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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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"... How did you know you wanted to become a builder, Parvati-chan? Weren't there times you were unsure if it was the right path for you?"
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Parvati smiles to herself fondly. "It just sort of worked out that way - and I was the most reliable successor he had for the job. ALways been good with my hands." Too good, given her affinity for getting into trouble with it. "Suppose I never really thought about it. There ain't much choice, where I'm from. I got real lucky."
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Unlike Parvati, she wasn't born to parents that encouraged her interests. Mayaka's had to prove to them that her manga hobby wouldn't get in the way of her studies. She hasn't even gone to formal art lessons, and learned all she knows from guidebooks and copying her favourite manga. Sometimes, she doesn't know what's the point in trying when she knows she can't compare to those who are naturally talented in making manga.
"Even if you didn't have much choice, would you still have picked this, even if it was difficult?"
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Parvati can't imagine anything more unlike her, really. She's always been a doer, needing to keep her hands busy. She figured out how to pick locks for fun as a kid. "I don't know if I'd have had the option, living with her. Y'know?" She pauses. "Not that I ever met her neither."
taking a hiatus ! we can wrap this or continue when im back (:
If Mayaka hadn't grown up with her aunt's collection of manga, she probably wouldn't have this burning passion to pursue a career as a manga artist either.
Whether this is mere happenstance, or part of a meticulously arranged fate, Mayaka knows that she has to make a choice in the end, on how seriously she wants to take herself. She's just... not ready to do that just yet, nor can she go with the flow like Parvati.
Perhaps she has a rigid view of how life has to be, because all the life she's known has been confined to tests, school admissions, and her parent's expectations. With all of those rules absent in Bottlecap Bay, Mayaka can't help but find herself at a loss. The one thing she can continue to do, is to draw.
all right! let me know how you're feeling when you're back <3
Her circumstances before ending up in the Bay were almost entirely luck, anyway. That ability to go with the flow is just what happens when you have to deal with a Captain who's constantly running to do the next exciting odd-job that pings their radar.