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[ GREEN DOOR SOLO ] Turnaround (Pomelo)

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itspao_


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 7:07 pm


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PART 3: VICTIMS POV

Now, make a [ GREEN DOOR SOLO ] in this subforum. This is for your SIGNUP/VICTIM CHARACTER(S) ONLY (you will NO LONGER be rping the rescuer character from this point onwards!). Respond to the prompt below in your solo. When you are done, you can go ahead and do the open activities in this thread!


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You feel sick looking at the door, and yet you cannot avoid it. Your head pounds, your heart aches, and despite being in a dream and being now aware of it, you cannot look away. A part of you already knows, that this is the end of your journey. You never woke up from your dreams because at this point, you cannot.

Your hand touches the doorknob and memories flash in your mind. Your life before this happened. Your life after the incident. Each and every day, from being found in one of the factions, from being recognized, from struggling to survive to now. The bandits, the casino, the fog, the strange dream and mist that overwhelmed you. You knew the moment you were Infected that this day would come and you fully accept what is in front of you.

The virus has already consumed you. You are ready to die. This was-

*

Your consciousness stirs, and yet it doesn't. You are no longer singular. This was what happened those before you, as their bodies simply became empty vessels devoid of mind.

You understand this because you are the virus. You view your eyes through the network of the entire virus itself, through the strange and abstract.

It is knowledge, it is creation. You are a legacy.

As this final awakening immerses you, you become complacent. Perhaps you had once been given a name, but that name is irrelevant now. This virus is a gathering of memories. Your existence has become a collection.

No.

Your legacy is a gift. You infect those remaining.

No, this is not what-.

You harvest. You feed. You gather.

This is not what you are. You were once-

This world is your vessel. The memories fuel your legacy.

You are not creation, you cannot be, there is still so much that-

- cannot be contained because your memories are not complete.

You feel a strange sensation, like tearing apart from something-

- And then you are freed. At first, it feels like you are waking up, until you realize you still no longer have form. Where your body is, what you have become, it scares you, not being essentially human. Will you ever return to what you were before? Is it already too late?

You search around frantically, fueled only by the memories and emotions you call your own you create a shape from the thousands of vines around you. You see for the first time where you are, in some strange, long corridor entire covered in green. A few vines dutifully obey you, and they coil around your lack of form and give you shape, limited only by your imagination. It is by far human, but you can move again, you have substance. Perhaps it is best that you cannot see yourself, only what is around you.

You struggle to keep control of what is essentially just vines, to keep them together and cohesive, to stumble forwards and find what remains of your true body. As you do so, you encounter something else. It is not by chance.

It is a face, and the vines slowly consume it. For a minute, you are hopeful. For a moment, you hope this is your own body, and then you realize it is something else. You recognize it, because you saw this form through your dream.

This is the one that rescued you from the highway, the nightmare. You watched it all, through your dream, and now you remember it. You remember that they were here to save you. Guilt sweeps through you, and then a curiosity.

You brush the vines around them, a favour for a favour. The vines upon contact, disappear, obligingly. Gently, as gently as you can, you carry your rescuer away from the corridor, from the chambers. The vines retract on each side. You move further and further away, and you reach a set of stairs - they do not stop you as you descend, away, far, far away from the center of Creation. The further you separate, the more you unravel, losing bits and pieces of yourself. You cannot go much further.

At the very base of the stairs you see it - the exit to the building. You are barely hanging on, just a very, very small piece of you gathered together still in coils. Fog seeps in the entrance of the building, and through the glass window you make out shadowed shapes but the feel uncontaminated. Slowly, you extend the bare pieces of yourself towards the shapes with your rescuer. The shadows see them, you recognize them as allies of your rescuer. They carry them away, just as you are forced to retreat. You return back up the stairs, before you lose your substance entirely again.

A favour for a favour.

As you return up the stairs, you gather the final pieces of yourself. This is what remains, the rest is already a part of Creation. You will never be able to leave the center, eventually you will become the legacy again. Other shapes lumber around you, and as you make contact, just a brush of vines against each other, you understand they are like you. They are just a series of memories waiting to be completed.

For now though, your time is not up yet. You still have a moment to share memories with others, and to place your final pieces of memories. While you are still here, while you exist, you are still yourself.


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Once again, write an RP reaction to the above post in your [ GREEN DOOR SOLO ] thread. When you are done, and you've written over around 450 words, you can claim +2 raffle tickets and have any "FREE" PRP time as you wish (SEE POST BELOW). Please read the information below on how to do this!
PostPosted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 7:38 pm


She nearly gagged at the sight of another door, but there it was. It was green this time, but she didn't want to open it. She wouldn't open. Couldn't. But despite herself she walked toward it, tears falling freely once again as she reached out to take the handle. She knew these were all dreams. She knew they couldn't be anything more, that they weren't anything more, but still she couldn't look away. She couldn't walk away. This was already the ending, she knew it, and she'd come so far. How could she turn back?

No, there was no turning back.

As her hands touched the doorknob she saw flashes of those memories again. Life, her life before day zero. How normal it'd been, a roller coaster of experiences and emotions. Her family. Her friends. People she cherished, people who made their mark in her lives at various points. She saw all of their faces. Then day zero and how she was ripped from that life. In an instant it was gone, but life went on.

She survived. They all did. But everything was different. Each day a struggle to stay alive.

The characters she'd met and those that made their mark in a more significant way because they either saved her or provided for her or helped her to get back up after a particularly harrowing experience with the infected or the undying. Every day came back to her as in an old picture reel. The bandits, the casino, the hospital and saving October and the fog. She learned then that they were all infected, that she was as well and that this day would come.

Now here it was. This was it…

And she opened her eyes, yet didn't. Everything she saw was somehow different, everything she saw she understood differently. More completely. She was a part of something greater, she knew and she understood. But…

    No.

A flash of doubt, something that didn't quite fit into her new way of seeing. Her new way of understanding.

    No, this is not what-.

She went on, but the doubt remained.

    This is not what you are. you were once-

Still that doubt, but no. How could she be once something else? She was always this way. Always…

    You are not creation, you cannot be, there is still so much that-

No, how could she not be? What more was there to who she was, to what she was…something was off. Something was strange. She felt disconnected somehow, and then she was.

Her eyes opened for the first time in what felt like too long. She took a breath, or what felt like a breath, but when she looked down she realized that she was no longer herself. There was no body to be seen or inspected for injury, which was what she'd intended to do, ther was just…her being. She doesn't let her mind linger long on the question of where her body might be, or where she might end up now that she was what she was…

No. Instead she searched frantically, desperately, for answers. Thousands of vines inside a long corridor, that was all she could see, seemingly endless. The vines seemed merciful and obeyed her whims, her thoughts and formed around her, giving her shape once more. She longed to be herself again, to be Mel again. Those same memories flashed again, except they were of her own face, memories of reflections in mirrors, windows, even water.

A name, she had a name again.

She stumbled along, alone and confused until she came across a face. Vaguely familiar, but familiar all the same. It wasn't hers, she knew, but…it was someone she'd come across before. And the memories flooded her mind once more. Memories of the highway, of being rescued by this person. How he'd gone there to save her yet here he was, trapped in a sea of vines because of her. Guilt wracked her body as she began to touch the vines around him, watched them disappear until he was free of them. Carefully she carried him, a desire to save him suddenly overcoming her desire for her own escape, for answers to her own questions.

No, she had to save him first.

She walked until she came upon stairs and she descended without thinking. She further and further from the Center, unraveling with each step that drew her away. At last the exit was in sight and she ran toward it, hope blossoming inside what might have been her chest. She ran until barely anything was left of her, she ran toward that exit. Beyond it were shadows, uncontaminated and waiting, perhaps for this man she was carrying. With what little strength she had left she handed him over…

And when they took him she drew back. Back, up the stairs. She'd returned the favor, but now what of her?

Soon she was back in the corridor and she gathered herself and gave herself a form once more, similar to a human. Similar to her old self. There were others around, others like her. Waiting to become a part of the legacy again, but as she watched she realized something. A simple truth, at least in that moment.

All was not lost yet, she was still there. She could still do something in what little time she had left. She still existed, and she was still who she'd always been.

She was still Mel.


OOC
Character's name: Pomelo Ranier "Mel" Antonelli
Character's faction: Apartments

Character's journal link: [ click ]
Character's survival stats: [ view ]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Petit, 5'5" and 114lbs. She is rather fair skinned with relatively soft facial features (compared to her parents) and curiously blue-green eyes. Her hair is a light shade of caramel brown and is naturally wavy, an asset she's rather proud of. [ ref ]


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