+ It's good that we can't see what isn't there +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: EVERYONE
Where: Wonderland and adjacent dimensions!
When: Friday, April 21st to Monday, April 24th
Rating: PG-13, warn if higher!
Summary: A place to list your tears throughout the event, and describe the worlds that can be seen or accessed through them. Event Post.
The Story:

While invisible zombies ravage Wonderland, tears are popping up everywhere! Through them characters can see versions of themselves from alternate universes. Some of them show a different version of Wonderland, some a different version of their home. Some are as benign as a character drinking coffee instead of tea, others are as drastic as somebody's entire personality changed completely.

On day one tears are so small as to barely even be recognisable. Faint voices and melodies can be heard through the tiny cracks if you step really close, but these brief and indistinct glimpses are barely even worth describing.

On day two tears have opened up wide enough to recognise them for what they really are. Yesterday's melodies will sound clearer, and the voices will become decidedly familiar, belonging to people characters know, sounding perhaps even like the characters themselves. Look through the tears and they may catch sight of home, or something that merely looks like another part of Wonderland. The tears are yet narrow and instable though, and the field of vision is correspondingly poor.

On day three the tears have grown a great deal. The worlds beyond them can be seen and heard, though most cannot be interacted with at all. Only the biggest ones are already stable enough for characters to stick their hand inside, and pulls through any objects within reach.

On the fourth and last day some tears have finally become large and stable enough for characters to pass through whole. Not all tears will reach this stage, but those who have can be visited, and the world beyond them explored... at each character's own peril.

Comments

[mrsarcastic003]

Tim is there for her, catching her by her shoulders when she stumbles away from the tear. He hadn't seen all of it, but he'd seen enough. It's nothing he's ever seen before and there's so much that has changed between his time and Cissie's but he knows his friends.

"That's not you, Cissie. It's not."

[cisskabob]

Cissie jumps when he catches her, and whirls to face him, eyes wide. It takes her a second to process what he said, and when he does, she takes a deep breath and closes her eyes a moment. She manages not to laugh, but it's a close thing.

"No. But it was. Or will be, for you, I guess."

[mrsarcastic003]

Tim glances at the rift and frowns a little. "...This is... the future?" He shakes his head slowly. "...No, I don't believe that. That's not who you are. I know you."

[cisskabob]

Cissie scrubs at her face, taking a shaky breath. "It's--sort of. It does happen, but not... I guess you're kind of right." She drops her hands and finally looks at Tim. "There was a magic spell, and it kind of turned everything inside out. You were never Robin. Kon wasn't Superboy. I was... that. So maybe it wasn't real, but we did live it. It felt real while it was happening."

[mrsarcastic003]

Tim blew out a breath. "...Wow. This is... one of the things you guys haven't been telling me?" He's not naive. He knows there's a lot that Cissie and Kon have been keeping to themselves, and he trusts them. But he's getting a little tired of being the only one left in the dark. But this isn't about him, it's about Cissie. "That's still not you, though. Even if you lived it while you were under a magic spell. You're you. Do you feel the urge to start dressing in black and shooting innocent people?"

[cisskabob]

Cissie grimaces, because it is one of those things she hasn't been telling him, but it isn't one of the Big Things she's been trying to keep from him. It just hasn't come up. There are a lot of things she hasn't told him intentionally, and that's... weighing on her.

"Not innocent people," she says, mostly joking. It's that mostly that keeps her retired. She hesitates and adds, "...That's how we found out your name, by the way."

[mrsarcastic003]

...Yeah, he notices the slight emphasis on 'innocent.' He can't say it's not a sentiment he understands, even if he's a little uncomfortable with it. But he'll go with the subject change for now, because he honestly is curious about this. "How?"

[cisskabob]

Cissie's okay with the subject change. She makes a face and shrugs. "It was Bedlam. He was rewriting Young Justice's history, or something, and basically we all lived through an alternate universe magic spell kind of thing, where Young Justice never existed. You were never Robin, so you didn't need to give us a fake name. When it was all over, we just... didn't forget. We remembered all of it."

[mrsarcastic003]

"...Huh. I guess that's something to look forward to, isn't it?" If 'looking forward to' is the right term. It clearly wasn't all roses, though, judging by what he saw through the tear. He's glad his friends know who he is now, but it looks like there was a cost in peace of mind for Cissie, at the very least.