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

[lets_dewey_it]

Oof, that sounds like it stinks... Did you at least get to see Santa when you were stuck?

1/2

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

No, but I did get to see Dorothy enjoy her first Christmas present, so that was nice.

[Though the dream he had the night after still makes things feel a little fuzzy.]

2/2

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

[...wait...implications of that question just hit him...]

Is Santa real on your world?

Re: 2/2

[lets_dewey_it]

Oh yeah, Santa's real where I come from, Uncle Scrooge knows him personally! They used to work together at one point, but they split for personal reasons. But there was one night where Santa came back to try and get Uncle Scrooge to help him again!

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

...huh...interesting.

[Dylan may or may not be planning on taking advantage of this now. Dewey knows a Santa Claus! A relative of his knows the jolly old man personally, even! Want to make sure he visits the Dalmatian household? Listen to what Dylan says to do, and he'll put in a good word!

Is it devious? Maybe, but why can't he scheme every now and then?]

So what happened with that? Santa needing your uncle's help again?

[lets_dewey_it]

Okay, well, I say "came back", it was more like "ended up at the door of the mansion with a leg injury and passed out almost on top of us".

But he woke up! And he gave me a trampoline! And then he asked Scrooge to help him fly his sleigh that night with the promise he wouldn't come to Scrooge's mansion again, because Scrooge hated him—long story! And Scrooge agreed, but only Webby was allowed to go with him because she was the only one who also had a grudge against him, simply because Scrooge had a grudge against him.

So my bros and I just kinda slept for most of the night... Until they came back! _{[Pausing for suspense!]}

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

...is every holiday this crazy at your house?

[Like?? He figured there was craziness in Turbo's life, but not to this level.]

And what happened next?

[lets_dewey_it]

It turns out, Scrooge had swapped all of the presents out with coal because he thought of it as a more "practical gift"—part of that long story I mentioned! Not knowing that only naughty kids get coal! But he realized that was wrong, which us why they came back to the mansion!

There was very little time left in the night left for just one sleigh to go to every house, but Scrooge had a plan himself! Everyone else in the mansion each rode on a reindeer, and we split up across the world in order to deliver the real gifts!

Also it turned out Santa was faking that injury in a bid to get Scrooge to come out of his shell. Which worked, because now Scrooge lets Santa come into the mansion whenever he wants! Just as long as he uses the front door.

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

...he-he didn't know only the naughty kids got coal?

[That's? One of the basics?? Of Christmas rules???]

Sorry, it's cool that you managed to save Christmas and your family is good terms with Santa-[Sentences you never thought you'd say for 500, Alex]-but I just. I don't know how he couldn't have known that coal goes to the bad kids. I thought that was common knowledge?

[Or are things different in duck world? Are there debates about what Santa's favorite baked good is? Has someone gotten into a fistfight with the Easter bunny over him breaking into their house and trying to take their eggs? These thoughts and more scroll through Dylan's head as he considers a world where holiday figures are real and there is confusion about their customs.]

[lets_dewey_it]

Well, you see... Okay, context really is important in this case, just didn't want to bore you...

Christmas started with Scrooge and Santa together.

Long ago, Scrooge was trying to make money selling coal, but wasn't getting anywhere until he met Santa. Scrooge was a bit... abrasive trying to sell his coal, but good ol' Santa, he was giving toys away for free! And that day, both of them happened to come across a workshop full of elves. Santa was let into their workshop, out of the cold, for being so nice, and he said Scrooge was with him.

Inside the workshop, the elves' fireplace went out until Santa threw some of Scrooge's coal into it, and every elf in there was willing to pay for it, and then, Santa bragged that Scrooge could deliver coal to every person in the world, by Christmas morning! Scrooge was going to protest, but... Santa said he'd help. That day, they became both friends and business partners!

There's more to the story that Webby and Scrooge told me, if you wanna listen to this old geezer ramble on. _{[He said that last part in a joking tone.]}

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

[...processing...

For a moment, Dylan just. Looks at his paws as he brings them up. And starts moving them like. He's counting? He's definitely counting. And these numbers...do not make sense.]

Okay...next question, and sorry for asking so many, but. This is a lot to take in.

Did Scrooge find the fountain of youth? Or a spell to keep him young forever? Because that's...hundreds of years...

[Is Dewey related to an immortal being? Does that mean Dewey is immortal? Is the secret of immortality something that can be shared? Is it something anyone would WANT to share? The questions are endless, but he's sticking to just one right now. If only because he's not sure he can take the answers to the others.]

[lets_dewey_it]

Hundreds? Maybe like, over a hundred. He was born around... 1867 I thiiiiink? He was also frozen in ice during the Gold Rush and was like that for five years. I think it was after that that he became a coal miner and met Santa. _{[WHO THE FUCK IS JESUS?]}

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

[hell if he knows, he never went to church]

That's. Wow.

Anything about your family that seems normal? Or is it pretty much crazy adventures 24/7 there?

[Said more affectionately, because this is the good kind of crazy, he's pretty sure. He's also half expecting to hear one of the first ducks on the moon was in his family, at this rate.]

[lets_dewey_it]

Heh, you bet it's mostly adventure! Even my Uncle Donald, who's like, the most normal guy and the biggest scaredy-cat in the world, used to go adventuring with Uncle Scrooge all the time until my bros and I were born! I don't think any of my family's truly normal. Scrooge's parents? Still alive because Castle McDuck was built on top of magic druid stones that grant them immortality. Uncle Gladstone? Literally has magical luck in him. Uncle Fethry? Has a giant mutated krill for a friend!

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

Ha, figures! I guess you don't get born into the Duck family without drawing in adventure in some way or another.

[...you know what, he's just gonna ask outright.]

Any chance you've got an uncle or some other relative that has some space experience? Or have you not reached that far yet?

[He doubts it, with how accomplished this family is, but it would be good to check!]

[lets_dewey_it]

Oh, uh- Actually, that goes to my mom! But, it's a whole thing from before I was born...

See, my mom didn't just go into space. She crashed on the moon. Everyone lost contact with her for 11 years. Of course, she lived, using some gum that Dr. Gearloose invented that gave her all the nutrients and oxygen she needed—even though it was black licorice flavor, and she was able to get back to Earth after so long with the help of the Moonlanders—that is, the moon aliens.

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

[...there is. SO MUCH. TO UNPACK THERE. A mother that was on the moon for most of her children's lives. Gum that kept her alive by giving the her the necessary nutrients and oxygen. The general concept of aliens on the moon.

But. This is sounds like a lot in more ways than one. So instead of focusing on that during the fun holiday party, he'll instead ask the next question after all of those...]

Black licorice flavor?

[Who is Dr. Gearloose and who hurt them so bad that they created such a thing.]

[lets_dewey_it]

I know, Gearloose pretty much hated everyone at a certain point in his life. But at least his invention let my mom live! She lost a leg in the process, but she used parts of her crashed rocket to make a prosthetic! It's super cool!

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

[The fact that this man hated everyone at a point in his life does not surprise him in the slightest.]

It is pretty cool, yeah. [Extremely impressive, too!] I'm guessing that means no one is too keen on going back to space, though?

[When a relative gets stuck on the moon for eleven years, probably presumed dead, space travel probably sounds a lot less appealing...]

[lets_dewey_it]

Ehh... There was a time we went into space. And that was when the leader of the Moonlanders turned out to be a bad guy who was looking for an excuse to manipulate his people into fighting a war against Earth based on false pretenses! And the only one who was willing to rebel was a Moonlander my mom made friends with!