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[GREEN DOOR SOLO] Savior and Demon

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Xaki

PostPosted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 6:18 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 8:27 pm


He had been infected. He had been so foolish to believe that he could escape the virus, when in actuality, it had already taken him over. With a sense of resignation, and no small amount of struggle, he pushed open the doorway.

The undying were merely beings whose mind has been taken. Just as Shouichi's mind was taken. Taken into the greater flow of creation, as a legacy. In a way, his questions had been answered. The knowledge he had seeked so desperately and risked for his life had been paid in full. He was no longer among the living, nor the dead. He was stuck between the two worlds, in an oblivion that condemned their souls and minds.

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.


Truly, this was a twisted ending. This was the sense of justice the infected and undying had felt like they were enacting while Sho and the other survivors had tried to fight desperately to retain their lives. It was ironic, wasn't it? They viewed the undying as monsters, while these monsters viewed themselves as heroes. In the end, they had ultimately failed.

And they had become.. this. He tried to look at his hand, but was met with only vines. He was conscious, but no longer human. What did they call this? A soul? Wasn't it strange how a soul could remain, even after being taken over and losing themselves to the virus? Would the wonders of the human world never cease?

He would have passed by the human body if he didn't nearly snag his vines over it. His make-shift hand reached out to uncover it. A brief hope was quickly dashed as he looked at the unfamiliar face. No, that was wrong. It was familiar. From his dream..?

It was the idiot hunter. The one Sho had tried to kill. Yet for all of his efforts, the hunter hadn't left his body behind. With a dry smile, he gently touched the man's shoulders. "You were such a fool. You should have left me behind to escape." It was because of the doctor that the hunter hadn't made it into the portal. And he was here, about to become another victim of Creation's legacy. In his dream, Sho had observed Sin. Sin was easy-going, cheerful, trusting, resembling a bright light. It was everything that the murderous Doctor was not been. Had they ever met while they were humans, it surely would have been chaotic to say the least. They wouldn't have gotten along at all, and like Rook, Sin would have stayed as far as he could have from the crazy doctor.

And despite it being clearly foolish, Sin hadn't left the doctor behind. Despite the fact in the end that the doctor couldn't be saved. Shouichi reflected upon the vibrancy of his life. This human was still alive. This human still had a chance left, whereas the doctor didn't. If he had to do one last good deed in his life -- let it be here.

Reaching to pick him up with his vine and leaf-like appendages, Sho ignored the pain that came with separating from Creation. As the young hunter had done, bringing his body along despite the chase, the burden, the need for survival, Sho would continue to endure the pain.

"A favor for a favor." Their debt had been paid.

Live your life to the fullest. Be the person you were meant to be. In his profession and in his survival, he had seen more lives end earlier than they were ever meant to end.

There were dark shapes and movements waiting at the bottom of the stairs. He handed him to what felt like his allies. Sho could no longer try to confirm, he merely had to let his feelings guide him.

Sin would never realize consciously how much hope the doctor had placed on him. It was impossible for the doctor to make any more of a difference in this world. He had succumbed to his insanity long before the infection had finished running its course. He would have chosen to kill, to destroy humanity. But it wasn't yet impossible for Sin. Sin who believed in humanity would never make the same choices as Sho did. He was the brightness that drove away Sho's darkness.

Though his end was imminent, Sho retreated back towards Creation knowing that it wasn't yet time. He still had a few moments, didn't he? Before his memories would join his infected body, to fade into eternal oblivion to the contorted existence of Creation.


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Name: Sin
Faction: Hunter
Suspecies/Division: Sun
General appearance: 6'2 strong, healthy male. Resembles a pirate with a rogue-ish air. Black hair with blue streaks, with a bandage over one eye.
HP: 50/50 *Borrowing Sho's Stats
Weapon: Water Sword (2d6-2) *Borrowing Sho's Stats


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Character's name: Shouichi
Character's faction: Apartments
Character's journal link: Journal
Character's survival stats: Stats
HP: 50/50
Weapon: Fishing Rod (2d6 - 2)

Xaki

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