+ Guilt Runs Deep

[vitaelamorte]

Who: Everyone!
Where: The Mansion
When: Feb 23-25
Rating: Please warn in top level subject lines for potential triggers/NSFW
Summary: Various residents are trapped in their own guilt, watching their guiltiest memory play on a loop.
The Story:

Welcome to the gathering post for the event. Please see the plotting post for more information + the bulletin board link. Have fun!

Comments

[thisismadfreaky]

I know... [He sighs and turns toward the source of the words meant to comfort him. And maybe if the extent of that damage hadn't been so wide-spread, he could take that for all that it is. But as it stands, he's pretty sure there is still some echo of the wreckage he created that day in Wonderland now. It's a lot. He's not as wrapped up in his head about it, but the guilt still exists somewhere in the muddied mess of his mind.] Most people don't make mistakes that big, though.

[adaptiveimmunities]

Yeah, well, most people have a smaller scale to work with. Big ideas, big mistakes. [He gives him a wry smile. He's certainly made enough of his own mistakes to feel like he has at least a little bit to say on the matter.]

[thisismadfreaky]

[Cisco manages a half-hearted smile of his own in return.] Yeah, I guess that's true... [There's a pause and he debates the ask, but he's too curious not to--] Were you stuck in one of these?

[adaptiveimmunities]

[He grimaces.]

Yeah. Real good times, huh?

[thisismadfreaky]

The worst. [He wrinkles his nose a little. He won't be insensitive enough to ask what Shaun's room was-- that's just wrong. But he does pose a question.] How'd you get out?

[adaptiveimmunities]

[He makes another face.]

The Wonder Twins talked me out of it after I did a few loops.

[Don't worry, Cisco. He volunteers his trauma.]

I wish they hadn't had to see it, though. I got a solid section of Oakland and a good friend killed. I know they're not actually twelve year olds anymore, thanks to Wonderland, but I still wish they hadn't had to see it happen. Hell. I wish I hadn't had to see it happen.

[thisismadfreaky]

Do you ever get the feeling that some variation of a 'rough life' is a requirement to end up here? [Because man, sometimes it sure seems like it. Everyone has such big tragedies somewhere or another in their pre-Wonderland histories.]

[adaptiveimmunities]

[He snorts quietly.]

At this point? It wouldn't surprise me that much. It seems like everyone has some really big Thing that is fucking them up somewhere in their past.

Or I don't know. Maybe that's just a human thing.

[thisismadfreaky]

Way to get deep on me all the sudden, Shaun. [He pulls a face.] But I guess it's true... everybody has things in their past that haunt them. It's just about how you deal with that haunting that makes a difference, right?