P3 (male) protagonist 16/03
"Hard to save this moment forever, Carved it into stone, yet tine turns it to sand"- One Hand, One Heartbeat, P3 movie, Yumi Kawamura
The days go by in a dreamlike haze, like back when you… wait, when did they stop?
You can't actually really recall what you were doing this year? You have friends, but your memories are dazed? Or maybe it just sounds dreamlike?
If your memories are true, you spent a lot of your nights fighting shadows? Kind of fluke kingdom hearts? In a special hour most people can't access? With your friends.
But that's crazy, right? No one else seems to remember that, and sometimes you dream a dream that feels realer then any reality you walk. With your music in your ears, you go far away to better places then here.
After all, if they were your friends, surely they wouldn't have trouble remembering your name? You called their names many times in the night
You know their names. You feel you know them well. Their fears, their hopes, their dreams.
But maybe you were dreaming up your adventures. After all, the alternative is that it actually happened, and they all just forgot.
Its not a dream
It was all rather dreamlike. Maybe you dreamed it up in your head, like you do to pass time in class.
But sometimes, sometimes they act like they know you too. Junpai forgets you live in the same dorm, but also calls you his best friend?
He can't explain how it happened, or even how he and Yukari became friends beyond assuming it was from proximity. He says he has a girlfriend, or he thought he did, but can not tell you her name.
You want to tell him that her name is Chidori. You want to try to joke that he's faking and is just a Naruto fan?
It feels too painful to joke about that.
He loves her
So you hold your silence.
It's hard to say something was real, when all you have are memories and not a single person who seems to remember it .
But you do.
You are so tired lately, that dreaming it seems very likely?
Yukari remembers your name again. And wants you to meet her mom? You say yes, of course, but...
It's so fragmented?
It happened
Wherever you go, you get reminders from your friends. People you helped throughout the year.
You made many friends
It's weird to see people so disconnected from each other. Ken says he never met Shinji, and you have a stark vivid memory of his body on the ground, and Akihiko's cry, Ken was there and it's painful to think about.
The smell of blood, of death was stark in the night air. It was a night of sorrow
Reality seems in a flux, and so are you. Nothing feels Aigis tells you she remembers everything, and the reality of it hits you with the force of slamming the breaks on a train.
Finally
You feel intense relief at that. It's been a month of existing in a state of uncertainty about it. A month to convince yourself that you dreamed it. You are so tired, these days, it was easy to believe.
It's graduation day. You should go see them graduate.
Instead you go to the roof.
To wait for them.