Faithful friends who are dear to us gather near to us no more | OPEN

[vitaelamorte]

Who: E V E R Y O N E (Including our 4th wall guests!)
Where: Everywhere, one both Mirror and Real Side!
When: December 19th - December 26th (ICly December 25th) (WEEK TWO)
Rating: PG-13, warn if going higher
Summary: After a particularly intense week of holiday cheer and holiday scenes, Wonderland simply cannot take any more. The form it takes will no longer hold. Wonderland sheds its holiday skin and remains in the barest form of itself.
The Story:

As of the 19th, no one will be able to use the network to make posts. A new error message will appear on all screens, but again, it's probably fine.

This will quickly prove to be a problem though, as Wonderland has completely abandoned any sign of the signature mansion or its grounds. All of a sudden, it cannot hold itself together any more. At this point, Wonderland has become a series of holiday past, present, and future scenes instead of a collection of rooms, and none of them connect together in any sensical, linear way. If you find a friend wandering, you may want to stay with them. It will prove difficult to seek out people on purpose (though very easy to stumble across people by accident).

In between the various scenes, instead of the halls of the mansion, are one of three voids. Gravity does not seem to exist in them, and characters will float, swim, or spin around until they find a new scene to be in. There is no up or down, and no ground to stand on. Scenes are entered suddenly and without warning, going from floating along to suddenly standing in a memory or a vision (unless you have come from the second void). Characters can also find themselves traveling from void to void, but there is no precise place where they overlap, and if they turn around they will not be able to return to the void they were previously in. It is almost as though perhaps, the voids and the scenes are moving around, and that Wonderland no longer has a static form.

Wonderland will remain this way until the end of the event. What happens then? You'll have to wait and see. ♥ For now though, please enjoy the horrible voids that make up all of Wonderland at the moment. If you have any questions, please report to the plot post or check out our Fourth Wall Masterpost for all your other fourth wall needs!

Comments

[teamfun]

[His hand squeezes hers in reassurance. When he speaks, his tone is passive, gentle, a far cry from his usual boisterous grandstanding. It's more the tone he used with her in the piano room- the Louis behind all the carefully crafted layers of jokester. ]

Hey, you know if you ever need to share some of that weight, you got me, right?

[He knows it's a part of their world he has no experience in- though chances are he's going to get a very sharp education in that once they get to the Delta camp. He doesn't have any experience in that, but he wants to help her regardless.]

[waitin]

( Clementine wishes he never had to have any fucking experience with it. She never wanted AJ to have to kill anybody either, but that's not the choice they get. She was nine when she killed someone for the first time, and she was thirteen when she killed someone without that person being an immediate threat. pulled the damn trigger.

It's their world, and she hates it especially when she gets into Wonderland. She remembers what good and bad means, what morals are. Her hand tightens over his own, and she nods. )

Yeah, I do. ...thank you. ( She's just afraid it'll make him see her differently, and she doesn't know if she could handle that. ) ...do you want to stay here to watch a bit longer?

( She won't really judge if he does. She gets it. He lost Marlon abruptly, and that was such an important person in his life. And she trusts Louis. )

[teamfun]

[Theirs is a shitty-ass world, that does its best to take away more and more of what makes them them with every passing year they manage to stay alive. It's one of the reasons Louis remains as chipper as he does. A way to flip of a world that would rather they be at their darkest.]

No problem.

[His standard reply, because ti really isn't, not for him. He'd do just about anything for her, to make her life even the tiniest bit easier. She's done enough already, she deserves to rest.

He stares at the replayed memory- at the echo of something long gone, something lost. He lets out a low, shaky breath.]

No, we should...probably get out of here. I don't think sticking around is gonna help any.

[It won't bring Marlon back from the dead, it won't undo any of the terrible shit he did- it sure as hell won't help Louis heal any.]

[waitin]

( Clementine gives him the smallest of smiles when he says 'no problem' if only because she knows he means it. Something that matters so much to her, it's no problem at all for him to do, and it's why she gives his arm a little squeeze at his answer.

She nods, staying in memories- They're painful especially ones which they cannot reach anymore.

Marlon is dead. Their world is not like this world. She... doesn't want him to linger somewhere if it's only ultimately hurting him more, and she knows he hurts even if he doesn't show it.

She slides her hand down to find his own and then gives it a tug. )

C'mon, time to go... float through more voids of nothingness. ( it's... real fun. )

[teamfun]

[Her hand finds his, and his fingers entwine with hers, giving her hand a gentle squeeze. It's grounding. Makes him feel safe, she makes him feel safe.]

Oh, good. That sounds like an absolute blast. Should we play I Spy? I feel like we should play I Spy.

[They can Spy everyone else's horrible memories, it'll be the best time.]

[waitin]

If you want to play, 'I Spy' other people's lives....

( Clementine trails off, but she looks back at Louis, and hey, maybe that sounds like a good idea.

It's not like she has much else to offer, floating out on the void. )

[teamfun]

It'll be the best time. "I Spy With My Little Eye something beginning with ARRRRGGH!"

[Because if anyone can make the horror or other people's lives easier to bear, it's Louis. ]

Let's just avoid the black void of awfulness, okay? I'm pretty sure something's stalking around in that one.

[waitin]

( Clementine smirks in amusement, shaking her head as they start to push away from the memory into the void. Her hand remains in his so that way they don't get split up. )

Sounds good. Definitely don't want to head into the black void of awfulness. Not in the mood to be stalked by something that'd all that place home.

( So floating through the other voids while spying on other people's lives. Yep. She'll be with Louis though so... that will make it a lot better. )

[teamfun]

[He follow her lead on this one. He's pretty sure neither of them are experienced in moving through empty voids- but Clem is always the more resourceful of them. She's the best one to try and find a way through.]

Me either, thanks. At least in the other ones there's less deliberating spooky noises - though the white one does have snacks.

[waitin]

So time to try to... float-swim to the white void, huh? I'm kind of hungry. ( Clementine turns back to him to smile a little bit in his direction, kicking her legs off from the memory and floating through all that gray. )

...this is seriously freakier than normal Wonderland.

[teamfun]

Yeeeeah when you said things got weird here at Christmas, the weird void things were not what I was envisioning.

[He'll just swim-float along with her.]

You think maybe this happened because that Queen went magic-crazy?

[waitin]

I didn't know this was even possible. It's like Wonderland's imploding. I-

( Clementine swallows thickly cause she knows what's been said about what it takes to power this place. )

I don't know. I've heard it takes our- our deaths or our memories to make this place function.

[teamfun]

[Clem being worried about anything is a sign for him to be worried- especially here. His brow furrows.]

You don't think it'll like...mass wipe us our or something to fix itself, do you? Because I'd really rather not.

[His hand tightens around hers, just a notch.]

[waitin]

( Clementine lifts her head at his question, and she shakes it then. She feels that slight tightening around her hand, and she gives his another squeeze in an attempt to be reassuring.

Even if she doesn't have the answers really. )

No, because it'd then not have any memories to power itself, but... If it does do something, it's not going to be pretty. I've never seen it get like this before.

( So she doesn't know what it's going to take to set it right again. )

[teamfun]

Oh goodie. Looking forward to whatever that madness will end up being.

[Sarcasm is clearly the way to go here. Clearly. Still, he defaults as he always does, putting the well being of others before himself. It's...easier this way. ]

...You okay?

[waitin]

( Clementine smirks lightly at the sarcasm that he uses, and then she looks up at him, knowingly. )

I'm okay. You're... here, which kinda seriously helps.

( Pause. ) What about you?

[teamfun]

Yeah? Glad to hear that. Really glad.

[Because so long as she's okay...well, he can deal with his bullshit. Or not. She at least gets an honest answer, more than most would.]

I've been better. It's just a lot. I'll deal.

[He wants to put the Marlon pain down, but he's pretty sure he never will. But Wonderland isn't making the healing process any easier. ]

[waitin]

I know. It's a lot, but you're not alone either, okay? I'm here if you ever want to talk even if I get it's pretty fuckin' hard.

( To talk about things like that. Louis prefers to rely on that comedy, but she's grateful he lets his walls down some with her.

Like she does for him.

There's such a big void all around them. She really hopes Wonderland can figure its shit out. )

[teamfun]

[His smile softens, because she's right. No matter what, she's got his back, and by the measure, he has hers. ]

Same goes to you, Clem. We'll get through this bullshit together.