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It may very well be the worst thing that's ever happened to you! | OPEN MINGLE

Who: EVERYONE!
Where: EVERYWHERE!
When: Friday October 27th - Tuesday October 31st
Rating: PG-13, warn if you're gonna go higher!
Summary: A catch all for the Horrible Memory Truth Event!
The Story:

For the duration of this event, everyone's entire room will be replaced with a memory playing on loop. They will likely recognize the moment as soon as they see it – it is a moment they remember as the worst moment of their entire lives. It could be a memory from home or something that happened in Wonderland. Lengths of the memories will vary, but they will find that these are not memories they can merely watch – they can step into these memories and attempt to make changes to them, and the memories will be long enough that they have time to make changes (though no more than 24 hours). However, anyone who tries will find that it is futile. No matter what you do or how hard you try, the outcome is always exactly the same somehow. No changes you make will prevent that horrible outcome. It just happens over and over and over again no matter what you do.

On top of that, perhaps complicating any attempts to make changes, everyone will be forced to be honest for the duration of the event. No lies or half-truths are allowed, and filters will be gone for the entire five days. If something bothers someone then they will blurt it out, regardless of whether or not it hurts someone's feelings, and no one will be able to simply keep quiet when they have something to say. They must be truthful and honest with every word they say.

This is a catch-all log for all of your Worst Memory needs! Please mark your threads clearly in the subject line with your character's name and Room Number + Floor for character rooms, or just location if you're making a top level for a public place in the mansion (like the tea rooms or the kitchen) so people can see if there's already a thread available. And here's the plot post if you need it!

Have fun!

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"Woah there!"

She was darting back and forth like a rabbit and he couldn't tell that she was going to turn right into him. Jean didn't mind that she ran into him, but he felt kinda bad that she fell down like that. It was kind of his fault? Anyways, he crouched down to help her gather her food back up.

"You okay?" she never seemed totally okay, but it was still worth asking, especially if she was stuck in her own nightmare room earlier, "where's all of this going?"

"No, I'm not okay!" With the truth being forced out of her, Mikan couldn't shut up, scrambling to sit up and get everything back. "I'm upset and scared and hungry and nothing is good right now! I need to get back to my room before anyone tries to go inside!"

...Alright, that was strange. Normally, she hemmed and hawed and beat around the bush quite a bit more when he asked her questions in the past. But this time, the truth came tumbling out of her mouth right away like she couldn't do anything to hold it in. Jean cocked his head at her.

"You don't have to go back in there, you know. I just put a sign on my door to warn people away. After that, it's their fault if they want to waltz into someone else's nightmare."

"I can't risk that!" Mikan doesn't even care if the food she's grabbing is mushed or broken, as long as it's still edible. "I don't want any of my friends finding out that I'm capable of being a horrible person! I don't want them to see that other side of me!"

Judging by her pained expression, she really didn't want to say these things.

"Everyone's capable of being a horrible person," Jean tried to say in an unaffected manner, although it was clear that he was concerned over her sudden admittance to him. He knew she was fretful but... "Trust me. People are complicated. They're not all good or all bad all the time."

"But Wonderland controls those good and bad times!" She tries to get out, but he's kind of blocking the way, so she fidgets from one foot to the other. "And sometimes it makes you see parts of yourself you wish you never knew!"

Jean stayed in her way, mostly because Mikan really didn't seem to be in the right mind to go running off alone. He wasn't her babysitter or anything, but he wouldn't abandon someone right in front of him that obviously needed some help.

"What's so awful that you're making yourself so upset over it? Sure, you're weird but I've never seen you bad."

Of course if he was going to ask, she was going to answer.

"It's showing the time I tried to beat my friends half to death so I could take care of them!"

With that, she dropped everything she was carrying, as her hands flew to her mouth in horror.

"...What?"

That was. Sure, it was awful, but it was more bizarre than it was something to be mortified over. Why in the world would you want to beat your friends up just to take care of them later? Wasn't that just making a pain in the ass for yourself? Jean didn't see how someone could possibly enjoy that.

"That's fucked up, and I don't get why you'd want to do it at all. But is it really such terrible secret?"

New tears flooded her eyes, and she bent over, trying not to let another awful sob escape her. "Of course it is! When my friends learn what kind of person I am... they'll leave me! I don't want to be alone! Even if they wind up hating me and bullying me and doing mean things to me, it doesn't matter as long as they don't leave me!"

Woah. Okay. There were problems there that Jean was totally unequipped to deal with. He didn't even know where to start.

Too bad his mouth to brain filter wasn't working properly either.

"If you're doing shit like that, yeah, you kind of deserve to be left alone. At the same time though, you shouldn't want to be friends with people that hate you and bully you."

Oops.

Mikan choked out another sob, wishing she could leave, but there was no other way out. Her fingers pulled on her hair, frustrated beyond belief. "I just don't want to be alone! I can't stand it! No matter who's with me, even if it's you!"

"You're not alone, are you?"

Jean would touch her to get her to stop pulling at her hair, but he doesn't touch girls. You're just not supposed to do that, right? As a man.

"You haven't done it again since you got here, right? Then it shouldn't really matter... 'Tho if you do it again, you're pretty much screwed for as long as you're stuck here."

Yeah, he meant well - she assumed - but it wasn't exactly instilling her with confidence. "B-But that's just it! This is Wonderland! It could happen again, it can take control of us at any time, like it's doing right this second!"

"Nobody's controlling anybody. It's not one of those events... And besides that, you decide what happens to you. You're the one that moves your own hand. Right?"

Mikan looks down at her own hands, sighing hard. "... There are a lot of times I don't trust myself."

"The moment when you don't doubt anything is when you know you've really gone crazy. So I'd say that's a good thing."

Mikan blinked slowly. "Really? ... So... you doubt yourself too?"

"I hope everyone does. You know how crazy the world would be, if reckless people who never gave anything they did any thought just went around doing whatever they felt like? It'd be chaos. Sensible people doubt themselves, trust me."

Mikan nods slowly in understanding. "That... actually makes me feel kind of better about it all."

"So are you gonna calm down now?" Jean took a step back, out of her way, "there's no need to run around like a chicken with it's head cut off."

"... I can't calm down completely." Mikan admitted - it is the truth, after all. "... But I don't think I'm as bad as I was before."

"Good," because he honestly didn't want her to hurt herself, or do something else that was equally stupid. "And I meant it when I said you don't have to go back in there. Just put a sign up, or stand outside or something if you feel like you have to."

"I... I'll try something like that." Though she was still more "comfortable" camping herself in front of the door. "... And... thank you. I really mean it, thank you."

"Not doing anything to me like you did to them is thanks enough," goodness gracious, blunt Jean is one hell of a double edged sword. "I don't take stuff like that lying down even if you're a girl, okay? I'll fight back if I have to. So... Don't."

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