hell is other people

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Hell Is Other People

The Premise You are dead. No matter what you were before, no matter where you were, you now find yourself waking up in a vast, endless white space that seems to stretch on eternally — equipped only with the knowledge of your mission: This isn't heaven, and if you want any hope of making it out of here, there's another person you have to find; and you must make that person forgive you for your sins. The Nitty-Gritty » Your character wakes up with a sin marked above their head in big red letters. Don't leave those top-levels blank! It can be something as vague as a deadly sin, or it can be a more specific crime. » Your character cannot lie to or manipulate the other party into forgiving them. Attempts to do so will result in a small buzzing in their ears that quickly worsens to an unbearable headache. » The side tagging in has the same mission! We're all sinners here. (NOTE: your character does not necessarily have to be a bad person or a villain. The bar is low!) » If your character had a weapon on them before, it's gone now. Attempts at violence aren't forbidden, but it's not like you can actually make death stick in a place like this. Injuries, too, heal abnormally quickly. So if your character wants to risk it, threats and injury are a go! Just don't be surprised if that ends up backfiring and making it even more difficult to get the other side to forgive them. » Both parties must decide that the other can be forgiven in order to be freed from this place.

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Thanatos ☠ Hades ☠ OTA

[guhdong]

[This guy is probably the one who brought you here. This is Thanatos, god of death and the grim reaper.

So he's pretty visible as these things go. He has a massive scythe taller than him with a purple eye fixed on it, and he hovers a couple feet off the ground as he observes the dead, his lips pulled in a thoughtful frown.]

Hermes ☿ Hades ☿ OTA

[messageforyou]

[Hermes sometimes picks up the slack if a lot of people are dying and need delivering to purgatory, so it's possible he delivered your character here. But his primary responsibility? Connecting people with each other through messages and giving directions as needed.]

Good day or night, boss. How can I help you today?

[He's obviously out of place, with no sin on his head and with bright orange wings coming from his head and feet.]

Philip Ojomo (The Wraith) | Dead By Daylight

[wailingbell]

[His sin is WRATH, and he looks like he's literally been to hell and back already. He's smeared with blood, mud, and war paint, holding a weapon fashioned from a man's skull and partial spinal column. If you look at him too long, he will absolutely disappear from view.]

mr bing bong!! :D

[hellpriest]

[ ooc: how do you feel about a lil thread with separate, human pinhead aka elliot spencer? in hellraiser 2 he dies to save Kristy from the grossest cenobite ever and in hellraiser 3, this human self is extracted and sent to limbo so pinhead can be 100% evil. also, i love dbd and am happy people play from it. ]

Charon | Hades | OTA

[bloodorobols]

[If one of those first gentlemen brought you here, this is the man that's going to get you to where you're going, be it to the splendor of Elysium, the fire and brimstone of the flooded Asphodel plains, or straight to the lower pits of Tartarus. Just be sure that you've got your fare ready.]

assuming he's going directly to the house of hades for lad duties

[refusetofight]

[ As Charon's ferry approaches the outer reaches of Elysium and the river Lethe feeds into the Phlegethon, the single passenger—up to now morosely silent—speaks up: ]

Aren't we meant to linger here so I may drink?

[ Achilles is sure the boatman knows his own duties—certainly doesn't need to be corrected by a fresh shade—but he was more than prepared to forget the rage and bloodshed in the last months of his life. ]

madison montgomery | ahs | ota

[athirdchance]

[ ignore journal info. its getting a redo but here's some info if necessary. otherwise, I'm golden. ]

DEATH

Maybe it wasn't a sin by the book, but Madison herself had been the cause of many of them. Whether they were through self-defense, revenge, protection, or purely out of bitter spite, she had a list.

She'd also been to Hell and this...was far from the literal Retail Hell she'd spent some time in. That had been a true punishment. Listening to people bitch about returns, asking for managers, inventory and restock, and being mistaken for Lindsay Lohan?

It was enough to make anyone wish they could die in Hell itself.

"Is this someone's idea of joke because it's lame as fuck."

Emet-Selch | FFXIV (Endwalker spoilers possible)

[caughtnapping]

[Someone looks cranky, standing there with 'GENOCIDE' written over his head in perhaps overly fancy letters. Surely there's a story behind that, right?]

Same canon! (Up to date as of 6.1, spoilers are a go.)

[crystalbetrayed]

[ Hen shouldn't be here, not this soon, but she is. The words above her head shift on occasion, as if more than one sin is vying for the place atop her head. For now however, as if specifically to mock them both, the word KINSLAYER settles above her head.

She rubs the back of her neck, casual dress implying Hen died while asleep. ]

...I...I'm sorry. For, honestly for a lot of things, but I didn't get to explore the ruins beneath the Bounty.

[thaumasion]

Missing an S, I should think. [honestly can't help himself. the most nonplussed expression. his own sin swims in and out of focus, shifting from one word to another. murder is one, destroyer of hope is the longest. apathy repeats the most frequent.]

Gladiolus Thrip | Demons (2009) | OTA

[noseferatu]

[ ABOMINATION AGAINST GOD ]

No! God bloody - no! Not now! Not before he - GRRAAHHH!!

[ Grown man in a ruffly shirt having a full-blown tantrum here on the fields of Hell. Everyone else had to die to get here too, dude, get over it. ]

[thetombcreeper]

[Hello, Thrip. Here approaches a familiar face but it looks like he shoved his finger in a socket and melted an LED into his forehead.

Above his head reads MURDERER. SHADOW POWER.

But he says nothing, just smirking to himself as he looks over the vampire.]

hades | greek myth | ota

[agetes]

[ eventually, you come to a man on a throne.

it’s surprisingly modest, almost deceptively so. he’s not clothed in fine silks or in gilded armor, just a stiff, practical tunic and cowl, black as night. his crown is a band of steel at his temples, nothing more. it’s tricky to see his sin, the lettering has faded with time. and rather than floating above his head, it hangs on his breast as if a nametag: ]

PRIDE AND DUTY

[ he glances up, scroll and pen in hand. ]

Name?

hades | greek myth | ota

[nekipas]

[ she’s tried to scratch hers out more times than she count. and yet, after all this time, it still flickers above her, shining like neon light. ]

fuck you i had to
i deserve worse
just let me burn with them

PATRICIDE

[ judging by how she’s glaring daggers while taking a nip from her flask, she does not want to talk about it. ]

Aelienor Estienie | FFXIV WoL | EW compliant

[bladesdarkandlight]

[There's a single word just hovering over this woman's head: VENGEANCE. If one looks carefully, however, a shadowy figure can be seen flickering in and out, hovering possessively around her.]

Maedhros | the silmarillion | ota

[holdshisown]

[Kinslayer is the word that accusingly hangs above his head.]

[taveren]

[Lews Therin Telamon. First among men and Aes Sedai. The Dragon. Kinslayer. So they named him thousands of years ago and call him to this day, the man who broke the world. The litanies are first to come to mind when Mat Cauthon spies the word every child learns early from stories meant to scare and awe, sending a shiver through him. Or maybe it's seeing the condemnation attached to someone with reddish hair and pale eyes.

A silly thing to get worked up over—does any of it matter anymore?—when there are a hundred other eye-catching reasons to stare at the fellow, clearly a step or two removed from human. But it's the first thing in a while that almost makes him want to unfold from his cross-legged seat and shove off. Hard to say how much time has passed, but he's been sitting in what seems to be the closest approximation of a dead man's rest for the duration of it.]

Can't say I expected this at the end of the line, but the expectation might be where I went wrong. [He nods his chin at the glaring title.] That what did you in?

[No acknowledgement of his own red-lettered accusation. Not even a flicker of a glance. It shines over him all the same: FAILURE TO FULFILL DESTINY.]

Lan Wangji | Mo Dao Zu Shi | OTA

[one_note]

[there's a man in white somewhere here, seated kneeling on the ground; his eyes are closed in quiet meditation. the word LOVE is written over his head.]

[noseferatu]

That's your sin? Scary. Shaking in my boots, I am.

[ Don't mind him, he's pissy that he's dead. ]

Zerxus Ilerez | Critical Role | ota

[finalfirstknight]

[The tall handsome man oozes strength and pride in his rusted and burned armor. An impressive set of rams horns curl outward from his dark hair and he sits on a small throne next to a more impressive one beside him that is at least twice as tall and wide as his own. A dark mace with a blood red jewel is gripped in one hand and he leans forward one word above his head. PRIDE]

Speak...what sin has brought you to my lord's door?

Oersted | Live a Live | MAJOR SPOILERS, BEWARE

[thevanquished]

[There's a knight just... sitting here, not looking for his supposed forgiveness. He just keeps his eyes closed, either asleep or meditating.

Over his head hangs (highlight for spoilers): Hate

Not a sin in the classic sense, but there is a gravity to it somehow regardless]

((ooc: journal is originally based on the fan-translation but I'm slowly updating to the switch official translation, so be gentle))

Shen Qingqiu| The Scum Villian's Self-Saving System|ota

[peerless_cucumber]

[Shen Qingqiu or at least the soul inhabiting him is sitting in lotus posture and seemingly deep in meditation. There is a single word glowing above his head - or is it some kind of abbreviation?: OOC. No other explanation is offered.]

[littlesapphire]

[There is a blue girl with horns in front of Shen Qingqiu, looking cheerful and curious and kinda demonic. It probably doesn't help that her sin, in bold, reads blasphemy.] OOC! [She pronounces it like "ook."] What's Ooc?

Jin Guangyao (Meng Yao)|The Untamed|ota

[hidden_fragrance]

[A diminutive man dressed in gold robes twitches on the ground as though coming back into consciousness. He might be having a nightmare. The words above him read: CHICANERY]

[noneforyou]

[ Xue Yang gives the man a small nudge with his foot. To his credit, it's not a kick. ]

Hey. Looks like you're here too now.

[ He leans over Jin Guangyao, staring down at him with a complicated expression. Above his own head is the word "DESTRUCTION". ]

Xiao Xingchen|The Untamed|ota

[blind_trust]

[There is a man in white with a bandage across his eyes. The bandages are stained red as though the wounds are fresh. He is on his hands and knees in the weeds searching as though frantically trying to find something he's lost. He is not even aware of the words 'Fool' hanging over his head in the ether.]

Jester Lavorre // Critical Role

[littlesapphire]

[Jester's sign reads "BLASPHEMY". She's giggling and appears to be whispering conspiratorially to a weasel she has tucked into the hood of her cloak.] Artie! Artie, look!

Thoth | Kamigami no Asobi

[kabethoth]

[ One of those gods you'd probably meet in the afterlife, tbh. ]

elliot spencer | hellraiser | ota

[hellpriest]

OOC:

Spoiler but also, this series is old, so like...
Anyways, the low-down is Pinhead was once human, a Captain in the British army during WWI. Eventually he opens the Lament Configuration and becomes a priest of Hell, and we get the pale, spikey-headed villain we're used to. In Hellraiser 2, he dies to save Kristy from literally the most disgusting Cenobite ever. He comes back in Hellraiser 3, more powerful and more evil than ever because any remnant of his past human self has been extracted and sent to limbo - your boy here is that man, Elliot Spencer given another chance but very broken and hollow and stuck in the worst WWI groundhog's day limbo ever.
While it is hard not to ascribe every sin upon demonic Pinhead, for human Elliot, his sin will be greed, as greed for power is a predominate theme in every version of his character and how he ruined his life in the first place.
And no, he will not try to kill you, he's too busy trying to drown himself in hedonism.