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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.]
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[personal profile] effective 2013-05-11 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[She wraps her arms around herself.] My mind should be troubled. I don't-- [need your help she wants to say, but she does. So she just shakes her head instead, falling silent]
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[personal profile] effective 2013-05-11 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's the way he looks around at the forest (her forest) that does it] Fine. [It takes her another couple of seconds before she actually steps towards him.] What do you want? [To help, he'd said, but strangers don't just help you for no reason]
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[personal profile] effective 2013-05-11 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Why would you want to help me? [There's a rawness to her tone. The reassuring presence affects her in that way, gives her the freedom to wear some of her pain instead of having it swallowed up by numbness] No one needs the Mockingjay any more. I'm done. [But she's still holding the bow. Some part of her can't let go of everything she became]
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[personal profile] effective 2013-05-12 10:17 am (UTC)(link)
[She opens her mouth, and then shuts it again. She can't summon up the energy to be angry right now] If I didn't hurt, I'd be dead.
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[personal profile] effective 2013-05-12 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[She stares at the hand for so long that it seems almost as though she's not going to take it.

She reaches out, but pauses, fingers not quite brushing his]
The only other people I have to share it with have already endured enough on their own.
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[personal profile] effective 2013-05-31 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[That expression touches something inside her, but it's not quite enough. She draws her hand back to herself, shaking her head] I can't.

[She wants the peace on offer, but she can't bring herself to accept it, can't bring herself to reach out again. Not when there's a dark place inside her that says she doesn't deserve it.
Edited 2013-05-31 22:46 (UTC)
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[personal profile] effective 2013-06-04 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head, mumbling] The girl on fire is all burnt up. What use is a revolutionary when there's no more revolution?