Post by shinkikker on Nov 27, 2011 4:52:43 GMT -5
Types of Hauntings
This is where things are almost completely in your hands. If you’re playing a character who is dead, they absolutely HAVE to have a reason that they still reside in the world of the living. If they weren’t here for some reason, they would have crossed over already. The mind is an extremely powerful tool, more than most know, and there are no limits on the reason that a person is still in this world.
The only rule is that it has have some sort of solution, even if it isn’t known; NO ONE is stuck on Earth for eternity, as hopeless as their situation seems. Here are some basic suggestions to go off of, but you are highly encouraged to twist them and mold them into something entirely unique and exciting!
1. Unfinished Business
Perhaps the most common haunting, many souls are bound to the world of living not because of choice but because subconsciously, they need to finish something that they didn’t have the chance to before they died. Do they want to exact their revenge on a murderer? Perhaps they died unjustly at the hands of someone who was never caught afterwards and they want them to be punished before they can cross over. Did the character commit a terrible deed that they regret and want to set right somehow?
Sometimes, they don’t even know why they have unfinished business, and might require the help of a Medium to figure out why they’re here and what they have to do to tie up all the loose ends of their life.
2. Love
Although many marriages are only legally valid “until death do us part”, it’s actually quite common for someone to stay behind even after their demise. Love is a powerful force, whether it be between a parent and its child, a couple, or platonic friends. They simply don’t want to be alone when they go to the other side, or they want to protect who they have left behind.
3. Limbo
Occasionally, someone’s soul may be stuck in this world because it simply doesn’t know where else to go. Maybe an atheist believed that when they died they would simply cease to exist, and when they were proven wrong they were taken aback and unsure of what to do next. An extremely religious person could be unconsciously punishing themselves because they believed they still had to repent for their sins before they died, and now they’re paying their penance.