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bravenewworld2014-10-19 08:39 pm
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17 ♪
The Dreams
When Rise initially falls asleep, she sees nothing amiss, although the edges of her dreamscape have a hazy fuzziness about them as part of her mind tries to figure out why the cloying fog lately has been bothering her so much. Still, her "normal" dreams consist of a strange, shifting landscape that appears to be in the stars, high above the ground and looking down on it. There's a constant murmur, as of a huge crowd, but Rise initially pays it no mind, leaping among strange rainbow-colored floating islands without a care in the world, changing from second to second from singing out bubbles of pure color to cooking tofu with her grandmother to defeating all comers in some strange Pokémon Battle/Contest hybrid while shirtless versions of every guy she knows cheer her on.
You know, normal dream stuff.
Toyo and Himiko have come along with her into the dream - Rise's subconscious thinks they're a normal part of the landscape, but the Pokémon's dream selves are actually there. They are a little more lucid and are getting steadily more concerned about that buzzing crowd...
Before she wakes up, but a long amount of subjective dream-time later, something is causing the previous pleasant cacophony to warp and change. The floating islands become claustrophobic and close off, trapping Rise in a small space behind copies of Union's walls. The murmur of voices echoes infinitely louder, and words start to come through.
Rise is shaken out of her previous revelry and is suddenly frightened...and feels a lot smaller. Huge versions of her friends - Haruka and Michiru, Asemu, Chie, anyone she's seen kick ass in a fight - have statuesque battles over her head with all manner of mean and nasty Pokémon, even Heatran, which all vanish in puffs of smoke.
Cheer them on, Risette. It's not like you can fight for yourself.
"Whoever you are, cut it out!" Rise shouts into the Void, although she suddenly finds herself in a short-skirted cheerleader costume and staring at a crowd of faceless people bowing down to a giant golden image of herself.
Weren't you so much better off when you were just a pretty piece of furniture? At least you knew what you were doing with your life.
"I'm tired of this...," Rise says, as the faceless crowds dissolve into mist and the statue turns into sand.
Look, even now, you need someone to rescue you. What a perfect damsel in distress...
Meanwhile, something has sent Himiko and Toyo out of Rise's dreamscape. They look at each other, nod, and wander out into neutral territory to find help.
When Rise initially falls asleep, she sees nothing amiss, although the edges of her dreamscape have a hazy fuzziness about them as part of her mind tries to figure out why the cloying fog lately has been bothering her so much. Still, her "normal" dreams consist of a strange, shifting landscape that appears to be in the stars, high above the ground and looking down on it. There's a constant murmur, as of a huge crowd, but Rise initially pays it no mind, leaping among strange rainbow-colored floating islands without a care in the world, changing from second to second from singing out bubbles of pure color to cooking tofu with her grandmother to defeating all comers in some strange Pokémon Battle/Contest hybrid while shirtless versions of every guy she knows cheer her on.
You know, normal dream stuff.
Toyo and Himiko have come along with her into the dream - Rise's subconscious thinks they're a normal part of the landscape, but the Pokémon's dream selves are actually there. They are a little more lucid and are getting steadily more concerned about that buzzing crowd...
Before she wakes up, but a long amount of subjective dream-time later, something is causing the previous pleasant cacophony to warp and change. The floating islands become claustrophobic and close off, trapping Rise in a small space behind copies of Union's walls. The murmur of voices echoes infinitely louder, and words start to come through.
Pretty.
Useless.
You have a responsibility to yourfans
family
Rise is shaken out of her previous revelry and is suddenly frightened...and feels a lot smaller. Huge versions of her friends - Haruka and Michiru, Asemu, Chie, anyone she's seen kick ass in a fight - have statuesque battles over her head with all manner of mean and nasty Pokémon, even Heatran, which all vanish in puffs of smoke.
Cheer them on, Risette. It's not like you can fight for yourself.
"Whoever you are, cut it out!" Rise shouts into the Void, although she suddenly finds herself in a short-skirted cheerleader costume and staring at a crowd of faceless people bowing down to a giant golden image of herself.
Weren't you so much better off when you were just a pretty piece of furniture? At least you knew what you were doing with your life.
"I'm tired of this...," Rise says, as the faceless crowds dissolve into mist and the statue turns into sand.
Look, even now, you need someone to rescue you. What a perfect damsel in distress...
Meanwhile, something has sent Himiko and Toyo out of Rise's dreamscape. They look at each other, nod, and wander out into neutral territory to find help.
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[Rise's voice is muffled, almost as if it's coming from behind a wall, but still easily understandable.]
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[You appear to be engulfed in pokemon mountain, and if Elly knows anything about baby pokemon mountains, it's that they can get out of hand quick. There's no telling about the larger ones.]
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[The background image changes to a picture of Rise in the window of a very tall tower - one that merges with the weird walled structures in the foreground.]
She's busy playing the kidnapped princess again.
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Oh, wait. That's a sword. And she's suddenly in armor.
She's the knight now, isn't she? Oh boy.]
If there's a princess needing to be saved, then I'll do it!
[That escalated quickly.]
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Just play the role. It's easiest if you don't think.
[The structure in front of Elly takes on a definitely more tower-like appearance, and something that looks like a cardboard prop of a Haxorus stands between Elly and said tower. It shakes a bit, as if wobbling in the wind, and somehow an attack comes flying at Elly.]
[?????? used Dark Pulse!]
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That was going to hurt if it hit. Thankfully she was extremely fast and, dashing away, Elly throws a fireball at the cardboard cutout.]
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Wait, I know the line for this! Best villain role I ever even so much as read. Um, anyway, fire doesn't kill a dragon, so that's obviously not really a Haxorus.
[A general glaring feeling comes from the environment.]
What? Screw it. If I have to be the damsel in distress, I'm not going to keep my mouth shut the whole time.
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If you know how this should go, then how do I get you down from there?
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Well, if this is a story...
The fairy tales you're getting this from are too dumb to contemplate in real life.
Where I'm getting this from?
I'm just trying to save you gaining forty feet of hair, here.
[Rise shakes her head, almost trying to clear it.]
If this was a story, I'd have walked off the set of the adaptation! This whole thing is stupid!
[For whatever reason, this makes the tower disappear. The smoldering "Haxorus" is still there, though, and it causes an Ominous Wind to blow at Elly.]
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There! That thing!
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