[OPEN] Dreams & Ghosts

[sharpjustice]

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!

Comments

[autumnrainrunaway]

Puns will slip in one way or another as Dolly smiles in waiting, puns will happen...eventually.

For now, there's a reprieve for Mayaka with the puns. This is definitely a mood of sorts, though no Valentines in Doriene, at least to Dolly's knowledge. It earns a curious head tilt though from Dolly.

"Yep, did you use to hang out with friends during it too? That's what I normally did before."

[sharpjustice]

"Yes, when I was a kid. We all gave out chocolates to each other. Everything was simple. But let's just say, when actual feelings are involved, things get a lot more complicated."

Mayaka takes a moment to consider her next question.

"How would you react if you got a confession from someone on Valentine's Day?"

[autumnrainrunaway]

Lucky Mayaka, she got to have chocolates be the main thing to be handed out on Valentines day....the states only have cards and candy hearts that sometimes had concerning messages on them being handed out, chocolates being like finding a mythical unicorn. Before Dolly could say anything, in comes the big question.

That one question has definitely caught Dolly off guard. She's honestly never had to deal with something like that before, mostly because of her batch siblings jumping in as interference to any potential suitor.

"To be fair, I wouldn't know. I never had something like that happen before, however, I'll give you my best guess on my reaction. If someone confessed to me, I'd probably freeze up, trying to figure an answer to it. It really does boil down to who confesses though. If its someone I know extremely well, a conversation is going to happen or someone coming in out of the wild blue yonder I have no clue who they are, I'm pretty much a statue in shock."

[sharpjustice]

"Right? A normal person would have the decency to talk it out, instead of dodging the confession," she says this assertively, not expecting Dolly to concur.

"Let's just say the first time I tried to confess to the boy I liked, he told me he couldn't accept the confession because I got him store bought chocolate. Only the handmade stuff was considered proper Valentines Day chocolate."

Mayaka withholds saying what happened the year after that, which is even more infuriating in hindsight. And yet, she wouldn't change any of it, because as difficult and slippery as Satoshi can be, she's the one who chose to pursue him.

[autumnrainrunaway]

"Well that's really rude, chocolates are a difficult candy to make too where you have to temper it in order to get that shine. I'm sorry that happened to you, that wasn't a nice thing for him to say at all."

Dolly had half the mind to make the kid make homemade chocolates himself if Satoshi did land in Bottlecap Bay. Maybe it's for the best...just poor Mayaka on that point.

"I'm certainly this boy is going to keep losing girls this way if that's how he talks to them. We can have a nice Valentines here instead without the nonsense of having to make chocolates, we'll make cookies instead for fun."