i tried ( memshare event )

[skaikru]

Who: clarke griffin & your poor unfortunate soul
What: memories, all alone in the moonlight
When: all of march
Where: wherever you least expect a rift in reality to open up. also space, mount weather, earth...
Warnings: general warnings for blood, violence, murder attempted or completed, genocide, maybe even gross body farming. specific prompts will have their individual warnings listed in the body of this post and any additional ones will be noted in subject headers.




CHILDHOOD ( open )
— enjoy the little things, like watching a kid commit the stupid crime of touching books. no warnings here.

SKYBOX ( karkat, number 6, & open )
— did you know clarke was in prison for a year for treason? conspiracy to commit treason? eh, best summed up as "to keep her quiet". well now you can find out! bonus points, she thinks she's hallucinating. cw: probably some dead dad/execution talk and mention of mild eugenics themes, this is dystopia space after all.

D(ropship) DAY ( rita & open )
— when 100 kids are pretty certain they're about to be prematurely executed, one or two's likely to fight back. abby griffin cameo! cw: see above warnings.

QUARANTINE ( darcy, palamedes, & open )
— witness clarke gone absolutely feral, and her first escape attempt from body harvesters she doesn't know are body harvesters yet mount weather. cw: some self harm, blood, violence, potential body horror depending on how the thread goes.

LEVERS ( open but requires plotting )
— join clarke in committing a genocide! cw: genocide!! (also mentions of torture and body farming) this can also partially serve as a cinematic experience for your character, but please respond with some sort of reaction just so i know who saw it.

AIRLOCK 5 ( semi-closed to natsuno, but hmu ooc if you're interested )
— no one likes being faced with their demons. but sometimes those demons set up creepy music boxes and lure you into watching your friends being murdered. cw: violence, attempted (or successful! threads of fate can be changed) murder

THE CITY OF LIGHT ( open )
— when you show an a.i. a picture of the greater metropolitan new york, but she cleans it up and also makes it a hivemind that you have to infiltrate. cw: violence, some creepy hivemind shit, will warn further for anything else.

AFTERMATH ( open )
— your all purpose aftermath wildcards! wanted a memory i mentioned in the plotting post but it didn't make the cut? still available upon request! request starters or throw up your own

Comments

[neverleave]

Golems are humanoids made of clay, meant to serve their creators. Genies are spirits of fire and air, and humans can enslave them with magical items.

It's a pretty good book. We can read some if you want.

[If there's no objection, he'll scoot closer to set the book between them. The Golem's life began in the hold of a steamship. The year was 1899; the ship was the Baltika, crossing from Gdansk to New York. The Golem's master, a man named Otto Rotfeld, had smuggled her aboard in a crate and hidden her amongst the luggage...

The golem is built for a man who wanted an obedient, attractive and curious wife, but he dies so she ends up alone in New York, aware of everyone's desires but unsure of her purpose. Meanwhile, a Syrian immigrant accidentally releases a genie from the old flask he was trapped in for a 1000 years. He is, understandably, mighty angry.]

[skaikru]

( hell fucking yeah she wants to read some of it! and when the book is gently deposited on the ground between them, clarke all but snatches it up. it's a special kind of torture to be kept in a box for half a year, no outside mental stimulation except when she could remember a figure to try drawing. the guards don't talk to her, haven't told her how her mother is despite pleading at every other meal drop off.

and this all might be fake, but it's also the first time she's held a real book in her hands. all the others on board the ark are locked up as symbolic remembrances of the original grounders who brought them on board, and all schooling is dealt with via tablets and holograms. she flips the pages once experimentally, then sets in to reading.

and because she has company, deigns to read aloud. all the way through to when the characters are fully introduced and their first interaction before she pauses. slowly looks up from the page and squints at him. )

Is this going to be a story about love? ( she sounds wary, but none the less intrigued. were you ready to find out your best friend used to be a painfully romantic type, natsuno? )

[neverleave]

Love, yes. But not romance, I don't think.

[A kind Rabbi names the golem Chava and takes her under his wing. She tries to blend in with the humans, but constantly worries about losing control.

The genie stays with the man who freed him, though he'a not pleased about it. He takes the name Ahmad and tries to regain his memories of the evil sorcerer who enslaved him.

When golem and genie meet, they connect immediately. Different as they are, they understand each other the way humans never will. They explore New York at night and talk about everything - you could see a very close friendship, or squint and see a date.]