House of M - The Beginning

[selfhelp]

Who: Billy Kaplan + Anyone who wants to be involved in the House of M Plot + Related CR + Anyone Really
What: Um. The House of M Plot.
When: October 1st-7th
Where: Literally anywhere in Luceti, yo
Summary: Billy returns from a kidnapping feeling a bit, er, different. A white light envelops the village for just a moment, and when it fades... well. All kinds of things are different, actually.
Rating: Varies, anything above R take it elsewhere!

Still accepting last minute sign-ups, if anyone is interested.


It starts off so innocently, early on the morning of October 1st. A burst of light, a warm rush of energy that consumes everything it touches, and it's gentle enough to feel like stepping out into sunlight from the shade. It's so brief that some people might not even notice it happened. But there are certainly... differences. Some subtle, some not. And those changed won't even understand the problem.

After all, why would perfection be a problem?

The truth is, there are no problems. There can't be. It's perfect, Billy thinks. Believes it. His belief is his reality, and now, it's their reality. It all has to be perfect; they deserve it, all of them, for one reason or another. And he'll do whatever he has to protect that perfection from being tainted, ruined, taken away from them.

Teddy died so this could happen, after all.

So what is your new reality?


((first two threads reserved for the intro thread and billy's status; after that consider this log a free-for-all.))

Comments

[bluestyonder]

[Kurt drapes a tail over Billy's shoulder as if it's an arm, in a mentor-y way.]

Let me tell you something, Willie. Once you make that move and start a family, Everything just... comes together. Everything works out.

[By all appearances, it shouldn't. Six hyperactive teleporting children around the same age? Yet Kurt and Amanda have never seemed overly stressed or unhappy at all. Somehow, things have just managed to always work out right. Kurt doesn't dwell on it; he figures it must be part of being a good Christian.]

You two will learn that for yourselves, someday. Maybe even... sometime soon? [He gives a winking smirk - his variant of Catholicism approves of them, after all.]

[selfhelp]

[He gets a lifted brow for that. Teddy has the decency to blush. The idea of starting a family is kind of a long way off for either of them, though, he's... pretty sure. They constantly dance around the issue anyway.]

We're still teenagers, Kurt.

[bluestyonder]

So? It's never too early to stop planning! [Slyly.] You know, Amanda and I met in high school. We had a lot of this planned by the time we graduated.

[selfhelp]

...Mm. Okay, point taken.

[But it's not like he can say how impossible it would be to start a family with an illusion.]

It would take a lot of planning to start a family in our situation, I guess... considering we can't have our own kids.

[bluestyonder]

That's true. It will take a lot of planning.

But don't get too down about it. I mean... I'm sure there's plenty of kids out there without a good home. Maybe you'll be the one to give of them a good upbringing. Just look at my sister... she was adopted, but you couldn't even tell the difference if you spent any time around our household!

[selfhelp]

[Well. Now you can't, anyway. Billy refrains from commenting, though, merely nods in silent agreement. They have made a perfectly good home despite their unusual circumstances. So what's the problem?

Besides... probably not being able to raise a child with the Teddy that exists here. Maybe he could make one? Someday, anyway. He's not ready.]

We'll think about it when the time comes.