[identity profile] lorei.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] kh_drabble
Challenge: [84] Dust
Title: Collapse
Wordcount: 283
Notes: Spoilers for TWTNW? Not even. And look, look, I used Donald, Goofy, and Mickey, for possibly the first time in my life!



The Dusks forgot first. Sad, pitiful creatures, with their fleeting, insubstantial memories-- they couldn't remember how to remember.

Then, Kairi. She did not want to remember that cold, cruel world that had hurt them all, and so she did not even try.

Goofy, next, and for much the same reasons as Kairi. Why remember that place? The battle was over, and now there were happier things for him to focus on.

After him was Donald. He was simply just too busy to recall the darkness. He had Daisy and he had his family, and that was more then enough for him.

Mickey, the King, knew that he should try to remember. But like Donald, he simply had no time. You can not be a good King if you are focused on old memories, memories that might be better off forgotten anyway.

The day Riku forgot was inevitable-- his ruined adolescence longed to be made up, quickly, quickly, before there was no time left. Riku had to live for the present and the future and somewhere along the way he saw that he had to give up on the past.

It was a much longer time before Sora forgot it. He felt that he should always remember the dead and the dark, because then he could always appreciate the living and the light. But one day he woke up and found that he had simply forgotten to remember.

And when this last person forgot it, The World That Never Was could no longer be. It only gave one final, reluctant, shuddering groan before it finally surrendered and collapsed into itself, going back into the dust and then finally returning to the nothing from which it had been born.

Date: 2006-11-22 01:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kangaroop.livejournal.com
You win ^^

Really, I <3 this drabble. Thanks for including the Disney characters and this was a clever use for the challenge theme :).

Date: 2006-11-22 01:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kendarath.livejournal.com
Ahg. Just the image of an entire world collapsing (even if it wasn't really supposed to exist in the first place) just kind of smacks me in the heart and brings tears to my eyes. Good job!

Date: 2006-11-22 02:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lindskaba.livejournal.com
Mmm, how original. Really, a lovely idea. My favorite bits are Riku's and Sora's; your reasoning behind their forgetting is very true to character. Very nice.

Date: 2006-11-24 07:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lindskaba.livejournal.com
Clearly, from the amount of response you're getting on this baby: yes, it's original XD

^^;;; And thank you, this is actually my favorite icon...which I also ganked from someone else. So as long as you credit the maker (which is in the keywords for the icon), I certainly don't mind.

Date: 2006-11-22 03:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thano.livejournal.com
I did not see that ending coming. Talk about a smack in the face... in a good way, of course.

^^ I personally loved that world, and this is a bittersweet, tragic way for it to leave. Lovely!

Date: 2006-11-22 05:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arclights.livejournal.com
NICE.

How tragic and beautiful. ;___;

Date: 2006-11-22 10:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] euphonious-glow.livejournal.com
I love. <3

It's a really neat topic. I love the idea that the Nonexistant World could not exist if no one remembered it. Very interesting.

Date: 2006-11-24 11:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tabitha-dornoc.livejournal.com
*HEARTS* This is so freshly original! I love this line: But one day he woke up and found that he had simply forgotten to remember, because there is something so contradictory (and somehow so Sora) about 'forgetting to remember'. I'm not sure I agree that they'd ever forget that world, but you've written everyone so in-character I think it works. Very nice!

Date: 2006-11-26 06:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i-got-spunk.livejournal.com
Really, really like ;)

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