts to say Goodbye right now.]

all this angst

[croibhristeoir]

Neah.

[EXCUSE ME, BRO.]

[techno-logical.livejournal.com]

N-Neah! [Do you really think April would let you leave without saying goodbye, Neah? Well, there is now one little redhead standing in front of you, looking torn between yelling and bursting into tears.]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Excuse me. I think you've forgotten something.

Klaus Wulfenbach | Girl Genius | Leaving

[myblimpisbigger.livejournal.com]

[It's been a blast, Prospero, really it has. You took away his Spark and tore out his eye and reminded him exactly how bad his luck is with ladies. He's reeeeaaaaaally going to miss you.

Not really.

... Okay. Some of you. Just a bit.]

[needsteaplz.livejournal.com]

So you decided to head back, Baron?

[Oh did you really think she was going to let you leave without saying goodbye?]

Saori Nakagawa - OC - Undecided

[needsteaplz.livejournal.com]

[ Saori is waiting at the spot where they're supposed to be taken back. Even though she still hasn't decided whether or not go, she wanted to at least say goodbye to those who are leaving.]

[crownedexorcist]

...Hi.

[Before he leave, there's some people he have to say 'good bye' to.]

Devola | NieR | Leaving

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

[Duty before desire.]

[It was a conflict that had plagued her conscience before she ever realized she had such a thing. When it was still just an unreasonable, unknown hesitation.]

[Prospero was a blessing, in that regard. It shed new light on quite a few things -- particularly ones about herself, most of which Devola probably wouldn't have figured out on her own without a dramatic upheaval of events. Prospero was ultimately, despite the horrors of the Dark Hour, a pleasant place. And it was filled with interesting and (mostly) pleasant people she was glad she'd met.]

[In the end, despite any wish to the contrary, she had to go home and see things through to the end. There was too much at stake, too much time already spent, and she was afraid she'd already abandoned her sister to wrap things up on her own -- or worse.]

[She couldn't just stop. There was no stopping. Not ever.]

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

You're going?

Atsuro Kihara | Devil Survivor | Undecided

[babel_hacker]

[He's done a lot.

Helping everyone, maintaining the now useless database, spending time with people he got to know here.

But now...will he go back? He's torn between his bonds with people staying here and his friends and mentor back home. Atsuro's sitting on a bench, his laptop closed on his lap, and thinks.]

[omgwtfateotl.livejournal.com]

[The world is more fair here, compared to the Magical Girl system. However, part of Madoka still wanted to be with her family, even though most of her friends were dead. Nothing good would probably come out of returning, but the same time she wanted to hope that she could fix her home world, as she did with this world. Then again... she had people important to her here as well.

Still uncertain about what she wanted, Madoka takes a seat next to Atsuro when she spots him at the bench. Talking with him always gave her a lot of comfort, even with tough situations like this...]

Have you decided yet, Atsuro...?

Allen Walker | D.Gray-Man | Leaving

[crownedexorcist]

[He's going back.

Yes, life in Prospero is fun. He can spend time without having to worry about the war, about the fighting and Neah's memories in his body. But duty, his comrades and love for humans and Akuma is stronger.

If it mean going on the run, facing Neah's slow advances in his body, then so be it.]

Welp

[revivedpianist.livejournal.com]

Take care of yourself, Allen.

[You're not his or anything. Though, the time they've spent together made him really feel like they were family again. Of course, that'd have to end. It would have had to end someday.]

Saber ✷ Fate/stay night ✷ "Home"

[ex_cashcow493]

[ Another kingdom saved. It was a difficult battle, but nothing in life was ever easy for Arturia Pendragon. In this place she held so much more within her hands than she ever did back home. For here she was with her beloved Shirou Emiya more than she should have been. For here she had her loyal Knights of the Round beside her. For it was here that she learned that it was alright to be a bit selfish every now and again.

For every thing that could bring light into her heart, there was something there to remind her it was all a temporary facade. Kiritsugu was the primary reminder - she shouldn't be here with his son even if he chose her. What kind of person was she to tear son and father apart? Especially when that son wanted to follow in the footsteps of the father.. in the end, wouldn't they be incompatible?

Furthermore, it was selfish to keep holding onto a boy who had an entire life ahead of him. She was twice his age ( Not to mention hundreds and hundreds of years old from just waiting ), so it was only natural to protect him. Plus, there remains her agreement with a certain entity to devote her life to them as a Counter Guardian. Without the Holy Grail in her hands, Saber would return to that scene of battle.

It was time to die.

Plus, a king is meant to lead to her people even if it was to lead them back to their deaths. Surely Gawain and Lancelot would understand this much. ]

Hakuno Kishinami | Fate/EXTRA | Undecided

[willdieifkilled.livejournal.com]

[... I honestly don't know what to do.

We've finally made this world at peace, and there's nothing for me to do but live a normal life here. That's something I could never do if I return to the Moon Cell. After all, I'm nothing but a clump of data over there. That world is in stagnation, while this one has a sure future. But... Rin's waiting for me. Then again, I have friends here too, and I can be with Saber for as long as I can.

I... just don't know what to do. Do I abandon my goals in order to be an actual person here? Or do I walk into inevitable death and sacrifice myself to give a future to my 'home world'?

Ugh, my head hurts.]

Madoka Kaname | Puella Magi Madoka Magica | Undecided

[omgwtfateotl.livejournal.com]

[Going home meant facing inevitable despair with her knowledge of the magical girl system, and living with that fact that nearly all her friends had been killed. Staying here meant living a normal life with Atsuro and all her new friends, but at the expense of never seeing her family again.

She's honestly at a loss here.]

Lord El-Melloi II | Fate/stay night | Going home

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

[There were too many things that he'd left behind in his world to stay in this one. And while he couldn't say that there wasn't the temptation to remain, he couldn't shirk his duties any longer, either. Nor did he want to forsake everything that he had fought to obtain in that world, come though it may with certain unpleasant drawbacks.]

[The Clock Tower was waiting for him. It was about time that he returned to it.]

Allen Ridgeley | Leaving

[want-a-vacation.livejournal.com]

*It wasn't that he wouldn't miss the people he'd met in Prospero, but when it came right down to it, Allen had never shied away from making personal sacrifices for what needed to be done. This place had shown him what Earth had once been like, but now, his world needed someone to find it for real and he was part of the group that had set out to do that.

Besides, it wasn't like he would be leaving everyone he ever knew behind. He'd just be going back to old friends he'd missed anyway. But still, he found himself taking one last walk through the city, maybe hoping to find some of his new friends for a proper goodbye.*

Albedo Piazzolla | Undecided

[fractured-white.livejournal.com]

*This was a difficult decision for Albedo. He wanted to be united with Rubedo again, yes, but...here he'd had a chance to meet Nigredo again and get back the relationship they'd lost. Nigredo's options were stay or die, he knew that. If he left, he wouldn't see his younger brother again until he died himself. But if all three of them stayed...it had its appeal. Ultimately, though, Albedo's decision would have to match Rubedo's. He'd been prepared for the separation from Nigredo, but if his twin left, he would have to follow.*