The Normal Meme

[eightlazylegs]

The Brought Down To Normal Meme

You are normal. Utterly normal. There are no superpowers in your life, no magic, no action movie fight scenes, no spaceships or dramatic battles between good and evil. The last exciting thing that happened to you was getting a free coffee with your tenth Starbucks purchase. And yet something seems a little...off.

Mental Status:
1. Taken In Completely: You've never been anything really special, you're sure of it. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is obviously a crazy person.
2. A Sense of Unease: You don't feel comfortable in your own life, but you can't figure out why. Maybe you just need to go on vacation and shake that wanderlust off your shoulders--it can't be anything more meaningful.
3. Strong Suspicions: You keep getting flashbacks to a life you once knew and memories you can't completely recover. The picture's not complete, not yet, but somehow you know things aren't how they should be.
4. WTF Is This?: You remember everything about your old life, but nobody around you will believe you. Will you break free of the illusion, or is a peaceful lie better than a harsh reality?

Normal-Inducer:
1. The Matrix Has You: You're locked in a dream machine that's created an alternate reality for you to live in. A boring one.
2. Reality-Warping: Someone's changed the universe to be more to their tastes, and you along with it.
3. Pulled a Brazil: Your real life is so horrific that your mind has retreated into something more banal. The best place to hide is in-sanity.
4. Please Wake Up: You've gotten yourself into a coma and for lack of anything better to do you've made up an entire world for yourself to live in.
5. Hypnosis: The world's the same, but your mind's been altered to make you think you're nothing but a mere dull mortal.
6. Wildcard

Post your name/canon, write out a brief scenario for your normal character, then RNG or pick an option to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. The other poster can be a part of the illusion, the cause of the illusion, or someone who's been sent in to yank you back out.

Comments

[kid_flash_found]

"I wasn't trying to stalk anyone," Bart protested. "It just happened. I tried not to."

But it didn't work. As soon as he stopped thinking about him, his feet just led him right back. "And it wasn't the first thing. That was taking all those placement exams and spending like a week in school counseling."

[clone_boy]

"School counseling?" Conner won't admit that he's checked the place out as well. The first few times he'd had the same dream. Just to make sure he wasn't going crazy.

[kid_flash_found]

"Because moving midyear with Aunt Joan not doing so well is supposed to be traumatic," Bart admitted. "But she's in her nineties, so that's nothing new. She's just fragile these days."

[clone_boy]

"Oh. Sorry."

That quiets Conner down a bit. They walk along in silence for a while. Conner's really not good with emotional stuff. He doesn't even remember having reason to be upset about death or any of that. Maybe it's just never crossed his mind. Still, he feels a little detached. He knows he should feel empathy, and he does, but it's definitely not the same as when he loses a football game, for example.

"So you keep following me around," he begins after a while. "But you don't want to? You just find yourself...stuck watching me?"

[kid_flash_found]

"I guess. It feels like we were friends, or should be. It's pretty crazy. The kind of crazy that makes people run for the hills. But it doesn't feel crazy, which makes it all the worse. If I think about it, I know there must be something wrong with me. It's when I'm being impulsive that stuff just happens," he admitted, studying his feet for a while as they walk.

When they reached the edge of the farm, he hesitated, not because he didn't want to talk with Conner, but because he didn't know what crossing this line would mean.