Event Log: Soulmates

[hadrielmods]

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for Soulmates event
Where: All over the city
When: February 14th-February 22nd
Warnings: None

Oh shit, what even happened last night? You're pretty sure you had a normal night, no crazy drunk antics (unless that is your normal night). But this morning you woke up with a brand new tattoo, and it's... a name?

Maybe it's a name you recognize, one of your good friends. Maybe it's a stranger. Maybe it's someone you can barely stand. No matter who it is, you kind of feel like you should look for them and figure out what's going on with this weird tattoo. And when you find them - well, they've got one too, except this one is your name. It would seem weird, except as soon as you see each other you kind of understand. Of course you'd have a tattoo with the name of the person you've found such an amazing connection with. You were meant to be together.

So enjoy your time with your newfound soulmate. Who knows, you might wake up tomorrow with a whole new name on your arm, a new connection, a new love. Make the most of it!

► This log covers February 14th-February 22nd
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► If you try to pull off a stupid stunt to impress your soulmate and fail so miserably you die, please let us know here.

Comments

[tongueamok]

Not exactly. It is- it's more the feeling you might have when you've been alone for too long, and begin to crave even the barest amount of companionship. I... cannot say it is a feeling I am terribly familiar with.

[He takes umbrage with his own words, grinding his teeth in frustration as the dam breaks.]

I mean- I am more familiar with it now, or am after my time here, but I am usually fine by myself. Or I was for years in Bear Den, a-a-and being in this place has spoiled me thoroughly. I- I have friends now, and people who care for my well-being despite everything, and it's no longer normal for me to feel so lonely when I haven't even been alone but an hour or two today, and now that you're here, I feel better, and I don't want to feel better if it means that I am being drawn toward a monster infect—

[He slams his hand over his mouth, forcibly shutting off his little tirade because he has said way more than he would have liked.]

[aroundthecoroner]

[For a moment, Michael is inexplicably offended. Something about the idea of the monster "infecting" him is... well, it's not entirely right, but it's not entirely wrong, either. He really has no right to be mad about it. Right?]

Oh, uh, that's a lot. Um, isn't it a good thing, though? Not the lonely part, but the fact that you have friends and people who care about you?

[He pauses, comes at it from a different angle.]

I've got next to nobody back home, and coming here, meeting everyone I've met, I don't think it spoiled me, I think it just made me realize how lonely I'd been before. And, um, about the other thing... Maybe you can just pretend it's me and not the monster.

[tongueamok]

[He lowers his hand, his fingers curling against his palm as shame colors him.]

I have only my church and my guilt for company in my world.

[He sucks in a breath, his eyes on the floor.]

Coming here as made me realize how my solitude was... destroying me. How sequestering myself away in my family's estate might have been what I thought was best for the people of Bear Den, but it did nothing to help me. I was once afraid of leaving my house for fear of what would happen to those around me, those touched by my affliction; now, I am afraid that I will one day return to that village, losing all I have. My garden, my partner, my friends... people like you.

[He doesn't take Michael up on his suggestion just yet -- he's still processing his inner conflict.]

[aroundthecoroner]

[Michael's quiet for a moment, letting the whole thing settle in the air between them. He gets it, he absolutely gets it. Even if he's able to go home with Harlan, he'll still be leaving most of Hadriel behind. All the people he's met here, all the friendships he's started, they'll just... end. They won't even be in the same universe anymore. But hey, speaking of that-]

Maybe... you don't have to go home.

[Which would normally sound awful, but Carlisle's life in Bear Den is what sounds awful.]

Harlan and I, our plan is to go together. If the gods let us choose, if they eventually let us out of here, maybe you can choose to go somewhere else.

[It doesn't solve all of these problems, but it solves... one? Maybe?]