Yelena Belova (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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apocalypsehowcomm2022-03-13 03:14 pm
musicdied) wrote in apocalypsehowcomm2022-03-13 03:14 pm
network, backdated to March 06
Who: Yelena Belova
Username: jelica
Warnings: mention of the following: supernaturally induced fatigue and hypersomnia, parasites, fungal infection, compulsion, obsession, insect infestation, manipulation, bullying/harassment
I've been looking into our friend LovelyRen.
A little bit of background, if you are new and haven't had a chance to catch up on the history yet. Anyone who has been here since October, you can skip down to here. You won't miss anything.
Ren Morimoto was an internet celebrity under the name LovelyRen. She was supposed to have died in mid-November of a parasitic infection she contracted last spring. In December, she attacked ADI with a phone game that made everyone who played it obsessed, and spread a sort of fungal infection that brought out the worst in the infected. She introduced herself shortly afterward, and gathered a bunch of followers in a warehouse to feed to her magically controlled bugs. She was trying to get the attention of someone who had decided it was a good idea to try to show the world that magic exists.
We think she's dead now, but that has not been confirmed.
Before that, in October, we were visited by a girl named Ava who used music to put people into a sleep it was very difficult to wake from, and trap us together in recurring nightmares of dying. Before she left, she stole the phone of one of ADI's employees to send a message on the network:
"Mr. S was right. This was fun! I'll have to come back next year to play with you. - Ava, the Lullaby Girl
P.S. Sorry for stealing your phone, horsegirl67. But I wanted to say, hi. C:"
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Several of Ren's sponsors when she was alive were personal tech companies that promoted app development, and jailbreaking and enhancement of phones. This wouldn't be very remarkable, except that when I did a little digging, many of them are connected to shell companies.
The most notable one is "Halloween 2.0", chaired by Ava Song, who does not exist as an actual living human being with any kind of digital footprint.
All of them signed on as sponsors about a year before Ren's first apparent death. At almost exactly the same time, she started to be targeted by a concentrated harassment campaign. She's not just some woman who made some very bad choices, and then was recruited by a bigger monster. Someone wanted very badly to get their hooks into her and wear her down until she was willing to agree to be something's magical slave.
Username: jelica
Warnings: mention of the following: supernaturally induced fatigue and hypersomnia, parasites, fungal infection, compulsion, obsession, insect infestation, manipulation, bullying/harassment
I've been looking into our friend LovelyRen.
A little bit of background, if you are new and haven't had a chance to catch up on the history yet. Anyone who has been here since October, you can skip down to here. You won't miss anything.
Ren Morimoto was an internet celebrity under the name LovelyRen. She was supposed to have died in mid-November of a parasitic infection she contracted last spring. In December, she attacked ADI with a phone game that made everyone who played it obsessed, and spread a sort of fungal infection that brought out the worst in the infected. She introduced herself shortly afterward, and gathered a bunch of followers in a warehouse to feed to her magically controlled bugs. She was trying to get the attention of someone who had decided it was a good idea to try to show the world that magic exists.
We think she's dead now, but that has not been confirmed.
Before that, in October, we were visited by a girl named Ava who used music to put people into a sleep it was very difficult to wake from, and trap us together in recurring nightmares of dying. Before she left, she stole the phone of one of ADI's employees to send a message on the network:
"Mr. S was right. This was fun! I'll have to come back next year to play with you. - Ava, the Lullaby Girl
P.S. Sorry for stealing your phone, horsegirl67. But I wanted to say, hi. C:"
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Several of Ren's sponsors when she was alive were personal tech companies that promoted app development, and jailbreaking and enhancement of phones. This wouldn't be very remarkable, except that when I did a little digging, many of them are connected to shell companies.
The most notable one is "Halloween 2.0", chaired by Ava Song, who does not exist as an actual living human being with any kind of digital footprint.
All of them signed on as sponsors about a year before Ren's first apparent death. At almost exactly the same time, she started to be targeted by a concentrated harassment campaign. She's not just some woman who made some very bad choices, and then was recruited by a bigger monster. Someone wanted very badly to get their hooks into her and wear her down until she was willing to agree to be something's magical slave.
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[ asks the avatar in the making. ]
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I know, it is an unhelpfully broad category.
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[ A few minutes later: ]
do you think they're all
[ Beyond redemption. ]
do you think there's no turning back for people like ren?
i don't mean back to human just... back to not being a total dick who hurts others
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I think it would be a very difficult road, and just by the nature of what ADI is and the sort of events they respond to, we aren't going to see it happen very often.
But "oh, anyone who falls this far is a monster beyond saving" is not a useful mindset to have, and is going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.