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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:

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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Character: Gabe Rodriguez
Frequency and Timing: Fairly often. He sleeps at odd hours, ranging from extremely late at night, middle of the day, etc. depending on how restless he gets.
Common Themes: So, Gabe's dreams are split. Sometimes he's sighted when he dreams and sometimes he's not. The dreams where he's sighted are more straightforward and easier to interpret: a room in a warship filled with long, cold hallways, the sound of recycled air chugging through the space, the smell of bleach and gunpowder and Gabe inside it wearing black armor, surrounded by every gun he's ever fired and methodically cleaning his favorite rifle; a mountainous forest in the dead of night with mechanical laughter in the shadows, and flare guns shooting off as Gabe and several other shadowy figures run from their pursuers; the view through a descending ship of a dark ocean and shining, almost blindingly bright cliffs made of glass; several variations of him setting up and taking shots with his rifle, though whatever or whoever he's targeting won't be clear.

The other dreams will be harder to interpret by someone who's sighted and they'll come in fragments of black and red with hints of shadow, but from Gabe's perspective entirely and interpreted through his tech. He doesn't "see" in the traditional sense but gets data beamed directly into his brain so he can navigate. It's overwhelming at first and extremely hard to parse through. Here, the other four senses will be emphasized. He often dreams of being forced to kneel on a cold, metal floor with his hands tied in a line with several other people. They're killed one by one until he's the last, but then a voice says "Wait" and the dream ends. There's another, very common dream, where he's stalking a number of different people through the woods. They're panicked and disoriented, but he's utterly calm, and he makes them run for hours (or maybe days, dream time is funny) before he wounds them with his rifle and ultimately gets in close enough to put his hand on their throat as they die. They all seem to recognize him before the end, sometimes calling him "Rodriguez." The other, final dream is a much happier, calmer Gabe walking through a market with a two year old girl on his shoulders, buying marigolds. He shows her how to touch the petals gently, without crushing them, and calls her "Izzy."
Overall Vibes: Anger, tension, fear, loss, and a deep, abiding love for his daughter. A 90-10 split between Something Is Very Wrong here and a more genuine moment of care and connection for his family.
Has your chara noticed Quentin? His dreams repeat so often and he's so detail oriented that I'mg going to say yes, just for the hell of it.

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