ALL OF JACKIE'S KIDS DREAMS

[oftpartitioned]

WHAT: Dreams! all the dreams
WHO: Donna Noble, Shirogane Naoto, Johanna Mason, Poland, Victor Mancha, Shimizu Raikou, Eridan Ampora, Lau
WHEN: Anytime during the dream plot!
NOTE: PLEASE RESPOND TO WHICHEVER DREAM YOURE INTERESTED IN. Try and specify who you're replying to. None of these dreams take place at the same time/place/etc.


DONNA

Public transit has never bee this roomy! These Chiswick buses must be bigger on the inside. At the front of the bus, where the driver ought to be, is just a telescope aimed at the stars.

Donna smiles from the midsection of the too large bus, and older man seated beside her. Their expressions are friendly, the table between them is littered with sweets and snacks, it's a friendly enough dream!

But approach the telescope and you'll get zapped to a different dream entirely. But the longer you're on the same bus there's a really loud, obnoxious buzzing, a pounding headache just behind your eyes.

"It's okay," Donna deals another round of cards between her and Wilf. "I don't mind if you get off at the next stop!"
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NAOTO

NAOTO AS DETECTIVE CONAN
KANJI AS KAITO KID
COME JOIN THEM!!

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VICTOR


You've been to enough embarrassing high school dreams, but this one looks particularly harmless. You wake up in the morning, read an encouraging note left y your mom (if you can read Spanish that is). Ride the bus to school, kick ass in math class, narrowly avoid being seen by any of the preppy frescos. Lunch with Jorge, same old superhero chat. The pain and humiliation of gym class.

Is this really what the killer cyborg dreams about? That boring normal L.A life you left behind?? Oh well, at least the weather's nice.

Victor chances you back a glance, as if he knew you were tagging along the whole day but was too embarrassed to draw attention to it.

"This is pretty boring, huh? Sorry."
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JOHANNA


It's not necessary a forest- the sun's too hot for that. All the tree cover can't shield you from its glare, the thrum of humidity against your skull. You can't necessarily tell if it's the heat waves emanating from the roots, or if those long, spiny vines are really moving like long spider limbs.

An axe imbeds itself in the tree just over your shoulder- whoever threw it missed, knew they could get past you and get their weapon back. Isn't afraid, is at home in this forest of death, doesn't think of being back in the Games as the nightmare others might.

"Oh," Johanna steps over a low slung vine (it definitely moved just now, right!) on her way towards you. "What are you doing here?" She looks more at home this way, shoulders burned red, sweat and blood outlining her wide-set eyes.
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POLAND


Take your pick! Have a fancy tea party with Poland and the lovely aristocratic ladies, or maybe a celebratory drinking round with the Hussars, flushed with victory.

Or you can just ride a pony though the sweeping and unvanquished landscape of the Commonwealth! Everything is bright and colored with pastels and big ass grins from Poland. Don't expect any bullying, complaining or sass. Poland's got better shit to do than be fussy in a dream!

Seriously, don't ruin this for him, jerk!!
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ERIDAN


You're on the beach and you've definitely gone swimming before, right. Duh. Of course you have, the ocean is nothing to be afraid of. Yet it still looks pretty fucking daunting, black and inky just beyond your shaky, wading footsteps.

Feferi is just at the edge of your eyesight, bobbing up and down in the water like the fish she's so fond of, as natural as wave.

Eridan glares at you around the rim of his glasses, hands shoved in his pockets. No he will not fuckin go further in, thank you vvery much. you can try and reason with him, if you like.

Is that a giant flying seahorse over there? Trolls are weird.
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RAIKOU


You're in the Shimizu compound, a sprawling dojo with wooden walkways, traditional rooms and tranquil gardens. High stone walls shield the compound from the outside world, the surface world you can participate in but never change. You have this a feeling things would be better if you could get out there, but good luck. Every sliding door you open reveals more plain rooms with more doors. Scaling the walls only put you back in the courtyard.

The entire compound is empty except for Raikou, seated at the edge of a walkway in a comfortable dudekata, resigned to his fate.

"I figured it out a while ago," he stifles a yawn, tired even in sleep. "'You can't run away from where you'd from, what you did'." He nods to the blood pair of swords imbedded in the garden that lies between the two of you. "Something like that."
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LAU


Seriously, don't go here. You won't find him anyway.

Comments

[squidissension]

You're soaked? How do you think Eridan feels! The front of his hands are all scuffed up from holding out his hands to stop from getting a mouth full of seawater. On top of that- at least you still HAVE your glasses. Eridan's dropped in the dark water with a resounding 'plop!' when the duo crashed into the waves. this whole dream is a disaster.

At least Fef is laughing again.

Eridan hisses at Jade's complaint, fingers fumbling through obstructed vision to try and find his missing specs. It's hard enough to see without them, let alone his wet fringe plastered across his eyes.

[coloredstrings]

She blinks rapidly, catching tears on the back of her hand as they thread down her cheeks. When Eridan is no longer a watery blur, she reaches out and smacks the flat of her palm against the water, splashing him. Not that it mattered much, they were both drenched.

"Thanks a lot, fuckruckus!"

[squidissension]

He groans at the nickname and the splashing- as if this isn't difficult already.

"Shut up! I was tryin to showw you shit, you're the one wwho made us fall!" Fef, I'm so serious right now, you've got to stop laughing or at least lend him a hand finding his glasses. Eridan pulls up a handful of shells, sand and a weirdly misshaped crawdad type creature. Nope, not his glasses, not that he can tell through all his squinting. Wow, you really are blind, huh Eridumb?

[coloredstrings]

She grinds out an agitated 'uuugh!', trying her best to dry her glasses before perching them back on her face. Then she's reaching past him into the water, narrowly saving his specs before he crushes them with his knee.

"Here." She bumps her knuckles firmly against his shoulder, his glasses in hand.

[squidissension]

Eridan grumbles right back at her, though he tries to make it sound a little bit thankful when he realizes she's pushing his glasses back at him. He slips them over his nose, lenses still dripping wet, and squints through the waterclogged vision after her.

"uh." Thanks, is what he's supposed ot add, but this is still Eridan, he can't anage basic human niceties. He clears his throat and a small wave bumps into the pair of them with the ebbing tide.

[coloredstrings]

And she hadn't expected him to, either.

She somewhat gracelessly pushes herself to her feet, and turns to slosh back onto shore. Once she's out of the sea, she bows and scoops her hair over one shoulder, wringing the water from it with her hands with a sort of miserable expression on her face. This is a nightmare.

[squidissension]

If it's anybody's nightmare, it has to be Eridan. He stomps back onto shore, the whole ensemble he picked out for this dream drenched to the core. He shoots the laughing Fef a withering glare before turning back on Jade.

"You're lucky none a the other seadwwellers didn't notice you in there." Soggy arms crossed over his soggy chest. "Don't evven fuckin think about gettin back in there."

[coloredstrings]

She stills, takes a deep breathe through her nose, and straightens to fix him with a chilly stare.

"I didn't want to go for a swim in the first place." She answers stiffly.

[squidissension]

Now that he has his glasses back on, that stare can chill him to the bone. He affixes his face with a more sour look than usual to combat it, but honestly he's pretty floored by the possibility of incurring anybody's wrath in dreams after Gamzee. Eridan fusses with the edge of a sleeve, pulling his eyes away from his deathglare.

"Not like I wwanted to get in there either!" he counters stubbornly, ignoring the happy splashing a few meters out to see.

[coloredstrings]

The ice ebbs a little to make room for confusion.

"Aren't you supposed to be a seadweller or something?" The emphasis on 'sea' is accompanied by a glance to the ocean. Y'know, Eridan, a seadweller as in someone who dwells in the sea. With water and such.

[squidissension]

"Yeah, I am," he snaps. Wringing water out of his coat, yet still attempting to look dignified. "That doesn't mean I havve to be in there all the time!"

That doesn't seem like a very good excuse, but the water is pretty dakr and creepy looking. Maybe it's not so weird to be afraid of it-- not that Eridan is afraid! Does he look afraid??

[coloredstrings]

"Are you scared of water?"

Does that answer your question?

[squidissension]

Eridan's back stiffens at the question. Oh, you thought he was swimming in dangerous water before! You have no idea what Pandora's box you just opened!

"N-No!" he snarls, pulling away from Jade and the very question itself. It probably doesn't help him case that, in recoiling fro her, he steps into the tide and just about jumps out of his skin. He treks further up the shore to avoid the tide that seems to be getting higher and higher, closing in on their tiny island while Feferi giggles in the distance. Ugh, what's there even to be scared of anyway? Then again, Eridan certainly seems jumpier than usual.

[coloredstrings]

That must've been all she needed to hear, because she doesn't challenge him beyond that as she silently treks after him. Has the island gotten smaller or is she just imagining things? She distantly hopes that Eridan doesn't inadvertently steer his dream-ocean into swallowing the islet. Drowning did not sound like an awesome way to startle herself into wakefulness.

[squidissension]

But.. since Jade is asking. Eridan glances back past the girl at the murky ocean.

"Wwhy?" he asks apprehensively. "Are you?"

[coloredstrings]

"Not really," she states, and she stops to follow his gaze.

"... well, this water is kinda..." she pauses to find the right words. "It's creepy."

[squidissension]

Eridan's eyes flicker back to Jade, not really expecting that reply. He hesitates for a bit to make sure she wasn't just messing with him before he tears his eyes away, feigning disinterest.

"Yeah, wwell. You mean Earth oceans are harmless and friendly?"

[coloredstrings]

She's pretty sure he meant that as an insult, and she frowns accordingly back at him.

"No. But they weren't creepy! This water just gives me a bad feeling, okay?" If this had been a pesterlog conversation, she would've topped that last sentence off with a frowny face with a whole stack of parentheses.

[squidissension]

Sigh, roll eyes, repeat. It's really the only way to deal with humans sometimes. Eridan turns full back to face her, in full lecture mode.

"A creepy feelin obvviously isn't enough to teach you be fuckin careful, is it?" he scoffs, hands on his hips. "Doesn't matter howw much blood that ocean;s brimmin wwith, you'd probably havve divved in anywway after those baby fishes if it hadn't been for me!" Okay, this lecture is all fun and good, but the tide is definitely at their feet. The island is definitely shrinking or something.

[coloredstrings]

Oh no. Fuck no. Hell fucking no.

With each cocky word spit from Eridan's mouth, her fists curl tighter at her sides. The last threads of her patience wither away.

"What makes you think I would do that! It was your idea to show me the tide pools in the first place!"

She's stepping closer now, marching towards him tensely until she's close enough to jab a finger at his chest.

"And it was you that made us fall in! I have had it with you blaming me for everything when it wasn't my fault to begin with! So cut. It. Out!"

[squidissension]

Eridan doesn't move away from the girl when she she comes at him, but he's definitely listening to her now. He growls, his teeth revealed under the curl of his lips each time Jade jabs into his chest.

"I wwas tryin to showw you something so you'd quit makin trouble! If you wwere behavving form the beginnin wwe wouldn't be in this mess!"

Guys, seriously, there's water at your feet!

[coloredstrings]

She presses her palms to the sides of her head, her face scrunched with frustration. "Aaargh! I can't stand you! No one can! You are such a JERK!"

And then the water surges against her legs, and she stumbles, her anger evaporating with a startled gasp.

"E-Eridan?" her voice shakes with alarm.

[squidissension]

Eridan would bite her head off for that (cause wwhat does SHe knoww) when it becomes apparent they are dealing with more serious matters. Clucking his tongue in irritation he seizes Jade's wrist for a second time and tugs the girl further inland. There's not so far to run to, but at the very least at the center of their little desert island the water is only as deep as their calves.

"Wwait, wwhere's Fef?" Eridan mumbles, eyes scanning the horizon. It's hard to hear any kind of laughing over the rushing water that is steadily rising against them. If Eridan's afraid of the water, keeping an eye on Fef takes priority, so much so he forgets he's still holding onto Jade's wrist.

[coloredstrings]

Jade blanches. "You're worried about Feferi? Feferi is a seatroll! In a few minutes there won't even be an island anymore and I—" she winces as the water licks up to the backs of her knees, "I can't breathe underwater like you can, Eridan!"

She knows this is just a dream, a terrible dream, but everything felt so real. It's almost guaranteed dying would be granted that same extent of realism.

[squidissension]

Eridan barely gives Jade a second glance at that, already dreading the concept of getting his hair wet.

"And wwhat the fuck d'you expect me to do about it?" It wouldn't be the first time somebody died in a dream. Water laps up to their waists now and Eridan irritably tugs his cape out of the current.