Event Log: Dead Ringers

[hadrielmods]

Who: Everyone participating in the event!
What: The event log for the Dead Ringers event!
Where: All around the city
When: January 16th-January 25th
Warnings: Evil doubles, so we can assume manipulation, violence, murder, and maybe some nasty words

Everything seems normal on the morning of the 16th - actually, everything seems normal about the city for the entirety of this event. Nothing is strange, nothing is obviously wrong. Well, except that the population has mysteriously doubled, and the new residents each look exactly like one of the old residents. So weird! Definitely not ominous at all.

At least until your new double gets down to business. After all, their only goal is to ruin your life, and that can take any form. Smashing your favorite coffee cup? Telling your worst enemy they're right? Kissing someone else in front of your girlfriend? Brutally murdering you and then hiding your body in a closet so they can more effectively destroy your life? The possibilities are truly endless, and the only way to protect yourself is to kill your double first. They're not really open to negotiation, after all - but they sure might pretend to be in order to trick you.

So watch your back, and try to make sure that really is your best friend and not an evil clone masquerading as them. Boy, that would be awkward. If you can stick it out until January 25th, good for you! But if you didn't manage to and your double survives until the end - well, just as a final 'fuck you', there's a chance you'll come back to life and remember every awful thing your double did. Hey, at least that'll make it easier to fix, right?

► This log covers January 16th-January 25th.
► Feel free to make your own logs, as well
► 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 your evil clone happens to take you out, please let us know here, and remember that you will not revive until the event is over.

Comments

[youplayedyourself]

There was never a chance. It's hopeless. You can't glue dust back together. You can't build a SOUL out of faded old chalk smears! There's nothing left but fumes. Just enough magic for him to hide the flower in a paper-thin disguise.

How's it feel, Chara? History's repeated itself. Because you MADE him trust you, you lead him to his death. And now, when he wakes up again, you're going to see him. He'll smile for you, he'll cry for you, he'll go through all the motions.

But you and I both know that it's fake, now, don't we? We both know that he won't really mean any of it. You can't make him happy anymore. He doesn't care about you anymore. He just acts the part to trick you - to manipulate you - into caring about him! He'll never really know happiness or love EVER again, all because he met you!

[somuchlove]

You're empty inside, just like me.

[Flowey's words, once they walked down the path of Genocide. The piece of dialog tastes like dust on their lips and Chara's not completely sure why they're repeating it.

Ah. That's right. Chara isn't quite so empty, now that they were in Hadriel. A sliver of a SOUL was better than no SOUL at all. LV 20 cannot blot out all your emotions, which is why they deduced that beyond was the only way their double could be. If the Gods were provoking them, then there was no worse than that.

And it's what happens when you take too much. Nothing but poison, aren't you Chara? Look at what you've done. And so on. No wonder this double thought this meeting was only about LOVE. Chara had not killed Asriel with their bare hands but they may as well have done so.

It would not have condemned him to be this creature. It would have not forced him to suffer the consequences of Chara's actions.]

...I cannot say how this makes me feel.

[Still, there is one thing that's very clear. Asriel had suffered consequences that were not his to bare. Chara would not make him shoulder anymore.]

I called for help, long ago and he came. And even if I am a demon, I will come if he calls. Even if he cannot feel I will be there. It isn't much, but it's all a creature like me can do.

[youplayedyourself]

Golly, Chara, it's a little late for that, isn't it? He already called. He's already dust.

[Asriel laughs, a high-pitched, distorted giggle. A very familiar sound, probably. Funny, in a way, how he mimicked the methods of the toughest person he knew when he found himself needing to endure something painful. Wear a big smiley face you don't mean at all. Laugh off the things that hurt.

Aren't you proud, Chara? Aren't you happy?

He's become just like you.]

Words don't mean much at all when you're talking to someone who isn't here anymore, do they?

[He shrugs, turns his back, intent on abandoning Chara right where they are.]

No wonder I think you aren't exactly the greatest person.

[somuchlove]

You're--

[Lying.

But Chara can't say that. Can't call something that still wears Asriel's face a liar. Can't...look at his double because it's like looking into a mirror and nobody likes looking at themselves.

"Kill or be killed." Look at what you created. You look people in the eyes Chara.

But they can't.

It's clear Asriel's double plans on leaving and Chara can't bring themselves to stop him. And his final words are another slap to the face, the cherry on top of things. It's nothing new. Nobody thought Chara was a good person and obviously Chara themselves didn't think it either. They would have not met Asriel if they thought they were 'good' by any stretch of the imagination.

But it's one thing to hear the expected from other people and from Chara's own thoughts. It's another to hear it from their Best Friend.]

...I suppose so. I am a horrible person and clearly you know it as much as I do. And if Asriel wishes to no longer be friends with me then I will respect that. We know what kind of poison I am.

[Chara kills, over time or right then and there. At the end of the day they always poisoned those they loved. Asriel was doomed to live as a SOUL-less flower. Asgore and Toriel had a wedge driven between them, a loving family destroyed. Frisk was now LV 4 because they were weak and got possessed by a real demon.

It hurts. It hurts but it would be better for Asriel if they were no longer in his life. And if his double was right and he was....gone, then Chara would have to talk to him after he revived.

They turn to leave themselves. In Chara's opinion...there was nothing left to be said.]