Player plot : Waters of Youth

[enucleation]

Waters Of Youth: Age altering event

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Hello everyone, this is Juu and this month I bring you a player plot that can involve other players if you want to be part of it! It will start on the 10th of April and run until the end of April, and it has no other time-specific points.

This plot will run alongside April trials.

Please use this post to plot with each other if you'd like!

Background

Not long ago, Kaneki learned his soulmate is immortal; Kaneki however, is not and he is also aware Star Children age while in Folkmore. After his canon updated and after a lot of Trauma⟨™⟩ Kaneki decided he must become immortal and thus he started learning about folklore and magic through books and stumbled upon the Fountain of Youth, a mythical spring which allegedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks or bathes in its waters.

Thus, Kaneki will use his spoons to "build" the Fountain of Youth and bring it to Folkmore, which will in turn have consequences. This fountain will be located near his and Dirk's house.

The Consequences

🦊 Leakage
By bringing a magical building into Folkmore, a building that does not exist in his world and he never saw, will end up interfering with the Lore, and this will cause the fountain's water to leak out into Folkmore: the water will spread out, form streams, puddles and seep into people's houses (this may include drinking wells).

🦊 The water
Whoever touches or drinks these waters will have their age altered: they become young, or old, or perhaps they are constantly changing their age at every breath they take. Their mind can follow the age-change or not, which means characters can become actual kids, or simply children with an adult's mind - and vice-versa.

🦊 Mermaids
The Fountain is protected by little mermaid-like creatures. Mermaids are said to give eternal life to those who eat one, however, that won't really happen. You are still welcome to try.

These mermaids will try to retrieve the water and bring it back to the Fountain of Youth, and that includes the water that Star Children touched or drunk. They are able to take back the water from Star Children through a gentle touch like holding hands or maybe even a small kiss. Because not everyone will want a kiss from a mermaid, this means Star Children might be harassed by these mermaids until they give back the water they accidentally (or not) stole. Taking the water back will revert the Star Children back to their original age.

These mermaids are small at first, but they'd be able to change their size and become larger. If someone tries to fight them, they will just fade away and reappear back near the water. They are 100% peaceful.

Who to blame & the Fountain itself

The Fountain of Youth is located in Cruel Summer, near Kaneki's and Dirk's ranch, throughout the whole event. Kaneki was the one that summoned it through spoons without really having seen the building before, or being very specific about what he wanted, which is what made it go wrong. Please do blame Kaneki for this.

He will however still think he can fix it somehow. If anyone tries to destroy the fountain will probably have to deal with a tiny angry ghoul because Kaneki believes he can fix things without destroying his chance at becoming immortal.

But even if convinced to destroy it, the Fountain is actually kind of indestructible until all the water is returned: after it is destroyed, it will just rebuild itself again. Kaneki will not be able to actually stop anything, and the plot will have to run its course. Sorry guys!

Opt-Out

Characters would only be affected if they touch the water from the fountain. Players can simply state that the waters did not reach the characters, allowing them to stay away from the event. Since the mermaids will only be near the waters and those who took some of the water, as long the characters avoid the water, they will not be bothered by a mermaid.

The End

Eventually, the mermaids will return all the water to the Fountain of Youth. Doing so will cause the magical properties of the waters to disappear and the Mermaids to vanish, and it's assumed that they returned to their world.

The fountain will remain behind with mild anti-aging properties. Nothing drastic and nothing permanent, but good enough to keep the skin clear!

Kaneki will not become immortal )= (there are other ways for him to become immortal actually. Potions, requesting a new power through spoons, etc. He is just very extra and goes for the most complicated options).

Comments

Questions?

[enucleation]

Ask them here!

CW: potty humor

[overnightoaks]

Henry's canon being what it is, I have to ask...

Can the mermaids take back the water that Star Children drank after it passes through their system?
(Will the mermaids be taking their pee?)

[losttothesandsoftime]

On deciding how much of a complex to give my character...

Sheik is trans, and his childhood was very much being Princess Zelda. Would the age reversion display that childhood, or would he get to be a tiny version of his current self? (And do current clothes adjust, too?)

Re: Questions?

[punderworldgod]

To confirm, taking the water back early means people can revert before the entire plot's resolved yes? Either voluntarily or by mermaidvention?

Kaneki Ken | Tokyo Ghoul | Familiar

[enucleation]

Okay so! Kaneki is the person responsible for this fuck up you are all very welcome!

🦊 Kaneki will summon the fountain and immediately get turned into a child. He will keep his adult mind through this event and he will remain as a child rather than changing to other ages at some point.

🦊 Kaneki will remain near the fountain throughout the whole event as he tries to figure out a way to fix it. So he will not be found in Folkmore, and if anyone wants to meet him, you have to come to Cruel Summer for that.

🦊 Anyone who wants to approach the fountain and figure out a way to stop this, will have to deal with Kaneki. He will NOT allow anyone near the fountain at first, afraid they will just ruin everything you already ruined everything, ken. Kaneki will not hurt friends but if he doesn't know you... well, he might be aggressively stubborn...

🦊 Kaneki can be convinced to stop! However, even if he is convinced to stop, it's not like... it will do any good because the fountain can not be stopped until all the youth water is returned OOPSIE.

🦊 He will apologize after )=

🦊 He will still want to find a way not to age or become immortal, so there is also the chance to help him with that? Maybe?

Re: Kaneki Ken | Tokyo Ghoul | Familiar

[no_harm]

Omggggg I know we're still doing tentacles in the woods (I think it's your turn, whenever you get to it) but I want to throw a baby Rhys at baby Kaneki. :3

[woenesday]

Would it be possible for Wednesday to have a completely useless vision from running into him before all this happens at some point. Just something like the mermaids running around or a glimpse of a fount and a mermaid. Something that has 0 context and will serve only to make her confused and irritated as she tries to solve what can't actually be solved?

I'd love to have him and Fran interact sometime, either after or during since their conversation about things either during or after if you'd like. Since their conversation it might be interesting and she'd be very curious why he thinks he has to be immortal too.

Mina Ashido | My Hero Academia | Legend

[pinkxeno]

Mina will become an adult! I won't have icons to match, but I have these two pictures of her that I really love. She will keep her mental age, so it's just a teenager in an adult's body!

She will be around to help whoever needs her. She loves kids, and I'd absolutely love for Mina to just adopt some who might need an "adult".

She will not going after the fountain itself and I absolutely want a large mermaid to steal her first kiss. This will be Mina's lesbian awakening lmao

[woenesday]

If I make Wednesday younger....does she want to adopt her and stop her from trying to do horrible things? Teach her things that don't involve torture and birthday parties filled with spiders pls

Toboe / Wolf's Rain / Familiar

[onewiththewild]

Toboe just arrived and he will not be affected! But I can offer him to give the kids a ride everywhere, he is a big wolf ahaha

What better way to meet new people?

[redprayer]

pls let child!Rezo play with the "dog."

Junpei Yoshino | Jujutsu Kaisen | Familiar

[moondregs]

Junpei will be physically a tiny kid while his mental age stays the same because I enjoy the continued theme of him being frustrated with cuteness/not being intimidating, and now when he transforms he’s just a baby bunny … and in human form his lop ears are so long they drag on the ground even when he’s standing up.

Please feel free to pat the bunny in spite of his grump. He can be mollified with veggies.

Tony Stark | MCU | Myth

[ironypoisoned]

I'm doing this event in 2 phases, pretty much.

🧲 Phase 1:
Tony will be his freshly-18 year old, just graduated from MIT self both physically and mentally. He's had exactly nothing bad happen to him in his entire life just yet, except for his dad being mean to him when he has the time, so you all get to see Tony at his absolute douchiest and most trauma-free. He won't keep some of his usual Myth traits; he'll still have the forked tongue and teeth, but no horns and no claws. I just think that'd be a little much for Mr. 1988.

🧲 Phase 2:
Once the other events for the month kick off a bit, Tony will spend the rest of the month aged back to his usual 53 year old, traumatized, marginally less narcissistic self; basically I'm going to go through each thread I end up doing with the other events on a case-by-case basis and decide whether Tony's older or not just depending on the context of the thread.

🧲 Bonus:
Tony's a sucker for kids. If you want your bitty to get adopted by a halfway decent dad once he's back to dad age, he's a pretty okay option.

[woenesday]

I'd kind of love for Lorna to run into him as an 18 year old, either also as an 18 year old version of herself or as an adult. Not sure which would be most entertaining.

If I have Wednesday aged down your phase 2 could be an interesting time for them to meet.

Henry Oak | Dungeons & Daddies | Legend

[overnightoaks]

First off, I'd like to apologize to anyone I had threads with the past few months that have been dropped. I went through a rough patch w/r/t my RP drive, but I'm hoping April can be a fresh start for me and Henry!

I've got several options that I'm open to playing for the event!

🍃 Prince Hen'Ry Oak, aka an angsty teen who will be glad to be out from under his dad's thumb. (CW for cult upbringings for this one.)

🍁 Regular old Henry Oak, unchanged and ready to dad some kiddos! Veggie burgers and herbal tea for everyone!!

🍂 Grandpa Henry, aged up to his 60s and yet somehow not looking all that much older (thanks to his elf genes and his druid magic slowing his aging). He had another kid in his 50s, and now has two beautiful grandchildren, who he will happily tell everyone all about.

[crowneddragon]

Esteban is suddenly assailed with two 8-10 years old and he is Unprepared. I'll probably have a network post when the event hits, with Esteban asking for pointers on How To Parent?!??

He'd really appreciate Henry chiming in on this.

Is Barold amenable to playing with young children? (is that recommendable?)

Bonus: Esteban could mention that he's not sure what constitutes as "safe" for children because he'd been raised weirdly, if Henry wants to poke through that (though no pressure, it can be completely casual too!)

Ruri Hoshino | Martian Successor Nadesico | Legend

[electricyousei]

Firstly, thank you all for putting up with my sporadic here and not here nonsense. I will try not to basically break a finger again this month and loose the ability to type without crying (You don't want to see some of the nonsense I did with the text to speech program I fiddled with at work. It didn't like the way I spoke AT ALL).

Ruri is going to be aged up into her early 30's, so she can see how basically horrible adults have it, though honestly, she'll still be a deadpan snarker. She will actually mentally age as well, and start to realize that walling off everyone is probably a terrible idea because even if overpowered, everyone here is an idiot. Just not her idiots. She may also start to acknowledge some of her trauma is trauma, and not just everyone around her being crazy.

Ruri doesn't have a lot of maternal instincts though, but she will defend idiots that aren't horrible, so if your kids need someone to aunt them and they are suitibly stupid but not horrible, Ruri is there for them.

[redprayer]

I feel like Ruri would be the kind of adult that 10 year old Rezo would try very hard to get the approval of, if you're up for her dealing with that.

Rezo Greywords | Slayers | Myth

[redprayer]

Rezo is definitely gonna get hit with the de-aging stuff. I love de-aging events tbh because imo they're a good way to explore a character's backstory that they may not easily share, but with more interactivity than a memory share event allows for. And also I just like speculating on what kid versions of characters would be like!

I won't be aging Rezo up because like. He's taken from when he dies in canon, there isn't an older version of him available. So! Potential versions of past!Rezo are:

🦊 Tiny Dickensian Orphan Rezo. About age six. Some content warnings for child neglect/abuse and potentially child death, especially if you dig into more detail about his life at the orphanage- the staff that volunteers there are mostly folks doing their best but, um, their best isn't always very good and infant mortality rates are high, so he's already known other kids that have died. Anyway, six year old Rezo is a quiet kid but with a lot of energy and curiosity, and if you let your eyes drift off of him for 0.5 seconds he will have gone off to find some shit to get into. Despite this, he's going to be very scared and uncertain about being in this strange place, surrounded by people he doesn't know, and with weird new appendages. Because he's six.

🦊 Small Noviciate Priest Rezo. About age ten. Again, some warnings for child neglect/abuse and potentially child death, especially if your character is the nosy type who will ask a lot of questions about his life. Anyway, at this age Rezo is still pretty quiet and his curiosity mostly manifests as him doing a lot of silent listening and observing. He's doing his best to be responsible and independent and takes his training as a priest seriously. Still freaked out about being isekai'd/general weirdness but will do better at handling it and hiding his uncertainty.

ETA: Now with reference image!

Re: Rezo Greywords | Slayers | Myth

[no_harm]

Rhys will also be Tiny Dickensian Orphan 6 y/o version and I think they need to be friends. :3

Loki Odinson | Marvel Cinematic Universe

[morethanatrickster]

Loki will become a child of about 10-11 for the duration of this event.

He will revert to the child version of himself mentally, which will mean that while he's very intelligent and capable, he is still very much learning magic, and someone ought to look out for him (even if he doesn't want to admit he needs it).

He'll be fiercely independent while desperately missing his parents, his palace, and his big brother who he looks up to a lot.

[ironypoisoned]

The smol idiots should run into each other 👀

wanderer (kabukimono) | genshin impact | familiar

[sesto]

For this event, Wanderer will age down "physically" (no actual physical changes except for his outfit lmao) and mentally to his early life when he was known as Kabukimono and lived happily in a village called Tatarasuna. No aging up because Wanderer is already in his old man phase lmao.

Kabukimono is much more kind, naive, and sociable than his current self. At first he will be anxious about, from his perspective, being suddenly whisked away from Tatarasuna, but he is also easily distracted and will be overcome by curiosity and excitement about being in a new place with lots of new things. He'll want to explore, help anyone in need, and gain as much knowledge as he can! Additionally, he won't be able to use any magic anymore or have any real fighting experience but his body will still be as durable as ever.

I welcome all kinds of CR for this, from people who would want to befriend and/or protect Kabukimono to people who would take advantage of his naivety (but not in a super traumatizing way)! When he eventually reverts back to Wanderer, he will retain Kabukimono's memories, so how you treat Kabukimono could help or hurt your CR with Wanderer later.

[divisors]

its been forever since i've tagged with wanderer and HOLDS THIS BABY UP.....Moriarty will likely be aging up into his older self, so if you want, they can run into each other (and then cringe at the transformation when things go back to normal)

Lan Wangji | The Untamed | Legend

[mourningjade]

Lan Wangji is going to become a precious child for this event! He will keep his wings and golden eyes. Please be kind to the quiet, shy baby bird. He has just lost his mother and since his father is in seclusion, he has no family besides his uncle and elder brother. And since they're not here, he is a very lonely boy.

He also has issues speaking to others and being touched. But if you are calm and gentle, he will open up.

Viktor | Arcane | Myth

[scienceofthearcane]

My body is so ready for this plot. Viktor is getting de-aged to about ten or so so he will be a little boy that uses a cane to walk, like so but he will also already be amaze-balls at building little clockwork toys. He will still be a super shy little kid though, and already a tall bitty X3

I'm on the fence about whether to also de-age his mind too. Part of me thinks it would be cute but part of me would want to keep his memories.

[ferrokinetically]

If you'd like this might be an interesting time for him and Wednesday to finally meet!

Malcolm Bright | Prodigal Son

[prodigalmess]

I'm definitely planning to de-age Malcolm because a bitty version of him is shown in flashbacks on the show and he's too adorable to not play. Enjoy a precocious 10-year-old who just found out that his father is a serial killer.

I don't really have plans at this point, other than to throw him at people that want him.

[bossyboiler]

Where are all of these Youths coming from?

Rhys Dryden || Pathfinder OC || Familiar

[no_harm]

Rhys will be de-aged to a very tiny dhampir, about 6 years old to start. He's going to be mentally de-aged as well, so unsure about where he is and a little scared -- but he'll still have general feelings/repressed memories of his bonds with people here. So he may not immediately recognize his friends, but he'll know he feels safe with them (and he might intuit some other strange information as well that he won't understand how/why he knows).

In stark contrast to the way current Rhys strictly maintains poise whenever possible, baby Rhys won't have the extensive life experience and practice with meditation to "keep his shit together." He's going to be a lot more physically delicate, very easily affected by the sun, and more weepy/emotional. But he will also be much more openly affectionate with anyone who helps him out. <3

Reno | FFVII CRAU | Familiar

[shinra_dog]

Reno is going to be de-aged to about 14-16! If you thought he was a spitfire, impulsive gossip-monger before... it's worse. It's so much worse. But he's also so much less "broken."

Teen!Reno is going to be outgoing, rebellious, risk-taking... He's even more likely to pick a fight with someone. But at the same time, he's also a lot more gregarious and he will readily adopt any young'uns that he feels a connection with. Usual TW for language, smoking/drug use, but also similar trend for other people of neglect/slum life/poverty, the foundations of why/how Reno became so much more unscrupulous/willing to do So Much Worse as an adult.

But as a kid, much more open and giving and willing to take another kid under his wing. He may not be a "good" babysitter for the bitties running around, but he's all heart.

Art's Bois

[thornspawn]

Marus will be de-aged to a very young age. Like before he started his path to paladinhood, back when he was with his parents, not even a preteen young. He'll be the equivalent of 8. He's going to be needy and frightened, and likely will need a caretaker. Very unlike his improved self-sufficiency here! I may or may not age him up to silver-fox status later in the month.

Axel will also be de-aged, to about 15. He will be even more hot-headed and outgoing than usual! I have no big plans for him, so am open to any ideas.

Re: Art's Bois

[shinra_dog]

Twinsies! Lol.

Will Axel be Lea & have past canon stuff going on? :3

Also I can make a starter for Rhys & Marus babies. :) If you decide to Silver Fox later, whew! /fans self

James Moriarty | Fate/GO | Familiar

[divisors]

SLAPS IN HERE did you see this baby Moriarty and want his cooler older self from the same game instead? Look no further! Moriarty will definitely be aging up into his Archer self in his 50s!

I have no concrete plans, but the man will definitely be wavering between his younger self's mind and the cold calculated (but excessively dramatic and seemingly bumbling) mind of his older self! If you want to tun into the true form of this criminal mastermind, then he's all yours!

Cloud Strife | FF7 (OG) | Familiar

[moseyin]

Cloud will not be turning into a child but I am offering him up as temporary caretaker for anybody who needs someone to find/take care of/get their kid squared away with lodgings and whatnot.

Cloud kind of acts like a perpetual big brother, is fun to bully, and will sass a child back if he finds them annoying, but definitely has a soft spot and will quietly look after any strays he spots