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entrancelogs2014-10-25 01:20 am
vates) wrote in entrancelogs2014-10-25 01:20 am
today has a way of scarring your eyes with a negative light
Who: Kevin Tran/Daniel Chan and YOU.
Where: Throughout Storybrooke.
When: The duration of the event!
Rating: Prob PG-13.
Summary: Daniel thinks he's a normal guy who just found out about his absentee father and who needs to save up some money to finally get to college, but he'll soon find out that he ought to be happy his life is so monotonous here.
The Story:
Day 1: October 24
Life's not great, not what he would've chosen, but it is what it is. For a while, things were rocky and uncertain; his mother's illness lingered until she finally passed away, leaving Daniel with an empty college fund and no way of getting out to college, let alone even attending the community college. Daniel's whole life, his mother had skirted around telling Daniel about his father. Upon her death, he's informed that his father is here in Storybrooke, and his name is Gale Shurley. Daniel moves in with Gale and his brother Caston.
It was an awkward few months, but Daniel's had some time to settle into a routine. He's getting to know his father and his uncles; he's moving on from the loss of his mother, and he has a job now, working for Tavish Blackwood in his tailor's shop. Every day, he wakes up, caffeinates himself, and eats breakfast on the way in to work. After work, he swings by the library and spends some time studying. His mother wouldn't have wanted him to get out of practice of doing homework, after all. Then he finds some time for friends, and heads home to another stilted evening at his new family's house.
It's not perfect, but it's a routine. It's life. It's normal.
Day 2-3: October 25-26
Daniel goes to work like usual, even hums on the way, but once he's there, he keeps catching himself daydreaming. Ordinarily that wouldn't be a huge problem, but what's weird is that he keeps doodling these... symbols in horizontal rows. While he'll say he has no idea what they mean, the truth is that he feels like he might have dreamt about what they mean. Yeah, that's it. They have to be from a dream, one of those ones that replays in your head like a broken record all day.
When he goes to the library after work, he bypasses the books he usually spends time with and instead starts looking up some kind of guide for these symbols. Just in case, right? They might mean something. Ultimately, he doesn't find anything, but -- you know, so what? They're just silly symbols. He's pretty lucky if all he has to worry about in a day is what doodles mean.
Maybe he'll swing by the gym now; he could burn off some of that studying, right?
Day 4-5: October 27-28
The memories trickle in slowly, and Daniel's mostly just... confused. That can't be real. Maybe there are such things as angels and demons, but him as a prophet? Maybe this was what that dream the other day was about, those sigils; it's all a continuation of that dream. Except they feel too real; he knows they're memories. But if he accepts that they're real, then he'll have to accept that his high school teacher killed him. Sam Wesson killed him --
Or no. As the memories solidify, Daniel realizes a little too late that it wasn't Sam at all. It was his own father.
That is, if any of this is real, and why would he want to believe it is? He's dead. He dies. Is this what the afterlife is? Is Storybrooke some kind of disappointing Heaven?
Daniel skips out on work -- Tavish hadn't really tortured him, had he? -- and drifts around all day between various places around the town, drawn up in dark thoughts about dying and pain and torture and loss.
Where: Throughout Storybrooke.
When: The duration of the event!
Rating: Prob PG-13.
Summary: Daniel thinks he's a normal guy who just found out about his absentee father and who needs to save up some money to finally get to college, but he'll soon find out that he ought to be happy his life is so monotonous here.
The Story:
Day 1: October 24
Life's not great, not what he would've chosen, but it is what it is. For a while, things were rocky and uncertain; his mother's illness lingered until she finally passed away, leaving Daniel with an empty college fund and no way of getting out to college, let alone even attending the community college. Daniel's whole life, his mother had skirted around telling Daniel about his father. Upon her death, he's informed that his father is here in Storybrooke, and his name is Gale Shurley. Daniel moves in with Gale and his brother Caston.
It was an awkward few months, but Daniel's had some time to settle into a routine. He's getting to know his father and his uncles; he's moving on from the loss of his mother, and he has a job now, working for Tavish Blackwood in his tailor's shop. Every day, he wakes up, caffeinates himself, and eats breakfast on the way in to work. After work, he swings by the library and spends some time studying. His mother wouldn't have wanted him to get out of practice of doing homework, after all. Then he finds some time for friends, and heads home to another stilted evening at his new family's house.
It's not perfect, but it's a routine. It's life. It's normal.
Day 2-3: October 25-26
Daniel goes to work like usual, even hums on the way, but once he's there, he keeps catching himself daydreaming. Ordinarily that wouldn't be a huge problem, but what's weird is that he keeps doodling these... symbols in horizontal rows. While he'll say he has no idea what they mean, the truth is that he feels like he might have dreamt about what they mean. Yeah, that's it. They have to be from a dream, one of those ones that replays in your head like a broken record all day.
When he goes to the library after work, he bypasses the books he usually spends time with and instead starts looking up some kind of guide for these symbols. Just in case, right? They might mean something. Ultimately, he doesn't find anything, but -- you know, so what? They're just silly symbols. He's pretty lucky if all he has to worry about in a day is what doodles mean.
Maybe he'll swing by the gym now; he could burn off some of that studying, right?
Day 4-5: October 27-28
The memories trickle in slowly, and Daniel's mostly just... confused. That can't be real. Maybe there are such things as angels and demons, but him as a prophet? Maybe this was what that dream the other day was about, those sigils; it's all a continuation of that dream. Except they feel too real; he knows they're memories. But if he accepts that they're real, then he'll have to accept that his high school teacher killed him. Sam Wesson killed him --
Or no. As the memories solidify, Daniel realizes a little too late that it wasn't Sam at all. It was his own father.
That is, if any of this is real, and why would he want to believe it is? He's dead. He dies. Is this what the afterlife is? Is Storybrooke some kind of disappointing Heaven?
Daniel skips out on work -- Tavish hadn't really tortured him, had he? -- and drifts around all day between various places around the town, drawn up in dark thoughts about dying and pain and torture and loss.