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Major Arcana Meme

Fate and the Future beckon with a flip of the cards.
What will happen when you pull a card from this stack?
Take chance and see!

How to play:

1. Post with your character and fandom (and preferences) in the subject line
3. Roll the RNG. And since it is a meme about fortune, it might be best to actually roll it instead of pick. But it’s not required.
3. Go crazy! But watch your fate in the cards.

Major Arcana Tarot Meme.

0. The Fool: Starting on a journey. Doing something foolish and taking it on faith that it will turn out alright. Whether or not it does is up in the air. This is the beginning of something new. You’re going on a journey and you don’t know what’s out there. But don’t worry, it’ll be fine.

1. The Magician: Tricksters and Shysters, this is their card. It’s also the card that embodies the you can do anything, might as well show the world what you’ve got spirit. What you will and what you desire are all obtainable.

2. The High Priestess: Choice: Two roads diverge and which one do you want to take? One is bad and one good, but it’s hard to tell which is which.

3 The Empress: Abundance and fertility. Be fruitful and multiply. Or at least, go at it.

4. The Emperor: Responsibility. It’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it.

5. The Hierophant: Seeking guidance. Find that mentor figure. Learn something new or figuring out how to do something out that you couldn’t do before.

6. The Lovers: Confusion. Indecision. Id, Ego and Super-Ego. Making a choice between love and the rest of the world.

7. The Chariot: Drive and getting things done. Also opposites attract. Probably they’re driven together. In any case time waits for no one.

8. Strength: Strength to win. Power and control. Overcoming passions. Taming the wild beast. .

9. The Hermit: Introspection. Taking time to think about problems. A wise and inspirational friend who can help you work things out.

10. The Wheel of Fortune: Change in fortune. Action. Luck. Not good luck mind you, but luck.

11. Justice: Cause and effect. Well something’s either coming back to bite you in the ass your give you flowers. Karma’s a bitch sometimes. Unless you’ve been really good to someone then you’ll be quite happen with your return. Otherwise, maybe you should be nicer to people the next time around.

12. The Hanged Man: Acceptance of Reversals. Something about your life isn’t that great, but you have to put on a smile, grit your teeth and deal with it anyway. Make lemonade out of lemons.

13. Death: Rebirth. Not quite reincarnation - though that would be entertaining. Instead you’re restarting. Everything is behind you. That bad relationship? That evil boss? Gone. Start something new. Begin again. The past is the past. Try something different. Or come back as a honey badger.

14. Temperance: Balancing You’ve got two things going on and you need to keep them on the level. Job and love? Two girl/boy/girl and boy friends? If you don’t keep it on an even keel you’re going to get screwed up so badly it’s not even funny. Better hope you can walk that line...

15. The Devil: Emotions. All those nasty thoughts, the feelings you felt when someone said something you didn’t like, they get said because the brain to mouth filter has turned off. . The biting your tongue when someone said something stupid? That filter between your brain and your mouth? Gone. You’re angry. You’re tired. You’re frustrated and you’re going to speak your mind. Damn be the consequences (until you sober up and realize what the fuck you said...)

16. The Tower: Catastrophic Events. Something unexpected has happened and it’s not good. It’s worse than not good. It’s down right hideously awful, and then even worse.

17. The Star: Knowledge given. Go and find yourself a student Obi-Wan. It’s time you taught what you know.

18. The Moon: Watch motives. Yes. They are out to get you. Insanity darkness and yet genius and creativity. Mad Scientists and Trust No One. It’s not Paranoia if there really is a flesh eating demon waiting to eat you.

19. The Sun: Growth, Reward, Truth and progress. It’s all good. Everything is wonderful, sunshine and daisies. Go and share it with others. You know the truth. You know what is going to happen and it’s great. Party. Go on a date. Be happy and spread it.

20. Judgement: Atonement. Repent and forgive. Or ask someone for forgiveness.

21. The World: Attainment. You’ve got it. Everything you’ve always wanted, is there in your hands. The girl. The house. The 3.5 kids. But is it really what you wanted? Are you really happy? You think you are. And it does feel like it. But... maybe... somewhere inside of you, you’re not.

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Yukiko, too, stays close to Yosuke as they forge their way through what passes for a dungeon. It's a strange, dead city, the likes of which she's never seen--as though Tokyo had been twisted and darkened by the blight of the fog, and all the people had been lost to the shadows..... Something about it just gives her the chills. If it had been any other time, if Yosuke still had a heart to feel with, maybe he could have been enjoyed the way her fingers curled into his sleeve for safety and reassurance, like he really is someone to look up to, someone who could keep her safe from whatever is wrong with this place.

It is wrong, somehow. She doesn't know how, and she doesn't know how she knows..... but it's an indisputable fact. Even Aeleus can tell that it's wrong, though he's never been to the dream world, either--he knows the layout of their once-home. He knows how not only the city itself, but especially the Castle has been twisted.

They check the library first, of course, but it's bare of anyone, Ienzo or the other members alike. Aeleus would have suggested checking the labs next, or perhaps Zexion's old room..... but no, Even's scanners were pointing them up and up, to a place Zexion had seldom ever gone, and a place where Ienzo really had no business being. The Altar of Naught? Why would he be up there, when that was Xemnas' domain? Some symbolic reason, perhaps? The reason hardly matters, as long as they hurry--none of them want him to suffer any more than they can help prevent, no matter how traumatizing the experience is by default.

It's a relief, once they finally run into the room, to see that Ienzo seems to be unharmed. Yukiko hangs back, looking from one to the other uncertainly; not knowing either of them, it seems safer to let Ienzo's friends do the talking. Aeleus, meanwhile, approaches the pair cautiously. He realizes it's probably too much to hope for, to escape this situation without a fight..... but that doesn't mean he won't try, for Ienzo's sake. And that means, if nothing else, trying to subtly highlight the truth and hope Ienzo took the cue to heart.

"Ienzo, Zexion..... are you alright?" Two names, two faces, two lifetimes..... but still, he's addressing them as one.

Physically, Ienzo is fine. He has never been inclined to shows of physicality the way that Aeleus and Even have been, and so far it looks like Ienzo's Shadow shares his - and Zexion's - general disdain of combat. Mentally, however, is less certain. Not for nothing does Ienzo know how to best injure a heart, and by the time the rescue team arrives he's already deep in what appears to an argument with his Shadow.

The Shadow, at least, does flick its gaze over at Even and Aeleus as they arrive, revealing eyes that - for now - don't appear to be the standard yellow. But then again, given that Ienzo himself uses illusionry, perhaps that is hardly any surprise.

(Ienzo, for his part, doesn't turn to answer Aeleus' question although he does hear it and perhaps he can't be blamed, given the tone the conversation seems taking.)

"Wouldn't it be better this way?" the Shadow argues. "Unity and cohesion are surely far more preferable than these old broken chains. You worry so very much about trust and betrayal already. Doesn't it ache, to know that you can be left behind so very easily?"

"No," Ienzo counters, although his voice doesn't sound nearly as certain as he would like.

"Oh?" the image of Zexion retorts. "How many lives did you destroy, convincing the man who was once a king to make the labs that housed darkness? How many times did you bemoan the lack of unity among your fellows in the darkness?"

"That was a different time!" Ienzo snaps back, and the fact the he is snapping says something about the conversation that must have gone on before the others arrived.

The Shadow, however merely laughs at that - the kind of laughter that had been ever rare from Zexion, but boded ill for those it was directed at. "You are lost already!" he answers, raising a hand to point at Ienzo, the spitting image of how he must have appeared to Riku, so long ago in Castle Oblivion. "A betrayer of worlds, clinging foolishly to the last remnants of misplaced unity. Did you think that alone could save you? You, who would betray again?

"Don't lie to yourself. You cling to unity because it is all you have. You are more Shadow than I, lost under that which you have done! Better to surrender to the darkness than cling to your lost light!"

Silence falls then, tense and uncomfortable.

"No," Ienzo answers again, louder this time than the first time. "You're wrong. That's not who I am! That's not who Zexion was!"

He says it all in a rush, before anyone even has time to so much as warn him away from the words, and the response is entirely predictable - Ienzo drops, as the Shadow gears up for the fight to come. Hopefully the rescue team are ready for what is going to be one hell of a bossfight.

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Even watches, worried, as the pair talk, waiting for a moment to try and distract Ienzo and prevent the inevitable - but there isn't the opportunity. And frankly, what the Shadow's saying...

He can't respond to it either. He can't find the words.
After all, what the Shadow's accusing Ienzo of - he could equally be accusing all of them of. Out of the corner of his eye, he can see Yosuke glancing between them: the boy'd never known the first Organization, of course. The real one. Never known how things once were... just the scraps of a group divided and betrayed.

Because it had been real once, hadn't it? So long ago... and he'd thought it was real once more. That they'd found what they lost, that they could put that behind them, work onwards towards a new goal and new understanding.
But what secrets can ever remain hidden, these days? What can ever be ignored?

Right now, he can't tell Ienzo not to deny the Shadow's claims - because he can't make himself accept them so easily either. And as the speech ticks on, he finds himself almost wanting to lash out at the Shadow in the same way - Zexion couldn't have thought that way...
But he can't say a thing. It plays out the same sick way it's done so many times before.

He's failed. And what's more, he was part of the cause.
It's like a stab through the chest.

Darkness blasts past him as the Shadow starts its power-up, playing off both his natural and artificial senses, sending his scans screaming off the scale until he can focus enough to recalibrate them.

It at least brings him back to the moment. Back to the task at hand. Focus, Even, focus...

"It's a powerful one. Prepare yourselves."

Edited 2013-11-19 17:04 (UTC)