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bottlecaplogs2026-02-02 09:04 pm
sharpjustice) wrote in bottlecaplogs2026-02-02 09:04 pm
[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!
a
The drawings are new, however. When the Sneasel doesn't immediately realize she has a ghostly audience looming behind her and spook, Shoka takes the opportunity to look them over. There's some kind of lumpy, beat up spacecar (?), a so-ugly-it's-kinda-cute fish Pokémon (??) she's never seen before, and...
Mr. Mew?!
... Oh. No, actually... Is that her?
"Oh, sweet," she says aloud without much thought. "Fanart."
A
Dolly is having a time out from stressing over the inadvertent dream share event, deciding a good ol' fashion browsing of the Archives was in good order. A simple glance was all it took for Dolly to notice Mayaka there drawing and...
......
There's fan art for the tiktaalik tour guide? Dolly sensed the tiktaalik was going to be hanging this image in his office now. Well...Dolly does have crafting materials on paw, might as well join in.
"Hey Mayaka, would you be alright with me hanging out to do crafts?"
OMG I LOVE IT
She's too concerned with correcting the Sylveon that her drawing isn't leisure, that she forgets to return the warm greeting. Having said this, Mayaka pulls out an empty chair for Dolly to join her at the table.
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...Only to stop herself when she gets a good look at the Mimikyu. She stares at Shoka, then at her drawing on the table, then back at Shoka.
"It's you!"
Even though she says this, Mayaka's addressing the top part of the Mimikyu, failing to realise that Shoka's eyes are lower down.
Yay :"D I'm super thrilled you love it
"May I ask? What have you figured out so far about the dreams?"
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The Sneasel sighs. Her eyes linger over Dolly's felt bird project, but she reminds herself to not get distracted by how interesting it looks. Stay on task, Mayaka!
She points at the various drawings. "Do any of these look familiar to you?"
B
As she happens to wander into where the Lum Berries have their housing, though, the odd clay figurine catches her eye, and she wanders up to the front porch where it's lingering, staring unflinchingly back into its gaze.]
...
[Headtilt? What is this for?
She hasn't noticed that Mayaka is in the area, so curious of this decoration that she is.]
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...The Fae Rule is coming for Dolly's cotton candy buns as she looks over to the art pieces...she cannot lie...
"Yes, the tiktaalik you drew there is familiar."
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Excuse me... are you Firoza? [She asks, stepping up to the fellow Poison-type, before realising she's way too close to the ghost figurine.
The Sneasel immediately hops a few paces back to her safe zone in silent distress.]
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Mayaka begins to write down this name under the drawing, only to stop when she realises she doesn't know how to spell it properly. Another thought wanders into her mind at that moment.
"Fish-san seems like an easier way to refer to him."
a
"Mayaka?" The drawings catch his attention, particularly the one she's currently working on. But the more he looks, the more he realizes there's another familiar face in the pile. "—is that Shoka?"
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....Oh sweet Mac Lir is Mayaka remembering the Museum visit?
"Fish-san is a good nickname for the tiktaalik, that's a good way of referring to him as."
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"From the way you describe it, sounds like it's not a Pokemon. Did you dream about it too?"
Mayaka, none the wiser, now thinks that this creature has been visiting various dreams.
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"B-chan!" she says by way of greeting. Then, she turns to the drawing that Bigby has pointed out.
"Shoka, isn't she..." the one Noelle's got a thing with? Mayaka withholds the second part of the statement, sensitive as she is to matters of the heart.
"... who is she, again? I haven't met her yet."
My kingdom for a tiktaalik Pokemon....
....Well at least Mayaka didn't pin point the tiktaalik tour guide being from Dolly. That's something the tiny Sylveon can be thankful for. Though, the thought of the tiktaalik getting to go on his own tour of others' dreams, that sounded cute. Truthfully, Dolly goes to answer the question.
"Yes, I've had dreams about him."
closest I can think of is relicanth...
"Did we all dream about the same things because of the Grumpearls?" she wonders. "But, you only recognise Fish-san -- nothing else here rings a bell?"
The Sneasel takes up a piece of paper and wants to offer it to Dolly, to draw what she remembers from her dreams, but stops halfway when she spots the felt birds on the table.
Same...come on Pokemon, we want more prehistoric fish....
Hmmm...that is an intriguing point of view as Dolly thinks about it. It was the first time Dolly managed to experience something other than the Museum as she went in to respond. "Maybe it was like a mix tape? Like we could've gotten a different compilation of dreams thanks to the Grumpearls."
Carefully Dolly accepted the piece of paper to draw with before noticing Mayaka seeing the felt birds. "I'm making those for Valentines Day, they'll be holding a little bit of treats in their wings."
a!
This one pads up to the side of her table over in Skull Town, initially intrigued by seeing her busy drawing... and also by the fact that she kind of looks like a mini-Odile. But then they inspect what's already laid out and recognize the charcoal sketch that everyone else has been pausing over.
"Oh! It's kittycat!"
They tilt their head, examining it for a moment longer.
"Cute!"
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"Oh! Do you know what this is?" she asks Siffrin.
1/2
2/2
She doesn't sound enthused by this reminder. Mayaka has a complicated relationship with the day, on account of her own past relationship troubles. It'd be nice to have an uneventful Valentines Day for once, as much as she misses Satoshi now.
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For now, there's a reprieve for Mayaka with the puns. This is definitely a mood of sorts, though no Valentines in Doriene, at least to Dolly's knowledge. It earns a curious head tilt though from Dolly.
"Yep, did you use to hang out with friends during it too? That's what I normally did before."
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Mayaka takes a moment to consider her next question.
"How would you react if you got a confession from someone on Valentine's Day?"
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That one question has definitely caught Dolly off guard. She's honestly never had to deal with something like that before, mostly because of her batch siblings jumping in as interference to any potential suitor.
"To be fair, I wouldn't know. I never had something like that happen before, however, I'll give you my best guess on my reaction. If someone confessed to me, I'd probably freeze up, trying to figure an answer to it. It really does boil down to who confesses though. If its someone I know extremely well, a conversation is going to happen or someone coming in out of the wild blue yonder I have no clue who they are, I'm pretty much a statue in shock."
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The gold hoop dangling from her ear gleams as she tilts her head. Her vaguely feline facial features never change, not even to blink.
"Do I know you?"
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A black cat would be an ordinary sight in the modern day. However, in the Pokemon world, there has been a distinct lack of normal cats. This strange circumstance ends up making Shoka's Mr Mew disguise memorable to Mayaka, even subconsciously in her dreams.
"In any case, I'm Mayaka."
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"Let's just say the first time I tried to confess to the boy I liked, he told me he couldn't accept the confession because I got him store bought chocolate. Only the handmade stuff was considered proper Valentines Day chocolate."
Mayaka withholds saying what happened the year after that, which is even more infuriating in hindsight. And yet, she wouldn't change any of it, because as difficult and slippery as Satoshi can be, she's the one who chose to pursue him.
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Dolly had half the mind to make the kid make homemade chocolates himself if Satoshi did land in Bottlecap Bay. Maybe it's for the best...just poor Mayaka on that point.
"I'm certainly this boy is going to keep losing girls this way if that's how he talks to them. We can have a nice Valentines here instead without the nonsense of having to make chocolates, we'll make cookies instead for fun."
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...but it's true, isn't it? They're allowed to say it, aren't they?
Siffrin settles down into a seated position, trying to make the motion look nonchalant and not like they somehow managed to startle themself over something as normal as 'being able to say they have a friend without thinking about it.' They tuck their tail around their front paws.
You know, though... now that they're looking at these and remembering another, even younger artist... (which might explain why as far as they're concerned, the rough sketch is cute as is!)
"I'll swap you something if you draw another one like that for me," they offer. What something? They have no idea yet. Something!
omg mayaka's first commission
"Well... alright." The Sneasel doesn't think much about what she'll get in return.
"This means I had a dream about her. Or something. I can't quite remember. Is there anything missing I should add?" She turns to the Shinx to ask, wanting to make sure the drawing is up to snuff. A simple sketch won't do.