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Siffleur ([personal profile] teethoftherisk) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway2023-03-07 01:05 pm

then I found a place, it's dark and it's rotted [memeshare - open]

Who: Siffleur and you
What: Memory sharing & an opt-in
When: throughout March
Where: various
Warnings: Body horror, medical gore, cannibalism, death, suicide, suicidal idealization, child neglect, possible discussions of past sexual assault in first prompt, unreality



1) The River

On the banks of a newly defrosted river, a young women who looks to be in her mid-twenties kneels by the ice cold waters. The snow has melted, but there's a chill in the air that can't be shaken. Her hair is dirty and matted, and she's wearing a stained dress that's too big for her. Beside her is a freshly birthed baby, half-transformed between human and cougar, screaming in pain.

The woman isn't handling it well. Siffleur is about 10 minutes old and he's also not handling it well either.


2) The Forest

In an old growth forest in the height of summer, a small cougar kitten has left the den where his mother sleeps to play in the grass and chase the large dragonflies that dart around. Siffleur is very young and very curious, and though he usually avoids other people, today he's feeling brave enough to investigate anything new and novel. He's climbing a old fallen log in pursuit of a particularly shiny dragonfly that's resting on the end.

But he loses his grip when he sees someone new in the clearing, falling back and going head over heels, rolling back a few times before landing paws up.


3) The City

In a rundown city just across the Canadian border, a teen boy sits outside a convenience store. His clothing is dirty and stained, and he hasn't washed in at least two weeks. His stomach growls and he watches carefully as people slowly trickle in and out of the store. Siffleur's shaggy hair hangs in his eyes and he doesn't ask for help - he just watches each person as they exit their car.

There's someone here who wasn't there before. His yellow eyes snap to them, quickly looking them up and down.


4) The Small Town

In a place with a population of less than a 1000 people, less than six half-paved streets and one bar, Siffleur sits at the bar with a beer. His cellphone buzzes now and then but he's left it laying face down, not bothering to check it. There's plenty of empty stools around him - less of an invitation and more of a warning.

On the TVs, Ottawa is playing Anaheim, but from the dour mood of those folks watching the screens, it's clear that a Canadian team isn't going to win this Stanley Cup. Occasionally, Siffleur glances back, looking for someone who isn't here yet.


5) Killing Myself In Front Of You To Change The Trajectory Of Your Life Forever (Opt-In, TW: Suicide)

This isn't Siffleur's memory - it's one of yours.

Perhaps it's something personal, something traumatic and private, the kind of thing you would hate to have seen by anyone. Perhaps it's of better times, good days, drinks, laughter, that kind of thing. Maybe it's just another quiet mundane day.

It doesn't matter. The moment he realizes he's in your memory, Siffleur acts instantly and decisively, and kills himself. There's no hesitation. If there's danger he can use to do it, he does - throwing himself against the obvious monsters, picking a fight with something that's ready to rip him to shreds. Or, if not that, then he'll do the job himself with a kitchen knife if available, or anything sharp.

And in the most dire of circumstances where there's nothing for him to use at all? Well... here's your front row seat to a memory of a complete stranger looking around, grabbing his head between his hands and snapping his own neck.

He'll be back on the ship the next day, carefully avoiding the cracks as he attempts to shuffle away from his cabin and over to the buffet to eat breakfast. Feel free to ambush him for an answer then.
takethatnature: Wilson sitting in an armchair, reading a book with the barely-visible title "Science Stuff Probably". (Default)

[personal profile] takethatnature 2023-03-16 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Wilson thinks about Fossils and Morsels.

An oddly familiar sight catches Wilson's eye as he grabs an omelette and a muffin early in the morning. Back home - Earth-home, not Constant-home - he didn't like to get up before nine, at the earliest, but all the revivals at dawn and staying awake for days on end until he went to bed from mental more than physical exhaustion left his circadian rhythm in shambles before he even got to the boat.

He realises he's been staring for long enough that it's noticeable. "Hi."
Edited (oh my god i didn't mean to just post that as an image) 2023-03-16 04:15 (UTC)
takethatnature: A slightly frustrated Wilson looking downwards and gesturing with his right hand, mouth open to exposit about something. (beardy: well the thing is)

[personal profile] takethatnature 2023-03-18 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Wilson waves a hand, and the muffin in it, dismissively. "It's not the worst fight we've had. There was the time we built about twice as many statues as necessary and the shadow pieces killed everyone except Walani, or when we tried to fight the Toadstool and Winona's catapults kept hitting us instead of it. Wasn't the first time someone died and then vanished, either, although usually they came back eventually."

These things happen when you live in an incidentally-PvP server of a multiplayer video game!
takethatnature: A slightly frustrated Wilson looking downwards and gesturing with his right hand, mouth open to exposit about something. (beardy: well the thing is)

1/2

[personal profile] takethatnature 2023-03-24 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Telltale Hearts. Tie up a spider gland just right and pour some of your own blood into it, and it can resuscitate someone from death."

Wilson completely misinterprets what Siffleur is talking about and assumes he means the overwhelming shadows the Fuelweaver summons onto people. "That's fair."
takethatnature: Wilson frowning intensely and raising one eyebrow. (ugh)

2/2

[personal profile] takethatnature 2023-03-24 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's such an unscientific way to describe it!" Wilson gripes. "There's no such thing as ghosts."

He says, on the ghost-infested ship, to the guy who was a ghost right in front of him, while having previously been a ghost sometimes himself.
takethatnature: Wilson with a sort of exaggerated-looking closed-mouthed frown. (PB: frowny face)

damn canon characters and their one-liners

[personal profile] takethatnature 2023-03-26 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"No it isn't! Ghosts are just a superstition."
takethatnature: Wilson with one eyebrow furrowed and his tongue sticking out of his mouth in concentration as he holds up a steaming beaker of mysterious pink science liquid. (concentration)

[personal profile] takethatnature 2023-03-27 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Wilson assumes this means he's won the argument.

"Anyhow. Telltale Hearts are easy to make if you have the right kind of spiders around. It's not the cleanest method of revival, but it doesn't take many resources."
takethatnature: Wilson with one eyebrow furrowed and his tongue sticking out of his mouth in concentration as he holds up a steaming beaker of mysterious pink science liquid. (concentration)

[personal profile] takethatnature 2023-03-27 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
Wilson ticks them off on his fingers as he recites the methods he's aware of. "Telltale Hearts, life amulets, touchstones, meat effigies, those flowers that grew out of the Pugalisk's fountain water, and Wanda said she'd been to a version of the world where the portal itself could be used for that but nobody else could get it to work. So that's about 5.5 ways? Most requiring some form of active participation on the part of the deceased."
takethatnature: A slightly frustrated Wilson looking downwards and gesturing with his right hand, mouth open to exposit about something. (beardy: well the thing is)

[personal profile] takethatnature 2023-04-01 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, we knew. Most of us made some kind of twisted deal with the guy running the place." Wilson pauses. "Except Wolfgang. And WX-78 said they didn't either, but every time I asked them what they meant they just told me it was none of my business. And it was someone different for Winona. But for most of us, Maxwell popped up at some low point of ours and offered us something. And we technically even got it, but it came with a free one-way trip."