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

Trafalgar Law

[hot_mes]

I'm on a phone so hopefully this works...

Law will be falling asleep three separate times, with very different selves each time. For the sake of not doing a "why am I here" every time, I'm going to assume he either asked, read, or figured it out himself. That way his prompts should be easier to get right into. Also lmao gj Confusion there is no hope here.

Flavor 1 is age 10, fresh from the massacre of Flevance and joining the Donquixote Pirates. Law will envision himself with a string of grenades around his neck but he isn't likely to even threaten to use them. Not that they'd work anyway. He's angry, hopeless, fatalistic, and ready to destroy anything that pisses him off. The most unstable he's ever been. Approach with caution.

Flavor 2 is just shy of 13 and honestly almost as small and weak as he was at 10. The major differences are that he's less hair-trigger ragey, smarter, sassier, and has large patches of white blotching all over his skin. Including half his face. His dream-self will think he's in pain even if he's not actually but getting him to admit it will be hard. His primary concern at this age will be "where's Cora-san" so the 1 or 2 people who met Corazon in that last dream may connect the two.

Flavor 3 is the last, he'll appear on the last day of the event when Law can't stay awake any more. This one has hope!! He's 9ish, pre-tragedy, pretty normal for a genius child studying medicine. He might want to dissect monster carcasses soooo....

All three versions will be wearing the same leopard-spotted hat (more boater style than golf ball) so as long as you've seen adult Law feel free to jump to the conclusion that it's the same guy. I'll post some pics in a comment when I'm not on mobile. This is a good opportunity to learn some about his past that he doesn't like to talk about - 1 will be cagey but admit he's from Flevance more easily than 2...2 will talk about Corazon while 3 will openly mention his sister and parents since he doesn't yet know that anything happened to them.

Come at me for having 1 threaten you, 2 be a snarky asshole, or 3 be the weird kid who asks too many questions about how your body works. His backstory is one of the worst in OP so have fun? Oh also he doesn't have his Devil Fruit yet so mentioning it will confuse him. OR in-between sleeps adult Law is still around to lineface at all the kids and try to figure out the shenanigans.

Re: Trafalgar Law

[am_i_a_monster]

Abigail grew up hunting with her father and he insisted on using every part of the animal. She wouldn't mind discussing carcasses with the 9ish version. She could be a child too, or her regular self.

[hot_mes]

if you want to hit him up, go ahead, but he's not interested in animals so much as anatomy and biology.

Pics

[hot_mes]

Ugh missed my chance to edit the post so here's pics:

Flavor 1, age 10. Grenades not included.

Flavor 2 god this pic is terribly washed out, screw you and your filters people, but that's sort of the gist of white spots until I can make icons.

Flavor 3, not quite 10 yet with his classmates and his dead frog.

Aaaand his sister and parents just because I can.

[puzzlingly]

he looks like five help me

[hot_mes]

HE'S FUCKING ADORABLE I can't help it

it's the disease, he was actually stunted. Oops.

[circumitus]

I feel like Rey is just going to look at his face and IMMEDIATELY KNOW WHO THE HELL THIS KID IS.

[hot_mes]

haha yeah...it's not the hat it's totally the sour look on his face.

[circumitus]

It's like BRUH YOUR FACE HAS LITERALLY NOT CHANGED A MUSCLE WHEN YOU GROW UP.

[hot_mes]

but I grew facial hair!! (not a muscle)

sixteen years of hell will do that to you.

[nowherewolf]

the hat swallowing his tiny head is a great aesthetic tbh

[hot_mes]

he's all hat, it's true

Re: Trafalgar Law

[sonofacesius]

Will is totally happy to bump into any of them! Although would it be better if we held off and had them meet up when Law was an actual adult first?

[hot_mes]

Hmmm...not sure. Granted, I am planning on an adult prompt in the log but does it need to happen before that? Law does still lurk around the clinic - he's been more scarce while the rebuilding is going on because he's not that useful in construction but he's always been at the clinic a lot...

[sonofacesius]

they've probably met then. Will practically lives at the clinic.

[hot_mes]

Yeah, we can always handwave that they've manly-nodded at each other on and off the past few months. Law at least pays attention to who's around even if he's not really very friendly and doesn't chat everyone up.

[sonofacesius]

hahahaha manly nodded. Sounds good! Will tries to be friendly and corner everyone but it's easy to say that Law slipped away. Or saw Will sneaking off with his boyfriend Nico, not so subtly. LOL

[hot_mes]

ugh you people with your love, get it away. Go over there. :D

Yeah that works. that way Will can spot the hat and go with it. Whether you want homicidal terror or slightly less homicidal asshole flavor.

Re: Trafalgar Law

[bythewaves]

Would Law like to meet bitty elves?

[hot_mes]

omg yes

shatter his expectations of all these tall, dashing fighters. Adult Law, anyway - tiny Law would only really be all "elves are a fairy tale shut up."

[bythewaves]

XD baby Cano says "no u" but YES

[hot_mes]

see now I almost want to have that sassy conversation... HMMMM

[bythewaves]

LOL well I am down for that too if you want

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin will be looking for ya, Trafalgar!

[hot_mes]

Brace yourself, Curufin, it's gonna be a hell of a ride.