There's No Place Like Traumabonding for the Holidays

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HOLIDAY MURDERGAME WHERE ARE THEY NOW MEME



It's the hap-happiest season of all, and what better way to celebrate than by remembering that one (or more) horribly traumatic experience that permanently changed the face of not only your relationships but possibly your outlook on life itself?

Any character (including NPCs!) who's ever been in any murdergame is invited! Feel free to share with your friends!

Regardless of how you choose to use this meme, there's two blanket rules:
1) Make sure the header of your comment has your character's name, home canon, and murdergame listed. If you used the same account for several murdergames, you can use the same toplevel for all of them.
2) No blank comments! First and foremost this is a chance to catch up with old murdergame buddies, and maybe make new ones if you choose! Thus, your comment should go into whatever degree of detail you like describing what life has been like since the murdergame ended. Did life go back to normal? Did they get married? Have a kid? Move to another universe entirely and start over with their found family? Have they kept in touch? Go into as much detail as you want, just put something!

You can use this meme to set up any kind of "canon" or canon-compliant holiday threads with your castmates, big holiday party or no.

OR... you can pretend that there's an interdimensional all-murdergame nondescript winter holiday party that you've been invited to attend! Maybe the Curtains narrators made sure the Denny's was conveniently empty (don't mind the weird old guy in the woods out back), or maybe there was some other convenient arrangement. Either way, you received an invite, and you're here now! So spike the eggnog and check for mistletoe, because the night is probably going to get wild.

(If you're not down for one option or the other, just note that somewhere in your top-level.)

Have fun, and Happy Holidays!

Comments

Olive Silverlock | DC Comics (Gotham Academy) | Ars Arcana

[amitiesbind]

[ She might be more on board with Friendship, but Olive is still a little distanced at this party, especially without either? Of her girlfriends?? (are maps and pom her girlfriends now oh god it's so confusing BUT ENTIRELY OFFSCREEN SO IT'S FINE-) to push her into committing totally to wallflowering or shenanigans.

If you're of her round, she'll toss you a sheepish little wave. ]

Wild party, huh?

[ And if you're from not Ars, she might try to open conversation?? ]

So... getting trapped and forced to do murders, huh?

[scribbly]

H-hey! What...

[what, if she may, the FRESH FUCKING HELL is going on

Wide-eyed, but more bewildered than really afraid, Mary looks around, trying and completely failing to gather her bearings. Her attention turns towards her SOUL, but she doesn't have a good enough sense of any of this to discern that there's anything odd about it beyond its existence. Except, uh, the obvious.]

...Is it because of the mustard?

[somehow she actually seems kind of upset about the mustard]

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

Ah. Alright, cool.

[Maybe he should've just let the silence return, if the conversation was just going to go back to these death games. But it would be a little rude to just stop talking so suddenly, and so the first thing on his mind came out of his muzzle.]

We were in old Japan. When we died, I mean. And there wasn't really...anything worth keeping, when we were there.

[escardos]

Hm? I haven’t been telling him much.

[ flat 2.0 taps his chin, lifting an eyebrow. ]

Sometimes he just knows stuff? Oh, me, could it be that you can read minds!?

Hmm, no… but that would be pretty cool, wouldn’t it?

[mopocalypse]

[Creator and voice actor joke? There's no way I couldn't.

Haruka stares a little and thinks about this.]

I dunno, but I mean, it better not. We all got invited, right? And usually, if it's murder, they just kidnap you. I mean, I'm an expert!

[spychic]

Ohhh. That makes sense.

Anya is Anya. It is nice to meet you, King. [Her powers have, in fact, returned to her...so she knows. It's unfortunate, but she'll tip her hand that her answer is...]

Mmm. Anya, Mama, and Papa are all here. Because we all went through this stuff, so we all got invitations.

[Her whole family were in these kind of scenarios - though, luckily, not at the same time.]

[lets_dewey_it]

Well, you see... Okay, context really is important in this case, just didn't want to bore you...

Christmas started with Scrooge and Santa together.

Long ago, Scrooge was trying to make money selling coal, but wasn't getting anywhere until he met Santa. Scrooge was a bit... abrasive trying to sell his coal, but good ol' Santa, he was giving toys away for free! And that day, both of them happened to come across a workshop full of elves. Santa was let into their workshop, out of the cold, for being so nice, and he said Scrooge was with him.

Inside the workshop, the elves' fireplace went out until Santa threw some of Scrooge's coal into it, and every elf in there was willing to pay for it, and then, Santa bragged that Scrooge could deliver coal to every person in the world, by Christmas morning! Scrooge was going to protest, but... Santa said he'd help. That day, they became both friends and business partners!

There's more to the story that Webby and Scrooge told me, if you wanna listen to this old geezer ramble on. _{[He said that last part in a joking tone.]}

[unwittingking]

That's what I'm asking.

I mean, I already knew there were a lot, but...it feels like it never ends, you know? And seeing kids here-really little kids-and knowing they went through this crap too, it just...it starts getting to you after a while, you know?

[...]

I'm sorry, I know that's a lot to just dump on a stranger, but it's...hard not to worry about this stuff.

[Especially the kids. They shouldn't have to be involved in this sort of stuff, and the fact that they are...it just makes him feel sick.]

[fuckingguy]

[ hmm




hmmmmmmMmMmMMmmm ]

Oh, Dandy is here!

[ He proceeds to audibly whisper "did he always look like that?" to the nearest R3. ]

[unwittingking]

It's nice to meet you too, Anya.

[And for a moment, the smile isn't forced at all. It's genuinely nice to meet this kid, despite the circumstances behind it all. She seems sweet.

Then Anya says that her and her parents went through the death game madness, and his eyes go about as wide as dinner plates.

Three people went through these things. A whole family. A mother, a father, and their daughter. All having to fear for their lives and probably fight to stay alive.

That smile stays on his muzzle, but it should be clear to anyone that it's forced now.]

Ah. Well. I'm glad you all could make it. And I hope you all were able to get out...without too much damage. [Because no one gets out of one of these games 'okay'.

Meanwhile, King is making plans to learn more magic from his brother and maybe go on a hunt. Because someone who puts a literal kindergartener through a death game is one he wants to chat with. Accompanied with a fireball.]

[twoasone]

[ He was going to ask about the release form, but then Nandor mentioned hypnosis. ]

... You hypnotize people?

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

[...processing...

For a moment, Dylan just. Looks at his paws as he brings them up. And starts moving them like. He's counting? He's definitely counting. And these numbers...do not make sense.]

Okay...next question, and sorry for asking so many, but. This is a lot to take in.

Did Scrooge find the fountain of youth? Or a spell to keep him young forever? Because that's...hundreds of years...

[Is Dewey related to an immortal being? Does that mean Dewey is immortal? Is the secret of immortality something that can be shared? Is it something anyone would WANT to share? The questions are endless, but he's sticking to just one right now. If only because he's not sure he can take the answers to the others.]

CW: memory problems?

[allegedprisoner]

Oh! That's quite alright. [ He awkwardly nods. ] It's only natural to be concerned, especially since actual beings seem to be involved more often than not.

[ Luca, that last bit sounds somewhat concerning- ]

I couldn't tell you how many iterations I've personally been through. You see, our captors were an ascended glitch from a video game that wanted to test something by generating artificial intelligence clones of around... Twenty people or so? And running us through the same murdergame scenario countless times. I may have recently fixed my own memory issue but that doesn't mean I managed to sort out any memories I had... Or lost. But then again I did receive memories of god knows how many timelines...

... Does any of this make sense to you?

[your_best_friend]

Nope. Though, that's strange, too. Never seen a SOUL with mustard on it. Can I try licking it?

[your_best_friend]

I haven't seen her since I went back home, and yes! She was. She wasn't killed, though. Not that she could be. All of us that went to where we went to ended up immortal.

[zackthekiller]

[ And now Zack kind of regrets showing up in magical form. ]

Hey Eruna.

[ He says in the most deadpan voice. Some things just never change... ]

[lets_dewey_it]

Hundreds? Maybe like, over a hundred. He was born around... 1867 I thiiiiink? He was also frozen in ice during the Gold Rush and was like that for five years. I think it was after that that he became a coal miner and met Santa. _{[WHO THE FUCK IS JESUS?]}

[zackthekiller]

[ Hang on, Zack's brain just crashed for a moment. ]

What the... I thought Magical Girl Hell was weird! How the fuck did you all become immortal?!

[your_best_friend]

The head honcho, Usurper, modified the essence of our bodies. She intended to use our bodies to invade our worlds, and therefore made our bodies immortal and always able to come back, but we put a stop to her.

1/2

[unwittingking]

[...and he thought his murder games were bad...]

I...think I understand, yeah. And that sounds like a lot. Do you need to sit down, or...have a drink or something? Because all of that sounds...

[unwittingking]

A little ruff.

[Please let his attempt at a joke help. This is a new layer of trauma he was not prepared to deal with.]

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

[hell if he knows, he never went to church]

That's. Wow.

Anything about your family that seems normal? Or is it pretty much crazy adventures 24/7 there?

[Said more affectionately, because this is the good kind of crazy, he's pretty sure. He's also half expecting to hear one of the first ducks on the moon was in his family, at this rate.]

Rakka | Haibane Renmei | Trustfell R1/We Could Be R2 NPC

[charcoalfeather]

[What's the holiday season without... an angel? A young woman who just so happens to have the same halo and wings combo you might spot on a gift card. But at least her being here means that she's not actually dead. Probably.

Though, that doesn't quite explain why you're seeing double.

One Rakka, wearing a turtle necked sweater - holes cut out in the back for her wings, of course - mills about the food station, looking for a spot to put her own addition to the menagerie of food. She's let her hair grow out a bit, combed as much static out of it as she could. A couple pokeballs hang from a belt on her side, but she doesn't want to let them out just yet.

Curiously, there's a second Rakka here. One that's a bit older, at least from the look in her eyes. She has the same wings and halo, but wears a simple dress that doesn't appear to be nearly warm enough. Not that the cold is bothering her, anyway. No, this one seems perfectly content to just... crowd watch.]

[your_best_friend]

...

I don't have a SOUL. I'm incapable of feeling things like compassion or emotions myself normally. so I'm trying to learn how to make my own.

[lets_dewey_it]

Heh, you bet it's mostly adventure! Even my Uncle Donald, who's like, the most normal guy and the biggest scaredy-cat in the world, used to go adventuring with Uncle Scrooge all the time until my bros and I were born! I don't think any of my family's truly normal. Scrooge's parents? Still alive because Castle McDuck was built on top of magic druid stones that grant them immortality. Uncle Gladstone? Literally has magical luck in him. Uncle Fethry? Has a giant mutated krill for a friend!