bottlecaplogs | [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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Shoka watches Mayaka in silence, as if waiting for her to puzzle it out for herself. When she finally seems to arrive at a conclusion, Shoka tilts her false head expectantly.

"'That' dream?"

"The dream where I met you... I think?" Mayaka still sounds a little unsure.

Her gaze lingers over her drawing of Shoka, and the brand new sketch of the Buizel with that familiar-looking pouch -- strange yet undeniable evidence that she's met the Mimikyu before.

Realisation dawns on the Sneasel's face.

"Oh my god. I dreamt about Fuku-chan? And you were there?!"

She sounds incredibly embarrassed all of a sudden.

Shoka is about to say something else—to confirm that Mayaka's guess is on the right track, maybe—but that last part stops her short.

"... Fuku-chan?"

Mayaka's digging herself into an even bigger hole...!

"That's... that's just what I call him. It doesn't even matter!" she sputters, even though she's pretty meticulous when it comes in the sorts of nicknames she gives out. Perhaps assigning him 'Fuku-chan' had been the moment her crush started to develop.

"Anyway, nothing weird happened right? You don't remember anything right? Because I don't..."

An amused snort escapes her.

"Relax, dweeb. It was a totally normal prophetic dream." That is, mostly normal and yet not normal at all. "I don't remember all that much about it... Just that you nerds were there, dragging me into some lame mystery-solving BS."

This is a lie. The longer she spends thinking about it, the more she remembers; as soon as she managed to draw Satoshi's Buizel form, she also managed to recall the way he changed at the end—the sneer, the shadows, and the faceless Mimikyu that was herself, dragging her down into the dark.

Almost imperceptibly, she shivers.

Mayaka audibly exhales in relief. Then, she holds back a smile hearing Shoka describe the dream.

"Yeah. Fuku-chan and my other friend, Chi-chan, really liked solving mysteries around school. And not the serious kind either, just the stuff that seemed unexplainable at first. Like -- why was the same book being borrowed by a different girl at the exact same time every week, for four weeks in a row?"

Trust the librarian to remember that particular mystery.

She notices Shoka's little shiver, and turns to look at the windows. It's still snowing in Skull Town.

"You cold, Shoka-chan? Want to go grab something warm to eat together?"

"Like I said: lame mystery-solving BS."

It was actually kind of fun, really (but she can't just admit that).

Mayaka's question makes her blink in confusion.

"Huh? Oh..." Perceptive, isn't she? A hint of mischief enters Shoka's tone when she continues, "I'm down. As long as you promise not to freak out again when you see how I eat."

"Call it whatever you want," Mayaka says with a little harrumph. Maybe one day Shoka will get caught up in a little mystery of her own and learn the fun of it.

As for the mystery of how Shoka eats, Mayaka rather not solve that one.

"I-I'll just look away!" She can't tell if the Mimikyu is joking or not, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

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