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Video of A Memory

It's a rather peaceful scene that appears in the locket. Woods filled with the sounds of nature and mushrooms that might make you grow or perhaps shrink. In the middle of these woods sits Will, waiting and clearly worrying over something that is beyond his control. This is a Will who still has his heart and still feels as deeply as anyone can who has found true love. A rustle of leaves and his excitement shows, only for his smile to fall as he sees who appears: The Queen of Hearts.

"Will Scarlet I presume?"

Their interaction doesn't last long, but her words have rebroken a heart that had nearly mended at the idea of being reunited with his love. Whatever hope he had was taken from him and the pain that he feels is simply too much. The idea comes to him in a flash. The Queen of Hearts alone has the ability to fix what she broke and so he asks:

"I know what you do. I know what you do to people's hearts; I want you to do that to me."

It's a request born of pain and desperation. Now heartless, Will is off to become the man he is in this world.

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[ She keeps this to voice, to spare him, if only a little. He is not the knave she knew, Alice has accepted that much. He is at least he's not like them, the card guards. And so she breaks her silence, because he is of Wonderland and Alice will protect anything from Wonderland.

As much as she has vowed to destroy it, too. ]

Love is far from a weakness, poor knave.

"Will?"

Quiet and with only the faintest hint of curiousity (perhaps a touch of accusation too - You knew what being heartless is like)

"Did you ever have your heart returned?" Maglor thinks he knows the answer - and it would explain an awful lot.

[That was definitely not how hearts worked, but Javik found he couldn't really argue after seeing that. Asking for details would just lead to the answer 'magic', and he'd had enough of that.]

I begin to understand what made you so defensive about the elf.

[ alisha's not quite sure what to make of this — a bloke with an accent familiar to hers, dressed funny, being approached by a woman who is dressed even funnier, like the shit out of those fairytales she used to devour as a kid. none of it quite makes sense, the manner of which he speaks about love, the way the woman's mouth curls into something even alisha thinks is distrusting. ]

[ her voice is loud. she wants to move past this as she has with a lot of other weird broadcasts, but she finds her voice escapes her before her fingers turn her locket off. ] ... What the fuck did she do to you?

[ when people have their hearts removed, they sort of drop dead to the floor and remain as still as a corpse. he's a bit paler than he was with the organ inside his chest, but, he's not immortal. would nathan die if his heart was removed? ]

[Celebrían looks ill, hand covering her mouth and face pale, a trail of tears running down her cheeks. She can't imagine letting someone do that to her, she can't imagine someone living that way. It's no way to live at all, feeling nothing.

It's better to be dead.]

She was wrong. She is wrong. Love is not weakness, to have a heart is to live.

[She speaks from experience.]

Pain and joy are both ways to remind yourself that you are alive. A way to grow.

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