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

[nojohnyouare]

Quiet. Less musical.

[Could you imagine Mai singing her feelings, she barely talks most of the time.]

Schoolwork... Difficult. But working hard. You?

[theundertaken]

Same as ever, I guess. Life of the idle rich. [Hand gestures] I've been going to the coffeeshop a lot more.

[Getting out more at all, that is to say.]

But I'm basically just J and B's weird fuckin' house husband. Whatever, at least I'm doing something.

[nojohnyouare]

It sounds nice.

[Mai eats another fancy sausage off her plate and thinks.]

Parties? Even if they aren't big ones like this.

[theundertaken]

Ehhhh.

[He grimaces.]

Not big on them, with people who are...you know, regular. They've got more friends outside all this shit than I do. Just - hard to really get to know anyone without bringing it up, you know? But I mean, it's fine, not like I don't have people to talk to.

[nojohnyouare]

...mm. [Mai gives a little nod.] Difficult. Relating and understanding. And talking to anyone. ...Sometimes people like Bear-san. When I take him for walks.

[No laws against taking little robot animals out in public, unlike with actual bears.]

[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?

[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]

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.

[nojohnyouare]

[The true tragedy of leaving the 2000s: that the Poo-Chi and Tekno are no longer in style.]

Drone... Mm. It sounds like fun. Except... creeping.

[theundertaken]

They can spy on people. From the sky. I don't like...cameras. Generally.

[nojohnyouare]

...[Mai gives a small, understanding nod.] Do people do that to you. Or just in general.

[theundertaken]

In general. I'm not famous or anything back on Earth. In space...

[Grimace, hand tilted left and right]

Weird in the beginning. It was kinda like that for all of us though, right? Anyway, I just go in and out of the therapist's office these days, barely out in public at all. Jessie spooks people who get too close anyway. [this is the shuppet's name]

[nojohnyouare]

[nod] I haven't been much. Sometimes tempted. But... Unsure how to deal with people. Even normally.

[theundertaken]

They have good space therapists. And meds. You can't, uh, just talk about this shit on Earth, you know?

[nojohnyouare]

[nod] True. ...Difficult talking to anyone, anyway. But you're probably right.

[theundertaken]

[He shrugs.]

I don't go there to...make friends or whatever, though. Too many people know all my business there.

[nojohnyouare]

Some people seem happy with that. But Ardyn seems to just be doing what he wants.

[theundertaken]

Ah - [Max grimaces.] - I don't know him too well. I was - when he died, I was in a really shitty place, I was kinda a dick to him.

[It's true, though it also probably wasn't quite as bad as Max thinks it was.]

But, uh, he seems like he bounced back from the whole thing pretty well?

[nojohnyouare]

It seems like it. Though... It's hard to tell how anyone is feeling. I don't think he would blame you. If he doesn't blame anyone else but Nina.

[theundertaken]

Mmm. Yeah, maybe. Prom's...I mean, I guess he's kinda okay with him being around, but I don't think they're ever gonna be buddies.

[And of course, that's where Max's loyalties really lie.]

[nojohnyouare]

I think I understand that too. People who hurt you, then having reformed. They didn't believe it at first, and thought we were tricked. But it makes sense. Why would they?

[theundertaken]

If...

[He hesitates and swallows.]

Well. I don't - I don't go to Akira and Kaiba's, you know? They visit me.

[Because Manika lives there. And he still can't see her. Wouldn't matter what she's done since, though he doesn't even think she's even really pretending to have changed.]

[nojohnyouare]

[Mai lowers her head. It's not something she can relate to. Her only enemy was herself -- it always was, even when others had it out for her.]

Safer. And better for you. That's understandable, too.

[theundertaken]

Mmm. Yeah.

[Why'd he bring that up? It always kinda tanks his mood, and he wanted to enjoy the party...Jessie bobs a little closer, at least, sucking up some of that negativity.]

Well, it's fine. I don't...really get it, but I kinda get it. I mean, we all kinda - being here, who isn't buddies with a killer or two? Not you, you don't count. But, uh...yeah.

[He's kinda not okay with it, but he's okay with not being that okay with it?]

[nojohnyouare]

[Mai almost brings up that she thinks she does, in fact, count. But she pauses and pets Jessie. It won't help either of them.]

...

[She piles more sweets onto her plate and offers some.]