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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.]
fatedchaos: (☾; of what you've seen before)

[personal profile] fatedchaos 2013-05-11 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Whoops.]

Wounds can be cauterized. That stops bleeding. Nothing is impossible to do. [She gives his hand another squeeze before letting it go.] How do you know if you don't even know how to stop it? The cost could be really small.
fatedchaos: (pic#5903429)

[personal profile] fatedchaos 2013-05-12 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Vanessa has a good idea that she's really not going to like the answer.] And which way is that?
fatedchaos: (☾; never easy to be called)

[personal profile] fatedchaos 2013-05-12 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
It's always sacrifice. [Not even going to bother keeping the bitterness out of her tone.] How much of a sacrifice is required?
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[personal profile] fatedchaos 2013-05-12 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
[She could respect that, at least. That he wouldn't want any of them to sacrifice for him.

Vanessa's quiet for a moment, thinking over what he's said to her. The Emperor's sister sacrificed herself for another turtle, for a chance to give someone life. There's something about that bit of information that helps her to understand why Catty did what she did.]
The Emperor's sister must have been really brave, to do that for your sister.

[She glances up at the moon again.] Are you afraid of it? Dying, I mean.
fatedchaos: (☾; so I pray for favor like Esther)

[personal profile] fatedchaos 2013-05-12 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
As long as you remember her, she lives on. That's the important thing.

[She brushes her fingers through her hair.]

I think that's a normal feeling to have. I felt that way, too.
fatedchaos: (☾; slowly swallowing down my fear)

[personal profile] fatedchaos 2013-05-12 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Before I came here, the world... It was close to being thrown into darkness. [She holds her hand up, thumb and forefinger about an inch apart to show how close.] We had to defeat the darkness, me and a couple of friends. I thought I wouldn't come home again. I'd never see my mom again, my boyfriend. I'd never get older and see the world, go to college, have a family of my own. [She pauses. It sounds so stupid to her, in comparison.] So I think it's normal to feel like you've left things undone when something happens out of nowhere.
Edited 2013-05-12 01:20 (UTC)
fatedchaos: (☾; but I still hear the flames)

[personal profile] fatedchaos 2013-05-12 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
It's okay. When this is over, I can go home. [She smiles softly.] But, if you really think that there's no way to stop your death, at least you have a whole backside full of people willing to help you finish what you have undone. If you want.
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[personal profile] fatedchaos 2013-05-12 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Some of us would. Maybe not all, but a good majority. [She bites her lip.] The fight is against the being the Emperor wants us here for, right?
fatedchaos: (☾; growing fast into a bolt of lightning)

[personal profile] fatedchaos 2013-05-12 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Then I'll fight, at least. So there's one person you won't have to even ask.
fatedchaos: (☾; yeah yeah)

[personal profile] fatedchaos 2013-05-12 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods.] I won't. I promise.