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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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1/2
"No," she says curtly.
2/2
"One is enough. More than enough. It's not really my style."
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"Urgh, fine," she admits in an annoyed tone. "Just because something is small and seemingly 'cute' doesn't mean it can't be creepy."
She pauses and looks directly at the Sunkern. Prime example right here.
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Either way, he segues from annoying her into giving advice. (It might still be annoying for this child to talk to her as if he's the older and wiser one, but that's just how he is.)
"I'll let you in on a little secret. The way you get over your fear is exposing yourself to it until it isn't scary anymore." He nods toward the doll. "Don't just leave it out here. Bring it back to your room. Try doing a drawing of it! I heard you're an artist."
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Quickly, she tries to redirect the conversation.
"You make it sound easy. Is that how you got over your own fears?"
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(Privately, though, he remembers his best friend giving him this same advice. Helping him face his fears so he can stop being such a crybaby.)
"But it works! Besides, there's MUCH scarier stuff in the Bay, so if you can't get over a measly little doll, you're going to be in big trouble. You wouldn't want that, would you?"
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What could be scarier than having this creepy doll in the same room as her!
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"... imagine you need to bring an injured guildmate to safety, but you can't carry them. Imagine you're lost in a forest with hallucinogenic fog and you haven't learned any moves to clear your head or find your way back home. Imagine you're the only thing standing between a dangerous outlaw and someone you love."
It's less impactful when delivered in his squeaky voice, but he means it all the same.
"Being weak affects more people than just you. That's way scarier than some inanimate doll."