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bottlecaplogs2026-02-02 09:04 pm
sharpjustice) wrote in bottlecaplogs2026-02-02 09:04 pm
Entry tags:
- final fantasy xiv: firoza istus,
- hyouka: mayaka ibara,
- in stars and time: odile,
- in stars and time: siffrin (start again),
- jjba: emporio alniño,
- original characters : dolly mancer,
- persona 2 innocent sin: maya amano,
- the amazing digital circus: kinger,
- the outer worlds: parvati holcomb,
- the wolf among us: bigby wolf,
- the world ends with you: shoka sakurane,
- undertale: flowey,
- yugioh: the ring-spirit
[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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Before she can get carried away imagining how good the cookies must taste, she asks an important question: "But, how do you bake here? With your paws? That sounds complicated."
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Dolly goes to extend the ribbon feelers to show that they are like limbs for her...the fabled ribbon feelers..
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"Did learning how to control them come naturally to you?"
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"I think naturally, I ended up arriving around September when Froslass took over Skull Town. I had to lay low during it and play along till we could leave for the Bay, so the ribbon feelers I got use to working with immediately. I have my maid outfit still back in my room."
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"If you want, do you want to make a plush doll with me? It's been a while since I last made a plush doll."
im goin' on hiatus till late march ! could we handwave this ?? it must happen
After all this time, working on her art alone, it's exciting to be able work on something creative with someone else. She wonders how it'll turn out.
"But I've not done this before. It may turn out ugly." She cautions Dolly with a slight frown.
Mayaka's a perfectionist, and the thought of making a mistake with the plush doll already begins to annoy her.
Sure I'm more than happy to have this handwave :') (Definitely has to happen, its too cute)
"I think you'll love the project, you know of those really cute gingerbread cookies that are cut out in the shapes of Pokemon during December? The pattern is sort've like that where you draw out the shapes you want for the pattern before cutting them out on felt."
Good ol' fashioned cookie styled felt dolls to the rescue! They were something of a calming project to teach for newcomers in sewing plush dolls along with getting a good hold on stitches used when Dolly was still at Cheddarburg.
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"Alright, let's get started!"
What started out as very serious business to figure out the things that have been on her mind has turned into a lighthearted craft session with Dolly. Perhaps, that's what Mayaka really needed in the end.