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Stephanie Butler {Walking Dead OC} ([personal profile] wasjustlucky) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2012-06-12 08:57 pm

Apocalypse Meme

Taken from here

 


Welp. However it happened there goes the neighborhood. And the world. Drat it.

Time to survive! Good thing you've got that one other person there at your side to do it with.

Step 1: Post your character name and canon, plus any apocalyptic preferences you have (or things you'd rather not do, like...strange...things you'd rather not do.)
Step 2: Someone else tags your character and rolls up a setting. Optionally they could roll up a relationship role, too, if they haven't already got one in mind.
Step 3: GO FORTH AND SURVIVE! YOU CAN DO IT! 
 
1 Zombies ate our neighbors - It finally happened, the zombies came shuffling to war and ate everyone. Now it's just you and...you and maybe a small group of yous surviving. Are you safe somewhere? Are you holed up fighting them? Are you looking for the cure? Surviving as long as you can? Or have you finally stopped the invasion and now it's time to rebuild?

2 Robots enslaved our neighbors - I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN! Someone made an AI that finally got offended by all the porn it was forced to filter through and decided humans were good for one thing: target practice. Or, possibly, slaves to work for it, or even slaves to 'protect' them. Whatever the reason, the population is miniature, life sucks, and the only good machine is a broken machine. Are you workers looking for a way to survive or escape? Are you the resistance, fighting the good fight? Are you staging a coup and nearly complete? HAS JOHN CONNOR FINALLY SUCCEEDED?

3 A giant...cosmic obliterated our neighbors - What do you know, it really wasn't a speck on the telescope, and exploding the meteor may have just made it worse. Or the high solar flare activityreally was indicative of something horrible. HOW did that black HOLE get near enough to wreck havoc on the planet yet conveniently leave it passably livable on? Are you lucky enough to have won one of those lotteries for a shelter that actually survived and are hiding out? Did running for the hills really work? Is it time to regroup and rebuild? Have you already started? ...Where did the moon go?

4 World War III wiped out our neighbors - Someone finally fell asleep on the big red button that must never be pushed and rained fiery death on the world. There...may have been politics involved, it's all a bit fuzzy now. But the fighting has finally stopped only because there's no one left to hold the weapons any longer. Humanity is left in pockets which were too small and out of the way to bother to blow up. How are your supplies? Is everyone around you friendly, or are you on a border? Are there borders left? Has it been ages now and you've settled in and started up a new life?

5 Aliens got our neighbors - Oh snap they were RIGHT, the truth really WAS out there. And now it's come to Earth for resources or slaves or a quick snack or a woefully inadequate challenge. There's only a few of you left now, are you alien slaves? Cattle? Are you hiding out in tiny groups waiting until they get bored with the planet and leave? Are you rallying to drive them out--or lead a suicide charge? Have they been repelled or buggered off on their own now and it's time to rebuild with some added alien tech?

6 Natural disasters swept away our neighbors - Oh man, there goes the North Pole. Something has gone wrong, maybe volcanoes have decided people ignore them too much in horror movies lately, maybe the Earth's decided to give the macarana a try and pulled a few things along the way. A few gigantic fissures enveloping most of humanity. Is the disaster ongoing? Will it ever end? Has everything calmed down now (has it?)? Did you get to safety or just weather it out? What do now? Who managed to survive all that?

7 Disease killed our neighbors - No not the RED PILL! After all that effort keeping people away from the vial marked 'zombies' someone went and spilled 'eerily specific contagion'! This super virus has annihilated most of humanity through one way or another, perhaps by transmorphing them into horrible monsters, or perhaps by turning them into goo. Maybe only certain types of people or certain ages went down, but the point is, they're down. Did you make it to a safe area? Is everyone really clean here? Are there plans being made to release an antigen to the people? Or is there no hope for it and you'll have to make do with your life inside a sterile and safe place forever, or possibly go and make friends with the new, hungry locals?

8 Culture collapsed on our neighbors - It was bound to happen eventually. Someone finally did something dumb enough to get culture to implode on itself. Or more likely, something atrocious happened which may or may not have involved a creepily detailed plan by an ambitious governmental official with a beard that happened to land the position of Supreme Director Highness of the World when it's all said and done. Is all of culture completely annihilated now? Or are you trapped in a freakishly totalitarian world where no one really quite realizes how little freedom they have left, because freaky striped beard highness is keeping them safe from a long dead threat? Do you realize it? Do you have a plan to show the world, or are you just trying to survive and find some semblance of your old freedoms in your daily life?

9 The Earth exploded our neighbors - Well, snap. Something actually happened so terrible there IS NO EARTH left. Not enough to survive anyway. Probably. Assuming you haven't been blatantly lied to. Anyway, now you're in space on a shuttle or a space station. Possibly with just one other person or a handful, or maybe even a group of similar survivors. There may not be atmosphere, but there's air, and there may not be day and night, but you get a spectacular view of stars and the sun at any time of the day...and if you're lucky, maybe the moon. Are you still shell-shocked? Is this normal for you now? Are there plans to return to Earth? Or might there be a nefarious plot behind all of this that you just might be accidentally stumbling upon?

10 Guys WHERE ARE OUR NEIGHBORS? - WAIT WHERE DID EVERYONE GO? NO SERIOUSLY, I HAVE NO IDEA. So pick a scenario or make something up.


Optionally

1 - Uncanny allies: You never would have ended up working together before, but now there's not much choice, so maybe it isn't so bad.
2 - The last two on Earth: So when you said "I wouldn't date you if you were the last person on Earth" you were kidding, right? Babies? Survival of the species? Yes? ....No...?
3 - Old enemies: You hate each other, but problems are bigger than who stole your girlfriend and who drowned your cat or accidentally murdered the love of your life. There's the entire species and your own survival to think about. Maybe you should shelve trying to kill each other? Maybe?
4 - Star crossed lovers: It'd figure the only time we'd meet is at the end of the world, we're just too perfect for each other for the world to let it happen any other way.
5 - Makeshift family: Everyone's family is probably dead, everyone's friends are gone, all you've got is each other. Maybe you're not so bad, chum. I'm gonna call you sis from now on, okay?
6 - Suddenly equal: Maybe one of you were boss, maybe one of you haappppenned to be in handcuffs when the world inconveniently exploded or something, maybe one of you were royalty of some sort but that's all irrelevant now, and you're going to have to work and live as equals now if you expect to survive. Deal with it.
7 - Ex-friends/lovers: Once upon a time you guys were inseparable. Someone made fun of a lost button, someone else might have cheated, and the two of you just kind of drifted apart. Now you're inseparable again, because there's nowhere else to go. Can you maybe get over your squabbling now and see that the person you cared about is still there underneath the bickering?
8 - Two...people...who have met: Figure it out, mix up one of the above or something. 
markofthewise: (I see you)

[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-06-19 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Revenge is all some people have left.

[She wouldn't be the first person he ran into that just wanted him dead because of his association with the Avatar.]
unstable: (013)

[personal profile] unstable 2012-06-19 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
It's not what I have left. I've killed a lot of people, I've went through a lot of revenge. I'm trying something a little different with my life at this point. [ Yeah, gardening and fending for herself. Real A+ work right there. ] What are you doing?
markofthewise: (That's rough)

[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-06-19 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
... I don't know. [Looking. Just looking.] There's no boats off this island. I don't even know if there's anything left in the South Pole.

[Part of him hasn't looked too hard. Because the thought that maybe someone back home is still alive is what keeps him going.]
unstable: (001)

[personal profile] unstable 2012-06-19 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
You thought you would come here before you would venture off to the South Pole? [ Azula made a face before she turns to go. ] I would go start making yourself a boat then. There's nothing here that you want.
markofthewise: (Keeping it serious)

[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-06-19 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[... she's leaving. Normally, he'd be relieved. But after everything that's happened...]

Wait.
unstable: (Default)

[personal profile] unstable 2012-06-19 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ Her feet stop moving, her head turning so amber eyes can peer over at him. ] Yes?
markofthewise: (Seriously?)

[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-06-19 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
[He's not even sure why he stopped her. She's his enemy. He should hate her.

But she's all that's left.]


What are you going to do?
unstable: (Default)

[personal profile] unstable 2012-06-19 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
I killed a boarcupine this morning. Fauna has seemed to survive better than our population has, it seems. I figured the meat would do nicely in a nice stew. [ She shakes her little makeshift bag of peppers. ] Which is what I was coming here to get the last ingredients for until you interrupted me.
markofthewise: (Looking away)

[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-06-19 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
I don't mean today.

[Though he's impressed. He never figured the princess to be a capable hunter. But then, he supposes circumstances has left her no choice.]
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[personal profile] unstable 2012-06-19 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
I'm a displaced Fire Princess who has just recently had to learn to fend for herself. I have no allies, I have no enemies. I just exist. I don't know what I am going to do.

[ Is it better or worse that she's telling the complete truth? ]
markofthewise: (Couldn't care less)

[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-06-19 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[When someone like Azula can admit that, it really sinks in just how pointless everything is. There's nothing left. Nothing except...]

It looks like you've started something. [He holds up the remainder of the squash.]
unstable: (Default)

[personal profile] unstable 2012-06-19 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
There was a small group of Earthbenders looking for their family that came by a few months ago. They weren't very fond of me, but they alerted me that the soil in the Fire Nation is now rich with nutrients and perfect for gardening. They taught me a few things before I left. [ She frowns. ] If we weren't in this situation, they would have tried to kill me. Maybe not killing you is me trying to pay back the kindness.
markofthewise: (Eh?)

[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-06-19 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
So now you're starting over.

[It's admirable, in a way. She was doing more than he had been.]
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[personal profile] unstable 2012-06-19 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never given up before, I'm not about to start now.
markofthewise: (Couldn't care less)

[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-06-19 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a quiet hum as he acknowledges that. He's thinking hard. Trying to decide what to do.]

Maybe I should be doing the same thing.
unstable: (013)

[personal profile] unstable 2012-06-20 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, well, enjoy finding your boat and leaving the Fire Nation, then. [ Not that she really cares. She's going to try and leave again
watch as she takes a step forward........... She just knows he's going to say something to her but she can't just run away. ]
markofthewise: (So determined)

[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-06-20 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[He has too much pride to stay. And too much lingering resentment to want to. So. Maybe he should just do what she says. Find that boat. Go home. See what's there.]

Yeah. I'll do that.
unstable: (Default)

[personal profile] unstable 2012-06-20 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
They've probably all been taken, destroyed or cannot be used by you alone so... [ A shrug of her shoulders as she starts to walk. ]
markofthewise: (Distant Horizons)

[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-06-21 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Is she trying to talk him out of it?]

I've built boats before.

[But sailing in one on his lonesome for so far a distance was suicide.]
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[personal profile] unstable 2012-06-21 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Boats that would make it all the way to the South Pole from the Fire Nation? Ha.

[ Why is she still talking to him? She should be done with him!! ]
markofthewise: (I see you)

[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-06-21 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
They made it here, didn't they?

[During the Invasion, anyway. When eveyrthing ended.]
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[personal profile] unstable 2012-06-22 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
And when you get there? My nation was pretty prosperous and could hold its own, I could only imagine the South Pole did not fare very well during the Avatar's tantrum.
markofthewise: (I see you)

[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-06-22 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
... don't say that.

[He needs his home to be there. Even if he never sees it again. He needs that hope.]
unstable: (013)

[personal profile] unstable 2012-06-22 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
I'm being honest and you know it. [ She spins on her heel, setting her bag of peppers on the ground. Because clearly she isn't going anywhere. ]
markofthewise: (Space Sword time)

[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-06-22 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Neither of them are. There's more than just words keeping him here. It's familiarity. A face he knows. Perhaps the only person left in the world he knows from before it all changed.]

I need it to be there. Don't you get lonely like this?

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