Event Post: The Hope of a Child

[hadrielmods]

THE RUNDOWN

Hope's in need of energy to get the city up and running again, and now Confusion's decided to help out Hope by getting a little creative. And hey, maybe it'll be a little bit like a vacation for the inhabitants of Hadriel, right? A blast from your past, as you turn into a younger version of yourself.

That's right. Starting on January 23rd, everyone is going to have a chance to relive their childhood years. Characters will find themselves falling into a deep, unwakeable sleep - and while they're asleep, their consciousnesses will be projected outside of themselves in the form of children. They'll have all memories and experiences of that character as a child, but be totally lacking anything beyond that, with absolutely no memory of ever being an adult.

The city will be full of sleeping adults and unsupervised children - except for the few adults who don't sleep. What are you going to do? Try to play babysitter and wrangle the little ones? Or just let them run wild? Let's hope these kids don't get into too much trouble.

THE DETAILS

How much you want your character to participate is entirely up to you. Not everyone will be asleep the whole time - some people might not fall asleep at all, some might only sleep for a few hours here and there, while others might fall asleep at the beginning of the event and stay that way until the very end. Normal sleep won't be affected: people will still get as tired as normal and when they choose to sleep there will be no child version of them. However, while in that unnatural sleep, they won't need to eat or drink and will have no awareness of passing time.

What counts as a child? Anything between the ages of about 5-14, with a little leeway - we don't want too many actual babies running around, but in the end it's up to you! And if your character didn't have a childhood - if they were created as an adult, for example - it can be whatever they personally consider to be themselves as a child, whether that's an actual child they never were or simply a mentally younger version of themselves.

It's also your decision how much your character remembers from their time as a child. While they won't remember anything with perfect recall, they could have very realistic dreamlike snatches of memory or no memories at all or something in between. Maybe this is finally their chance to have that happy childhood they always wanted, and fill themselves with hope for the future. That's what Confusion is hoping, at least!

THE OVERVIEW

► January 23rd: People start falling asleep and dreaming their child selves
► February 1st: That's all, folks

Comments

Alphys and Taako

[sciencelizard]

R I S E YA'LL IM SO HYPE FOR THIS. Both my characters will be adults and kids for portions of the event and will get top-levels for those times. That said, deets:

Alphys will be de-aging to about 10; if you thought she was small at 4 feet, be prepared for half that size with The Same Size Glasses, Actually. She'll still be her usual nerdy self but much, much more shy and also very scared her father isn't around. Someone help her she'll latch onto any adult to save her, probably. Also: she'll never have seen a human before? She is going to scream directly at the first human she sees. I'm sorry.

Taako will end up around 12-13 and just be The Absolute Biggest Goblin To Ever Exist. He and his twin sister Lup grew up essentially orphans after around this point in time (though at that point they'll have only been on their own about a year) and are the kind of scrappy little shits you'd expect two street urchins to be. They'll fleece anything out of anyone if they think they can get it for free, so expect them to be picking pockets, pretending to be each other, and just outright stealing anything that isn't nailed to the ground. His magic will be down to just one or two cantrips during this time at least, which will be good because he Distrusts All Adults and Distrusting All Adults But With Fireball is absolutely worse.

please hit me up for this event im so excited ohhh my god

[circumitus]

I am so ready for babby Alphys.

[sciencelizard]

ME TOO

she's gonna be so small and so afraid

[circumitus]

OH NO. Rey will want to keep her safe. She's not getting shrunk down so she'll be one of the adults in this mess.

[sciencelizard]

good please protect her. even if she'll be afraid of all humans but like, even more scared of being alone, so

[fracturedbeauty]

Please come have Taako harass Yukari (child). He'll get so grumpy and yet unsure about what the heck is going on.

Also, I'm happy to have Tatara be Alphys' adult, if you would like. He'd find her adorable.

[pocketspa]

he will harass everyone, tbh. he's a disaster and only knows how to be an absolute menace.

and honestly help her, she'll be Freaking the entire time but will absolutely appreciate anyone's kindness ;w;

[fracturedbeauty]

Menace's are the best!

And one Tatara to help Alphys coming right up!

[so_dark_a_road]

Twelve-year-old Curufin will think little Alphys is so sweet! He'll probably try to adopt her. And he'd love to meet Taako, another scrappy little shit, YAY!

[pocketspa]

I am so glad every elf in this game is going to be a child menace. they need to start a gang

[nonscriptum]

hey u little shit u wanna steal things together or WHAT

Street Urchin Lyfe

[pocketspa]

fuuuuck yeeeeessss

you better pull your own weight human boy he doesn't share takes