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didn't someone post this yesterday?

GROUNDHOG DAY: THE MEME
or: timeloops and you
or: timeloops and you
You just woke up, and something is wrong. The radio is playing the same song from the day before. The weather is exactly the same. Your dog is sleeping in the exact same spot, your mom just burnt the same waffles. Today is yesterday, and you've already gone through everything that's about to happen again. Nothing you do carries over from day to day, no one else remembers a thing that you or anyone else has done. Even death has no permanence in this world. Will you get out there and find the key to breaking your time loop? Will you surrender to the despair of being forever stuck in time? Or will you embrace the fact that there are no more consequences in life and you can do whatever you wish? Let's find out.
- Comment with your character information and preferences. Let people know whether you'd like to play the character trapped in the loop or a bystander caught up in the madness around them. Pick from the prompts below, or let your taggers decide.
- Keep in mind that this meme will necessitate clear communication if your characters are close or are assumed to have been in contact before during the time loop! OOC planning before playing out threads is a great idea.
- Tag around, have fun, don't be a jerk.
- the second go-around: What's going on? Why is everyone acting like yesterday is today? This isn't normal, someone explain all this!
- it's been a while: You've got a couple loops under your belt now. You don't know everything about everyone, but if you go about your usual day, you know exactly what's going to happen. Maybe it's time to start switching things up?
- forever and a day: How long has it been? Months? Years? Decades? You lost count a long time ago. You know how every moment of every day in every location you can reach is going to go down. All that's left to do is find ways to mitigate the endless tedium.
- something's different: You've been at this for a while, but this is the first time anything has changed. Today isn't exactly like yesterday. Is it a glitch in the loop? Did you do something to change it? Is this a one-time thing, or will every day be like this now?
- you aren't alone: There's someone else trapped in this loop with you. Maybe several someones. Are they new to the repetition? Did they start at the same time as you? Will they remember any of this tomorrow?
- the answer is right there: You know what you have to do to end this, it's simply a matter of setting up the dominoes to pull it off. Will you stop an apocalypse? Save a life? End one? One day at a time, you get a little closer to having a tomorrow.
- the end: You did it. It's over. At long last, it's tomorrow. How long has it been since you woke up to a brand new day? How will you adjust back to a normal life? Can you go back to the way you were?
- wildcard: Got another idea? Make it happen, you've got all the time in the world.
Link | Legend Of Zelda | OTA
crosscanon welcome]
Jacen Solo | Star Wars Legends
Bucky Barnes | MCU
misaki okusawa | bang dream! | ota
uzumaki naruto | OTA
ok bear with me here what if soulmate groundhog day au
this toplevel gives me life in so many ways...
He's making his way to the gym with his eyes closed, knowing for a fact that nothing will bump into him because nothing ever does, and when he pushes open the door he's ready to greet Lilina with as much enthusiasm as he can considering she's basically a mindless dummy acting out an almost identical spiel for over a week now.
When he hears the sound of the box clattering as it skids a little across the floor, then, his eyes open with a snap and he raises his eyebrows. ]
Lilina... You look-- [ He takes a step closer. She looks real is what his brain is thinking, but his mouth won't form it. ] Ya look... tired. Are ya okay? What's wrong with the box, huh?
l i s t e n i already have so many ideas for this?? don't look at me
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Ya should be more careful when you're by yourself, y'know. You coulda broke something. [ Whether he's talking about her or the box is unclear, but either way he gives her a little smile before moving over to the ladder and holding one side of it still like he knows she's about to ask him to do.
He looks a little distracted, peering around as though he's trying to find a clue hidden somewhere in this room, and only when she starts up the ladder does something seem to click and he pipes up: ]
Hey, maybe I should put the decorations up this time? [ This time??? She's not going to know what this time means, you dumbass! ] I mean-- since it's normally the girls that do it, and I'm a bit taller, y'know?
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[ He also does his level best to keep his face out of the way of her skirts this time, to avoid any awkward questions or ridiculous mishaps when her ruffles obscure his vision. ]
I'm fine, I just-- [ He just wants to figure out the cause for all of this. And even if he's stuck here forever he'd like to be stuck in the version of events where he and Lilina are excited about going to the dance together, even if it ultimately never happens. Anything is better than the version where she yells at him or picks his answers apart or flat out ignores him completely. ] I'm just kinda tired, y'know?
[ Not exactly untrue. ]
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What are ya talkin' about?? You said it's not the plant that's important, it's the tradition! You said that it's an opportunity, and a chance! What about all those people who want to kiss the people they like but are too scared to do it? You can't take that away from them just 'cause you're pissed off for some reason!
[ Okay, so he's yelling. This is probably one of those bad days where he and Lilina don't speak to each other and don't go to the dance and there's no chance for them under the mistletoe, but.. but Naruto can't help it. The thought of Lilina being so disillusioned with romance is the most upsetting thing this bullshit time-loop has thrown at him so far. ]
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She doesn't hit him but her words still hurt, and Naruto opens the eyes he screwed shut while he lowers his defensive arms, looking into her flushed face with a desperate looking expression on his own. She looks like she's hoping he'll confirm, but that means admitting to letting her suffer, so Naruto's response is torn.
Ultimately, though.. he can't lie. ]
Y-yeah.. All the loops, right?
[ And he can't deny that he's hopeful himself, because.. if she can remember the loops too, then clearly they're more to each other than just random acquaintances... right? ]
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When Lilina just about bursts, shaking so violently it's like her small body is about to fall apart, and though Naruto wouldn't be surprised if she smacked him away he swoops forward to put his arms around her, hands on her forearms, her ducked head bumping his chest. ]
Hey-- Hey, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to- I dunno, I just didn't think, y'know? I'm not smart or anythin' so I didn't know, I couldn't figure out what to do an' I didn't wanna bring it up incase it made that loop into another one where you don't like me.
[ He's babbling, but his hands are rubbing her arms like an adult might do to a screaming child.. he clearly thinks it's comforting. He's clearly struggling. ]
I never wanted to upset ya like this.. I shoulda just said. I'm sorry.
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But nevertheless he presses his lips together and nods. She is right, after all. Feeling sorry won't help right now. ]
Watch your feet this time, huh? I don't want ya to go tumblin' down and messin' up your wrist like ya did the first time.
[ He takes her hand firmly, focusing on her feet as she steps, making sure to hold his other hand out. Just in case. ]
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He doesn't have enough time to flinch away from her hair, so he gets a waft of air and scent thrown at him that makes him jump, and therefore leaves him a little starstruck as she holds her phone out to him. ]
Uhh, okay. [ He says, taking it and tapping the screen with his finger like an elderly person might; his pointer finger straight out, his taps a little too forceful. It takes him a little time to get the contacts page up, then to input his number, but once its done he hands it back to her. He hopes she doesn't want him to input hers in return, because that would mean dragging the half useless hunk of plastic out of his pocket and... well, things are almost going well right now, he doesn't want to ruin them by getting embarrassed over his phone, if it can be called that. ]
What do ya want my number for?
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She's right, after all. They're one step closer to beating this monster, to overcoming it, to getting out.
But the minute she mentions texting and calling, the realisation that they'll have to split up hits him, and he's grabbing for her hand again before he's really even processed what he's doing or what he's going to say. ]
Don't ya think we should stick together? If we separate, an' go home an' text or call, one of us could fall asleep an' then tomorrow everything will have reset an' there won't be anythin' we can do about it. [ He hopes he doesn't look as desperate as he feels, holding onto her hand like a child trying to weather the storm by clinging to their parents coat. ] The only time stuff changes is when we're together, right?
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I — I suppose you're right...
[ she strives to think practically here, despite how warm it suddenly feels in the air-conditioned gymnasium. ]
It would be prudent of us to make the most use of our time... We could go to the library and do some research together. [ she's still staring at their joined hands lakjsla ] I will just have to tell my parents I've decided to go to the dance.
2 maybe secretly 5?
[ He hasn't slept in days, but he only feels like he missed a single night. That's it's own kind of tiring. His head is buzzing; even with his body feeling more or less fine, his brain sure as hell hasn't had time to reset from all the input. He feels like he's losing his shit. ]
[ Which might be why, today, when Naruto orders the same ramen with the same toppings for breakfast, when it comes out in exactly the same arrangement it does every day, with the same noodle hanging off the edge of the bowl, dripping on the table in the same pattern, Sasuke reaches over his plates of omusubi and gyoza - same goddamn burn marks on the furthest-right dumpling, same pattern of black sesame on the rice ball one left from center, same swizzles of sauce - and plucks the wayward bastard off the edge of Naruto's bowl and brings pulls the whole strand out, letting it dance and wiggle as he steals it across the table, splattering broth between them. Fuck it. It won't matter tomorrow, because it'll be the same fucking bowl with the same dangling strand all the fuck over again. ]
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Relief comes like pressure being siphoned off of his brain, from the moment Sasuke reaches over and pulls the noodle out from his bowl. The broth splatters across his hand and flicks at his face, and when he raises his sleeve to wipe his cheek on it and glares up at the other man across the table.. his anger isn't nearly as concentrated as it could be, mostly because Naruto feels like laughing at the feeling of something finally breaking through the haze. ]
Oi, if ya want noodles, order your own! [ He cries, much too giddy with something else finally happening, and bearing his chopsticks poised to take a jab at one of Sasuke's unwitting gyoza. ]
only a million years later, sorry. somewhere between 699 and 700 work for you? l
Now though? Now Karin wished she'd ignored the message. Karin should have told Naruto she was in the middle of some kind of time sensitive part of her research and she'd be there as soon as she could. Could have, should have, would have. Too late for regrets now, she's here and she's staying put until she figures out how to break whatever jutsu is keeping her and she swears if this is some elaborate genjutsu she is murdering the user when she gets out.
But this time of day she tries to vary. She's skipping the consult again. Watching the kids play in the street too young for academy life. Or they just don't care that they're missing their lessons because life is at peace again finally. She watches as the same red headed girl trips and skins her knee just like yesterday and a countless number of yesterdays before that. Watches the brown haired boy she was chasing stand there motionless watching her cry. She's never actually interacted with this situation just watched observed as the stuffed rabbit the boy stole still hangs limply in his fingers.
With a sigh she moves to the girl, kneels down and offers the girl a smile.]
Hey that looked like it hurt.
[The girl looks up sharply and nods her head, bottom lip trembling and Karin holds out her hands.]
I can patch that up for you.
[She probably isn't supposed to deviate so much from the original day, but you know what she doesn't care. It's been long enough at this point that what harm could it possibly do? She'll be sitting in that same consult again tomorrow morning trying very hard not to say for verbatim what the other medics are saying.
Besides who is going to yell at her for healing a scraped knee? She's the only one living this loop. Right?]
works for me! <3
Oi!
[ Okay, so maybe it sounds like he's yelling at her. But who would Naruto be to actually yell at anyone? Sure, he's kind of a hero, as gifted as a god, budding to be a Kage, but he's still just a teenager and so is she... and besides, he'll never yell at anyone for helping another person out. Especially someone in need.
No, Naruto is yelling mostly because that's just what Naruto does, but also because he's finally found something in this weird feedback loop that's different.
It took him two or three days to actually notice anything was wrong, figuring people were just adjusting to the monotony of peacetime when they repeated answers word for word, but then he started to realise that Sakura sighed at the same time every day, tossed her hair in the same way; that Kiba tripped over his own feet when coming out of the bakery in exactly the same manner and flushed identically every time; that Hinata was always sitting by the same tree, and was always surprised when she looked up to see him there.
Being a font of energy he's already tested every theory he can think of to break the cycle in a matter of a few days, examining everything and making sure it hasn't changed in any way, so when he stumbles on Karin he's in the process of trying to talk to literally everyone in the village to see if they've experienced something similar. Therefore, of course, he thinks this lucky happenstance is entirely down to his hard work. Good job, Naruto. ]
Oi oi oi! [ He yells again despite the fact he's barely two feet from her. ] Oi, is somethin' weird happenin' to you too, huh? Does everythin' keep goin' around and around for you too? Ya never spoke to her yesterday! Or.. before... or whatever, y'know!