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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.]
wintershepherd: (waiting)

[personal profile] wintershepherd 2013-05-17 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jack's breath caught slightly; was it really that simple? ]

If you would... and it isn't any harder for you, then I'd appreciate anything you can do.

[ a slightly quirked smile, part joking and part depreciating ]

I'm not the best guy for the tropical climate jobs, I'm afraid. Any of the other spirits would... probably have been more useful.
wintershepherd: (whoops)

[personal profile] wintershepherd 2013-05-24 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jack hesitates before taking the offered hand (because he is cold, he always worries to touch others) but then realizes this is a dream and places his hand in Asti's. ]

I... yeah. Maybe. I don't know.

[ Three centuries of being derided by other spirits had left their mark, more visible when he didn't have his usual distractions around. ]
wintershepherd: (sight)

[personal profile] wintershepherd 2013-05-24 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jack sucks in an unneeded breath as the chill washes over him, his body outside the dream reacting too as the change takes hold. He feels more solid somehow, as though the slow warming had been dissolving him like salt melts away ice. It's a different kind of peace that settles over him than Asti's very presence was providing: a safety, reassurance (he wouldn't disappear) and a hope to see the next winter that felt more than the flimsy straws he'd been grasping at.

He opens his eyes again (when had he closed them?) and without thinking, pulls Asti into a hug. ]


Thank you... not just for fixing me, but for saying that.
wintershepherd: (believer)

[personal profile] wintershepherd 2013-05-25 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jack doesn't mind that the hug isn't reciprocated, pulling back after a moment and looking a little sheepish at his own display. That's what you get for assuming a face that Jack perceives as younger than he is, Asti. ]

Is there anything I can do for you? And if you're planning to say it's not necessary... I want to. As friends.
wintershepherd: (bond)

[personal profile] wintershepherd 2013-05-25 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
I'd like that a lot. You can come share a dream with me anytime, Asti.

[ He genuinely would, looking around the snowy landscape for a moment. ]

I'll have a story for you next time, okay? A good one.
wintershepherd: (smiles)

[personal profile] wintershepherd 2013-05-26 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jack yelps again, but it's all laughter. He'll stay and play in it for the rest of the dream, and when he wakes he's able to feel the difference in the energy that Asti is giving him. ]