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Prompt 1: Amnesia

[ You woke up, all your memories having vacated you. Well, that sucks. But hey, no time like the present to go out and figure out things. Maybe someone in your smartphone contacts knows you or what's going on. You open up your smartphone's lock screen and-- hey, that looks relevant. Profile pages! It has your unit name, member names, but no pictures. . .

Well, the rest varies. This one says Likes: Industrial Strength cleaning products, Breakbeat hardcore, Volleyball shorts and Dislikes: Roombas, Electro-industrial, Maid Outfits. The next has a thrilling tale that concludes with the idol mud-wrestling God, though it doesn't mention if they won or not. The third says that the member became an idol because they want to use the television and media attention to get the notice of their long lost sister, and reunite their family. The fourth just has someone's three sizes. The fifth has a detailed astrological profile.

Since no one remembers their names and there's no pictures to match it to, this is actually less helpful than you hoped. And furthermore, the doors aren't opening until you and the rest of the amnesiacs on this unit tell it who is who. Looks like you and the rest of these people have to discuss which of you is more likely to have mud-wrestled god, and who joined because they really want to find their long-lost sister. Or you can just use the tape-measure that was left sitting on the main table of the center room, that might be a quick way to settle at least one of these things. ]

Prompt 2: Memory Regain

[ You saved up your points, performing in Games or Lives or Vids, something or other until you had enough points to put the order in.

You didn't really know how to expect a memory to look like, but as it turns out there's just an alert on your app. Once you click it, a playback starts-- on the screen, and in your mind. You remember something now.

However, in buying the cheap version, that just broadcasted to several other people's phones in the area as well as all screens in the area. Cool. That was definitely what you were trying to do. ]

Prompt 3: Game Time

[ Welcome to the Game Tower. Today's game is a sort of mad fake phantom thief free-for-all. You arrived, were given top hats and cloaks, and the inside floor of the tower had been remodeled to resemble an art museum, with a giant roulette wheel right by the elevator you exited. Below that was a little slot, where today's hologram host explained the wheel would spit out a slip with a goal just for you.

So you have a little slip of paper with a goal on it, and no way of knowing what anyone else's goals are, though you did see the big roulette wheel being spun at the beginning letting you know the some of the possibilities:

♚Steal a heart
♚Steal a life
♚Steal an object
♚Steal a kiss
♚Steal someone's clothes
♚Steal someone's shoes
♚Steal a secret
♚Steal the giant statue from the center of the museum
♚Steal the portrait that depicts your true love

...well, waiting around isn't going to get you any points. Get to it, temporary phantom thief! ]

Prompts 4: Fanmail

[ Today, trying to take the elevators up from the lobby to access the apartments you and the other units live in just isn't working. Upon the doors being pried open, you found out why quickly: the elevator shaft was jammed up with fan mail, so it couldn't properly descend. Letters cascades out from between the open doors: letters from people who watch you play games, do lives, make vids, and probably all sorts of other things on those omnipresent cameras.

Are you really going to read these? Though right at your feet, a few have spilled from their envelopes. Now you can't help but read those. Here's one in purple glitter pen that says, jesus just come into my home and strangle me with your hair and one that is written with newspaper cut out letters (alarmingly reminiscent of a calling card written by a serial killer) that reads incongruently hello my soft best child ur good and valid and I love you forever plz be ok don't listen 2 the haterz u have done nothing wrong. Oh, and here's one asking if you can wear tighter pants for your next live, they want a better shot of your ass for their shrine. This one just says MARRIED?

Well, it's just as well you have no idea who those were for. Most this fanmail isn't for you. Except for the few that you just read, they're all labeled in envelopes for different people from all the units. Time to read other people's fanmail. Or try and find them and deliver the fanmail. Or just start a big fire in the middle of the lobby, you could do that too. ]

Prompts 5: Wildcard

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Ren | Vampire Knight Memories

[romanticlove]

1. Amnesia

[As Ren tried to find her bearings, she looks through each profile and thinks them through.]

Uhm... I'm not sure but none of these sounds like me.

[If she could even remember who she was, that is.]

I'm not even sure what a roomba is.

2. Memory Regain

[It's a simple memory, one from when she was younger. She was happy to bring home her cake to share with her elder sister. She was positively glowing as she walked towards her, cake in hand.

Onee-sama! Let's eat this cake I baked in Home Economics class together. And you know, next time I... my classmate...

She stopped to stare up at her sister, reaching up to pet her hair while her sister held the plate in her hands.

Onee-sama... are you alright?

Her sister was quick to reassure her.

'You're so cute, so i stiffened!

She wasn't that convinced.The memory faded from there but she was still left with more questions.]

A sister? Onee-sama...?

[Remembering such an important detail, about someone so important to her, made her stomach knot.]

How was it I could forget Onee-sama so easily?

5. Wildcard

[ooc: If either of the above prompts doesn't strike your fancy, feel free to hit me up here or pm my journal for any other ideas!]

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[thanks_eyehateit]

[ from a short distance away, leaning up against a wall: ]

I mean, tell me about it, kid. I'd think my entire life was pretty important to me, but here we are.

[romanticlove]

[!!!]

Ah-

[She wasn't expecting others to see that, clearly. Not that it was anything embarrassing. She and Ai had a good relationship.]

Well, I'm sure for others there are some things they would rather forget.

[Painful memories and maybe even bittersweet ones too. Not that she would ever wish such a thing on anyone. Her memories were precious to her.]

Do the memories we lost just... come back after a while?

[thanks_eyehateit]

...Don't mean to intrude. Just happened to be nearby.

And no, not on their own. That's capitalism for you, though, I guess. Why make a thing free when they can charge for it?

[romanticlove]

Ah. The points that we earn from games. We can use them to buy more memories, sure, but what about memories that are more important? I assume they just cost more?

[This one memory with Ai was small but there were many others, she's sure. Vampires lived long lives, though her lifespan would always be shorter than that of her sister.]

[thanks_eyehateit]

I think it's just... random? It's like one of those... gatcha games, yeah. The ones with the random prizes that are probably stacked against you?

...looking for a specific one?

[romanticlove]

Oh, I see. I guess that wouldn't make the game any fun if we could just pick which memories we want.


...I'm not sure? I feel like there must be more memories like that one. Memories of my sister... and other people too. Maybe. I don't like not having them.

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[sunflowering]

Maybe it's a kind of dance? It sounds like it could be a dance.

[romanticlove]

Really? I don't think I've heard of a dance like that.

[But then her memories right now are sort of fuzzy.]

Do people hold parties here?

[Whoever clearly hates this dance called a 'roomba' probably wouldn't go to such things.]

[sunflowering]

There was one recently! B-san held, it, and it was a prom. Though none of us did anything like a Roomba. Maybe I should ask him about it.

[romanticlove]

Oh, how nice! Do we earn points by going to parties like that?

[sunflowering]

Well... actually, we all spent points to attend this one. It was run by us idols for fun, so we needed to buy the materials for it.

If it was an event thrown by the producers, though, points would have been possible.

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[emptymind]

[ eyes still lingering a bit longer on the screen that played the memory, even after it's finished playing ]

You seem like a very good younger sister.

[romanticlove]

[Reflexively, she puts her hands up, covering her eyes behind the back of them. She might be blushing. Maybe.]

Ah- no-!! It wasn't anything special. I was just really excited that I'd been able to make a cake and wanted to share it with her.

[emptymind]

Mm-mm, I think that's a good feeling itself. You were attentive to her mood, too, and now you're worried about having forgotten her. That cake must have been delicious.

[romanticlove]

It was! And it was a lot of fun to make, too.

[ And it made her happy to share moments with her sister.]

It’s surprising that this place is able to take memories so easily, but I’m happy to have received even one memory of her. Onee-sama is a really amazing person.

[emptymind]

It's good to get along with family. If you would like support in holding live events to regain more of your memories together, then I will happily offer my assistance.

wildcard

[bloodyrose]

[ The location at this point doesn't matter. Rei is. . .just going to stare at her for a long moment. Because really, how else should a person react when seeing a stranger who at the same time, appears so similar to yourself? ]

You are. . .

[ Clearly they must know one another, right? Or else it's just a freakishly uncanny encounter. ]

[romanticlove]

[She doesn’t even hide that she’s gaping at him either. Quite honestly, they could be siblings with how alike they look.]

I’m- do we know each other? I’m sorry if I’ve forgotten, it seems to be going around.

[If she cut her hair the resemblance would be uncanny. The only difference was he was taller and probably older than her. She tries to smile and hide her feelings about this. It was to be expected that if they knew one another they didn’t remember.]

[bloodyrose]

I don't think I would be surprised if we do.

[ Not even if they really are related, as well. How frustrating. ]

It does. You don't need to apologize, I don't have any prior memories, either.

[romanticlove]

Ah. I wonder what we all did to somehow end up in this situation. Maybe we all might have something in common and just haven't realized it yet?

[Aside from their looks, she half wonders what else they might have in common - if that's the case.]

I suppose it's almost a comfort that we aren't alone in this situation. Each of us has the same problem.

[bloodyrose]

That could be it, though it's anyone's guess. The people I've met here are all very different, at least from initial meetings.

[ If it's explicitly between the two of them, though, who knows? ]

Mm. You can use points for memories, but in a way that feels like the ones in charge are taunting us further.

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[justpure]

How could you forget your entire identity so easily?

[He didn't bother to say hello, he just walked up right behind her and replied like he had asked him that question.

Somehow, it's fitting of someone from Zarael.]

This is the folly of our existence, yes? Without our memories, we are little more than blank dolls, decorated with colorful garments and the bare minimum and sent off into the chaos.

[He sounds a bit melancholy... Perhaps a bit jealous as well.]

Even important details such as your sister's existence mean nothing at first... Which makes the memories all the more painful as they trickle back in.

[romanticlove]

I'm not really sure how it happened.

[That could have been rhetorical, of course. She just shrugs, not quite sure how to answer.]

A doll... that's pretty accurate. Without memories, there's chunks of ourselves just missing. Our memories shape who we are, as you said.

[As for it being painful - well, that's hitting pretty close to home.]

Somehow I feel like my sister will forgive me, if I asked her to.

[Ai seemed quite taken with her, if the memory was anything to go by.]

What about you? Have you managed to recover a memory?

[justpure]

[He nods, confirming her thoughts.] Your sister seems like a reasonable person. I'm sure she would help you recover yourself.

Speaking of sisters... [His gaze lowers and his tone shifts ever so slightly.] If what had been given to me is correct, it seems I do have an older sister. I remembered reading a book with her... The tale of Princess Kaguya, to be exact. Perhaps you've heard of it?