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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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Yeah. It's more real than what's here. [More real than this dreamlike dull world he finds himself wandering around in. Carter scratches his head.] Do you get that too?

I - [He looks away, frowning deeply.] I don't remember it. There are pieces, mostly the places, but that's all. And every time I think it's real, I feel so - pissed off.

[Pissed off is an understatement. He feels something close to murderous rage.]

I lost something. I just don't know what.

I know how that feels! [Carter's never met anyone who really understands, someone who doesn't think he's crazy for trying to live in two worlds at the same time. His eyes are wide with joy.] Like there's something important you lost but you can't remember it enough to get it back. I remember bits and pieces but I don't know the whole thing. I think if I could just remember I'd know what happened.

There was a school. A boarding school. [John's face works with concentration.] And then I was living in the woods. And then -

[He punches the hood of his car, ignoring the pain that lances through his arm.]

- then I'm back there. But I had something, and now it's gone. There were other people too, two old men -

[When he gets that far, he has to press a hand to his mouth to keep the emotion down. The fury and betrayal make him want to scream.]

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