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gameofsocks ([personal profile] gameofsocks) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2015-11-29 08:25 pm

insomnia;

the i n s o m n i a meme


It happens to everyone - sometimes, you have nights where you just can't fall asleep, no matter what you do. It could be for a number of reasons, or no reason at all. And this is what's happened now: you've been laying in bed for what feels like hours, just tossing and turning, and nothing seems to help. So what's left to do? Get out of bed and go wake someone else up, of course. If you're not getting any sleep, then why should they?


i n s t r u c t i o n s

• Post with your character (note the name and fandom in the subject).
• Other people reply to you by generating a number from 1 to 10.
• Have fun!


o p t i o n s

01 • FEAR. Maybe you're hearing strange, indeterminable noises; maybe there's a severe storm happening outside; maybe you watched a scary movie before bed? Whatever the reason, you're terrified and it's keeping you awake. You just want to wake someone else up so they can protect you from the monster in your closet.
02 • HUNGER. Your stomach is growling and it just won't stop. Or perhaps your throat is so dry you could cough up a tumbleweed? Well, you've gone to the kitchen to remedy this and hey, that was a pan that just dropped on the floor. It was loud enough to wake the dead! Oops.
03 • PAIN. Your body is completely worn out, be it from exercise, battle, sickness, or what have you. Either way you're in enough pain to keep you from sleeping, so maybe someone else has a home remedy or something, or can at least help you take your mind off of it.
04 • SOLITUDE. For some reason, your bed just feels so empty at the moment. You're feeling terribly lonely and really just want someone to keep you company for a while. Maybe it'd be easier to fall asleep if you're with them...
05 • DISCOMFORT. Your room is an oven. Either that or a freezer. Or maybe this bed is just really uncomfortable? Who knows why you can't get to sleep, it feels like it could be anything. Why even bother trying? Maybe someone else can preoccupy you until you feel tired enough to ignore your discomfort.
06 • PENSIVE. Something's on your mind, and no matter how hard you try to focus elsewhere, it's just not going to work. Your body may be tired, but your mind is incredibly busy and it's virtually impossible to get to sleep. Surely, talking it out with someone else will help?
07 • SADNESS. Something terrible has happened that day, perhaps; or you could just be severely depressed. Either way you're trying your hardest not to cry yourself to sleep, and it's not working at all. Better find a way to get it out of your system somehow; you need a shoulder to cry on.
08 • ANGER. You are just... fuming. Who knows why - that annoying dog is barking again, or maybe the people next door are getting busy and keeping you awake. Whatever the reason for your ire is, you'd better put an end to it so you can get some damn rest already! Go wake up a friend so you can complain to them.
09 • RESTLESS. You're far too energetic to sleep right now. Maybe you're just trying to do so out of necessity - you have to be up early tomorrow! But you just don't think you'll be able to fall asleep for a while now, so why waste the time trying to sleep when you could be doing something else? Namely bothering someone else - you're totally jealous because they're getting more sleep than you.
10 • WILDCARD. Choose one of the options above, or make up your own scenario.


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Captain Jack Harkness | Doctor Who/Torchwood | OTA

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redarrowqueen: (6)

Re: Captain Jack Harkness | Doctor Who/Torchwood | OTA

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(Want an emotionally very frayed archer? She's canon through the end of season 3 so skipping the bloodlust in favor of mental/emotional fallout.)
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Max Caulfield | Life is Strange

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Saber ♔ Fate/Stay Night

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Winn Schott | Supergirl

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Shepherd Book | Firefly | OTA

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[personal profile] x_terminate 2015-11-29 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ooc: !!!! so much muse love for Book. how about a scenario where one of the crew has brought a broken down Dalek on board, thinking its some kind of busted robot they can fix but at night, the Dalek revives and starts wandering the ship and causing mayhem?]

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Ryoji Kaji | Neon Genesis Evangelion | OTA

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jesse pinkman | breaking bad

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astrobleme: (algieba)

shinji ikari | rebuild of evangelion

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iknowtheconsequences: (KajiSmoke)

6 - it's about as emotional as Kaji gets

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Not really a surprise that insomnia has reached epidemic levels inside Tokyo-3. Dangerous, considering how much is riding on every member of staff being at peak mental and physical alertness, but not a surprise. What is odder about this night is Kaji spending one of those bouts of insomnia inside Nerv HQ, instead of literally anywhere else in the world. Unlike him to be showing that any of the stress is getting to him, to spend time where someone might see something genuine about him.

Or maybe the source of his thoughts is obvious, because he's hanging around in the hallway outside of Misato's apartment, and that vacant gaze isn't leaving her doorway. The cigarette butt in his hand has gone out some time ago, but he is reluctant to toss it aside, and lose his excuse for standing here. Maybe then he'd have to do something about his thoughts. But Misato isn't the resident of that apartment that he's going to run into tonight.

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hikaru shindou | hikaru no go

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dustless: (upset noise)

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still_me: the mercy of the fallen (Default)

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((So I don't know how to make this crossover work but I love undertale and i love Frisk and I'd love to figure something out! If you don't know or want to play with a supernatural character, I also have the Builder from the browser game 'A Dark Room,' which might work better with frisk, thematically?))
automan: (shiny promo)

Auto (Otto) | Automan tv show

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[he doesn't sleep but would be up at night anyway]
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kilgrave, marvel's jessica jones.

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((ooc: mind if I cut in?))

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hades - olimpos

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reishi munakata | k

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rosing: (08)

i don't have the icons for this??

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[ she sits in the kitchen of male dorms, a cup of strawberry milk, cold, cradled between her hands, eyes staring blankly at the hands of the clock that hasn't moved at all since she first snuck back in after everyone else had gone either to sleep or back to work. or maybe it had been earlier, she doesn't know, doesn't really want to know; it's been a busy month, with the green clan making a comeback, the faces around her getting more worn out by day.

lowering her gaze to her hand, anna curls her fingers and remembers: the last bell ringing, a smartphone snuck into school, a light shining the logo of a tree onto the a classmate's face, the feel of metal against her fingers, and the sound of glass shattering on concrete floor. a sigh, small, escapes her lips as she brings the cup to her lips and drinks, savouring the strawberry taste the others had finished earlier in the day in the women's dorms.

cup down, she doesn't bother to look up when she speaks. ]


...You should be sleeping.
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Jubilee | Marvel 616 | OTA

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Carswell Thorne ( The Lunar Chronicles ) OTA

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linhcinder: (Default)

RNG said 3, but this can be her reason to be awake and he can have another.

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[ Cinder was folded up in one of the chairs in the bridge. Knees tucked under her chin, she was pretty much invisible over the back of the seat, but she was definitely there.

When Carswell walked in, she didn't exactly look up. She'd been talking with Iko, but that had been... a while.
]

Something's bothering you.

[ Not looking up at him wasn't the same as not acknowledging his presence. ]

8 for Carswell

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Twelfth Doctor | Doctor Who | OTA

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songofsong: (Cheerful)

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[OOC: Up for a visit from the wife?]

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XD

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mai | amnesia

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psg1: (☣ sᴛɪᴄᴋ ᴛᴏɢᴇᴛʜᴇʀ ᴛᴇᴀᴍ)

rika minami (highschool of the dead)

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liquiddiet: (2 PM is too early)

Jessica Jones | Jessica Jones | OTA

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[Don't have to look far for a reason with this one.]
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Patricia Walker | Jessica Jones | OTA

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Honey Lemon | Big Hero 6 | OTA

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Edited 2015-11-29 15:35 (UTC)
morelikeaslyfox: annoyed/exasperated (too old for these shenanigans)

Jerry Lewis, Totally Spies!

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((Unless it's hunger or pain (things he can actually do something about), Jerry will be using the time to get some work (gadgets, paperwork, etc) done. The usual: OTA for gen, okay with assumed CR (let me know if you want to go down that route), cross-canon, cross-medium, tags from strangers, all that jazz.))
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sansa stark | asoiaf/got

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Re: sansa stark | asoiaf/got

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ooc: how'd you feel about crosscanon? Maybe Sansa finding a escape hidden portal to Sonya's world and being provided shelter? none of that would be easy to sleep through.
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saitama | one punch man

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armsmode: (ramble ramble ramble)

I made a journal just to tag this... whoops...

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[Genos doesn't always sleep well. Sometimes the past revisits him in his dreams, when he remembers them... he usually wakes up to his body spewing hot steam and fogging up the room.

It's been a long night, and the two times he's attempted sleep, he's gotten the same result - nightmares, and overheating the room. For the sake of not setting his futon on fire or soaking it through with the steam, he's just going to get up and start cleaning...]

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