rubi: dreamwalking opt-in

[pharmacy]

In high school, Quentin’s mind was invaded by “dream demon” Freddy Kreuger. Over the course of years of fighting to get Kreuger out and survive to wake again, Quentin developed an ability common to Freddy’s victims: dreamwalking.



Dreamwalking starts with total agency in his dreams and expands with practice into total agency in other people’s dreams. Eventually, again with practice and familiarity with a given person’s dreamscape, this ability can grow into being able to act on another person in their sleep and having it affect their body in the real world.

Especially when he’s in proximity to people, there’s a chance that Quentin has wandered into the dreams of people around him. I default to assuming he has NOT been in any given person’s dreams, but I’d also love to open up the opportunity if folks want some psychic mess out there. If Quentin has been able to see your chara’s dreams, please fill out this form:

<b>Character:</b> <b>Frequency and Timing:</b> How often and when during the day do they dream? <b>Common Themes:</b> Recurring colors, images, events, and other observable trends in their dreams (IE: lots of red, always dreaming of cats, recurring fire dreams, regular people, etc) <b>Overall Vibes:</b> The overall feeling of their dreams, regardless of imagery (IE: calm, wonder, stress, being watched, etc) <b>Has your chara noticed Quentin?</b> Dream-savvy characters or folks with psychic prowess/sensitivity will ping that something is off about him. Has your characters noticed this?

If you want to turn this ability or any encounters they have in the dreamscape into a thread, feel free to PM here or on Plurk tenny_boo to plot a little bit.

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[poorlittlesange]

Character: Jin Guangyao
Frequency and Timing: frequently, and late at night/the very early morning. he doesn't sleep much.
Common Themes: glimpses of what he and his mother endured in the brothel (it was not a good place; he and his mother were abused and mistreated by johns and other sex workers alike); his mother's face in death, and his promise to fulfill her dreams for him; the violence of the Sunshot Campaign and the war; rescuing and caring for Lan Xichen during the war 🥲 (*suffering in bittersweet xiyao intensifies*); a great deal of torture carried out by his own hand for Wen Ruohan; his terror of Nie Mingjue; overhearing his father admit while drunk that he chose to leave Jin Guangyao's mother to languish and die because buying her freedom her would have been "too much trouble"
Overall Vibes: fear and deeply-seeded anger are the common base notes that underly everything else
Has your chara noticed Quentin? he might clock that something is Off, though cultivators in mdzs normally don't have any special capabilities.