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ANTI-BUCKET LIST MEME

To spin a twist on the bucket list tradition, list something your character doesn't want to experience again.

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Kozakura | Otherside Picnic

[flatcola]

Having my girlfriend leave me for a high schooler who'll explore the horror dimension with her. ...I think I've got good odds.

Spanner Kurogane | Kamen Rider Gotchard

[machwheel]

[Having to see his parents die in front of him again for what would be either the second or even third time... Depends if you'd think that one last time with the angel malgam even counted.

He certainly doesn't want to think about it.]

Buson (Attila) | Pokemon | OTA

[buson]

Catching a Legendary Pokemon only to lose it again. Twice.

Losing to some punk kids and a caped bozo with a sports car. That'd be like getting hit with lightning twice, right?

Accidentally abducting some kid who set the intended target loose.

Prison. Would rather avoid more prison time.

[Aaand Faraway Place specific bonuses:]

Getting banned from the onsen sucked, especially since there's no beach on Chura...

Getting crushed under rocks. Although, if it's to save Bashou... [He'd do it again.]

[woodeneye]

No beach?!

[ Why. Why would anyone. ]

[buson]

I know, right? It's criminal. The dock's just for ships and boats an' things, too dangerous to go swimmin' in.

... but it couldn't be helped, had to move to a place better-suited to my partner, not to mention, it's more affordable, an' I got a nice job on a ship, so I could go back to the more expensive island with the beach, an' see other places too. It all works out!

[woodeneye]

[ Ragetti relaxes visibly. Still not ideal, but he'd been picturing a landlocked suburb, or someplace equally nightmarish. ]

Oh, well, that ain't so bad then. Long's you got the sea. But why's yer mate need to live there anyway? Workin' on a ship's nice an' all, but not near the same thing.

[ He's not sure why anyone would want to live on land at all, honestly. But if you're going to, you ought at least to have a beach. ]

[buson]

((... meanwhile, the player's sitting here, working in a landlocked place, when she grew up near a sea port and swam every other week as a kid: rub it in, why don't you! ... I kid, I kid, but, maaan.))

Yeah, couldn't give that up!

... he's got... [Buson's searching for a polite way to put it. His partner's always had a tenuous grip on sanity, but a stranger didn't need to know details. Better keep it vague!] He don't do too good with communal living. He needs space. I couldn't afford a better place to stay. I was already stayin' with someone else and my partner's the cautious sort, so movin' in wasn't an option either, an' I didn't own that place either. [It'd be rude to impose!]

'Sides, we both fly planes, I handled cargo too, so there's a lot that's translatable between the two jobs.
[... sure, cargo, that's putting it nicely... poaching, it was poaching, sometimes kidnapping.]

[woodeneye]

[ ((I'm so sorryyy I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me)) ]

Ooh. Prob'ly for the best, then, yeah. Don't sound like he'd take too easy to the pirate lifestyle. Or the Navy lifestyle either, come to that - meanin' no offense.

[ He'd never intentionally disparage a man by comparing him to the illustrious officers of the King's Navy. ]

- Wait. You can fly?

[ Ha ha what is any technology invented after 1730 ]

[buson]

((All is forgiven~))

Haha, nope! Poor guy just about tolerates bein' on the sea. Bit better on ships than on little boats, he's not fond'a the rockin'.

[Buson laughed heartily at that! Navy, huh...? Buson's got tactical boots (though that might be too modern for Ragetti) and a bandolier on (although presently, there are only pokeballs clipped to it), but the the characters making up his name certainly can read as soldier (... or war, or weapon...), but he takes no offense either way. It's funny.]

Yep! We fly a tiltrotor. Never seen a plane before? [He'll grin! He's been in enough places with folks from different worlds and points in time, it doesn't bother him.] It'd be fun to introduce ya!

Count Marzo Kalif | Masters of the Universe (200X)

[geezer_mode]

[Relying a little too heavily on a magical artifact that can be taken away or used to force you to "help" someone out with something as a bargaining chip.]

Not anymore, I don't.

I made sure that it and its power is now much more safely kept.

Ragetti | Pirates of the Caribbean | OTA

[woodeneye]

Bein' cursed to not be able to feel pleasure an' also turn into a skeleton every night for ten years, if it's all the same to ye.

[ once was enough ]

[teamz]

          [ Record scratch... ]

          Wait, wait, no pleasure at all? Could you at least have chocolate?

[woodeneye]

[ A rueful shake of the head. ]

Not as we ever had it much anyways, but yeah, didn't taste like nothing if we did. Water, maybe. Real thick water.

[teamz]

          My taste buds are a little dead, but not that bad. Did you at least have fun scaring people as a skeleton? And not to mention the pun potential...

[woodeneye]

- All right, that bit weren't so bad. Pirate, yeah? Turns out folks're a lot keener to give up their valuables when they're bein' encouraged to it by an unholy creature from the depths of Hell. So that was all right. It was the... rest of it I weren't so fond of, if ye follow me.

Dunno if I'm the one ye want for puns, though. Not exactly the clever type, see. I think Pintel mighter made a couple?

[teamz]

          Oh, and you didn't have to worry about what you'd wear for Halloween! See, every cloud has a silver lining, I guess.

          A pirate, hm? That sounds fun. What was your biggest score?

[woodeneye]

Wear fer what now?

[ Unfortunately, and in despite of his ride's close proximity to the Haunted Mansion, that's not a word that will hit the English language for another fifty-some-odd years from Ragetti's perspective. ]

Hmm. S'pose from a global standpoint, it'd have to be the heart o' Davy Jones, wouldn't it? On account of him what controls the heart controls the seas, an' all. That bein' seventy-one percent o' the earth's surface. Hard to get much bigger'n that.

[ Not that they actually held onto it for more than, like, a minute. But that's details. ]

[teamz]

          [ No matter how often Blaine had met others in the strange interdimensional nexus, he always managed to slip up somehow. ]

          Sorry—where I'm from, we have a holiday where people dress up in all sorts of costumes, and either party or the kids go around in neighborhoods asking for candy. One of the classics to dress up as is the undead, such as skeletons. Too bad they didn't have that in your time. Bet you could have won so many contests.

          [ When he mentioned Davy Jones, Blaine's brows jumped as his mind instantly thought of the guy from The Monkees. But as he explained further, it made much more sense. ]

          So you got hold of the heart... but did it actually work? [ Blaine would guess not, seeing as the guy was here instead of ruling over the seas. ]

[woodeneye]

Oh! All Souls Day sorter thing, yeah? Give us a soul cake an' all that? Couldn't've tasted 'em, of course.

[ Yeah, okay, don't rub it in :c ]

Well... tell the truth, we didn't have our hands on it for that long. Er. For hardly at all, really. But it was the still-beatin' heart of Davy Jones! I heard it, I did. Beatin' like anything.

[ Ragetti demonstrates, grasping an imaginary heart in one hand and squeezing a couple times. Thump thump. ]

'Course, Jones's dead now, so ye'd need the still-beatin' heart of Will Turner if ye wanted to control the seas these days, I suppose. But I wouldn't get too attached to that idea if I were ye. Unless ye fancy taking on the Pirate King yerself.

[ He knows the Pirate King. You do not want to cross the Pirate King. ]

[teamz]

          Yeah, something like that... Wait, a soul cake? Well, at least you can have them now; make up for lost time.

          [ Blaine watched him carefully. The guy didn't seem to be lying or high. Interesting. ]

          Alright, brother, I believe you. Even if you didn't get to keep it long, just confirming it existed was worth it, you know?

          [ As for controlling the seas, the hustler couldn't imagine any way to really make money doing that, so it sounded more like a parlor trick type of deal to impress the ladies, if anything. ]

          The Pirate King? Pfft, just aim for the pegleg, and he's down for the count, right?

          [ Blaine had no idea what powers this Pirate King possessed, but immobilizing one's enemy was always a sound strategy. ]

[woodeneye]

Oh - it's just a name, soul cakes. No actual souls in 'em... far's I know. Currants mostly.

[ At least, uh. He hopes there are no actual souls in soul cakes. But it's just occurring to him that he's never actually witnessed the baking process. Eep.

And hey, if you can't think of any ways to make money by controlling the seas, you're clearly not used to thinking like a pirate! Do you know how many trade routes run through those things, which have ships in them, which are ripe for the plundering? It's a lot! ]

Yeah, erm, I wouldn't advise that one, mate. She don't got a pegleg, for starters.

[ The Pirate King is, in fact, a woman. One might argue that the title is a little misleading. ]

[teamz]

          [ Blaine found this guy highly entertaining and nodded at him with a grin as he explained there weren't actual souls in the cakes. And the trade route idea would have probably occurred to him eventually. But for now, he imagined controlling the seas as mainly a power of destruction.

          Brows raised when he revealed the Pirate King was a woman, and a sly smirk formed on his lips. ]

          Oh, well, that requires a totally different type of strategy. Long story short, all I'd have to do is wield the ol'DeBeers charm, and she'd be defenseless. Then I'd rule the seas at her side. Easy peasy, right?

          [ There were probably rules in place to keep that from happening or something. Couldn't have been that simple. Nothing ever was. ]

Maedhros | the Silmarillion | OTA

[holdshisown]

One Nirnaeth Arnoediad was quite enough for me. I'd... rather not have to live through something like that again.

Remilia Scarlet (Adult) | Touhou Project | OTA

[scarlet_devil]

Drinking the blood of an angel. Turns out the blood of a celestial is harmful to vampires, as in poisonous.

[noseferatu]

...That so.

[ Gladiolus Thrip does not like to think there are things he doesn't know about what is and isn't harmful to vampires. But he's also never actually crossed paths with an angel before. ]

How poisonous exactly are we talking? Like, legitimately life-threatening, on your deathbed sort of thing, or like, gives you the shits?

[scarlet_devil]

[ Well, what do you know, Remilia approves of his fashion sense. ]

It would had killed me if I wasn't already dead, so to speak.

[noseferatu]

[ .....is that an effect of the angel poisoning or ]

Charming. Not a delicacy I'll be seeking out for myself, then. How was it you found yourself in the company of one of our ethereal chums, if I might ask?

[scarlet_devil]

She got bored up in heaven and came down to mess around. Caused a bit of ruckus too.

[noseferatu]

Terrible. Don't know why those types can't learn to stay out of where they're not wanted. Then again, were it the case that they could, I'd probably be out of a job.

shiro ashiya / alciel | the devil is a part timer

[khatsudoom]

I am never eating at KFC again.

Getting wrapped up in a trap set by an archangel is also not recommended-- that's merely less easy to avoid.

[lifegoals]

Seriously? No KFC? [ Denji is shocked, appalled, and stunned, even if he only knows two of those words. ] Who the hell says no to fried chicken, man?

[khatsudoom]

You say No when the local store manager personally tried to hurt you and your associates.

Stevie Harrington | 63!Steve Harrington | Stranger Things

[greathairington]

Definitely not trying to lose anymore fights. Against people or hell bats.

Asano Rin | Blade of the Immortal | OTA

[revengeisalie]

Trekking through the mountains on foot with my worst enemy while being pursued by his enemies.

[buson]

... why not toss him at them an' be done with it?

[revengeisalie]

At that point, they thought I was his ally.

And, uh... I kinda didn't want to just let him die due to something that had nothing to do with my issue.

Amber 🏹 Genshin Impact

[favonius_archer]

Being caught by a bunch of monsters without my bow. Things worked out in the end but I'll pass on ever being that unfortunate again.