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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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"Mayaka?" The drawings catch his attention, particularly the one she's currently working on. But the more he looks, the more he realizes there's another familiar face in the pile. "—is that Shoka?"
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"B-chan!" she says by way of greeting. Then, she turns to the drawing that Bigby has pointed out.
"Shoka, isn't she..." the one Noelle's got a thing with? Mayaka withholds the second part of the statement, sensitive as she is to matters of the heart.
"... who is she, again? I haven't met her yet."
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"You're drawing her and you've never met?" Bigby repeats, arms folding. Honestly, not that surprising, considering she's pretty well-known by this point, even among locals. Still, his usual grumpy expression lessens just a bit. "She's a friend."
He smiles a little too, but there's a hint of sadness in his voice, like he's done something wrong despite not knowing what. Last month sure got his head all jumbled up. "Did you... run into her? In a dream?"
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"Did anything weird happen to you too?"