43rd ♫ | one more time, one hundred more tries

[eudemonics]

THE MEMORY SHARE MEME
(i want every single person here to appreciate how hard it was to find a gif that adequately conveyed the idea of this meme)

HOW IT WORKS:
⍟ Post your character's toplevel with their name, canon and anything you might need to warn for in their memories.
⍟ Post a handful of memories from your character's past -- you can write them up or just links to clips and scenes, DO IT HOWEVER YOU LIKE.
⍟ SURPRISE, EVERYONE CAN SEE EACH OTHER'S MEMORIES so tag around as you like
⍟ GET EMOTIONALLY TERRORIZED FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Comments

[nojohnyouare]

b) i don't know which is worse

[Mai's still young in this one, being guided onto a stage in front of cameras and a live studio audience. She's led to a small box, where there's an injured bird looking pathetically up at her. The more Mai cries for the bird, the more the cameras and spotlights focus on her. The bird is healed and flies up into the studio rafters, to the gasps of the audience and the cheers of the announcer.

The memory shifts.

A rock shatters the window of their small, dark apartment. Mai flings herself into her mother's arms and sobs. They don't dare look out. They haven't checked the mail in days. The entire front outside of their apartment has been spray-painted.

Freak of nature.
Faker.
Weirdo child and undead mother.
Crook.
Whether they believe in Mai's healing power or not, the messages all boil down to one.
Monster.]

[theundertaken]

...that's fucked up.

[Max folds his arms, standing off to the side.]

I mean, obviously the last part, but that first one? You shouldn't put little kids on display like that.

[nojohnyouare]

[Mai looks over at him and takes this in, thinking it over.]

My aunt's idea. We had hospital bills. TV paid. ...It went poorly.

[theundertaken]

....yeeeeah, I know about hospital bills. Still, though. Your world continues to be shitty.

[nojohnyouare]

...Do you think?

[Mai mulls this over, too.]

Maybe. There were some good people. But... Maybe you're right, too. [pause] I'm sorry. About that.

[theundertaken]

About what?

[nojohnyouare]

Troubling you. You're a kind person. ...And everything you went through.

[theundertaken]

Oh. [Max shrugs.] Hey, uh, don't worry about it. I mean, I'm sure you didn't do this on purpose.





...what was that, anyway?

[nojohnyouare]

...My power. It would be weaker now, since I was killing parts of it off, but I don't know if it's recovered yet.

I could heal people. It's not common back home. Or acknowledged. Magic was mostly bred out of the population a long time ago. So most people think they live in a normal world.

[theundertaken]

...I kinda meant the, uh, little show there, actually. Got uh, all Ghost of Christmas Past-y there for a sec?

[nojohnyouare]

...I don't know. It hasn't happened before. That I know of.

[theundertaken]

Fuckin' weird, man.

[............



He should say something else.]

But yeah, totally no trouble. Unless it was for you, 'cause that seems invasive.

[nojohnyouare]

It's fine. ...Thank you. [headtilt] Ghost of Christmas Past... So it's telling me to change?

[theundertaken]

......huh. [That is sort of what he implied, isn't it?] I dunno. I mean, that didn't really seem like something you needed to change. Didn't talk to any, like, mysterious ghosts before all this?

[nojohnyouare]

I don't think so. ...Not new ones. All of you.

[theundertaken]

Oh. Yeah.

[Max considers this for a long moment, then makes a "spooky" arm motion.]

Woooooooooo.

[nojohnyouare]

...

[Mai raises her hands passively.]

Ooo. Ooo. ...Dead sound.

[theundertaken]

You need any, like, ghost counseling or whatever? 'Cause I'm a bad pick but I'm also the only one here, so...

[nojohnyouare]

I don't know. Ghost counselling... Talking about being dead?

[theundertaken]

Wh - uh, I don’t know. It just seems like...that’s what this kinda meaningful journey to the past shit is supposed to be about?

[nojohnyouare]

...Maybe. Since we all have problems. Probably. Plus being kidnapped and dying. That's a problem too.

[theundertaken]

Kinda. Though if we were dead, we wouldn't have any problems anymore. But this shit is pretty bad, yeah. There's probably no well-adjusted people in all of Florida, and back in real life there were at least five.

[nojohnyouare]

...Maybe. Unless booby-san count. They have no problems.

[theundertaken]

That's true. But this is the only life they've known, unless there's a bunch of little booby-sized VR pods out there.