Canon Updates
Canon Update FormThis form is to be used for players who wish up update their characters with occurrences that happened later than the canon point from which said character was applied and accepted into the game. Previously, players would have had to drop and then re-apply; this will hopefully help streamline that process. Please read the
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Character: Mika Whitepaws || notlikethemovie
Application Link: hoiii~!
Updated Character History: Getting dropped off at home after everything that had happened left Mika staggering, lost and confused in the bright urban setting full of people. When she got home she scared her parents, going on about the apartments and breaking down from the shock of being home for once. Really home. The next few months were adapting to the routine of normal life, trying to work her way through nightmares and break herself of habits she'd gained in the apartments. The first time her parents woke up to the entire house covered in red tape, they knew they had a problem.
But she was getting better. In two months of being home she was making progress, laughing a little more and sleeping a bit better. With the beginning of August things took an instant nosedive for the worse. Her sister's mate of ten years died without warning, and the next four months were a haze. She doesn't remember much of it, one week blurring into the next as everything seemed to pass in a fog. Her family had to help support her sister, and had to help take care of her two-year-old son as the stress of being a single parent pressed down on her sister. Mika's stress habits flared up during that time, her hair going paler during the winter months, her weight dropping as her eating habits grew worse. Her usual time to play videogames or watch movies disappeared, but when she did have a day to herself it was spent in a listless fog. Sometimes she did it, sometimes she just broke down and cried.
By her twenty-fifth (or was it twenty-sixth? She couldn't tell anymore) birthday, Mika had started her second recovery, but her then-three-year-old nephew could tell auntie Mimi was sick. Her clothes hung off of her skinny frame and her hair around her face had gone almost white, a vast difference from the peppering of grey her sister suffered. Mika started working out to get in better shape, tried to get herself to eat properly so that she wouldn't worry anyone. It was around this time that she got closer to being back to her older habits, scouring the videogames and new releases at the bookstore and the theater. Almost like she was looking for something, or someone. Her art has changed since then, while she still sometimes uses bright colors, there's always a sense of anxiety about her pieces. Like something isn't quite right. Even with summer approaching she could sense something was wrong, but she couldn't put her finger on it.
With her one-year anniversary of coming home drawing near, she should have known better.
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Losing so much weight has had an odd effect on her. On the one hand, she's glad to have finally lost all the weight she'd been struggling with, but she's scared of becoming anorexic or bulimic. She's afraid of what it could mean for her overall health, as the lack of health insurance makes it almost impossible for her to see a doctor. Or even a psychiatrist, but what could she tell them? That she was trapped in a haunted apartment for a year that might have never existed, that she has bullet wounds that shouldn't be there, or that she's going pale prematurely? The stress of not being able to speak to anyone about her problems without coming off as crazy has made her quiet, less prone to speaking up when something is bothering her only for her to completely break down when the pressure becomes too much.
Exercise and her usual escapism into entertainment media have become her therapy. While she might have stressed her way out of most of her body fat, it revealed hard muscle underneath, and she's been working to regain some body mass in muscle. She found out that after a few hesitant months of worry, she can still enjoy horror games. After all, in the game, she's the one in control. With the gun, the pipe, or even the stupid plank she can fight her way through the games and win, overcoming whatever gets in her way. It's like a strange form of therapy, and it doesn't help that Mika's usual rambling while she played turned into what could only be described as one-sided conversations. It doesn't happen often, but there were some games that she quietly chats her way through, and the habit did start to worry her parents. The only thing that stopped them from being too worried was how calm Mika was after playing.
It still wasn't the same as speaking with her friends.
Updated Fears: Mika is quietly terrified of a lot of things. Injury, death, whatever it is that's lurking just on the edge of her vision that makes her want to scream. Heights make her want to cry, then again so do shadows on walls. She cleans the bathroom religiously, constantly checking the drains. She's afraid that she doesn't have enough time, although what scares her about it the most she isn't sure. She's scared of what she eats, or rather that it won't be real food for long. Or that it'll change after she's already put it in her mouth. She's scared that her paranoia and her anxiety will get her killed. Or that something will happen to her sister and nephew. So many things scare her now that it's almost easier to write a list of things that don't.
Updated Powers: Mika's sixth sense has only intensified after her time in the apartments, or perhaps she's simply paying more attention to it. She's found herself sensitive to energies, to trigger sounds or smells, and that it's become almost a little too easy to see shapes in shadows or dark places.
At this point she's starting to wish it would just go away.
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From here, your character must disappear from the apartments for at least three days (seventy-two hours). They can disappear for longer -- up to a month (thirty days) -- but they cannot disappear only to re-appear ten seconds later. Additionally, you must also make a post on jigoku_ooc informing the rest of the game of your character's disappearance so that your fellow players know what's happening. If you want to keep the nature of the update a surprise that's acceptable, but the fact that an update is happening should be communicated.
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/aaaah, was not prepared to have this answered so fast. A++ gais.
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