03 ▒ EVENT: STRELA OUTPOST ▒ ASSIMILATION

[ataraxites]

CHARACTERS: Ensemble production!
LOCATION: Strela Outpost.
WARNINGS: Mind horror, hivemindery, etc.
SUMMARY: Communal brainwashing.
NOTES: Divided by locations; players are free to indicate which day/stage, and to begin new subthreads wherever they'd like!

Looks like the authorities have apprehended you and have brought you in for processing. After being forced to wait in the waiting room, you're brought to the assimilation room - a terrible white cell, where you're trapped for hours, sentenced to be slowly stripped of your individuality.

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[insufferableprick]

Somewhere inside, past the empty contentment of the hivemind, hidden under layers of guilt and feelings of uselessness--Dave could hear him. He was just too far away to do anything about it.

So instead, he turned to Alex, red eyes blank, so unfocused as to be completely unseeing. And then he did something totally unsettling.

Surely Alex remembered that blank, unconvincing smile so many of the residents wore. That limp-wristed wave that barely passed for a proper greeting.

Because that was how he answered.

[redhotsummers]

"...well it's something."

Frowning, Alex let go of Dave, instead shifting to rest against the bulkhead as well, shoulder to shoulder with the younger boy, not letting him shift too much.

"I'm--"

"I'm sorry."

Sorry he couldn't have gotten to him faster. Sorry that he had to go through it all.

No matter what, he always failed.

He was silent after that.