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:"
-
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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I can't help wondering if they were hoping to turn Khalil. The whole thing seems almost like a twisted recruitment pitch. Complete with ADI playing the role of common enemy.
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Maybe. I'm not sure how useful Khalil would be as an avatar. I won't be surprised if at some point they try to recruit us though, honestly. A lot of us came already marked by an entity, and while ADI has taken the age old approach of telling us nicely to simply not do powers as they're bad with a capital B, it's never that easy, and it's a frankly hopelessly fucking naive way of thinking.
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He may not have been the most effective, but he could have been a very good distraction. And less effort than the blizzard.
And I agree. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that they already have, with some of the people who've disappeared. They definitely seem to be trying to push someone into snapping and going rogue.
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You think ADI is intentionally pushing us to a breaking point? Or FYRE?
[That's pretty much Aelwyn's theory too. But she'd like to clarify first.]
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ADI? I wouldn't rule it out. But deliberately or not, I think they have definitely created some of their own monsters.
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ADI is perhaps the most incompetent monster hunting organization that I have ever beheld in my life.