theafflicted | 04 - week four

WEEK FOUR

Saturday comes to a close, and it’s time for some rest and recovery. Perhaps the TLC you deserve will come this week, or perhaps the nightmare will continue. It’s hard to say with things being so strange around you, from Wei Wuxian’s disappearance to the sudden addition of objects and places and creatures from your homes. Who knows what this week will bring? Nothing ordinary, that’s for sure.

You wake up on Sunday to an increase in those little glimpses you saw yesterday. What were snippets of songs, locations that might’ve seemed familiar, and creatures that were dormant, are now all alive and whole. When you go to the karaoke bar, the songs you once knew are there. Monsters and animals are alive and sentient. New business are abound. Vehicles are operable, and perhaps some of your old belongings are back, too.

However, some of these things aren’t even things that should exist outside of your dreams. They may be far too strange and unusual to be real, or just things you don't remember ever seeing. The only thing you remember about these things in particular is that they were, quite literally, in your dreams this week.

That being said, every few hours, all of these things from your homes and dreams fade out and get replaced by new sounds, places, beasts….only to maybe come back again at another time.

Well. At least there's one constant here: You’ve got a handful of new locations to look at, with the fog having spread once more, and they aren't going anywhere. There aren’t as many new places that are native to Estelline this time around, but that may be for the best, considering everything going on.

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NEWSPAPER SUBMISSIONS + EDITION #1

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MEM SHARE DETAILS

OOC NOTE

OOC: Details on this week can be found here!

Also, we have a lot of participants for the news activity from last week. Neat! Everyone who participated in some capacity will have a small polaroid camera delivered to their doorstep. There's limited film, though - 10 photos per camera. It doesn't seem like there's any extra film at this time, either.

Finally, there will not be any weekly tasks this week. You guys are going to be busy with memshare and dreamscape stuff; instead, enjoy the Estelline University Newspaper!

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Miach watches him examine her walls with a smile of mild amusement. Whatever this hallucination is looking for, he's not going to find it. It's just the Mihie house after all. ]

I'm killing myself.

[ It should be safe enough to say that to this person - even if he is real, he'd be a home intruder. He can't go to authorities. Presumably. ]

This time, for good.

[ tap.

flat stops the moment that he hears that, turning his head towards the starving girl in front of him. though his eyes have widened in surprise just slightly, it's not because he's horrified by her admission or anything like that. if anything, it's simply because it makes sense for miach to have done this. perhaps, that was her way of protesting lifeism.

... ]

By starving yourself? That takes a long time, you know. Why not something else?

[ Her smile only widens at that. Though she's fading, there is a part of her that still sparkles bright and that part is incredibly proud of this plan. ]

It's because it takes time. Because I can wither away in front of their caring eyes. I made a pill, you know? I can eat all I want, every regulation meal they put in front of me, but it won't feed me.

[ It was not meant as a metaphor, but it does work as one rather splendidly she thinks. ]

And in the end, when it's over, my body is to be donated to science. Instead turning me into sterile liquid, they're going to cut me open and see it all - all the damage I have wrought onto myself with no tool other than the medcare unit meant to keep me a good little resource.

Because you hate Lifeism, correct?

[ well, if that isn't dramatic, he doesn't know what else it could be. but he doesn't judge her. if anything, it's a little commendable, to have that much willpower to override her body's basic need for survival. ]

So you modified the stuff that they give you into a poison? That's pretty neat, actually! [ ... ] What's it like? To kill yourself? If you don't mind answering, that is.

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[ What a chipper figment of her imagination and/or home invader this is. Miach is glad for it. She'd have been supremely annoyed if her mind had made her suffer pity in these last moments. ]

... tedious.

[ Maybe at her first attempt she would have described it differently. But Miach has tried to end her life time and time again, in a variety of ways, and something had always gone awry. She is confident in this last attempt, but still... it should be over soon. She wants it to be over. ]

Unpleasant, too. I'm dizzy... I have... a healthy appetite, actually. I'm hungry now.

But once it's done... I'll finally be satisfied.

[ flat nods. he figures that it would be rather unpleasant to commit suicide, especially one as drawn out as this one. if flat were to think of a way to go, he figures that something like a gunshot or jumping off a building would be far quicker, far less strenuous on the body.

...

...

flat tilts his head to the side. considers whether or not to tell her that her plan will fail. though that might mean that he'll miss out on more of this conversation, so he'll save that bit for later. it'd be bad to break a girl's dreams, after all. even if those dreams are to commit suicide. ]

So it's unpleasant but you'll feel satisfied... what made you want to kill yourself in the first place?

[ Technically, Miach guesses, she won't feel anything at all anymore - but it's the spirit of the thing. ]

... I belong to myself. I'll make it clear... once and for all.

You belong to yourself...

[ flat's voice trails off, as he goes to sit back down on the bed. those words carry an incredible weight for him, though he's unsure whether or not miach feels the same way. he figures that she does, or else she wouldn't be doing such a thing.

there's a lot that he wants to say. but, perhaps, he'll talk to the real miach. not this one. this one is not his miach yet, so she wouldn't understand the way that his miach will. ]

Are you doing this with your friends?

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Mhm.

[ A weak nod, decidedly affirmative. She doesn't ask why Flat knows about Tuan and Cian - the fact that he does just heightens the possibility that he is a manifestation of her dying brain. ]

The three of us are... making this declaration together. We will never grow up. We will never be incorporated into the whole... that makes up 'Japan', this land of the healthy. Our bodies will vanish, while we are still ourselves.

...I see.

[ for a moment, flat has to pause and consider what he's going to do. what he wants to do. on one hand, a small part of him has figured out that there might be a grave flaw in miach's plan, and that it caused her to not see her friends for a long time. this part of him wants to tell her the truth.

but the bigger part of him understands that this is just a mirage. this is a memory fabricated for him to see...for the sake of whatever little experiment this is supposed to entail. and if that's the case...

he stands up. ]

So sorry! I just don't have any interest in talking to a mirage of the past. I'll let your future self know what I think about this plan, so please, don't mind me and continue starving yourself. [ he gives the girl an energetic salute, like a boy playing to be a soldier. ] It was great meeting you, Miach! Have fun!

[ and with that, he'll let her go as he leaves through the room...and out the memory. ]

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