Event Log: Dreamwalker the Second

[hadrielmods]

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for the Dreamwalker part 2 event
Where: In your dreams
When: October 14th-20th (the second log will go up on Oct 23rd, please keep the two weeks of the event separate!)
Warnings: All different kinds of dreams falling under the umbrella of Delight, Rage, Sorrow, and Hope.

This time, the weird stuff doesn't happen when you're awake- as a matter of fact, your waking hours are the normal ones. That's because you're forced to sleep by some unknown entity, getting more and more exhausted by the moment as night falls. Better make sure you're always around a soft pillow.

Once asleep, it doesn't get any less weird- your dreams will be influenced by one of the four gods that make up the first week. Something to make you smile, something to make you angry- or something that reminds you of your deepest regret or most vulnerable hope, they're all things that you're dreaming about now for some reason, no matter how hard you may try to pull away from them.

To make matters more complicated, there are others intruding on your dreams who definitely don't belong there, and while they may seem like manifestations at first, it becomes clear that these others are actually the consciousness of other members of Hadriel, getting some top quality exposure to your angriest, happiest, most sorrowful moments. Hope it doesn't get awkward when you see them tomorrow...

► This log covers October 14th-20th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► If you die in dreams you don't die in real life, but if you somehow die in real life anyway, please let us know here.

Comments

[restinglichface]

[Silence isn't exactly a part of Lup's brand. The woman usually has to have the final word in every conversation, always striving to be the loudest, to make sure she's always heard. But Taako speaks and Lup falls into quiet, just hovering there in front of him, watching his every movement and listening to the reassurances that fall from his lips.

He's saying they are good, so why can't she just accept his word on this?

However they both feel about the whole thing now, it's in the past. There's no undoing what she's become, and just as Taako's already thought up, Lup would be long dead if she hadn't become a lich in the first place. As much as she hates it, some healing takes time.]

Yeah, you're def an asshole. [She's swooping forward to wrap him up anyway, just to press her formless body up against his.]

But it's gonna be all us choices from here on out, alright? [That isn't something she can completely promise, but Lup will try her darn hardest to make sure Taako always knows what is going on instead of just springing shit on him again.] We're in this together. And when I manage to wrangle a new body out of Hope, I'm gonna noogie your head right off.

[pocketspa]

[He snorts, not quite a laugh as she tangles him up like spectral rope. But it's something. There's promises, which he's not great at, but he should be better. Too bad he's not a good person.

At least out of everyone, she doesn't care.]

Yeah, yeah, I need that head, you're the one out here who can afford to get a shoulders-neck severance package, alright?

[He shifts back to his work, but doesn't roll his shoulders or try to shake her off. If she was solid, he'd drag her with him, like a sister cape. Like a weight he wants to keep.]

C'mon, we either gotta make these or clean it up and chaboy doesn't feel like picking up another mess I made tonight, alright? Let's get on this.

[restinglichface]

[Taako calls for her help in actually finishing what they've started in the kitchen, but Lup lingers against him as he continues on with the prep work, floating around her twin so she could press up against his back. She props her bony chin up on his shoulder, watching his every movement from behind, barely there arms wrapped around her brother's middle.

He needs this moment of closeness just as much as she does, the promise that neither of them have ruined this precious thing between them. Lup by rushing on ahead without him and Taako for changing in her absence. As much as Lup tries to push his worries aside, Taako's not wrong in that they're both so different now, not the same youthful elves they'd been when they'd first strode onto the Starblaster.

But them having changed, both together and apart, doesn't mean their relationship has to. Nothing is going to change what they mean to one another. And no one, not even Lucretia and the Voidfish or even the shitty liches in Wonderland, can change that they were born as twins.]

Fiiiine, [Lup whines when she finally pulls away, like it hadn't been partially her idea in the first place.] Shame I can't help with the clean up, but y'know, no hands.

[She flashes her skeletal palms at him and wiggles her fingers, smiling under her hood, even as her mage hand is floating behind her to pluck a measuring cup from the cupboard.]

[pocketspa]

[He loves that she stays. Taako knows, deep down, it's his fault as much as hers for the way they've grown and changed, the pushing of fate and time. Maybe this is just what growing up means, but it doesn't mean he likes it any better.

But she's here. It will always be better because she's here.

(He will never let her leave again.)]

Oh please, you think I'm cleaning this? Nah. Into the sink babe, make boysquad do it in the morning as payment.

[But he does smile at her, just gentle enough. They'll be okay.]

C'mon, chop chop, let's get some shit mixed and prep for Magnus' delighted screams. We're gonna rock it, babe.