#event: empatheorem

[isolaradiale]

This is an event rerun. For more information on how to participate, please check our EVENT RERUN GUIDE! If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask! Keep in mind that this event has already been rerun before, and any form of past participation in the other runs means you cannot claim it again.

“GOOD MORNING, FAIR RESIDENTS OF SPIRALE! DO YOU REMEMBER ME? OF COURSE YOU DO, HOW COULD YOU NOT!?” Regardless of what one was doing at the stroke of midnight, a booming voice echoed throughout the minds of every resident of Spirale in tandem. “IF YOU’D KINDLY TURN YOUR EYES TO THE NEAREST SCREEN, I HAVE AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE!”

Every screen in the city - be it a television, a phone, the digital screen on the fridge - all tuned into the same image. Rudimentary camera work pointed at a barely-lit visage. A three-eyed beast, each eye sporting a gleam as its feline features became more apparent. For many this was a beast that had appeared once before, but for others? “I AM THE MAD MERRYMAKER, THE PRINCE OF– AH, I’VE DONE THIS BEFORE. SIMPLY CALL ME K’HORII.”

As the cat beast spoke, throughout the city those that came from other worlds began to feel peculiarly disoriented. They couldn’t tear their eyes away from the screens but neither did they feel rooted on the ground. Almost as if it were an out of body experience. “MY ATTENTION WAS CAUGHT BY THESE HOLIDAY FESTIVITIES OF YOURS! AREN’T THEY PECULIAR? YOU LOT SPEND THE OTHER 11 MONTHS OF THE YEAR ARGUING AND FIGHTING, BUT AROUND THE HOLIDAYS YOU PRETEND TO GET ALONG! DO YOU EVEN UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER? NO! BUT THAT IS THE POINT OF MY BUSINESS HERE.”

All three of K’horii’s eyes shone crimson, and the point of view of every outsider in the city changed. They were not merely in a different place, but a different body entirely. “THE GAME IS SIMPLE! EVERY SO OFTEN YOU’LL BE SHUFFLED AROUND INTO ANOTHER BODY! WELL, IT’S MORE OF A SWAP. BEFORE YOU’RE SENT TO ANOTHER FORM YOU’LL BE RETURNED TO YOUR OWN. TIMING? THERE IS NO RHYME OR REASON! BUT YOU’D BEST NOT THINK THIS IS AS STRAIGHTFORWARD AS MERE BODYSNATCHING! …ALTHOUGH I’LL LEAVE THAT FOR YOU LOT TO DISCOVER!”

The screens all flickered off in tandem, leaving the out-of-worlders in completely different forms. At least for now. But… what could he have possibly meant by the situation not being as straightforward as it seemed?

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Welcome to our next rerun event, EMPATHEOREM!

As you’ve surely gleamed from the above text, this event is based around the idea of living in another’s skin and coming to better understand people in ways you might not have otherwise. Here’s a general overview of how things will work mechanically:

characters can only swap with one other character at a time. the duration of the swap is up to the muns involved, and it could last the entire event, a number of hours, or even less. do what you’re comfortable with!

the characters do not to be within close proximity of one another to swap nor does it have to be with someone they know. it could be with someone on the other side of the city, leaving them to try and figure out who they are.

swapping must be done with mun permission. please respect the boundaries of other muns!

you cannot swap with an animal / pokemon unless they are a character on the masterlist. if there’s a pikachu on the masterlist for example you could swap with them, but not the pokemon of a trainer on the masterlist.

powers remain bound to the body regardless of whether they are physical or mental along with the unlock limitations. so if muse a were to swap with muse b, they would be able to use all of muse b’s unlocked powers provided they could figure out how to use them.

it isn’t merely a physical swap however, and there are side effects to being in another’s body that become more and more prominent the more time they spend swapped.

swapped characters may be prone to acting more and more like the owner of the body they are in. so for example if muse a and muse b swap, the longer they remained swapped the more they may begin to act like one another.

swapped characters may also experience one another’s memories. with mun permission, feel free to have them remember experiences only the host body might have known. this is a great way for characters to learn things about one another that might otherwise have gone unsaid!

the former two points are optional. you do not need to utilize either if you are not comfortable with it.

if your character has any special biological traits to note, please make sure to include this information in an info post or on your ad! in cases where characters have a fatal weakness to something mundane (in cases like being weak to the sun), you can choose to have anyone in their body subconsciously realize this for example. please do not kill anyone else’s muse without permission!

a posted mini will not count as participation during this event unless it is replied to before the event period ends. likewise during this event, drabbles will not count. this is because the event is very dependent on bond building interactions and we would like you guys to reach out and write with each other.

if you are not comfortable swapping with another character you are free to avoid doing so for the event! however to earn participation you must interact with at least one character who has swapped with someone else!

in regards to icons: if you’d like to offer up icons for people to use you can, but it isn’t mandatory at all!

you can use an info post to list things like unique biological characteristics, unlocked powers, and what kind of things like memories or personality traits a character in their body may come to expect if you’re okay with them experiencing these things. you can also provide a sampling of usable icons if you’d like! we recommend you tag these info posts with ‘#iremp info’.

even if you have mun permission we will not allow nsfw to be written during the event (unless it takes place outside of the event of course!). we also ask that you do not write any content picking fun at your new body in any form, even lightheartedly, for the sake of member comfort (for instance, if your muse does not have breasts and ends up in a body that does, do not joke about “having boobies”, or if they are a different weight do not draw attention to and mock it). if you are at all unsure if something crosses this line, we ask that you refrain.

the event officially ends at 11:59:59PM EST on july 5th.

[hcrpyiia]

@pratisodha

There's a trail of mess in her wake. Broken glasses, ripped fabrics, shattered windows, and walls broken. A palm slams against the wall, creating another indent from sheer force. Her heart HURTS. It's funny.

Ramattra doesn't have a beating heart, yet her feeling is SO incredibly primal. The anguish she feels that isn't her's to feel. This is all his pain and this is all his rage. How does he do it? How does he keep all of it at bay? She wants to scream and she wants to cry, but....There are NO tears for her to shed.

[indomitableblackdragon]

Between waking up somewhere she wasn't familiar with and in a body she had never met before NJ wasn't exactly having a wonderful morning. Yet even as she wandered throughout the city she couldn't find her actual self regardless of where she looked. Just a tad bit depressing that out of anyone the "black dragon" couldn't find was herself. Primarily because her mind was on other things.

"Honestly if that guy was a BIT younger I'd probably shoot my shot with him. Then again I don't know if he's already got a date or not." Which caused a shake of their head and a slap on the cheek.

"...Ok NJ, find my body first and then go find a date. I doubt anyone would believe me if I was still walking around like I got ripped straight from Wonderland."

And as such the search continued...

@eusyram

[darkenforcer]

empatheorem event info !

POWERS / ABILITIES

he can trigger Over Limit (lvl 3) and use his Shining Fang arte, each 5x daily! i doubt it'll rly come into play since it doesn't impact his fighting style much, but you can take a look at his app if you wanna know how they work.

MANNERISMS

effortless, casual confidence is the gist of it! he's loose with his movements and blunt with his words, but the same can't really be said for how he expresses his emotions; not straight-faced by any means, but definitely cool and collected. while selfless above all else, he can be a bit of a shithead from time to time, too! teasing, snark, an inclination toward minor crimes if the situation calls for it... the works.

MEMORIES

he's sure got 'em! some a lot worse than others (even damning, especially out of context), but there's still plenty of sweet stuff crammed in there. embarrassing stuff, too! i know vespy's not the most mainstream ip out there, so feel free to ask for specifics if you wanna do any memory swaps during the event! good vibes or bad.

ICONS

i did everyone a solid and condensed my 900+ icons into a much more manageable... 300-ish (lmao..). i'm more than happy to share them via dropbox or wherever's easiest! repede's in the pack, too, just in case you'd like to include him somehow! 2 for the price of 1!

so with all of that out of the way, hmu (or mention it in the replies ig) if you wanna do some plotting! i might post a designated starter call later, but i'll wait and see how things go first.

oh, i'm also 1000% okay with a muse being in yuri's body for other threads! go wild, be free!

[corvisque]

the world is dark, dark, dark and there is a pounding in his head.

a horrible pounding.

he opens his eyes, he thinks he does, he knows he does, but the world does not grow any brighter. is he still sitting in the rainsworth manor, as he had been only moments before, or had he been suddenly swallowed by some horrible abyss? the pit in the center of the city, perhaps. or else had the sky gone black, as if the world were about to end? unfair, that he would be forced to suffer such a possibility twice in one lifetime.

he is not quite to the point of panic, although he fears he is far closer than he has been in a good long while. his heart is racing, and every beat seems to make the pounding in his head worse. and his stomach. he feels nauseous.

it occurs to him, now -- has he been poisoned? had someone who he had ostensibly considered a friend slipped something into that tea that had been so readily offered? he cannot think of a reason why break would do something like that, but a lack of noticeable motive means nothing, he knows.

"ah, break?"

it is his lips that form the sound, but it is not his voice.

❱ @schleckermaul

[scarrfaze]

empatheorem info !!

abilities

uses his own blood to create ice (esmeralda blood freeze)

able to create five baseball sized projectiles of ice per day

able to create five ice shields per day

able to partially freeze a person five times per day

mannerisms/physical

(typically) cool, collected, and in control

suspicious and/or paranoid enough to be obnoxiously observant

has a bad habit of overthinking things all of the time

piss poor posture, this man is always slouching

most of his strength is in his legs since he uses them to fight

memories

watching new york fall apart and reform as hellsalem's lot

anything from kekkai sensen and kekkai sensen back 2 back, particularly the calamity auction arc because i love reliving pain

anything from here in spirale! these are happier memories (with a few exceptions)

naturally i'm willing to share icons! like this and i'll come running to your DMs to plot things out. <3

[paaperboats]

empatheorem info - red

weapons + abilities

red's just a regular human who once had an incredible singing voice. all the "abilities" she possesses are attacks fueled through the transistor: which you would have access to if you swap bodies with her! find more info on that here!

the transistor is a massive broadsword. red literally has to drag it across the ground to carry it. also, its current attacks are used by slamming it into the ground! fun!

this is obvious, but: he talks! the "sword" is really just a big USB stick with some souls inside.. it's totally not weird dw about it

he is going to loudly lament that you're not actually his wife tho

mannerisms / physical

red stands at 5'4" / 5'7" in heels. she's always wearing them, her boyfriend's leather jacket, and a torn up dress.

she's quick; light on her feet, and can weave through people easily

lost her ability to speak, but she can still hum. you can hear traces of what her voice once sounded like through that method, or a sigh

although she can't speak, she does know sign language! the transistor can translate that very easily for her.

she signs with precision. her fingers move elegantly, confidently, like she's done this all her life, even though she has not.

memories

OH BOY

betrayal from a close friend

an assassination attempt on her life resulted in her boyfriend being killed in front of her

his soul is now inside the weapon she's forced to drag along

she's constantly being hunted by a robotic army and searching for the group that betrayed her... yeah.. fun times!

at least you'll be able to recall what her songs sounded like, and who the man in the transistor looks like!

also she's from a super futuristic city that's not unlike the intraspace

icons

i have a few! i'm willing to share, but there's not a whole lot; some of them are fanart (which i will have updated credit for on my blog by the time i post this)

alternatively, if you'd like to swap with the transistor rather than red, i'm all for it! however your character would quite literally be trapped in a sword and wouldn't be able to do much physically.. but the choice is there!

give this a like and we can plot!! not going to cap this for now but we'll see!

[scholarking]

WAKING UP TO THE FEELING OF, well, nothing was an alarming sense of concern for a medical doctor. and, further still, when the cause has been discovered: that of limbs and body rend of skin and, most noticeably, metal and hard. strange, the thoughts swirl in his head, that of all people this may have happened with, it was no stranger but rather a colleague in some ways. was it on purpose that it was designed this way?

ah, there were too many variables to deduce that just yet一

which is why he had shown up to his own place of residence without much delay. ❝ I know you're in there, Screwllum. If you would please open the door to let me into my living quarters, ❞ he calls out, the voice, though familiar, foreign to his ears when enveloped in the words that fall from nonexistent lips.

❝ As I also hope you aren't conducting any experiments while occupying my body. I understand this is a new phenomenon for us both, but please do have some tact. ❞

@eruditehacker

[sickhackbassist]

Between waking up next to a cat, in a completely different home, and not remembering anything from the night before Kikuri would've sworn this was just another one of her terrible night escapades gone wrong. But sadly the moment she looked into a mirror everything began to set itself into place. Kikuri wasn't Kikuri, if that made any sense to anyone but herself.

Something happened and now they were clearly in Ambrose's body. Whether he managed to swap with her or someone else had yet to be seen. Instead of thinking and staying put hoping he'd come home she ran off to the streets, already getting a headache from just how clear minded she was compared to her old self. Thankfully it didn't take long to find a "Kikuri Spot", which really was just the sidewalk next to a bar.

"Oh your me! Hey hey hey!" She said before stumbling over to the body splayed across the bench, shaking them even if they were sleeping or not. Looking at yourself from someone else's body was not something the bassist would probably ever get used to.

"Can i have that back? Please? I gotta give this back to my friend when I find 'em too..."

@softspokenlibrarian

[punisheye]

empatheorem event info.

* if you are interested in bodyswapping with wolfwood you need to be comfortable with possibly writing themes surrounding human experimentation, particularly experiments performed on children. shoutout to xav for the template o7

physical:

he's 6'7" and a brick wall of muscle. not like, washboard abs or bodybuilder type muscle, of course. he's got a soft belly. you will be able to lift so many things you might not have been able to before, including a 250+ lb cross-shaped machine gun. with two fingers. you will be able to reach the top shelf at the grocery store.

man has so much body hair. have fun with the itchy feeling if you're not used to that.

he's got an incredible sense of balance; it's very hard to knock him on his ass.

there will be the lingering taste of cigarettes in your mouth, sorry.

weapons + abilities:

you can find a list of his current unlocked weapons and abilities here.

again, the punisher is 250+ lbs of metal and he can swing it around with one hand.

he can take a lot of damage and still keep going, even without his enhanced durability fully unlocked.

if you take two vials too close to one another you will be able to regenerate at an exceptionally fast rate but your heart will eventually rupture and you will die. there is no way around this. since at the moment the potency of them is lowered it's possible it may not kill you, but i wouldn't risk it. if this is something you're interested in exploring please, please communicate with me first.

mannerisms:

texan accent.

he holds his cigarettes between his middle and ring fingers.

he hasn't been smoking as much as he used to, however.

fondness for sunglasses.

soft spot for children.

loves food, loves making food, loves sharing food with others.

seems to have a perpetual scowl on his face.

he knows how to move without making any sound whatsoever and usually does, but if your muse isn't used to being in this kind of body, it'd make sense if he was stomping around more than he usually does!

very easy to annoy and piss off.

sometimes he flaps his arms like this when he gets pissed off:

memories:

he gets a lot of nightmares and ptsd episodes from his time in the eye of michael, especially when he was being experimented on as a child and training in his teen years. i can provide more information about this in dms.

the memory of him rescuing vash from the ark.

i'll reluctantly open up the possibility of another muse seeing a memory of his final fight with livio, razlo, and chapel, and the moments leading up to his death on the couch at vash's side, but this has already been done in a past event and while it's not off the table i'd definitely prefer to explore something new!

almost anything from spirale is free game except for any memories of his conversations where he learns very personal information about other muses. also, memories of his recent wedding/honeymoon are off limits.

you're free to ask me as many question as you'd like, especially related to canon memories!

other:

he shares a nice 2-story house with vash. be nice to vash and also their cat, kuroneko<3

congratulations you also now have a motorcycle

do not fucking lose that damn wedding ring or i will get you

also event rules already touch on this kinda thing and it should go without saying anyway, please don't be weird to vash or act like a weirdo about their relationship thankyou

icons:

i'm totally fine with sharing icons; i have 700 of them. i just ask you don't share them with anyone or use them outside of this event.

[witchoftrinity]

Waking up and looking into the mirror was a wake up call Mika didn't think she'd ever have to experience. Worse was that she knew someone out there presumably him could've been wandering around in her body and getting her a bad reputation. It was bad enough she worked as hard as she did to get to this point, and the stars or whoever was behind this wasn't about to ruin it.

The problem was getting used to everything else. Completely disregarding moving around their mind was something else, a mix of events she couldn't even begin to unpack. Something she'd love to bring up in a conversation if she could actually find a way and not make it so needlessly awkward. But the more Mika wandered around the more she just wanted to give up and let everything go on its merry way.

"I can't live my life like this! Really if I'd be an anti-social hedgehog where would I be..." Although that was Mika's first mistake, the one she rectified just as soon as it escaped "her lips"

"....Wait no. If I have to find myself I have to look for where I'd be. Which would be somewhere out in public rather then some alleyway." After all she stood out like a sore thumb, it couldn't be that hard to find her usually distinct pink hair from the side of the street.

@ultimatelifefcrm

[depenndable]

@paaperboats

Whatever was going on here, was quite alarming to the robot now occupying an organic body. No matter what he tried he couldn't vocalize, but...He did have this sword here. For some reason, gazing upon it brought a sort of melancholy, perhaps it had something to do with the body he was currently residing in.

Whatever the case, he had to find out who was occupying his own. There was one problem...He didn't typically answer texts...But perhaps the other residing in his body was more cordial than the robot master.

So, without much more thought, he reaches for the woman's phone tucked in her pocket and shoots a text to his own phone.

To: Meteoriteman From: Red [txt]: No time to explain. I'm sure you can already figure out what might be going on. [txt]: We should meet up. But if we don't: Please don't wreck my body. I don't have a means to get repaired here.

Now...He just had to figure out what to do about this sword...

[hcrpyiia]

@kleinstar

Please! I will go with you. So please, please I beg of you to not destroy their hard work. These crops and these homes are theirs. They built this community with their hands!

It is me you want, so please...

As she walked away from the people in the town, she could see them crying and begging her to not go. Even so, they couldn't stop her from leaving.

The dream shifts though. A strange and unfamiliar setting for Yumine. There's a young boy at a hospital. At least that's what she gathered when one of the nurses came and went when checking up on the young boy. He looks sad and lonely and she can feel it, too.

...?

feel it?

And when she wakes from her sleep, she's confused. She feels all-around different. Upon a closer look, her eyes manage to focus on the ceiling, then the walls to her left then right, and then...

"Where amI---" That wasn't her voice. Yumine shoots right up and falls right off the bed, landing on her stomach, "oof!" She must have swapped again!

She hoped she didn't wake anyone.

[ultimatelifefcrm]

"...I'm not even going to go there." He's mad about it.

[azureproxy]

EMPATHTHEROM EVENT GUIDE;

Aschlyn Strider

Powers:

Dark Heal: Can heal minor wounds x5 a day.

Has other abilties but they are currently locked away by the City

Mannerisms:

Is very chill and rather friendly, coming off as a big sister type to those who get to know her. She has a habit of putting her hands in her pockets and hunching to either show she's relaxed or annoyed- one could usually tell based on her expression. Crosses her arms while thinking and has a habit of humming while paired with it.

When she's upset or angry, she has a habit of hiding her mouth with her jacket collar and sucking her teeth making a 'tch' sound and narrowing her eyes.

Rarely, if ever takes her barrette off, which would make her hair wild and untamed if she did so, but also because it's an important keepsake. The same goes for the sword-shaped pendant around her neck.

Tends to hang out in crowded places or places with a lot of musical traffic, which results in her being in Archimedes ward quite a bit and helping out with odd jobs.

Doesn't talk about it, but feels a deep sense of loss over the fact that her partner Ashino isn't here either, one because of her relationship with them and also quite physically because they're connected with the Pact they made together. This also results in her being a bit more wary when fighting due to not having her pseudo-immortatlity active.

Memories:

Memories from Chapters 1-4 of Episode 1 of Death Hunter's Requiem

A lot of memories involving her interactions with Jounoichi "Joey" Nakahara (Protagonist of Death Hunter's Requiem), mainly of her giving exposition of what their entire job is supposed to be.

Quirky and bantering interactions with Ashino, along with some serious moments that show off her actual feelings and habitual self-sacrifice

Icons: I made all of the icons myself from Aschlyn's sprites and the CGs in-game along with official art from the twitter! I can put them together in a google drive for easy access!

[gturl]

Ever since the transmission two days ago, Monroe does a full inspection of himself upon every waking. When you never know if there is a moment that you are going to stop being you, it's a bit unnerving. The constant self-assurance is the most comfort he can bring to the situation until such time as it ends.

This would probably look weird if anyone saw it, but so far no one has, not even when the awakening is from a nap somewhere comfortable outside. Then again, the people here know, so they would probably get it.