+ 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

[interpersonal]

( a brief smile touches her lips then. )

And you think family is the right reason. ( elena often feels the same way. there isn't much that she wouldn't do for the sake of her family and those she loves. but in the not so distant future, elena will learn there is a way to bring her dead brother back after katherine kills him, and she won't do it.

speaking of family... elena turns back to the tear as freya does, wistfulness reaching her features. ) That's my aunt. Jenna. She's dead. ( klaus killed her, but this isn't about klaus and what he did. elena doesn't feel the need to add that. freya's apologized to her enough on her family's behalf. ) That's the other reason this is impossible.

( the biggest one. )

[deathlessness]

[Ah. That's the kind of impossibility that you can't really shake. Freya's smile fades a bit at the mention of Jenna's death and nods.]

Of course.

[And then after a small moment.]

I'm sorry.

[interpersonal]

( elena inhales shakily, watching the tear dispel into nothing before them. )

Me too.

( she glances over at freya, her own smile having faded. )

Let's get out of here, okay?

[deathlessness]

[She nods in agreement.]

I think a drink or ... twelve is in order, don't you?

[interpersonal]

Maybe fifteen.

( the lame joke is half-hearted, and certainly not accurate: elena can't hold her liquor that well.

but on they go, to have drinks and commiserate. it may not have been a grand time, but they were not alone. )