Making All Your Bleach AU Dreams Come True

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Player Plot: Hollow Souls

Premise

Some people believe that the spirits of their departed loved ones still watch over them, and protect them from harm. And occasionally that's true! A soul that hasn't passed over may very well choose to linger in the world of the living, maybe to look after their surviving friends and family, or maybe because they just can't let go of what was important to them in life.

But there's danger for the dead who still try to cling to the living. There's a daemon that dwells in this world, one skilled in deception and knowing when to lay low and avoid being hunted, that can devour the hearts of these lonely souls and twist them into monsters that serve his greed and lust for power. These souls are signified by two ever-present markers: a hole in the chest where their heart no longer anchors them, and a horrible white mask to hide their identities. Otherwise, their bodies and abilities vary wildly. Some can spit acid; others carry a bounty of parasitic creatures that latch onto their victims and explode. These hollowed souls are driven to fill the empty void inside of them, craving the hearts of other souls to devour in a vain attempt to restore what was lost.

And they always come after their loved ones first.

Hollows and You!

WHO CAN GET INVOLVED: Anyone who's ever lost a loved one, whether a family member, friend, or bae, can choose to have a hollow version of the dead pursue your character. If your character has a perfectly happy life with no dead people to angst over, you can still participate. Surely you know someone in the school who DOES have a tragic backstory. Hollow souls can be jealous of their relative's living friends and attack them too in an attempt to isolate their target. Or maybe the hollow soul just isn't picky about who it eats -- when you're starving, everyone looks like a roast chicken dinner.

But what if your character is already dead? WHAT THEN? Well...in that case, the daemon might be very interested in trying to make you one of his hollows, and you can contact me personally to get hella attacked.

WHAT TO EXPECT: Players will be in charge of playing their own hollow souls, but I'll be handling the daemon himself. He's sly, cautious, and unlikely to attack students where he can be seen and/or slain. But those who sneak out after curfew, or hang out in town without supervision, are easy prey. Not only is he capable of devouring souls to turn them into Hollows, he can also make copies of his previous victims appear to wander about and lure meals straight to him. This daemon is extremely dangerous solely because he's smart, but he's not the most powerful creature on the block. He's only been around for fifty years or so, and gains power by devouring souls -- the stronger the soul, the greater his power increase. Eventually he plans on eating his minions whole instead of just their hearts and thus destroying them permanently once they're strong enough to imbue him with a decent amount of power.

Players can take a lot of liberties for how their own threads are played out. A hollow can be restored to sanity if they're significantly shaken by an act of pure love that brings them to their senses. However, unless the daemon is destroyed, they won't be guaranteed to regain their hearts. A restored hollow may linger around their loved ones to protect them, but they're in danger from that point on of being attacked and eaten by the daemon, or even reverting to their monstrous desires if they suffer too much sadness or anger.

The daemon's defeat will be played out once one of two possible conditons are met: One, that it just happens ICly. A faculty member or sufficiently strong student might have just the right powers to kick his cowardly ass and put an end to everything prematurely. Two, when everyone's had time to play out their hollow threads and are ready for a satisfying conclusion to the plot, I'll arrange it so everyone who suffered as a result of his wicked deeds has a chance to go after him as a group and either kill him or drive him back into hiding to possibly emerge again in a future plot.

WHEN WILL THIS TAKE EFFECT: Any time starting now! Each player can handle things at their own pace, and the attacks don't all have to come at once. It could be weeks or months before a hollow ever crosses someone's path. As long as the daemon is alive, he can keep making more hollow souls. Even if he is defeated and you didn't want to miss out, he made plenty of hollows that can still be encountered and that may have eaten enough souls that his death didn't affect the status of their missing hearts. And really, who's to say that's the only daemon capable of hollowing a soul? :3

WHERE WILL THESE THINGS HAPPEN: Anywhere, anytime. The daemon isn't stupid enough to wander freely around campus where a billion well-trained hunters will gut him for lunch, but the other hollows might be too hungry to care about the consequences. You might even run into a hollow while on a mission in another country!


Feel free to plot out emotional and action-packed encounters with each other by leaving a comment. There will also be a comment for those who want to be attacked by the daemon himself!

Comments

[lastexit]

I'm debating if Cam should be a multiple run-in Hollow.

Because on the one hand Maya won't be able to express what she wants to have happen to him (she would want to save his soul, if possible, because... baggage). But I doubt she could express much of anything with Cam around.

But yes, definitely protect Maya from her ex boyfriend.

[no_dejare_de_quererte]

Depending on when this goes down... Imelda might honestly understand that. She's going to eventually be in a similar situation. If she sees Maya struggling with that, she'll try to find a way to figure out what Maya wants.

But either way, yes. Protecting Maya 100%