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an ordinary girl from an ordinary town ([personal profile] weirderthanthou) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh_ooc2021-04-05 12:58 pm
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BDE Pre-Announcement and Brainstorming

Hello, Fandom!

We interrupt your sex pollen week for an early announcement that we will be having our BDE from April 26th through to April 30th this year -- and we need your help.

Starting that Monday, Fandom will transform into a nightmarescape with the castle as its evil beating heart. But these nightmares won't be entirely generic - they'll be based on the collective subconscious of the island. Your greatest nightmares and fears will blend together into a dark whole, forcing a sense of helplessness over the island that goes hand-in-hand with a sapping of your power to fight back against it.

But to shape that nightmarescape, we need to know what that collective subconscious looks like. We're not talking about specific memories or terrors from your past; we won't be giving you visions of that terrifying Snuffleupagus that almost destroyed your body and soul during that trip to Tijuana that one time.

Instead, we're looking to reshape the island physically, somewhat in the vein of the video game that inspired this BDE. One man's fear of abandonment and one woman's fear of losing her family's minds to conspiracy theories might come together to form televisions that turn people into mindless zombies. A fear of swimming and a fear of monsters in the dark? There's now an evil tentacle monster living in the duck pond.

And so on, and so forth. It doesn't have to be two fears coming together - it can be three, or four, or even just one. We're opening up this post for you guys to toss in your character's fears, but also hopefully to get you guys to brainstorm together a bit and come up with cool options for us to help shape the island with. So: ideas! Let loose!

Note that putting your idea out here does not mean we absolutely will use it, but we'll be doing our best to incorporate as much as possible into a layout for the island for BDE week.
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Re: I Have Fears And Would Like To Brainstorm

[personal profile] badassprodigy 2021-04-05 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
This is thanks to a previous plot when Barry was still a student:

Basically the whole concept of a scientific community performing illegal human experimentation and creating monstrosities. aka Bioshock 2. Which Barry got to watch and permanently put him on the road of ethical uses of science.

And while Jessica's PTSD might be fun to play with, she'd never come back to the island if I put that into the game if that was the case.
betterthanaplan: (explodes sometimes)

Re: I Have Fears And Would Like To Brainstorm

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-04-05 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Duke has big ol' issues (that his canon LOVES to poke) with loss of control over himself. Which could absolutely feed into that whole "illegal human experimentation" angle. . . .
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Re: I Have Fears And Would Like To Brainstorm

[personal profile] thatwaslucky 2021-04-05 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Rey's big fear is herself, I have no idea how anyone would do something with that.

And according to supplemental material Sabine's not a fan of water?

Also abandonment issues abound but that could go for about half the characters in the game.
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Re: I Have Fears And Would Like To Brainstorm

[personal profile] nookiepowered 2021-04-05 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)

Rey's big fear is herself, I have no idea how anyone would do something with that.

From the depths below where the Old Ones sleep, I speak.

Fear of going out of control with big powers? Fear of turning, or being, evil?

That'd be a Bo fear, and it seems like it might describe the general sphere of Rey's.

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Re: I Have Fears And Would Like To Brainstorm

[personal profile] sith_happened 2021-04-05 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Greetings from where Anakin lives! (Both for himself and also for Rey/all Jedi he's ever trained.)
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Re: I Have Fears And Would Like To Brainstorm

[personal profile] thatwaslucky 2021-04-05 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
That all about sums it up!
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Re: I Have Fears And Would Like To Brainstorm

[personal profile] stykera 2021-04-06 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
This alien definitely has a general fear of being held captive/imprisoned/enslaved again.
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Re: I Have Fears And Would Like To Brainstorm

[personal profile] grayskollar 2021-04-06 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm currently three for three wrt 'witnessed a parent die horribly' with my on island girls...
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Re: I Have Fears And Would Like To Brainstorm

[personal profile] grenadesandohana 2021-04-06 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, I have two of those, too!

Wtf, canons.
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Re: I Have Fears And Would Like To Brainstorm

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-04-06 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep, got one of those!
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Re: I Have Fears And Would Like To Brainstorm

[personal profile] noonedecidesmyfate 2021-04-06 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Belle totally blocked out her mom dying protecting her from ogres (and someday will go visit Arendelle to try and get her memories back via troll magic) but maybe we can all start a club. Of fears.
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Re: I Have Fears And Would Like To Brainstorm

[personal profile] sexy_giraffe 2021-04-06 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
On the flipside of the fear of being too much, Tahani here fears never, ever being enough.
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Re: I Have Fears And Would Like To Brainstorm

[personal profile] allie_vamp 2021-04-10 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
At this point Allie's biggest fear/worry is that someday the wrong person from her world is going to find the island and cross over the way she did. Whether that person is a vampire, or one of the rabids (her version canon's version of zombies) doesn't really matter.