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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.]
meanandgreen: (I'm gonna pound you so hard....)

[personal profile] meanandgreen 2013-05-14 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
[The little turtle squirms in his grip, not in alarm or struggle, but a joyful, living desire to just be.

He's not used to just letting himself be happy, to not be constantly haunted by anxiety and insecurities. He can laugh and joke around, sure, but he always does it with bitterness in the back of his throat. His smile is always half a sneer.

But bitterness, guilt, feeling inadequate or insecure... those are human things, things he's always secretly felt cursed with by becoming something so close to human. Sometimes on the bad days he thinks, if he had stayed what he was born to be, he would've never known that kind of pain. He would live and die without ever feeling more than the drive to exist.

Now, in this peaceful dream, he balks at the boy speaking his name. That's a human thing, and anxiety spikes through him like a spear.]


I don't want to, [he thinks. Though the thought is audible in his dream, notably devoid of its usual heavy Brooklyn accent. Even as nothing but a turtle barely the size of a dinner plate, he'll still fight, and he's still stubborn as hell.]
Edited 2013-05-14 06:49 (UTC)
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[personal profile] meanandgreen 2013-05-17 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Calm. The touch of the bigger turtle soothes him in a way the waking Raphael hasn't felt in his lifetime. Not since fractured memories of breaking glass. Not since that alien ooze seeped into his bloodstream and made him what he is.

In his conscious mind, Raphael doesn't know the source of his inner turmoil. Why he gets so out of control. Why he never feels right. But this... this feels right.

He swims alongside the massive turtle, happy, nurtured, protected.]