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mrsarcastic003 ([personal profile] mrsarcastic003) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs2018-01-24 01:42 am

[open] are you afraid of being alone

Who: Tim Drake or Shaun Mason and YOU
Where: MabelWonderland
When: During the event
Rating: Shaun's existence makes everything PG-13+
Summary: Tim and Shaun both have trouble shaking their fantasies. And then they have to sing. Or someone does.
The Story:

Tim:

19-20


Tim knows this isn't real--it can't be--but that doesn't make it any easier to reject. It's home. It's Gotham. It's Wayne Manor and everyone's just… there. Bruce and Alfred, of course, but Dick and Jason and Damian and Steph, too, and they're all just… there and together and basically happy. There's bickering, of course. With the sheer variety of personalities, how could there not be, but it's never serious and it's happy more often than it's not.

Five Robins at once is a lot, but somehow it seems to work anyway.

Tim spends a lot of time at the edges of the crowd, which is probably a natural place for him anyway, but he's happy. That makes it all the harder to reject.

21-23

Three part harmony. The words echo in Tim's head and that means that he needs to find the other two parts of his three part harmony. Cissie and Kon. He's not sure where they are, but if there's anyone he's going to sing with who won't laugh at him, it's them. It's not that he's a bad singer, but. He doesn't like to do it in public.

Still. He'll be looking for them everywhere, and helping out wherever he can when he doesn't find them.

Shaun:

19-20 (closed to Georgia)

The first reality that neon Wonderland presents him is difficult to reject, but not impossible. It's George (of course), but alive and well and completely herself. Even more real than his hallucination, really, something that she has been perfectly willing to point out. When he finds her afterward--the real her--he thinks it's over, but of course it's not. Instead it catapults them into a new reality, which is even harder to shake than the first.

It's everything he's ever wanted--everything he dreamed of when they were on the Ryman campaign and had their whole lives ahead of them. They live in their own place, away from any cameras they don't control. They have their own site, and they answer to no one.

21-23 (closed to Georgia, Maggie, and Mahir)

When the zombies come there's almost a relief to it. He's lived with zombies his whole life--there's nothing new to that. The singing part is a problem, though. He can't carry a tune in a bucket and he knows it, which means that someone else is going to need to do the singing, and he's going to have to hit things while they do. That, at least, is a thing he's good at. He's just grateful that they have Mahir and Maggie to help out. They can sing with George. He can make sure they have the space to get the job done.

[OOC: Feel free to find Shaun and/or George during or after their fantasies! And Tim as well, though his post is a bit more open. The more the merrier!]
choosetruth: (georgia08)

Shaun

[personal profile] choosetruth 2018-01-25 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
It's... perfect. And not in the overly saturated way everything here is perfect. It has just enough flaws she can almost believe it's real. Her eyes are sensitive to light again, and she has a lowgrade headache, but it's an extremely manageable one. The forums are filled with trolls, but the moderator has them in hand. Their apartment is small, but it's theirs.

If it was too perfect, she wouldn't be able to accept it. As it is, the temptation is so strong it hurts.

But it isn't real.

"Shaun." She runs her finger wistfully over the Pulitzer prize with her name on it resting on the shelf. "This is a lie."
adaptiveimmunities: (Unhappy)

[personal profile] adaptiveimmunities 2018-01-25 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
He smiles painfully. He knows that--of course. They'd planned for it, but they never got to have this. When he had moved out, it had been alone, with only the ghost of his sister and a box of their stuff to keep him company. Wonderland might alter their memories often enough, but it hasn't this time. He knows who he is.

"I know." He glances around. "Think we could live here anyway?"
choosetruth: (georgia02)

[personal profile] choosetruth 2018-01-25 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"You know events never last that long." She swallows, shutting her eyes against the light that burns so familiarly and the sight of everything she's ever wanted. "And you know I could never accept a lie anyway. This isn't what happened."
adaptiveimmunities: (Unhappy)

[personal profile] adaptiveimmunities 2018-01-26 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know. We could live here a few days." Can she live with a lie for a few days?

No, probably not.

He sighs. "I know it's not. It would have been nice, though."
choosetruth: (georgia40)

[personal profile] choosetruth 2018-01-28 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
"It would have." She smiles softly. "It's what we wanted." She turns towards him, opening her eyes. "But it's not so far from what we have now, is it? In Wonderland."
adaptiveimmunities: (Unhappy)

[personal profile] adaptiveimmunities 2018-01-30 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
He reaches toward her. "Not so different," he agrees quietly. Except for the ways it is. The hallucinations. The nightmares. All the ways it's clear that they could never be the people who would have had this life again.
choosetruth: (georgia13)

[personal profile] choosetruth 2018-02-02 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Except for all the ways it's very different. She lets him pull her against him, resting her head against his chest.

"We still remember the truth. It'd just be playing make-believe."

She's not sure who she's trying to convince at this point.
adaptiveimmunities: (Unhappy)

[personal profile] adaptiveimmunities 2018-02-05 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
He looks around them at the life they never got to have. There's a long pause before he speaks again. "Yeah. Yeah, you're right." It sounds like he's convincing himself, but that's not really it. It's just that this is what he wants more than anything, and giving it up hurts.
choosetruth: (they're gonna damn well pay!)

[personal profile] choosetruth 2018-02-06 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"I usually am." It lacks the bite her teasing usually does. She doesn't want to be right. She wants to be able to sink into the fantasy with Shaun and pretend everything can be okay.

But it isn't. Pretending won't change that.
adaptiveimmunities: (Unhappy)

[personal profile] adaptiveimmunities 2018-03-07 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
He gives her a slight smile. "Sorry." He's making her be the bad guy, forcing them out of the daydream. It's not fair to her. "We should probably go." Before it gets any harder to leave.
choosetruth: (georgia01)

[personal profile] choosetruth 2018-03-08 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
She's used to being the bad guy. She leans against him and shuts her eyes. "Yeah, I know." She opens her eyes and raises her voice. She's already figured out how this works. "This isn't real."
adaptiveimmunities: (Unhappy)

[personal profile] adaptiveimmunities 2018-03-14 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
He twines his fingers with hers. "It's not real," he agrees. "We're done here."