muffled 'sweet dreams' lyrics in the distance

[lovetheme]

Hey guys! Midterms are now behind me (and I may or may not have recently rewatched Inception), so I have a little plot I'd like to propose to you all. A dreamsharing event!

Basically, there would be a stretch of time--probably about a week, and not over that--where every night, sleeping characters find themselves tripping into other characters' dreams instead of their own, by virtue of the castle's whims/That Wacky Castle Magic^TM. Whatever your character tends to dream about is fair game, which means that threads are free to range anywhere from sharing heartbreaking sad memories to skipping through a lollipop field with marshmallow clouds together! Anything's possible in dreamland, after all :V What a grand opportunity to learn more about your fellow castlegoer's headspace--possibly more than you ever asked for! Whether or not your character remembers these dreams upon waking is up to you, and by extension, characters would be free to start figuring out that something weird's going on while they sleep as the days progress. A great conversational topic for the daytime!

I can't really think of any set guidelines apart from that; this would just be a week-long dream free-for-all, essentially. Would anybody be down for something like this? If so, I'll probably put up a catch-all post sometime next week where we can top-level with our characters' dreams and start threading and such. Until then, feel free to plot around in this post if you'd like to participate in this sort of thing!

Comments

[sansational]

Congrats on surviving midterms, friend! Boy, am I glad I never have to deal with those again.

I WOULD BE SO DOWN FOR THIS PLOT. So, for Sans, it'd be...basically a coinflip what sort of dream of his you wound up in. If you're lucky, anyone in his head would find him reliving his last few days in Snowdin, with Papyrus. Or maybe they would find themselves a guest at the house, back when Gaster was still alive. Sad dreams from Sans' perspective, but pretty harmless to outsiders - although they might get a bit scarier if a human wanders in.

Unlucky, you get the nightmares and night terrors he's been having since Chara came back. Chara features pretty prominently in all of them, as you might expect. But you also might find yourself on the wrong end of Undyne the Undying, who features pretty heavily in a lot of his "being chased and ripped apart" dreams.

Sans-Serif has a better chance of fluffy dreams, I think. You might literally find yourself in the world of "Peek-A-Boo with Fluffy Bunny". Then again, though, the kid has lived kind of a messed up life. So you also might find yourself as a scientist back in the lab, and he might find himself trying to attack any humans he sees. Sorry about that. >_<

I might just save Giles and Chihiro for trying to help out anyone else stuck in nightmares.

[sansational]

I also might foreshadow the two plot ideas I had for the skeletons. Which is to say, Sans' dreams might also involve turning into a giant bone dragon. And Sans-Serif's dreams might also involve getting mobbed and surrounded by alternate versions of himself! So have fun with that, guys.

[lovetheme]

yeah midterms blow a-- would not recommend tbqh

Ah Sans ofc your dreams would sit on the sliding scale from sad to horrible....can't wait to see them! Wait what's this about potential future plots involving Sans and bone dragon transformations oh no--

[sansational]

The thread is still ongoing, but basically, in the midst of his mad scientist mania while Frisk was dead, Sans tried to recreate some of the experiments that he and Gaster did to first give him his powers, in the hopes of making himself stronger. On the one hand, it worked a little - enough that he's not dead after everything he put himself through (and probably the only reason he's currently able to operate on fractional HP).

But on the other hand, at least in my backstory for this specific Sans, this won't be the first time he's transformed like this. Gaster was able to change him back last time and get him stable. Gaster isn't here right now! So that will eventually be a thing that happens, since he basically overloaded himself and that power's gonna have to go somewhere.

Sans is aware that this is a possibility, but not really clear on anything he can do about it, so he's just kind of trying to keep the possibility in the back of his head. Right where dreams usually get their fuel!

[lovetheme]

Oh my god....this makes a lot more sense but also Sans pls this is why you don't dabble into mad science during stages of grief THINGS LIKE THIS ARE GONNA HAPPEN....

This all sounds super interesting though! Good idea on the foreshadowing with dreams here hehe...seems like this will be a nice preview of things to come I'm sure c:

[sansational]

The entire three days of Frisk's death (and six or so hours after their return), was basically one long lesson for Sans of "this is why you don't do x during stages of grief" and, perhaps more importantly, "this is why you don't do x on no sleep." With the most prominent "x" being "hostage negotiations". -_-

His memories of getting his powers will probably play at least a visual part in any transformation-type dreams, which is going to be interesting, because they'll probably make Gaster look so damn awful when, at least for this Sans, Gaster was actually a very cool big bro and it was Sans' idea to go ahead with the experiments ahead of Gaster's doubts. So this has been something of an ongoing thing, for him.

BUT YES, a nice preview of things to come. Now y'all can't say I didn't warn you. :3 Mwahahahaha.

[lightofthestars]

I swear to god, I'm going to have to start making up a whole new batch of insults now for Tauriel to call him because she is going to hit the fucking roof when this happens.