beebs | 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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Brett continues to be one of the more normal people at this party! He arrives with his husband, looking both far better rested and fed than he did at the end of his own game, and also slightly shellshocked at the size of the crowds here.]

There's a lot of people here. More than a few other groups' worth.

[And he definitely sees folks that he doesn't recognize from the big gathering of those from the previous rounds that Cypher brought in...it's unnerving. Implications unsettling. Don't love it.

Of course, the multiverse is a big place. Maybe he shouldn't even be that surprised? He gets past it fairly quickly, at least, and starts hanging around almost like it's an entirely normal party. To strangers, he smiles and offers a hand.]

Hi, I'm Brett. [...] So, you've...been through one of those things, too?

[Look, he knows well the value of trauma bonding, but he's never really experienced it on this scale!

For roundmates...well, most likely it's not literally the first time he's seeing you since the game. Though he's not one of the people who was looking for an escape from his own world, he's used to regular travel and has probably gone out to visit folks several times. Maybe he's even provided some of you a nice, normal place to stay for a little while? He's got that cabin out in the woods now, and Whitetail is pretty much behind him anyway, so he can host a little bit of weirdness! Still, even if it hasn't been that long, he's glad to see (most of) you again!]

Hey! You made it! Whose...whose party is this, anyway? Cypher doesn't really seem like the aluminum foil snowflake type.

[Contrary to what the icon shows, Aiba definitely is keeping her usual facade all the time. No letting all these random people figure out what she is, it could be bad!]

It's for the best she isn't. I wouldn't trust a party hosted by that woman, not even if she claims to do it because of a sudden onset of love for the holidays.

[Yeah, no, Cypher should stay far away, as far as she's concerned]

[Brett clicks his tongue.]

Yeah...if it said her name on the invitation, I don't know if I would have come. I thought maybe it was one of the Star Trek guys - the Federation people, that is. Deanna's the one who mentioned it to me, she said she heard from Data.

[He goes to therapy in space now because where the hell else is he supposed to go about this???]

I suppose if there's someone who could host this for so many people it'd be someone from the Federation. This must have needed a great quantity of resources -- and that's without taking into account the task of bringing every single person here.

[So a large organization that's capable of space travel is a likely candidate, in Aiba's opinion. The problem, though...]

But even then I don't understand why they'd go through the trouble.

...it's a nice party, though, right?

[It'd be nice not to have to worry about who put it together, anyway...]

Oh, Brett! I have also been asking this, to no answers. ... Bit concerning, actually, that nobody seems to know.

[ He very clearly only started feeling that concern within the last few minutes or so, which should come as no surprise. This wouldn't be the first time Nandor has fallen for an invitation that was actually a trap by people who wanted him dead, were that actually what this was! It wouldn't even be the first time he did so in this specific outfit! ]

[Brett contemplates this, glancing around.]

Well...there's not enough space here to lock us all in for another round. [You know he's doing better in that he can kinda joke about that, even if it's gallows humor.] We're still on the same team if that happens, though, right?

There's No Place Like Traumabonding for the Holidays

Brett Riebach | In Strange Woods | Unknown Seas r3

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