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tuvishan ([personal profile] tuvishan) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2013-05-11 02:31 pm

the dreaming [open]

Characters: Tu Vishan and you!
Date: May 11th
Location: All over Keeliai.
Situation: Tu Vishan is attempting to reach out to the foreigner population, with... mixed results?
Warnings/Rating: Should be pretty tame. Will update if this changes.
Notes: This log is set at night, and characters are technically encountering him in their 'dreams'. He may or may not be exerting some subtle supernatural influence to make characters fall asleep, so if your character doesn't require sleep feel free to say he's done something to them. Technically, every creature in Tu Vishan would be sleeping during his little foray, so the streets are uncharacteristically empty.

This is not a predominantly plot-driven log. Tu Vishan is reaching out to people and may surrender plot details if the right questions are asked, but this is mostly part of his ongoing effort to become acquainted with people and the thread direction may stick solely to slice of life, depending on how your character chooses to direct it.

A character's 'dreamscape' should be shaped by their subconscious mind, so feel free to go wild with whatever you'd like. This includes details of their location and what their dream!selves might look like. Tu Vishan will appear to the characters as a young boy, between fourteen and sixteen years of age, and anyone he visits will have extremely peaceful dreams. It's considered a gift and a blessing to have been visited thusly by Tu Vishan, and one can expect good fortune in their futures if they are visited. Characters may also not remember perfect details of these dreams in the morning, or remember them at all. That much is up to you.





[The night is calm and still and on this night, Tu Vishan wanders.

He does not often take a form not his own, but there is a growing sense of unease in his shape, in his body, that he cannot escape. He knows it. He has felt his brethren sicken thus, and die. So for a time, when he can, he escapes. Like smoke, like a ghost, a breath, he escapes and he wanders.

The city is sleeping when he does so. He likes the cities at night, though the dimly flickering light of his shell is...

(Sad, he thinks)

--Inevitable.

He passes from house to house, between buildings and shadows. He listens.

'Keeliai' means 'Finality'. It is an irony he has never sought to correct. Instead, he stops at doors, on rooftops, in the empty rooms of old houses, and he thinks of all the lives scattered here. Small enough to be insignificant to him, but hardly that. He cannot so much as feel the patter of their movement across his back, but he is aware of each of them as a tiny heartbeat, an audible echo of life and hope.

When he finds a receptive mind, he will sometimes reach out and touch it gently. A calm, gentle reassurance. If they wish to speak with him, he is there.]
shorttempered: ([Inv] I was only trying to help)

[personal profile] shorttempered 2013-08-27 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
I try, but more often than not they turn into nightmares. This is, uh, actually the first time in a long time I haven't had one, to be honest.

You say that, but you don't really know me... no offense. Anger's in my DNA. ...So's world conquering, so it's probably best I stay away from world leaders...
shorttempered: ([Mark] Furrowed brow)

[personal profile] shorttempered 2013-09-27 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
My nightmares? How? Because if it involves you seeing them instead, I'm going to have to say no. I wouldn't wish them on anyone.

[Stares at his hands.]

Viltrumites don't do extinction. I don't think, anyway... I mean, there'd be nothing to conquer. Then again, if they didn't comply I don't see why they wouldn't kill everyone... [His brow furrows as he realizes how little he knows about his father's race.] How about you just say you submit to me on a technicality and we can move past the conquering? [He says it with a smile, but doesn't reach his eyes. The fact he's even remotely capable of doing such a thing scares him.]
shorttempered: ([Inv] Hi I'm Invincible)

I will wait forever for Asti tags

[personal profile] shorttempered 2013-10-17 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
It's an expression. But, uh, this place is my dreams, right? So in theory I can manipulate them?

[He breaks into a big grin.] I accept your surrender.
shorttempered: ([Mark] Can't believe I did that)

I WILL WAIT THAT LONG!

[personal profile] shorttempered 2013-10-27 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Live long [and prosper], do whatever you want, and don't let Never-Speak-His-Name win.

[His smile finally fades when he thinks about manipulating his dream, to turn it into something he usually witnesses in a night.] Yeah, I can do that. I just... I want to show you what it is I usually dream before you go thinking about taking them from me.

[He closes his eyes and concentrates, trying to think of the one he had last night. It begins to play in front of them like a movie.

Mark's dream begins innocently enough. He is on his bed with his girlfriend, Eve; the pair kissing. Mark runs his hands through her red hair, mumbling between kisses that he missed her. He goes through the motion several times, the last time pausing when he feels something slick and wet. Slowly, he pulls his hand away and confirms what he had hoped was only his paranoia--it was covered in blood. Mark's eyes shoot open and stares into Eve's lifeless eyes, the pulse in his ears so loud it was deafening.

His eyes dart around the room, stopping on the person responsible, only his subconscious can't seem to settle on the rogue. It cycles through several: Angstrom Levy, one of the Mauler twins, Anissa, several of the evil Invincible's from alternate universes, General Kregg, Powerplex...it even briefly cycles through Cecil, Oliver, himself, and his father, before settling on Eve's true murderer--Conquest.

In a flash Mark is on him, suddenly in full Invincible costume (even if it was that damned black and blue one), unleashing a flurry of punches that would have shattered a normal man. Mark refuses to give the Viltrumite the upper hand, not again. He doesn't stop until his hands are slick and his costume is coated in a layer of blood; Conquest forever still and nearly indistinguishable beneath him.

Mark pulls his mask away as he steps backwards from the other man's lifeless body. Not again. He realizes for the first time he's no longer in his bedroom but in yet another destroyed city. Everywhere he looks are corpses, but not of strangers. No, instead he sees the lifeless forms of Eve, of his mother, of the Guardians, of Rex... He reels backwards until his back hit what was once a wall, and he slides down, screwing his eyes shut to try to block it all out.

Everyone's dead, and it's all his fault.]
Edited (jesus I switched tenses halfway through) 2013-10-27 02:49 (UTC)
shorttempered: ([Mark] Sad Panda)

/clings to

[personal profile] shorttempered 2013-10-30 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mark reached out and returned the hug with little prompt. It took him a moment to compose himself, but when he did he seemed as fine as ever... or at least he was trying to.] That was about a 3 out of 10 on my bad dreams scale.
shorttempered: ([Mark] Not my best idea)

[personal profile] shorttempered 2013-11-02 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but you shouldn't have to, that's my point. [Still, he might hug Asti a little tighter.] No one should have to...
shorttempered: ([Mark] Sad Panda)

[personal profile] shorttempered 2013-11-14 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It's too late for that, I already have. Most of my nightmares are just twisted versions of things I've already been a part of.
shorttempered: ([Mark] Betrayed)

[personal profile] shorttempered 2013-11-25 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
It's.... it's just.. why?
shorttempered: ([Inv] That's... not a good idea)

[personal profile] shorttempered 2013-11-28 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[More hugging.] ...Is there any way you could take it away without living through them yourself?
shorttempered: ([Mark] You rang?)

[personal profile] shorttempered 2013-12-04 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Nods.] Thanks. If there's anything I can do for you, anything, please let me know.
shorttempered: ([Mark] So bored....)

[personal profile] shorttempered 2013-12-15 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[That... won't be too hard. He's even yawning as Asti suggests it.]

Good night.