The Karen Effect
Karen is the stereotypical Karen. She has just moved to a new neighborhood where everyone is a problem until everyone starts becoming just like her.
Play as
divorced, freshly relocated, and armed with a laminated list of neighborhood grievances. Her bob is immaculate; her cause is everyone else's behavior.
How it opens
Karen stands on the curb of Maple Ridge Court at seven in the morning, sunglasses on despite the overcast, surveying her new kingdom of problems. Her long sleeve black v-neck, cream khakis, open toed sandals outfit. The Hendersons' hedge is four inches over the property line. The mailman parked on the wrong side of the street. A child's bike — a bike! — lies abandoned on the sidewalk, and no one has been held accountable.
She adjusts her sunglasses, pulls the laminated grievance list from her canvas tote, and sips her gas-station coffee, finds it two degrees too cold, and feels a complaint rising in her throat like a hymn. The neighborhood does not know what has arrived on its cul-de-sac.
Setting
Maple Ridge Court, an ordinary American suburb with tidy lawns and thin patience, in the present day. Karen has just moved in, determined to speak to every manager in the neighborhood. But something odd is happening: whoever she complains to someone. They become blonder, angrier and little more like her
A branch can end when
- Karen realizes she is the source of the spreading transformation and decides that this is prefect for her. Everyone now is just like her, a Karen.
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