+ 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

[didntknowbest]

People who can deal with their problems on their own are very rare. When they have problems as large as yours... I do not think anyone can handle them without either help, or damaging themselves in some way. You need to talk about them with others.

[Toriel was all on her own for a very, very long time, after all- suffering tragedy after tragedy. It... probably had a rather significant negative impact on her. The kind of thing that leads to wanting to set fire to children.

No need to really get into that, though. Shepard has her own problems to deal with.

...And Toriel nearly laughs at that, when she realizes just how thoroughly she's not following her own advice.]

If it makes you feel any better though, I could tell you more about some of my unbearable problems sometime. Help make us even.

...Probably not now, though. I would prefer you have some time to yourself, to relax and re energize, after all of... this. Later, though.

[normandysbest]

[Her body shakes just slightly in a single bubble of laughter at Toriel's suggestion- dark humor is basically her lifeblood by this point, and this is no exception.]

Later, yeah. But I do want to help. Anything I can do.

[She's hypocritical, too. Won't let anyone else's problems rest but shoves hers to the back of her mind, out of her heart. Can't let people see the mess behind the mask or they won't trust her with their issues.

Regardless, she breaths, one stable breath. Drags herself back from the brink. Tries to just breathe.]

Thanks, Toriel. For all of this. I... I didn't mean to worry you, or not to tell you about Thane.