brushoff: (jesus fuck look at those eyes)
Dorian Gray ([personal profile] brushoff) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2017-03-03 10:19 pm

weep not for the memories

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! )
4thdimensional: (down and out)

[personal profile] 4thdimensional 2017-03-16 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Doc nods and settles into an open stance, taking this as seriously as Sorey is. He cringes a little inwardly at 'lightning magic', unconsciously drawing parallels to a possibility involving himself and the people he cares about.]

You would have hoped for any other way, and when a better answer didn't arrive...

[He nods.]

I'm sorry. But if this Gramps is like any other I know, he would have been willing to do what was necessary to save you, correct?
historiology: (Again)

[personal profile] historiology 2017-03-16 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
I...we couldn't let him keep being used like that.

[And he needed to save using that one particular weapon against Heldalf himself to finish things. Not on freeing Zenrus. As painful as that conclusion was to come to, logically, for the sake of saving Glenwood, over his own instinctual emotional response to the situation.

His gaze lowers, eyes somewhat hidden with his bangs.]


I know. I guess this was...this was different. He pretty much raised me from birth and I....

[Of course the last moments with anyone you loved would be strong. Sorey just never anticipated such with Gramps to be like that.]
4thdimensional: (down and out)

[personal profile] 4thdimensional 2017-03-23 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
[He finds his heart clenched. He really should offer some kind of comfort here...so he hesitantly reaches for Sorey's arm.]

I'm sorry. That's the sort of dilemma no one deserves to be placed in.
historiology: (It’s time)

[personal profile] historiology 2017-03-23 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
No. Nobody should...nobody deserves that.

[To be killed by the ones he raised as if they were his own even though he was under no obligation to do so. Forced to either allow Heldalf to continue to use Zenrus' lightning against them or let it come to that. Knowing they couldn't free him. Not if they still wanted to separate Heldalf from Maotelus, the other seraphim he'd been using to spread the Malevolence through the land, against the original intent of purifying it. Twisting Maotelus' purpose like that.

It all makes Sorey feel ill. His face paler even as he lowers his gaze and shakes his head.]
4thdimensional: (cool uncle brown)

[personal profile] 4thdimensional 2017-03-28 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
And yet you've been forced to live with that cloud...and even knowing that he wouldn't blame you can't remove the pain...at all, truly.

Remembrance is a good thing, as is properly directed anger...but the guilt that follows? You don't deserve that either, Sorey.

[His words are deliberate, gentle. He's aware of how thorny these waters are.]
historiology: (Tears were shed)

[personal profile] historiology 2017-03-29 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
Nobody deserves...what happened there. Did you see anyone....?

[Sorey isn't sure if Doc has, if his might have been happier, if he has some sort of mirage following him around as well. The brunette hadn't been specifically glancing around to check. So focused on their conversation, on Zenrus.]
4thdimensional: (look at the time!)

[personal profile] 4thdimensional 2017-04-01 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
I did.

[Sorey wants a distraction, and he's happy to provide this time.]

Former colleagues. Together we created a powerful, terrible device, and the world paid a price for it.

And my best friend, but I have to keep hoping I'll have the chance to apologize someday.
historiology: (The dark water)

[personal profile] historiology 2017-04-01 10:57 am (UTC)(link)
A device? What....? But I hope you see your friend again. Here or back home, to tell them whatever you might need to.

[He can't really imagine being without Mikleo at his side. They were nearly inseparable, after all. Regardless of there being more between them by now or not.]