One Page of Fame

by reminiscent-afterthought

The tragic genius, the tragic actress, the tragic policeman and the tragic detective in the shadows... It's too bad they all end in tragedy, isn't it? But there's still the writer, and their tale is eternal.

2. Misa

One Page of Fame
2: Misa

She's the tragic actress who fell in love with a man in the role of a martyr and paid the price, or that's how her part of the script goes, the part they air to the public. The rest of it's the secret script that you can only unlock if you've met the right conditions through the game except no-one ever does because real life's a game where there's only one shot and that one shot's never enough to get it all –

So she's the tragic princess whose prince doesn't come back to water her roots and so she wilts and dies off and there's no little seed to sprout after her. She's the princess who has a portrait in some lonely museum hall where people wander past and ooh and aah and then go on with their lives like she's a floating exhibit being phased out well after her time…

And sure she has her fans but all stars do and human memories aren't a lasting thing. Some leave stains. Most don't and she dances to the back of their minds until she's gone for good and the new wind's blown in and she was on her way out the moment she stepped onto the stage and those people don't even see the bloody glory stage of her finale –

And, probably, those who have the finale burned into their mind are the ones who scrubbed it clean from the earth.