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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.]
refusing: (pout)

[personal profile] refusing 2013-05-16 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[She glances over at his hand, before sliding hers into his. Her eyes don't stay on him for long though, and soon enough they're back on the stars.]

They're more than just that. [She frowns.] They're home.
refusing: (plead)

[personal profile] refusing 2013-05-24 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I miss him.

[She doesn't think it's all that bad, to admit that here, to this boy. Something about telling him her feelings just sits right with her.]

I'd give anything to be back out there with him. My Doctor. 'Cause you're right, without stars, there isn't any life. Not for me. Without stars, and without him? I'm useless. Worse than that, even, I'm nothing.
refusing: (wibbleface)

[personal profile] refusing 2013-05-25 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
I know that! I do. I know it, but...

[She closes her eyes, and takes a deep breath.]

It's not just about all that, the companionship or traveling with him. [She loves him, but she's not going to say that out loud.] It's not like that. There's more to it, and now I dunno if I'll ever get the chance to say it.
refusing: (would you look at that)

[personal profile] refusing 2013-05-26 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
[She remains silent for a while, eyes focused in on the stars shining bright overhead. When eventually a sense of hope begins filling her, a shooting star flies across the sky and leaves Rose nearly radiant with optimism.]

Yeah, okay, we'll stick with hope. Can't lose sight of that. Not now, not ever. Just gotta have faith. He'll find me here, eventually. Someday.