✿ HELIODOR

[dramatispersonae]

You find yourself in a musty rectangular room floored with tatami. The room is not large, but luckily fits your team without seeming too claustrophobic. It seems to have been set up as a sort of study. There is a low desk against one wall, covered in stacks of paper cards and writing utensils. Near the desk are, of course, cushions for everyone to sit on. A circular latticed window is set into the wall perpendicular to the desk. Bright moonlight filters through, enough to provide illumination for your task. If you look through the window, you can just barely make out the shapes of a shadowy garden beyond and below… you must be at least on the second floor.

The other end of the room is dominated by a large apothecary's chest. There are many, many drawers, but none of them open save for the fourteen in the middle that have been painted with team colors. A hand-lettered sign has been placed on top of the chest: "Please turn in your stories here."

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Round One

[dramatispersonae]

(Game instructions are here!)

Please discuss these answers with your team and submit using the textarea. You can choose the same team more than once in the team selection. Answers are due at 5PST

Where does your character live?
What is your character's backstory?
What do they do every day?
How does this make them feel?
What are three things that would make their life worse?
What are three things that would make their life better?

Choose 1-3 teams whose lives you would like to improve.
Choose 1 team that you think has a good idea of how to make someone miserable.
Choose 1 team to take some of their sadness on yourselves.

[your team]'s character lives [____] When they were a child, they [____]. Now that they are older, every day, they [____]. This makes them feel [____]. Three things that would make their life worse: <li> <li> <li> Three things that would make their life better: <li> <li> <li> <b>Team Selections:</b> Improve their lives (1-3): Good at making someone miserable (1): Take their sadness (1):

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[froggered]

They could live somewhere very miserable? A very bright place!

Re: Discussion

[ironicusername]

[...]

Submission

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Submission

[ironicusername]

[Heliodor]'s character lives [in a place full of censorship] When they were a child, they [criticized for being perverse]. Now that they are older, every day, they [are still criticized for being perverse]. This makes them feel [misunderstood and also like shit].

Three things that would make their life worse:

No friends

The object of their perversion is constantly around, but they are unable to act.

They are physically bullied.

Three things that would make their life better:

Friends

Acceptance

Freedom to act

Team Selections:
Improve their lives (1-3): Peridot, Ruby
Good at making someone miserable (1):
Take their sadness (1): Turquiose

Round Two

[dramatispersonae]

Please discuss these answers with your team and submit using the textarea. You can choose the same team more than once in the team selection. [Answers are due at 6PM PST]

What is the worst feeling in the world?
What is the best feeling to have?
What is the worst thing to lose?
What is the best thing to find?

Choose 1-2 teams whose life you would like to improve.
Choose 1 team that you think has a good idea of how to make someone miserable.
Choose 1 team to take some of their sadness on yourselves.
Choose 1 team and come up with a creative way to terrorize them with kindness.

<b>Worst feeling:</b> <b>Best feeling:</b> <b>Worst thing to lose:</b> <b>Best thing to find:</b> <b>Team Selections:</b> Improve their life (2): Good at making someone miserable (1): Take their sadness (1): Creative happiness (1): . . . what do you want to do to them?:

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[ironicusername]

The worst thing to lose is someone close to you.

Re: Discussion

[froggered]

Definitely.

. . . . but the best thing to find is a friend, I think!

Re: Discussion

[froggered]

. . . for me, or for everyone?

For me, I think apathy's the worst feeling. . .

Re: Discussion

[ironicusername]

Apathetic people don't have an active sense of misery. I'd vote for loneliness.

Submission

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Submission

[froggered]

Worst feeling: Loneliness.
Best feeling: Being with the ones you care about the most!
Worst thing to lose: Someone close to you.
Best thing to find: Friendship in someone!

Team Selections:
Improve their life (2): Peridot, Ruby
Good at making someone miserable (1): Emerald?
Take their sadness (1): Turquoise
Creative happiness (1): Iolite
. . . what do you want to do to them?: Give them lots of hugs and watch movies with them! Also dance together!

Round Three

[dramatispersonae]

[Heliodor]'s character lives [in a place full of censorship] When they were a child, they [criticized for being perverse]. Now that they are older, every day, they [are still criticized for being perverse]. This makes them feel [misunderstood and also like shit].

One day, things change quite suddenly . . .! Write a paragraph (or more) of their story to include all of the following elements:

being able to go outside without poisoning everyone

Being in the same room as that person for too long

A friend who wants to help them

Saving their fallen twin from the Darkness.

They are physically bullied.

You MUST use all of these suggestions, and you cannot ADD any additional events (though you can be creative with how you use them).

The teams that played against you in Round 1 were Ruby, Tiger's Eye, Turquoise x 2, Amethyst.

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[ironicusername]

[wow, fuck these]

Re: Discussion

[froggered]

. . . . well, I don't think he was very poisonous in the first place. But, mmm. . . . that person is also the object of their perversion? Or someone who carries that object of perversion? Like. . . glasses!

Submission

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Submission

[froggered]

[Heliodor]'s character lives [in a place full of censorship] When they were a child, they [criticized for being perverse]. Now that they are older, every day, they [are still criticized for being perverse]. This makes them feel [misunderstood and also like shit].

. . . . now, they are able to go outside without making anyone feel like they're poisoned just by being around them, and they want to save their fallen twin from the Darkness. But it's hard because they are still physically abused, and they don't have a friend who wants to help them at all.

Final Round

[dramatispersonae]

[Heliodor]'s character lives [in a place full of censorship] When they were a child, they [criticized for being perverse]. Now that they are older, every day, they [are still criticized for being perverse]. This makes them feel [misunderstood and also like shit].

. . . . now, they are able to go outside without making anyone feel like they're poisoned just by being around them, and they want to save their fallen twin from the Darkness. But it's hard because they are still physically abused, and they don't have a friend who wants to help them at all.

But the story doesn't end here. Continue the story by writing a paragraph (or more) including the following elements:

Experiencing the feeling of finding a friend

Helping someone and making their life better despite the inevitable complications that may follow.

Finding happiness

Finding security

Helplessness

Betrayal

Love

You MUST use all of these suggestions, and you cannot ADD any additional events (though you can be creative with how you use them).

THEN:
Write a happy ending.
Write a bad end.
Which do you prefer, and why?

After you're done, you may proceed to endgame.

<b>Story:</b> <b>Happy Ending:</b> <b>Bad end:</b> <b>Which do you prefer, and why?</b>

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[uneulogized]

Wow, lots of effort put in. All right, Jason Todd late to the game, but here I am.

Submission

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Submission

[uneulogized]

Story: Heliodor's character lives in a place full of censorship. When they were a child, they criticized for being perverse. Now that they are older, every day, they are still criticized for being perverse. This makes them feel misunderstood and also like shit.

. . . . now, they are able to go outside without making anyone feel like they're poisoned just by being around them, and they want to save their fallen twin from the Darkness. But it's hard because they are still physically abused, and they don't have a friend who wants to help them at all.

Right, so they're (he, but either way, imagine the upcoming romance as same-sex all around) going to school while this is going on, and people are still wary of them and beating up on them, and one day, they develop a ... bond with their English teacher. Their English teacher is a quiet man, and they're friends at first. Every day after school, Heliodor's character would spend time with them—reading Shakespeare and other sappy crap, and it'd be lovely. Through this, the character starts being happy despite their desperate desire to save their fallen twin from Darkness. They find security when their twin was the only one who made them feel safe in their perverse mind.

Eventually, romance blossomed between the two. Heliodor's character felt helpless; where they had done their best to be strong before, they were now weak in the face of love. And in turn, Heliodor's character showed the English teacher what love could be. They were lonely and admitted that they, too, had many perverse thoughts. So, they started sleeping together. Heliodor's character, who obviously wanted to save their fallen twin from Darkness because they loved them in all ways, even some of them poisonous, felt the same way for this individual ... and realized that they loved their brother just as much as they loved their teacher. They learned of different perversions.

Part of their sex life, then, involved the teacher role-playing the brother.

But ... inevitability, people started finding out. Heliodor's character worried that other people would notice that the teacher dressed like their lost twin brother on certain days of the week. The teacher tried insisting that the person they missed was their brother, and told them that he would accept his poisonous thoughts about his brother, because incest is traditionally taboo ... and that they would help him save them.

Yet the day when they were to set out together, the teacher betrayed them. They feared more for their job. They would rather deny their love for Heliodor's character, and deny the awesomeness of inevitable age-difference threesomes, and turned on them. They told everyone of Heliodor's characters obsession with incest ... and even insisted that the only reason their poisonous thoughts had stopped affecting other people is because they had gotten to the twin, and driven them into darkness.

Happy Ending: Determined to not give a damn about the system, Heliodor's character hatched a plan and dove into the darkness themselves to save their twin. They would not allow this loss to hurt them, because they now knew the feeling of love—and despite the teacher's insistence, they would do anything possible to save their brother from darkness. They knew in their heart that it was actually their fault after all that their brother had been driven into the darkness, and that they had their own method of saving them.

With love and adoration, and a lot of convincing, they brought their brother back. And together, they approached the teacher. It was a two year quest, but they found the teacher still teaching—tired, weary, aware of everything they had given up—and seduced him. It wasn't a difficult task, but the teacher quickly quit his job and the three of them slipped into private, buying a cabin in the woods where they lived happily (and very sexed).

Bad end: In the bad end, the character can't take that everything was a lie and still does go after his brother ... but his brother, still lucid within the state of darkness, betrays him, and makes him see that all he does is poison others. It was his perverseness that drove him to darkness.

The character, knowing full well that there is no reason to go on, lets his brother kill him. The teacher never is happy again, because he could only achieve happiness through the boy he should have never loved. He dies by the age of thirty from the earliest case of heartbreak ever seen.

Which do you prefer, and why? The good ending, obviously, because it ends in a threesome. Though I'm just adding in incest for an Aather flair. Still, the twin brother thing seemed to be getting there.