+ 'Tis so much better to have them, but you'd barely know until they come off +

[vitaelamorte]

You heard it here first, friends! A new memory is ahead... or no head, as it were.

Starting Friday, April 1st, characters will be able to turn their emotions on and off at will, but both sides of that coin have their advantages and disadvantages. The set-up is very straightforward this time, and you can read all about it on the bulletin board. The compulsion aspect, as it says, is for you to involve as much or as little as you like.

The usual thread for questions and answers is provided below, and there's plenty of room to plot out (un)emotional fun times. The effects of this event will last for three days, up to and including Sunday, April 3rd.

And that's all, have a wonderful rest of March and a splendid day!

~Mouette

PS.: Don't forget to submit your activity for February and March within our new schedule, aka. by Friday, April 1st!

Comments

Questions...

[vitaelamorte]

...and answers!

Who loves DYING AND BEING DEAD

[fulllifeconsequences]

So, uh. For those not familiar with Undertale: a thing that's pretty relevant to Chara is the game's level-up system. Which... is basically just a way to measure emotional distance. Basically, the more emotionless and disconnected they become, the easier it gets to hurt others, and the stronger they get.

SO THEY'RE GONNA COMPLETELY LOSE THEIR EMOTIONS. And that basically means they're gonna become the relentless, ruthless World Ending Murder Spree kid they were on the no mercy route.

What I'm getting at here is "so does anyone want to be attacked/maybe killed by a preteen who has no greater motive than Because They Can"

[ngah]

no mercy killer child vs best route child killer

shell put up a fight but i think we know who would win

kill the fish lady. do it

losers de kai

[backpacking]

for quick reference, in order of least to most time spent with emotions turned on: sam - snow - ellie - robyn

for quick reference, in order of least to most affected by the compulsion: robyn - ellie - snow

sam is immediately going to switch off these wacky emotions and leave them that way, after quickly debating the merits and potential problems. though it has the potential to bring out a 'soulless sam'-type persona in him, he figures it's better to have things turned down in a place with a lot to react to rather than the opposite.

snow will experience maybe a day to day and a half trying to balance these variable feelings before she switches off. there are some things (though not many) that have been bubbling up lately that she's now unable to keep down, and her compulsion to act on them will be the strongest of my characters. after a while, she will decide that powering off is the safer solution and will do so until the event ends.

ellie will be with her emotions turned on the whole time, chasing emotional highs, basically being a high-strung kid with a feelings sugar fix. it seems like a depressing, adult thing to do to turn things off, so... she won't! if you want to argue or fight with a loud, swearing child, or if you want to get into more fun trouble, like making a giant fort or messing up the kitchen, let me know!

robyn also feels it's Wrong to shut off your emotions, but unfortunately, this week has been difficult for her. early in the week she learned that she's going to die back home not much longer after where she is now. though she'll defintiely be struggling with this great sadness and will be less able to mask it than before, it won't be all bad! friday, she'll still be trying to return the possessions of other residents that her dog stole, and that could be an opportunity for new cr of varying levels of... being emotionally volite, depending.

i'm up for anything, here, people! plot with me!

[needlebearer]

This seems like a great time for Arya and Ellie to meet c:

SANS AND RICK

[punful]

HOO BOY THIS IS A DOOZY INNIT

SANS will figure out pretty quickly that you can switch them on and off. Since he has depression, turning his emotions off is pretty much just a more "dead inside" version of his natural state of being, but Sans has a pretty good idea of what he'd be like without a conscience to speak of. So yeah he's gonna spend most of his time being intensely emotional. Which means he's going to be hiding. He's also gonna go find the most secluded spot in the woods he can and have a nervous breakdown.

RICK will be switching his on and off FOR SCIENCE and probably crying over cat videos while his are on. This has the potential to be really horrible or really hilarious OR BOTH, because a Rick without a conscience is really scary. Like, wow, you thought he was morally bankrupt before. Meanwhile, with intense emotions this can range from "CAN'T HUG EVERY CAT" to outright dangerous. Rick canonically has lots of emotional problems already and has tried to kill himself at least once. So yeah. This will probably start off as fun and games and then devolve into abject horror.

[fulllifeconsequences]

Zero pls see this too because oh my god I am exploding with possibilities

Imagine Frisk and Chara both apathetic and unfeeling, ready to be a No Mercy Anomaly and THE HORRIBLE DUNKENING

Imagine Everyone In The Woods Having Too Many Feelings

Imagine Emotionless Chara and Sans switching his emotions off to deal with it and Frisk SCREAMING AND TRYING TO DEFUSE

Imagine Emotional Chara and Sans having a dang-ass breakdown and Frisk just. Completely emotionless and unreactive. And Chara just like. (MUFFLED SCREAMING) FRISK DO SOMETHING YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE ONE WHO HANDLES THIS STUFF

every permutation is so good I REALLY WANT A THING

[morework]

Philip will flip between turning his emotions on and off. There's a few things he holds himself back from feeling, so those might come out with the ON button pressed. While OFF his indifference will become even more pronounced, and where he usually tries to work with where people come from, this will bring out his Wonderland veteran 'I don't care, you're all ridiculous' side more.

Cullen may be curious or compelled to venture into ON territory here and there, but mostly the lack of control will have him stay on the OFF side the majority of the time. He'll doubt less, and live by "Is it practical? Is it simple?" when it comes to decision-making, and have to make himself remember that some issues are supposed to involve emotional and empathetic complexity. This might get more difficult/tedious as the event progresses.

I'm not planning an open post for either of them this time, but I'll be happy to plot anything and everything in your posts & logs!

[ladysunshines]

Bethany is here to yell about some issues involving emotional and empathetic complexity tbh.

[sciencelizard]

OH BOY

Alphys spends the majority of her life as an emotional wreck so emotions are going off for at least a day because in her mind, just a little bit of time away from the anxiety of everyday will be good... until emotionless-ness quickly leads into building every terrible weapon and robotic device she's ever talked herself out of. About halfway through she's gonna end up turning them back on, and well... depending on how much harm has been done to the people she cares about, swinging into extreme action with a bunch of never tested robotics might not go well.

I'm not planning an open post right now but if I think of anything I'll update- so far getting some stuff plotted out will have Alphys primarily wrapped up in her CR for now but hmu if you have ideas!!!

Alex Kralie and Frisk

[determinedest]

WELP this'll be a fun ride folks

ALEX is already pretty volatile, with his primary emotions being rage and regret. In his emotionless state, he'll be very...driven, shall we say. That is, he tends to fix a goal in mind and stop at nothing to achieve it. This goal is generally murder-y, though it may be equally dark and nonfatal if anyone would like that interaction. So the two extremes are: volcanic, vesuvian cosmic hatred toward the world at large, and cold potentially murderous intent. Should be fun. It might take him a while to catch on to what's happening to him specifically.

FRISK is...hoo boy. Frisk is either going to be caring too much or going to be completely complacent to Chara's wants/needs, a la a No Mercy run in their canon. So this means either aiding and abetting a murderer, or desperately trying to prevent said murderer from murderer-ing about. They'll also have a fuckton of guilt. IT'LL BE GREAT.

[nascensibility]

murder u say.....................

[naughty_nurse]

Mikan Tsumiki will initially turn off her emotions, not wanting to be a burden, since she's usually a hysterical mess anyway. But when she does get them turned back on...

She doesn't like that Baymax is here. It means she's replaceable. Just when she's finally feeling useful, in helping Ford... She already enjoys giving shots and taking care of people. So now? Now she's going to find people to hurt. So she can take care of them.

[mourning_ghost]

If he learns of this, Nageki is going to want to stop her from hurting people and will feel a very strong need to encourage her to find happiness without hurting others.

[mourning_ghost]

Nageki won't want to turn his emotions off. He was emotionless and uncaring once and doesn't want to be that way again. With his emotions so strong, Nageki is going to try to destroy all of Wonderland via fire. Which means part of the forest will be set on fire before dying out after a day. He's got some bottled up worries which is suddenly making him very anxious to leave. Anyone who approaches it will be hastily warned away by Nageki who really, really doesn't want to kill anyone. He might want to destroy Wonderland, but he wants all the people in it to stay alive.

[decadentdecade]

Bela: Well, just for S&Gs, Bela's gonna initially give into the need for emotions because who doesn't want an emotional mess of a klepto? As soon as she realizes what happens though, she'll be boarding herself up in her room so she can sob over a whole bed full of stuffed animals or something ridiculous.

[assembles]

Once Steve figures out how this all works, chances are that he'll be switching back and forth between having his emotions on or off. The thing is that in general, Steve is someone who represses his emotions, so having to feel all of them so intensely will be extremely uncomfortable for him. On the other hand, feeling nothing will rub him the wrong way because when it comes down to it, gut feelings and that kind of thing are what inform his morals. Sooo he may end up having them on or off depending on the situation, or he'll try to keep them on but end up shutting them off if something becomes too overwhelming. He's not an addictive personality, so I don't think he'll fall into that trap, at least.

When they're off, he'll have a sort of cold rationality to how he handles everything, and might come across an unintentionally callous.

I'll probably just be tagging around, but let me know if you want something specific!

[singloversing]

James will primarily leave his emotions on, and will be very put off by the thought of shutting off his emotions - but mostly, it will remind him a little too much of how his mirror is, so he's absolutely leaving them on the entire time and riding out the intense highs and lows that come with it. He'll mostly be cheerful, but he can have a quick temper sometimes and things that bother him a little will more noticeably bother him now.

Wirt, meanwhile, will leave his off. It'll probably take him a little bit to realize he can do it on purpose, and once he does he will mostly keep them off. He's a very anxious person and he'll be weirdly grateful for the ability to just shut off all his emotions and not feel anything. Of course, that will make poetry and music harder so he'll probably turn his emotions on in short bursts for creative things, but aside from that he's muting them for the whole event. It's hard to feel anxious when you can't feel anything. He'll still be himself, but he'll be calmer and he'll care a LOT less about things in general. Post-event he'll probably need a day to adjust to having everything back because surprise surprise shutting off your emotions is not a great way to deal with your problems! :T

Stan will be going back and forth on it. He'll figure it out really quickly and want to do it strategically, but out of all my characters he's the one who's most likely to get smacked in the face with the compulsion aspect of the event. There will be times when he wants to keep them off but he's just itching to feel something. If he tries hard enough he can probably ignore it, but he probably won't and so he'll go from being a version of himself that cares even less and has no moral compass at all to someone riding an emotional roller coaster. Also, when his emotions are turned on it'll be a LOT harder for him to be flippant about things with all these ~genuine feelings~ getting in the way.

[uncaging]

Elizabeth will have her emotions switched on to the max. Her curiosity and empathy are what drive her and she'll be over-friendly, a little oblivious to personal space, and revelling in new sensations and discoveries. However she will also be very fragile, forced to confront her own feelings of isolation and abandonment, and it won't take much to reduce her to tears.

Arya will start off with her emotions on. This is a mixture of childish playfulness that she doesn't really get the opportunity to indulge much, as well as her own rage, guilt and grief. The latter two emotions are things she's buried deep and doesn't really want to confront, so when she finds herself doing so, she'll switch off her emotions for the rest of the event. When her emotions are off she'll lack the moral core that is her foundation, and moreover will be very apathetic to everything, lazing around her blanket fort feeling bored and not caring about anything.

Crowey and Bruce Banner

[goesdown]

Bruce Banner will be turning his emotions off as soon as he figures out that he can. He'll have no conscience or empathy for others, which means he will be in a mad pursuit for knowledge with a bit less to hold him back. I'd love to get him maybe experimenting on a few people under a false pretense of less danger or something like that. Anyone with any relation to magic would be especially likely to catch his eye. It would also be great if he could kind of be a dick to some people.

Crowley will be a useless, emotional sack of garbage, because this is his event based on his addiction and he's prone to giving in. He would love to talk about his feelings or his mommy issues or to just cry a lot.

[first_demon]

This seems like the perfect time for angsty conversations

[interpersonal]

this event is kind of right up elena gilbert's alley. in her canon, vampires can turn their humanity switch on and off; when the switch is off, they're devoid of emotion, and definitely scarier. it's been hinted that the switch is a copout, and not actually very effective the older you are, but the concept is super familiar to her. enough so that she'll be reminded of her home world, even if the event is supernatural-flavored.

elena is going to try and weather it through without turning her emotions off. she's the queen empath of her canon, and very Big on emotions being what make you human~ and also monstrous. she has been shown to have a tremendous amount of will, and it took a lot in canon to get elena to a point where she'd want to be without emotions. she is nowhere near that breaking point currently, she's got this. that said! she's been suppressing things and aggressively pretending she is fine, so the intensity/heightening of emotion may lead to a raw and more candid elena. her poker face won't be in top form, depending on the emotions/responses she picks up from others, too. IT MIGHT BE A ROLLER COASTER.

[nascensibility]

BUT TURNING EMOTIONS OFF SOUNDS LIKE SUCH A RELIEF, ELENA

[a_chipped_cup]

Belle is in a place where her emotions are currently causing her a great deal of pain. Considering that she is usually a compassionate, empathetic figure, she'll be going around without her emotions on. She'll be less opposed to reckless actions and suggestions (even though she will still have her conscience.) She won't be bearing any guilt or remorse for the past. So this would be a good time for her to act a bit out of character and try new things.

Lilith already has the ability to shut off her emotions. So for the remainder of this event, she'll be feeling all kinds of emotions. She'll be an angsty mess, especially towards those that she has a relationship with already. Those she doesn't, she'll be incredibly sweet and compassionate.

[lovestheimpala]

I'm considering turning Dean's emotions off.

And maybe then he can plot a perfect revenge on Lilith while she can actually FEEL the hurt?

Sirius Black

[goodwoofjames]

Sirius will probably go into extreme emotions mode and then not...realize he can turn it off because he is too busy FEELING. So it'll be up to whether somebody catches him weeping over how cute his pets are and tells him he can turn it off. :T

[littlestreetcat]

Selina here is...going to be frustrated with heightened emotions. She'll deal with those for a bit for the beginning of the event, which may or may not lead to dangerous stunts because dude, she can totally do that, and can you imagine the heightened adrenaline rush??? But ultimately, she'll end up turning them off because emotions are a thing she doesn't much like dealing with already? She prefers to be cool and flippant about things, and these heightened emotions don't allow for that. So, off they go. She won't care about things, she'll be uninterested even in bothering people like she usually enjoys, and will be thoroughly annoyed with anyone spewing their emotions all over her.

[coleader]

clarke will be immediately turning off all of her emotions, since she's dealing with a shit ton of guilt right now. she won't feel bad about killing people anymore, yay!!! she'll also probably be more fun, honestly, except it'll be really unsettling to anyone who knows her. she's probably going to go and finally live the life she's never gotten to have, be selfish and risky and all the things she couldn't do because of dumb responsibility. by the end, though, i imagine she'll start feeling like maybe turning off your emotions isn't the way to go... and boom, ~character arc begins~

[lifeskills]

At the moment I'm working on getting current threads squared away, but this event looks awesome, so I'm throwing my boys out there if anyone would like to do a thing. :3

Victor is a pro at being a broody angst machine whose own emotional state is a mystery to him most of the time. Because of this and the fact that he's already a sensitive flower when it comes to feeling things intensely, he'll have a hard time telling something's amiss at first. However, over time his natural high and lows will get extremely high and low to the point that he'll probably end up doing some morphine and turning his emotions off entirely. A+ medically-approved coping mechanisms.

Anders is going to be all over the emotional map during this one. Normally he's all about repressing his feelings, but this event is going to draw them to the surface just like Justice does when he possesses him later in canon. Beneath the humor, Anders is in actuality very angry, hurt, and lonely due to the kind of life he's led, and he's going to spend the event see-sawing between that angry volatility and a more emotionally drained depression. Something might get set on fire, or a manifesto might get written, who knows.

[ladysunshines]

The perfect time for Anders to meet Bethany is when they're both super emotional, amirite

Or maybe when Bethy finally has enough, shuts down, and can clinically state to Anders why she wants to gut him like a fish

You know, whichever

Also I just want you to know I pressed my random icon button to get this icon.

[intelligently]

Lydia is v possibly going to be turning her emotions off, bc who needs to feel things when everything feels awful. It's going to be p reminiscent of season one - just stronger.

[narcissistictendencies]

Tony will... well, he will not be about this at all. For a man who covers his emotions with an attitude and has fairly rational anger management, he is hella unbalanced on the guilt side of things already. To intensify that guilt? Hello Wonderland, meet alcoholic Tony Stark. It's been a while since he's been out to play. Let's say like... a certain birthday party we don't talk about? (Speaking of which, I'm a failure and forgot his birthday, so oops?)

Needless to say, as soon as he figures out how to turn them off, he's probably doing that. Then again, he may be too drunk to figure it out? Depends on how his CR goes.

Emotions off: Pompous, unconcerned with others, jerk. (All the things he pretends he is but really isn't because he actually has feelings)
Emotions on: A big ball of guilt... worse than usual. "He will do anything to make things right."

If anyone wants to try to talk him out of the bottle, that would be appreciated.

This will probably end with him building... something.

Rynn's Troublemakers :D

[outofthebreach]

Natasha is going to be swinging between the "off" and "on" portion of this event (possibly wildly swinging, we'll see) and neither option is exactly comforting when it comes to deadly assassins, but here we are. She will probably be getting a post or a top-level for the event and anyone who wants her is welcome to her! I'm still working on some concrete plans for what she'll be up to, so anything your character might want to nab her for is welcome! :)

Brennan and Simon will be mostly tagging out for this event, if people want them somewhere specific, let me know. Simon will have his emotions mostly on, I'm thinking, which means he'll be a bit more manic than usual. Brennan I am still figuring out and will play by ear at this point and probably reactive to whatever his CR is up to.

Hit me up if you wan to plot anything ahead of time! :)

faith lehane + jane foster + bonnie bennett

[sponsored]

faith has a pretty "decent" handle on her emotions, actually. she's experienced what it is to give into them, and what happens when the cause for the stronger ones is removed. she'll likely err on the side of suppression, and slip into indifference beyond what she usually fakes anyway. this means anyone she's training will get half-efforts and less feedback, and will be more willing to be like yep i'm a slayer also a killer whatever big whoop have a cookie!

jane will flip flop as needed -- both to test the limits of the events and to see how/whether it affects the aether. she's only just come to the theory that it's not going to kill her, which means she'll be a little more inclined to testing it out -- and less worried about what consequences doing so might have on others!

bonnie is going to try some magic stabilization once she realizes what's happening, and it will backfire spectacularly. she doesn't often get the chance to process her feelings fully so it'll be nice to explore what happens when they get out of control (esp re: fear + grief + being excited about all the magic skills she gets to learn!)

Dipper, Bubblegum, Beatrice

[krmvgivv]

Oh boy what an event. SO.

Dipper will be shutting off his emotions super fast and probably trying to keep them off as much as possible because he is an adolescent going through too many emotions and he hates it. So that'll be fun. PROBABLY GONNA END UP IN A KNIFE FIGHT WITH CHARA.

Bubblegum will shut hers off but tbh she will definitely be feeling the compulsion to turn them on and pretty quickly end up FILLED WITH EMOTIONS which is gonna suck for her because she spends a lot of time just. Pushing her emotions down as hard as possible.

Beatrice is actually gonna end up with hers on which'll be fun because she also spends a lot of time trying not to have them.

EVERYONE'S GONNA BE A MESS BASICALLY YAY

[nascensibility]

dipper that's not how you fight with a knife

you should learn better