bakerstreet | Open on a Bombshell

Just this once, your life is a soap opera. It doesn't matter how it came to this, but you have a secret you must reveal. Is it something serious you just couldn't get your character to say otherwise? Or do you just want to insert some good ol' soap opera cliffhanger into your roleplay? ("I've never told you this before, but I have an evil twin who's in a coma. And has amnesia. AND PREGNANT.")

Below are some suggestions to get you started if you can't think of anything, that can be personalized or ignored, as wished. ( Note: due to the DRAMATIC nature of this meme, some reveals may include triggers.)

1. "I'm pregnant."
2. "You're pregnant."
3. "I'm not ________. I'm her/his evil twin."
4. "I'm dying."
5. "I have amnesia."
6. "None of this is real."
7. "I'm cheating on you."
8. "I love you."
9. "I hate you."
10. "I like Ike."
11. "I'm married to someone else."
12. "I have a son/daughter you don't know about."
13. "I'm an alien, and I've come to take over your planet."
14. "I will hunt you down and make sure you pay for _______."
15. "I'm not who you think I am."
16. "If you don't love me, then I'll make you love me."
17. "I know how many licks it would take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop."
18. "They're after me."
19. "You're dying."
20. "We're already dead."

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...I wonder... just how much you must have loved her, then.

[Thank goodness Pandora ~~is super cray cray~~ doesn't have to worry about things like that happening with her brother. Not that anyone could come close to killing them.]

[That's...a response he should have expected, honestly, and something he's asked himself many times. Unfortunately, it never stings any less.

He swallows, closing his eyes as he speaks next.]

I loved her...very much. She was my constant support, and was there for me through everything. She was my older sister, and my twin. How could I not love her? [And yet...

His eyes open, though still stubbornly directed at the floor and not the person(?) in front of him.]

She was the one who most... [er] --encouraged my feelings in the first place. I...don't think she'd be mad at me. For still loving him.

[He'd hoped, and continued to hope, but in the end he had to admit that even her feelings wouldn't change how he felt now. He knew himself, and knew his Wish. That was all that mattered.

'I'm sorry, nee-san...']

...It sounds... unlikely.

That the both of you would favour your bond with her murderer... over the one between yourselves... it's foolish thinking, is it not...?

[As advanced a machine she may be, Pandora's face never changes. If she could portray much emotion besides the blank, doll-like stare, it's unsure what it might be-- amusement? Rage? Sadness? She left that sort of thing to Prometheus. He expressed enough for the both of them.

For someone whose sibling is their other half, what this boy is saying is unthinkable.]

It is. [Which was why he preferred to keep these feelings to himself. He didn't expect others to understand. He knew they wouldn't. How could they, when he barely did? And while he was perfectly accepting of that, he wasn't a confrontational person, and much preferred to avoid the...awkward responses that would follow.

Responses like this.

He takes a breath, tucking his hands into his coat pockets. Perhaps a change of subject?]

Pardon my asking but...you're not human, are you? [Being the head of Japan's leading spiritualist family gave him enough ability to sense that much, even if her appearance might not completely indicate it.]

You are aware, then...

[She'd be surprised, if she could still feel it. Too used to people screaming denial and pain back at her... for good reason, of course, but to see one submit so easily is a little out of the ordinary after years of the same trend.

No matter, though.]

No... I am a Reploid. Similar in mental capabilities to a human... but otherwise... quite different.

[Honestly, she doesn't look too far from human-- heavily armoured, yes, but very little else gives away the fact that she was built as opposed to born. Her mind however... that's probably beyond human or robot description by now, unless one wanted to go very literally by the word 'broken'.]

I see. [~~Not really.~~ His expression is somewhat apologetic.] Technology is...not something I'm well acquainted with, I'll confess.

[A 'Reploid' certainly isn't something he's heard of, but it wouldn't be...too far off for him to assume robot-like, right? He can run circles around the spiritual realm, but when it comes to technology he' not that knowledgeable about it beyond what he uses in daily life.

In the late 90s.]

Are there many like you?

[...WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF TOMORROW!]

...Many Reploids, yes.

There is only... one other like me.

[A world he may not get to see since last he knew they were in the middle of, well, the apocalypse. More or less. Yay!]

Is there something that makes you different?

[He's not usually this inclined to converse, but she appears to be so young, and if anything he's weak to children.

Though to be fair, it's more or less impossible for him to be overtly rude to anyone.]

[Hey, knock on wood, right? Her world's survived a couple of those situations, for better or worse, and now they've got crazy teleportation technoloy and almost-human robots and psuedo-magical-boys-and-girls running around...]

...We live forever, and yet our time is very limited... we are unable to break free from the forms we were given... our destined lives, unlike the others... were never meant to be joyful ones, not even for a moment. Thus... we are different from the rest.

[While others may have spoken sadly of such a fate, Pandora just seems to be dully stating facts. She's not really one for conversation either-- again, leaving it to Prometheus, but those situations usually lead to the other participant with a scythe stuck in their gut more often than not. This is different. If she still had the capacity to care, she might have said she liked this...]

Open on a Bombshell

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yowch

that's what she's here for ♥

hit him right in what he's most insecure about why don't you

CRY SOME MORE no really she's after all that anguish

well good because if this boy had a middle name it would be 'angst'

he's gonna be her new favourite person. besides brother dearest

Please, I love this boy, feel free to bug him~ Though I admit I'm...totally canon blind on her.

yeee~ and Megaman's gotten pretty obscure over the years, it's cool! ;v;/