[OPEN] Dreams & Ghosts

[sharpjustice]

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!

Comments

a

[telewarped]

When she spots the Sneasel from across the hall, Shoka can't shake the feeling that she's seen her somewhere before. As if that isn't strange enough, when curiosity brings her to Shadow Sneak closer, she can't shake the feeling that she's done this before, too. Sneaking up on a Sneasel sitting at a table, too distracted by something else to notice her approaching (Don't scare me like that! she remembers someone saying)...

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

[autumnrainrunaway]

Its a beautiful day in this Archive, a beautiful day for an archivist~

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?"

B

[bladeofnymeia]

[It kind of feels like she's been in a fugue state, when Firoza is back to business with the new month. Was she out digging through the snow and reminiscing on her childhood? Or was all of that a series of dreams while she slept? It's hard to pinpoint when your mind's still tired and fuzzy, but she's sorting through it as she walks through town.

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.]

a

[wolfcut]

As per usual, Bigby's busy snooping around the Archives despite being from a different guild entirely. His small size has its advantages unfortunately, including being easy to miss. In the middle of rummaging for tablets that are nearly as big as he is, he pauses after he notices a familiar face.

"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?"

a!

[loopsiedaisy]

Sorry, Mayaka. It's yet another member of the Shoka Fan Club.

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!"