beebs: (gingerbread)
Meme Central, Baby! ([personal profile] beebs) wrote2022-12-05 08:36 pm

There's No Place Like Traumabonding for the Holidays



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!
mopocalypse: (but there's practically none...)

[personal profile] mopocalypse 2022-12-08 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess if no one helps you when you need it, then you just... end up like that for a long time, or maybe forever, huh?
mindofathief: (knows that feel)

[personal profile] mindofathief 2022-12-12 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
...I want to believe anyone can change. But they have to accept that they were wrong. People...don't like to think that they ever made a mistake. [Like many of the family members that made the Despair Delinquents who they are.]
mopocalypse: (and if you say i'm good)

[personal profile] mopocalypse 2022-12-13 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It takes a lot to do it, I guess. Even the people who did mean well.

[Haruka's long since reconciled with her sister. She's talked with all her parents and started to get along with them. Her extended family who put them all in those positions in the first place? The best she can hope for is that they learn something in prison. But she still thinks about what she said the day they all broke out.]

No one's born evil. So I guess there's always hope, huh?
mindofathief: (cute snake)

[personal profile] mindofathief 2022-12-13 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[He sets the plate aside. There was a point where so many terrible people changed for the worse. Everyone had the opportunity to make amends, whether it was a distant father or a king. There were so many missed chances for reconciliation, and Duster is all the better for moving on instead of waiting for an apology that would never happen.]

We just have to make that hopeful thing happen.
mopocalypse: (good morning san francisco)

[personal profile] mopocalypse 2022-12-13 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[She leans a little against Duster and continues to eat the snacks from the table.]

That's kinda what we do, so it should be no trouble, no trouble. Though I still have no idea who sent us here.
mindofathief: (humming)

[personal profile] mindofathief 2022-12-13 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Duster thinks for a second.]

Santa?
mopocalypse: (sadness well hidden)

[personal profile] mopocalypse 2022-12-14 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, your theory is that this is a world where Santa-san is real and decided to spend his time making a party for everyone who's ever been in «place of die»?

[said by the person with zero right to talk about weird theories]
mindofathief: (heavy sleeper)

[personal profile] mindofathief 2022-12-19 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
[When she puts it that way, Duster has doubts.]</small. ...I guess he's not that powerful, huh.
mopocalypse: (that's just bad)

[personal profile] mopocalypse 2022-12-19 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
I dunno. I guess if there's a world where he's an actual guy who magically gives stuff to kids, why not. Maybe we're supposed to investigate? That is kind of what we do.
mindofathief: (cute snake)

[personal profile] mindofathief 2022-12-19 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Just like old times? [They never really forgot their trials, and even now, Duster thinks in terms of investigations when minor incidents happen.]
mopocalypse: (we're out of eggs?)

[personal profile] mopocalypse 2022-12-19 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, I hope not bad like old times. And something weird happened to me every time in those, too. Did anyone tell you about the time I had to dive in the pool and it was full of glitter? Or wait, did I tell you that? I forget.
mindofathief: (nervous)

[personal profile] mindofathief 2022-12-19 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Glitter!? [No, he never heard of it.] How did you not get a hundred cuts?
mopocalypse: (just won't listen)

[personal profile] mopocalypse 2022-12-19 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
'Cause it's glitter? It's not that bad, just kind of inconvenient.
mindofathief: (meh)

[personal profile] mindofathief 2022-12-20 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
It's still a lot of glitter for one pool.
mopocalypse: (i don't get it either)

[personal profile] mopocalypse 2022-12-20 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
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: (humming)

[personal profile] mindofathief 2022-12-20 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
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: (end of the line for me)

[personal profile] mopocalypse 2022-12-20 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[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: (knows that feel)

[personal profile] mindofathief 2022-12-20 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[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?
mopocalypse: (quite the problem)

[personal profile] mopocalypse 2022-12-21 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Nope, different pair. I swear everyone had at least two sets of it. The machine really, really liked giving it out.