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! )
khajidont: (Jaime - sheepish)

[personal profile] khajidont 2017-03-31 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean - of course I feel guilty about it. It didn't have to happen that way. I'm pretty sure the running theme is just dead people, but... let's just say my grandma's ghost hasn't popped up yet.

[ Maybe Laurie's right. Maybe it is about guilt. Between Eddie, the Negotiator and Nadia popping up, he's starting to realize that the things and people he feels guilty about keep adding up, and so do his fears for the future. It's not a comfortable feeling, but one that he doesn't think is too foreign for anyone in the hero biz.

It's easier being the one to leave than it is to be the one left behind, but only if you don't come back to life to realize exactly what you've lost. Then, everything sucks, for everyone. Jaime knows that in the moments he had accepted his own death - plugged into a self-destructing spaceship, hurtling down from space with nothing to protect him from dying on impact - he had felt nothing but an odd, distilled sense of peace and purpose, like this is the way it was supposed to work, in the end. He felt remorse over those he'd left behind, at least, but being on the precipice of death?

He doesn't want to die, not at all, but it hadn't been so bad. ]


I won't say it's not hard, Laurie. But...

[ Back home, he's not happy. He saw himself from the future, the Titans are flagging underneath the weight of their own responsibility, he was attacked at home and whisked away to a battle bigger than he thinks that any of them can cope with, but that - that's external stuff, right? Here, he can still be happy, right? ]

I think in the end, we can be happy, and move on. That's what you want, isn't it?