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

[fulcra]

Clearly not. [ she gives alphys a pointed look, but it lacks the sparkle that's usually in ahsoka's eyes when she's teasing. ]

Whatever it is that's going on with doubles or whatever you'd like to call them, it's just another constant of life here. Things are busy, one mess after another. And... [ a pause, a shake of her head. the double knows full well that ahsoka could never do this without any emotion at all, but everything would be bottled up. it certainly is now. ] I felt I owed it to you to say this to your face: I can't care about you any more than I care about anyone else here. You're just one of so many people who can't protect themselves and I can't afford to give you any sort of special treatment.

[sciencelizard]

... Oh.

[It's quiet, and reserved; at Ahsoka's words, she immediately draws back, grips her hands tight, lets her shoulders slump. That's... that's fine. Expected, even. She couldn't ask Ahsoka to take time out of her day to come save her all the time, after all.]

I mean, uhm, I u-understand. And, uh, you don't have to! Or, uhm, feel l-like you do. I didn't mean for that. It, uh, kind of just kept happening? But I u-understand.

[Even though there's that gnawing feeling in the back of her mind that there's something not right about this, Alphys pushes it down. After all, this was expected, right? It was going to happen eventually.]

[fulcra]

I know you mean well. [ a soothing statement, but necessary to sell this. ] But there are plenty of people here who mean well without ever doing it.

[ or keeping their heads down, keeping themselves inside where they won't be in anyone's way. ]

[sciencelizard]

I... I k-know. I'm not, uhm, I mean, I'm not good at... d-doing much good. I'm not strong or brave, like you.

I'll... I'll try not to get in the way a-anymore.

[If she can't do good, the least she can do is stop hindering others, right?]