+The Sensory Deprivation Meme+

[winterbolt]

the SENSORY DEPRIVATION meme:
You know those things you rely on to navigate you properly through life?
Senses? Yeah, well, kiss those goodbye.

(TRIGGER WARNING: This meme deals with the loss of senses:
blindness, inability to feel. If the concept of blindness, deafness
and/or the loss of any of your senses bothers you, please do NOT play this meme)

✖ Post with your character name/fandom/options for scenarios
✖ Use RNG to pick your numbers (or don't)
1-5 for regular senses, 6-10 for moral sense, 11-16 for cracky senses.


The Basic Five

1. Sense of Sight - Whether you woke up that way, had an accident,or you had a bad reaction to something, you're now blind. Fully and completely. Watch out for that bu--*wince*

2. Sense of Smell - Did someone step in dog crap? It could be you, but you'd never know. You've lost your sense of smell. I guess there's no stopping by the roses for you, huh?

3. Sense of Hearing - "I'M NOT YELLING!!" Yes, yes you are. And no matter how loud you crank AC/DC, you're never hearing Highway to Hell again. Guess I shouldn't have gotten you the Stones compalition CD's, huh?

4. Sense of Taste - No, it doesn't taste like chicken. In fact, it doesn't taste like anything. Perfect time to get that friend that burns everything to cook for you - at least it'll make them happy and you can smile through the whole ordeal.

5. Sense of Touch - Where'd you get that bruise? Or that gaping knife wound? No clue. You have utterly lost the ability to feel anything, like your body is enveloped in fuzzy packing tape. Punch the wall all you want, you ain't gonna feel anything.

The Guiding Factors

6. Sense of Right and Wrong - Tripping people that get in your way? Taking candy from babies? Killing someone that hurt you and yours? All sound like pretty good ideas right about now. Your entire moral code has been thrown into the 'grey' area. There is no right or wrong, only what you want.

7. Sense of Decency - Things that just 'aren't done' are in play for you now. Evicting old ladies and orphans because they can't pay? Pff. Good. Lousy Mooching leeches. Deport and debauch yourself to your heart's content.

8. Sense of Self - You don't even know who you are anymore. What are you doing with your life? What's it all mean? What the hell's it for? Why even bother to get up in the morning? Are you going to go try and 'find' yourself? Or just give up?

9. Sense of Preservation - Your life? Means about as much as a mouse fart. Why should you step out of the way of that speeding train? You were there first. Mouthing off to that huge, angry, overpumped steroid-faced goon sounds like a good idea too. He took your seat. And he smells.

10. Sense of Empathy - That ability that lets you put yourself in the shoes of others, to relate to them? Gone. No, you don't know what they're feeling, and quite frankly, you don't want to. You have your own things to deal with, and they're much more important. Why? Because they're yours.

The Quirky Ones

11. Sense of Humor - Wait, am I supposed to laugh now? You have to take your cue from those around you, laughing when they do, usually a little bit late and a little too long. Not even a fart joke will crack a smile.

12. Sense of Direction - You couldn't find your way ten feet without a sticky-note pasted to your forehead screeching GO THIS WAY YOU NINNY, but even then you probably wouldn't get that far. Good luck man cause it looks like you're going to be stopping and asking for directions whether you want to or not.

13. Sense of Modesty - So what if you're using a belt as a skirt. It looks good, right? Bending over and showing off too much isn't an issue for you, neither is changing in the middle of the store if you just have to wear that cute little shirt now.

14. Sense of Fashion - Yes, you think a pink polka-dotted bikini top goes just smashingly with the neon green bellbottoms. Bubblewrap tops? Freakin' awesome. Put it on and flaunt it, and watch people's eyes bleed.

15. Sense of Timing - "What do you mean now's a bad time?" Yes, because you think trying to pick up a girl at her husband's funeral is a good thing. What? She's single. You're late to everything. A clock? Wassat? Strange, foreign words...

16. Mix and Match - You poor thing, you've lost more than one sense. 2? 3? The whole lot? Who knows, that's up to you.

(Taken [with some altercations] from bakerstreet)

Comments

[betterthanboring]

[Trust you him, Cloudjumper looks just as confused as everyone else. She chortles, shrugging off what just happened.]

If it'll make you feel better, I will. Didn't think you were so cautious.

[She points to an extremely narrow crevice between two icebergs.]

Ooh, let's go through there!

[alpharider]

[Hiccup bites his lip, letting his fingers run across the scales on Toothless' neck.]

Oookay, sure...wanna climb up on your dragon there first? If Toothless can't fit, then I don't think Cloudjumper will.

[betterthanboring]

On it.

[She motions to her dragon and without much thought, she waves to Hiccup before jumping off again.]

[alpharider]

[Content to let Cloudjumper deal with his mother for the time being, Hiccup spurs Toothless on toward the gap in the ice. It's exceedingly narrow, and once they've nearly reached it the Nightfury banks to one side, angling himself so he can just barely slip through. Hiccup bites back a gasp of surprise when he feels his metal foot clip off the edge of one of the glaciers.]

Too narrow! Waay too narrow! Turn back, wait for me and Toothless to head back out!

[betterthanboring]

[Thankfully Cloudjumper swoops in to let Valka land with a graceful whump. She spurrs Cloudjumper onward, motioning him towards the cliff divide.

Yet even with Hiccup's warning, the dragon master leads Cloudjumper but even the dragon thinks this might be a bad idea. Meanwhile Valka tries to assure her son.]

Don't be silly, it's perfectly fine!

[alpharider]

Are you kidding? I nearly lost m-

[But his voice is lost on the loud howling of the wind as it blasts through the opening between the ice floes, and he knows it's all for naught anyway. What has gotten into Valka?]

[betterthanboring]

[Something bad, apparently because there goes Valka. Cloudjumper banks before he can ultimately go in and the landing has the both of them tumbling atop one of the glaciers. Valka pops from the snow, rushing over to a bewildered Cloudjumper.]

What's gotten into you? This is easy!

[alpharider]

[Hiccup leaps off Toothless' back once he's landed in the snow nearby, stumbling a little as he makes his way to Valka.]

W-...but- you didn't get through! I told you it was too narrow.

[MOM U NEED 2 SIT DOWN.]

[betterthanboring]

No no, Cloudjumper got scared, that's it!

It's easy enough if you try--look, I can fit through it.

[And off she runs to that crevice on her own.]

[alpharider]

[/INTERNAL SCREAMING

Hiccup gestures for Toothless to stay back with Cloudjumper before chasing after Valka, stumbling a bit in the snow atop the glacier.]

Wait! Wait up-!

[At this point he's laughing a little under his breath, but from happiness or slight hysteria who even knows.]

[betterthanboring]

[Better catch the hell up, Hiccup, cause this rad moma's taking a slide over the iceberg towards that totally deadly drop within the iceberg crevice. She's got this, Hiccup.]

[alpharider]

[AHSKJHJKFHKSJG

Hiccup skids over the surface of the glacier, hearing some distant tromping through the snow as Toothless no doubt follows after, lest Hiccup ends up pitching over the side in pursuit of Valka.]

I'm plenty sure that you can fit on your own, it was the dragons I was worried about! Now cmon, let's just head out of here!

[betterthanboring]

Where's that sense of danger? This is what being a dragon trainer is about!

[Well since Toothless is following, Cloudjumper better go after Valka cause...well this won't end good. At all.

Meanwhile Valka slides dangerously close to the the edge of said glacier.]

[alpharider]

[Hiccup grits his teeth and continues to run, skidding and slipping on the ice until he finally makes his way over enough so he can grab her by the wrist to stop her- ..or at least slow her down.]

That's fine, just...

[He takes a breath, letting her go and pulling back slightly. By now Toothless has made his way over, nudging his nose beneath Hiccup's arm.]

I don't want anything to happen to you.

[betterthanboring]

[Well, she's at least slowing down. But confused mother is still confused.]

Nothing will happen to me! I'm like the dragons, I'm near invincible!

[alpharider]

[Hiccup shifts his weight unconsciously to his good foot as she says that, tilting his head to the side.]

The dragons aren't invincible. We aren't either.

[Toothless lowers his head slightly with a low grumble in the back of his throat.]