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nowherefast) wrote2015-11-07 10:51 pm
nowherefast) wrote2015-11-07 10:51 pm
Entry tags:
canon update
for the new cycle.
History: On returning home, she wakes up the morning after her trip to the woods (where she was brought into the game). Though disoriented after spending literal years elsewhere, she quickly remembers the role she’s meant to play and does this according to movie canon, except she’s gentler with the people she cares about and a lot softer with her parents.
She barely manages school. After, she goes over to her boyfriend’s for escapism. She asks him for drugs, which he gives her. They kiss and she’s upset, likely aware on some level that she’s going to die tonight, and she goes home.
Telling her mother goodnight (her father is out), she goes to her room, and once there she changes into clothes that are highly suggestive. She’s on the phone with her other, secret boyfriend, arranging that they meet. She smokes and does drugs, and is buzzed once she climbs out through the window to be picked up by the secret boyfriend on his motorbike. They ride off until she has something resembling a panic attack once they get close to the woods where she’s going to die, and she kisses him and tells him that she loves him, and then runs into the forest. He doesn’t follow.
Laura makes her way to a different part of the road, where a friend of hers and two men are waiting. These are men she’s slept with before, and that’s what’s meant to go down tonight. Laura and her friend Ronette are taken by the men up to a cabin in the woods, where more drugs and sex happen. Laura’s in a state of anxiety throughout most of this.
At some point, one of the men leave the cabin, and Laura’s father – who had been following her, unbeknownst to her – strikes the man down. The other man bails once he sees this, leaving the girls behind. Laura’s father, possessed by BOB, takes the girls through the woods to an abandoned train car. Ronette has a vision of an angel and is somehow released from her bonds and escapes – this angel is quite likely to be Laura from the future, from beyond her death.
Laura meanwhile is tormented by the realization that her father was BOB all along, and BOB speaks to her in confused terms, sometimes as her father, sometimes viciously. BOB’s goal is to make her terrified enough to open up for possession, but she never does, and instead provokes him into killing her, ending the cycle of abuse. He beats her to death with a hammer.
Laura, showing perfect courage, makes it through the afterlife dimension that resembles some kind of hell, and winds up in the afterlife dimension resembling heaven. She sees an angel (a different one from Ronette’s) and realizes that she’s forgiven for everything she did while alive and that she’s in a good place. She cries and laughs with joy; the movie ends.
Relevant to Portes is that she, while in her spirit state, visits a handful of her CR.
Personality: Being dead, Laura’s now at peace – or at least it should seem that way. Having actually entered both the heaven and hell dimensions which exist outside of time, her soul is in fact timeless, and in reuniting with her soul, she is timeless as well. There is no disappearance of spirit or soul. Instead, this afterlife stretches on, and Laura is given agency in her death and certain abilities in her spirit self.
In general, Laura is calmer. She has a bigger perspective on things: she’s dead, and so nothing can become her. She’s acted out her role and her fate and purpose, and so she’s not easily shaken. However, as things don’t end there, she has to handle the fact that the rest and end she wanted from death didn’t happen, and that she’s forced to keep acting. Though calm, this is frustrating and on occasion confusing to her, and it’s difficult to reconcile her newfound abilities and certainty with who she used to be. Not to mention that she has to deal with the fact that it was her father who ultimately took her life.
She’s spacier, after she’s dead – more mysterious and secretive, more piercing on the eyes. She has a bigger understanding for people and the universe and multiverse, as well as past, present and future. This is a lot of knowledge that she usually doesn’t tap into, but when she does, she usually does with confidence. She can accomplish much because she’s part of a system where almost anything goes. But being part of a system where almost anything goes means that her surroundings are always fluid and changing, and this is true for her as well. She shifts more freely between her moods and personalities, which makes her more inconsistent and distant.
But she still retains much of her original personality between these layers. She’s still manipulative and deceptive when it furthers her cause, but also still kind at heart and protective of children in particular, and highly reactive and quick to respond to situations. Becoming alive again in Portes will make her insecurities and grief come back as some of the mindless cocoon of being dead in that everchanging landscape disappears. She’s still a young girl who went through something terrible, and now knowing the full extent of how terrible her past has been, she will have a difficult time dealing with that as well as all her losses. The main difference will be that she’s quicker to accept changes and move on, but her feelings might be more volatile in the meantime, and her reasoning a lot more confused.
Sensitivity/Magical Ability: Laura now has a sense for the flow of time. Though unable to see timelines, she can pick up on anomalies and go back and forth in time if certain conditions are met. She needs anchors to do this, certain people or events she can latch onto, and can reach through time either to speak to them, appear to them, or otherwise leave messages or similar for them to find. There is no physical time travel involved. She never leaves the timeline she is currently in.
She is similarly able to appear in people’s dreams. It works about the same way – she needs to know where she wants to be to make it happen, but the dreams are usually remembered in vivid detail and clearly understood, and appear as she would like them to. However if the subject isn’t ‘ready’ to accept her or information she gives, it might be forgotten by the subject.
She is even more psychic. She can see and communicate with other spirits more easily, although it usually takes agreement between both parties to make anything happen – she can’t force other spirits to listen to her. She has to be invited, but she is now fully able to knock on the door, so to speak. And she will usually know who is a spirit and who is not.
Because of her timeline understanding, her limited precognition is more finely tuned. She can’t see into the future without knowing exactly what to look for, and as the future is fluid, this often nets muddy results (the past is so much easier), but if something happens in the future that relates to her or people she cares about, you might say that she’ll get an echo from the future before it happens, which makes her intuition and danger sense pretty through-the-roof.
Being reunited with her soul and having gone through soul purgatory, her soul is strong – and probably particularly bright and noticeable to those interested in that kind of thing. Now mainly operating out of Twin Peaks heaven, she’s essentially a Twin Peaks angel, which is good if you want to soothe people and bad if you want to lie low.
She is very unlikely to ever be possessed due to her new spiritual strength and her basically having gone through soul purgatory, which honed her significantly.
She is highly susceptible to visions of all kinds.
History: On returning home, she wakes up the morning after her trip to the woods (where she was brought into the game). Though disoriented after spending literal years elsewhere, she quickly remembers the role she’s meant to play and does this according to movie canon, except she’s gentler with the people she cares about and a lot softer with her parents.
She barely manages school. After, she goes over to her boyfriend’s for escapism. She asks him for drugs, which he gives her. They kiss and she’s upset, likely aware on some level that she’s going to die tonight, and she goes home.
Telling her mother goodnight (her father is out), she goes to her room, and once there she changes into clothes that are highly suggestive. She’s on the phone with her other, secret boyfriend, arranging that they meet. She smokes and does drugs, and is buzzed once she climbs out through the window to be picked up by the secret boyfriend on his motorbike. They ride off until she has something resembling a panic attack once they get close to the woods where she’s going to die, and she kisses him and tells him that she loves him, and then runs into the forest. He doesn’t follow.
Laura makes her way to a different part of the road, where a friend of hers and two men are waiting. These are men she’s slept with before, and that’s what’s meant to go down tonight. Laura and her friend Ronette are taken by the men up to a cabin in the woods, where more drugs and sex happen. Laura’s in a state of anxiety throughout most of this.
At some point, one of the men leave the cabin, and Laura’s father – who had been following her, unbeknownst to her – strikes the man down. The other man bails once he sees this, leaving the girls behind. Laura’s father, possessed by BOB, takes the girls through the woods to an abandoned train car. Ronette has a vision of an angel and is somehow released from her bonds and escapes – this angel is quite likely to be Laura from the future, from beyond her death.
Laura meanwhile is tormented by the realization that her father was BOB all along, and BOB speaks to her in confused terms, sometimes as her father, sometimes viciously. BOB’s goal is to make her terrified enough to open up for possession, but she never does, and instead provokes him into killing her, ending the cycle of abuse. He beats her to death with a hammer.
Laura, showing perfect courage, makes it through the afterlife dimension that resembles some kind of hell, and winds up in the afterlife dimension resembling heaven. She sees an angel (a different one from Ronette’s) and realizes that she’s forgiven for everything she did while alive and that she’s in a good place. She cries and laughs with joy; the movie ends.
Relevant to Portes is that she, while in her spirit state, visits a handful of her CR.
Personality: Being dead, Laura’s now at peace – or at least it should seem that way. Having actually entered both the heaven and hell dimensions which exist outside of time, her soul is in fact timeless, and in reuniting with her soul, she is timeless as well. There is no disappearance of spirit or soul. Instead, this afterlife stretches on, and Laura is given agency in her death and certain abilities in her spirit self.
In general, Laura is calmer. She has a bigger perspective on things: she’s dead, and so nothing can become her. She’s acted out her role and her fate and purpose, and so she’s not easily shaken. However, as things don’t end there, she has to handle the fact that the rest and end she wanted from death didn’t happen, and that she’s forced to keep acting. Though calm, this is frustrating and on occasion confusing to her, and it’s difficult to reconcile her newfound abilities and certainty with who she used to be. Not to mention that she has to deal with the fact that it was her father who ultimately took her life.
She’s spacier, after she’s dead – more mysterious and secretive, more piercing on the eyes. She has a bigger understanding for people and the universe and multiverse, as well as past, present and future. This is a lot of knowledge that she usually doesn’t tap into, but when she does, she usually does with confidence. She can accomplish much because she’s part of a system where almost anything goes. But being part of a system where almost anything goes means that her surroundings are always fluid and changing, and this is true for her as well. She shifts more freely between her moods and personalities, which makes her more inconsistent and distant.
But she still retains much of her original personality between these layers. She’s still manipulative and deceptive when it furthers her cause, but also still kind at heart and protective of children in particular, and highly reactive and quick to respond to situations. Becoming alive again in Portes will make her insecurities and grief come back as some of the mindless cocoon of being dead in that everchanging landscape disappears. She’s still a young girl who went through something terrible, and now knowing the full extent of how terrible her past has been, she will have a difficult time dealing with that as well as all her losses. The main difference will be that she’s quicker to accept changes and move on, but her feelings might be more volatile in the meantime, and her reasoning a lot more confused.
Sensitivity/Magical Ability: Laura now has a sense for the flow of time. Though unable to see timelines, she can pick up on anomalies and go back and forth in time if certain conditions are met. She needs anchors to do this, certain people or events she can latch onto, and can reach through time either to speak to them, appear to them, or otherwise leave messages or similar for them to find. There is no physical time travel involved. She never leaves the timeline she is currently in.
She is similarly able to appear in people’s dreams. It works about the same way – she needs to know where she wants to be to make it happen, but the dreams are usually remembered in vivid detail and clearly understood, and appear as she would like them to. However if the subject isn’t ‘ready’ to accept her or information she gives, it might be forgotten by the subject.
She is even more psychic. She can see and communicate with other spirits more easily, although it usually takes agreement between both parties to make anything happen – she can’t force other spirits to listen to her. She has to be invited, but she is now fully able to knock on the door, so to speak. And she will usually know who is a spirit and who is not.
Because of her timeline understanding, her limited precognition is more finely tuned. She can’t see into the future without knowing exactly what to look for, and as the future is fluid, this often nets muddy results (the past is so much easier), but if something happens in the future that relates to her or people she cares about, you might say that she’ll get an echo from the future before it happens, which makes her intuition and danger sense pretty through-the-roof.
Being reunited with her soul and having gone through soul purgatory, her soul is strong – and probably particularly bright and noticeable to those interested in that kind of thing. Now mainly operating out of Twin Peaks heaven, she’s essentially a Twin Peaks angel, which is good if you want to soothe people and bad if you want to lie low.
She is very unlikely to ever be possessed due to her new spiritual strength and her basically having gone through soul purgatory, which honed her significantly.
She is highly susceptible to visions of all kinds.