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

[outstandingbalance]

And those are the only two options. I don't stop you from killing him, or him from killing you, just watch you try to kill each other?

[Not entirely satisfactory.]

[benumbing]

Do you have another idea?

[because he's okay with not dying too, especially if it's a plan where the other guy does]

[outstandingbalance]

Not good ones. [She admits. Not yet, at least. She can see why letting two of them run free would be a problem when one of them was undoubtedly fake, her best alternatives were still not great] Don't suppose you'd be all right with just handcuffing one of you to a pipe.

[Or both. Safe that way.]

[benumbing]

Only if you let me beat him with it first.

[he could even hold it in his fist and punch the thing, if the pipe was small enough. right across the lifeline, just like old times.]

I didn't mean to drag you into this.

[outstandingbalance]

When you know me better you'll realize, I don't let myself be dragged into things I don't want to.

[Not anymore, at least. She's had more than enough of that for one life time.]

If I come along, it's because right now you look like you could use someone to watch your back.

[benumbing]

If I tell you not to, will it make a bit of difference?

[jack can't pinpoint exactly what she said that makes him want to smile. maybe it was the truth he could already see in natasha's first statement. he wonders if anyone has ever succeeded in telling her what to do - and how much she made them regret it.]

[outstandingbalance]

You could try it and find out.

[In reality, it would—to a degree. She'd let him go on his own. She doesn't have a right to stop him.

But that wouldn't be the last she thought about it. Or the last he saw of her regarding the situation.]

If you'd really like to know how it goes.

[benumbing]

I'm not sure what would be best.

[she might keep him alive; she might see him at his worst. a pro and a con that are equally compelling to him.]

Not this time. Sticking together probably lessens your chances of stepping in whatever he has planned. Slightly.

[outstandingbalance]

You're trying to protect me?

[She's not entirely sure she believes that, but she'll give it to him. At least this way he's not looking at stabbing someone with his own face on his own.

Or having someone with his own face trying to destroy something he cares about.

Either way.]

Sounds like a deal.