House of M - The Beginning

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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.))

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[He'll come back. He stares at her, taking in what he can see of her face beyond the glow: her expression, her tears, the paleness of her face. It's the response he knows he should be having. He'd watched Teddy die right in front of his eyes, seen the wings torn away, feathers broken, blood pooling-

He should be crying, but all he feels is calm. He'll come back. He will come back. It's a certainty for which he won't allow any doubt.

Teddy will come back.

Even if he has to do it himself.]

He will. I'll make sure of it. Everything... will be okay.

[Everything will be perfect. Just like it was before.

He looks down, and his hands start to glow as well. Magic can do that, can't it? Fix it? Fix everything? Make it all right again?

What else is magic for?]

[tryit]

[He seems to calm. That's the first thing that Kate notices after the initial shock finally wears away. He's too calm. He should be ranting right now, screaming vengeance. Or he should be a broken puddle of tears. This numbness can't be good. It can't be remotely healthy.

Oh god, Teddy's dead. And Billy...]

Whoa, Billy! [She holds out her hands in defense as she glances down at his. Okay, maybe the numbness wasn't such a bad thing. Because this can't be good. It can't be even the slightest bit a good thing. Spells being cast irrationally? Oh shit.] Billy, what are you doing?

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I'm fixing it.

[The glow brightens, the whole area around them becoming charged with energy, throbbing like an unsteady heartbeat. He's not in control anymore, he can tell- the magic is guiding him, and he's following its direction. A lost child guided by a very intense trail of bread crumbs.

He's lost without Teddy. Teddy's dead.

But Teddy can't be dead. It's wrong. The words are all wrong. That isn't supposed to be his reality.

So he'll fix it.]

I'll get him back.

[There's so much power; he's never felt this much of it before, not once. It's too much. Far, far too much for one spell. For one person.

You can do more with this, can't you? Not just Teddy. Not just your own life. You really can fix it all.

You can make it so this never happens again.

With power like this, it would be... so easy. And everyone would be happy and safe and...

...perfect.

A sudden pulse of light surrounds him, slowly spreading outwards before drawing in close again. Building up towards release. His eyes flare again.]

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[Then he speaks, one last time quiet but intense:]

"I want to change the world."

[And just like that, the world burns white.]