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bottlecaplogs2026-02-02 09:04 pm
sharpjustice) wrote in bottlecaplogs2026-02-02 09:04 pm
[OPEN] Dreams & Ghosts
Who: Mayaka & you !
What: 2 open prompts (reviewing dreams from last month + attempting to get over her fear of ghosts) and wildcard option
Where: Around Bottlecay Bay + Skull Town
When: Beginning of Feb
Warnings: none atm a. dream review
Perhaps you're passing through the Archives, or the living hall in Skull Town when you spot a Sneasel sitting at a table furiously scrawling out various drawings on paper. Mayaka's gloves have been set aside neatly beside her for now, because she finds it easier to hold onto the charcoal pencils using her bare claws. She's experienced some weird dreams from last month. Though she doesn't remember the exact details, she's been dutifully drawing out the images that lingered in her mind upon waking up. Now, it's time to try to make sense of them. On the table you'll find the following drawings:
1. What appears to be a spaceship, though Mayaka's drawn it to look more like a truck with four wheels underneath.
2. A primordial-looking fish creature. She has given it a pair of cute, anime-sized eyes to make it look more approachable.
3. A black cat with an extra pair of eyes on its stomach. More cat-like than Mimikyu at this point.
4. The drawing she's currently working on, and struggling to capture. She's trying to remember what the alien beings in the final big nightmare looked like, though the large and erratic shapes on paper may not look recognisable to anyone. Mayaka is finding it difficult because she doesn't have an image in mind to associate with what she saw in the nightmare.
She's too caught up with this to notice if someone were to approach...
b. how to deal with ghosts
If you're wandering around Bottlecap Bay, you'll find Mayaka outside her house in the Lum Berry housing area, rooted on the spot.
Her attention is focused on a small clay sculpture she's placed in the garden of her front porch. It's a little handmade ghost figurine with a hairbow on its head. While it might look strangely cute, the more you look at it, the more you'll notice that it's two eyes seem to be gazing directly at you with an unblinking Stare™.
This is the ghost that's been chasing her in her dreams, but she's too scared to get rid of it! (Also, the fact that it was a gift to her from Catrina doesn't help!)
The Sneasel is shaking a little, and it's not from the cold weather. She's standing a safe distance away from the figurine, muttering to herself: "It's just a doll... it's just a dolll..."
(Dolls are creepy too, though??)
c. wildcard!
for any other threads or ideas that come up!
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The drawings are new, however. When the Sneasel doesn't immediately realize she has a ghostly audience looming behind her and spook, Shoka takes the opportunity to look them over. There's some kind of lumpy, beat up spacecar (?), a so-ugly-it's-kinda-cute fish Pokémon (??) she's never seen before, and...
Mr. Mew?!
... Oh. No, actually... Is that her?
"Oh, sweet," she says aloud without much thought. "Fanart."
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...Only to stop herself when she gets a good look at the Mimikyu. She stares at Shoka, then at her drawing on the table, then back at Shoka.
"It's you!"
Even though she says this, Mayaka's addressing the top part of the Mimikyu, failing to realise that Shoka's eyes are lower down.
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The gold hoop dangling from her ear gleams as she tilts her head. Her vaguely feline facial features never change, not even to blink.
"Do I know you?"
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A black cat would be an ordinary sight in the modern day. However, in the Pokemon world, there has been a distinct lack of normal cats. This strange circumstance ends up making Shoka's Mr Mew disguise memorable to Mayaka, even subconsciously in her dreams.
"In any case, I'm Mayaka."