Event Log: Memories Past

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Who: Everyone
What: Memory Share Event!
Where: All around the city
When: November 14th-20th
Warnings: Please remember to tag all warnings for memory shares!

Have you ever looked through someone else's eyes? Heard through their ears, spoken with their tongue? The gods have tried to teach some of you empathy, but it's time you learned the hard way, exactly what the others here have been through. For a week, every time you brush skin to skin with someone, you'll experience a memory of theirs: happy, sad, it doesn't matter. All that matters is that it feels real to you.

The first touch may come as a surprise- it lasts only for a split second but may feel like an eternity, where you're trapped in someone else's memory. After that, it could be more expected, and some may even figure out how to control it and share specific scenes from their past with others. Or, you might wear gloves and long sleeve shirts for awhile, nobody's judging.

Maybe curtail the handholding for awhile- or go right ahead, if that's your thing. After all, you never really know somebody unless you've walked a mile in their shoes, right?

► This log covers November 14th-20th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well
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► If you die in a memory, you don't die in real life, but if you do die in real life please let us know here.

Comments

[braveoff]

[ Drake pulls back, definitely thrown out of the spar after that little trip. Was there a bomb in that globe? Wait-- uh oh. ]

Did you see anything?

[ Tinya's only just looking back at him rather than into nothing -- she definitely saw something, but considering his life. Well. It could either be dangerous for him or completely undermine his authority if she thinks he's a criminal. He doesn't sound frantic, exactly, just vaguely concerned, but inside? This could be bad. ]

[unphase]

[she's blinking rapidly to acclimate herself to reality]

Wha--what did I see? [she shakes her head] I saw some nassheads treating you like some kind of lab rat. What were they doing? Why were they doing it?

[and something occurs to her]

Did you see something?

[braveoff]

[ Great. Juuuust great. Drake doesn't know what a nasshead is but at least Tinya's obviously against the lab rat aspect of it all. If she pushes for details maybe it'll come out in his favor but he'd really rather not. He answers her second question first, not trying to ignore the first, but. It's a lot to unpack. ]

Yeah, I saw... it looked like there was a bomb inside a globe, but your mother wouldn't listen to you trying to warn her. [ His face scrunches a little. ] She didn't seem very nice to you.

[unphase]

[that's a good distraction, bringing up her mother. that will delay her from pressing for details for a while.

she nods] There was a bomb. My mother didn't listen, but Saturn Girl did. She's a telepath. [and Tinya sighs] That's. . . kind of typical for my mom. No matter what I do, no matter how hard I try, I'm never good enough for her.

[braveoff]

[ Score. He's sure he'll circle back around, but it buys him some time. ]

I'm sorry. My Ma's a real trip too, just in a different way... almost the opposite, actually, she thinks I hung the moon and expects me to be perfect all the time. But that's not how anybody is.

The bomb didn't go off, then? Good.

[unphase]

[some time, anyway]

I'd like to say that I'm used to it, but I'm not. I do expect it, though. And it must be tough, living up to those expectations. How do you do it?

No, Live Wire blasted a hole in the roof and Cosmic Boy was able to magnetically lift it through the hole and far enough in the air that when it did go off, no one was hurt.

[braveoff]

I just try to keep up, really. I answer the phone, I show up to fix the sink, I'm there in the little ways even if I can't be the perfect, successful son in any other way. It keeps her happy for the most part, even if I'm not rich or famous or whatever. She's still hounding me for grandkids, though.

[ Which can't happen now for like a half dozen reasons but. You know. Details. Drake nods at the story. ]

You saved everybody there. Nice teamwork.

[unphase]

That must be nice. I wish my mom would settle for that. But she won't. I can't do anything right and she hates not only my boyfriend, she hates the Legion, too. And as an ambassador to the United Planets, she's in a position where she could do something about that hatred.

[and if what Tinya suspects is true is true, she'll have plenty of reason to act on that hatred]

Thank you. [a slow smile spreads across her face] I actually kind of tagged along when the three Legion founders were chasing the people responsible. Phased and walked through things so no one could see me. Saved Saturn Girl's life in the process. That's when they asked me to join.

[braveoff]

[ Drake frowns slightly, taking that all in. It doesn't sound fantastic, but Tinya's mom is just one person, right? ]

That sounds... complicated. Hopefully they'd be able to see that she's biased. Such a big organization of superheroes should have more weight than a bitter parent.

[unphase]

[one person with a lot of political clout and a lot of people listening to her]

You'd think? But the Legion is new. We've already had one death in the ranks. And mom knows how to get people to listen to her, she's been doing it all her life.

[braveoff]

Oh... well I still hope she doesn't make a shit about it. And that everybody sees the good you're doing, that it's important.

[unphase]

It is important. We're the only ones trying to stop the White Triangle and now they've attacked Earth directly. They've already destroyed Trom.

[braveoff]

Destroyed? Like a whole planet? Can you guys handle that, it sounds like a full invasion...? How many of you are there?

[unphase]

Yes, they burned it down to nothing. Over seven billion people, dead. We have to be able to handle that. No one else can or is willing to. And there are seven of us on active duty. We got lucky and McCauley lent us the Workforce, that's another four people, so that's twelve of us including me against four Daxamites.

[braveoff]

Shit. A dozen against an army? I... you're gonna have to be real tactical.

[unphase]

We're trying to be and Brainy has something cooking in the lab that should help, but that's all we've been told about it. Whatever it is, it better be a miracle. [because we're going to need one, goes unsaid]

[braveoff]

Good luck, Tinya. It'll take everything you've got, obviously, but hopefully you can get an advantage somehow too. Whatever tips the scales.

[ One other thing stands out there, though. ]

...his name's really Brainy? That's appropriate.

[unphase]

Yeah, something. Anything. I won't be picky.

[she weakly chuckles] Not really. It's Brainiac 5. "Brainiac" is an honor among his people, but most non-Coluans remember the first Brainiac as Superman's enemy.

[braveoff]

Oh. I guess that's not great, that association. It doesn't give him trouble, does it?

[unphase]

No. [she reconsiders] Well, some of our teammates teased him about it. I think Lyle was trying to flirt with him, using that as a pick-up line. [she shakes her head]