Character name: Alec General ideas or plans for the month: This is going to be a very bad month for Alec. The events will hit him hard on a lot of vulnerable points, and having come to terms with the certainty they’ll die at the end of the cycle isn’t making him as resigned about it as he thinks he could be.
Alec will be dressing down considerably for the month, swapping his lace and ruffles for practical white tunics, black leggings, and knee high boots. People might notice that he seems slightly more tuned in than usual. Early in the month, he’ll be showing up with a pair of black eyes, which he’ll blame on slipping on ice. After how he busted his face in the swooning contest, he thinks this is pretty plausible.
My general intent is to turn up the stress on Alec's emotional state this event. I'm opening inviting heavy threads, although I will, as always, leave space for lighter and happier moments.
AU ideas: Alec’s AU is a version of himself that never managed to leave home. Hijack 2.0 has none of the awful whimsy of Alec’s original double, replacing it with desensitized violence. Jean-Paul ‘Hijack’ Vasil is quiet, methodical, and hollowed out. Physically, he’s slightly more sickly looking than Alec, has shorter hair, and a fresh, shiny facial scar from a sharp object running from his jawline up to below his left eye instead of Alec’s neck to elbow scar on his left side.
Event ideas: Whiteout Alec won’t really mind being confined to one place for the last half of the month. Compared to everything else happening, this is relatively fine! He may be defacing the walls with various forms of art to pass the time.
Another Path Hijack will start his existence by tracking Alec down and attacking him somewhere in the hotel, and after that will be hiding out in the hotel until being killed by John Gaius early in the double death spree. I'm planning to keep threads involving Hijack limited to closed starters just because I want to make sure we discuss limits and potential content warnings in advance.
Hijack will also be puppeting the receptionist for a period of time, then getting into a fight with him that will end in the receptionist’s gory death. I’ll have a Happenings post up for this when it’s relevant. Hijack’s wet and creepy skeleton will be found in the vicinity of the receptionist’s blood explosion.
Alec will lie about having seen his double as much as he can get away with, as per his double's instructions.
Seeing Red Alec will receive two false memories from contact with his double. The first will be of murdering a stranger, and the second will be of dragging his older sister back home after she tried to run away.
This event is especially bad for Alec due to the attendant guilt. His normal muted emotional state being disrupted by an external intrusive feeling like this hits right on his fundamental childhood trauma, although he won't be displaying this on the surface much. It’s unlikely he’ll be driven to confess anything unless someone pushes him to, since he’s striving to pretend that none of this is happening to him at all.
However, Alec is potentially a great person to confess to, since he keeps people’s secrets and is a nonjudgmental listener when it comes to terrible things people may or may not have done.
Are you planning to create a log this month? Y (closed and open starters)
Alec | Worm
General ideas or plans for the month:
This is going to be a very bad month for Alec. The events will hit him hard on a lot of vulnerable points, and having come to terms with the certainty they’ll die at the end of the cycle isn’t making him as resigned about it as he thinks he could be.
Alec will be dressing down considerably for the month, swapping his lace and ruffles for practical white tunics, black leggings, and knee high boots. People might notice that he seems slightly more tuned in than usual. Early in the month, he’ll be showing up with a pair of black eyes, which he’ll blame on slipping on ice. After how he busted his face in the swooning contest, he thinks this is pretty plausible.
My general intent is to turn up the stress on Alec's emotional state this event. I'm opening inviting heavy threads, although I will, as always, leave space for lighter and happier moments.
AU ideas:
Alec’s AU is a version of himself that never managed to leave home. Hijack 2.0 has none of the awful whimsy of Alec’s original double, replacing it with desensitized violence. Jean-Paul ‘Hijack’ Vasil is quiet, methodical, and hollowed out. Physically, he’s slightly more sickly looking than Alec, has shorter hair, and a fresh, shiny facial scar from a sharp object running from his jawline up to below his left eye instead of Alec’s neck to elbow scar on his left side.
Event ideas:
Whiteout
Alec won’t really mind being confined to one place for the last half of the month. Compared to everything else happening, this is relatively fine! He may be defacing the walls with various forms of art to pass the time.
Another Path
Hijack will start his existence by tracking Alec down and attacking him somewhere in the hotel, and after that will be hiding out in the hotel until being killed by John Gaius early in the double death spree. I'm planning to keep threads involving Hijack limited to closed starters just because I want to make sure we discuss limits and potential content warnings in advance.
Hijack will also be puppeting the receptionist for a period of time, then getting into a fight with him that will end in the receptionist’s gory death. I’ll have a Happenings post up for this when it’s relevant. Hijack’s wet and creepy skeleton will be found in the vicinity of the receptionist’s blood explosion.
Alec will lie about having seen his double as much as he can get away with, as per his double's instructions.
Seeing Red
Alec will receive two false memories from contact with his double. The first will be of murdering a stranger, and the second will be of dragging his older sister back home after she tried to run away.
This event is especially bad for Alec due to the attendant guilt. His normal muted emotional state being disrupted by an external intrusive feeling like this hits right on his fundamental childhood trauma, although he won't be displaying this on the surface much. It’s unlikely he’ll be driven to confess anything unless someone pushes him to, since he’s striving to pretend that none of this is happening to him at all.
However, Alec is potentially a great person to confess to, since he keeps people’s secrets and is a nonjudgmental listener when it comes to terrible things people may or may not have done.
Are you planning to create a log this month? Y (closed and open starters)