[I, uh, may have been listening to that Fear Not This Night song since the moment I received your tag in my inbox >.> Holy fuck is it incredible. I will trade you for my favorite song from an MMO including one of the most powerful Cutscenes I've ever seen. It's called "Answers" from FFXIV, which is a song in which the citizens of Eoreza are praying to the goddess Hydaline, and she responds to their prayers. To give a little bit of context, if you're unfamiliar, the beginning of this movie is the very end of the original FFXIV. The game was considered a massive failure and players who remained logged in to the last minute of the game first hear a very creepy, haunting version of this song playing, then got to see this cutscene (until you hear 'Answers' finish). Then the servers were taken off line. Literally the end of the world. Quite a while later, FFXIV: ARR (A Realm Reborn) was released as 2.0 to the game and that cutscene became the first thing you saw when you started the game. It's what inspired me to start playing. The remainder of this movie is what you find out, through a grueling series of 13 raids that were the hardest thing to do in the game at the time, happened after the original cutscene ended. Oh I could go on about it, but that's the summary. If you're interested, this is a video about the 'end of the world' when the servers came down, taken by a player at the time. When we see Charles meet his future self in canon, he walks, so I assume he imagines himself being able to walk in his mind. [I think in Apoc we see it too? When he's fighting Apoc in his mind?]]
It was worse than he might have imagined. Far worse.
This was nothing like he had ever seen in any mind, something far greater and far more expansive, and he was certain in that moment his idea of comparing this venture to Cerebro was not only true but possibly not strong enough. It was overwhelming, something that if he had been able, he might have screamed and gripped his head, but instead he was transfixed, frozen as he fell through with Aurus, unable to do anything but hang on and pray for the end of it even as he tried to encompass the majesty and vastness of it all.
All in all, it was only through his training with Cerebro that he didn't lose the connection completely, and even only just at that. So when relief finally came, it was gratefully received - grateful for his mind and his sanity. There was no physical attribute he could match to the feelings he held, but he could well imagine how his body would be reacting. Shivering, shaking, sweating, panting, racing heart, pale. Instead, his connection was faint, holding onto Aurus only through sheer determination. The growing clarity around them wasn't even something he was capable of dealing with right now as he got over what had just happened to them, mind racing and trying to hold onto fleeting images and sensations before they disappeared and at the same time, like any sort of fear-response, wanting to soften those same things to keep itself from devolving further.
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It was worse than he might have imagined. Far worse.
This was nothing like he had ever seen in any mind, something far greater and far more expansive, and he was certain in that moment his idea of comparing this venture to Cerebro was not only true but possibly not strong enough. It was overwhelming, something that if he had been able, he might have screamed and gripped his head, but instead he was transfixed, frozen as he fell through with Aurus, unable to do anything but hang on and pray for the end of it even as he tried to encompass the majesty and vastness of it all.
All in all, it was only through his training with Cerebro that he didn't lose the connection completely, and even only just at that. So when relief finally came, it was gratefully received - grateful for his mind and his sanity. There was no physical attribute he could match to the feelings he held, but he could well imagine how his body would be reacting. Shivering, shaking, sweating, panting, racing heart, pale. Instead, his connection was faint, holding onto Aurus only through sheer determination. The growing clarity around them wasn't even something he was capable of dealing with right now as he got over what had just happened to them, mind racing and trying to hold onto fleeting images and sensations before they disappeared and at the same time, like any sort of fear-response, wanting to soften those same things to keep itself from devolving further.