THE END 2.0: THE AFTERPARTY

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THE END 2.0

THIS IS NOT GOODBYE (YET)

Welcome back to Sunset City! Kenir has been defeated, the barrier around the city has been broken, and the Temple has been restored to its usual condition.

Following your conversations with Braphine at the Temple, your local goddess of community and connection has granted you the gift of being able to go back to where you came from, or to visit other places where your bonds have been formed.

But. It takes time to prepare all these, no?

Which is why you have been granted some time. Time to yourself, with your new bonds and friendships, positive and/or negative - to spend time with each other before you go your separate ways.

Dennyhop, burger-making, movie time, karaoke, rest… Whatever you choose to do with your remaining time in Sunset City is up to you. It's safe to roam around, too, given that the residents seem to be themselves again – sure, there is conflict, there is anger, there is sadness to be found, but there is not anything depriving the people of the full human experience. Not right now, and hopefully, not for a long time. The sense of community is present among the residents…

…And perhaps among all of you, too. Much more so than when you first arrived.

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Here is your aftermath/afterparty post! Feel free to host your own FFA gatherings in this post or any wrap-up threads with your CR. The epilogue/goodbye post will go up tomorrow, Saturday 2/11 at 12pm EST, along with a tl:cr and love meme!

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[vogelfrei]

[ ... why is Eli taking this so seriously. Oh no.

(Just how pissed does he think Izou would get, anyway....) ]

You gave me the idea to bore him with it in the first place, no?

[fullmoonmutt]

[ Izou is a big overreacting goof, same as Eli. Of course, how could he not take it seriously?! ]

Tch, I guess... Just don't give him anything too dull.

[vogelfrei]

I'll make sure it includes lots of swords.

[ The literal kind, not the horrible sex metaphor kind. Though hopefully that euphemism is finally banned for good now??? ]

Not that I am going to have to try very hard, I do enjoy a good heroic legend.

[fullmoonmutt]

[ Deciding to follow Izou home and be his man only guaranteed the sword metaphors continue and even possibly get worse. Sorry, McGillis. You're doomed. ]

Yeah... I guess Izou's place really is the right place for you, then, huh? Since you're about to be surrounded by talking, walking heroic legends and shit, yeah?

[vogelfrei]

Mhm, judging by all he has told me I'll be in for some surprises. The books I have read in my world do not seem to match the reality of his all that closely.

[ Which is a fucking bummer, honestly. Everything Izou mentions sounds like hot nonsense and not aesthetically pleasing at all!! ]

But it'll be immensely intriguing, too.

[fullmoonmutt]

Hey, at least you'll have some idea. If it were me, I would end up telling nearly all of 'em they aren't important enough to learn about anymore.

[ But only because Eli didn't technically go to school... ]

[vogelfrei]

[ McGillis laughs at that. ]

There's going to be plenty of that from me as well. Izou's world is somewhere between half a millenium or a full millenium before mine. Much and more is completely lost to time, tragically.

I had not even heard of Izou's revolution before.

[fullmoonmutt]

Oh. Huh... well... then you'll get to be a super nerd and learn a lot? I guess.

[ Eli sounds much less enthusiastic about that idea. He is, after all, not much for sitting down and studying things, like history. ]

You plan on staying there forever or are you going to visit other worlds, too?

[vogelfrei]

[ He's going to be a super nerd and he'll have a really really really good time, he promises. ]

Now that we know the connection will be stable, visiting is very much in the cards. We promised Mafuyu that vacation to come see her and Arven, after all. And I'm still not disinclined to whipping the soldiers of your world into shape.

[ Eli should worry about his mother's men....... ]

But I'm no longer in the market for a permanent move. I'm gonna take a chance on 'happily ever after' here.

[fullmoonmutt]

Probably only get to whip clerks into shape, to be honest. They stuck mom on a desk job because of her injury, though I guess rebuilding's just as important...

[ He sure does hate the guy in charge of the general army, though, haha, let's not get into that. ]

Yeah, I figured you'd stay with Izou wherever he goes. I just... I mean... I don't know if... I'm even going to stay in my own world?

[ He idly pushes his hair back, averting his gaze as though nearly embarrassed by the very idea. ]

'cause I already know Celeste will hate it there, but. That feels wrong, kind of? I don't know. At least we can settle it later, since we can go between worlds.

[vogelfrei]

Oh?

[ McGillis' eyebrows shoot up, and so do the corners of his mouth. Eli may be embarrassed, but McGillis thinks this is a testament of growth in its own way. Sure, reforming the world is nice, but true freedom means cutting yourself loose of your chains. If anybody is overdue for that, it's Eli. ]

Just because Celeste will hate it there?

[fullmoonmutt]

Kind of, yeah? There's a lot wrong with it, but it's still home. What I hated was feeling stuck in the one place I didn't want to be, having no real goals or anything useful to do...

[ With luck, he won't fall into that trap all over again. ]

It isn't like finding someone to love is going to fix any of that. I still don't know what I want to do with my life, just that I know who I want to spend it with.

[vogelfrei]

[ This makes sense at least. He puts his new little plush companion down by his luggage and sits down on the bed.

It isn't like finding someone to love is going to fix any of that.

It's a perfectly reasonable statement, but in McGillis' renewed mental state it still feels kind of fresh. 'Goals' and 'love' have always been diametrically opposed to him - loving someone as an idea had been wholly antithetical to the idea of having a purpose. It's only now that he's letting himself believe that both can coexist. ]

For the fact that we're both wolves, we're really quite different. Yet it seems we have come to hold the very same desires at the end.

[ A place with the person they want to be with. And a goal and use beyond being loved. ]

Thinking of it now, Celeste might actually be the only one of us who doesn't crave a purpose quite as badly...?