[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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With things a bit more settled, it's back to trying to research bits and pieces- what Pokemon can do, any stories of legendary Pokémon that pulls Maya to the Archives. Although she doesn't mind seeing a friend, certainly! And she's curious.

"What are you working on?" she asks, peering at one of the unfinished sheets.

Mayaka hears someone walking up to her table, and turns to greet them when she recognises their voice.

"Ah! Maya-san!"

Her first instinct is to cover the drawings, not wanting to show these sketches that may appear silly or unpolished. The Sneasel relents a few moments later, remembering that lots of others have passed by her table today, and she hadn't been as self-conscious. Maybe it's because Maya's the type to ask lots of questions and figure stuff out. Mayaka is not going to give away how she learned to draw.

"I'm trying to remember some of the things I saw in my dreams last month. Whether they were connected, or have to do with the Grumpearl mess."

Edited 2026-02-10 15:14 (UTC)

Well- everyone who draws starts somewhere, right? She's not alone.

Maya blinks, and reaches up to touch her ear for a moment, worried briefly. But- it seems it's okay?

"That's sensible. It'll be useful to have a reference!" She looks the drawings over, head tilted. "I recognise some of them," she says, "though… these seem unfinished?" She taps one of the strange long shapes.

"Oh, yeah. I... can't really remember the things we saw in the big nightmare that sent everyone to the clinic."

The abstract shapes are the only things Mayaka has drawn so far, as if she's capturing the effect the alien beings had made her feel, but not so much how they looked like. Maybe asking others might help her add more discernable details.

"I think they're important. Can't explain why, though."

"Those were definitely different… Almost like aliens." Which aren't something Maya's eager to encounter, although explaining that would… also be awkward. She frowns at the paper. "I suppose that depends on the kind of alien you think of… I keep thinking of silver ones, with long limbs."

That might be odd, but it makes sense to her, and so she nods. "If you're feeling that way, there's probably a reason! Even if you can't right now, it'll probably come to light in time." She brings one hand up, thinking. "I suppose… it could be a sign they'll appear."

Mayaka is reluctant to admit that most of the fictional aliens she's seen from reading manga have been portrayed as human-like and attractive. So... her concept of what they can look like is pretty skewed.

"Are there different kinds of aliens? I only know of the little green men and ET."

She doesn't sound very enthused about meeting these things. While they don't scare her as much as a ghost might, the thought still unnerves her.

"Well… It may be that not every planet out there has life living on it, but there are bound to be enough that support life out there. Ms Ideal described the ones she aliens in Kashihara-sensei's theories as thoughtforms." She shakes her head. "But I think those one would remain back home! Those seemed more… solid, I think. If jelly-like!"

She can't blame Mayaka for that. It's definitely trouble, after all.

Jelly-like. Mayaka springboards off that association to draw a couple of jellyfish-like creatures on her sketch.

"Hm, yeah. That looks familiar, sort of."

Despite this, the Sneasel can't help but sigh. Even if she does remember what those aliens, or thoughtforms, look like, what purpose would that serve?

"I wonder if doing this is even helpful to begin with."

"That's good! We'll be able to recognise those, at least."

There were others, too, she thinks? But she was… focused on other parts of the dream.

"Mm… It's hard to say right now. But I think it's likely that we'll encounter these beings, in some way. It'll be good to be able to recognise them."

[OPEN] Dreams & Ghosts

a if it's still good?

of course !!

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