Apocalypse Meme

[wasjustlucky]

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. 

Comments

[markofthewise]

[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?

[unstable]

I am the only person in this city, perhaps one of the handful in this entire country. What do you think? [ Why else can't she bring herself to leave you be? ]

[markofthewise]

[So she gets it.] You're the first I've seen in a long time.

[unstable]

[ ... She's quiet for a moment, a long moment, as she tries to get over any of the residual anger she had for Sokka. After all, he was right-- the Avatar was his friend. But it wasn't his fault, Sokka didn't destroy most of the planet.

And she didn't like being alone. That was her only reasoning for all of this. ]

Are you hungry for more than that squash?

[markofthewise]

[Her people started the war. They did the same thing to Aang's people as he did to her's. And possibly the rest of the world.

But that wasn't all her. And he didn't like being alone.]

Uh. Sure. What else do you have?

[unstable]

[ Why was she doing this? The princess makes a face before turning and actually walking this time. ]

Come on.

[ Guess she's sharing tonight's dinner. ]

[markofthewise]

[Well. That's specific. He's following, though.]

So... where do you live?

[unstable]

I found a one story house that survived through most of the wreckage. It works for what I need it for.

[ Basically: it's not a palace but I deal with it. ]

[markofthewise]

Sounds cozy.

[And frankly, it's better than anything he's ever lived in, save for brief stint in Ba Sing Se.]

[unstable]

It is, considering I've been able to search almost the entire country for things to stuff inside it.

[ Though she won't admit things for her little house is not what she was looking for when she searched the entire country. ]

I was able to save some things from the wreckage of the Palace, as well. I have a giant bed covered in polar bear dog furs, it's wonderful.

[markofthewise]

[He's not sure if she's saying that to get under his skin or not. Because he doesn't actually care about polar bear dogs that much. Except for the bit where he has no idea why. And it vaguely sounds like he's being propositioned.]

Where would you get those?

[unstable]

[ It's definitely not a comment meant to get under his skin definitely not a proposition, she just... was really proud of her find, okay? It's been a while since she could brag. To anyone. And Sokka doesn't even care. ]

When I went out rummaging a few weeks back I opened a few chests that were stuffed with various furs. I have most of them stored elsewhere but those were too beautiful not to pull out. Unnecessary luxuries of a princess, I suppose.

[markofthewise]

[He's honestly more impressed someone even has them, when it comes down to it.]

Yeah? Well, most hunters avoid them. Even the best benders and warriors get ripped apart going against those things. Whoever made those furs must've been some hunter.

[unstable]

Or they just paid a hunter. That is a more likely story around here.

[ She pushes open the door to her home when they arrive (what use is a lock when you're the only inhabitant of a city?), disappearing into a room in the back. ]

Just make yourself comfortable-- dinner will be done in half an hour.

[markofthewise]

[A house. A real house. Stepping in, he finds himself amazed to see how... much of a home it is. Azula really had been working hard on it, hadn't she? But it was weird. She was his former enemy. And now he was going to make himself comfortable while waiting to be fed?

Uh. Better to watch her.]

How about I help? I'm pretty good with that.

[unstable]

I don't need help.

[ Though honestly she wanted him away from the kitchen so he didn't see her hacking away at the giant slab of meat on the counter. Azula with a giant knife? Totally not the best sight in the world.

As she cuts off bits, she puts it into a giant pot filled with water and throws all of her various vegetables in with it. ]

I've been making meals by myself for a while now.

[markofthewise]

So have I. Come on. It's the least I can do, right? It's not like I'm offering anything in return.

[When he follows her inside, he does get to see her hacking away at the meat. As a cultural expert on meat, he definitely could help her improve on that.]

[unstable]

[ It's too late she already cut enough for the both of them. Maybe next time, Sokka. You'll definitely get to show her how to properly handle meat. ]

Do you realistically think I can eat all of this by myself before it spoils? You're doing me a favor.

[ The princess sets both hands on the side of the pot and uses her awesome firebending skills to boil the water. ]

[markofthewise]

If you say so. Do you throw out a lot of food, then?

[Because that's just wasteful. Even in a world like this.]

[unstable]

I feed some of the wildlife to keep it close for hunting purposes, and the rest I bury and mix in to more soil. Basically this entire city can be made into a giant garden if I want it too. [ More tricks she learned from those earth benders. ] Normally I only make enough for myself, but with meat you cannot really do that.

[markofthewise]

Well, there are ways, if you know how to preserve it. It's easier in the ice, but it's doable.

[Practical Water Tribe knowledge. Indispensable in a world devoid of society.]

[unstable]

I've tried and it never works very well. Nobody taught me and I'm not exactly an expert on survival techniques.

[markofthewise]

Well. I guess you could say I am. You don't exactly grow up in the South Pole without learning how.

[So. He looks away, scratching at the back of his neck awkwardly.]

If you want, I could stick around for awhile. Teach you what I know.

[unstable]

Could stick around.

[ The princess mumbles the words to herself, focusing more on the pot in front of her than him. She hadn't allowed anyone to stay in the city, no one belonged here but her. And Sokka of all people? ]

I do not trust you. I'm still waiting for you to come at me and kill me at any moment.

[markofthewise]

[He shrugged, leaning against the wall. He was still armed to the tooth. Sword, boomerang, and various weapons were strapped to him. But Azula he knew didn't need to wear any weapons. She was deadlier than he was with just her fingertips.]

Well, I don't really trust you either. I might do that just so I can sleep soundly tonight.