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[drpsychosomatic]

Who| John Watson and OPEN
What| John's been having a lot of trouble sleeping and settling since waking up in the Capitol, and so is doing a lot of wandering for wandering's sake, catching up with friends (or at least people who haven't murdered him) and going on adorable coffee-dates with Effie Basically this is here to catch all
Where| Wandering around the capitol
When| Any time after his death, just let me know when you want to set things in the title of your reply pls
Warnings/Notes| Possible mentions of PTSD?

Death, John decided, was something no-one should have to live through. Where being shot and being absolutely certain he was going to die had been terrible, and had taken months of physical and psychological rehabilitation, dying and being brought back in a perfectly functional body was much more of a disorientating disconnect. He felt detached from reality.

Before Sherlock had rejoined him in the Capitol, John had spent much of his time trying to prove to himself that he was actually here, not always consciously. He walked as far as he could along the streets, visited strange little cafes and bars and hauled himself back to his suite, exhausted and burned out, hoping he'd be too tired to dream. His mood lifted a little once his friend returned, and there were a few notable people whose company he not only enjoyed but looked forward to enjoying, but the itch to get out for the sake of getting out only intensified the longer the days dragged on. There was nothing comfortable about life here, no routine he could settle into and feel like he had a handle on. The long and short of it was, he was useless here in the Capitol, and it was eating away at him.

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[mannersmatter]

"Well, it really wasn't that long ago. This is the 75th game, so some people still alive actually lived through the war...possibly not in the districts, as their quality of life is generally lower."

Oh, you've gotten her started, John.

"I am a bit of a history buff, so even though I, of course, didn't live through them, I'd be more than happy to share my knowledge with you, about the Dark Days, and why we have the Games."

[drpsychosomatic]

"Well, if you wouldn't mind, I would love to learn about it," John said, smiling. He'd never been that good at history, but he'd never quite had the immediate stake in it that he had now, either.
"As long as you won't be offended if I ask stupid questions, that is."

[mannersmatter]

"I really doubt you would ask any sort of stupid questions." She said indulgently, before trying to figure out the best place to start.

"Our world use to be similar to what many of you seem to come from. But something, or, likely, many somethings went terribly wrong. And the world ended up...broken. Badly. People were starving, dying, everywhere."

She was trying to find ways to compress quite a lot of history.

[drpsychosomatic]

He nodded. "We weren't doing so well back home. Messed up the environment, wars- though I suppose it wasn't as bad as it had been, in some ways. We'd stopped being certain that any minute now some idiot would drop a bomb that would start off a war we couldn't possibly survive--"
He paused. "Something like that? Worldwide nuclear warfare?"

[mannersmatter]

"We're not sure what exactly happened before, and to the rest of the world, though it's considered likely. We had lost a chunk of history, between what...runs parallel to your world, and where we are now, and there are several theories. But a strongly likely one is that a war broke out in the south Asian area."

She couldn't remember the exact countries, but it had been awhile since she'd studied this part of history. She was much more involved in Panem's history.

"The Capitol rose out of the dark days, uniting and streaming the Districts, organizing so no one went hungry, so resources could be shared."

((OOC- Also, since I know you're canon blind-ish, I'm trying to keep this pretty canon accurate since it's IC and OOC learnins o/))