modly announcement + a WAYWARD PINES MEMORIES mingle!

[officialnotice]

What up, Pinecones?

We wanted to let y'all know that thanks to your feedback in our Plurk poll, we've settled on what seems like the simplest system for you guys to collaborate on and play with the optional false Wayward Pines memories mechanic.

A summary for those still digesting the info-pages:

As a totally optional (but highly encouraged) side mechanic, as new characters begin to remember their actual memories, they also begin to remember false ones in which they grew up in the town of Wayward Pines. These can be solo memories, like the park they went to as a kid or the desk they sat in during homeroom in Wayward Pines Academy, but they can also involve other player-characters.

These false memories should keep the characters at least mostly IC, but other than that, they don't need to have any real adherence to canon. Two characters may have been friends back home, but these false memories could say they're siblings or enemies or maybe just strangers passing in the street. The only real rule is to only include false memories involving characters whose players have agreed to the same memories! This rule is in place because all false memories are relatively cohesive and if Character A remembers a false memory with Character B, B would by nature remember the same memory with A.

While canon memories typically return completely by two weeks into your character's stay, false memories will continue to spring up as time goes on, presumably jogged by familiar faces, places, or activities. This allows you to build new false-memory CR with characters even if they've come in months after your own character arrived.

Want in?


A HANDY STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO FALSE MEMORY FUN:

• Step 1: Create an entry on your character's journal. This will be your Wayward Pines false memory plotting repository. It doesn't have to be fancy, you can leave it totally empty, but if people want to hit you up for false memory plotting, this will be the place they can do so. (Consider using the entry to state your false memory plotting preferences and/or to keep a running list of the false memories you've established so far!)
  
  
• Step 2: Reply to the Taken page with your character's name and a link to your new false memory plotting entry. This will go next to the link for your IC inbox in the taken list.
  
  
• Step 3: (Optional.) Reply to this entry with your link, as well as a brief blurb about what kinds of false memory CR you're looking for. The actual CR meme is in less than a week, but this will be a good place to chat soon enough to use it in your intro log threads.
  
  
• Step 4: (Optional but suggested.) Include the link to your false memories plotting page in the appropriate section in our upcoming CR meme.

Have at it, folks. :)

Comments

Bucky Barnes | MCU

[zymasoldat]

I GUESS I'LL BREAK THIS POST IN.

Here's Bucky's false memories page. So far the only memory he has right now is that he's been friends with Steve and Natasha since childhood. And Nat kicked him in the balls. Other things I've figured for his Pines backstory: he tried going to college for a year or two, dropped out, joined the army, and once he was done with that (possibly due to losing his arm in some kind of incident he doesn't remember), he returned to his hometown of Wayward Pines. He works as a mechanic at S&D Automotive.

THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT. I'm open to pretty much anything, but I'm not going to be playing with the false memory mechanic too much with Bucky. So basically, we can establish mutual past encounters/memories/etc that your character may remember, but Bucky may not remember as many of them, himself.

OH ALSO, I'm hoping to have his alternate life be something reminiscent of ~what could have been~ if he hadn't been captured and brainwashed by HYDRA. So I'm looking for positive associations, big brotherly sentiments, etc. more than angsty memories.

Jefferson | OUAT

[royalpassport]

And here's Jefferson's false memories page! I'm planning on playing with the false memories mechanic way more with Jefferson, so that he's stuck with THREE LIVES IN HIS HEAD: Real Jefferson, Curse Jefferson (a false set of memories put in his head by the Dark Curse-- hence the memories marked "curse" in the memories page), and Pines Jefferson.

So a fully fleshed out life for Pines Jefferson would be p great. Established so far: he and Howard are exes who both refuse to move out of their house, and he owns and manages a tea room.

I'm leaning towards his Pines persona also being known as a bit of a weirdo and a high-strung drama queen where's the lie tho. OTHER THAN THAT, IDK.

[vdova]

sry about ur nads bucky

howard stark | mcu

[inventor]

ARE Y'ALL READY TO MEET THIS SENILE, AMNESIAC CRACKPOT??

cos this guy won't remember anything. he's got his memory page here and, aside from some useless knowledge, he won't be able to tell his ass from a hole in the ground.

as for any pines memories, he won't have any. he'll discover that he owns an electronics and repair business (SHIELD's Electronics & Repair) and that he shares a house with his douchebag ex-boyfriend, jefferson. BUT OTHER THAN THAT? he is open! jefferson will have some memories about howard and their relationship (and may even make some memories up lmao).

i am planning on messing around with the amnesia mechanic so, in the future, he will experience blackouts and have trouble retaining and recollecting information. but that won't be for another few weeks, i think

if you want to include howard in your pines memories or have any other ideas concerning him, that's cool. just drop me a line and we can discuss the deets :')

Damon Salvatore l TVD

[unforgivably]

I don't have a page yet, I'll pull one together later tonight after work but, there are only a few snippets of ideas. Damon partially owns S & D Auto Repair with his brother, Stefan. He apprentices Bucky. He's actually really nice in person, very non Damon like, a lot like before he was a vampire, but underneath is a seedier side from a difficult childhood. Playing around with the idea of light gambling behind the scenes and being a minor bookie (and not as nice as he looks.)

He's going to therapy with Jiaying secretly.

And that's what I have.

He also took lunches every day at local watering holes, so, if you want CR in passing there, we can talk about that.

I'm very open.

[zymasoldat]

i don't think you're sorry at all

Corstine | Original Character

[ratkingcole]

Here is Corstine's memories page. She hasn't started getting them quite yet, but when she begins regaining her real memories she'll start getting fake ones at the same time.

Basically the idea I've got for her is that she's gonna be a shitty small town rebel. Doing petty crimes, getting a facial tattoo out of spite, doing drugs in the back of a van, etc. She'll remember being a bad influence and a shitty role model and just generally being a shitheel.

Also she goes to counseling with Jiaying - although mostly at the prompting of others or when she wants something from her fake Wayward Pines parents and is trying to convince them that she's changed and is totally worth their time now (she is not).

I don't have a lot of specifics planned, though, so hit me up if you'd like to have Corstine's fake past intersect with your character in any way!

10K | Z Nation

[overfivethousand]

A link to his memory page is here!

Basically, 10K has led a pretty reclusive life for the last 10 years or so; mom died of cancer at 8, dad pulled him out of school after his mom died to homeschool him, then died when 10K was 16, leaving him without a high school diploma but with a lot of wilderness survival training and basic handyman skills. He's survived since then doing menial labor (construction, mowing lawns, moving crews) and taking on odd jobs around town.

I'd be interested in people who knew/were friendly with his parents, distant family or cousins, schoolmates from the Before Times, employers either past or present, and "current" friendships.

[keephimtalking]

Here is Lantar's memory page!

He will remember being in a freak hunting accident that caused the bullet hole scarring in his temples. He'll probably remember growing up in an orphanage and maybe being bounced through a couple of foster homes. Dropped in and out of school before stopping entirely at age 14 and just did odd jobs around the town to get away from his caretakers until he hit 18 and got out. Probably hung with a bad crowd, although he tended to be the friend that talked them out of trouble. Worked at the cafe for a couple years and then a bar until his current age (22), a bar that shut down just before his accident.

[ratkingcole]

Hung around with a bad crowd, you say?

Butch Flowers | Red VS Blue

[flowerida]

Here is Butch's memory page.

Mostly, Butch remembers working as a landscaper for 20 odd years and doing random jobs around the Pines before that. He's the dad friend that everyone always gets car rides from. Never married, never had children, mostly spent that extra energy getting up in everyone else's family business. Probably knows everyone in town somehow and is generally on good terms with them?

[keephimtalking]

Lmao, they can be the old Pines Gang or something?

ellie | the last of us

[pungi]

so i have a page here but it's..... empty rn. i'll update it soon, but until then

here's what i have in my head so far re: pine memories -

a) ellie goes to the local school and she's... a bit of a trouble maker. like, she does the work and she's not a bad student, academically, but she has a knack for trouble and spends a lot of time in detention. or should do, when she isn't skipping.
b) yeah, she skips school pretty regularly. not everyday, but enough for her to remember being escorted back to school mid afternoon pretty often. so i am looking for a store owner or... business owner or whoever who's cool with a teenager just hanging out their premises instead of school?
c) also people who tattle on her skipping are good too lol. tho she'd avoid you like the plague.
d) she also needs school friends! i'm not sure how many kids/teens are in the game, but i'm all here for anyone school aged that ellie might hang out with. they could even cause trouble with/skip classes with her
e) her parents died when she was very young and she lives with a guardian (maybe an aunt/uncle) that she doesn't remember much of atm.

that's all i have right now, but i very open for any other suggestions! hit me up!

[keephimtalking]

Think you'd like to have 10K know Lantar as a friend(ish?) through some of their odd jobs?

[keephimtalking]

Lantar is hopefully going to be owning a bar. He'll leave pretzels and snacks out on the countertop for her?

[ratkingcole]

Idk if "gang" could really be accurate, given how small the town is. More like a couple of shitheads who got into trouble on occasion

[vdova]

a little!!!!

[flowerida]

Do you want a ridiculously cheerful old man friend for Stark?

Re: Damon Salvatore l TVD

[flowerida]

Butch worked in landscaping so he probably owned a truck that Damon might've repaired? Also, Butch is a busybody who is friendly at everyone.

[ratkingcole]

Corstine is a (grown up) troublemaker herself. If Ellie needs someone to have her back while she's avoiding a truant officer or w/e, Corstine would probably have her back.

Also maybe they're cousins or something? I could go for the idea that Ellie's guardian is the mom that Corstine's always disappointing - if that's something you'd be interested in.

[flowerida]

They can have tea together and Butch will listen to him complain about Stark?

[keephimtalking]

A smol gang. Well, smol until Lantar hit his growth spurt.

They probably got arrested as kids together once or something?

[inventor]

no.

yes. can he make waffles?

[ratkingcole]

Yeah, that sounds about right. Are they still close, or did they start to drift apart?

I'm tempted to suggest that they're exes or something, so they don't hang out much anymore but I totally understand if that's not the direction you want to go in with this.

[unforgivably]

I'm good with Bucky being the Salvatore's apprentice. Any underhanded dealings likely were kept from Bucky as he didn't have a high enough pay grade. But, I'm sure Damon treated him like a little brother, though, not his.