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

[pimpplan]

[ :worry:

He snorts into his drink, taking a sip before replying. ]

It's whatever we make of it, I guess. Mistletoe's pretty standard with these kinds of solstice-themed parties, isn't it?

[ where's biqe santa claus, anyway. ]

I'm sure whoever set it up wouldn't mind, otherwise it wouldn't be up there in the first place.

[pimpplan]

Well, you've certainly come to the right place, haven't you. I think I'd be more surprised if this was a more straight-laced affair.

[ Look at the massive robots here. How is anything about that chill. ]

[keyringwitness]

I'm the one looking out for her, really... she's, uh... [The "ON PAROLE" sign hanging from Kakuya's collar swings back and forth. ] Not really allowed outside without supervision... I had to argue with everyone else to let her come to this party, so I've got to make sure she stays on her best behavior.

Y- You're right, though. It'd be a lot harder to face everyone here without Kakuya. [That's a lot of fondness on Yasu's face as she lightly scritches the ears of the fox kit, who calms down a smidge at the stimulation.]

[laytorest]

[?!

Blink blink rubbing her eyes blink.]

Morgan?! You look so...

[.......................,]

...different?

[laytorest]

Oh-- Professor Pericles!

[Smiling! It's so nice to see a good friend again. She stretches out an arm so he can perch if he'd like.]

How are you?

[laytorest]

Are you fast at running?

[She's trying to remember, but of course she just remembers everyone running as fast as they possibly could to escape the hell caterpillar.]

[pseudoregelia]

To you? Yes. It's me, the reporter of love and dreams, Hiyoyo ♥

[Smilesmile!]

You've grown, Tiki-chan.

[lastreward]

I don't think so. [ She crosses her arms to think about it. And also trying to think about how to avoid saying "rehab" ] It's just that I've been running around lately to, um. Get build up muscle and get healthier?

Hiyori Tono | Free! Dive to the Future | 15 Strangers MW2 Participant & R6 Brutally Brainwashed NPC

[mermaidkin]

[Do you ever see a dude in a sweater and just know he couldn't bring himself to wear an uglier one? If the hipster glasses and overloaded Christmas coffee don't tip you off, god help you.]

Well, a diverse life experience is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to senior thesis topics, that's all I'll say.

[Hiyori had already stopped growing at nineteen and was at the peak of physical fitness, so at twenty-two he's still in that golden age. There's still an edge to him - just how quickly he recognizes gamemates from a distance and their canonmates as well. The way that even his mug is a rich brown instead of a totally desaturated color. Little things.]

Lotus | 999 | The Newlydead Game R2

[keybroad]

[A woman walks through the door confidently in a winter version of her outfit - a long thick white coat, black gloves, a green dress, and snug black boots. As it turns out, she needs these because she has tattoos that can be covered but are still pretty damn big. Her makeup is nice, but those with a clear past image for comparison in their minds will see that five years of gravity have done a little something to her face.]

You do want to see a picture of my grandchildren, don't you?

[Lotus is posed with the sportier daughter Ennea and the sweeter daughter Nona, who has two one-year-olds in her lap. There is Japanese overmarketed Christmas turkey on the table in front of them.]

Don't worry, her husband just had a dentist appointment open up that day. You gotta get it in before the end of the year.

[This is probably her opening for strangers as well as prior acquaintances as long as they don't open with a whole dramatic YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU? She's got an on-mode and an off-mode and right now it's on-mode. Such is life.]

Aki Akuyama | Aki Alliance | Parasomnia

[abought]

[What you have before you is a lanky seventeen-year-old with the tone that accompanies playing softball and lacrosse. It's impossible to perfectly match this face with the much more rounded one she had in the past, or match the stylish black blazer-skirt combo with an actual school uniform... but her voice hasn't changed very much at all.]

So, you hear about any internships? Or do they call them apprentices in your world? I have winter and spring break to work with before summer vacation too. Just saying, I have a lot of colleges interested in me.

[What would Aki Akuyama see tonight as, if not the world's single largest business opportunity.]

Cassandra | Tangled: The Series | It's Curtains R3/Adventurer's Club

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[There's at least two versions of the same dark-haired woman at this party. And they're both rolling in with the energy of a lesbian aunt about to dump gifts on the good kids.

One Cassandra is dressed in a traveler's garb, her hair scruffy and tied off in a short ponytail. A sword hangs stiffly from her hip, even as she makes herself comfortable among the partygoers. At least until she seems to be searching for something... or someone. And now, she's noticed you.]

Hey, you wouldn't have to have seen a young girl? Brown hair? Possibly... knives for hands?

[The second Cassandra is... a tad more formally dressed for the occasion. Her longcoat that of a royal guard's uniform, proudly displaying an insignia of - if anyone recognizes it - the kingdom of Arendelle. This Cassandra keeps her hair short, her gaze set, keeping an eye on things. And, yes, this one also has a sword with her and will not be setting it down. In fact, she's gripping it in one hand-]

Come on, you've got this... don't freeze up now...

[Grumbling to herself, at least until she notices that she isn't alone.]

What are you looking at?

Elizabeth | Bioshock: Infinite | We Could Be R3 NPC

[wantofanail]

[Apologies to everyone standing where the air starts to ripple and shimmer, like a mirror slowly fracturing - until it snaps open. A gaping hole in space and time, flickering into existence. Sepia tones bleeding into the air, even as a young woman steps through. Her short hair whipped by warm, tropical air. And a sack is slung over one shoulder.]

...Oh. [A snap of her fingers, and the rift is gone just as quickly as it appeared. She hefts the sack back up on her shoulder.] That's better.

[Elizabeth has never felt freer since her rescue at the hands of Handsome Jack. She's taken the opportunity to travel - see some of the sights her saviors' worlds had to offer, and more. And, she may not technically be religious anymore, but everyone loves the holidays!

So, she's setting up, untying her sack and gesturing to the nearest partygoer to join her.]

I don't suppose there's something you really, really wanted for the holidays, was there? Something small enough to fit in here, perhaps?

[Of course, if you're from round 3, her reaction is a bit less rehearsed. A bit more relieved.]

Well, you certainly look to be in better spirits than the last time we saw each other!

[unsweeten]

Mm, I guess so.

[ He takes a step into the doorway, but then turns and leans back against the frame, hands in his pockets. ]

To tell you the truth, this is my least favorite holiday. I kind of avoid these kinds of things.

[tellthestory]

That's a fun haunting! Man, we should've done that. Tried it, anyway.

[theundertaken]

It was a while ago now, and I'm not...you know, it's better. Still a big part of my life, though. Guess it always will be. I mean, people ask "what do you do?" and the answer is "live off my giant settlement from the people who killed me for fun?" You can't say that shit.

[Mmm. Didn't really mean to go on that long about it.]

Do they think he's like...a funky Roomba or something?

[mopocalypse]

I don't even think they could tell if the haunting was working or not when they did it. I dunno, that's just what I heard from them, and that was forever, forever ago.

[nojohnyouare]

He technically is. ...Robot pet toys... popular now. Though not advanced like Bear-san.

[So they think she's a weirdo, but, like, a normal and explainable weirdo.]

[theundertaken]

I can't believe you seriously brought that thing. You look like the caterer. Should I be like, doing my art goblin shit in the corner?

[Max you arrived here with him? You probably helped carry some of it?]

Give me a Gelt-y Pleasure, coffee man.

[theundertaken]

Roombas aren't alive, though.

[Like, the difference between a roomba and Penny. Except less, he's still a bear.]

We don't really have that. There's drones and things though. No one keeps them for pets, you just fly them to get cool camera footage or be a creep.

[prenebular]

[As an Old Lady, Tiki is absolutely obligated to be very excited about pictures of people's grandchildren. She cannot match Lotus's energy, she is too chill of a woman for that, but she absolutely seems sincere.]

Oh, I would love to. [She is leaning in to look at the photo with a smile.] How precious! How old are they?

[prenebular]

[She has enough decency to not just be like "oh you're a BABY" but you can see in her eyes that she's thinking it.]

The pleasure is mine, Jinafire. It's a rare thing that I get to meet another dragon.

Mm, you weren't even a hatching thought when I was brought to my game... [all right no she has to call you a baby a little] It's been...ah, two thousand years now? Something like that...

[prenebular]

Would that I could say the same. You're just as I remember.

[There's a wistful quality to her voice, like a part of her is convinced he's watching a dream. Nevertheless, she does go in for a hug, and it's a little too tight.]

[scribbly]

...Thanks. That...means a lot, you know?

[She would not be able to articulate it as such, but it feels like being told she was, in fact, worth protecting all that time, in the end.

ANYWAY LOCAL TEENAGER ABOUT TO MAKE PACT WITH DEMON, and she very eagerly takes his hand and shakes it with entirely more enthusiasm than is professional!! she was given a JOB she is going to be as DETERMINED AS POSSIBLE!!!]

There! It's official! No takesies backsies!

[scribbly]

[Mary hesitates a moment, absolutely dumbstruck as she holds back onto Ene's hands. It's too much to imagine, and of course she's curious about the details, but in the end, what matters is that Ene is okay. She gave Mary and Ib everything she could and in the end she still gets to live.

Mary opens her mouth to speak and promptly just starts crying again. RIP.]