[Open] Walking Dream

[nachetanya]

WHO: Natalia Fairweather & Anyone
WHERE: The Dreamiverse
WHEN: Through July
WHAT: Dream Sharing
WARNINGS: Canon child Nachetanya in a bad place under threat of death, violence and blood, and lizard people

A1: Fairy Survival (AU Memory)
[ You're in a small town. The sort of rural community where everyone owns or works on a farm, or at least definitely knows someone who does. Specifically, you're in a public school in such a town. There's a lot of kids milling about, but there is one girl who looks familiar, or ... is if you know Natalia. Same platinum blonde hair. But she has hazel eyes instead of red. And she doesn't have her prosthetic in yet. Her left arm ends in a stump, and she looks... hesitant. Honestly a little sad.

But she smiles as another girl her age with long dark hair comes over to her, bumps her hips against her in a playful way, and urges her on forward. They race into the school.

Natalia next to you though, the adult... says to herself, ]

Who is that...?

A2: Blades Flying (AU Memory)
[ You're at Recolle University. And blades are flying. People are getting injured, property is being destroyed, and blood is flying. Natalia has lost control of her own powers, laughing and locked within her own mind. Hopefully, you aren't going to be cut by these blades, because they are very sharp and moving very, very fast.

It's a bad time. ]

B1: The Fear of Death (Canon Memory)
[ You are in a squalid shack, some dilapidated shanty that clearly houses someone very, very poor. Natalia (or well, "Natalia") is in there, looking as she does on the far right of this image, other than that she is dirty and her eyes are sunken. She looks terrified, and honestly looks malnourished. Her clothing is basically rags. She's clearly been on the run for a while, and she only looks twelve years old.

It seems that you (or maybe it's a tall boy next to you with green eyes and wild, long, unkempt black hair as in this image seems to have found her. She looks up with wide eyes, seemingly terrified that she is going to die. ]

B2: Against the Brave-Killer (Canon Memory)
[ You're in some sort of warm, tropical canyon, and there is a fight about to break out. There are two figures in this canon (and you can take the place of either of them or be a third party): a stome faced girl with a flower in her hair an a gun at her side and a flamboyant red haired young man. They're talking, apparently having some sort of argument until the man hears the sound of something whizzing towards them and tackles the white haired girl to the ground just in time to avoid her being impaled by a flying crystal like sword. And from the foothills, "Natalia" calls out, ]

Adlet, get away from her!

B3: Swimming Ashore (Canon Memory)
[ You're by the ocena's edge. Specifically, you're among a series of reddish rocks near the shore of the ocean, but the ground around you seems inhospitable. You're at the foot of what seems to be a very narrow pathway leading up past a natrual barrier of a hill/cliffside of sharp rocks and a steep incline. The water itself is shallow, but it too is dotted with nartural sharp rock spires, some of which are letting out jets of hot water/gas at several hundred degree temperatures. Basically, the surroundings are somewhat hellish.

This is only made more pronounced by the company around you. The figure who seems to be ostensibly the boss of the group is pretty cute, the size of a small dog and looking somewhere between a dog and a squirrel. But the others are... odd. Some of them look like fusions of other animals - a snake with a dog's head. A long haired monkey with a face like an Aztec mask. some kangaroo looking creature with sharp fangs and claws, and a clubbed tail. And they all seem to be watching the waters, waiting for some form to show up.

... You can distantly see the form among the stone spears in the water, sluggishly out a bit in the water. It's Natalia, wearing only an undershirt and leggings, swimming to this inhospitable shore. ]

C1: Lizard People(Other AU)
[ You are in a very warm climate. You are in a very warm climate in a city which appears to be build with organic sustainability in mind and has towering spires among the trees. Basically, you're in a Solarpunk utopia. ... and there's also some people walking around who lizard and/or snake people. Maybe you've been transformed into one too? Or you could still be human. Either way, Natalia is there and she's still human! Not for want of a a desire to be different, but she is super excited to have both arms in the dream. Her left arm is no longer prosthetic, but is off color from her right, paler.

And she smiles at you! ]

Want to go look around with me?

Wildcard
[ I'm open to more plotting for specifics either in PMs or you can contact me at bigdamnhero. In terms of canon memories I'm down for whatever else you want to string together from her regain registry! Or if you remember some sort of situation that Natalia might've gone through in her main AU you think would be fun to revisit, I'm down.

Offhand, I can think of any of the following being potentially fun to explore in addition to what I picked: Her adventures with monsters on the road during February, some of her funny little not!dates she’s done with a number of people, and her physical therapy/pathway to getting her prosthetic.

In terms of other random AUs (or even memories from this current AU of AU) I'm also down? Like your Pokemons, your Scifi universes, your ... idk dating AUs? I mean feel free to throw anything at me, but if you want to pitch something specific, feel free.

This log is mostly just for dream walking but if you'd like to to event stuff related to other regions or some of the hallucinations in the city feel free to inbox me? And I may put up a new log(s) about that or an event log top level if I do I’ll link it here. ]

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A2

[argone]

[Kara stops when she finds herself standing in a strange corner of the campus. She rarely has cause to come up this way, except for visiting Annalise, so she's not as sure of where this dreamscape is as she'd like. Not that she has much time to register any of that.

A blade of some sort smashes into her back, shattering into a thousand crystalline shards against her nearly impervious skin. It comes in hard enough to throw her off balance, making her stumble and whirl, her flight ring the only reason she doesn't fall.

Taking off, she narrowly avoids two more of the strange blades slashing across where she'd been.]

Holy hell, what is going on?

[Scanning for the source, she continues to move, flitting from place to place, the cape provided by the dream flapping behind her.]

[nachetanya]

[ In the center of it, as it was when this was real, is Natalia. Her red eyes are wide, and she's unfocused, looking manic and disturbed. Her arms are moving in small little circular motions as she - without intending to - whirls the blades around her. They have already injured many people who are less lucky in terms of their skin. In fact, Eren's lost an arm there (though he's quickly leaving the scene, having supplied the most blood) ]

[argone]

[Holy. Shit.

Natalia.

What?!

Kara moves. Really moves, blitzing down towards Natalia and trying to grab her, shoving her hands through the wall of blades. It's a dream, she's sure, and she's also sure she can count on her somehow impossible durability to try and take her by the shoulders.]

Hey! Hey! Whatever you're doing, you need to stop!

[nachetanya]

[ She's very, very distracted.

She's very out of it. Still, to have blades upon blades shatter against her skin (though likely ripping anything they can rip on Kara like her clothes or purse or whatever else she has which is sliceable), Natalia's red eyes barely focus on the other woman getting closer to her. Taking on the role of a cat eared girl...

And she mutters, ]

Rip them apart...?

[ Was... ]

[argone]

[Kara's shirt and the leather jacket she was wearing are definitely quite shredded. The cape, for whatever reason, seems perfectly fine despite flapping into the way of some of the blades...]

Natalia!

[She squeezes, hard enough to likely cause some pain.]

Natalia, wake the fuck up! You have to stop this! People are getting hurt!

[nachetanya]

[ Ot does cause pain, and it does .... somewhat collect her. Her arms at least stop moving, causing all of the blades to stop precisely where they are in mid-air. She trie to focus his eyes on Kara, to the sound and cause of her pain.

It's... ]

[argone]

[Kara pushes forward the rest of the way, wrapping Natalia up in her arms, and swirling her cape around the two of them...]

It's time to stop, Natalia. If you can hear me, please stop.

[nachetanya]

[ Her eyes focus and as she does, she feels the arms around her. It's that more than anything, the role of Kara coming to be assumed in this moment that sees her gasping a little. He recognizes where she is, and this moment, glancing around at the blonde hair (was it blonde...?) and ... ah... ]

Again...?

[ She's here again. She lowers her arms completely, limp to her sides, as the blades shatter. There's still a lot of blood, injured people. She can smell it, really. ]

[argone]

[Kara, blonde as blonde can be, waits until all of the blades are dropped before she steps back. Her arms remain half raised, ready to grab again, though she tries to keep to a more relaxed, non-accusatory posture.]

What happened, Natalia?

[...Because this was clearly a memory or a repeated nightmare, with a statement like that.]

c1

[reaquila]

[ Nanashi's so surprised every time he sees a lizard person. He's still a human thankfully!! So he approaches Natalia and nods.]

Sure, I'll go with you. Hey Nat. What's the deal with them?

[He points towards the lizard people in the distance.]

[nachetanya]

I'm pretty sure they're just people too! Aren't their scales gorgeous?!

[ Her hands (both hands!) reach out and make to take both of his hands in hers, excited for her ability to do that.

Her left arm is notably not as warm as the right. ]

[reaquila]

[Nanashi takes another look at one of those people with lizard features. He perks up and nods.]

Now that you mention it...the scales do look kind of cool.

[It's odd how Natalia's arm is slightly cold. She might not want to talk about it in detail, but he has to ask: ]

Are you feeling okay?

[nachetanya]

Of course, I'm feeling great!

[ She has two arms. Sure, the left one, instead of being a prosthesis is now some off-color somewhat cold thing, but she can wiggle the fingers on both arms. Which, in fact, she will. ]

[reaquila]

Okay!! I'm worried because this place is weird.

[It's gotta be Natalia's dreams and it could be having an effect on her too.]

Do you normally dream of crap like this?

[nachetanya]

What's crap about this?

[ She turns with a little pout!! ]

[reaquila]

How odd everything seems? Nat, it's not normal!!!

[Unless it's normal for her then he's wrong about everything and rip.]

I thought these guys were enthusiastic cosplayers at first.

[nachetanya]

Nanashi, this is amazing.

[ she frowns a little, glancing down at her left arm and flexing her fingers... ]

It'd be better like this.

B1

[flametheif40]

[Al sees the small child in rags and his heart practically breaks, he gets a little closer to her and speaks gently, no idea if there was anyone else around, as he focuses solely on the lone child]

Hey there...are you all alone?

[He tries to go down on a knee to make himself smaller, less threatening, smiling gently trying to be he person he wished was around for him when he was in a similar situation]

My name is Al, whats yours?

[nachetanya]

[ There is no one there! But her eyes are wide, looking up at the older boy, as if she isn't quite sure if she needs to be ready to run or not. But that corrects just as easily, and despite her ragged appearance she holds herself with a fairly refined dignity.

She speaks, ]

You're not one of Barbitt's men?

[flametheif40]

[Bar who? Must be some crime boss or something, poor girl is probably on the run...question is, she a fighter, or a thief...those are the only ways to survive alone I can think of...]

[He shakes his head]

No idea who you are talking about, I don't even know where I am.

[nachetanya]

You don't, mister...? This isn't your house either...?

[ . . . Oh.

That's good, probably. ]

[flametheif40]

[He just shakes his head, well crap, what now?]

We probably shouldn't stay here, someone is going to get mad if they see us.

Is there anywhere else we could go? Ideally where there are lots of people so I can steal us some food, or money?

Or do we want to hide? Your call

[nachetanya]

[ . . . ]

You're... a thief? Are you stealing from this house, mister?

[flametheif40]

[He shakes his head and sighs, why does she care?]

No, I don't steal from shops or houses. I only steal from people, and only what I need

I'm just worried about you, your alone, in rags, probably running away from whoever Lord...whatever his...

[A thought suddenly came to his head, then blushes ]

wait...

this is your home isn't it?

[nachetanya]

[ Oh... uh... ]

No, it isn't... but I was so tired, I needed some rest...