Strange dreams.
May. 12th, 2011 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinSo, last night while I slept beautifully I had two very long and detailed dreams.
In the first one I was one of my little-used superhero characters. She's one of the more powerful ones with more complex abilities, so I can't remember if I've ever even mentioned her in Star Harbor Nights but I've certainly never based a story around her. She's more of an idle daydream kind of character. Her name is Technica, and she's something like a cross between the T-1000 and Plastic Man. She can transform her regular organic (though super-resilient) body into gleaming silver technology things, with few limits. In her "normal" superheroing form she makes armor and weapons for herself while looking relatively normal, but when increasingly pressed she'll do things like sprout additional limbs (often ending with a tool or weapon instead of a hand) and becoming all metal. She can alter her shape and size quite a bit, to form vehicles and the like.
In this dream, parts of the earth had flooded and I/Technica was going around the ocean over what had been Nebraska, mostly while in boat or submarine form, taking care of a baby. It had been apparently been a few hundred years since the cataclysm that flooded the world and I found the baby in an otherwise abandoned drifting houseboat.
The climax of the dream was a fight against the supervillain who had been responsible for the flooding, during which I revealed that I'd spent the past two hundred years doing little more than being a boat and avoiding him while practicing my other abilities in secret so that he'd forget I was capable of doing so much more.
The second dream was very violent. It was sort of a mash-up of Dragon Age (the battle near the beginning where the king is betrayed) and Assassin's Creed (when the Templars lay siege to the assassin fortress, also near the beginning), only the attackers/besiegers were vampires ranging from the pale-pretty-people-in-evening-dress to the horrifying-twisted-rat-faced-monster-type. I was trying to broker a diplomatic solution between the humans in the castle and the vampires trying to get in. But I kept getting bit on the arms by the moral feral vampires, and also kept (somewhat embarrassingly) finding myself fidgeting with moderately sharp wooden things (like chopsticks or a tent peg) while in the company of vampires.
In the first one I was one of my little-used superhero characters. She's one of the more powerful ones with more complex abilities, so I can't remember if I've ever even mentioned her in Star Harbor Nights but I've certainly never based a story around her. She's more of an idle daydream kind of character. Her name is Technica, and she's something like a cross between the T-1000 and Plastic Man. She can transform her regular organic (though super-resilient) body into gleaming silver technology things, with few limits. In her "normal" superheroing form she makes armor and weapons for herself while looking relatively normal, but when increasingly pressed she'll do things like sprout additional limbs (often ending with a tool or weapon instead of a hand) and becoming all metal. She can alter her shape and size quite a bit, to form vehicles and the like.
In this dream, parts of the earth had flooded and I/Technica was going around the ocean over what had been Nebraska, mostly while in boat or submarine form, taking care of a baby. It had been apparently been a few hundred years since the cataclysm that flooded the world and I found the baby in an otherwise abandoned drifting houseboat.
The climax of the dream was a fight against the supervillain who had been responsible for the flooding, during which I revealed that I'd spent the past two hundred years doing little more than being a boat and avoiding him while practicing my other abilities in secret so that he'd forget I was capable of doing so much more.
The second dream was very violent. It was sort of a mash-up of Dragon Age (the battle near the beginning where the king is betrayed) and Assassin's Creed (when the Templars lay siege to the assassin fortress, also near the beginning), only the attackers/besiegers were vampires ranging from the pale-pretty-people-in-evening-dress to the horrifying-twisted-rat-faced-monster-type. I was trying to broker a diplomatic solution between the humans in the castle and the vampires trying to get in. But I kept getting bit on the arms by the moral feral vampires, and also kept (somewhat embarrassingly) finding myself fidgeting with moderately sharp wooden things (like chopsticks or a tent peg) while in the company of vampires.