Generic Murdergame Mingle

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Basically this is for the PSL That Never Was, where a bunch of characters got thrown into a Generic Murdergame but we only felt like doing some random threads and not committing to a whole murdergame.

Post with the character you're putting into the hypothetical Generic Murdergame. Include as much or as little detail about them as you want - title, profile, typical habits, whether they were spared by the RNG or not, etc.

Then tag other people with whatever threads you feel like doing.

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Kara Zor-El/Supergirl | DC Super Hero Girls

[maidofmistakes]

Profile. The requisite cinnaroll. Clumsy and lacking in self-esteem, she tries her best but always seems to screw up. While she always goes by her "super" name, she started out very unsure of herself and confided to her close CR that she feels more like a danger to everyone around her than a hero. She also really misses home, which... uh, isn't around anymore.

As she started to regain memories, though, Supergirl became more confident and able to help during trials and helped hold the group together. She dies late in the game, sacrificing herself to save the culprit's intended target.

[darknesshermit]

[The library includes plenty of cookbooks, and while Alice is more of a 'frequent various sweets shops to find the best cake in town' person rather than 'bake a cake' person, she's going to change that today. Necessity is the mother of opening up the oven.]

Let's see, do we have any vanilla extract...? I'm not sure what you would substitute if we don't...

[She's talking to herself when Supergirl walks in, but it's pretty obvious she's baking something by the ingredients she already has out.]

[maidofmistakes]

Oh! Hey, Alice. [Supergirl rubs her arm nervously.] Making something? Is there a party?

[darknesshermit]

No, I just thought I'd learn to bake a cake for myself. Maybe I'll make one for our next party, if this one turns out as anything but a mess.

[She's not particularly confident here.]

[maidofmistakes]

Wow, really? That's great! They bake a lot of different pastries in the cafeteria at Super Hero High, but my favourite is the superfood cake. I know it's made out of all these weird Earth health foods, but to be honest, I'm way more used to that than what you guys consider normal food.

[Because there has to be SOME reason they willingly eat cauliflower-and-quinoa baked goods.]

[darknesshermit]

Japanese food is fairly healthy to begin with, but I know there's plenty of people who wouldn't willingly eat miso soup or seaweed. ...I think the American health food craze is a little overdone, though.

[Quinoa.]

[maidofmistakes]

I tried asking Star Sapphire why they always like either really healthy food or really unhealthy food, but she laughed and told me to get a clue.

[darknesshermit]

How cruel... You shouldn't say that to anyone, let alone an immigrant.

[That is what Supergirl is, right?]

[maidofmistakes]

Every planet has girls like that. [She sighs and scuffs the floor.] Uh, can I help? I mean, I know I'm probably not the greatest, but at least I can't accidentally use heat vision on anything in here.

[darknesshermit]

I don't mind at all. Can you grease and flour that pan?

[maidofmistakes]

Sure! I've seen Aunt Martha do it tons of times, it can't be that hard.

[Cutting and folding parchment paper, going for the shortening... maybe that's too much shortening everywhere... eh, she'll figure it out.]

[singbluebird]

[Well, Luna's not really an outgoing person but she honestly wants to get to know the others. So after a particular rough trial she comes up to Supergirl.]

Y-you did pretty well today.

[For.. what it meant. Another two people are dead but Supergirl helped a lot during the trial and deserves to be told so!]

[maidofmistakes]

[Supergirl looks over nervously.]

You think so? I just noticed the clothing fibers and I had to say something. But I know they had a reason. Everyone here did.

[singbluebird]

That's still more than the rest of us saw.

[Her voice is soft, her eyes not meeting the girl's.]

I know they did. It's hard to accept that this is what we have to do.

[maidofmistakes]

Why can't any of us stop it? We're supposed to be special, he said that's why we're here... but look at us.

SORRY KID (Secrets revealed motive)

[sorcererdad]

He's been a paragon of dadliness these past several weeks. Making people food, listening to their problems, chatting a bit about his family (although notably leaving out the part where they happened to be eldritch voidhorrors), trying his best to support people. So when his secret gets out for that week's motive...

"Marcus Pierce willingly helped a soul-eating abomination win a cosmic turf war, knowing she planned to one day destroy humanity."

...yeah, that's awful incriminating, and while he doesn't regret what he did, it's uh...well a lot of people are probably going to take issue with the whole "willingly doomed humanity" bit, aren't they.

He's made a fresh pot of coffee and is having a cup in the cafeteria when the announcements come on. No, there isn't anything to go with the coffee. He's poring over a book as he usually is, but his expression seems...flatter.

Yeah, this is gonna suck.]

[maidofmistakes]

[Supergirl already spoke to Alice and ended up declaring that there must still be good in her, so there might be hope after all. Even so... she stops still in the cafeteria door when she comes back and sees him still there.]

...There's no way, right? It's a misunderstanding.

[sorcererdad]

...no, they're right.

[He takes another sip of his coffee, a grim expression on his face.]

Not that the apocalypse would've happened anytime soon, in my world, but... that's about as straightforward as it gets.

[WHOOPS. There uh, doesn't appear to be a whole lot of remorse in his voice, either. Not that he doesn't feel at least somewhat bad about the whole thing, but it's said in the voice of a man who has a sort of acceptance and resignation about the fact.]

I could explain myself, it's probably not the sort of misunderstanding you're thinking of.

[maidofmistakes]

[She flinches and looks away, then takes a deep breath, willing herself to speak.]

Is it like Alice? Where you hate the world?

[sorcererdad]

...no.

Despite everything? I still love humanity for what it is.

[He takes a deep breath.]

But there's a few things I love even more.

Has there ever been anyone in your life worth killing for?

[It's a piercing question, but this is probably the only way she'd understand.]

[maidofmistakes]

Worth killing for? I don't... I don't know. I'm still just learning how to be a hero, but I thought you were supposed to protect everybody.

[sorcererdad]

I was about your age when I met her.

[Supplementary info he's given in his past conversations has revealed he has a wife. Now you get to know the terrible truth!]

I was young, still learning how to use my magic, and how to summon, and I met a member of an ancient, eldritch--I hate that word, but let's move on--an eldritch race. She and maybe two or three others like her had been living on Earth for millennia, slowly feeding off human souls.

Most people on the planet hadn't even noticed.

[Loooooooong sip of that coffee.]

It took twelve, maybe thirteen years... but after all that time, I decided I wanted to spend the rest of my life by her side.

She's not exactly a "heroic" [and yes, there's airquotes] person. I guess I'm not really either, but there's things about her admire.

Nevertheless, things have always been a little complicated between the two of us.

[maidofmistakes]

[Supergirl holds her arm at her side. She shakes her head, barely taking in what she's hearing.]

No. No way. So even knowing that this means people suffer and die over and over?

[sorcererdad]

...if she doesn't eat, she dies. She doesn't feel any shame about doing what she has to do to live, just as most of us humans don't feel any shame about, I dunno, eating a steak.

But look at it this way. You can still eat a steak and have a pet cat that you love with all your heart. That's how it is with people like her--she loves humans, but when she says she can't live without them, she damn well means it.

[He looks at Supergirl's face for a moment, taking in her expression, the clenched fists at her sides, the shaking of her head.]

I've come to accept it.

Our two daughters - Callie's the one who drew the picture I got out of the machine a few weeks ago - they're the same type of being as her, right down to the soul-eating part. When I first found out I was going to be a father, my wife had a lot of concerns.

[Remember, there were like, three of these fuckers on the planet.]

Most of her kind won't hesitate to pick off a rival's kid if they think they can take out the competition, and our girls are just a bit weaker than usual, on account of being part human.

...that was when I helped her with... well, you heard the announcement.

[maidofmistakes]

...I can't do that. I know I should, I know we're all being pushed to, to kill in here, and the people you were fighting would've been just as bad, and you've been nothing but nice to us and it's not like I haven't been used and lied to and at least you did it because you love your family. But when Principal Waller takes in an ex-supervillain, it's because she thinks it'll do good for the world. Not throwing the world away for one person.