Dreams of Paradise Meme

[disproving]

Dreams of Paradise

Dreams are wonderful things to have, they give us hope, they motivate us, they make us who we are. But sometimes our subconscious twists those dreams, taunts us with things long past, gives us things we can never have. What happens when the dream becomes reality? When you no longer know what is waking and what is sleeping? Is this world the fantasy? Or is it your dreams that are real?

How To:

1. Post your character's name & canon in the subject line. You may want to start with a scenario already set up or you can let others do the set up.
2. Others go to RNG and roll a scene.
3. Then comment on your post! Characters can know it's a dream or they can think everything is real. But if it's real then do they remember how things used to be? How they should be?
4. Respect each other and bear in mind some of these prompts might need a little plotting before you can dive into things.

Options:

1. Happily Ever After- The danger is passed, the big bad is defeated, everything is settling back into a normal routine. Bad things happened but the days ahead promise to be full of happiness.
2. Utopia-This is how the world should be. At least according to the dreamer. They may be in bliss but perhaps for the visitor to this dream it's nothing short of a nightmare.
3. Too Good to be True- Things are so wonderful here... so what's the catch? Surely if everything worked out this well something has to be about to go wrong. Here the shadows all seem a little too deep, the lighting a little sinister. Maybe it's you're imagination but it's only paranoia if no one's hunting you.
4. Careful What You Wish For-It's all you've ever wanted. Just this one thing that would make everything in your world complete. But did you really think those consequences through? Is this really the way the world is supposed to be?
5. The Price of Greatness- Well it's what you wanted, sure, but you definitely did not want what came with it. You got your paradise but the cost was far too high. Can't you just go back to how things used to be?
6. Is This Real?- Everything is so surreal, surely this can't be happening. Even you, the dreamer, can't believe things could actually work this way. It's too picturesque... in fact it's almost creepy. Stepford creepy.
7. Or Just a Fantasy?-The world you know is just a dream. This world, whatever it may be, is the real world. Everything you remember of your life up until now is nothing but an elaborate fantasy.
8. Perceptive Reality-It may not be perfect but it's definitely a hell of a lot cooler than the world you used to know. Whatever you were doing before bed has skewed your dreams, be it reading a book, playing a video game, or just letting your imagination run wild. You are now in someone else's canon. And you've always been there.
9. Paradise Lost-Once upon a time this place may have been beautiful, magnificent and wondrous, but now it is fallen into ruin and all you are faced with is the decay of what you once held dear.
10. Wild card- Mix and match or make up your own~

Inspired by That one SPN episode with a dash of that one Buffy episode

Comments

AkaRed - Boukenger Vs Super Sentai/Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger

[inheritstheredsouls]

((Please no 5 or 9))

Irene Adler || BBC Sherlock

[womanwhobeatyou]

((Willing to set scene if given a number))

Sam Winchester | Supernatural | open

[onlytobenormal]

((Any of them would be interesting really! I can set the scene if you've got a preference and would prefer it.))

been awhile since I watched supernatural, but sure!

[obeyseventually]

[[I rolled a 5, are you down with that or would you rather something else? I am also (unhelpfully lol) down with anything, haha, so do you want to be the dreamer or should I?]]

[onlytobenormal]

[[I'm down for 5, sure! You can be the dreamer, if you would like? I'm pretty much down for anything at all too, haha.]]

All right, hope you're not afraid of flooding...!

[obeyseventually]

[It wasn't really gold, it just looked like it. Maybe well-polished brass or something. But it was polished and golden in colour, almost shimmering, square, and fit neatly in his palm, etched with the skyline (or would that be sealine, with its location?) of the city it controlled.

The key to Rapture.

After everything done to get it, and everything it meant, it almost felt like there should be some great big throne for him to pose dramatically on while he observes his new undersea kingdom. But Andrew Ryan didn't believe in kings or gods, and so the next best thing was sitting in the man's chair in what was left of his office, in Central Control. Hah.

Jack's sitting back in this chair - which is still a very nice chair, despite not being a throne - and his feet are on the desk, crossed at the ankles. Because why not? It was his city now, he could do whatever the hell he wanted. He's not looking at the elaborate control panel on the other side of the room - but the key to it, which he's holding up to the light, flipping it through his fingers and watching it shine. At the right angle, you almost couldn't see the blood.

Andrew Ryan's body was still outside the glass wall of this inner office, in a pool of blood staining the hardwood, with his own golf club still broken in his head. Who would've cleaned it up, anyway? It's not like it would have to be there to be on Jack's mind, anyhow. Like the other bodies he's left on the way up here.

But that didn't matter. He had the key, he the power, he had the city. What was left of it, anyway.

This was the best possible outcome for him, wasn't it?

So why wasn't it sitting right. Why wasn't he happy?]

Haha, not at all!!

[onlytobenormal]

[Sam wasn't sure how long it would be before he was noticed, before the man he'd been watching quietly realized he had company. He equally wasn't sure if he wanted to be noticed or not. He was frowning, trying to make sense of this and what was happening.

If this was a dream? It was among the strangest he'd ever had.

If it wasn't? Well, he wasn't sure this was the ideal place to be. He could see laid out, in a pool of blood and a gruesome display. He approached cautiously, quietly.

One thing Sam knew was he didn't want to meet that fate as well.]

[obeyseventually]

[The thing was, having spent so long in this dying city - Jack's gotten really good at figuring out when someone was sneaking around.

... Okay, maybe "really" was a stretch, since he doesn't notice Sam until he's moved a little.

He tenses; the key goes still in his hand. Someone's there... but they're bizarrely quiet. Just about everyone left in Rapture was incapable of doing things quietly. Splicers muttered, argued, sang, cried. (In the distance, something wails) Ryan preached, Fontaine stroked his ego. Tenenbaum lectured him about his choices.

Hmm. Maybe they just needed a little coaxing.]

Who's there?

[Jack turns his head, to look through the glass wall at the hallway. Was this what Ryan saw when Jack came for him?]

Jack | Bioshock | anyone goddamn i love dream sequences

[obeyseventually]

[[Jack's seen and been through enough shit to make any of these options interesting. Just let me know if what you roll is what you want to happen to your character or to Jack, or something else, I'm up for whatever. ]]

River Song | Doctor Who | OTA

[riverborntorun]

Mewtwo | Pokémon

[faraway_power]

8 Oh heeyyyyyyy...

[the_lion_roller]

[Martin was sitting on the craggy side of a mountain in the Andes, staring out over the land in front of him. And he was dreaming. He was fairly certain he was dreaming anyway because there was a decent breeze blowing and yet he wasn't feeling even the slightest bit of cold from it.

That and the fact that he had no idea where Chris and the rest of the crew were at all, but was strangely unworried about it. He was dreaming after all, so it was okay. Maybe they'd show up later. If anything, he knew they'd be there when he woke up.]

[faraway_power]

[He was here again. He had dreamt of little else during his time of creation, and the location showed up again and again even well afterwards.

However, humans did not often factor into his subconscious driftings through the mountains, and so Martin would find himself being observed from nearby, warily but with open curiosity.

After all, it was a dream, there was nothing to fear so far as harm went. And even if there was, he was more than capable of protecting himself.]

[the_lion_roller]

[It was a minute or two before he noticed he had company. Not because he was distracted by the landscape...okay, maybe a little because he was distracted by the landscape, but also because his company hadn't made a sound at all to announce themselves. Or moved really. It was more like his sub-conscious had just decided to allow him to notice someone else was there.

His eyes ticked in the figure's direction, but he didn't look back right away.]

Hey there!

[He glanced backwards then, although the figure's appearance took him a teensy bit by surprise. If he hadn't already known he was dreaming, he surely would have known it now. It only took a moment for his friendly smile to return though.]

[faraway_power]

[Mewtwo watches for a few moments longer, then decides to approach. He walks up to within a few paces of Martin and stops, still cautious enough- even in a dream -to keep from drawing any closer.

At least right now.

Lifting his head, he looks up toward the sky almost expectantly. Though nothing happens, he continues looking.]

[the_lion_roller]

[Might be an alien. He was pretty sure he'd had dreams about aliens a couple times before. ...Not that looked quite like this fellow here though.

Martin watches him approach, one eyebrow going up curiously, his attention diverting up to the sky when his company did. It's not long before his gaze falls more level with the landscape beyond however and after a moment he sends a couple of curious glances the stranger's way.]

Nice view, isn't it?

Mitchell Dominic || The Secret World

[idkworldruler]

Hawk | Seiken Densetsu 3

[desertdaggers]

[[prob gonna be slow, but willing to set up if you'd like.]]

slow taggers gotta stick together

[obeyseventually]

[[So I rolled a 9, do you want to go with that or something else? And y'know who's dreaming what? :) ]]

high five? o/

[desertdaggers]

[[9 sounds awesome! uhhhh I can probably throw a thing together because canon is pretty good to me for this, but if you wanted to throw in some elements I think that would be cool too?]]

\o sure!

[obeyseventually]

[[Aaaaah, Jack's from a world that's pretty much a once beautiful place busted to shit, so uh it might be more interesting if it was your guy's dream instead, come to think of it. ^^: I could slip in some elements in my reply, then?

s... sorry, um, if you want me to start instead i could scrape something together... (tomorrow though because I think the smart part of my brain is asleep already...)]]

o/*\o

[desertdaggers]

[[ahhh yeah that sounds good! I can piece together a thing now?]]

o/[explosion goes here]\o

[obeyseventually]

[[XD sure!]]

Princess Ovelia Atkascha | Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions | OTA

[regal_innocence]

9

[yaninacan]

[Neo Arcadia had been a reflection of his dream, and his home. Sadly during his absence it spiraled far, far away from its once idyllic self. It pained him to learn during the time he had been away, reploids were persecuted and fell prey to the whims of the one who governed them all.

While the humans ignored their brethren to remain in a comfortable life. X had enough of remaining in silence so he tore himself away from the core of Neo Arcadia to the doorsteps of what was once his own home. He was silent, as he gazed up to the entrance.

The skies above him seemed to have sympathized with him. It was gray, and dreary like how heavy his heart currently felt. He hadn't wanted to leave, but there was no other choice.

Staying inside the walls of Neo Arcadia was not going to fix the situation at hand.]