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Hand in Hand 2: Electric Overdone Joke... aloo · 10:33am Jul 17th, 2018

This is the second time I writing this after I did it about a month or two ago and somehow lost it all.
I like to think that I'll start writing again soon but in all honesty I quit over two years ago now and just haven't admitted it yet. Maybe, hopefully one day.
But until then...
Hand in Hand 2!

Probably never going to be written so instead here's a summary of it and all the thought processes behind the idea.
First of all, let's give a brief recap of Hand in Hand 1. Inspire almost entirely by a 2 second moment from Rainbow Rocks where Lyra [pronounce Leera, confirmed by Maghan McCaffy] and Bon-bon playing the piano together and a pinch of Lyra's obsession with hands the story is about a 15-ish Lyra who was considered to be a prodigy on the piano until about 3 years earlier an accident lost her her left arm leaving just a stub past the elbow, and has phantom limb syndrome. She meets Bon-bon in physical therapy [which she's in even 3 years after because she's got severe depression and sometimes just loses the will to even move letting her muscles atrophy] who's has extensive nerve damage making basic motor functions very hard to do. Lyra helps her out by putting her hand on Bon-bon's and not guiding but just holding it steady while she tries to write her name with an oversized pen. It comes out absolutely chicken scratch and Lyra's disappointed that she couldn't help Bon-bon and almost says that before Bon-bon thanks her profusely. What seemed like less than nothing to Lyra was more than anything to Bon-bon. [This was inspired by the character from Scrubs who was in the Iraq war and got hit be an IED and caused drama about the war in the hospital until he signed his name horribly and... IDK that somehow made everything better I don't remember]

The two become friends and Eventually Bon-bon finds Lyra's old piano under a cloth and begins to play with it. Lyra plays too doing an opening chorus that only requires her right hand. She gets into it and goes to play with her left... and nothing. Angst, drama, ect happens. Lyra tells Bon-bon about her accident about how she had her arm outside the car window when the bus pulled out and right into them and [gore warning] she saw the tendons moving and the bone exposed with the skin and muscle handing off of her arm.
Bon-bon tells Lyra how she got injured and... she fell. She just tripped over and hit her head. Life sucks, deal with it but put more eloquently.
A bit more story happens with Lyra getting depressed again and then Bon-bon telling her to play the piano again. She does and when she gets to the part where she needs her left hand... she plays it. She being Bon-bon. Using the index finger from both hands, playing the part that can normally done with just one hand. She'd been watching Lyra's old videos and practicing to show her when she was sure she could do it 100% without making a mistake and wasn't at that point yet but because plot she manages to do it perfectly.
The ending here is that they've both lost a lot but together they're whole.

But that's not the end. There's actually 3 alternate endings.
1: the joke ending where zombie apocalypse happens.
2: the 'canon' ending which is them 10-20 years later where Bon-bon [or Lyra, I don't remember which] is married [slightly loveless] with kids and the other one is twice divorced and the reason for that they love each other but that one time [and the 4 other times they don't talk about, they where drunk it doesn't count shut up they totally had atleast one drink that night] they tired the lesbianing they didn't like it.
And the third ending, which I'm disappointed that I didn't think of until the very last chapter so there wasn't any foreshadowing, is one the that Hand in Hand 2 would be a continuation of. After the two of them played the piano perfectly, Lyra looks down and Bon-bon isn't there. But her scarred and weak but working left arm is. Bon-bon was entirely a figment of her imagination her brain cooked up to let her use her left arm again as 'I'm not doing that, Bon-bon is.'
And that's where it ended.

Then, two year later, I realised how fucked up that is. That is schizophrenia and it is horrifying. And what gave me this realisation is an episode of a iZombie. Now we're about to go down another slight rabbit hole here as I describe what iZombie is about.
Liv Moore [and a cast of other horrible HORRIBLE pun named character and groups] is a zombie who works in a morgue and eats the brains [because traditional brain eating zombies] and helps solve murders by gaining the personality traits and parts of the person's memories that she ate the brain of. This includes things like taste in music, addictions and... schizophrenia.
So in one episode she eats the brain of someone with that [not spelling that again, it's hard] and thinks at first the person is just super paranoid so goes off by herself to solve the murder. She talks to a suspect but it's someone she knows from previous episodes and he helps, I'm sure it's no surprise given the above but that person turns out to not be real and a figment of her imagination which was a pretty good but foreshadowed reveal in the episode.
Now, what they do next surprised me. Liv has a full on panic attack as she can no longer tell what is real and what isn't and honestly even though there's only about 5 minutes left in the episode and you know as the viewer that what happens is [most likely] real, even you can't help but question it.
And that's where Hand in Hand 2 starts.
Lyra freaks out. Her best and only friend for the last six month was never real, worse she'd been unable to even see her arm still existed for the three years before that. Her phantom limb syndrome was the closest she'd gotten to actually acknowledging it even when told it was here, picked with pins to make her feel it and literally put in her other hand in front of her eyes. Not only that, Bon-bon was the third imaginary friend she'd made and she couldn't even remember the other two [Colgate and Minuet].
Freak out, depression etc. Spiral into insanity.
She eventually comes to the conclusion that if she cuts off her arm, Bon-bon will come back. And so she does.
But at the last second before she cuts of her arm Bon-bon comes back and stops her. And it's a happy ending.
Cut to her parents and brother's perspective, she's in a coma, missing an arm. Cut back her coma dream, happy happy Bon-bon la la land.
The end.

It's a dark story with a... happy? ending. Most of my stories are bitter-sweet.
Anyway, let me know what you think about it. It will likely never see the light of day as if I do start writing it's about 4th or lower on the priority list and I kinda just spoiled it to the majority of the people that would see it.

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