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

[pairtner]

I certainly would hope not. This is a time for festivities, not for bloodshed.

[...she doesn't recognize who this is, but since the, you know, impromptu crash course on socializing with random people face-to-face, she sure has gotten pretty natural at that. She sure is trying her hardest to keep up the usual facade of pretending to be human, though]

[dullshooter]

As far as I'm aware, those things aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, they even go hand in hand. I bet you one of these losers probably came from a festive deathmatch.

[He jerks a thumb into the vague expanse of the room.]

My money's on the penguin.

[pairtner]

...no, that can't be. I heard that one asking around what kind of celebration has penguins as decoration.

[But the mention of the penguin has her tilting her head. Say, now that she counts how many birds are here...]

There are a number of avian individuals in this room. Perhaps one of the iterations of these games was focused only in this kind of person, or perhaps it was an ill-fated turn on that idiom about birds of a feather flocking together.

[bird-only gimmick murdergame is a plausible possibility isnt it]

[dullshooter]

...You know what, Aiba? That was so close to a pun that I'll give you a free pass.

[Thumbs up!]

I mean, enough humans ran these things, right? It's just cold, hard, logic that a bird could get the idea too.

[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!]

[dullshooter]

Come on, you’re telling me you don’t recognise me at all?

[Like, the appearance is a given, but who else has his stunning personality?]

It’s me.

[…]

Your buddy.

[…]

Misfire.

1/2

[pairtner]

.......!

[Connecting the dots of what's going on is easy enough. It's the same trick she uses, isn't it? Or something similar. Some form of projection. Yes, that has to be it! But to hide the entirety of Misfire under a--wait, no, now that she takes a better look, something is clearly off about this appearance, so she should have suspected something was wrong! But also, this reunion has all kinds of people with different features, enough it would be wrong to make guesses--

But oh, this is Misfire. That's what's important here.]

2/2

[pairtner]

[And since it's Misfire she has to save face. Were it anyone else, perhaps she would have apologized and admitted she hadn't noticed, but no way she can do that with Misfire. He's not going to let her live it down]

Ah--o-of course I already knew that! I was skillfully avoiding an awkward situation in case there were people overhearing us. This is what is known as 'being tactful'. Well? Aren't I the most considerate AI you have ever known?

[There are very few times Aiba gets really nervous. Somehow, being caught with her guard down like this made it happen]