asgardeventide | 002 ✩ video/action for Heimdall

[The video opens a view of a slightly messy part of the kitchen in Heimdall. Among the broken eggshells, a carton of milk and various other messy bowls and spoons, there's finally a safe milky concoction in a mixing bowl Ven's set aside, and he's scribbling on a piece of paper. ]

... so I know a lot of people here, like me, has been here for a while. And I've seen people who arrived and left but came back after a while anyway. And they sometimes come back without the memories they have of their time here.

[A pause as he taps his chin with the pen he was writing with, looking thoughtful.]

... and I know a lot of us here made friends with people from other worlds than our own. So... do you think... there's a way we can keep those memories of those people so we won't forget? Or maybe there's a way to leave behind a reminder here or bring it with us back home or something, even if we do forget. Has anyone asked the Gods that?

... I don't really want to forget my new friends.

[A pause before he reaches for tiny food coloring bottles, simultaneously shutting off the feed.]

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[Sort of pinged by the mention of memories, but. She's still unsure of what to think about Ven, so hesitant as poop text responses for now. She'll probably also end up slapping a filter on this later, depending.]

Maybe you can't remember them because there's nothing left to remember.

There's always something to remember. I just think the gods are messing with us on this one.

How can you be sure about there always being something to remember?

... hey, have you ever had friends? Or just something really important to you?

[...there's a several minute pause before the next response. Sorry, Ven.]

Yes.

Then you know there's a feeling that there's no way you'll forget them. There'll always be something that will remind you of them. It'll be always in your heart and mind.

You're right. I'd never forget the time spent with my friends.

[Oh the irony of this. Another text comes up several seconds later.]

Could you still remember someone who doesn't exist? ["Anymore", she should say, but...]

What do you mean by someone who doesn't exist?

Nothing.

Just a thought.

Come on, Xion. It can't be just nothing.

It can be.

I'm willing to listen er, read, in this case. But hey, I can drop it too, if you want. I won't press on you on it. :)

I'm sorry, Ventus. It's complicated.

[...attempting subject change with a question.]

What's :)?

I see a lot of people use it when sending messages on the network. It's supposed to be a smiling face on it's side. :) The colon is the eyes and the closing parentheses is the mouth, I guess.

So if you want to show you're smiling over text, you use that face like this? :)

It looks weird, though. Isn't there a way to flip it over?

Yeah, I think so. Maybe there's other ways to make faces using symbols? You can use it as sad faces though I don't understand why you'd do that though. ):

It'd be nice if there were other ways. This looks like it could come in handy when you can't use audio or video.

Maybe you could use it in special occasions like when you run out of something good. ):?

Wait, wait, how about this? 'u' It kinda looks stupid but the apostrophes are the eyes and the u the mouth? '_' Yeah, I guess you could. ):

You know, those aren't half bad. Maybe we could find a lot of other faces using that idea.

Like '^'?

[...and after sending this text, she thinks even that look kind of stupid.]

What happened to its mouth? 'o'

It's frowning like when you're thinking! 'w'

Like this? 'n'

Yeah! Exactly like that. 'v'

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