bridgescribble | It's that one where you have to give a speech to a crowd of bears and wasps again

You're having a nightmare, and you aren't alone. Someone is here with you in tonight's strange, dark dreamscape--for better or for worse.

Chased: Bears, tentacly monsters, giant vengeful wasps. You need to escape from it but you can't find a way.
Trapped: Elevator, sinking ship, cave. You're in and you can't get out.
Performance: It's often quoted that people fear public speaking more than they fear death. You don't know the script, you've never seen this Powerpoint, the teleprompter is blurry as hell... forget falling, you're about to die on stage.
Hated: You know those dreams where everyone you know accuses you of something terrible and they all hate you now? Yeah. It's that one tonight.
Disaster! You're on an island and a volcano erupts! You're next to a river and it floods! Never mind how geologically, climatologically, or physically likely it would be in this location in real life, it's happening now.
Haunting past: Your bad memories are just waiting for you to let your guard down, and what's more unguarded than sleep?
Wildcard: There are infinite nightmares in infinite combinations... why not put together your own?

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[most interested in 1, 2, and especially 6, or a wildcard 7 of your choosing. canonmates, crosscanon, ocs, aus, assumed cr, random meetings for the first time all welcome; ota]

((Anything but 3 for his own nightmares. Otoh he canonically does dive into the dreams of others to rescue them from theirs so if you need a hand fairy Jesus is here for u.))

[most interested in 1, 2, and 6, or wildcard it with 7. canonmates, crosscanon, ocs, aus, assumed cr, first meetings all welcome; ota]

Edited 2023-03-11 17:36 (UTC)

J'onn is a telepath and a superhero. I'd love to do something with him helping someone beat a dream-based entity (Dr Destiny, perhaps?) that is tormenting them. Or due to his telepathy, he's projecting nightmares all over the place.

[If it's 6, expect a content warning for death of loved ones, though that is strictly optional!

Otherwise, down for all of these.]

[1, 4, 5, 6 all have great examples he'll hate.

Available in DMC 1 or 5!]

[Don't threaten him with a good time!]

( ota. possible references to child neglect/abuse, injury, & violence. lmk if you want to avoid anything! )

Asura is the embodiment of fear, and induces madness- invading someone’s sleep to ruin their day, week or life sounds like him.

[ The city is on fire.

The shape of the city shifts with every moment -- sometimes it's a wild west fantasy of oversized wooden storefronts, sometimes it's towering spires of brightly lit glass, sometimes it's mud brick, sometimes it's familiar in the most heartbreaking way -- but the fire is constant, the smoke thick and choking. Rubble blocks side roads, the wind stirs showers of embers that catch on every vulnerable surface, and beneath the roar of the flames are the distant cries of the panicked residents, struggling to flee. ]

[ ooc: Open to anyone! Plants like Vash have all kinds of special powers in canon, so who's to say that he can't project his nightmares through time and space? ]

(Please be warned that if characters get sucked into Sae's nightmares there are going to be HEAVY MENTIONS of: Child abuse/human experimentation. I am very interested in first-time meetings via nightmares OR pre-existing CR getting more in-depth knowledge of her past childhood. I love me some good angst.)

[ His nightmares involve him being trapped in hell again, being forced to feast on the putrid flesh of demons, and dealing with unending hordes of hideous monsters that wish to slaughter and defile him. ]

[Want a loud-mouthed merc stumbling in to help purely by accident?]

[ most likely the monster haunting your dreams ]

[ Vash has had the same nightmare countless of times now; forced to relive the worst moment of his life over and over again often when he closes his eyes to sleep. Sometimes he's his much younger self in the dream, so small and helpless, and sometimes he takes the shape of his current self, much taller, but no less helpless to change what unfolds in the memory-turned-reoccuring-nightmare. Even though a part of him is often aware that he's dreaming of the past, the knowledge does not allow him to change the outcome of the scenario. He goes through the same motions always, like a recording put on loop: he greets the sleeping passengers aboard Ship Five, the ship shakes abruptly and the alarms blare, he goes to look for Rem and Nai, his world proceeds to brutally fall apart because of him. It's a purgatory he feels he deserves for the hand he had in his twin's plan, however unintended it might have been.

Tonight is no different.

The ship shakes violently as explosions rattle it and Vash is send hurtling through the long hallways in search of familiar, dear faces. The weight of his mechanical arm by his side — a reminder of all the years that have passed since this very moment — does nothing to make the tight panic in his chest lessen. His grown feet trace the very steps his child self took with the same urgency and fear. He runs as fast as he can to find the only safe haven he's ever known, gunning for her quarters where he knows he won't find her, but he'll see her soon.

Or at least, that's what's supposed to happen. The pattern is broken for the first time in over a century when Vash turns a corner and collides with something hard. He's knocked back, the wind forced out of his lungs as he hits the floor in an ungraceful sprawl of lanky limbs. The shock of it is what registers first, causing a split-second delay before the pain of the collision follows and he lets out a groan. ]

Oww, wha-?

[ Between the disorientation and the fall, his vision is blurry, only catching a vague red shape he can't quite make sense of right away when he lifts his head to squint at the source of his memory's unexpected disruption. ]

[It was hardly the first time that Beatrix had ever had a dream about him. Or one with him in it. Early on in their back and forth complicated courting sessions, she'd actually dreamt about him a fair amount, usually as she was trying to figure out and understand her feelings on the matter. Why she cared about him as much as she did. Why she had any interest in the man to begin with. Why she bothered to go so out of her way to protect him or give him the kind of life she thought he was both worthy and deserving of.

Of course, that all led elsewhere, and by 'elsewhere,' that really meant the present course of events. Sort of.

She could certainly say that she didn't have too many nightmares involving him. If anything, Dante was the one capable of retrieving her from said things. Sleeping with him at her side, she'd never slept so soundly, and even on nights where she was troubled by such dark and dreary exchanges, he'd been there enough to comfort her in his own way, though she was disinclined to share too much about anything she might have dreamt of.

Giving voice to such things, after all, was more likely to bring them to truth rather than fiction developed by a mind addled with the stressors of day-to-day life.

Beatrix didn't know what to make of the current happenstance. Another place she didn't recognise. A sense of ill foreboding and tension that lingered in the air, settling a proverbial weight atop her shoulders. Something that simply didn't feel right. Something she didn't want and something she didn't understand, even though she couldn't possibly be fully in the know.]

...Dante?

[Because little did he know that when she found herself without a direction, she relied on him to guide her. She never would have admitted that easily or openly, but in darkness, Dante was, ironically, her light.]

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It's that one where you have to give a speech to a crowd of bears and wasps again

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