i think chumbawumba sang about this very thing

[apeopleperson]

HOLLYWOOD AMNESIA MEME



You know the cliched plotline where someone loses their memory in some way, be it a bump on the head, being hit by a laser, enacting your evil plan to throw the good guys off your trail, or just randomly forgetting everything you ever knew one day just for the hell of it? Well, now you've gone and done it. You've lost your memory, Hollywood-style, and you can't remember who or what you are. Good going!

Not to be confused with an Amnesia: The Dark Descent meme. Sorry folks.

HOW IT WORKS:
- Tag the meme, leaving your character name, fandom, and any preferences in the subject line.
- Other character tags you.
- You tag back, and use the random number generator to select from the following options, either for you or the person tagging you. Or don't, and do whatever strikes your fancy. If you roll something your character already is, either roll again, go for human, or pick something that otherwise suits your fancy.
- Other character reacts, or is free to also roll on the table
- Play out the results.
- Have fun, but respect the preferences of others.
- And, of course, there may be triggers in this meme. So be warned.

1. Wake Up Time!: They've woken up. Maybe in a hospital, maybe on the street, maybe in a scientist's lair, but their first reaction is the same - they can't recall how they got there. Or where they were before. Or their name. Or...perhaps they don't remember anything from before waking up...and there's no identification on hand to help them out!

2. Try To Blend In...: Your character's decided to try and make the best of it, and embark on a new life, and new identity. Of course they can't escape the nagging feeling that they should be doing something entirely different with their life, but maybe they ignore it in favor of some normalcy. Or they stay forever curious about their forgotten life...

3. This Feels Familiar: Maybe its a place, or a person, or just a general feeling, but your character feels an incredibly strong sense of deja-vu about...whatever it is. It is strong enough to think that maybe - just maybe - this could be a clue to who your character really is! Now the question is - is it really?

4. How Could You Have Forgotten Me?: Oh boy. It was bound to happen. Someone runs up to your character to give you a giant hug, and they are just so happy to see your character is ok! Looks like your character's going to have to break the bad news to them - your character's never met them before now and don't remember ever meeting them. Your character can only hope they take it well as they try to explain this all to them...

5. You're On My Side, Remember?: Oh, hey, there's someone who seems to not only know who your character really is, but can explain that your character and he/she were the best of friends and did everything together and maybe there were these jerks that were responsible for their memory loss! There's just one problem - this person was actually your character's enemy pre-memory loss. Not that they remember this...which suits this enemy just fine.

6. Through Different Eyes: Maybe your character was rich pre-amnesia, and they're poor. Or evil, and they're good. Two things are for certain, however. Before your character lost their memory, your character and this other person have never met before - or if they have, they don't know they have. And they're both in the same bind somehow - kidnapped, about to be laid off, it could be anything - or just have something in common. Slowly, the two characters bond, becoming the best and unlikeliest of friends as they both go through life and its trials.

7. Lock and Load!: No memory loss plot is complete without some kind of battle! It can be an insanely epic superhero battle where your character's friends must fight your character - as an amnesiac enemy! Or it can be as normal as your amnesiac character arguing in front of the school board to prevent the under-funded program from being closed - by the company they ran before they lost their memory, ironically. Basically, a battle where your character's on a different side due to their amnesia.

8. Hulk Smash Your Head: The endgame. Someone has decided your character's been amnesiac long enough and is taking action! And thus, your character is about to get their memory - or have gotten it - back. How? How will they react when you remember everything and try to reconcile it with what they did (if they remember what they did while amnesiac, of course)? And...can someone get your character an aspirin!?

9. Joker's Wild. Mix, match, or make up your own!

Comments

Bruce Banner :: MCU :: OTA

[hulkbusted]

[I was just gonna keep going, but then I saw 8 and I had to. All scenarios are welcome from either side of the amnesia of course.]

How does 5 sound for Bruce?

[hisbiggestfan]

Mizuno Ami/Mercury | PGSM Sailor Moon

[waterfell]

7~?

[polyturtle]

Akemi Homura | Puella Magi Madoka Magica

[braidstobows]

5~!

[mooneclipse]

Dana Winchester | Rule63!Dean Supernatural | Het

[siswinchester]

Alister Azimuth || Ratchet and Clank

[double_edged]

1 & pretend like i have any idea what i'm doing ok

[soldiernoclass]

[ It's not the first body he's run across.

When the mercenary work runs out, salvage turns a good enough profit - and when you spend most of your time scouring mostly deserted worlds for old wrecks and new finds, you're bound to turn over a few stones with something a little red and sticky stuck to the undersides. You get used to it, even if you don't want to.

Usually they're a lot flatter, though. Or at least considerably more... Exploded.

This guy? He's all in one piece, whatever he is. Even if his ship isn't. That's surprise number one. Surprise number two is that he's still breathing.

About halfway through hauling him out of the wrecked lifeboat he found him in, Zack comes to the not at all unpleasant realization that the body he's dragging along is not so dead, after all. It'll save him all the trouble of digging a grave and trying to think of something appropriately philosophical to say while he stands around in the middle of nowhere, a funeral service of one. None of that, today, though - instead, he finds a flat enough patch of ground to lay the poor guy out on, before he starts unfastening the canteen strapped over his shoulder. ]

Hey, buddy. Rise and shine! How about it? I've got a long enough day ahead of me without draggin' your furry butt around.

[ A grace period, as he unscrews the cap. ]

I'm trying to be nice about this, but if you don't wake up soon, you're gonna get the water.

Donatello Hamato | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

[polyturtle]

Thor Odinson | MCU

[tableflips]

Re: Thor Odinson | MCU

[silver_tongue]

Ohai! Any chance you want to thread with the delinquent little brother? You can roll if you like!

Bart Allen/Kid Flash II | DC Comics (AU from pre-reboot) | OTA

[kid_flash_found]

[The last time this happened, he thought he was the Adam West Batman...]

arthur pendragon | folklore

[pendraig]

c:

[kingmaking]

[ ooc; hi may i ]

Sherlock Holmes | BBC Sherlock

[noangel_nothero]

Jimmy Novak | Supernatural | OTA

[devout_man]

[Not so much actual amnesia as There's been an angel running around in my body and I remember none of it.]

Joan Watson | Elementary

[formersurgeon]

8

[bakedstreet]

[Gladstone has waited two straight weeks since Joan returned from the hospital for her to recognize him. Not that she didn't recognize him as a dog, didn't pet him and give him water and food and the like, but she wasn't like she used to be. She had thrown out the pair of slippers she left on the floor specifically for him to gnaw on, for one thing, and that was quite an upset in the life of a tubby dog like him. There were little things, too, the way she looked at him when he sneezed, the way she looked at him when he snorted, the way she looked at him when he had finished drinking...

He knew it was something to do with her head, but there wasn't much Gladstone could do to her head. He was a dog, after all, and without thumbs and a body with better coordination, the only thing he'd ever be able to do to human heads would involved gnawing and drooling. The necks, however, he could go for the necks! He could get his teeth around them easily enough, but Gladstone doesn't want to kill Joan, and he knows that would be a bad idea. That was why the neighbor's dog a few years ago had to go "Be Put Down" which didn't sound like any fun to him. It sounded whispered and awful, like a really bad version of whatever downtown was, just for dogs who bit in bad places.

As a puppy, Gladstone had bitten her ankle in fright. It had bled and bled—or, to him, what had seemed like a lot of blood. He was a tiny thing, but he remembered watching it come out and thinking he had really screwed the proverbial pooch and should have just taken the damn knotted toy. By the time she'd stopped the bleeding, Gladstone had gone from unhappy and barking and wanting to go back to his mother to decidedly interested in whatever it was his new owner did.

It's not her head, but maybe it'll spark something in her head. But not her actual head head, because that's not by her feet. In her mind, maybe, Gladstone worming underneath the chair she's in to bite her left ankle will smash some sense into her. Maybe. It's a thought.

It's a bulldog's thought, and no one ever said they were especially bright.]

Olivia Dunham | Fringe

[twintimelines]

Kanji Tatsumi | Persona 4

[chairguillotine]

natasha romanoff (black widow) ⌛ marvel cinema

[debts]

[ On the side of the road, there's a woman with blood under her fingernails and streaked in dirt. Her clothes are coated in a thin film of sand. Who knows how long she's been out here, walking along in her bare feet, trekking through the dry plains.

New Mexico: hell of a place, it turns out. ]

Will Graham | Hannibal Lecter Series (Red Dragon) | OTA

[plainordinary]

Sir Guy of Gisborne | BBC Robin Hood

[ofgisborne]

Javert | Book/musical fusion | OTA

[order_and_light]

5 because I am an asshole like that

[illegalist]

Do wake up, mon ami.

[She had originally intended to have the Black Committee deal with him, but. Irma decided that, in his case, perhaps a personal visit was in order first. The self-proclaimed "paragon of the law" deserved as much before his inevitable execution, after all. He'd always been so insufferable.]

Anna Milton | Supernatural | OTA

[afallenstar]

can you say canon?

Albert Wily || The Protomen

[turnsthewheels]

Wheatley | Portal

[soabirdcameand]

Barty Crouch Jr. // Harry Potter // OTA

[tongue_lashing]

Iron Liz | Atop the Fourth Wall

[punsofiron]

4

[milliondollarpipes]

Iron? Oh my god, Iron!

[Yep, here comes the hug. He was worried about you!] Geez, kid, where the hell've you been? Red's been workin' herself to the bone tryin' to hunt you down!

toothiana | rise of the guardians

[bloodandgum]

[WHAT A TWEEST?]

1

[motherofthesun]

[Well, this was different. Crossing Japan to discover this iridescent being fallen here? Had she not been along the banks of the City Checkpoint's river, who knows what could've happened.]

[It takes a lilypad and a few controlled gusts of winds to reach shore, but at least this being isn't drifting down the river anymore. She sniffs the unfamiliar woman's cheek and licks once.]

Enjolras / Les Mis modern AU

[abaisse]