memespiration ([personal profile] memespiration) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2012-08-13 08:30 pm

THE NIGHTMARE MEME



the nightmare meme

"So on his Nightmare through the evening fog
Flits the squab Fiend o'er fen, and lake, and bog;
Seeks some love-wilder'd maid with sleep oppress'd,
Alights, and grinning sits upon her breast."

- Erasmus Darwin, "Night-Mare"


Everyone has nightmares right? The dark thoughts lurking in the depths of our minds. Our fears out of our control. At least they only occur in our sleeping hours... right?

This meme is designed to wretch that comfort right out from under you.

Your character is stuck in their worst nightmare and worse yet, someone is stuck in there with them. Whether it's a familiar face, a stranger, intentional or accidental, you have to dig your way out. Good luck lost souls. And remember. The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.

Feel free to use the prompts below as a jumping point, or make up whatever you want. As a warning this meme will possibly contain TRIGGERS and MATURE CONTENT. Read ahead with caution.


Prompts:

i. the WEAVER (the nightmare)

001 - waking nightmare - wake up. Wake up. Wake. UP. The only sure guarantee out of a dream. And yet when your eyes open, the fear still surrounds you. The nightmare has its hold. You've woken up to your own nightmare. Why hasn't it gone away?

002 - stuck - Slowly, you begin to realize this is all just a dream. But you can't get out. You're stuck to the whims of your subconscious, unable to escape. Completely aware that this is just a nightmare, but unable to escape.

003 - pursuit - You're being chased, endlessly, by something, someone. Maybe it's a boogey monster, maybe it's only a metaphor. But you're out of breath and places to run.

004 - the end of your world - The apocalypse. Brought about around you. Maybe it came slowly, like a slow burning fire-- or perhaps it was a conflagration. Your entire world is falling apart around you and you can do nothing to stop it. Or perhaps even worse, you're the cause.

005 - your greatest fear - Maybe your greatest fear is something common, like spiders, or something which seems completely mundane, such as the color yellow. Whatever it is, it's surrounding you. Keeping you in it's embrace.

006 - ground hog day - It starts out harmless. One day, not unlike any other. Except, it's repeated over. And over. And over. And over. Until slowly your mind just.... slips away.

007 - i have no mouth and I must scream - slowly, against your will, you're transforming. Turning into a creature unlike yourself. Perhaps a monster, maybe a pile of goo. Whatever it is, you're helpless to stop it.

008 - free style - take these prompts and throw em' out the window. Do it however you want.



ii. the THREAD (why the other character is there)

001 - the devil on their chest. - Maybe the dreamer was someone in your way, someone who had done harm to you or someone you care about, maybe it’s just for shits and giggles. But you are the one who has stuck them in this nightmare, and you want to watch them fall victim to their own mind.

002 - mind link - for some reason you share a connection with this person. Perhaps it's just the passing of the stars, a jolt of electricity, or their mind reaching for yours. But now you’re stuck here, trying to get them out.

003 - experiment - Just a quick injection, maybe a little sting, it won't hurt. That's what the men in coats said. But look where that got you.

004 - save them - you've been tasked to save this person, no matter the cost. Maybe they're a stranger, maybe they're your closest friend, even your greatest enemy, but you have to save them.

005 - just following orders - It's a job, and you've been tasked to it. They may have some info you need. Or maybe you have to keep them in for the benefit of someone else. It doesn't matter. It's only a job. Right?

006 - we have ways of making you talk - They have something you need. And it's time you squeeze it out of them.

007 - free style - take these prompts and throw em' out the window. Do it however you want.



In order to make this meme a bit easier when it comes to tagging out we have written up a short little form. If you could fill it out and stick it in your characters opening comment, along with the usual character name and series header, it would be helpful to everyone in order to find someone appropriate to tag! Plotting is more than encouraged!

nottheshoe: (♕ i still need you)

nike crawford-marine ♫ original character ♫ ota

[personal profile] nottheshoe 2012-08-14 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Possible nightmares/preferences:
» watching everyone she loves die, her being unable to stop it. Restrained or otherwise
» being stuck in an endless purgatory
» she could also work as a rescuer.
» At the same time, if there's someone who is threatening people's safety she isn't above trying to drive them a bit screw loose in order to get the information she needs. Or to stop them entirely.


Quick History // Personality:
» egotistical, bratty, loud-mouth wizard.
» major savior complex
» tons more info in her journal.


Triggers/things you'd like to avoid:
» rape or anything sexual unless you PM me first.
» Really, if you got any questions or want to try something out and are unsure, feel free to just drop a comment!
Edited 2012-08-14 07:17 (UTC)
thefuzzyguy: (scared)

Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler | X-Men: Evolution | OTA

[personal profile] thefuzzyguy 2012-08-14 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Possible nightmares/preferences: Kurt's nightmares include both the trippy threats (monsters, hellfire) of the dimension he passes through to teleport and the more pragmatic concerns of mutants augmented by his decidedly unique appearance. Angry mobs are bad even when you can teleport, especially when you're a glass ninja with a limited stomach for hurting people.

For logistic purposes, Kurt's world is lousy with all sorts of telepaths of various sorts, and Danielle Moonstar in Evo canon specifically traps people in nightmares, so there's a starter for you.

Quick History: Raised by loving (adoptive) parents in rural Bavaria, Kurt spent the first decade and a half he was around goofing off. Gleefully, but with a certain wariness. Looking like a fuzzy goblin teaches a kid a certain reticence around strangers. After admittance to the Xavier Institute he acquired an image inducer that let him look normal and live an ordinary teenager's life. When he wasn't battling supervillains to save the world, anyway.

Quick Personality: Kurt is almost as silly as he likes people to think he is. He really does have a joke (usually lame) for any situation and his urge to hang upside down from the ceiling is sincere. To some degree it's a coping mechanism, though. It helps him avoid rejection and deflect some of the scarier anti-mutant sentiment. He's affectionate and loyal once he stops being a goof long enough to make friends, though.

Triggers/things you'd like to avoid: Nothing specific, but for IC purposes, this version of the character is seventeen years old and a bit sheltered.
memorygaps: (⊗ [m] transformation)

Tim | Marble Hornets | ota!

[personal profile] memorygaps 2012-08-14 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Possible nightmares/preferences: Well, this is Marble Hornets. So. Slenderman The Operator? Tim also has nightmares about betrayal, friends or friendly people turning on him, losing memories/time, the dark, being chased...

Quick History: Tim was a sickly kid who probably had run-ins with the Operator (Slenderman if you prefer) when he was young. Tim managed to get away until he was in college, when he made a student film with his friend Brian and another guy, Alex Kralie. The Operator came back, shit got real, Alex beat Tim up with a metal pole and left him for dead. Tim survived and forgot everything that happened until, years later, a guy named J contacted him because he'd been going through the Marble Hornets tapes. Shit got real again. Tim started running around in a mask. Cue creepy shit and time loss and lots and lots of coughing.

Quick Personality: Quick to anger, but not unfriendly. Sort of awkward. Not quick to open up to other people necessarily. But he can still have fun and joke around - it's just a little rare.

Triggers/things you'd like to avoid: None.
washedaway: (♥ → sorry)

meroko yui // full moon o sagashite

[personal profile] washedaway 2012-08-14 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
possible nightmares/preferences
♥ → being betrayed and having love wrenched away from her, first of all. seeing somebody she loves betray her with the person she loves is definitely something like a nightmare.
♥ → rape.
♥ → overall loosing the person she cares most about.

quick history
♥ → meroko yui is a shinigami working in the pediatrics ward. she hasn't always been a shinigami, however! meroko was once a human called "moe rikyo." moe was the best friend to fuzuki, mitsuki's grandmother. in a nutshell, moe fell in love with the man fuzuki was also in love with. after almost being raped by her fiance, moe flees the scene and stumbles upon fuzuki and the man she loved kissing. because of this, moe slits her wrists and dies.

quick personality
♥ → prone to jealousy.
♥ → protective of those she cares about.
♥ → impulsive, doesn't seem to think things through. acts on what she feels.
♥ → lovey-dovey around the right people. (ex: takuto, and izumi to a degree. )

triggers/things you'd like to avoid
♥ → none.
megamind: (Scared)

Megamind | Megamind

[personal profile] megamind 2012-08-14 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Possible nightmares/preferences: Science!!, being beaten, prison that never ends, humiliation, being lost/alone, reminder of being the last of his kind, failing to impress/engage/amaze, feelings confession and rejection, rejection of any kind really, failing, destroyed in his own death traps, actually killing anybody other than Metro Man... go wild.
Quick History: Last of his kind; escaped a dying world as a child only to be raised in a prison becaues humans didn't know what to do with a big headed blue supergenius alien. Since nobody would be nice to the damn for five minutes and he got bullied by the Superman clone, he chose to be a supervillain and embraced heavy metal, being the best bad he could be, and fucking up shit left right and center for nearly thirty years. The last ten have been spent in an ogranized game of cops and robbers againts MEtro Man, the superman double, with Roxanne Ritchi beautiful and witty reporter lady with a bent for truth and justice. Eventually he gets his act together, but not without a lot of bumps along the way.
Quick Personality: Megamind's "evil" is mostly toothless; there's a genuinely nice guy in there waiting to come out, just nobody's ever given him the ability to be nice. Instead, everybody saw a freak and treated him like one, so lack of nuture overcame nature. Still, he likes pyrotechnics, mostly harmless villainy, heavy metal turned up to 11, and, oh, Roxanne Ritchi, who has had he hots for for years, but has no way to tell her. Since, you know, bad guys don't get the girl.
Triggers/things you'd like to avoid: Sexual ones at this time. Yeah, he grew up in a prison. No it likely wasn't much fun. Let's just not go there, okay?
useful_goggles: (what would happen if...)

Razputin | Psychonauts | ota

[personal profile] useful_goggles 2012-08-14 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Possible nightmares/preferences:
-Water. No, seriously. Raz's family is cursed to die in water, so if there's a large body of water nearby, or a tidal wave, incoming flood, etc, he will understandably freak out
-His family disowning him, particularly his father
-failing to protect the people he cares about

Quick History:
Raz is a circus brat who happens to have psychic powers and dealt with a strict upbringing (which he misinterprets as his dad hating him). One day he gets a pamphlet for Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp, where his heroes - the Psychonauts - are trained. Papa isn't too keen on this and tears up the pamphlet, but Raz runs away anyway. The teachers insist that his father come pick him up, since Raz technically isn't supposed to be there, so Raz decides to train as hard as possible to be a Psychonaut before Dad arrives. In the process he uncovers an evil plot to take over the world, and when shit hits the fan he's the only one left that can save the day.

Quick Personality:
Eh cures insanity and doesn't afraid of anything.
Cheery outgoing ten-year-old boy who likes comic books and wants to be just like his superhero role models. He does tend to be reckless and showy sometimes, but he's got a big heart, surprising maturity at times, and a strong moral compass. Does tend to geek out every so often.

Triggers/things you'd like to avoid:
-Nothing sexual, please.
winged_moon: (emo)

Yue | Cardcaptor Sakura

[personal profile] winged_moon 2012-08-14 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Possible nightmares/preferences: I'm open to nearly anything, seriously. Specific things he might have nightmares about include just about anything involving Clow, failure to protect someone he cares about, being abandoned by those same people he cares about, running out of magic and fading again, being alone/trapped/helpless....

Quick History: Yue is a being created (along with his opposite, Cerberus) by an extremely powerful magician, designed to guard and protect him and his other creations. Said magician then died and passed the two guardians on to a new master, but Yue is still grouchy and emo. There's an extremely old game application on his journal.

Quick Personality: Tsundere.

No, really. He's outwardly cold, aloof, and emotionless, because he doesn't want to admit he cares enough to get hurt again.

Triggers/things you'd like to avoid: Would prefer to gloss over details or fade-to-black on sexual situations, should they arise (I am incapable of threading smut) but otherwise anything is fair game.
decessus: ((♛) it's too close for comfort)

izumi rio // full moon o sagashite // ota

[personal profile] decessus 2012-08-14 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
possible nightmares/preferences
♛ → abuse.
♛ → never being able to escape his memories. (for example, being trapped in the world where he is abused by his mother forever)
♛ → loosing the one he loves most. (aka meroko)

quick history
♛ → izumi committed suicide when he was only six years old. his mother was abusive and constantly physically and emotionally abused him. because he wanted to see his mother smile, he stepped in front of the railroad tracks and was instantly killed. when he woke up, he discovered that death wasn't as pleasant as he thought it would be.

quick personality
♛ → witty.
♛ → cold and distant, but not sadistic.
♛ → playful in an almost cruel sense.
♛ → warm somewhere deep inside, but is hesitant to show it.
♛ → caring towards those he, well, cares about.

triggers/things you'd like to avoid
♛ → none.

Spock || Star Trek XI || ota

[personal profile] spockish 2012-08-14 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Possible Nightmares
↱ losing control of his emotions or telepathy
↱ reliving the destruction of Vulcan/being unable to save his mother
↱ becoming somehow trapped in a mind meld

Quick History
(have a link because I suck at summarizing things)

Quick Personality
↱ Vulcan half: calculating, composed, disciplined, fatalistic, fearless, inhibited, introspective, introverted, logical, meticulous, observant, practical, rational, and reserved
↱ Human half: adaptable, artistic, creative, curious, and proud
↱ constantly at war with his differing natures
sagashite: (♫ → escape the stars)

mitsuki koyama // full moon o sagashite // ota

[personal profile] sagashite 2012-08-14 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
possible nightmares/preferences
♫ → not being able to sing.
♫ → having surgery go wrong and never being able to sing/speak again. same as above in another respect.
♫ → anything else can go since these two aren't so big (or at least they may not be to other players) -- i'm open to anything!

quick history
♫ → a twelve year old girl with cancerous tumors in her throat. because of the tumors, mitsuki is set to die in a year. she meets two shinigami, takuto and meroko, who come to retrieve her soul. to fulfill her dreams, takuto makes it so mitsuki can turn into a sixteen year old girl called full moon. she is a singer, and no longer has the tumors in her throat while she is sixteen.

quick personality
♫ → kind and caring.
♫ → a little aloof.
♫ → sees the good in everybody.
♫ → she's accepting to a degree. she seems to not mind the fact she's going to die in a year.

triggers/things you'd like to avoid
♫ → none.
drake_wayne: (pic#4485110)

Tim Drake | DC Comics | OTA

[personal profile] drake_wayne 2012-08-14 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
Possible nightmares/preferences:
-Being abandoned by his friends/family.
-Watching everyone he loves die.
-Rejection from the Bat-Family.
-Having his identity discovered.


Quick History: The third Robin. Deduced the identities of Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson at age nine. By age thirteen, he'd been selected as the new Robin by Dick Grayson. Spent over a year in intensive training under the likes of Bruce Wayne and Lady Shiva. Founding member of Young Justice. Became nearly crazed after the deaths of Kid Flash, Superboy, the Spoiler, and his father. Adopted by Bruce Wayne not long after, though he lost his spot as Batman's partner after the arrival of Damian Wayne. Since then, he's worked solo as Red Robin.

Quick Personality: Analytic; serious; meticulous; sensitive; fanboyish.

Triggers/things you'd like to avoid: Go for the throat.
Edited 2012-08-14 05:42 (UTC)
insolentprincess: (♕ a sad sad song)

002 - 002

[personal profile] insolentprincess 2012-08-14 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ooc: You up for some crazy cracky, princess sailor moon discussing Yue's nightmare with him while he's currently suffering in it (maybe something like him suffering alone while he thinks that he's failed to protect Sakura or Clow or whoever)?]
insolentprincess: (♕ it happens again and again)

princess sailor moon ♕ pretty guardian sailor moon ♕ ota

[personal profile] insolentprincess 2012-08-14 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
Possible nightmares/preferences:
♕ endymion dying
♕ everyone she loves dying
♕ I'd love for her to enter people's subconciouses and just talk to them while they were suffering with an apathy about it


Quick History: Princess Serenity's grief in it's purest form. Unable to have her prince, she decides that the entire world must suffer with her. Thus, with the power of her own grief and selfish desire for Endymion, she destroys the world.

Quick Personality: ♕ this girl is not tsukino usagi or Sailor Moon. She is the princess. She doesn't share the happy go lucky, ditzy, overly caring personality. She is cold and distant.
♕ apathetic
♕ selfish
♕ insolent
♕ immature
♕ under neath all that she is extremely lonely, isolated. She wants to care for people, she wants to be close to others, she just cannot comprehend how


Triggers/things you'd like to avoid:♕ nothing sexual
♕ hit me up if you got any questions!
controlledvariable: (Batgirl -- just like flying)

Stephanie Brown | DC Comics

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2012-08-14 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
Possible nightmares/preferences:
→ failing to save someone(s)
→ traumatic memories
→ her...father... just in general
→ falling
→ any typical nightmare stuff
→ she can rescue someone as well and I'm happy to set the scene if you want me to roll

Quick History:
→ raised by a D grade supervillain until she became a vigilante to take him down
→ worked as the Spoiler, alongside Robin, Batman, Black Canary, Oracle, etc for a couple years
→ operated as Robin after Tim Drake quit; fired by Batman because he's a jerk
→ kidnapped and tortured by Black Mask ; presumed dead for a year
→ returned to Gotham ; currently operating as Batgirl after being given the suit by Cass Cain

Quick Personality:
→ determind, cheerful, dorky sense of humour, independent, likes punching things, cheeky, has a bit of a temper

Triggers/things you'd like to avoid:
→ No triggers OOCly; Steph will react badly to anything non-con
constableodo: (what the HELL)

[personal profile] constableodo 2012-08-14 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
Possible nightmares/preferences:
Being stuck in the Great Link because they won't let him go/will make him not care anymore
Watching his species die because the cure didn't work
Watching his friends die from the hands of his species's 'minions'
Quick History: Here because it's l o n g.
Quick Personality: See link above, second half.
Triggers/things you'd like to avoid: No sex and no shipping, please.
Edited 2012-08-14 09:02 (UTC)
controlledvariable: (civvies -- what was that?)

Two nightmares for the price of one ; sort of 05 → 02/04

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2012-08-14 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It starts with a scream in the dark.

The dream takes a while to fully resolve itself, for a while it's nothing more than flashes of images: an empty rooftop illumated by the red and blue flashes of a police siren, a flash of bright red light, an apartment block burning, grass slick with blood, a knife pressing against pale skin, bullets flying through a hallway, a body under rubble, a too white smile. There's an undercurrent of sound to them all, police sirens, screams, the sound of fists connecting with flesh, and somewhere, a child crying.

Eventually - it's hard to tell exactly how much time has passed - the flashes resolve into a proper scene.

Arkham Asylum is familiar to every Gothamite, even more so to any of her vigilantes, who have studied it relentlessly, and probably made at least a few trips into the confines of the prison. This version is exactly the same as the one Tim would know, except for one glaring differences.

Instead of holding insane criminals, each cell, impossible to get into with the doors locked, houses the corpse of a Titan. Tim could linger over them, but it's more likely his attention will be drawn by the only sound in the asylum, a chain being dragged along the ground, coming from deeper in the building. The problem is, no matter how close he seems to get, the source of the sound will always allude him, merely leading him through the empty hallways, down flights of stairs until he's on the lowest level of the asylum -- the basement where they keep the likes of Killer Croc.

This is where Steph comes in; from her perspective, the dream just started.

"Robin?"

It doesn't seem odd to her that Tim is, in fact, dressed in his original Robin costume (it's hard to tell whether this is a new development, or if he was wearing it all along), while she's just wearing jeans and a shirt. She's more concerned with being what looks like Arkham Asylum, while the sound of the dragging chain continues in the background.
Edited (attack of the thousand edits SRRY) 2012-08-14 12:32 (UTC)
the_justicar: (Default)

samara. mass effect.

[personal profile] the_justicar 2012-08-14 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Possible nightmares/preferences:
interested in any of them, in any way, except:
» 006: doesn't really interest me.
» 007: I'd like a very specific scenario where she dreams she turns into a banshee, even if she's not an Ardat-Yakshi. otherwise not interested.

possible scenarios (besides 007):
» watching her last daughter die. see ME3.
» being forced to go against the Code.
» general unease and fear that comes with nightmares without specifying what the nightmare is about.
» watching Morinth kill more innocent people and being unable to do anything about it. always arriving too late.
» Morinth killing Shepard.

Quick History:
In short: old old old asari Justicar. Has three Ardat-Yakshi daughters, left asari space to hunt down, and kill if necessary, one of them who escaped. Joined Shepard, s/he helped her find Morinth (the daughter) and kill her, sworn loyalty to her/him and to help her/him with getting rid of the Collectors. (while I'm at it: willing to play her against any Shepard, male or female; Paragon, Renegade, Paragade, Renegon, etc, preference for male and Paragon bromance though)
Quick Personality:
Powerful biotic. Bound by the Code and follows it to a T. Loyal, serious, withdrawn and might appear somewhat cold, always calm and collected, driven, wise. As every Justicar, fanatic about their brand of justice and she's not above killing for she sees as justice. She has a long and turbulent life behind her, which makes her indifferent to attentions and affections of others and not very interested in relationships.
Triggers/things you'd like to avoid:
» body horror, besides what I mentioned re: scenario 007.
» excessive torture.
» nothing sexual with her, it won't work.
Edited 2012-08-14 12:55 (UTC)
scaretaker: ([YELLING INCOHERENTLY])

Jack Torrance | The Shining | OTA

[personal profile] scaretaker 2012-08-14 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Possible nightmares/preferences: He's here to be your nightmare, basically. Your violent, crazy, hotel-loving nightmare.
Quick History: Stephen King baddie, went to be a caretaker of a hotel shut down in winter with his wife and son, sold his soul for a beer. Picked up an ax and went, literally, ax crazy and froze to death in a hedge maze after running around on a sprained/twisted ankle. He one "nightmare" he says he had was killing Wendy and Danny, but not just killing them! Chopping them up to little bits and pieces. The same wife he later told to give him the bat because he wasn't going to kill her, he was going to bash her brains right the fuck in!
Quick Personality: There is nothing in his life more important than taking care of the Overlook. Anyone viewed as a threat in any way must die. See history for the rest, really.
Triggers/things you'd like to avoid: Jack can do pretty much anything. Rape is a no, however.
justthehelper: (Default)

William Brandt | Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol | OTA

[personal profile] justthehelper 2012-08-14 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Possible nightmares/preferences: A failed mission and someone dying on him. Maybe he thinks it's the tagger who caused the mission to fail, or maybe the tagger is the victim.

Captured by the enemy, tied up and tortured, people he knows threatened.

Anything, really. Have another preference? I'm all for it.
Quick History:
Agent William Brandt is a member of the IMF, noted for making the impossible possible. He joined at some point in his life, and worked his way up to being a field agent. He was removed from active duty and made chief data analyst after a failed mission.
Quick Personality: Brandt is a very secretive person, keeping his true personality hidden for the most part. He seems pretty uptight, keen to point out the failings in a plan. He's an intelligent, well-trained agent, who has no qualms about killing someone in cold blood. However, he's still human, and has shown he can be affected by people dying when he fails in his job.
Triggers/things you'd like to avoid: Nothing. Go nuts.
drake_wayne: (pic#4485110)

*cough* Hurhur Didn't see that last bit in the subject line.

[personal profile] drake_wayne 2012-08-14 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
If Tim knew this was a dream, he'd be able to tell her immediately why he was dressed as Robin. Whether he'd actually do so was another matter entirely. Like Bruce, Tim had long become consumed by Batman's never-ending mission. His life was centered around the nights of Gotham, of crime scenes and the smells of death. The sound of a fist connecting with soft flesh or the mad laughter of a man or woman on the deep end of insanity. The night was his mantle these past few years.

This, though, is simple background. Whether Tim looked like Tim, Robin, or Red Robin, it wouldn't matter. His nightmares would still be the same. The corpses of his friends would spur him to frenzied grief and anger. He would become as the night, hunting down his friends' predator until they were brought to justice, whatever it may be.

He'd long found them, and had been tracking what little clues he could find outside of their cells lower and lower, though he knew already that whatever was making that sound was also their likely killer. There couldn't be any other explanation for how they ended up here. The Titans knew better than to enter Gotham, lest they suffer the wrath of Batman. The only one who seemed not to care was Conner, and, well...

He shakes his head, trying to keep his mind clear, when he hears his name called out. "Stephanie Brown." The words are low and slightly rasped out in the way Batman teaches all of them to change their voice when in costume. "This isn't a place you should be. Go home."
Edited 2012-08-14 15:51 (UTC)
slyest: (kneel before your betters)

I'm just making this up as I go along

[personal profile] slyest 2012-08-14 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ All work and no play might make Jack a dull boy, but it makes Loki restless. Restless and bored and itching for trouble. He finds it here, in this dream of indeterminate origin.

Possibly, it's his own. A god he might be, but he dreams just as easily as mortals do. Yet perhaps instead of belonging to him, this crisp, human dream of Midgard belongs instead to the presence he feels sharing the dream with him. A human, he thinks, or something so much like it that its mind is nigh indistinguishable from others of its ilk. Or maybe, just maybe, it belongs to something else. Some nameless, shapeless Other that Loki can feel lurking like thunderclouds just beyond the horizon.

Whatever the case, it bodes entertaining at the very least, and he is sorely in need of amusement.

He winds his way through twisting hallways, uninterested in the myriad doorways - all so similar and plain - on the upper floors until he comes to an innocuous staircase. He takes it down, one step at a time, until he enters a sweeping foyer and beyond wide-spread doors, a world of blues and greens and white-capped mountains.

It's to a twisting maze of greenery that he eventually goes, and there finds a man who looks as human as anyone else. His voice is cool, distantly polite, as he speaks. ]


Tell me, if you will, has this place a name?
scaretaker: (Tonight...YOU.)

no kneeling loki

[personal profile] scaretaker 2012-08-14 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[When Jack is out and about the Overlook—and when is he not? Bound to her as he is, forever the caretaker, forever caring and being cared for—he spends a good deal of time in the hedge maze. He died there, frozen in the terrible winter with a bone possibly broken and incapable of doing anything other than yelling incoherently. Even as he'd fallen into the snow, even as he'd thought words, his lips wouldn't let them pass, blue and chapped and raw, raw like everything else. Raw like the pain in his leg, the knot on his head, throbbing as he came to die on the grounds of she he'd fallen away from, left by his family who couldn't quite fathom anything in his mind. Wendy, the nag, couldn't understand his need for privacy. Danny had shined and Jack had raged, alcohol had become his vice yet again, and he'd failed to take care of her. He'd failed her.

But he'd died and she'd forgiven him, and so he stayed. He had nowhere else to go. He didn't want to go anywhere else. There was no place in the entire universe more beautiful, more lovely, more warm than the Overlook. His hotel. Her.

He's at the same spot he died in, toeing the snow in the outline of his body when he'd died, carefully measuring out how his jacket had lain against it. His favored ax rested on the other side of the hedge, out of sight from anyone looking. Where it belonged, really.

There were no visitors this time of year. How this man had come across her was anyone's guess—had he been camping and found himself lost? Had he escaped some miserable prison and come to seek refuge? What if he was a crazy ax murderer? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Funny shit indeed.

It's quiet. It's cold. And yet Jack stands in clothing that should have him trembling. And yet he's not. Casually, he brings his foot away and fobs, shrugging as though it's the most obvious thing in the world. And it should be, considering the giant fucking sign she carries. How had he not seen it? Perhaps he hadn't cared.

What if he was a crazy ax murderer?
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The Overlook Hotel. Closed for the winter, you see. I'm the caretaker. Are you lost?
lovesickkiller: (In need of a savior)

Misa Amane | Death Note | Open

[personal profile] lovesickkiller 2012-08-14 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Possible nightmares/preferences:
> Reliving her parents' deaths
> Being chased by a knife wielding stalker
> Watching Light being hurt/die
> Being rejected by Light, in any capacity
> Being blindfolded/confined, as seen in icon

Quick History:
Model turned pop idol/actress turned mass murderer of criminals with magic notebook.

Quick Personality:
Bubbly pop star with sociopathic tendencies and an extreme devotion to the object of her affections that might border on the obsessive.

Triggers/things you'd like to avoid:
>> Rape, extreme gore. If in doubt, ask.
Edited 2012-08-14 17:35 (UTC)

[personal profile] solsticeanew 2012-08-14 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
After reading so many pages, the text in his book starts to blur. Light rubs his eyes; he didn't think he was tired, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to stay focused. One more page, he tells himself. One more page and then he'll take a break. One more page...

When Light opens his eyes, he wakes in a nebulous space—ill-defined, but bursting with the potential to become something more. He reaches out with his finger tips, perhaps to give it form, but then stops. Even before he properly makes the attempt, he knows it will not work.

Of course, this all makes perfect sense because this is not Light's dream.

It's strange that he has an intuitive understanding of this, but he doesn't question it. That knowledge comes as naturally to him as the knowledge that the sky is a shade of blue.

There's a scream that echoes from both far away and in his head. Without giving it any thought, Light knows it is Misa. Again, he can't explain how he just knows this, but he doesn't have the leisure to question it either. Misa is in trouble and although he can't see her, he can feel her presence in the air like invisible particles of smoke.

And as though Misa is trying to pull Light to where she is, the void around him violently lurches and coalesces into a darkened alleyway that he has never seen before.
definedbydeeds: (duality)

Bruce Wayne/ Batman || Batman (Nolanverse-ish) || OTA

[personal profile] definedbydeeds 2012-08-14 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Possible nightmares/preferences:
-- death of people he cares about (Rachel/Alfred/Gotham in general/etc) and unable to do anything about it
-- bats / pre-existing canon traumatic events
-- the whole prison sequence in TDKR going fantastically awry

Quick History: Compliant with Nolanverse; he's established as the Bat, juggling Bruce and the vigilante thing. Post-Joker, tentatively post-Bane, although I will ALWAYS welcome Robins as worked into the verse because *ROBIN*
Quick Personality: Definition of stubborn, with questionable methods and entirely too much focus on saving people and Issues out the wazoo. ...come on, he's the Bat.
Triggers/things you'd like to avoid: ehhh none I can think of? If you're leaning towards smut ask first, but pretty much anything else is a go.

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