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Cuckoo Nest: The premise of the Cuckoo Nest plot is that a character is convinced that they are in an insane asylum (a Bedlam House is a popular choice), where they are told that the events of the series are actually hallucinations. -tvtropes

Post in with your character name, canon, etc., along with a brief description of how your character would end up committed and any diagnoses.

The Hospital

1. Your first time "waking up". How do you react to it? Firm denial? Or does it maybe make a little too much sense?

2. Time to meet your friends. Or are they? Are these really the people you know and love, or are they just the templates you used to imagine your friends?

3. Time to go exploring. That huge corporation that's been haunting your every move? Yeah, that's the cafeteria. Fortress of Solitude? Blanket fort. At least it's still pretty kickass.

4. Time to talk to your doctor! Maybe, between the two of you, you can work out a solution for your, er, problems.

5. Time to see your loved ones. Is someone dead in your reality but alive here? Maybe that person you've always had your eye on but never reciprocated is actually your spouse? Every Cuckoo Nest needs a Lotus-Eater Machine thrown in.

Reality(?)

6. Well, you're back. Everything's fine, right? But it's a little hard to shake that feeling that maybe this isn't quite.... real.

7. Your friends are starting to notice you're acting detached, weird. How are you going to explain this?

8. Maybe you should go do a little soul-searching, try to figure things out. No one will mind if you disappear from your responsibilities without explanation, right?

In-Between

9. You're starting to flash between realities now. Talking to friends, talking to your therapist... everything's starting to get muddled. How well are you keeping everything straight? Or are you at all?

10. It's now or never. You have to do something drastic to let go of this reality and make the leap to the really real one. How do you do it? And which one do you choose?

Comments

Abigail Hobbs | Hannibal

[relatable]

canon.

Lydia Martin | Teen Wolf

[nitwit]

[Post fugue state.]

River Tam | Firefly

[meddledwith]

[Her brain has been messed with. Not hard to roll with.]

Remus Lupin | HP

[moonillness]

Sansa Stark | A Song of Ice and Fire

[songsandstories]

[Not sure how she would end up there. Isn't violent, but likely to go one about royalty and nobles and her dead family. For later canon stuff, we can use multiple personalities as a way to explain Sansa/ Alayne.]

theon greyjoy | asoiaf

[inirons]

Bryce Banner | AU!MCU | OTA.

[incrediblebanner]

Bryce Banner. Self-committed 5 years ago after claiming to have blacked out and blindly attacked several unknowns in her path. Suicidal depression, PTSD stemming from childhood trauma, dissociative identity disorder. Claims to turn into a monster she calls "the Hulk" when angry.

Aang | Avatar: The Last Airbender | OTA

[actually112]

[Aang Chodentsang was the child of Tibetan immigrants, and he lived in a small neighborhood comprised almost entirely of other Tibetans. He was happy and was able to easily balance the culture of his parents' country and the culture of his own country, and he was happy. Then racist arsonists attacked, and the entire neighborhood burned to the ground while Aang was sleeping over at a friend's house.

He was institutionalized after insisting at school that he was the Avatar and he was trapped in the spirit world. He has since been diagnosed with depression, as he will go through periods where he curls up in his bed and does nothing, and then others where he plays along with whatever the doctors say--except whenever someone tries to give him medication, which he always refuses.]

Speedy/Roy Harper | Teen Titans | OTA

[notrobindmt]

[Not too much of a stretch, given his past.]

Hatake Kakashi (ANBU-age) | Naruto | OTA

[freshscars]

[He's convinced the hospital is a genjutsu and is constantly trying to get out. As such, he often ends up confined, either to his room or when he's being particularly resourceful, to a chair or bed. He's considered delusional. In the hospital world, the sharingan becomes an unseeing glass eye.]

Scorpius Malfoy | Harry Potter | OTA for gen, M/M for smut/romance

[unyieldingebony]

[Diagnosed with co-current depression and anxiety, along with his delusions of living in a world with magic.]

Erica Reyes | Teen Wolf | OTA

[beautifuleverything]

Steve Rogers | MCU | OTA

[imperfectsoldier]

Claudia Donovan | Warehouse 13 | OTA

[strippernameserendipity]

[As is canon, she checked herself in after beginning to have hallucinations of her dead brother being trapped in a bubble of spacetime because of a teleportation accident involving a centuries-old compass, and a man named "Artie" who swore he'd take care of them and vanished into working at what she claims is a supersecret government facility that stores mystical artifacts that do things known as Warehouse 13. Can sometimes be violent, paranoid, and obsessive about these things.]

Billy Kaplan | Marvel

[noassgardian]

[Delusional. He thinks not only that he is a superhero who can control magic, but that his boyfriend is an alien shapeshifter. He has known violence in his past, including attacking what he claimed to be an interdimensional parasite called Mother. Has a history of depression and suicidal ideation as well.

Any options would be interesting to play out!]

[supersoldiered]

[Not all of the inmates here were willing to stay trapped in their fantasies forever. When things started getting bad -- people dying kind of bad -- Eli had done his best to recover.

But that didn't mean he couldn't miss his friends. He'd liked them enough to try playing superheroes with them once. So why give up on them now?

It was lunchtime, and Eli took a chance by sitting across the table from Billy. Maybe this would be a good day for him.]

Hey.... B? You doing okay today?

fellow inmate, starting 2/3ish

[realitywarped]

[This place, whatever it is, is cold and sterile and full of lies, and he would know. They keep trying to tell him his name is Luke, but Loki knows perfectly well what his name is, thank you very much. They also keep trying to tell him he's psychotic, which he isn't. Not any more, at least, that Loki died and they should know that. Still, he's the master of lies, so he smiles, and answers to Luke and tries very hard to nod in all the right places when the "psychiatrist" speaks to him anyway. Far easier, in the long run, if they think him cowed and cured and harmless.

Unfortunately, he's not good at cowed and harmless, and here all his schemes seem to fall apart. He's forever making just the tiniest comment or suggestion to another inmate, and then they do something ludicrous and somehow it always ends up being his fault. And claiming it's because he's the God of Mischief usually gets him extra time away from the other inmates for being unable to play nice, extra therapy sessions, and occasionally new and interesting drug combinations.

He's just finished another period of isolation, in the slightly foggy mental state that follows them upping the dose on whatever they have him on now, when he spots Billy, and he can't resist saying hello. He's not supposed to, something about folie à deux, but no-one's watching right now so it can't hurt, surely. He saunters over, a little more carefully than usual thanks to that foggy feeling, and smiles.]

Hello again, master Kaplan. And how are things with you today?

[It's a very cautious question, just in case Billy's gone and gotten himself... "cured"]

Castiel | Supernatural

[unwary]

[Involuntarily committed. He has religious ideation and claims to be an angel of the Lord, responsible for the fall of all of his siblings from Heaven. He claims to know hunters by the names of Sam and Dean Winchester, both he claims to have rescued from Hell.

Any options are fine.]

[moriarty_was_real]

"What's your story?"

The stranger walked into the art therapy room, businesslike and a bit abrupt, with a bizarre mellifluous accent. His pristine starched white lab coat was unbuttoned and long enough that it nearly reached his ankles, and underneath it he wore an expensive suit and tie. Tossing his clipboard aside with a clatter onto one of the gouged and marker-stained tables, he turned an ugly orange plastic chair around so he could sit in it, facing his patient, finally making eye contact.

"Well? Go on, then."

Jesus Christ -- Jesus Christ Superstar

[forallyoucare]

(Simple. He thinks he's God.)

[idreadbetrayingyou]

Fuck, does he want a fag, bad. How, out of everything, is that the thing he wants the most? Not even his fucking freedom. Just a fag he can smoke slow and taste it for a while and ride the high because they forced him to go cold turkey.

So instead Judas stares out the window of the common room when the new guy comes through, watching him vaguely. Good looking guy, looks healthy, clean... What's up with him?

He shrugs slightly and stretches out. That first view had been two, three days ago. Maybe. Days tend to blur together in here. But the window is a tiny place to watch the world outside, through a lot of bars and walls. At least the sun hits him, and it's easier to feel the warmth than deal with his problems or the still healing bruises around his throat.

Victor Talbot | Baccano!

[federalbureauofimmortals]

[An immortal alchemist who worked as an FBI agent since its start and keeps tabs on other immortals.

Oh, and he blames an immortal, alchemist, terrorist named Huey Laforet for this.]

Kid Loki | Marvel-616 (JiM) | OTA

[notaswicked]

[Self-committed with claims of delusions and hallucinations. Further examination revealed the beginnings of dissociation. Delusions and loosened grips on reality tend to occur especially just before and after sleeping. Magpies tend to play a frequent part in hallucinations, including one where he periodically forgets himself and starts talking to it.

Given the state of him at the time, it is thought that he initially made the decision to check in just for the chance of regular food and a roof over his head. Mentions of family tend to provoke extreme reactions of fear.]

[thevoluminous]

[Would you like a Volstagg? I was thinking as a visitor or a member of the staff that gets along with Loki, but a patient could work as as well if that would be easier.]

Tony Stark - Armored Adventures - OTA

[teen_in_iron]

[Committed - Obadiah Stane had Tony committed shortly after his fathers death for “fear of self harm” and other problems that came after the emergency open heart surgery. It’s to keep Tony on a short leash for the most part. To keep him from meddling in his affairs.

Diagnosis:
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Delusions
Narcissism]

I'm going to assume a Stark still helped with the procedure

[still_a_gerbil]

[Steve isn't sure what help he can be. He's not trained in psychiatry even if he'd been to enough therapists since he'd been found that he felt like he should be awarded a degree of some kind. If anything, his visit will probably hurt Tony more than it will help but when he heard what had happened to the Starks, he had to do something. Erskine hadn't been the only one who'd believed in him enough to make sure that the procedure worked.

SHIELD had helped make sure that Steve's visit wouldn't be reported to Stane and had reassured the doctors that he was a friend that should be allowed to see Tony. That knowledge doesn't make the situation any less awkward. Letting out a sigh, he waits for Tony to be escorted to the room that the doctors had set aside for their visit, hoping that the meeting goes better than he's anticipating.]

erwin smith | shingeki no kyojin

[mortales]

[flugel]

[ it figures, that the one man that levi'd never been able to kill would be the one coming back with a missing arm.

he'd heard the news from hange, first: "at least he's not dead, right?", she'd said, morbidly optimistic as usual. placid, levi'd given her a once-over, trying to gauge her reaction, before turning away and going in the opposite direction of the infirmary.

(he'd ignored the way her voice shook just slightly, the tension in her shoulders, because that'd been the best anyone could have hoped for— at the very least, erwin didn't come back as just an arm. levi would have had more reason to be more emotive, if that'd been the case.)

a few days later, and his preliminary meeting with erwin and the others is almost exasperating in how normal erwin seems to be: shrewd, quick, unnerving. the same erwin smith, utilitarian extraordinaire. levi is almost relieved, really, if admitting that didn't seem like a losing battle.

he sticks around after the others leave, ignoring a halfhearted warning from hange that erwin needs his rest, and settles back in his chair, fixing his usual blithe gaze at his 'commanding officer'. ]

You look like shit.

[ leave it to levi to not be able to be delicate about anything. ]

How are you gonna be able to wipe your ass, with one arm?