Player Plot - Broken Time Part 1

[missrecalled_mods]

((This is part of a larger player plot which will be mostly interwoven into actual events for the duration. Please only tag into this part if you were plotted with. Thank you. This is backdated until right after the second part of the future memory plot.))

Speaking to Leia

Soon after Leia received a message from her future self, a mysterious pair of people arrived. A man, he looked mostly human but there was something subtly off about him. Hard to put a finger on what. He was tall and slender and pale in a way that didn't seem quite normal. His dark hair and dark eyes only made that more obvious.

Cradled in his arms was a young girl near about Leia's age, her arms around his neck like she was terrified of being seperated from him. Her hair was neat in tight braids that let the pale brown colour catch the light. She was also pale, but it looked more natural.

"There. You there," the man said, voice odd, like he was both firm yet somewhat unsure. "You are the one. We ned your help if we are to save time. You will help us, yes?"

For Roxas

Soon after Roxas received a message from his future self, a mysterious pair of people arrived. A man, he looked mostly human but there was something subtly off about him. Hard to put a finger on what. He was tall and slender and pale in a way that didn't seem quite normal. His dark hair and dark eyes only made that more obvious.

Cradled in his arms was a young girl near about Elianne's age, her arms around his neck like she was terrified of being seperated from him. Her hair was neat in tight braids that let the pale brown colour catch the light. She was also pale, but it looked more natural.

"See, Gilbert," the little girl said. "you need a friend of hers now, not a friend of hers in the future. He's her friend in the now that she's in." The little girl turned to Roxas. "Will you help us?"

Comments

[princess_weia]

Leia stared at the newcomers in surprise. And kept staring. She knew it was rude, but the man before her seemed to require it. She felt like.... like if she just looked hard enough she might see more of him than there actually was. He clearly wasn't human to her eye, but she couldn't identify his species either.

The little girl, by contrast, was absolutely an ordinary human. Though that just made her companion's strangeness stand out that much more. Neither of them were strange enough for her to fail to respond when the man addressed her however. "Well, sure I'll help if I can," Leia said. "But what are you trying to save time to do?"

[missrecalled_npcs]

The little girl giggled. "I told you you shouldn't say it like that, Gilbert."

The man nodded once. One more odd thing to add, he didn't seem to blink. At all. "Very well, please allow me to rephrase. Time itself is in danger. Or at least your understanding of it is."

[princess_weia]

Well that definitely sounded more important. "You know, she's right; you should have put it that way first," Leia said. "But anyway, how can I help? I don't have may magic necklace here, so I don't think I could help fix things like I helped fix up the jungle or anything."

[missrecalled_npcs]

"You do not need any sort of magic, what you need is time. In your future you will know the Chosen. But you and she are both before then now. But that connection remains," Gilbert said. "She must be brought away from the barrier so that she can return to the time she is meant to be from. For one such as you it is alright to be off shifted from time. You will return to your own path with little ill effect, but the Chosen has already woven herself into time in the future, and if she is not there then, then her future will collapse."

[princess_weia]

Leia listened, chewing her lower lip thoughtfully. Toovee kept trying to train her out of doing that, but Toovee wasn't there. And this situation required some hard thinking.

"OK so the next time people go to the Isle, I need to be sure I go with them," she said. "And when I get there, I need to find this Chosen person and make sure she comes back to Auradon with us, or else something really bad is gonna happen. Is that right?"

[missrecalled_npcs]

"Exactly."

[princess_weia]

Leia nodded. "OK, I can do that," she said. "What does she look like? And what's her name? I can't just go around yelling 'hey, Chosen' or something."

[missrecalled_npcs]

"She does not yet know her name," he said.

The little girl spoke up. "She's little like you and me, and she has dark hair and brown eyes and a flower on her face."

"Ah, no Kattea, she would not have his mark yet," he corrected. "She has not yet met him." A subtle complex emotion at that last word.

[rexien]

The abnormalities of the two would go largely disregarded by the cloaked figure. After all, he was more used than not to strange folk.

Though their arrival at all was rather coldly received. He was still confused from everything he'd seen the last few days, and with neither the vocabulary nor the internal ability to process what the tight sensation in his chest was, he was more irritable than normal. Though that too, was a thing he didn't have the ability to name.

He narrowed his eyes at the newcomers from under his hood. "...Help you? Who are you?" And who was she? They couldn't mean Xion... could they?

[missrecalled_npcs]

"The Chosen," the man said.

"Not that name, Gilbert. No one will know her as the Chosen yet."

"Kaylin, then."

"Gilbert!" she said, exasperated. She shook her head, braids flapping, then looked at Roxas. "Elianne, she was called Elianne back then."

[rexien]

Neither 'The Chosen' nor the name Kaylin meant anything to him, but he took pause at the last name.

"You know Elianne? Is she okay? What do you mean 'was'?"

[missrecalled_npcs]

"Her future is in danger and that puts everyone in danger. She must be brought out of the enclosure. Bring her to the Water," He said.

[rexien]

"You mean off the Isle?" His chest tightened. He'd never meant to leave without her, but things had happened so quickly. And Xion and Axel... He hadn't seen them in so long.

He shook his head. It seemed like Elianne needed him now. "If she's in danger I want to help, but I can't get to the Isle right now."

[missrecalled_npcs]

"As soon as you can, you gotta get her," the little girl says. "Gilbert says if she stays little she could be in danger."

"I said that everyone wed to time as she is would be in danger," he corrected.

"And that includes her," the girl said, primly.

[rexien]

"If she stays little..? I don't-" He shook his head. "Is all I have to do get her off the Isle?" He didn't really understand what they were talking about, but if Elianne was in trouble he wanted to help.

[missrecalled_npcs]

"And to the Element that remembers," the man said with a nod.

"Then we hafta hope she can wake up," the girl said. "Whatever that means."

[rexien]

"What does that even mean? Who are you anyway?"

[missrecalled_npcs]

"She'll remember in the future when she's met us," he said. "We cannot stay. I am anchored only by the child, and she does not belong here either."

[rexien]

He hesitated. "Are you going to take her away?"

[missrecalled_npcs]

The man nodded. "Her remembering and becoming who she needs to be should be enough to repair time."

[rexien]

Repairing time sounded good, maybe even Elianne getting to go home, but... from what he understood this World was better than where Elianne had come from. Would she want to go home? "If I can bring her back here, and things get fixed, will you make her go back with you?" He didn't know if they could do that, but he didn't want Elianne to have to ho anywhere she didn't want to.

[missrecalled_npcs]

"If time is repaired I will have no more cause to be here, and will not be able to bring her back even if she wants to go."

[rexien]

His chest seemed lighter with that. He wanted Elianne to stay here, with him and Xion and Axel. He could introduce them, and they could all have ice cream together.

He nodded. "I'll bring her back here. Then your time thing will be fixed." He wanted her to be here anyway. She wouldn't have to look for food so much, since there was always some in the big hall.

[missrecalled_npcs]

The man nodded. "That is all I can ask."