weep not for the memories

[brushoff]

WHO: Everybody!
WHERE: all cities
WHEN: March 4 - March 6
WHAT: it's a catch-all log, sucka! Tag here and thread around for the Dorian Ruins Everything Guilt Extravaganza part of the overall March plot. Please check out this ooc post for details!
WARNINGS: Traumatic memories. Possible talk of murder, death, blood, other nasty things. I'll try to update if the warnings needed but please use content warnings if it gets super nasty!

It starts off on March 4th, the early morning before the sun's even risen. You know those weird mirages that were hanging around the day before? Well now it's getting a little personal.

These mirages come and go seemingly for no reason. They might stay for a minute, they might stay for an hour. The images vary between person but the unifying factor is that the mirages consist of people the player characters have hurt, whether people in-game or from their homes. Whether they murdered them, slandered them, or even had a petty little argument, the unifying factor is the guilt each character feels towards or about this mirage. After all, you know you hurt them somehow. You know their existence somehow makes you feel guilty.

Another unifying factor? The creepy way these mirages just seem to stick to you. They'll follow you if you try to leave, staring you down with their creepy unblinking mirage eyes. And whoops: everybody can see said mirages. Hopefully you're not being stalked by someone you and somebody else both know, wouldn't that be awkward?

Have fun confronting your traumatizing past and/or wondering why your buddy's got some creepy ghost guy following him, imPorts!

( ooc: this is a catch-all log! Make starters of your characters getting haunted by their creepy mirages, have other people react to said creepy mirages, ???, profit. Hit me up on the ooc post if you have any questions! )

Comments

[helpline]

She seems like a person I would have loved to meet. [ It's said as a statement of fact, as the Doctor looks over at MK. He teases slightly, gentle smile on his face to signal to MK that he's being a bit of a tease. ]

I wonder what it says about us, that we both found ourselves stuck with loud people.

[ewenique]

( MK's expression remains more stern. Darkness no parents, etc. )

It is to remind how wrong it is that we can't hear their voices any more.

( Bluntly, but quiet as always. ) That is why we were stuck with them. They should never have been silenced.

[helpline]

Points for effort. But Donna wasn't the only ghost I've seen so far. [ It takes the Doctor a while to admit this. He has to pause and collect his thoughts before continuing. ]

Yesterday I was haunted my friend Clara. Who, in case you don't know her, is very much here and very much alive.

[ at least, for the moment. ]

[ewenique]

I know who Clara is.

( Because she is kind of a stalker. Clara is close to Cosima and close to the Doctor, and thus she is aware of her. Talks a lot. Likes the sound of her own voice, it seems; the sort that would give a speeches at any opportunity. Cosima loves her, but Cosima also seems very, very naive, or very foolish. They can be talkative idiots together.

MK is a very sensitive and loving person, really. Underneath all that boiling anger. )

She talked about being dead on the network. 'Dead' is a relative term.

[helpline]

She's dead back home, [ the Doctor explains, as if that solves everything, ] And was dead here for a while, but now she's not. It's complicated.

[ Complicated is the understatement of the century. The Doctor keeps everything calm, talking about this like it's the sort of conversation normal people have on a regular basis. No biggie, just describing the complicated status of if someone's really dead or not. ]