the asylum meme

[alkali]

 Meme, Interrupted


"People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can't answer the real question. All I can tell them is, It's easy."


Well, you've really done it now. You're in a mental institution. Maybe it's a modern facility with a therapy garden, compassionate staff members, and a warm environment meant to help nurse people back to health, or maybe it's a glorified dungeon where the government shoves people they don't want to deal with and patients are abused by staff. Regardless of what it is, you're there, and it doesn't look like they're planning on letting you out any time soon.

Maybe you're actually not supposed to be there and you're trying to arrange for your release. Maybe you actually are meant to be there and you're struggling with your illness. Maybe you're not a patient at all and you're just there to visit or earn your paycheck. It's up to you.

Rules:

1. Post with your character's name, canon, and your preferences on the subject bar, and set up the situation.
2. Tag other people. Are you a visitor? A staff member? A fellow patient? A hallucination? It's your choice.
3. Have fun!

Comments

Barry Allen | 63!Flash | ota

[fastestalive]

patient

[Fun fact: Barry's been in outpatient therapy, on and off, for over a decade now. It's not hard to see why, given how much time she spent trying to convince everyone that she saw something unnatural kill her mother. If she didn't know what she saw that night, that her dad didn't kill her mom... To everyone else, she really did look like a girl whose brain cooked up some crazy memory to protect her from the truth.

So why is she here now? The memories are kind of fuzzy still, but apparently, she was called in to examine a domestic violence crime scene and had what appeared to be a full-fledged PTSD flashback followed by several hours of of catatonia. Barry kind of suspects some kind of metahuman influence, but what can she say? It wasn't really me, someone with superpowers messed with my head? So she's stuck here for at least a few days while they do a psych evaluation. Not that she couldn't run for it, but she wants to still have a job at the end of this whole thing, and it doesn't look too great if you escape from a psychiatric facility. So here she is.]

[kid_flash_found]

{ooc: After seeing the last episode, there's an evil part of me that wants Bart to be a kind of Speed Force echo/hallucination....}

Roy Harper | DC Comics | patient | ota

[snowbirdsdontfly]

[Roy's nearly out of his mind with boredom, and pissed too. Pissed that Ollie just dumped him here, rather than deal with Roy's issues himself. Pissed that all anyone wants to talk about now are his feelings and how he's doing and if he still wants smack. Of course he does! He's addicted, that doesn't just go away with some talk!

Honestly, the boredom is really not helping things at all. It's making them worse. Too much time alone with his own thoughts is what got him in this mess in the first place.]

leonard church | red vs blue

[motherfucking_ghost]

[A military hospital is clean. He wouldn't call it nice, but it's funded, if under-funded. They make a point of keeping it up as best they can. There are a lot of soldiers and related personnel that come in and out on what seems like a daily basis. Some have more permanent stays.

Church is one of those stays. Not for any physical malady, no, but for what he's told is a severe case of post-traumatic stress and dissociative identity disorder on top of that. He gets to be in a more secure part of the hospital, in fact, and talks to very specific people, given the Project he came from, given the classified intel he's liable to have. One thing he can say positive about his 'rescue' from the flaming remnants of Project Freelancer is that he's not subjected to a battery of psychologically scarring tests anymore. Now he's subjected to tests to determine the depths of said scarring.

But it's nice enough. And, for the moment, he doesn't have anywhere else to go.]

Re: leonard church | red vs blue

[notyourrookie]

[One hospital is much like another. At least for Wash. At least right now. They say that it's different. That this isn't the Project, but he can't believe that. It could be a trick. Another lie to trap him. They'd done that to him. Told him things, that people had died until he'd splintered and-

No, no, that wasn't him. That was-

But they'd lied to him too. Locked him up because they said he was unstable. Tried to trick him into telling them things. This was just another trick. They kept asking him to talk, but he knew better.

At least he's not restrained now. They'd declared that he was allowed to be outside his cell for a while. Maybe they're a trick too.]

Re: leonard church | red vs blue

[unflaggingly]

[ She'd been planning this for a while, collecting her resources and locating any and all information she could get on the facility. Guarded or not, the UNSC troopers didn't stand a chance against her team and with the target she was after?

Well, she'd tried a few different scenarios before coming along to this one. The first step though, was getting him out of the hospital and to somewhere he might actually prove useful.

A small strike team should be good enough, and she's careful in choosing her operatives, even going so far as to plant at least one inside the hospital.

And it actually goes off without a hitch and Carolina's the first one who reaches him. ]

Time to go, Alpha. We've got work to do.

Frisk | Undertale | OTA

[dustless]

Hallucination(?)

There's a kid in the corner of your vision, sometimes. They don't do much, which might be a blessing to some, or an unsettling curse to others.

They're usually just there, leaning against a wall, sitting in a chair or on the bed, staring out the window. Sometimes they talk about the quality of the food. Sometimes they talk about flowers. Sometimes they talk about monsters, and that's when they smile the most.

They're with you right now, soundlessly scuffing their feet on the floor. Seems they aren't going to start the conversation this time.

Patient

Frisk is not real.

They know this.

Monsters aren't real.

They know that, too.

What's better than disappearing with other pretend things? It's not like they need to stay at home or at school, like real kids do. If only they hadn't gotten caught going up that mountain--the one they say monsters live under even now, although all the adults scoff about it.

They can't see the mountain from the facility, even at their window seat. That doesn't mean they won't spend time staring out at the garden anyway.

[carryon_crow]

[would u liek a fellow patient?]

Tony Stark / MCU [patient]

[im_ironman]

Some people would claim that it was a long time coming. With everything that had happened, starting with his abduction and being held captive in Afghanistan, Tony Stark could be seen like a ticking time bomb. Little by little, life had chipped away at him until his eccentric behavior was no longer regarded as something that was normal but concerning, and he spiraled out of control. Panic attacks became frequent, his PTSD became worse, and despite his best attempts to hold it all together...it hadn't worked.

But, it was expected. Not by him - he still liked to believe the world could rest on his shoulders and he could take every hit that came his way, but others had insisted. It would be for his own good, they had said. His anxiety and paranoia had been out of control, his fixation with alcohol had returned, and after crashing one of his most expensive cars into a tree he really didn't have much of a choice.

At least his money could afford the best private institution possible. The doctors treated him well enough, but he was bored. He was so damn bored, and as he sits in one of the common rooms he stares blankly out the window as he tries to figure out the fastest way to get out of there.

[veryintelligentsystem]

It really was only a matter of time. The more Tony's psychosis was treated as a nuisance rather than helped, the worse it would become, and so finding him in a high-end psychiatric ward was no surprise to anyone. He was treated well here, at least.

When he'd been hired at this institution, it had taken a long while to bring him onto the roster. Yes, there were records of him scattered here and there, he had credentials, history, a very well-laid-out past. It was all just a little bit too perfect, but when he'd offered to take on the physical care end of Mr. Stark's treatments, he wasn't questioned, only handed the charts. Car crash, severe anxiety, alcoholism...everything he could have easily explained to them, had they just allowed him to. But no, they were simply putting him in a position to deal with it himself.

He couldn't say he was ungrateful for the opportunity.

When he located Tony in the common room, he moved slowly, unbuttoning the crisp white coat he'd been given, putting his hands into his pockets with the datapad holding the most pertinent information tucked under his arm. He knew to keep a casual stance, that Tony would respond less acerbically if he was confronted by someone that didn't look like they were about to judge him and prescribe ten different medications. So when he stepped up to Tony's side, he looked out of the window in kind, his head at a slight tilt.

"Sir, if you're trying to decide whether you would walk away from a leap out of this window, it might be pertinent to know that this is bulletproof glass," he said conversationally, then looked down at Tony with an even expression, one hand coming up to the stethoscope hanging around his neck. He had been assigned to take basic vitals now that Tony had mostly healed from the surface lacerations, so the sooner he got that out of the way, the easier the rest would be. Hopefully.

Egan / Sherlock / OC

[aodhagan]

(doctor)

[littlepandora]

Pandora's sheet is full more of questions than answers. No one seemed to want to settle on a diagnosis, so the intake forms and previous observation notes were mostly lists of traits and symptoms.

She's distinctly unhappy that they've taken her gloves. The rest of the clothing isn't anything to be attached to, but the gloves, those were important. Settling into her sulk, she crosses her arms and waits.

New doctor, they said. She's only been here three days, how many new doctors could there be?

[moriarty_was_real]

Putting himself on the counseling schedule at the mental hospital had been trivially easy. The electronic scheduling program identified patients by numbers instead of names. Though Irene's brother should have been able to click on the number to see all of the patient's records, this particular number linked only to blank templates.

Jim didn't have a patient file or a bed number. He didn't have the necessary intake paperwork. How he had managed to stroll right into the locked ward, go past security and the nurse's station, and make it all the way to the counseling office without being stopped was anyone's guess. It probably helped that he had found and donned the uniform of the local prisoners patients before wandering about.

Arriving promptly on time, Jim knocked on the door and waited for his chosen therapist to invite him in.

Raven | Teen Titans | OTA

[azarathsprotected]

[She sees things. Horrible, horrible things, and for a while she was able to fight it. With the help of her friends, with a mission to focus on and enough distractions, Raven was fine. But in the end, it overwhelmed her, as her father always claimed it would.

Raven sits quietly in the corner, hood drawn up around her ears. She hasn't said a word in weeks, maybe months. People don't try to talk to her anymore. She just. Sits.]

Hanna | Movie of the same name | OTA

[aptoautmorior]

On the good days, Hanna was one of the hospital's more amiable patients. She took her medication, she ate her meals and she went to bed.

The only problem was that she also had bad days, prone to fits of violence -ones that she almost always seemed to regret afterwards- or daring escapes. She'd made it all the way to the outer fence one night, and all the way to the roof another time.

No one was quite sure where she'd come from, though she insisted that she'd been living in a cabin in the arctic with her father. She often insisted a lot of things that no one could make sense of.

Yesterday had been one of the bad days, and she was still sporting a bruise from where she'd headbutted one of the orderlies and had ended up rolling herself into a table. But, alternately, today seemed to be one of the good days, as she was just sitting in a chair in the rec room, knees drawn up to her chest, watching cartoons.

Arthur | Inception | OTA

[domsconsigliere]

The thing with Somnacin was that it wasn't traditionally addictive. Or, rather, wasn't addictive in the same way things traditionally were. Of course, it altered brain chemistry the same as any other hallucinogen, and with long-term use it suppressed the ability to dream naturally and, occasionally, led to paranoid thoughts that the real world was just a dream-state that one only had to wake up from to be free.

Which was what had happened to Arthur, his business partner -who had gone through that experience once before, with his wife- recognized the signs and had been the one to turn Arthur in.

Arthur himself was incredibly lucid, even reasonable aside from his conviction that this was all a dream. That conviction was the reason he had an ankle monitor that sounded an alarm if he went any higher than the second floor because he had tried to drop himself off the roof, and not just once, but twice. His explanation had been that everyone knew that to wake up from a dream that deep you had to die.

That conviction was also the reason that he was on suicide watch, even though he didn't consider himself suicidal, and hadn't tried any other routes besides the long fall. But as had been explained to him by a very patient doctor when he'd protested, just because he hadn't yet didn't mean he wouldn't later.

[inyourdreams]

When Ariadne heard about what had happened to Arthur, she made it a point to re-arrange her schedule so she could go visit him in the hospital. She had gotten out of the business earlier in the year due to a way too close call on a job that had her down in Limbo for the first time since the Fischer job. The risk just wasn't worth it anymore she figured. It was time to go legit and start living a somewhat normal life if she could.

And when news of Arthur mental break reached her, it solidified her decision. All those emails with job offers that had been sitting in her inbox and kept tempting her to go back, all went into the trash before she booked her flight to see him.

Now she was at the hospital, unsure if this had been a good idea to come. They were making her check any sharp objects she had on her and giving her a panic button to use just in case she felt threatened by any of the patients. They assured her though (and somewhat unnecessarily) that Arthur was not a danger to anyone but himself.

"He said that he was okay to see you," a nurse said as she came out to the front desk. "I'll take you back to the visitor room."

Kylo Ren - Star Wars - definitely a patient

[forcefullyunstable]

Option A - modern AU
When things started getting out of control, Han and Leia didn't simply send their son away. They had him committed. Ben needed help, real help to stop the visions and voices in his head, the delusions of altering reality with his mind and the violent and volatile persona that he often called Kylo Ren.

Option B - in-universe
There were special wards dedicated to the unique kind of crazy that the Force often created. One look in the barren cell of the once-infamous Master of the Knights of Ren was enough to thank the maker for that. Were he not sedated and restrained on the bed, even that would have been destroyed. Was redemption even possible, or was he too far gone?

Dick Grayson | Young Justice | OTA

[utilitybelted]

<sub>Options;

i. Dick a sweet, friendly kid with some amazing acrobatic skills, but ever since the death of his parents... well he's been a little difficult. It started with the paranoia that their deaths were more than just accidents, but the delusions grew until he became convinced that he was a vigilante hero who could avenge them by fighting bad guys. He occasionally dips into full on delusions where he doesn't know where he is, but the most of the time he's lucid and aware of his surroundings - he's just convinced he has a second identity out in the world.

ii. It was a bad idea to induct a nine year old kid into the world of capes and crime fighting, though nobody realised just how bad, Robin seemed perfectly well-adjusted until he was about 16, a mission went wrong, really wrong, and there were several casualties. It turned out that well-adjusted was just well-hidden, and this particular incident was the proverbial straw on the camel's back. Cue one extreme emotional breakdown and some much needed hospital time.

iii. hit me up with a starter!</sub>

I? Also sorry not sorry. Well maybe a little.

[thegoshdarn]

To no one's surprise, ignoring your kid isn't very likely to end up creating a well-adjusted child. Not that Mr. and Mrs. Drake were exceptionally aware of this; it required the concerted effort of some teachers and school counselors to get her diagnosed with depression, especially at her age. Outpatient therapy probably would have worked fine for her, but shoving Tim somewhere theoretically good for her has worked out so well so far, so why change the habit of a lifetime?

Tim's not great at actually approaching and interacting with other patients, so she has a tendency to express her interest by conveniently being in the same areas as Dick rather than actually talking to him. But the attendants seem to think it's worth encouraging her to actually do something, particularly given that she doesn't seem very interested in engaging with anyone else, so one very patient attendant manages to encourage her to finally approach him.

Even if she does it with a deer-in-headlights, ready-to-run-at-anytime look. "Hi...?"

Bucky Barnes | MCU | OTA

[mynameisbucky]

_{James Barnes was found wandering in the woods, confused, disoriented and missing a significant chunk of his memories - including how or why he lost his left arm, or why the id that was found on him was dated from the 40s. He's prone to violent outbursts and confusion, so he's kept in the hospital for his own safety and others until some next of kin can be located, which is difficult when they're pretty sure the military ID isn't even his, after all he'd have to be like ninety at this point, right?}

Jack Rackham | Black Sails | OTA

[calicojack]

<sub>Options;

i. Jack Rackham is a well-known writer with an obsession, he wants the world to know his name. It means he has a self-destructive streak a mile wide, staying up for days on end, doing ridiculous things for research, and plenty of drink and narcotics. Eventually, after a series of run-ins with the law, he's court-ordered to check himself in to the hospital to get control of those tendencies.

ii. Canonverse, Jack ends up in bedlam (or caribbean equivalent)</sub>

Leonardo Da Vinci | Assassin's Creed | OTA

[pressotohug]

_{Leonardo isn't really 'crazy', he just has an artistic temperement, a very short attention span, and a tendency to forget to eat or sleep when he gets caught up in an idea. He's in here for his own protection, really.
(or for modern AU that's still assassiny, templars did it)}

Maecenas | Rome | OTA

[smirkinbackground]

_{Maecenas is an addict. Drugs, drink, sex, you name it, if it makes you feel good he wants it. He was mostly functioning, but he was also functionally throwing his family's money down the drain, so all that money that normally goes on his assorted hobbies is now going on the very best medical care to try and cure him of his hedonism.}

Twelfth Doctor | Doctor Who | OTA

[not_the_question]

(Patient)

Four point five billion years separated from his TARDIS is enough to drive any Time Lord around then bend. But the only touch he received during that time always led to his death and he died over three hundred billion times? Well, he's a piece of work.