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THE AMNESIA MEME

Ah, amnesia. The old standby for soap operas, it usually involves a good knock on the head and a complete loss of memory. Ever wanted to do that to your character? Well, now's your chance.

1. Comment with your characters!
2. Others comment. Optionally, go to RNG and roll the scenario. (As to who gets knocked on the head, well, that's up to you!)
3. ???
4. PROFIT.

1. HEAD-ON COLLISION - ... whoops. It was an honest mistake, really! You didn't see that car/tree/post/person/whatever coming, but now you're stumbling out of the wreckage sans memory. Better ask for help.

2. WAIT, WHO ARE YOU? - Okay, so a while ago, you got into... something that caused you to lose your memory. Fortunately, you managed to get by and create a new identity for yourself. Unfortunately, someone new has just entered your life. Or should I say, someone who's a little too familiar...

3. RINSE AND REPEAT - Sigh. Really, this is just so inconvenient. You wake up everyday with no memory of who you are, and have to figure it out over the course of the day, only to fall asleep and have to do it all over again the next day. Good thing someone's there to help you out, right? And what's with all those post-its and notes?

4. THIS ROOM'S TOO WHITE - Welcome to the hospital. You've got an "Unknown" tag on your wrist, a healthy diet of bland hospital food, a steady trickle of doctors coming in to check up on you, and a TV, and nothing else. Looks like someone's coming to help you today, though! Here's to hoping they knew you before you lost your memory.

5. I'M SUPPOSED TO DO WHAT?! - Oh, crap. There's something only you can do right now -- that is, the you who didn't lose your memory, anyway. Better figure out a way out of this mess and how to control your strange abilities before it's too late.

6. FIGHTING FOR THE WRONG SIDE - Uh, oh. Looks like your enemies decided to take advantage of your confused state and convinced you that you're on their side. Here's to hoping your allies can get you back to yourself before you cause some serious damage.

7. JUST TOO TRAUMATIC - You just saw something that's so traumatic you lost your memory because of it. Unfortunately, right now, you have to remember it, or else something really bad happens. Hope you don't regret remembering this!

8. I DON'T WANT THIS - You've been living a peaceful, ordinary life, for a while. And you'd rather it stay that way, because you're not sure if you'd want to remember what went before. Unfortunately, something's coming, and the key to stopping it lies in your memories.

9. NO SUCH THING - Maybe you were a wizard, or a werewolf, or an angel, or a demon, or something else entirely before, or maybe you just knew about the masquerade. Sadly, you've been knocked on the head and now believe yourself to be a perfectly ordinary person. Magic? That doesn't exist, right? Anything can be explained with science, after all! Right?

10. I'M WHO?! - And who the hell are you? Basically, this is the wild card option! Combine one of the above or make up a new one or whatever you want! Go wild!

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[For a few days after she'd been brought in, they'd called her Jane Doe on account of her obvious American accent. But privately, the nurses and the orderlies had begun to refer to her as simply The Woman. Because despite her inability to remember much of anything, she was exacting and demanding, in a way that none of them had come to expect from a patient who had been brought in on an injury that'd left cuts and bruises and head trauma similar to a car crash, but without any reports in the area of car crashes.

For her part, the patient herself was unaware she was being either exacting or demanding. It was simply how things were, a pattern of speech, of interaction that felt correct to her despite having absolutely no realization of why that would be. It was muscle memory, no doubt, and she indulged it shamelessly, hoping that by doing so some clue would return through the fog.

No doubt it was the same reason she instinctively pulled her long hair up into a loose knot every waking moment, feeling a distinct wrongness, a distinct vulnerability in the feel of it against the back of her neck.

But days after the incident that left her bereft of memory, the hospital grew stifling, its walls a blank prison, and The Woman once known as Irene Adler makes her way out and into a city she doesn't remember.]

[Otherwise known as "canon", in his case.]

[Pretty much basically canon.]

Edited 2013-01-19 22:55 (UTC)

[Rolled a 5, do you want Stiles or Isaac to be the amnesiac?]

( ooc: Isaac fits for five. I'll set up. )

[ He's close to having a panic attack, breath coming in quick bursts of air as he drags Isaac down an abandoned alleyway and flails his hands dramatically. ]

Seriously - seriously? How can you not remember? I need you to remember, Jesus. [ Listening hard as he hears a crack somewhere close by. The monster of the week - whatever it actually is - has been stalking them for miles. Stiles isn't sure only he caught a flash of feathers and claws when it went for Isaac, when it attacked and spat something all over him before Stiles had grabbed him and ran for it. ] Do you know where Derek is?

[ She disappears for a while. Most people think that it is what it is — Natasha's long known how to live off the grid if that's what she wants. Six months go by, then eight, then ten. She has a dog and a house in a sleepy little coastal town, doesn't have an ID or social security number but works part-time in a little mom and pop florist's place.

(Strange, how Natalie — and that's her name, maybe — has skills she doesn't remember learning. Then again, there's not much she does remember.) ]

[ i also have a storybrooke!au mulan if you'd like. just say the word. ]

I don't even know who Derek is! What was that thing?

[He was panicking. He was being attacked by things, and apparently, he was supposed to know how to turn into something more dangerous and wolf-like, and at the moment, he couldn't even remember his own name. This would be terrifying on it's own, but it made things even worse knowing they were being chased by something that had covered him in gunk, although he didn't remember it doing that, either, he did remember running from it. And he did hear that crack. Isaac froze.]

It's close.

[He felt a surge of instincts he didn't understand, a desire to sniff the air, to...to something. So he tried sniffing the air. This only confirmed what he'd already smelled.]

Really close.

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the amnesia meme

Margaret Shaw || OC || OTA

Kain Highwind | Final Fantasy IV/Dissidia 012

Irene Adler || BBC Sherlock

Chris Redfield | Resident Evil | OTA

( ѕтιleѕ ѕтιlιnѕĸι | тeen wolғ | oтa )

Orihime Inoue | Bleach | Het where applicable

Jimmy Novak | Supernatural

JOAN WATSON ♜ elementary

JESSE PINKMAN ♟ breaking bad

[ Cʟɪɴᴛ Bᴀʀᴛᴏɴ || MCU || OTA ]

Isaac Lahey | Teen Wolf | OTA

no subject

Tony Stark | MCU

John Sheppard • Stargate: Atlantis

no subject

Annette | Castlevania |

natasha romanoff (black widow) ⌛ marvel cinema

Hermione Granger | Harry Potter | OPEN

Dean Winchester || Supernatural || OTA

Roxas | Kingdom Hearts | OTA

mulan | once upon a time

Dutch Gordy | Motorcity | OTA

Nightlight | RotG / GoC

no subject

{ damon salvatore :: the vampire diaries }