Entranceway Returning Application
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burntvideocassetteName: Rufus
DW username: N/A
E-Mail: cephei.rp@gmail.com
Discord: schrodingersrufus#4686
Plurk: schrodingersrufus
Other Characters: N/A
Character Name: Jay Merrick
Series: Marble Hornets
Timeline: Post-Entry #80/Post-death
Canon Resource Link: http://marblehornets.wikidot.com/jay
Character History: Previous application
CRAU: N/A
Abilities/Special Powers: Jay may cause minor audio/visual distortion when recorded. Due to exposure to the Operator, he's especially susceptible to memory loss and mind control. Beyond that, his abilities are more mundane; he's a skilled (albeit untrained) codebreaker, he has an obsessive need to record and archive his experiences, and he has an undergraduate degree in film.
Third-Person Sample:
This is fine. This is fine, really. In through the nose, out through the mouth. Count to five, just like Shepard taught him.
He's done this before. This time, he's going to do it right, for once.
First step: The bloodstains. Jay panicked last time, crawled to the After the End Times office with a hand wrapped tight across his stomach, begged for medical attention for a bullet wound that Wonderland had already stitched up.
This time, he doesn't look down. He doesn't--goddamnit--he doesn't look down again. He counts to five, doesn't look down, waits for the nausea to fade before he takes the next step.
Jay Merrick steps into the nearest unclaimed room, takes a shower--don't look down--and changes into a starchy, stiff set of clothes from the closet. They fit him well enough. He keeps trying until he gets a hoodie close enough to his old one that his skin doesn't crawl when he puts it on.
He tries not to think about what happened to his old clothes--to his old room, his old camera, his collection of hard drives, to his cat--in his absence. It's probably gone. That's how it goes here.
(Not Archie, though. Archie's safe. Wherever he is, Archie has to be safe.)
Next step: The camera. Back to the closet. He remembers how long it took last time, and it's no surprise the process hasn't gotten any faster. Fifty or so rejected cameras later, Jay has something that will do the job for now: a digital camcorder with a decent lens and enough storage that he won't be switching out memory cards faster than he switched out tapes back home. The weight of it's all wrong, but he'll get used to it. He's gotten used to it before.
Next step: Find somebody he knows.
Next step: Don't think about the people who went home. Don't think about how you're probably the only one left.
Next step: Find somebody he knows, because there's always somebody. Even if it's Alice--hell, even if it's that sketchy White Queen, there's always somebody.
Next step: Don't look down.
First-Person Sample:
According to the calendar, I've been gone for over a year.
I don't remember anything that happened between then and now.
[Liar. You remember how it felt, being sent back there. It just won't let you remember anything else.]
I also don't remember this happening before. I've come back twice. I was here for over a year the first time, and nobody during that time ever came back. If they did, they didn't remember Wonderland.
Something changed.
My current guess is that it has to do with that empty void outside.
Eway return: I would like Jay to return to Wonderland with his memories of Wonderland intact!
Lost memory:
Jay's poor memory is already swiss cheese. For this, though, he's losing his memory of the plot of the student film Alex Kralie's Marble Hornets, an amateurish, clichéd story of a young man who returns to his hometown to try to win back his high school sweetheart. Jay remembers working on it with his friends during the summer of 2006, he remembers everything that happened that wasn't directly related to the plot of the movie (whether he saw it happen or watched it on video later), and he remembers the title, but for the life of him he can't remember what the movie itself was supposed to be about.
DW username: N/A
E-Mail: cephei.rp@gmail.com
Discord: schrodingersrufus#4686
Plurk: schrodingersrufus
Other Characters: N/A
Character Name: Jay Merrick
Series: Marble Hornets
Timeline: Post-Entry #80/Post-death
Canon Resource Link: http://marblehornets.wikidot.com/jay
Character History: Previous application
CRAU: N/A
Abilities/Special Powers: Jay may cause minor audio/visual distortion when recorded. Due to exposure to the Operator, he's especially susceptible to memory loss and mind control. Beyond that, his abilities are more mundane; he's a skilled (albeit untrained) codebreaker, he has an obsessive need to record and archive his experiences, and he has an undergraduate degree in film.
Third-Person Sample:
This is fine. This is fine, really. In through the nose, out through the mouth. Count to five, just like Shepard taught him.
He's done this before. This time, he's going to do it right, for once.
First step: The bloodstains. Jay panicked last time, crawled to the After the End Times office with a hand wrapped tight across his stomach, begged for medical attention for a bullet wound that Wonderland had already stitched up.
This time, he doesn't look down. He doesn't--goddamnit--he doesn't look down again. He counts to five, doesn't look down, waits for the nausea to fade before he takes the next step.
Jay Merrick steps into the nearest unclaimed room, takes a shower--don't look down--and changes into a starchy, stiff set of clothes from the closet. They fit him well enough. He keeps trying until he gets a hoodie close enough to his old one that his skin doesn't crawl when he puts it on.
He tries not to think about what happened to his old clothes--to his old room, his old camera, his collection of hard drives, to his cat--in his absence. It's probably gone. That's how it goes here.
(Not Archie, though. Archie's safe. Wherever he is, Archie has to be safe.)
Next step: The camera. Back to the closet. He remembers how long it took last time, and it's no surprise the process hasn't gotten any faster. Fifty or so rejected cameras later, Jay has something that will do the job for now: a digital camcorder with a decent lens and enough storage that he won't be switching out memory cards faster than he switched out tapes back home. The weight of it's all wrong, but he'll get used to it. He's gotten used to it before.
Next step: Find somebody he knows.
Next step: Find somebody he knows, because there's always somebody. Even if it's Alice--hell, even if it's that sketchy White Queen, there's always somebody.
Next step: Don't look down.
First-Person Sample:
According to the calendar, I've been gone for over a year.
I don't remember anything that happened between then and now.
[Liar. You remember how it felt, being sent back there. It just won't let you remember anything else.]
I also don't remember this happening before. I've come back twice. I was here for over a year the first time, and nobody during that time ever came back. If they did, they didn't remember Wonderland.
Something changed.
My current guess is that it has to do with that empty void outside.
Eway return: I would like Jay to return to Wonderland with his memories of Wonderland intact!
Lost memory:
Jay's poor memory is already swiss cheese. For this, though, he's losing his memory of the plot of the student film Alex Kralie's Marble Hornets, an amateurish, clichéd story of a young man who returns to his hometown to try to win back his high school sweetheart. Jay remembers working on it with his friends during the summer of 2006, he remembers everything that happened that wasn't directly related to the plot of the movie (whether he saw it happen or watched it on video later), and he remembers the title, but for the life of him he can't remember what the movie itself was supposed to be about.