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[newphew]

WHO: Hunter and you!
WHAT: Memshare!!!
WHERE: Vegas/dreamscape/etc
WHEN: Event time!
WARNINGS: CW for child abuse, child soldiering, brainwashing, ptsd, genocide mentions! also Owl House spoilers will be in here.....

Just a note that I'm going to be doing two separate top level headers! One will be to tag in to receive a memshare from Hunter, and one will be one where you can put your character's memory! Please give me a memory in return if you are taking one of Hunter's ♥

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DEARKA

[newphew]

[ to set the mood! ]

[ dearka finds himself younger than he is -- at your discretion, but in terms of the hierarchy, he's the equivalent of a newbie, a scout going through basic training to be accepted in the emperor's coven. and it's quite cutthroat. dearka finds himself believing (at least to an extent), that he's wanted this all of his life, he's worked hard for it, excelling in school, studying his ass off! he might have had to step on a few toes to even get here. maybe even duel yzak one on one. and he's lost his precious palisman (a magical totem creature who could turn into a staff) to belos, who confiscated it. ]

[ still, he's determined! currently, his mission is to escape this maze full of deadly traps and beasts. every creature, small and big, in this thing, wants to take a piece of him. the walls are massive and full of painful thorns and carnivorous plants -- so he might not want to get too close to them, either. he's got a wand and can use limited magic, but he'll have to rely on his smarts and physical prowess to get out of here. ]

[ he also realizes he's not alone -- there's a literal child here who looks to be about six years old, with unkempt blonde hair. his hood is down, but as soon as he sees dearka looking at him, he puts it back up, almost defensively ]

[ what will dearka do? try to work with this child, help, hinder him? throw him to the wolfbats? all of these are options ]

[busternaut]

[The most unsettling thing for Dearka is the fact that he does feel all of those things, remembers all of those things, but still retains most of his regular self. It's contradictory, and disorienting in a way he's not used to grappling with.

The biggest contradiction lies in the ambition he feels. He's used to competitive settings, but he's not used to really feeling the pressure of them. He's one of those irritating kinds of guys who somehow gets really far in life without really trying. He's never at the peak, because applying himself to get there would be too much of a drag, but it's fine because he's content with simply being close to first. It's part of the reason why he and Yzak are able to coexist as well as they do; if he weren't content with 2nd, 3rd or 4th place, they'd be at each other's throats.

This implanted personality, on the other hand, wants this bad. Enough that he kind of stalls out and argues with himself for a moment, one fist clenching and unclenching at his side. In the end, he's still a ZAFT soldier. And ZAFT's goals and the importance of what it's protecting overrules the ambitions of any one individual. Competition is one thing, competition can be healthy. But pitting your soldiers against one another...?]

Oy, c'mon. We'll get out of here a lot faster if we work together.

[He's holding a hand out and frowning, talking in a squeaky little 10 year old voice.]

[newphew]

[ the worst part of this is that memory version of dearka hasn't gone through puberty yet. for shame ]

[ this child clearly hasn't had the same kind of experience, because he's staring at dearka's outstretched hand with obvious suspicious and mistrust ]

Why should I believe you?

[ he was always taught not to trust any other scout, nevermind when they're fighting for their lives like this. but looking at him, he's a little twig of a boy. how far is he realistically going to get on his own? ]

[busternaut]

[Maybe the lack of puberty is what has him reverting a little bit to his snarkiest tendencies, because he makes an annoyed sound and withdraws his outstretched hand so he can put both hands on his hips instead.]

Hey, if you'd rather just sit here and wait for something to come along and eat you, be my guest. I'm not gonna stand here and debate. I got places to be!

[newphew]

[ he narrows his eyes..... but this looks more ridiculous than intimidating, coming from a scrawny five year old ]

[ but he seems to be evaluating, and... finally, huffs ]

I'm not going to get eaten by anything. But... fine.

[ he starts moving, up to dearka's side -- but keeping a bit of a berth between them, and watching his every move. this will probably get old quick ]

[busternaut]

[Yeah, for a second Dearka thinks this is progress? But then the little shrimp keeps trying to keep a distance between them as they walk, and also keeps looking at him like he's about to pull a knife and jump him or something. He stops walking abruptly and heaves a sigh.]

Y'know, if you keep focusing on staying out of reach of me, you're gonna wind up in the range of something else.

[So saying, he whips his wand up and points in what at first seems like Hunter's general direction. But in the next second, there's a flash of a spell... And then the sound and the heat caused by one of those carnivorous plants getting mcfucking exploded reveals that Hunter was never actually the intended target.

And then Dearka frowns at his own wand. How the hell did he even know how to do that...? This dream is weird.]