Event Post: Dead Ringers

[hadrielmods]

THE RUNDOWN

Seeing as to how Confusion and Fear are both glorified internet trolls, it's no surprise that they would team up so quickly to snag a little extra power here and there. Unfortunately, this extra power is going to be at the expense of you all, and it'll probably look pretty familiar...

On January 16th, the city will be flooded with doubles of each (opting-in) character. These doubles aren't a fighting army or anything like that- instead, they're sneaky, duplicitous, and out to ruin the lives of the original. They have all the same memories and abilities as their originals, but their purpose will be to cause hardship and ruin the lives of their originals. They'll do this in any way possible- from simple things like fighting with their best friend, to more drastic things, like hurting someone or destroying something that the original loves.

While they don't necessarily have to be violent, it only makes sense that they would try to remove their original from the picture through murder or imprisoning them somewhere. The more the doubles can give off the impression that nothing out of the ordinary is going on, the more effective they can be- and so any confrontation with their original is ideally going to be alone, where others can't see them. Due to this, it may take some time before the ordinary citizens realize that anything is going on... and by then, it might be too late.

Can you kill someone who looks identical to you? Can you trust anyone, when your best friend may actually be out to kill you and your roommate might be secretly planning to set your bed on fire?

THE DETAILS

Each player will play both their own character and their double for the event. If the double kills the original, then they will have the pleasure of playing an evil clone until the event is over! Doubles will not have network access on their own, but after they've... taken care of the originals, they can use their phones and network ID to continue sowing discord that way.

Additionally, all doubles will be able to recognize one another. Whether they use this to plot among themselves or simply to easier isolate the non-doubled targets is up to you!

Hope will be unable to resurrect the originals (if they die) until January 25th, which signals the end of the event. If the original managed to kill their clone, then they have nothing to worry about- if the original wasn't quite so lucky and the double lived on until Confusion's disbanding, then the originals may come back to live with the memories of what their double had done, though that's up to the player!

THE OVERVIEW

► January 16th: The doubles infiltrate the city, intent on taking the place of their originals or ruining their lives some other way.
► January 20th: By now, it's fairly obvious that Hope isn't resurrecting any of the dead originals!
► January 25th: Confusion finally sends the clones away, leaving Hope free to resurrect the dead remaining in the city. The event is over, and the originals may gain the memories of what their clones did in their absence.

Comments

Questions

[hadrielmods]

YAASSSS come at me

[torrefied]

mello is still recovering from that whole demon possession episode so he'll mostly be on the back burner for this event. HOWEVER!!

nick is getting a double! and since nick is a nickbane, that means her double is too! AND THAT MEANS SHE GONNA CAUSE A WHOLE LOTTA DAMAGE :'D you can read up on nick's nightbane powers here, if you'd like.

the important thing is i am looking for volunteers to go up against faux-nick, fight her, possible get injured/maimed ... and potentially get healed by real-nick, because i would love for her to discover that she has a healing power at her disposal now.

if you wanna plot, hit me up here, on plurk (@ventose), or on discord (torrefied#5852)!!

SANS

[fibia]

HOO BOY SO because I have no self-control whatsoever I've made an account for Sans's double. He'll be just as lazy and unmotivated as the real Sans, but about one shitbillion times nastier when it comes to everything else. Unlike the real Sans, he doesn't care a whit if he dismantles interpersonal relationships between himself and others, and will in fact set about to do just that. Sans is a manipulative guy by default, so just imagine someone with that cranked up to eleven, minus any and all restraint.

Oh yeah, and he'll be eager to make Sans's life in the future as difficult as possible too. This means making terrible first impressions on people who've never met him (so newbies and potential CR, don't be afraid to come forth!), being deliberately if underhandedly nasty to everyone he sees, and so on. He'll especially want to damage any positive CR Sans has with anyone oh boy

ALSO he'll know that his time as a concept is somewhat limited, so he won't care for repercussions since he'll know they'll rebound onto the real Sans rather than the false one. So especially as the event reaches its end, he'll be acting out in more and more absurd and destructive ways with little to no regard for how he's perceived - just to make people hate Sans a little bit more!

[fibia]

Will the doubles be aware of the fact that their time here is limited, and act accordingly?

Get it while it's good!

[fracturedbeauty]

Rin Okumura is going to not be a part of this event. It's hard to imagine a destructive double for him when he already has a hard enough time by himself.

Yukari Mishakuji, on the other hand, will be a shameless flirt. So, he's open to awkwardly hit on anyone 18+. I'll have a general post for his awkwardness, but if you would like a more personal post, you can hit me up on Plurk.com/Tseil or message me in this account. Original Yukari is already sort of kick-the-dog with kids, so... sorry, he's not going to provide much for any children that want his attention.

[hadrielmods]

That's a good idea! If you like, then that can definitely be factored into the double's actions, just so that things keep escalating and getting crazier by the end of the event.

[fibia]

Bless. Thank you, mods.

rosie-dear

[hasitsthorns]

WHO'S READY FOR SOME CANNIBALISM?

No one? Oh, well. Then you're all in for a pretty bad time. Rose's double is going to ruin her life by exposing her darkest secret: that she eats soylent green. AND SOYLENT GREEN IS *GASP* PEOPLE!!! The double will be super sweet and peppy and personable just like Rose is but will strike once she has the opportunity. Which is actually something Rose herself did at the starts of her newfound diet and will be especially life-ruining to have thrown in her face.

Original!Rose will immediately confront and probably battle with her double but since she's a coward who has a lot of issues re: killing herself, she will run and hide as she does. Though if she finds out the double!Rose has harmed anyone she cares about, all bets are off and she'll come to the rescue and try to end her double. Or her double will end her. I haven't actually decided yet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Chara

[somuchlove]

Hey kids, who wants to learn about genocide? Because Chara's double would LOVE to teach you =)

Chara's double will be acting as much as they do during post genocide/pacifist, with the twist that they absolutely have no emotions! They will pretend to have them but there's no pesky feelings to get in the way of gut-stabbing someone out of the blue, which they will do. You guys have to be worth something after all. In addition to this, Chara's double will have stolen the post genocide/pacifist photo the real Chara received during the Keepsake plot. So that's fun!

They will likely be going after any positive CR that Chara has managed to obtain in Hadriel or any newbies that are unfortunate enough to wander across them. I'm going to put up a blanket warning that interacting with Chara's double contains the likely possibility of them trying to hurt your character physically and possible mentions of suicide and child abuse because they don't care about their Real's privacy. But if you'd still like to play with them, I'd be happy to tone this down!

[somuchlove]

Well, so much for all those cute threads they've had! But depending on how things go, Chara might try to fight Sans' double and I was wondering if you'd be down with that?

Asriel Dreemurr

[alltozero]

WHO HERE IS READY TO MEET YOUR BEST FRIEND??

So Asriel's double will look exactly like him, of course, and that means being a little goat-person-thing. But personality-wise, he might be a little more... fake-cheery? Passive-aggressive? Openly and viciously manipulative? READY TO MURDER??

Asriel's Big Secret is that he's kind of sort of also a soulless sentient flower who played god with the timeline and killed repeatedly without a shred of remorse, and his double is going to reflect that. He's not gonna care one bit about Asriel's fakey-fake little "oh boy I can start over and try to be a good person" thing or that whole "I'm just going to pretend all that killing stuff wasn't really me" jive. He'll be going out of his way to make sure anyone he meets knows that he's still every bit the soulless killer he's always been!

But, you know, in a cutesy, smiley kind of way. =)

[fibia]

BUDDY YOU KNOW I'M DOWN FOR THAT

he'll try to drive a wedge between them in any way he can sobs

[alltozero]

GOLLY CHARA I'M SURE YOU HAVE NO SECRETS FROM ME, YOUR BEST FRIEND, WHO DEFINITELY KNOWS 100% YOU WEREN'T ACTUALLY RISEN FROM THE GRAVE AND-SLASH-OR CAPABLE OF GOING ON THE SAME SORT OF RUTHLESS MURDER SPREES I WENT ON SEVERAL TIMES

I'M SURE EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE

[somuchlove]

NONE WHATSOEVER. NOT RISEN FROM THE GRAVE, PIGGY-BACKED ON SOMEONE'S SOUL THAT COULD/DID MURDER EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND LOVE.

ALSO THAT PHOTO IS A LIE DON'T LOOK AT IT.

And if you want to make it really horrible, as Chara's best friend, their double would really, really like to get to know him.

Knife to meet you, best friend.

[somuchlove]

Double Sans, you are a bit of an asshole ahaha...

But yeah, he has quite a bit of fuel to use against them from the 4th wall event/their conversations so I just wanted to make sure that was cool because yeah. Chara might not take it lying down, ahaha.

[somuchlove]

So time to drop that Flowey spoiler, hun best bud?

An awkward conversation is in their future, isn't it?

rey.

[circumitus]

On one hand, Rey will be a lucky duck and not get killed by her doppelgänger before the event's end. On the other hand, you'll have a manipulative, underhanded mass murdering sociopath on the loose. Yay? Yay.

But she'll be interested in more than just sating her bloodlust. She will probably commiserate with any fellow doppelgängers and individuals who are inclined towards violence, as well as being a bit more forthcoming with dirty secrets than her original.

Rey's mental filter is already a bit of a joke, but expect it to be cranked down to negative eleven at this point. She will also express absolutely no liking for anything machine that possesses its own sentience, and regard them as soulless objects rather than individuals. So any robots/androids might have a unique reaction from her. The irony is that she is basically a "machine" herself, at the very core.

For a long while now Rey has been doing a pretty good job at keeping this side of her capped. The doppelgänger, however, will feel no such inclination. Rather than just attempting to go on a full-on spree, she is likely going to attempt to dispatch her counterpart in some way in order to commence being the life ruiner that she is.

So yeah, that's the gist of it. I have no solid plans yet but I am open to plotting with any current and new CR!

Alphys

[sciencelizard]

AND HERE COMES DEATH, warnings in this plot comment for mentions of suicide I am so sorry in advance, Undertale is a fun game about cute skeletons

So the deal with Alphys, for the canonblind, is that she has a looot of past mistakes she is trying to sweep under the rug. After getting appointed Royal Scientist, she ended up doing lots of secret experiments and, long story short, causing a bunch of near-death monsters to have their bodies literally melt into amalgamates of multiple monsters. On top of that she literally dragged someone's soul back from the dead and trapped them in a flower (see: asriel's entry), which she... does not even know she did at this point. It should be stressed this was all an accident, but Alphys takes it very hard, and in her time right before Hadriel, also accidentally lead her best friend to his death, and killed herself by throwing herself off a waterfall's edge.

naturally, of course, this has aaaaaall been a secret... that her double will be wanting to expose, because as soon as Alphys knows people know her secrets, she'll take care of herself =) so Alphys' double will be utterly remorseless, and while Alphys can't really fight (and therefore her double likely won't be doing much killing), she knows her words will hit her where it matters, and will likely be seeking out her close CR and anyone she can get her hands on, really, to spill Alphys' dirty secrets. While she isn't strong, she won't be going down without a fight if attacked, and will use a variety of electricity-based magic and bombs.

SO TL;DR ALPHYS IS GOING TO NEED. SOME HELP. because the chances of her beating her double are about a negative seventeen and her instinct will basically be to wander off and let a monster eat her because good golly she has no coping mechanisms even resembling recovery

double tl;dr send Help

(also I'll likely be using the account kairotic for her double! I use it in another game w a character with evil doubles and it has all my sinister smirky icons lol)

[sciencelizard]

so on a scale of one to ten how fucking dead is alphys going to be by the end of this event

[skelebro]

AHAHAHAHAHA ALPHYS PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN

[skelebro]

hahahahaha fuck i just cannot guarantee my heart will survive it

[sciencelizard]

STATISTICALLY, THE CHILDREN ARE GOING TO BE THE ONES THINKING OF HER

BECAUSE THEY WILL BE STABBING HER

(but seriously hey sans wanna find out ur friend got her by killing herself??? heeeey sans)

[skelebro]

fuck.

ha ha y e p this cast will be on fire again, this is fine

[sciencelizard]

literally every semblance of "this cast is ok with each other" is going to be straight-up shredded by this event

we are all going to fucking hell

[fibia]

save me a seat