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

[vitaelamorte]

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!

Comments

[actualwizard]

“Neither could you.” He doesn’t properly know how to express how much he adores Elena, and how he probably wouldn’t have gotten through most of this place without her. “I don’t know what I did before you were here. I’m not sure how I survived this place.” Not well that was for sure.

[interpersonal]

She wishes, more than anything, that she could say she isn't going anywhere and mean it. Wonderland often has other plans, and most of Elena's stay has consistent in futile attempts to rebel against its powerful nature.

"I know how," she says with a quiet and bittersweet smile. "You're stronger than you give yourself credit for."

All the losses and all the hurt that has been sent his way haven't fundamentally changed who he is as a person: a caring and wonderful and thoughtful person.

[actualwizard]

He wants to refute that statement, but he knows there is truth in it. He had survived this place for over three years, he had to be strong. He never really considered it before but he was definitely a survivor. So was Elena’s “We both are; strong that is.”

He doesn’t know what she saw in her room, and he doesn’t ask but based on what he saw in his he knows it can’t be good. “We have to be to endure all this. Especially this latest one.”

[interpersonal]

Tears sting in her eyes, and she blinks them back to leave them unchecked. She wants more than survival for them. She wants more than enduring. But for that to be true, they can't be in Wonderland, and Wonderland is all that ties them together. An impossible situation.

"You know you can tell me anything."

Elena has her suspicions as to what Billy saw, but she wants to give him an opening, if he needs to talk about it, too.

[actualwizard]

He knows, and he nods swallowing hard. "The memory in my room is of the second time I died here. When it was Teddy." He knows he doesn't have to go into detail. She knows what he's talking about.

He quiet for a moment before he speaks again. "Teddy saw it."

[interpersonal]

Of course she knows. Billy need not give her details for Elena to grasp the severity. It's so different -- and so similar, in some ways -- to her own experience that Elena can't help but flinch internally. She hurts for him, because she cares for him that much.

"Is he..." her voice trails off, unsure how to ask. "What happened after?"