Stuck In The Wrong Place

[dammitmasa]

Same Old People, Wrong Destination

Today you get a message from the Malnosso. They’ve found a way to send you home. You’ll remember Luceti, but it’s a one way trip. You’ve said your tearful goodbyes and prepared yourself for the inevitable return home. One moment you’re in Luceti, the next you’re not.

But nobody ever said the Malnosso ever got everything right. Sure, you’re not in Luceti anymore. Yes, you’ve lost your wings and barcode. But this isn’t your world. It’s some other world and now that you’re cut off from the Malnosso, you have no hope of ever getting back home. Which means that wherever you’ve ended up, you’ll be spending the rest of your life there.

On the up-side, you’re not the only one stuck here. Someone else from Luceti, also alien to this world, is stuck with you. With the common bond of being strangers to this brave new world, it’s inevitable you’ll stick together. But for how long?

Considerations

1. You can go to any other world you want! It just can’t be one either of your characters are from. You can make up something like a fantasy world, something from a sci fi, or something just like the modern world. Or you can pick a canon neither of your characters belong to.
2. Ideally they should both be from different canons altogether. But this isn’t required!
3. There’s supposed to be no way back. Even genius characters ought to find it impossible. But does that mean all hope has to be lost? For those who have been gone from Luceti a long time, it might be fun if they were given a chance to go back to Luceti and be trapped again.
4. For an optional extra level of complexity, give consideration to your character’s appearance or to their abilities. Will they stand out in this new world? Will they have to hide what they can do? Or will they even be able to use their powers if the source of their powers is gone?


Prompts

1. Day One - You’ve both just arrived on this world and by chance, you run into each other. Two heads are better than one. Now you just have to figure out what to do next.

2. One Week Later - You’ve been in this world a week. Things are starting to sink in. So is the idea of being stuck here. It’s time to start thinking about the long term.

3. One Month Later - Now that you’ve both been here awhile, you’ve learned the ins and outs of your new home. You’re making a living and getting by, but you still think of home.

4. Six Months Later - It may not be home, but you’ve learned to be comfortable. By now, your relationship with your fellow Lucetian has certainly evolved as well.

5. One Year Later - It’s been long enough that you sometimes wonder if you ever did live in a place like Luceti. So what’s life for you like in this whole new world?

6. Other - Don’t be limited by the above. This could be two weeks later or twenty years later! Of course, you can always time skip once you’ve established what you want to do at one time period.

Comments

[markofthebrave]

[It had been a difficult thing, torn from her family and into a world so foreign and cold. The Malnosso had said that there wasn't any way they'd find their way back, even into Luceti. No way that she'd be reunited with her family again. But Katara refused to accept that.

Finding Donatello in this strange new world had been a comfort. It was still so noisy in this place. Once the paperwork was processed (apparently there was paperwork for 1) people from other worlds and 2) other times and the paperwork had taken weeks), Katara had been offered a job to match her skillset. There was no war, fortunately, in this city, no need to teach combat, and of course, no bending. But her abilities as a chi healer still made her highly valued, and her medical knowledge, though outdated by their standards, was something to 'build a base on.'

And Katara had found very quickly that if they were going to find a way to get back to where they'd come from, they were going to need credits to do it. So she worked as a chi healer to well-playing clientele and was buffering up her medical knowledge during her down time to decide whether or not she would become a fully licensed physician in this place as well.]

Welcome back! [She glanced up from her medical electric notepad] Soup's on the stove.

[i_speak_softly]

Mm. [He wanders into the kitchen and then out again, leaving a trail of shed clothing behind him.] All that studying and you still find time to start dinner. [He leans casually over her shoulder.] What chapter are you on today?

[markofthebrave]

Soup's easy to make. I can just prepare the ingredients and let it cook while I read.

[She set the reading pad down, face down.]

I'll let you see after you pick up your clothes.

[Not a new argument with them, I think.]

[i_speak_softly]

[Ugh, fine. Don picks up his clothes and deposits them in the hamper that Katara had laboriously taught him the purpose and proper use of. Then he returns, innocent and eager. Show him now?]