Mitheral
"Growf!"
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Synopsis
Two young adults have become “zeroes”, living a sort of Groundhog Day life … and become aware of one another - and recognize one another from earlier ‘days’.
Background
You are a Zero. It all started a few years ago. (You would now be 18 ish.) It was your first day of high school and it turned into a nightmare. You had one of those traumatic events when all you want is to be invisible, be forgotten. But noone would let you forget. You were teased, bullied. It got so bad you actually made a wish upon a star, a wishbone, tossed coins into ponds. You tried everything.
And then it happened. You woke up in the basement of an abandoned building on a smelly old mattress. You tried to go home, but when you got there, there was another family living there. They called the police, who sent CPS (Child Protective Services). They fed you and put you in a temporary shelter.
The next morning you awoke in the basement of an abandoned building on a smelly old mattress - again. Only this time it was in another city. And this time there was no family to go home to. You had no way home. You went hungry that day and ended up curling up to sleep behind a dumpster.
The next morning you awoke in the basement of an abandoned building on a smelly old mattress - again. Once again it was in another city. The abandoned building hadn’t changed - only the location. Weird? Well you were starving and tried to steal some food and got caught. You tried to tell them the truth. But they had no records of your parents. And your school never heard of you. But they fed you and gave you a place to sleep.
The next morning …. You see the pattern? Yep, abandoned building, smelly mattress, different city. Stole some food, LET yourself get caught. No records, school doesn’t know you. Meal and a place to sleep …
The next morning. Every morning, always back to the same old place. And you still are a “first time offender.” Hell at this point you have to practically announce you are stealing something. But even that started getting boring and you decided to find some sort of work to do. Recycling turned out to pay a little. Copper wire and aluminum cans sold for a tiny bit. The first time you tried you weren’t able to get back in time and the money you had been paid was gone. And you couldn’t always find a recycling center that you could sell to.
So you tried saving some of the stuff you gathered back at the abandoned building. Guess what? It was still there the next day. And you were able to gather more each day until you found a place to sell it all at once and got back. You learned the hard way that you had to be back before sunset or it all disappeared - money, any scrap, anything you had collected period. It was back to square one.
Then something NEW happened. You ran into the same boy twice - in different cities. Like you he was selling scrap. You looked at him; he looked at you. And he recognized you. He said nothing, but he had paled. Clearly this was unexpected.
Note: The backstory here isn’t set in stone. The pair could run across each other in on opposite sides of the street. The recycling idea is even something that can be altered. But as an example, CA pays 5 or 10 cents for bottle and cans. For a hungry kid a 100 of those can add up to a meal.
Likewise: HOW your character became a Zero is not set in stone. What I wrote above is a suggestion. Maybe you had parents who were divorced or never at home. You felt as if they would never notice if you were gone.
Please note: This is intended as an MxF. I plan to run the male. Both should be about 18-ish. They should have become Zeroes within the past few years after an event or string of events drove them to want to be invisible to society. A CS will be required. It should include a picture, demeanor, general description (clothing, etc), and - if you like - possessions you currently have. We should start the RP early to midday, not at the last minute before sunset.
Also, this is not the same day being lived over - as in the movie Groundhog Day. The characters started when they were younger and have aged to around 17-18. Neither is the rate of aging set in stone. And I have made no decision on immortality - that is do they stop aging, or what happens of they die?
