+ Of course I'll start again, what choice do I have? +

[vitaelamorte]

After a day of suspense, trepidation and questionable cooking recipes the bulletin board now features an explanation of what our latest resident, The Duchess, has told you (more or less).

This event will begin on Friday and last up to (and including) Monday, and is all about your character(s) making different decisions, for better or worse. Pick a canon point for your character, look at what they did, and imagine what would happen if they had done something else entirely.

Keep in mind that all their memories from that point on will be altered for the duration of the event, including the ones they made in Wonderland. Also keep in mind that they will remember all other characters (excluding the ones that change with their memories of their own canon) as they always have been, and will be baffled why they are suddenly acting all different.

As always there will be a Q&A thread in this post for any other inquiries you may have!

On an unrelated note, don't forget to weigh in on our discussion on the activity check if you haven't done so already. We will announce our next decision on the matter after the event has ended.

That's all, enjoy your alternative reality and have a splendid day!

~ Mouette

ADDENDUM

After seeing this mentioned in a number of comments we would like to add a quick clarification about Wonderland's event mechanics, for those of you who may be unsure:

Wonderland's events always affect all residents on the Real side, unless the event itself features an aspect that singles out certain people. So while you are absolutely not obliged to post or thread during every single event your character will have experienced the changes, whether you threaded them or not.

In short, you may opt out of playing an event on an OOC basis, but not on an IC level. Wonderland is unfortunately hideously viciously incredibly and wonderfully thorough like that!

Comments

+ Q&A +

[vitaelamorte]

Brrrring it!

THIS ASSHOLE

[justguidelines]

This giant fucking manchild Hector Barbossa. Man. This is a tough one. But what I'm really thinking of going with is his never having mutinied Jack, therefore he never died, and therefore...He...Will probably still think he's Jack's first mate.

Of course, this also means he'll be a lot like he was pre-movie canon, which was still the same crazy-pants smartass we know and love, but without the lust for life. So. Uh. Yeah.

He'll also probably be referring to Jack as Captain, which in and of itself is hilarious.

ETA: He's also probably going to be a shit-faced drunk. Long story short, after the loss of his first ship, he pretty much stayed that way until the idea to mutiny Jack hit him. So. Expect a more bitter, more snappy, definitely less-compliant version of Master Gibbs. See also: No muttonchops.

Re: + Q&A +

[pottershotter]

Question! I'm still not entirely decided on it, but would it be possible to have James forget he read the Harry Potter books, even though it's a choice he made in Wonderland?

And then a follow-up question - if not, should his memories of what's actually in the books be altered as well? Or would it be more likely that he would have clashing memories between what the event is forcing on him and what's in the books?

HELLO I AM HERE TO COMPLICATE THINGS IN YOUR FIRST EVENT FAQ. ♥

[geneticallyscrewed]

Henry's biggest decision was going to find Emma. So what if he didn't? What if he never knew her at all? Storybrooke would have stayed cursed and his relationship with Regina would have stayed the same and very strained, if not worse.

Anyone besides the obvious canon mates want some psuedo-cursed!Henry?

[geneticallyscrewed]

Okay so Henry is probably going to forget Emma from his canon memories, does that mean everything they've done together in Wonderland up until now be forgotten as well? Or are they different now? Or what?

Just to be sure, rather than make a mess because I like this event :D

[radiopalkiller]

I think I'll use this one for a little gimmick, so Philip will have made the decision not to take the cure against the Tuurngait virus and consequently has turned into this.

His Wonderland story is that he used to be sentient, but without the hivemind that deteriorated over time, and these days he's barely more than a zombie prowling the basement tunnels.

I'll put up a log for him when the event comes around, so let me know if you'd like to interact with him - I'm definitely up for any kill-or-be-killed scenarios you want to play out.

[justlove]

How much do these altered memories affect the characters? Can they impact them on a physical level too? Because (thank you for the idea, Karen), Blaine took a slushie that had rock salt added in directly to the face; he had to have surgery on his eyes to fix that, but he was fine otherwise.

If, for some reason, he decided not to have the surgery and ended up blind, would that be a thing that could actually happen?

[vitaelamorte]

Yes, any and all physical changes that come with the altered decision are absolutely fine.

[watchthedetective]

Joan, I'm thinking, will still be a doctor. It's unlikely that anyone will notice a change because her general demeanor and personality will be pretty much the same, but she won't be trying to "solve" people and will be active in the clinic as if she'd never tried to distance herself at all, so maybe some of the doctors could be like "what happened to you not being one?" or something, idk.

Greed, on the other hand, will be very different. He will never have turned on Father, meaning he is a lot less sympathetic to humans, has no idea why he suddenly got dropped into a different body here in Wonderland, and knows Ed and Al only as sacrifices. Ling, likewise, chose some other means of gaining favor than immortality and will know them not at all, and he'll be confused and terrified by finding himself suddenly possessed. He'll be fighting it hard. It will not be pretty.

EDIT: Okay, modly veto on something that should have resulted in physical changes which are canceled out in Wonderland, so Greed did turn on Father a hundred years ago but let us say he did not regain his memory this time around. Slightly less of an asshole than he would have been otherwise, but still largely contemptuous of humans and still basically Father's thug.

EDIT x2: On reflection, I think anything that would have prevented Ling from receiving Greed would also be a physical change, which I'd prefer not to do in this case, SO: Ling did not choose to welcome Greed in, and they don't like each other at all. He's constantly fighting to maintain himself, and occasionally seizing control. Greed was, as such, not pushed to remember after Bido, so, again, he's still the snarky asshole we see before that and is loyal to Father.

[bottlearum]

I THINK, for this event Jack Sparrow will have never made his deal with Davy Jones.

What does that mean, you ask?

That means:
   --No Black Pearl.
   --No Captain Jack Sparrow.
   --Who are Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner?
   --Barbossa? You mean that one guy I meet that one time?
   --And, subsequently, none of the movies actually ever happened.

SO THAT'LL BE FUN. Let me know if you want to interact with him because I am open for literally everything.

Re: + Q&A +

[unsleeved]

Is a pre-canon point acceptable for the change? There isn't a specific turning point mentioned but it's not headcanon- Reedus has been pretty clear that it was a choice on Daryl's part not to end up like his brother/family and the writers have confirmed that.

[vitaelamorte]

That is what it would most likely mean, yes. Since Henry wouldn't have known Emma in canon he also wouldn't have had much of a reason to interact with her in Wonderland, at least not in the way he did with his original memories.

[vitaelamorte]

Yes, pre-canon is an acceptable option!

[geneticallyscrewed]

Awesome. Thanks for the prompt reply.

[appealingavarice]

Is it also okay for them to not have the physical changes one would expect? Because the thing I'm changing for Greed got him killed and remade in a different body, but I don't want to leave Ling out of this.

[vitaelamorte]

Unfortunately I think for the sake of consistency I will actually have to vote 'no' on that one. If the altered decision Greed made would definitely result in a certain physical change then that change should also be reflected during the event.

[cabineyes]

if captain hook never stole rumplestiltskin's wife that means she never died and hook never had a reason to go to neverland to spend all those years plotting rumplestiltskin's murder/being a miserable ball of hate in general.

what this means is that:
- NEVER LOST HIS HAND GUYS. he's just killian jones. no captain hook.
- less dead inside
- never interacted with the ouat cast
- never spent 100+ years in neverland
- never lost his crew
- never lost the love of his liiiiife
- pretty much the pirate he is today except happier i guess? since he no longer has to spend all his time clinging to the past.

[claimyourself]

Spoilers for Beautiful Creatures up in this thread!

Okay so I think since my Mirror Lena is already Dark, what I'll do here is go the opposite way. For Lena, instead of being left with her cousin who handed her over to her mother on the night of her Claiming, Lena went with Ethan to save his father and when they found out from Ridley that Lena's mother wanted to get her alone, Lena and Ethan ditched town to escape her. When midnight came, Lena didn't know that she could Claim herself, but she wanted to be Light so much that she was Claimed Light and all the Dark Casters in her family died. So no more of her enemies, Ridley, Larkin, or Macon.

And then her path from there would be pretty tragic, because she'd still be Light so all her guilt and rage wouldn't have the same kind of outlet it would if she'd been unclaimed or Dark. I think she'll just be a very insular, timid person, constantly doing good deeds to make up for what she unknowingly did. Oh, and her eyes will both be green for the event.

[justlove]

Glee is strange and has strange plot lines that ultimately have no long-term significance, okay? Okay. Moving on. To summarize: Blaine took a rock salt laced slushie straight to the face, ending up with a deeply scratched cornea, which he needed to have surgery to fix. They said it only hit him in one eye, but it was a direct hit, so how it missed the other is beyond me. So for the purposes of this timeline, both eyes were damaged, and the chances of the surgery being successful and without complications weren't great, so in the end, Blaine opted to not have the surgery, thus rendering him blind. Oh, and since it's kind of hard to handle choreography when you can't really see where you're going, he'll have dropped out of the glee club, a decision which won't have done much to improve his mood.

That's pretty straightforward, so if anyone wants to stumble into/poke fun at/whatever the blind kid, now's your chance.

I don't have any ideas for Harry at the moment, because trying to puzzle out an AU scenario that takes into account all the logistics and details is making my head hurt, and I'd rather not go with the boring option, which is having Harry choose Slytherin over Gryffindor or anything like that.

Valjean will have decided against breaking his parole, meaning he'll still be under the terms and conditions of the law regarding convicts. What this means for him is that he'll never have managed to find decent work, thus making it difficult to get a place to live, and most innkeepers aren't thrilled about having a convict under their roof.

So after rejection after rejection, he'll have become angry, disillusioned, and disgruntled, and therefore will have turned to drink, which of course only accentuates the problem.

So if anyone wants to encounter a bitter old drunk with a chip on his shoulder, Valjean is your man.

[vitaelamorte]

I went back and forth on that one a lot, because I just want to say what the heck, go for it, but ultimately the event is based on Elsword's memories of branching classes in his world, which makes me think that the theme of it should be canon AU, and for that the decisions would need to take place outside of Wonderland, so that they could have already shaped the character before coming here. SEE WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU EXPECT ME TO DO MY JOB

As for the follow-up question: Yes, if he made a different decision in his canon then the decision would also be reflected in the books about his canon, or at least they would in the way he remembers them. Everyone else will probably wonder what kind of weird fanfic he is confusing with the actual books.

[sinkships]

If Redglare hadn't decided to go into the law, she would have become a vigilante. You can be a surprisingly effective vigilante when you have a massive dragon as your lusus.

What does this mean? It means that Redglare:

- Is essentially a really nice pirate who refuses to identify herself as such
- Still has a boner for equality
- Will actively scream about how the monarchy is shit and rebellions are great and will generally keep her feelings under wraps NOT AT ALL
- Wears a swashbuckle-y outfit and her Signless pendant openly
- Still doesn't like criminals but will actually allow room for difficult circumstances

So if anyone wants to encounter a borderline anarchist revolutionary, y'know... Sup.

[pottershotter]

That's totally fine and fair! I was wavering back and forth on it too, really, for exactly the same reason. It's cool; I have an awesome back-up plan. : )

And that back-up plan would make an EXCELLENT weird fanfic. ;D hmm I still need to think a little harder about what his version of the books would be, but I'll come up with something.

But thank you! ♥

[stoptheviolence]

Since the plot and timelines of Glee totally make sense to begin with and definitely don't just have things randomly happen for the sake of that week's theme....

...yeah, I got nothing.

So, basically, the biggest impact I can imagine Brittany decision wise would probably be to have her never join Glee Club in the first place.

Why is this significant?

Glee Club is actually the reason her entire personality is able to shine. She finds herself among a diverse group who all come to accept each other, flaws and all. She's not just a mindless Popular Cheerleading Drone anymore. She doesn't deface yearbook pictures (okay, maybe she still does that), and she's actually really, really nice with a heart big enough to love everybody who isn't cruel to her.

But without that little coming out? Defacing and mocking the unpopular kids it is.

Her Mirror! self would almost be proud, if she could give enough of a shit.

[unsleeved]

OH MAN SO. I'm thinking the change is gonna be that instead of making a conscious choice to not be like his brother/family, he'll have just gone with the flow of his shitty environment and ended up... Like you'd expect: instead of busting Merle out of jail from the outside, they busted out together from the inside. He went with them to Atlanta to try and score some shit on the DL, Merle never got left behind, and the two of them ripped off the quarry camp like they'd planned after almost being blown to shit at the CDC (which he no longer remembers thanks to hitting up the core during the swap event). No Sophia, no prison, no bonding with the group- Daryl and Merle were in Woodbury when Daryl got dragged to Wonderland, pulled out of a staged "death match" with his brother.

I won't be super crazy active over the weekend because con, but as usual I will backtag forever and make up for it friday/monday.

...This is also a blanket trigger warning for drugs/possible racism/general douchebaggery becuase... His environment was balls and his influences were even more balls. Balls all around.

If anyone wants a doped up redneck for this event, hit him up. He'll be more social but less honest, so there's that... Like his mirror, actually.

[unsleeved]

Zombie.

I uh. Zombies. Just....

...I might wanna use a first death for this one. Because zombie, ahhhh!