this story breaks free here

ALMOST EXACTLY A MONTH LATER, THE WRITEUP

Heart ran here!

( IT'S LONG )

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS CAN GO HERE, or you can tell me if your character did something that I missed, or ask for more symbolism details that I forgot to cover in-depth, or ask me for your relationship tree, or whatever you want! THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO PLAYED! You made the heartgame pretty damn magical and I hope you all had as much fun with it as I did, ahhh ♥ ♥ ♥

JUST A REMINDER THAT THIS IS HAPPENING; my plans are roughly like so:

- take the memory IC night 168 (which should be roughly August 14/15 if I am reading my time dilation ratio right)

- have a little bit to thread him flipping out on people -- if IC night falls on the 14th this gives me a day's leeway; if it falls on the 15th I will be a bit slower kicking off the heartgame because I do want some people to have an idea of what's going on before going in there.

- HEARTGAME STARTS ON AUGUST 15th, 9 PM EST, AND RUNS UNTIL THE 18th. This is out of time! You can enter the heart at any point in this four day period and end your run when you choose! I am leaving it to individual players when they want to stick it happening in their timelines. It's a heart when you can 'help' but not 'completely fix him up' so it shouldn't make too much difference if you put your playing in it an IC day ahead of other people's playing in it or whatever. DREAM TIME CAN BE WEIRD!

- I'll still be running him flipping out in Aather proper at the same time; since he is going to be limiting himself to Sterling/mostly his room this shouldn't be too much of a strain to run alongside heartgame. Unless all of Sterling decides to go sit in his room for some reason idk.

- He'll still be a couple more IC days slowly recovering after that period but gradually emerging more and able to interact more decently.

- Please comment here to confirm if you're playing + the character you're playing with + roughly when you think you'll start your heartrun! ♥

Game happened here! Mithos's heart was pretty huge and sprawling and full of partitions and layers and NPCs! Boy is complicated. Players did manage to access all the vital system areas of it, so to speak; there were seventeen areas that went unexplored not counting team rooms, but some can be saved for a future game and they would shift with new memories anyway.

( WRITEUP )

FUN FACT: this heart was designed to be almost indestructible overall -- you could damage things short-term, and causing a total heartbreak event was theoretically possible, but Mithos would always be able to rebuild incorporating the changes as positively as he could manage, because he's done it so many times in Aather. And it worked! No one broke it long-term, only ... short-term as soon as he woke up ... but Mithos's heart is pretty used to that sort of damage so it will rebuild and he will recover.

That said it still helped mess him up pretty badly -- he was due for a total breakdown anyway and a lot of actions taken either released the holds on its factors or aggravated them. So right now he is dealing with fallout from Beauty's game and the region shift + totally intense memory on 95 + finding out about his death for sure on 96 + heartgame on 97 + finding out Zelos has been booked immediately after heartgame. I. Yes.

In the interests of continued playability I am turning to INTERVENTION, ie. calling in one of his questfavors to go camping with Lloyd in a Persona realm where time passes faster than in Aather proper. They will spend a few days there to recover a bit and then come back with only a day or so having passed in Aather! Ooootherwise it would be an entire IC week or more where all my threads are 'Mithos stays in Sterling being forever sad,' which would get old fast.

QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, ASKING FOR EXTRA HEART DETAILS ETC?

OH NO IT'S TIME FOR A SELF-INDULGENT EXPERIMENT

Hypothetical heart relationship meme! Comment here with one of our relationships and I will create a heart room/area for you on the spot symbolizing that specific relationship.* You can play in it ala typical heartgame exploration threads! LIKE AN INTERACTIVE RELATIONSHIP ESSAY BECAUSE I HAVE A HARD TIME WRITING REAL ONES ALL IN ONE GO.

OR, if you don't feel like exploradoraing, say so and I'll give you a general description plus a quick rundown of the symbolism. |Db /easy

I play Lark/Timi on Tiger's Eye and Mithos on Sterling!







* I may use bits of these hypothetical rooms later, but chances are these relationships will be represented very differently in real heartgames.