There's No Place Like Traumabonding for the Holidays

[beebs]

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

[lastreward]

[ Wow she doesn't have non-smiling adult icons Yor. But her smile falters and she hugs her back, warmly. ]

Sorry to have worried you.

[chessturner]

Oh, pardon me. My manners.

[It had completely slipped off her mind she'd have to introduce herself again. Of course she would have to, they were strangers now]

My name is Kyrie Ushiromiya. I'd say it's nice to meet you, but it feels a bit hollow to say that given why we're both here.

[Meeting again because they both were in murdergames isn't something to be glad about]

[chessturner]

Perhaps it was all magic?

[If it wasn't for how it was pretty obvious that, for a looooot of people out there magic is real, she wouldn't have been serious about this, but...honestly if it's not a lot of money involved, then it has to be magic, because for many magic is a real thing that exists]

[laytorest]

I'm just glad you're safe-!

[No more repeats of finding out Samidare died when Yor couldn't protect her, okay!!

That said, she does her best to pull herself together again.]

You've grown! How have you been...?

[mindofathief]

[Duster keeps one of the cheese cubes in his hand. Haruka is free to steal food, but some things are just for him.]

I heard some of them came from the sky [he means space.] and from the water. They're desperate to find new places to hide all this. Maybe...it means it'll happen less.

[pairtner]

...I guess? Why do I feel like I should find some flaw in what you just called logic?

[That's just you still struggling to come to terms with the wide multiverse, Aiba. Ever the one advocating for reality and logic, it still is hard for her to accept any of this.

Still...this guy called her by her name]

...we haven't met before. Who are you?

[The number of people who know her increased significantly, going from three or so to around thirty people, but this random man wasn't one of them. Either this is the guy who invited everyone to a holiday party, ooooor her existence has leaked, which is alarming to some extent!]

[lastreward]

[ Well, that probably was close to happening several times, but she won't mention it. She just smiles assuringly and tells Yor good news only. ]

A late puberty is crazy, right? I'm looking to train for the olympics if I can! I've been doing so much running and still have a lot of energy. [ It's actually a feat for her to be so energetic, but all Yor needs to know is that she's healthy now. ]

[ And there's probably a shiny ring on her finger too... ]

[mcfife]

[Wife is here! The Princess still cannot move to her new kingdom until her lawyer training is complete, so these parties are the perfect place to meet up. Angus sidles up to her and wraps an arm around her waist.]

No! What is it? [He will try to take the coquito from her hand for a bit.]

[libirdian]

[ Nageki's being a wallflower as well, but he definitely walks over to mom big sis her when he notices she's around.

Once he realizes what she's looking at, Nageki stares between Yor and the drinks. Part of him wants to say something against the downing of shots... But well, this is supposed to be a party, right? That's just what adult humans do, drink themselves to oblivion and blow things up. ]

I wonder why human parties always have alcohol involved?

[ His perception of parties might be a teensy bit skewed now. ]

[steampunkborgia]

If this was one of these little convoluted plans full of murder I'd so aim to get you on the very first night, dear.

[But she can't say for certainty she'd win any kind of fight, or succeed at any scheme. She loses just as often as she wins, fact she doesn't like to think about at all. Even though she says she'd try to kill Shin in a brand new murdergame if this is what's going on here, who knows, maybe it'd be the other way around -- Shin has a looooot of motivation to kill her, after all!

But so far it seems this isn't a brand new murdergame, so all they can do is stare at each other with absolute hatred...well, no, she'll try to get the upper hand anyway]

Looks we're at a standstill! Oh, how delightful...you, trapped by social conventions! Forced to watch while I... [She looks around and takes a glass of eggnog] Imbibe eggnog without a care in the world!

[Which she proceeds to do, reveling in this and so refusing to ackbowledge she' just as trapped as Shin]

[13thpromise]

Woah! Yeah, it really has.

[ He gets a hug in return easily enough, though. He's missed his pal. ]

How have things been?

[metamere]

My dear not so feathered friend and partner in crime! If you aren't here to mingle, what exactly are you here for?

[ Wizard is here where he wasn't just one second ago. Literally in a blink of an eye, as a being like him is. He's all smiles as he was in the game, like no time has passed at all. ]

Wizard | Akumadax

[metamere]

My, my, my now isn't this a gathering... a meeting of characters who should never have met, or those who should have parted years ago! Is it really that time of year? Well I suppose it is, and holidays invoke nostalgia in us all but really, to summon us all, including me....

[ You're free to ignore this muttering, Wizard doesn't seem to mind any. He'll call out to anyone in the vicinity: ]

YOU! Yes, you. What kind of dastardly plots transpired in your story? Was it one where the Overseers were victims to the plot from the start, or was it one where there hand was forced, for machinations or other contrived reasons, too many to count!!!! I am your humble Wizard and for now, in this very liminal space, I shall be the recorder of your tales!

[scribbly]

[She props her elbows up on the piano and puts her face in her hands, smiling brightly against Yasu's visible interest.]

Oh, she's one of my OCs. Her name's Victoria. She's based off a statue from an art gallery.

[The headless woman shows up in different outfits throughout the sketchbook as Yasu flips through. There's a good variety of content throughout: Mary will have filled one page with careful studies of flowers, and another with fucking Junji Ito fanart doing its very best to emulate the grotesqueness of his style. She likes roses, butterflies, monkeys. Surrealism, horror. A woman crawls halfway out of a painting frame, hanging out by the waist, dragging the frame behind her. Round mannequin heads with the same unsettling black eyes and flat expressions on their red lips find themselves in all sorts of situations and environments. Blue dolls with raggedy black hair are generally friendly with each other and other characters, but always drawn unnervingly.]

Yeah, Victoria's thing is that she's, like, actually literally falling apart, but she can't really ask for help 'cause she doesn't have a mouth? So she's actually really really good at putting herself back together, and she likes to wear cute clothes because it distracts people from all the cracks and repairs.

[Most of the character designs appearing throughout are the sort you would expect a lowkey-weeb-y edgy sixteen-year-old with a probably unhealthy fascination with horror aesthetics, but one character ever-present throughout is a witch. She wears different gowns, and sometimes her long hair is put in pigtails, but is always seen in a pointed witch hat, butterflies all around her. Her poses are always elegant, powerful, confident.]

[twoasone]

[ May as well sit. It's bad enough he's died once, so hearing that...

He's awfully contemplative for a good moment or two. Old questions he had when he returned home that faded to the back bubble to the surface. Things he's seen, things that were said... Things he wouldn't have had experienced if not for that madwoman's experiments. ]

We were close, yes... [ Eddie must have found whatever became of him. Not that the boy was fazed by corpses, much less Shin's works, but still... ]

I'm sure he must have made an excellent successor, or at least a much better floor master than that sloppy thief on B1...

[ . . . ]

Did you ever figure out what qualities Father Gray was looking for in his "Angels?"

[emberserker]

Magic's still got rules and logic it has to follow, don't give me that. There'd still be an explanation somewhere.

[mopocalypse]

[Haruka laughs, and while she doesn't apologize, she does toss him a small candy cane in return.]

Yeah, considering we basically wiped out all the ones on the world they actually came from. I wonder how it spread to all these places, anyway? Especially since they all have different stories for that.

[twoasone]

Without the advantages that demon offered you? I doubt you'd succeed.

[ Little does she know how many times he imagined tearing her apart and fashioning her parts into a vanity. It would suit her very well, if she couldn't just revive herself in some other body.

Yes, that was the most annoying part. ]

You say that as if you didn't just ask to speak with me in private. Don't you know I've always worked from a place of darkness?

[ In hindsight that might be ironic considering what she did to him, but that's trivial. ]

[allegedprisoner]

I suppose so!

[ He doesn't think much of letting a dog get him drinks. The dog's being sweet. ]

I'm not sure, just make it light on the alcohol. I would like to keep my wits about me tonight.

[rockthistown]

Gah!

[Hime jolts at being called out. She hides behind the nearest Christmas tree and shouts back.]

We already have a narrator! I actually think we have a bunch of them now!

Instructions unclear, leads Luca to wrong Rakka

[allegedprisoner]

Miss Rakka, was it? You seem to be in good spirits.

[ He says to the Rakka with the long hair, completely missing the other Rakka who's wallflowering elsewhere. ]

[metamere]

For shame!!!! Who is this omniscient creature!!?! We shall have words!!! There can only be one of us you see, and I have been told this my role to play, and if I am forced out of it.....


I might just fall to pieces!!!! [ He makes a mock gesture of distress, he is clearly not serious. ]

Just kidding!!!!! But seriously, I doubt they possess the knowledge I do. I may not have the powers of a mastermind or an NPC, but you see, I am a Wizard who's job it is to lead the tale along....you will find no better host than me! At least, that is what I am supposed to say.

[ He winks. ]

[rockthistown]

[Very slowly, the tiny girl pokes her head out from behind the tree.]

I don't really know what an NPC is, but does that mean you're the only narrator you know? Maybe you can be friends with all the other ones?

CW: Death wish mention

[zackthekiller]

That's... All kinds of screwed up.

[ He's not gonna even try to imagine what that invasion would even look like, much less having her take over the girl who was meant to be the brains here. ]

Especially for Ray! Like, I'm not smart, and even I know the kind of girl who walks up to cold blooded killers and asks them to kill her would not wanna live forever.

[metamere]

N-P-C. A non-playable character!!! One who's goal it is to lead you along the story beats, who may or may not be the FINAL BOSS... or perhaps just another character to woo!?! The world is your oyster, dear girl!!!!

[ I am so sorry. ]

But no, of course not! I know several NPCs, several masterminds.. the distinction is important you see, though maybe it really is only but a trifle thing. [ He shrugs, nonchalant. ]