Event post [Open!]

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

Characters: Romeo and you! All of you! (Starting with America and Romano!)
Setting: Starting in room 1-02 moving about the tower.
Format: Take your pick
Summary: In the final stage of the event Romeo wakes up to America wanting to kill him and Romano protecting him. It will end eventually with Molly killing him. The middle is open to everyone, anyone who wants to attempt to kill him. All are welcome! We can plot here (http://animus-ooc.livejournal.com/76315.html?thread=998171#t998171) or grab me on AIM and Plurk or just... jump in!
Warnings: Mentions of experimental surgery and affects of such, very probabale mentions of compulsion, paranoia, halucination and despair. Death, angst, trauma, fear. Probably swearing on the behalf of other characters? I will add more as necessary.

It had taken a while for Romeo to be able to sleep properly like this but he had worked out the best way to lie down and stay warm and this last week it had been better. Everything had been better, he had gotten the hang of walking finally and even tried swimming.

Thinking of the surgery still scared him but he tried to not think about, it had happened a while ago now and so it was easier to keep his spirits up. Even though everyone in the tower seemed more scared lately, or more sad. He had heard people screaming... He had to find a way to help everyone keep their spirits up and remember they were going to find a way out of here eventually.

He opened his eyes and jumped clumsily out of bed, he waited to be less wobbly before using his teeth to make his bed as neat as he could.

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Middle Part (For anyone to jump in to)

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

Romeo was so scared, he knew that mister America was loud and sometimes scary but he had never expected him to turn on him like this. Though people had tried to kill him before it had never been like what had just happened, never just because he was him.

He stuck to the shadows as much as possible, though mister Romana had protected him and so he should be safe if he stuck around other people.

Right?

[hoboherooo.livejournal.com]

There's someone else wandering the hall, looking just as nervous as Romeo, though not sticking to the shadows. He's wearing black armor (http://www.animetsu.com/published/publicdata/ANIMETSUDB/attachments/SC/products_pictures/TOY-TOK-1084_02_enl.jpg), though the shape of those big green eyes might be familiar (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LsvafyKFADg/TZQfCBSD32I/AAAAAAAAEi4/cgBK-tdOdVA/s1600/ooo-putotyra.jpg) to Romeo...

Thankfully, this guy looks more confused than anything.

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

It's still enough for Romeo to stare wide eyed at it. "Mister Eiji?" Because no matter how scared he is, if the monster has come back then Romeo has to help him!

"Are you alright?" He had managed to talk him into not attacking before, hopefully he could do it again.

[comboherooo.livejournal.com]

What was that? Romeo?

Eiji ran up to the boy, and nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine - what about you?"

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

Romeo skittered backwards a little bit but Eiji didn't attack him. "You're fine? But... the monster..." He was confused and scared but mister Eiji was always nice to him and he wanted to help.

[comboherooo.livejournal.com]

That reaction made Eiji's heart sink a bit - even if this wasn't the same form he had before, it obviously made the boy nervous. Eiji raised a hand, waving it slightly. "This isn't the monster - this is OOO. A hero, not a monster."

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

"Oh... A hero?" Romeo blinked, it looked a bit like the monster, but it had been dark when he had first met Eiji. "Are you sure you're alright sir? No one's tried to attack you?"

[2nd-dii2ciiple.livejournal.com]

To say that Ψiioniic had been upset by having Signless attack him was a little like saying the Alternian sun was a bit harsh to troll eyes. He was completely devastated, stumbling his way down the halls in a desperate attempt to escape. His eyes still weren't working well, sometimes showing the present and sometimes the future, which made him hit things he couldn't see and weave around people that weren't there yet.

When he saw Romeo ahead, looking as terrified as Ψiioniic felt, it made his vascular pump sink straight through his acid sack. "Romeo? Are you there now?" he called, not sure if he was seeing the present or future.

/sets it after a couple of attempts

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

Romeo's eyes widened when he saw Psiioniic, the troll who had already been hurt by the bad people people was about the only person Romeo thought would definitly not try and hurt him. "Y...yes I'm here Psiioniic," he ran towards him his legs wobbly.

"Are they trying to get you too?" Because the troll looked really really scared and that made Romeo feel even more scared. What was happening?

[2nd-dii2ciiple.livejournal.com]

"Me, too?" Ψiioniic repeated. "I don't... my moirail attacked me," he said, aware that he sounded like a baffled wriggler but unable to stop the high-pitched quiver in his voice. Your moirail pitied you, they were supposed to be safe to be vulnerable around. And it was Signless, who Ψiioniic had happily trusted with his life long before they'd entered a quadrant.

"And my roommate, too," he added, a touch belatedly. Having Suzaku turn on him had hurt, but it wasn't the all-encompassing agony that fighting Signless had brought him. "I don't understand, were you attacked too?"

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

"Your moyerail attacked you!" His eyes widened in horror, the first Napeta, the one who had been his friend, had told him all about Moirail's and matesprites and shipping walls before she had disapeared. He knew a Moirail was like a very very good friend, one who you would swear eternal friendship with like Alfredo or Molly. The idea of either of them trying to kill him was so scary and so sad that Romeo could barely imagine it.

"Mister Signless right?" Because the way Psiioniic had spoken about Signless was like Romeo felt about Alfredo and Molly.

"Mister America attacked me, and then another boy who I didn't even know! I don't know why..." He was crying now even though he was trying really really hard to stay strong.

[2nd-dii2ciiple.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, SS, he'th... he wath trying to cull me in my thleep. He'th been acting weird for a while, he thaid they were 'getting to him', but he jutht totally thnapped."

The liquid coming from the human boy's eyes was clear, but Ψiioniic had seen it enough times now to be certain they were still tears. And that tears meant the same thing to humans as they did to trolls. He was pretty sure there were a few yellow streaks of his own on his cheeks.

He reached out to Romeo, to gather the boy into a hug if he would let him. "We need to thtick together," he said, certain of that much if nothing else. As near-helpless as Ψiioniic was with his powers not working properly, Romeo was far worse off. "I'll protect you. Thomehow."

And protecting Romeo would give Ψiioniic something to focus on other than the betrayal of his moirail.

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

"Getting to him?" Romeo frowned and remembered Jade the girl who he had met on floor seventeen, who had thought he was working for the tower, and then Terezi who was hearing and smelling things that wern't there and Luke who had been so sad and didn't want to do anything and was scared of Romeo. Tears filled his eyes, what was going on? Mister America was usually nice to him, mister Signless was Psiioniic's best friend.

"I'll protect you too Psiioniic!" Because that's what friends did. Protected each other. Romeo had no idea how he was going to do this, but they had to stick together and protect each other. "We should find somewhere to hide."

So Romano has basically adopted Romeo. /LATE

[rompicoglioni.livejournal.com]

Romano, unlike the vast majority of the tower's inhabitants, had not been a part of the experiment and had not been experiencing any odd urges to kill or remain completely hopeless. He was, for the most part, sane. Romeo's predicament had frightened him at first-- terrified him. Disfigurement was jarring, but it was still the silly sweet little boy Romano had grown fond of.

His heart ached watching him stumble around on those legs, those inhuman legs. It didn't take much for him to grow protective of the poor kid, even if he wasn't as strong or as brave as the others, he felt responsible for Romeo, in a way.

Watching Romeo try to straigten his bed with only his teeth, Romano went over to help him straighten the rest, not saying a word. He'd never bother straightening his own sheets.

That is adorable

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

Romeo smiled at mister Romano as he helped him make the bed. "Thank you sir!" He of course had forgotten already that Romano was one of the adults who had told him he could just call him by name. He trotted over to Romano's bed and started making that one as well, it was only fair, Romano had helped him so he would help him in return.

augh this is so late life ate me ;o;

[fifty]

America always took a while to wake up. Thus, his vague grumbling and shifting around in the bed, while not actually crawling out of the blankets, was nothing unusual. But his mind was a mire of demands and unease at having not completed them, and it's not long before he's sitting up and blinking at Romeo.

Too exhausted to fight the orders just yet, it's only a moment after that when he's putting his glasses on and kicking his entire trunk at the boy at the same time--the trunk being the closest heavy thing to kick.

Sleepy attempted murder, the best kind :P

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

Romeo knew by now that greeting their other roomate before he was fully up and out of bed would just get him growled at. Romeo didn't really understand it, he always bounced out of bed in the morning ready to start the day but mister America always wanted more sleep.

Maybe he had nightmares. Still Romeo was taken completely by surprise when the trunk came flying towards him and knocked his legs out from under him. He crashed into Romano's bed and looked up with wide eyes. "Sorry sir!" He didn't know what he had done but it must have been bad!

wow I almost forgot this thread was happening

[rompicoglioni.livejournal.com]

The Italian stared, wide-eyed at the American who had just flung a fucking heavy ass trunk for no apparent reason at a defenseless child. That particular defenseless child that Romano had come to care for and look out for. He dashed in front of the boy on his bed, facing America and holding out his arms in a defensive posture.

"What the HELL has gotten into you, you stupid fucking bastard! He did nothing to you!"

Romano was aware he was outmatched with the other nation, phenomenally so. He was also aware that his knees were shaking, and that his every instinct told him to run and hide. Those instincts were fought, swallowed hard, and pushed away so that maybe he could be the kind of man who was the protector, instead of always being the one rescued. His childhood told countless tales of the latter.

[fifty]

America, at least, has the good grace to look confused at himself. It was enough to pause him, but not enough to make him respond otherwise before the orders pounding into his skull reasserted themselves. He moved to shove Romano aside, more focused on Romeo behind him than the other nation.

[princesspowaful.livejournal.com]

[The paranoia was really bad for Molly. Being a superhero she was used to people coming after her, and there was a certain level of paranoia that went along with that. That couldn't compare to how she felt now. Every corner needed to be looked around, no person could be trusted, not even her best friends. Not even Romeo.]

[Romeo.]

[This all started when Romeo and the other experiment victims returned from wherever they were kept. This must be their fault then! Something about them must be making her paranoid, and it's not even how deformed they are because she wasn't really bothered by that. It had to be something else. Something else that they couldn't have if they weren't alive.]

[So she went looking for someone who had been experimented on. Just her luck, she found Romeo first.]

Hi.

[comboherooo.livejournal.com]

[Romeo wasn't alone, though. Eiji was accompanying him through the tower when they encountered Molly. Perhaps it was just his nature, or some foolish hope that there wouldn't be any kids acting like the others, but he didn't have any suspicion as he approached Molly.]

Hello - are you alright, miss? Have you been attacked?

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

[Romeo was really scared by now, but mister Eiji was looking after him and no one had attacked them in a while. He grinned when he saw Molly and tried to look chearful for her.] Hello Molly! [She didn't look very happy and he tilted his head, heavy with the weight of the antlers.]

Are you all right Molly? [He lets Eiji speak] We will protect you!

[princesspowaful.livejournal.com]

[She takes a step back when she sees him. Romeo is her best friend here but something in her mind is telling her to attack him! She glances at Eiji. He'll try to stop her for sure but she knows that she can take him. Slowly she clenches her fists, she blinks and her eyes begin glowing purple.]

[It's time.]

[With a yell, she charges at them, fist pulled back and ready to strike.]

[hoboherooo.livejournal.com]

[That... That was unexpected. Eiji stumbles backward as she charges, raising his hands in a peace-making motion.] Wh-whoa, hold on! There's no need to attack us! Calm down, please!

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

Molly! [Romeo's eyes grew round with fear as Molly attacked them. He stumbled backwards on unsteady legs. Mister America and the other man had been scary enough but this was Molly they had swore an oath of eternal friendship to each other. Why was she trying to hurt him!]

Molly! Stop please! [He wouldn't fight her, because she was his friend and friends never hurt each other, even if she had forgotten that.]