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APOCALYPSE MEME

The end of the world is here. Are you ready or are you going to kick the bucket? Maybe you've been prepared for the apocalypse for ages or you're blissfully unaware. You can play it straight or for comedy (think Shaun of the Dead), but please be aware that there's likely to be triggering content within so consider content warnings!

TIMELINE

1. BEGINNING Things have only just begun. Can you get ahead of the problem or are things just going to go to shit?
2. MIDDLE Things HAVE gone to shit. You're right in the middle of things and there's no end in sight. You have to do your best just to get to tomorrow.
3. END Things are finally winding down (or amping up getting ready to wind down). You're in preparations for the final battle, you're killing off the last few zombies, you're living your life.
4. REBUILD/DESPAIR Things are OVER. Either you won or you lost, time to rebuild or go down in your bunker and cry. Hold onto your asses, folks.

SCENARIOS

1. MONSTERS/KAIJU Think Godzilla or Pacific Rim. There are monsters, huge ones, and you gotta go through some shit to keep them from killing everything and busting up that last Dunkin Donuts you go to every Thursday with the cute girl working the counter. This is an outrage!!
2. ZOMBIES You know the drill. Whether fast or slow, virus or reanimated, airborne or fluid-borne, biting or eating: your favorite thing, zombies. Remember to aim for the head.
3. ALIENS Visitors from space! ... Except they're killing all of you! Does anyone you know have a cold? Send them to the front lines.
4. WAR Everything's gone to hell. It's going to become a nuclear winter out there if someone doesn't stop the tide of this war. History won't be written by the victors because there won't BE any.
5. "UTOPIA" Everyone is happy, right? Things are so much better now that we don't have any emotions, right? When we started culling populations to keep enough supplies for everyone, right?
6. ROBOTS YOU DID THIS TO YOURSELVES. YIKES. Skynet is a thing, everything is terrible, you're gonna get owned by a Reaper, whatever. Take 'em out, cowboy.
7. DISEASE You're not turning into rabid monsters, but people are dying off at alarming rates. What's causing it? Is there a cure? Is anyone immune? Figure it out, boyo.
8. MISC Anything left over!! Killer tomatoes? World taken over by talking dogs in exoskeletons? Whatever man, we're not the cops. Have fun.

As always, these are just suggestions. Make up anything you want, as long as you're having fun!

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[Especially fond of Utopia but open to all the scenarios beginning to rebuild.]

[He lives in the distant future of 199X, where the world is devastated by nuclear war, but any of these scenarios could work.]

[ ...Duty failed and darkness prevails? Whatever floats your boat! ]

[His canon is a futuristic sci-fi with western overtones but I'll try and work around you.]

[Aliens would probably be the most likely, but I'll AU into anything.]

( possible option: Morgoth or Sauron actually succeed and rule Arda! the world either becomes utter chaos (Morgoth), or rigidly controlled (Sauron), we can discuss in detail how it'd all look if anyone's interested. PMs are open. o/ I am, however, also interested in regular kind of apocalypse settings. c: )

((Hi there! Hope I'm not too late. Dystopia by Morgoth or Sauron sounds fine by me. Darc here is half human and half Deimos, a race descended from monsters - I'm thinking the ruling evil forces were experimenting on/corrupting him, but he escaped or Legolas rescued him. Y/N?))

[Open to pretty much all options. Shipping unlikely without a good CR build up unless canonmates]

[Story of his life. His version involved a complete loss of any sort of electrical power.]

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[ooc: loss of electrical power, governmental collapse, etc.]

[Prefer not zombies or robots. Would kind of love to have Griffith vs Kaiju, which is sort of his canon (but not really)? Huge fan of just our two characters in a mostly abandoned apocalyptic landscape trying to survive (and, for Griffith, to find/steal/establish a kingdom).]

[Most interested in Zombies (virus), War, or Utopia.]

[Navigator and/or medic.]

I'll meet you in Starling for a drink.

Funny how the world can go sideways when you least expect it. Only this time it's nothing that Sam Winchester saw coming. No demons, no Lucifer, no deadly Apocalypse brought on by Heaven, Hell or any intermediary being.

He had been out with Sara, their first face to face meeting no less, when things went wrong. When the sky split open in shades of green and blue fire and the aliens descended. Cities erupted into chaos and those that weren't killed outright in those first few days were either forced into hiding or killed by the virus that the aliens had unleashed to mop up who was left.

Dean had been pulled away in the chaos and they'd been separated. All Sam could do was hope that his brother was still out there somewhere, still fighting and still surviving.

He and Sara had fought their way through the chaos, battled and scavenged and managed to keep one another alive despite terrifying odds. When Sam faltered, she picked him up and when it was too much for Sara, he was the one to help. In another life they could have been best friends, allies.

In this life? They needed one another to survive if they were ever going to track down their missing family members.