The Attached Meme

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The Attached Meme


Inspired by the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode of the same name.

• Comment with your character, specifying name, canon, and gen/shipping/smut preferences, and/or tag someone else.
  
• You and the other person now have two problems. One, you're aware of each other's surface thoughts regardless of either of your wishes, and two, if you try to distance yourselves from each other you're struck with nausea and vertigo until you manage to get close again.
  
• Optionally, roll for or choose details:
  
  1. You've been captured by some hostile force and had devices surgically implanted into the backs of your necks in order to facilitate interrogation. The mental link between you and dependency on proximity are just side-effects. Can you escape under these conditions?
     
  2. You've been cursed by a spellcaster or supernatural being who wants you to "learn a lesson". Whether that's a real lesson about each other made possible by forced openness and time spent together or just the lesson of "don't mess with me" is an open question, and figuring it out may be key to having the curse broken...
     
  3. One of you has suddenly awakened to latent paranormal powers, or your existing powers are suddenly misbehaving -- perhaps due to unforeseen interaction with the other person's abilities, if they have them. Maybe you could solve this, or at least the part about having to stay near each other, if you could only gain control over your power...
     
  4. You were both willingly part of a scientific experiment, whether one of your own design or something you both volunteered for, and this... was not the result you signed up for. The mental link may or may not have been a known goal, but the involuntary aspect and the inability to separate aren't things either of you expected. Can science undo what it has done?
     
  5. You both came into contact with an unknown substance, whether by accident or simply because of mutual curiosity, and this was the result. Now if you're going to be able to have privacy relative to each other again, you're going to have to figure out what it is and why it had the effect on you it did in order to find a way to counteract it.
     
  6. Your choice, or something new!
  
  
• Have fun!

Comments

[alwayshammered]

[ You did not die for me. I am no fool, Loki.

Hefting the artifact over one of his shoulders as if it weighed no more than a pound, Thor turned toward Banner, nodding once. His gaze swept up and down his form once more, this time not in search of injury but mere observation. ]

Yes. Be careful. We still do not know what this device might have done to us.

[ With that, he pushed off the ground and launched himself into the air, shooting in the direction of the lab. ]

[possiblymad]

[It took you this long to grow out of that childish gullibility? That wasn't necessarily meant to make it to Thor, but he wasn't going to worry if it did. It was the truth, after all. You--

Banner staggered as he watched Thor's form take off. It wasn't long, at that speed, that he felt his head swim with dizziness and nausea churned his stomach. He dropped to his hands and knees, the illusion flickering, but not yet breaking. It took everything he had left not to let it fall completely. Was this some violent side effect? Was it his new distance from the artifact? Or was it the sudden space between himself and Thor?]

[alwayshammered]

[ Thor himself was about a mile away when he was hit with the very same dizziness and nausea, and the next thing he knew he'd dropped out of the sky and was sprawled in the desert sand with the artifact thrown several feet away. Groaning, he squeezed his eyes shut tight, trying to fight of the vertigo suddenly assaulting his senses.

What's happening? Bruce... Loki. ]

[possiblymad]

[Loki groaned and dropped to his side in time to see thor fall from the sky. He pushed up with a struggle, beginning to run, with a swaying stagger, in the Asgardian's direction until he heard Thor's voice in his head again. He wasn't worried. But his pace did slow. If it was that easy to be rid of Thor, he wouldn't have made it as far as he did.

Good to see you aren't dead. Divided concentration in combination with the waves of nausea and vertigo continued to effect the illusion around him. He needed to make it back to the artifact-- It isn't the artifact. It's Thor. Had it been the artifact, Thor wouldn't have been struck as well.]

[alwayshammered]

[ The wave of vertigo seemed to ease some, enough that Thor opened his eyes and rolled onto his side in order to push himself to his hands and knees. He was distantly aware of Bruce running toward him. Was the man... flickering? No, that had to be part of whatever he was suffering from just then. Letting his head drop, he lifted one hand to press it to his forehead. He could still hear Loki.

It's not me. I have no control over... this, whatever this is. ]

[possiblymad]

[R-right, of course. Well, as soon as you figure it out, please do share. Because honestly? He isn't even sure he really understands it. What was the purpose of such a device? I can't make any sense of this new connection...

Meanwhile, he's still making his way to Thor across the expanse. Still trying to uphold his illusion. Still being a deceiver. He should have just left this device alone and let Thor handle it with his new little mortal friends, but curiosity had gotten the better of him, and now he was paying the price.

Why do you always make my life difficult? Oh wait, no, he's supposed to be dead. Even after it's expired! Will I never be free of you? Nailed it.]