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Entry tags:
- blue exorcist: yukio okumura,
- coco: héctor rivera,
- critical role: beauregard,
- critical role: kiri,
- dear evan hansen: connor murphy,
- final fantasy ix: zidane tribal,
- fragile dreams: ren,
- hyper light drifter: the drifter,
- marble hornets: tim wright,
- mass effect: legion,
- mushi-shi: ginko,
- october daye series: october daye,
- october daye series: quentin sollys,
- original: chip abaroa,
- original: erika fisher,
- osomatsu-san: ichimatsu matsuno,
- osomatsu-san: jyushimatsu matsuno,
- red vs. blue: agent washington,
- red vs. blue: leonard church (alpha),
- resident evil: albert wesker,
- the adventure zone: kravitz,
- the good place: michael,
- the league: jules dagger samari,
- voltron: keith kogane,
- voltron: takashi shirogane,
- ✖ good omens: aziraphale,
- ✖ good omens: crowley
January Undercurrent: Growing Pains
JANUARY UNDERCURRENT
Who: Everyone!
What: Hey bud, how's it growing?
When: January 3rd to January 20th
Where: Everywhere!
Warnings: This event has a potential for body horror and character death; please mark anything as it comes up!
What: Hey bud, how's it growing?
When: January 3rd to January 20th
Where: Everywhere!
Warnings: This event has a potential for body horror and character death; please mark anything as it comes up!
A Notion Growing Inside Me
Those of you who weren't with us the last time Umui entered the archipelago didn't have to contend with the lethal illness known as the Overgrowth personally, but anyone who remembers it probably doesn't remember it fondly. Fortunately, this isn't quite the same strain of the illness that you had to contend with the last time. It's not unrelentingly and uncompromisingly fatal, for one! That's always nice.
For those that need a primer on the Overgrowth, it is best described as a sickness that overcomes you with floral growth both inside and outside your body that can only be cured by expressions of emotional honesty. Expressions of truths, affections, and admissions of things that you have hidden from yourselves or from others were critical in dispensing of the illness. These could be as simple as admissions of past sins or the revealing of secrets, or as grandiose and overt as confessions of guilt or love. That general idea will remain more or less the key means of curing this strain as well, though the stakes fortunately aren't as high this go around! Which is to say, if you fail to have any grand emotional epiphanies by the time this event ends, you aren't doomed to suffer a character death; symptoms will simply dissipate come January 20th.
So what's this sickness going to be like in this particular instance, then? We're so glad you asked!
This strain is also rather more erratic, which can make emotional repression more of an inconvenience than a horrifying circumstance. For those who would rather not play around with intense sickness (or who have already endured this once before), you have the option to go that route if you like! With this variant of the Overgrowth, one can become, for example, so embarrassed that they hiccup up a flower. A vicious denial of their feelings may cause them to spontaneously erupt into a rash of dandelion puffballs, seemingly immediately. You might end up walking around with a bouquet for an arm for a few hours. Perhaps mortifying, but certainly not fatal! Isn't that nice?
Unless, of course, you want it to be...
Those of you who weren't with us the last time Umui entered the archipelago didn't have to contend with the lethal illness known as the Overgrowth personally, but anyone who remembers it probably doesn't remember it fondly. Fortunately, this isn't quite the same strain of the illness that you had to contend with the last time. It's not unrelentingly and uncompromisingly fatal, for one! That's always nice.
For those that need a primer on the Overgrowth, it is best described as a sickness that overcomes you with floral growth both inside and outside your body that can only be cured by expressions of emotional honesty. Expressions of truths, affections, and admissions of things that you have hidden from yourselves or from others were critical in dispensing of the illness. These could be as simple as admissions of past sins or the revealing of secrets, or as grandiose and overt as confessions of guilt or love. That general idea will remain more or less the key means of curing this strain as well, though the stakes fortunately aren't as high this go around! Which is to say, if you fail to have any grand emotional epiphanies by the time this event ends, you aren't doomed to suffer a character death; symptoms will simply dissipate come January 20th.
So what's this sickness going to be like in this particular instance, then? We're so glad you asked!
[ ♆ ] Stage One: Germination. Initial symptoms involve fever, coughing fits, numbness to nerves and extremities, and general joint stiffness. Difficulty breathing or performing other basic functions will often occur. Fatigue, difficulty sleeping, and intense weakness or dizzy spells are also liable to occur as the flowers begin to harvest nutrients from the body. This will also generate extreme thirst and periods of intense nausea. Tremors and the sensation of something "itching" from inside are also common. The end of Stage One is usually marked by the act of vomiting or coughing up flower petals or spores, along with a not-insignificant amount of blood.This was followed by Stage Three: Bloom, which resulted in character death. However, this strain will not advance to this style of Stage Three. All symptoms will disperse by the time Umui resurfaces.
[ ♆ ] Stage Two: Budding. The floral growths spread more completely inside the body, and begin to grow on the skin or exterior. Difficulty performing basic functions will increase as, for example, airways become obstructed and flowers grow around joints and pinch them still. The site of affliction also yields rashes, blisters, and blood sores as the flowers sprout from the skin. The rate of vomiting or coughing up floral growths will increase dramatically. Flowers often bloom quickly, and very painfully. Numbness in affected areas will increase, oftentimes rendering parts of the body completely inert - a pair of legs claimed completely by blooms, for example, will no longer work.
This strain is also rather more erratic, which can make emotional repression more of an inconvenience than a horrifying circumstance. For those who would rather not play around with intense sickness (or who have already endured this once before), you have the option to go that route if you like! With this variant of the Overgrowth, one can become, for example, so embarrassed that they hiccup up a flower. A vicious denial of their feelings may cause them to spontaneously erupt into a rash of dandelion puffballs, seemingly immediately. You might end up walking around with a bouquet for an arm for a few hours. Perhaps mortifying, but certainly not fatal! Isn't that nice?
Unless, of course, you want it to be...
I Can't Fight It Much Longer
Now, while the Bloom Stage isn't present in this strain, it has mutated its progression into a rather nasty end stage. Those of you who succumb a little too readily to this illness, who don't fight off the emotional repression quickly, who don't admit those difficult truths to yourself or confess to whatever you're bottling up, you'll be faced with a potentially horrifying transformation. Potentially, because it is your choice whether or not you see fit to commit your character to that fate - as stated above, this option might simply skip over your character entirely, and the worst they'll have to deal with are cartoonishly over-the-top effects that disperse in due time.
But maybe not all of you will be so lucky. Some of you might discover for yourselves how this particular variant of the Overgrowth has mutated.
We call this mutation Stage Three: Outbreak.
Now that the victim's body is no longer fighting the Overgrowth, the illness lends them increased speed, strength, and durability, making them dangerous foes indeed. They will usually seek to infect others by whatever means necessary - usually via biting or exuding breathable spores - but in some cases, they will simply reduce to base instincts, and just outright attempt to attack and kill whoever is closest.
Unfortunately, at this point, there is no hope of a cure; it's hard to make someone be emotionally honest when they're capable of little more than blunt, animal instinct. At this point, you can either wait for the Stage Three symptoms to disperse come Umui's return, or take manners into your own hands. You can probably guess what that might entail.
If you decide to put your Overgrown friends out of their misery, this will count as a character death. If it comes to that, be sure to let us know on the Deaths page! Death penalties, however, will not be reduced for this event.
Now, while the Bloom Stage isn't present in this strain, it has mutated its progression into a rather nasty end stage. Those of you who succumb a little too readily to this illness, who don't fight off the emotional repression quickly, who don't admit those difficult truths to yourself or confess to whatever you're bottling up, you'll be faced with a potentially horrifying transformation. Potentially, because it is your choice whether or not you see fit to commit your character to that fate - as stated above, this option might simply skip over your character entirely, and the worst they'll have to deal with are cartoonishly over-the-top effects that disperse in due time.
But maybe not all of you will be so lucky. Some of you might discover for yourselves how this particular variant of the Overgrowth has mutated.
We call this mutation Stage Three: Outbreak.
Now that the victim's body is no longer fighting the Overgrowth, the illness lends them increased speed, strength, and durability, making them dangerous foes indeed. They will usually seek to infect others by whatever means necessary - usually via biting or exuding breathable spores - but in some cases, they will simply reduce to base instincts, and just outright attempt to attack and kill whoever is closest.
Unfortunately, at this point, there is no hope of a cure; it's hard to make someone be emotionally honest when they're capable of little more than blunt, animal instinct. At this point, you can either wait for the Stage Three symptoms to disperse come Umui's return, or take manners into your own hands. You can probably guess what that might entail.
If you decide to put your Overgrown friends out of their misery, this will count as a character death. If it comes to that, be sure to let us know on the Deaths page! Death penalties, however, will not be reduced for this event.
Try to Get Through It
Of course, there's a lot going on in the background as well. You're free to use this log as a catch-all for the duration of January's Undercurrent Event, as well as any of the other minor events listed on our Monthly Rundown post. And, of course, you are always free to create your own individual logs and posts as needed.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them over on the Questions header on our Rundown post!
Of course, there's a lot going on in the background as well. You're free to use this log as a catch-all for the duration of January's Undercurrent Event, as well as any of the other minor events listed on our Monthly Rundown post. And, of course, you are always free to create your own individual logs and posts as needed.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them over on the Questions header on our Rundown post!
January TimelineLOGS ● OOC ● STORIES ●
MAIN NAVIGATION
[ ♆ ] January 1st: "This Sucks" begins and lasts until January 10th
[ ♆ ] January 3rd: "Growing Pains" begins and lasts until January 20th
[ ♆ ] January 11th: "No Water is Safe" begins and lasts until January 19th
[ ♆ ] January 20th: Umui returns to the archipelago
[ ♆ ] January 21st: "Impawsible Geometries" begins and lasts until January 31st
( CODED BY BOOTYCALL )
Welcome back! Cw: blood, body horror, near suicide mention, ptsd descriptions
His hand falls back to the ground.] What did you find?
Cw: blood, body horror, near suicide mention, ptsd descriptions
Hopefully it won’t get to him so much that he’ll collapse. The same with others. Zidane feels he really has to check up on a lot of people once this nightmare ends. But for now, he’ll answer Keith’s question.]
I’m not from Gaia. You know I talked about having been to another world before? Well, I didn’t tell you the whole story. Didn’t wanna kill the mood when we were trying to have fun.
Anyway, when we went to Terra, we found a bunch of guys who looked like me. But……..they behaved like zombies. Just walking around, working, doing nothing else. [And Zidane’s calm when he says this but a hint of anger can be heard on his voice.] It wasn’t that they couldn’t do anything else or show emotion. They just…….thought their only reason to exist was to be the bodies of some dead civilization! Just because that was the reason they were made in the first place.
[And they are learning differently, thank god. But well if he dwells on that he won’t get to the point he wanted to tell Keith.] I was a little different though. I was born for another reason. My purpose was……to help restore Terra. By helping kill everyone on Gaia.
[It’s strange. He wouldn’t have been this personal a couple of months ago. Sure, Keith isn’t the first one on the island who was told this info. However, Legion didn’t know about the sense of not belonging part.
However, he’s not there to make Keith feel sorry for him. What happened happened and it’s not as if his life’s that bad now. Well, not back home anyway.]……Like I said, I’m okay now. I mean, I guess I’d be lying if I didn’t say it wasn’t still crap but nobody tells me what to do. I have my own reasons to live. I had……..Dagger, Vivi and the others to help me realise that. [And he hesitates. This part is harder to talk about….] They came for me and…..even though I pushed them away……..didn’t think they would get it……that I couldn’t fight alongside them anymore because of what I was…..they didn’t budge. And….well….uh…[He turns a shade of pink. What they said….what Dagger said…..made him so happy. It’s still embarrassing.] ..I’m kind of glad…..they didn’t. Heh…….Really glad…..
Ugh, enough of all that. The point I’m trying to make is…………..well, not everyone belongs with others of their race. And that’s fine too. But either way, wherever you belong, no Galra or human’s gonna tell you. Doesn’t matter if you happen to be the same race. Only you get to decide that.
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Yeah, I get it. That's what I arrived at too. My place is where I decide it is. Right now that's as the leader of the Paladins and at Shiro's side. Where he goes, I go. Not out of loyalty, duty, or love.
I'm choosing to be there. As much as this place tears me up inside sometimes, I'm glad to be here with all of you. To meet all of you and learn about you.
It's an honor and a privilege, to fight by you and work with you. [Keith smiles just a bit.] And I will tell Shiro all the things I haven't told him. He's my fiance. But more than that, I want to tell him. Even if it scares me.