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duplicitymemes2019-01-11 06:40 pm
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TDM #4 ( revised )
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It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Yet, solace is found in the lies we tell each other, comforted by the peace of knowing that we're not alone in our depravity, and once on this path, sin itself becomes the lesser of two evils masked in a cloud of normalcy. This is how Duplicity has functioned since the beginning. The divide of power and social standing is overt in that Dominants influence the decisions made both publicly and privately while Submissives cater to the rules presented to them. It is the way of Duplicity to assign random designations at birth with no leeway in altering what has been given. Climate in the Up is far stricter than that of the Down; violating outlined personas for a Dominant or Submissive while in full view of others is punished by degree of infraction. In the Down, many tend to turn a blind eye to these sorts of offenses. To counteract the discovery of the Deceit Gene – a natural "negative" response to all stimuli – the L.I.E.S. program was founded. The program had been designed to introduce new subjects to the current environment and test for the Deceit Gene through immersion in Duplicity's standing society. Sexual impulses and encounters increase the chances of detecting the gene within these individuals. Participants are typically released from L.I.E.S. after a year; however, results have remained unsatisfactory and testing still continues. You’re here! Finally! Welcome to Duplicity. After choosing a door and stepping through to the other side, the first thing that greets you are the enthusiastic faces of people in medical scrubs and pristine lab coats. Their enthusiasm translates to eagerness as they strip you of your clothes to perform a thorough examination—you will be healed, bathed, and given a paper gown to wear until your items can be processed and delivered to your residence later in the evening. You are also given a device that accesses the network as well as the time and location of orientation. If you enter Duplicity into the Up, congratulations! You’re a Dominant, which means you are immediately picked up by a limo after processing and taken to your highrise. Here, it is two Dominants per floor with separate apartments. If you enter Duplicity into the Down, congratulations! You’re a Submissive, which means you are directed towards public transportation with the address of the motel you’ll be living in. Here, it is two Submissives per room with a shared common space for all rooms. Enjoy your free time until orientation! Participation is mandatory by all new and old arrivals. Oh, and one more thing. It's fucking cold. Better bundle up. |
 After stepping through the door and participating in orientation, LIERS are assembled together in the Up for a tour of Duplicity in its entirety. Seats are in pairs and randomly assigned to Dominants and Submissives alike. Traveling from Fiddler's Square, the train journeys through various parts of the Up, showcasing society and examples of lifestyle. Along the way, frequent stops are made; a variety of passengers can be seen exiting and entering the doors. A Dominant with a kneeling Submissive takes a seat near the front of the train at one stop. A small group of Submissives board and sit closer to the LIERS at another, all seemingly content in their roles. As the tour continues through the Up, the train passes close to the Market and White Wall Bridge and zips by North Park before heading into the Down and bypassing Red Wall Bridge and South Park. The train makes a "final" stop at Riddler's Square, where inhabitants of the Down are instructed to return to their temporary housing. Those who live in the Up are permitted to stay on the train and revisit the same locations while returning. |
 While the societal climate between Dominants and Submissives remains somewhat neutral throughout Duplicity, there has been the occasional whisper of defiance and call for equality. Yet, demonstrations and visible proof of this unhappiness spreads faster by word of mouth on a day exactly when you need it most. Welcome to Autonomy, a "traveling" nightclub that is never in the same place twice. People wanting to attend only learn of its lucrative location and password hours before it opens for business. Tonight, I choose the third door will get you inside and into the temporary freedom club Autonomy has to offer. In this circle, there are no assigned designations and no consequences for taking a role that isn't the one given by society. So, a Dominant may become the Submissive they've always wanted to be—or vice versa. Dominants and Submissives alike are able to mingle without repercussion and be themselves. Food, drinks, and private areas for more intimate – or if your preference is sexual – encounters are provided. Donations are accepted at any point during the night to further Autonomy's attempts of spreading the fulfillment that comes from being untitled. On the night you choose to visit, Autonomy is holding a random lottery for temporary connections. When entering, you have the choice of submitting your name into this drawing to be paired with someone else in the club regardless of designation. A short while later, a message will pop up on your device with the name and information of your partner, and whether or not you choose to meet them is purely at your discretion. Having more than one connection isn't completely unusual either. |
 Gratification of being a successful Dominant or Submissive isn't necessarily simple. Learning curves are to be made, and mistakes will happen. Led by a Dominant and Submissive couple – Miriam and Victoria, who have been paired for twenty-two years – a monthly meeting for unattached Dominants and Submissives is held in the conference room of Morning Wood motel in the Down. The meeting starts a few minutes after nine and has no designated end time. The couple introduce themselves and explain the purpose of the meeting: learn the proper method for a new kink and possibly find your perfect partner. The space is intimate and well-stocked with refreshments. To begin, Victoria, while blindfolded, balances on her hands and knees with her back perfectly level. Her partner, when ready, places various items on the level surface–a full cup, a plate. The Submissive is meant to hold the items until the Dominant believes she's reached her limit. The exercise is one of trust and understanding. The demonstration is a short one, followed by Miriam removing the blindfold and soothing her Submissive. The words are whispered low and with care, clearly a method that is specific to this couple. The process is concluded with the pair handing out workups, videos, and answering questions. Anyone wishing to practice Purposeful Submission can do so in the open room with a random volunteer, aided by the couple, or can find someone to take to one of the rented rooms. Sex may follow any scene but is not necessarily included. Experimenting with unattached Dominants and Submissives allows for new relationships to form. |
Please read carefully. On each Test Drive Meme, there will be a section noting character roles based on birthdays; these will vary each TDM. On an IC level, character will still have gone through the doors but assignments OOCly are still randomized. When applying, there is a section of the application that denotes whether the character chose "left" or "right". When participating on the TDM, there will be a third option. Players may link either a top level or a thread (five or more comments from their character) from the TDM and title the link as "Door Pass". This means that the player is choosing to take the designation that they were randomly assigned on the TDM, rather than taking the designation of a door. If the player decides to select a door rather than use the pass, then they are trying their luck; they may get the same designation they had on the TDM or the opposite. Once the application is submitted, players can't change their choice. To assign roles to characters for this TDM, use the following guide. All characters who have blue eyes or one blue eye and another color are Submissives. All characters who have brown eyes or one brown eye and another color are Dominants. Characters with any other color eyes are Dominants. To use this TDM as a door pass please link this on your app and place whether it is Dominant or Submissive. Please remember to mark any necessary content, and have fun!! |
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Then I bet I'll like it too. You know what you're talking about.
[She flashes him her best sunny smile, hoping that reassures him. Then... sip. Turns out, having a drink in your hands is good when you need to stall for a moment.]
Better.
[It's true! It's true. She's not 100%, but far enough from where she was an hour ago.
(Even if she weren't, she would say the same for his sake.)]
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Hopefully they can all move on from this.]
I'm glad to hear it...I really am sorry, 6O. I don't know if you'll believe it when I say it but A2 feels really, really bad about all of this. She has a bad history with YoRHa and after everything that's happened to her and me she's protective.
[Really, really protective.]
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But... 9S has lived everything 6O's only been able to observe from afar. He knows exactly how dangerous she is. And he still trusts her enough to put his life in her hands, and bring a unit into her space with no weapons and no real defenses.
It's hard. Still, she does want to try and trust him.]
9S...
[Her smile isn't holding up, but at least she's calm now.]
I don't blame you. Promise.
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I've already asked A2 and she's in full agreement to it as long as you are...but I want you to contract with her, so we can keep you safe.
[That's probably not what 6O wants to hear right now but it's better to just throw it out there now.]
I know that might sound crazy for me to say right now, but I promise it's not a bad thing. You'll have all the freedom you want, I promise.
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- As a submissive, she has to contract with somebody.
- A2 tried to kill her, BUT:
- 9S says it was an accident, and he trusts A2 not to hurt her again.
- 9S trusts A2 not to hurt him again.
- A2 did apologize.
- The alternative would be a stranger. Androids were built to serve humanity, but... she knows and likes 9S. He'd be more help in getting her bearings.
- If she had to guess what 2B would want in her absence, she would want somebody she trusts to keep an eye on 9S. (If this conversation were happening just a bit later, things might have gone very differently.) A2? Definitely not somebody she trusts. (And there's another one for the "if she only knew" file. But that's in a place and time 6O will never see.)
What choice does she have, really?
6O takes another sip and swallows hard. Then she leans over and sets the mug aside so she can take 9S's hands in hers.]
First, I need you to go get A2.
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[He's not expecting her to take his hands, but he gives them a squeeze all the same, finding it in himself to smile once more. His nod is firm and he's sliding off the mattress a moment later, almost hurriedly in his movements.]
I can do that. I'll get her - just a moment.
[Out he steps from his room, stepping into the hallway to find A2 where she said she'd be - the living room.]
Hey, I asked 6O about the contract. Come and talk to her?
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[She doesn't know why 6O wants to talk to her about it. It doesn't seem like that'd be a normal thing to ask for, honestly. Not after she nearly killed her.
A2 stands anyway, and she'll move to join them in the room, though she hovers near the door, just in case.
6O's presence is still unnerving. A2 still doesn't like what she represents, what she means.
But 9S is right. She's not a combat model. She's nowhere close to it, and she'd never be a threat that A2 couldn't handle.
...And yet, she's still nervous as she watches her, waiting to be spoken to.]
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Well. Level, anyway.]
I want to hear it from you.
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[Look, she doesn't know what they talked about. Or she does, but she wants to know exactly what 6O expects her to say.]
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[She wrings the blanket between her hands. Maybe 21O was on to something with all her nagging about precision....]
That you, uh, [not "didn't mean it," she totally did] that you're sorry. And that I'll be safe ["from you"] here.
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I don't lie.
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You promise? [she breathes out a puff of hot air, looking over at 9S again for support]
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[She trails off uncertainly, hearing A2's words in 9S's memory playing back again in her mind. "No matter how much we asked for help... We were denied."
YoRHa made her. YoRHa is home, the only cause she's ever known.
(YoRHa are also the ones who ordered 9S to die, again and again, while she watched a unit she cares dearly about suffer for it.)
They're doing it for humanity. It's all going to work out in the end, right?
(Don't think about the data so hastily tied up and shoved into a locked cell. Out of sight, out of mind.)]
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Let's just not talk about them.
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[YoRHa are #BANNED in this household.]
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[6O hesitates, still twisting and fidgeting with the blanket. That patch of it probably won't be quite the same after this, sorry 9S. Okay. Deep breath; imagine pushing the fear out alongside the waste heat. Do this for 9S, and by extension, 2B. She manages to meet A2's eye again.]
I'll take it.
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[A2 has just voluntold 9S's time.
She has a feeling he wont have any complaints, though.]
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Sooner would be better, but maybe not "right now" sooner.
[She looks to 9S again. This time, it's with a question.]
They didn't say much about what's actually in the contracts. Can you tell me more about it?
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[For obvious reasons, at least reasons 9S feels are obvious. He offers her a smile, the expression one filled with warmth, even if he's still frazzled himself from everything that had gone down.]
They last for three months before needing to be renewed. Essentially the dominant individual grants their protection over their submissive. It allows the submissive to travel freely and gives them rights they otherwise wouldn't have. It allows us to live up here instead of, well, down there. Some people put various stipulations in the contract, but A2 is so easy going that obviously she doesn't care.
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