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[ en ] tranceway . m . o . d . s. ([personal profile] vitaelamorte) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs2017-10-26 11:54 pm
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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!
mcgucket: (in the living room stressing)

[personal profile] mcgucket 2017-11-22 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
["Oh, is that what the dog is for?" is probably the most random thought to have at hearing that, but hey, there it is. But that's better than the other series of thoughts that spin through Fiddleford's mind as he tries to breathe.

In, and out. In, and out. In, and out.

His hands are still in his hair, but their grip loosens and lies flat under Stanford's own hands. He can't bring himself to look at the other man though; it's shameful, being this weak, caving to anxiety so easily. Is he crying? God, he hopes not, he doesn't need further embarrassment to make him want to start reaching for the memory gun.]


You should, though. I'm not worth that.

[He's given up on himself months ago. The smart thing would be for you to do the same, Stanford.]
mviw: (179)

[personal profile] mviw 2017-11-23 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh Fidds, that's exactly why he has Newton.]

No, no you're worth so much more than that. [He carefully brings Fiddleford's hands down, if he'll let him.] We could stand here all week arguing about our self worth, but that won't change my mind.

You're not a villain, you're just trying to survive. I just wish I could help you find a better way to do it--a way that won't hurt you. [Ford sighs and rubs at his forehead.]

The truth is, it took me years and years to actually believe I was hot scientific stuff. [Oh. Oh God he doesn't want to talk about this but--] I know I never really talked about my childhood and I have my reasons. I always thought I was a freak, born with these hands and feet and terrible lungs that turned out to be asthmatic, and the only good thing I had for years was my brother. Then I started winning awards and actually making my parents proud, and suddenly I wasn't a freak anymore. [Ford shrugs, trying to play it off. It's not a lie, but it's pretty terrible.]

I was a nerd. And being a nerd is better than being a freak.

When Dad kicked Stanley out, I didn't even have the muscle to my brains anymore. It was just me, trying to convince Dad that science was actually a lucrative career so he'd invest in me going to school, and without Stanley? Hah! You should've seen me hit the weights and punching bag again! [No, Stanford, you don't get to gloss over that. His halfhearted attempt at a smile fades when he's compelled to elaborate.] ...I still had to fend off the guys who couldn't let the polydactyly go.

--What I'm trying to say is... I was rotten to you because I put all of my worth into being successful. I was nothing without my research. I took my shame and owned it so hard I fooled myself into thinking I was amazing--which, I am but... you get the drift. [Ford rubs the back of his neck.]

That's how I dealt with things, I pushed everyone away and hid in a laboratory. You dealt with things by erasing them from your brain so you wouldn't actually have to deal with them. If you're a coward, so am I.

[He laughs awkwardly.] I didn't tell you how I felt here in Wonderland because I was afraid you'd think I was a freak too.
mcgucket: (a lifetime of internalized guilt)

[personal profile] mcgucket 2017-11-23 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
[... Well that certainly explains a lot.

At the last part though, Fidds laughs, but it's a choked, watery thing stuck in the back of his throat.]


That'd be kinda hypocritical if I did, given how much of a freak I am by comparison.
mviw: (154)

[personal profile] mviw 2017-11-23 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
You are not a freak! [The objection is immediate.] You have ten fingers and ten toes and you're a genius.

[Ford is flabbergasted and it wouldn't take a truth event to choke this out of him. He doesn't get it.]

If anyone ever calls you a freak or even implies anything negative about you, I will personally attempt to knock their teeth out.
mcgucket: (good idea I'm thinking of not doing that)

[personal profile] mcgucket 2017-11-23 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
That's... real sweet of ya actually, but wholly unnecessary. Unless it's Bill or say, Rick, in which case by all means.

[... He did not mean to add that part out loud: Rick may be a jerk but advocating violence should not be encouraged, regardless of what we think of the guy. Bill however can absolutely go fuck himself.]
mviw: (184)

[personal profile] mviw 2017-11-23 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Ford outright laughs at that.] I did get into a fistfight with him in my first year. He and I are too much alike and I can't stand it. [Uh. That last part... Mmmm...

Ford clears his throat. At least there's levity being had. That's a good sign.]


And fortunately for everyone, Bill is gone. He's gone for good. I checked in his room and it was empty. I know it was his room because last Christmas I put a stale fruitcake in it and drew a summoning sign on the wall.

[............yes.] When I checked, I realized he was gone, and I broke down and sobbed with relief.

[Oh for fuck's sake--!]
mcgucket: (did you just say you're "solly"?!?)

[personal profile] mcgucket 2017-11-23 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
He has--I mean, had a room here?

[We always just sort of assumed he didn't have one because he was living inside of the network?]
mviw: (206)

[personal profile] mviw 2017-11-23 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
[He clears his throat again.] If you can call it that. It was on the 10th floor and it's my personal belief he wouldn't be able to refuse a summoning or an ironic "gift."

[He uses actual air quotes with his fingers.]
mcgucket: ([TRUST ISSUES INTENSIFY])

[personal profile] mcgucket 2017-11-23 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
I see.

[...]

I was talkin' to Alphys earlier and the two of us were debatin' whether or not he could still be here, even if it's been quiet on his end. Hearin' that though... i--it's a relief, even if a part of me still fears the alternative, that he's just hidin' somewhere to make people think he's gone until...

[... Until he comes back with some scheme. The mere thought of which causes his hands to shake with the temptation to go in his hair again, but he can't because Stanford's still holding them in front of him here.]
mviw: (226)

[personal profile] mviw 2017-11-23 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
He won't.

[Ford feels this is definitive.]

I also didn't tell you or anyone else because I knew you all would wonder how and why I knew that and I hate speaking to anyone about Bill, because everyone always wants to ask questions that lead to uncomfortable topics like being possessed.

[...He feels Fiddleford's hands shake and suddenly remembers he's holding his hands. Gently, he tries to steady them with his own.]

--It's not weird, is it? How I feel? And me trying to calm you down with physical contact?

[Not that Ford knows, but if they can just forgive each other, they'll be free of being compelled to truthfully overshare. There's so much to forgive though, so even if he knew, it might not help much.]
mcgucket: (fuckin nerd sits alone)

tw: mention of homophobia

[personal profile] mcgucket 2017-11-23 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
[While Fiddleford certainly had a much happier childhood than Stanford perhaps, he did grow up in the same time period, and is thus very aware of the prejudices folks have. Even though his family supported his decision to go to college and pursue science rather than taking over their hog farm in Tennessee... well.]

No. It's unexpected, but somehow, it... it doesn't feel wrong, hearin' it from you. Even if I've been told different since before we met, told how I should respond to somethin' like that.

[It's not really a conversation his family had all that much, but they didn't have to for Fiddleford to get the implication from society that they would have had words, if not just shy of threatening getting his hide tanned six ways to Sunday if they had ever caught him having that kind of relationship with a man. Especially now that he had a wife (even if she was an ex) and a son. The respectable, expected image of a proper family man.

...And yet]


I already said it before, but I still think you can do better. You deserve better.

[He's just a lead weight, an anchor tied like a noose threatening to pull the other man into a point of no return.

But as he stares at their hands, here at the point where a better man would have let go and stepped back, his mouth opens and the words fall out before they can be stopped--]


Except, I'm... happy. Bein' told that I'm loved despite that. And that it's you, the person that I care about the most in this place.
mviw: (162)

tw: mention of homophobia

[personal profile] mviw 2017-11-23 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
I've heard that from people here. Alphys, even. I don't get it, but I'm glad it's not repulsive to you. Not that you're the kind of person who would be that way. [He actually did feel the need to add that last part, but he feels the rest is self-explanatory. They grew up in the same era, the same nation. Of course he wouldn't assume Fiddleford to be a hateful person, it's just the way things were growing up--and still even for Fiddleford in the 1980s.

Ford steers his mind away from thoughts about what his parents would say. His father always expected him to wear that suit Stanley eventually adopted--for a wedding. A wedding! Ford has always been married to his work in his adult life. It just wasn't in the cards and now, thirty years later? Rather than start a family, the one that matters is his brother, the young Pines twins, and all the family friends in Gravity Falls (and here in Wonderland too).

... Yes, that's a good thing to think about. Family.]


--You're... [Ford laughs mirthfully.] Of course you are! I told you, I'm going to forgive you. I already do. I just don't want you to hurt yourself. And if other people want you to do that... I don't agree with it, but people can choose to smoke and drink, so... they should at least know what they're getting into. They have a right to know. I don't like it, I think it's wrong, but if a person wants to choose to wreck their brain they should at least know what they're doing beforehand.

Ugh, look, I--Fiddleford, I don't want better because better doesn't exist. Perhaps between the two of us we can make up one decent human being, or... something like that.
mcgucket: (reconsidering his life choices)

[personal profile] mcgucket 2017-11-23 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I wish you wouldn't refer to it as "wrecking our brain" like that...

[Even if Stanford... isn't exactly wrong here...]

... Hey, Stanford?
mviw: (191)

[personal profile] mviw 2017-11-24 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
It's easy to be arrogant when I'm often right and you know it. [He only halfway means that.]

...? Yes?
mcgucket: (fuckin nerd sits alone)

i have no good icons for this rest in pieces me

[personal profile] mcgucket 2017-11-24 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
[oh my god Stanford can you not--but Fiddleford is going to ignore that as, for a moment, he's actually not sure what to say despite the truth inducing effect this room has. so, he conveys the truth he wants to share via a physical action: he lets go of Stanford's hands, but instead of moving away, he's moving closer...

... and wrapping his arms around the other man in a tight hug.

And while being closer means that Stanford will be able to see certain things like the patches of his hair that are thinner than the rest from hair that's been torn out and slowly trying to grow back, or the way his clothes seem looser than normal from losing weight, or even the shadows under his eyes from lack of sleep... Fiddleford doesn't really care about that right now. Instead he's entirely focused on this, the feeling of gratitude that he has for this person here in front of him.]