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

[libirdian]

Right, like those. Thanks to the dolls, gigai, and...that scarecrow-like artificial body, my idea of what counts as completely dead has been incredibly skewed. But I can't complain about the results. Mostly.

[ He's not entirely sure if this is a good or bad thing. (Thanks, Void-chan.) ]

[holyironmade]

Oh... that is right... I would not want your other friends to think I was putting you above the others.

[IT'S... LET'S TAKE THAT AS A VICTORY FOR NOW.]

Would it really be possible? To study abroad?

Re: 5/5 all in one

[laytorest]

N-nearly a year, just...

[Well... she sort of thought they would see each other sooner...]

[laytorest]

Scarecrow...?

Re: 5/5 all in one

[lastreward]

Oh, it's been that recent..?

[ For her it's been an age. She'd feel worse about it, but of course it's not like she could help being absent from everyone's lives. ]

[libirdian]

Scarecrow.

[ Nod nod. Bird world is weird. ]

It was supposed to house a brain, but unsurprisingly, that's a horrendous idea that should've never seen the light of day. I'm just glad the doll bodies were nothing like that.

[dereban]

Yep. Just 'almost'.

Veronica Madaraki | Franken Fran | DRRP R1

[stitchedupbodyguard]

[A young woman presides in a corner at the party. And she doesn't seem keen to leave it for most of the event. At least, at the start, she makes her way through the buffet tables, grabbing a small plate of treats to nibble on as she takes position.

After all, a member of the Future Foundation is never truly off the clock. That's just the way it's been all Veronica's life.

At least the party is warm. She dusts snowflakes from the sleeve of her foundation suit. Who knows when it'll let it. They may be here a while.

In the meantime, she scans the perimeter, locking eyes with patygoers. If you somehow pass the x-stitched girl's "test" you get a nod that means (???). But mostly she'll just watch you, pointedly, somewhat uncomfortably, from over here.]

[mindofathief]

It's still a lot of glitter for one pool.

[mopocalypse]

Yeah, I guess so. I just remember everything being kind of weird, but it was messed up, messed up. Too many things happened all the time.

[mindofathief]

You have to tell me the story. [He holds out his plate of crackers to her. An offering for her to regale the tale of the glitter pool.]

[mopocalypse]

[Haruka takes a few and grins.] Okay! Uh, so you know how something stupid happened every investigation? Like the time I slipped on blood and wiped out, and the time I had to go fishing in the guys' can, and when I slept in...

[Haruka trails off and bites her lip. Duster's case. She tenses and one of the crackers in her hand cracks.]

--Yeah! Anyway. So the next week, everyone was in the gym, so I figured I'd check out the pool 'cause that was right there so there was probably stuff in it, and someone filled the whole thing with glitter the previous night, like, before anyone died. And there was Meri-Meri's burned-up old-timey underwear in there, and you know how it was so heavy it sunk to the bottom? So I didn't see anything dangerous around, and I was like, "Hello? Murderer-san?" But no one was there, so I figured it was totally, totally safe! So I dived into the pool and got the evidence and then just went to the trial all wet and glittery and chlorine-ish.

[mindofathief]

[Duster shuts his eyes for a few seconds when Haruka mentions her sleeping in. He really did hope that he could avoid the investigation, avoid seeing their pain, get back home and fix everything...]

Hm. [His eyes open. Back to the conversation.] They took her underwear from the statue?

[primordial]

[Long time, no see. Here's a familiar face, wallflowering over in the corner that Veronica has just approached - he meets Veronica's eyes and just stares for a long moment. His voice is timid, but there's a trace of something snide to it.]

.....Ha. Is it really you?

[stitchedupbodyguard]

[Long time, but evidently not long enough. Veronica is already jolted from her cool exterior to something a bit more... grumpy. Here we go.]

Sure is. So, I guess they're letting just anybody in here.

[primordial]

I could say the same.

[He lets out a light laugh with no amusement.]

Not every day you get to celebrate with your very own murderer. My own Christmas gift.

[mopocalypse]

Nope, different pair. I swear everyone had at least two sets of it. The machine really, really liked giving it out.

[stitchedupbodyguard]

H-hey, I died too.

[As if that makes it better?? She's sheepish to admit it, even if it was a semi-spectacular way to go.]

And we're not celebrating together. We're just... at the same party.

Re: 5/5 all in one

[laytorest]

I know we all came from different times and places, but it's even stranger when we already knew each other...

[laytorest]

A brain?!

[nani the fuck is going on in bird world.]

Nageki, are you sure you're safe there-?!

[trashrabbit]

Inaba's still the same, though!

How have you been? It's been a long time!

[lastreward]

It sure is strange. Nageki said that time should be persistent between travel...? So, it has to be some sort of anomaly.

[ Ah, speaking of Nageki. Was the one here from her present, or the one from 11 years ago? During that time.... were they still fighting Animus? Was this a fraction of what Anima felt coming to the past? ]

[whatsmytalentagain]

[ He solemnly nods at that comment... Four games in a row, man... But he at least tries to keep a cool head. After all, panicking usually makes things worse for everyone, and there isn't anything to worry about right now.

... Yokohama by the ocean? He perks up at that. Gives Mitarai a thumbs up before he writes: ]

Sounds cool. You living with anyone?

[libirdian]

[ ~bad boys love~ ]

Well...

[ That is actually a really hard question to answer, thanks to a certain fluffetic. ]

Relatively so...? I should probably be okay as long as I can teleport away. And never be in a room alone with the not-so-good doctor.

[ Unfortunately, one becomes a more attractive test subject after unexpected revivals. ]

[dereban]

It's not like I was going to change all that much...