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

[turned_to_steel]

[ The idea of talking about what had happened to her father is more daunting than Sansa can even fathom at times. She doesn't talk about it, not ever. Mostly because it had been used as a weapon against her one too many times.

Still, Cordelia isn't from her world. She won't mock her pain or point out that he was a traitor. ]

He was falsely accused of treason and beheaded.

[keep_nothing]

[ Cordelia's arm around Sansa's shoulder tightens, holding her closer. As similar as Sansa's world and Barrayar sounded when they last talked, Cordelia's almost certain of what the answer to her next question will be. She tries to soften it by lowering her voice at least, making it so that only Sansa would hear and not the passersby they walked past. ]

Were you ... made to watch it?

[turned_to_steel]

[ It's a reasonable question to ask and Sansa is expecting it when it comes but the words still cause her throat to tighten with emotion as she starts to nod. ]

Yes. [ She swallows thickly. ] I believed they would pardon him but they didn't. The boy who promised to spare him broke his word and had him executed in front of me. After, he made me look at the head on a pike.

[ It all tumbles out without her meaning to. She hates talking about that day but seeing her Father right now brings it all to the front. ]