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sixthiterationlogs2017-11-11 07:07 pm
majorlyugh) wrote in sixthiterationlogs2017-11-11 07:07 pm
[i'll use you as focal point so i don’t lose sight of what i want]
WHO: Major Lilywhite
WHERE: Around both villages
WHEN: Nov 1 - 4, Stage I; Nov 5 - 6, Stage II; Nov 7 - 9, Stage III
OPEN TO: OTA!
WARNINGS: Will update as needed.
i. i have a bad feeling about this
The beginning is mostly mild, with Major forgetting the names of a few folks around the village. In each of the conversations, he chalks it up to having a rough night's sleep (mostly true), the general exhaustion of life in the village, or just having "one of those days." The only person whose name he didn't forget was Ravi's, though he doesn't connect it to the fact that he'd known him before his arrival in the fountain.
If someone he knows in the village were to run into him while he's at this stage, he will do his best to hide the fact that he has absolutely no idea what that person's name is. He'll try to carry on and having conversations as normal, but the other person might suspect that something's up. He'll laugh it off, apologize, make some joke about it - but there'll be a slight glint of worry in his eyes that he is forgetting something so basic and simple.
ii. there is always something worse
Things don't seem to get much better as time wears on. If anything, Major's forgetting more and more. Now, instead of forgetting names only, he seems to be forgetting people entirely, greeting people he's spoken to or has developed relationships with as though he's never seen them before. He can be found wandering the village a lot, eyes saucer-wide and full of curiosity, as though he's seeing the place for the first time. He might also be overheard complaining about the lack of electricity, the lack of video games, and the lack of modern technology - and he might be asking why all of those things are abhorrently absent, as though he's realizing it for the first time.
Conversations with Major at this stage will be on the frustrating side, fleeting. He'll forget things that were just spoken about a few minutes earlier. He might ask the other person what their name is again, how he got here, where Seattle is, where any of his missing friends are. He only vaguely recognizes Ravi, and he might insist that the real Ravi is still somewhere back in Seattle. The one in the village is just an imposter.
iii. only catastrophe is clearly visible
By the end, Major seems to have reverted back to his college football days. Somehow, the strange location and setting don't seem to bother him as much as one would expect, but he can be seen in any open field, utilizing whatever he can find as a makeshift football, running drills for hours on-end. He has no memory of the village, of his more recent days prior to the village in the city of Seattle, Ravi, the whole zombie outbreak, being the Chaos Killer, nothing.
He talks a lot about his parents' divorce, how his mom had come out as a lesbian and found a girlfriend, how he'd chosen his dad's side because he didn't know what else to do. He talks about a new girl he's been dating, a woman named Olivia Moore, who goes to UW with him. He talks about being nervous about meeting her friends for the first time, especially a woman named Peyton, whom Liv has known since high school. He talks about being a starting Safety on the UW football team. He talks about grappling with what to do with his life, his thoughts of pursuing social work, and everything else that a college co-ed might grapple with half-way through school.
WHERE: Around both villages
WHEN: Nov 1 - 4, Stage I; Nov 5 - 6, Stage II; Nov 7 - 9, Stage III
OPEN TO: OTA!
WARNINGS: Will update as needed.
i. i have a bad feeling about this
The beginning is mostly mild, with Major forgetting the names of a few folks around the village. In each of the conversations, he chalks it up to having a rough night's sleep (mostly true), the general exhaustion of life in the village, or just having "one of those days." The only person whose name he didn't forget was Ravi's, though he doesn't connect it to the fact that he'd known him before his arrival in the fountain.
If someone he knows in the village were to run into him while he's at this stage, he will do his best to hide the fact that he has absolutely no idea what that person's name is. He'll try to carry on and having conversations as normal, but the other person might suspect that something's up. He'll laugh it off, apologize, make some joke about it - but there'll be a slight glint of worry in his eyes that he is forgetting something so basic and simple.
ii. there is always something worse
Things don't seem to get much better as time wears on. If anything, Major's forgetting more and more. Now, instead of forgetting names only, he seems to be forgetting people entirely, greeting people he's spoken to or has developed relationships with as though he's never seen them before. He can be found wandering the village a lot, eyes saucer-wide and full of curiosity, as though he's seeing the place for the first time. He might also be overheard complaining about the lack of electricity, the lack of video games, and the lack of modern technology - and he might be asking why all of those things are abhorrently absent, as though he's realizing it for the first time.
Conversations with Major at this stage will be on the frustrating side, fleeting. He'll forget things that were just spoken about a few minutes earlier. He might ask the other person what their name is again, how he got here, where Seattle is, where any of his missing friends are. He only vaguely recognizes Ravi, and he might insist that the real Ravi is still somewhere back in Seattle. The one in the village is just an imposter.
iii. only catastrophe is clearly visible
By the end, Major seems to have reverted back to his college football days. Somehow, the strange location and setting don't seem to bother him as much as one would expect, but he can be seen in any open field, utilizing whatever he can find as a makeshift football, running drills for hours on-end. He has no memory of the village, of his more recent days prior to the village in the city of Seattle, Ravi, the whole zombie outbreak, being the Chaos Killer, nothing.
He talks a lot about his parents' divorce, how his mom had come out as a lesbian and found a girlfriend, how he'd chosen his dad's side because he didn't know what else to do. He talks about a new girl he's been dating, a woman named Olivia Moore, who goes to UW with him. He talks about being nervous about meeting her friends for the first time, especially a woman named Peyton, whom Liv has known since high school. He talks about being a starting Safety on the UW football team. He talks about grappling with what to do with his life, his thoughts of pursuing social work, and everything else that a college co-ed might grapple with half-way through school.
ii. there is always something worse
She was carrying a collection of dried milkweed reeds that she had collected early that morning. They were tied together with rope and slung across her back.
Moana knew Major, not by name but she had seen him around the village a few times. He was friends with Ravi, who Moana counted as friend even though she rarely saw him. It was a little surprising to see Major wandering around looking as lost as he currently did and the oddity was enough to make her pause. "Um..." Her voice broke the silence in an awkward timber.
"Are you okay?"
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"Yeah, I'm --" But Major cuts himself off, deciding not to pursue that. He isn't really sure if he's okay. He doesn't even know what "being okay" would mean at this point. He glances at the ground, at the reeds on her back, at her outfit, at their surroundings. "Do you -- do you know where we are? Where am I?" he asks, turning back to her.
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It felt like a safe assumption to assume he lived there.
She didn't give him time to answer her questions and set to explain, since he'd most likely ask again if she didn't reply back. "This is a village with no name. Everyone arrives through the fountain but we don't know why we're here." Moana shifted her weight nervously between the pads of her feet. Her fingers curled into a loose fist that bumped gently against her thigh.
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He glances in the direction of her extended finger, but when he turns back to her, his brows are furrowed.
"No, we don't. We live together in a house in Seattle." He gestures to the village around him with his hands. "This isn't Seattle. This is .. I don't know where this is." His concerned and disturbed expression only gets worse the more she talks. ".. What .. do you mean? We're .. I'm not in Seattle?"
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"Did you forget?" She asked, the tension and worry in her voice now audible.
This wasn't Seattle. Moana tried to bring up the little map that she had in her head but Seattle wasn't on it. Was that near Chicago? She'd ask later. Right now she needed to focus on Major and his apparent amnesia. "Ravi is here." She continued, hoping that it might somehow help him if they keep talking about it. "You've seen him haven't you? You guys still live together."
She didn't know if this would work or not.
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"We do? .. Ravi's here?" A pause before he snaps and points at her, like he's remembered something. "Oh, you mean Impostor Ravi. He's a fake. He's totally like an evil clone or something. The real Ravi is back home. In Seattle." Another pause as he blinks, tilting his head slightly. "How do I get back to Seattle?"
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Moana was very worried now. "This is a different realm from our homes. No one knows how to get back." She shifted her weight between her feet while thumping her fist gently against the side of her thigh. "I don't think that Ravi is fake." He's been here longer than Major though Moana wasn't sure if that would convince Major.
"Why do you think he's fake?"
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"It'l be okay. We're figuring it out."