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

Lup

[restinglichface]

Lup, same as Taako above, is going to be about 12-13, though both of the twins are pretty scrawny and small for their age, so probably look even younger. They grew up as orphans and, after years of being passed around between family that didn't really care for them, finally ran away to take the world on their own. At this age, they've only been on their own for about a year, so they are still learning just how to steal and con people to survive on the streets alone. Their magic is also still very undeveloped. They've got a few cantrips they can sometimes use, but anything else that happens is mostly accidental.

They are going to be invading people's houses to steal their shit, as well as looking for adults they think may be easily conned. If you want to run into baby Lup, let me know! She'll be stealing a lot of shit and accidentally setting people on fire for the majority of the event, though is also going to have some CUUUTE interactions with her future hubby.

Also, let me know where you want adult Lup in the event! I'm definitely tagging her out a lot, because I want her to adopt all of the children.

[nowherewolf]

them both being goblin thief children seems like a good reason to finally throw tucker at lup

[restinglichface]

god, this is going to be fucking amazing

gimme that sweet sweet boy

[softspokenlandlord]

Show baby Ryou the fire. he wants to see the fire.

Also tho IT'S ABOUT TIME I PUT IN SOME WORK WRT CR since Lup seems p awesome!! So we should do something!

Also also she can try to rob Metta, that'd be hilarious. He'd just be massively unimpressed because he doesn't usually carry belongings with him lol.

[restinglichface]

OH YES!! I am so into both of these ideas. Fire and robbery. Two of Lup's favorite things!

I'll be throwing up a top level you can tag into, but if you want me to throw Lup at any of your top levels, just let me know and I can keep an eye out for them! I'm so excited for this new cr!

[puzzlingly]

Steal his crown, Lup. I dare you.

No. I double dare you!!

[restinglichface]

WELL

since you said so. she's gonna try.

[so_dark_a_road]

I'd love to have baby Lup run into either adult Curufin or child Curufin. Curufin as a child will be the same age as child Lup, and he will have more or less the same temperament. And adult Curufin won't be easily conned, but he'll have a lot of sympathy for a wild child.

[restinglichface]

GOSH i am so so so down for this. I need more Curufin in my life

[nonscriptum]

hey..................you steal things.........i also steal things.......

good time for nate to commiserate with the twins about extremely similar childhoods y/y

[restinglichface]

OH HELL YEAH they need to end up teaming up to steal something B I G