This post is a continuation of my retrograde amnesia post that I made when I first apped this deviant Emil. That entry vaguely touched on things that hadn't come into play in the game yet, but now, a year and a half later, I feel the need to clarify just what is happening to Emil and how things will progress from now on.

Just like the first one, this entry is full of spoilers for the last three chapters of Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. A lot of it is headcanon so I can't guarantee you'll agree with what's written here. However, it's my hope that this will make things a little simpler for people trying to help Emil in his tragic story in realityshifted, and I have used examples from the game where possible.

( now is the time to give it all you've got )

Title: Letters from the Departed
Prompt: 12. press play;
Word Count: 2,853
Summary: Insomnia plagues Emil as his truths continue to fall apart like lies. Salvation or damnation comes in the form of clues left behind by his amnesiac self.
Author Notes/Warnings: Spoilers, things that are under his personality section, general craziness. I skipped over a lot of the log part (excuse is, well, craziness) since that one's still going on between me and Jchan. Hope that's okay!

( Things that once made sense now form a strange sort of disconnect called Emil, and he feels that he knows Death intimately. )

Title: Dreaming, I
Prompt: 09. Deus ex machina;
Word Count: 1,536
Summary: More on Emil’s declining mental state, especially as he croaks, courtesy d3!Master.
Author Notes/Warnings: Blood, spoilers, things that are under his personality section. Also, CLIFFHANGERS. Because that's how his dreams are.

( Emil was a coward, through and through, and yet he continued to get wrapped up in things that would most certainly kill him. )

Title: Kairos
Author: presea
Character/Fandom: Emil Castagnier/pactum
Prompt: 23. real;
Word Count: 758
Summary: A look into Emil's state of mind during the past few months.
Author Notes/Warnings: Spoilers, some poorly-written Stream of Consciousness, blatant plagiarization of the game script/journal entries. The term "kairos" is used in theology to describe the qualitative form of time. In rhetoric kairos is "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved." — Wikipedia Meant to go with something from Crane's side, so I hope this works out.

( Emil dreams of a library so big that he could fit all of Luin inside it. )

Title: Sweet Dreams
Prompt: 07. disposable;
Word Count: 918
Summary: A typical night in Emil's dreams.
Author Notes/Warnings: None, really. I wrote most of this under the influence of caffeine. I also switched tenses twice, then decided present tense fit better somehow.

( In Emil’s dreams, he is someone else. )

Title: One Drop
Prompt: 25. bang; whimper;
Word Count: 1,251
Summary: Aster and Richter’s first meetings, reminiscences. Probably the substance of visions later. A look into how half-elves were treated in Sybak.
Author Notes/Warnings: I could’ve made this really sad. For now it’s just… really vague. Uh, yeah. Contains explosions, bad language, and a little bit of vague violence. But it's funny? I dunno. I laughed when I wrote it.

(Aster wasn’t the one he blamed, though he clearly hated him all the same.)