Major Arcana Meme nabbed from bakerstreet

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The Major Arcana Meme



How to play:

1. Post with your character and fandom (and preferences) in the subject line.
2. Roll the RNG. And since it is a meme about fortune, it might be best to actually roll it instead of pick. But it's not required.
3. Go crazy! But watch your fate in the cards.

0. The Fool: Starting on a journey. Doing something foolish and taking it on faith that it will turn out alright. Whether or not it does is up in the air. This is the beginning of something new. You're going on a journey and you don't know what's out there. But don't worry, it'll be fine.

1. The Magician: Tricksters and Shysters, this is their card. It’s also the card that embodies the you can do anything, might as well show the world what you’ve got spirit. What you will and what you desire are all obtainable. 

2. The High Priestess: Choice: Two roads diverge and which one do you want to take? One is bad and one good, but it’s hard to tell which is which. 

3. The Empress: Abundance and fertility. Be fruitful and multiply. Or at least, go at it.

4. The Emperor: Responsibility. It’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it. 

5. The Hierophant: Seeking guidance. Find that mentor figure. Learn something new or figuring out how to do something out that you couldn’t do before. 

6. The Lovers: Confusion. Indecision. Id, Ego and Super-Ego. Making a choice between love and the rest of the world. 

7. The Chariot: Drive and getting things done. Also opposites attract. Probably they’re driven together. In any case time waits for no one. 

8. Strength: Strength to win. Power and control. Overcoming passions. Taming the wild beast. . 

9. The Hermit: Introspection. Taking time to think about problems. A wise and inspirational friend who can help you work things out. 

10. The Wheel of Fortune: Change in fortune. Action. Luck. Not good luck mind you, but luck. 

11. Justice: Cause and effect. Well something’s either coming back to bite you in the ass your give you flowers. Karma’s a bitch sometimes. Unless you’ve been really good to someone then you’ll be quite happen with your return. Otherwise, maybe you should be nicer to people the next time around. 

12. The Hanged Man: Acceptance of Reversals. Something about your life isn’t that great, but you have to put on a smile, grit your teeth and deal with it anyway. Make lemonade out of lemons. 

13. Death: Rebirth. Not quite reincarnation - though that would be entertaining. Instead you’re restarting. Everything is behind you. That bad relationship? That evil boss? Gone. Start something new. Begin again. The past is the past. Try something different. Or come back as a honey badger. 

14. Temperance: Balancing You’ve got two things going on and you need to keep them on the level. Job and love? Two girl/boy/girl and boy friends? If you don’t keep it on an even keel you’re going to get screwed up so badly it’s not even funny. Better hope you can walk that line...

15. The Devil: Emotions. All those nasty thoughts, the feelings you felt when someone said something you didn’t like, they get said because the brain to mouth filter has turned off. . The biting your tongue when someone said something stupid? That filter between your brain and your mouth? Gone. You’re angry. You’re tired. You’re frustrated and you’re going to speak your mind. Damn be the consequences (until you sober up and realize what the fuck you said...)

16. The Tower: Catastrophic Events. Something unexpected has happened and it’s not good. It’s worse than not good. It’s down right hideously awful, and then even worse. 

17. The Star: Knowledge given. Go and find yourself a student Obi-Wan. It’s time you taught what you know. 

18. The Moon: Watch motives. Yes. They are out to get you. Insanity darkness and yet genius and creativity. Mad Scientists and Trust No One. It’s not Paranoia if there really is a flesh eating demon waiting to eat you. 

19. The Sun: Growth, Reward, Truth and progress. It’s all good. Everything is wonderful, sunshine and daisies. Go and share it with others. You know the truth. You know what is going to happen and it’s great. Party. Go on a date. Be happy and spread it. 

20. Judgement: Atonement. Repent and forgive. Or ask someone for forgiveness. 

21. The World: Attainment. You’ve got it. Everything you’ve always wanted, is there in your hands. The girl. The house. The 3.5 kids. But is it really what you wanted? Are you really happy? You think you are. And it does feel like it. But... maybe... somewhere inside of you, you’re not.

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[necroprofiterole]

[The last time someone touched them, they wound up in the hospital, hooked to life support while they slept endlessly in a mysterious coma.]

[It could have been a horrible incident, just one, had it not happened multiple times to any friend Ryou had made. For a while he could tack on "and brought home to play," but it gradually became apparent that the only requirement for sudden comatose state was to be his friend, touch him, agree to play a game to pass the time. He hadn't understood, at first, that it was all Zorc's doing, but he gradually came to understand that the demon didn't need to reach out to touch someone to strangle their soul.]

[He once had a happy life with his father, mother, and little sister. They lived in a comfortably sized home with a second story and basement, and they would all talk of maybe getting a pet dog someday to keep the bad things away. Ryou, now, sees that a dog would do no good, but it had once been a comforting hope. The downfall of his familial happiness happened seemingly all at once; his mother and sister were out doing errands in London, maybe chittering about his father's plans to visit his side of the family in Japan for a month the upcoming summer, when they got into a terrible car accident. Ryou hasn't cared to find out whose fault it was, his mother's or the bus driver's, only that he's had to identify the corpse of his mangled sister and sit, shaking and crying, at his mother's hospital bedside until they agreed she had to be let go.]

[It was around then he met the demon, but Ryou felt as if he'd been near him many times before.]

[Zorc, he calls himself, perched on his back and clinging to his shoulder. He's been there for years, now, claws sunken into his mortal flesh and appearance fading from horrid monster to frighteningly human. Ryou thought once that maybe he could bear to look this demon in the face if he looked more like him, like the people surrounding him; but as Zorc gradually took on Ryou's height, his weight, the color of his eyes, and finally his face, he was a darkened room reflection and Ryou couldn't bear it. The demon has horns, yes, atop his head and protruding from each side of his jaw and from behind his ears--which were a transformation over time, they weren't there before--but all Ryou can see is himself masked in dark gray.]

[Ryou's had the misfortune of being plagued with this beast, yes, but he can't deny his luck that it hasn't tried to destroy him. It sinks into his body sometimes, uses him as a puppet to break his fingers and swallow his screams, but broken bones and impaled limbs are nothing like the Death he's seen and touched. Death is cold, it's watching everything in life slip away, grade school eyes glazed over, doctors inquiring about plugs needing to be pulled. Ryou is fascinated with death and the very sort of horror that surrounds him, but there is nothing worse than the reality of the end and he's been force fed it until he choked too many times.]

[He once tried to find help from armies of words in multiple libraries, poured his attention all over them, researched culture after culture, absorbed as much as he could before he passed out on the table. He tried everything short of human sacrifice to expel the demon from him, tried again and again; Zorc played along each time, would shriek and howl in his ears, drag his claws all over his body, acted as if he were finally dying, only to rise up cackling and tapping Ryou's chest with a single talon. "You cannot kill me," he taunts, "for I am the shadows, and the shadows never die!"]

[His father abandons him after Ryou tries to tell him about the demon as the fifth friend to collapse in their living room is taken away in an ambulance. He leaves for Egypt, a sudden excavation more important than his last living family that requires his attention and help. Ryou doesn't dare seek refuge in an orphanage or any public place where his demon might thrive upon the souls residing there, and instead lives alone in an empty house, where the bills are paid from Egypt and grocery money appears in his bank account every two weeks. This has been his life for two years, and he wishes he could say it's been just him and the empty hallways that beckon his darkest thoughts.]

[Amane remains pressed in his head, the only light he can cling to in all his shrouds of shadows, and he writes to her everyday, puts the letters in a box decorated with a crucifix he's unsure actually does anything. He remembers how his mother would cling to her rosary during bad times, and how his father, despite his own beliefs, made sure she had a cross above her bed while she drifted away from them. It must do something, anything, and it couldn't hurt to put his trust into a symbol that could possibly send his thoughts to his dearest sister and mother in Heaven. Zorc, of course, whispers horrible things into his ears while he does this. "Heaven?" he barks, "There is no such place! There are only angels less than kind and gods who only find pleasure in their creation's worship and suffering."]

[Ryou's ability to ignore him has strengthened, sometimes he can talk back without feeling as if he's been impaled through the stomach, but nothing helps except for his hope that someday he'll be free from this hell he's living. He's given up on having friends, pushes people away when they get too close; he sighs hopelessly at those he admires from afar. He's given up on normalcy, or having his father back, or ever having a family again at all. All he has are his wooden sculptures, his scriptures and texts, and the lonely home full of memories and abandoned promises of a better life.]

[So he turns and stares at the girl who touched him, tapped his shoulder without a word. He tenses up, already fearful for her life. He smiles all the same, but it's strained and Zorc's claws sink into his shoulders.]

Um...may I help you?

[givemeabreak]

[Kitkat didn't actually plan what she was going to say. It's been a long time since her concerns were 'what to say' and not 'what not to say'. She's supposed to make eye contact with the person she's talking to, or at least look at her feet, not stare transfixed at the demon attached to her conversation partner. But how can she not? It's looking at her, and it has Ryou's face.]

[She remembers monsters that twisted their bodies to look like her father and brother, and wonders how far gone this boy must be that his looks like him. She can't ignore this.]

Uh-um, a-about the, um, h-homework for... for math...

[She has the symbol of her father's religion on a necklace, and as much as she'd once rolled her eyes at it ("it's the fucking cancer symbol, dad"), she finds herself clutching at it as she stares down the demon. It's less for protection and more for the reminder that her father sacrificed to save her from her demons. She can do this.]

I, um, forgot to write it down.

[She's lying. It's painfully obvious that she's lying. She can't stop watching the demon.]