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- !plot: at the mountains of madness,
- aeneas,
- apollo,
- arha masaari,
- batman,
- ben 10,
- blin,
- castiel,
- dr mcninja,
- dustin silver,
- fate testarossa harlaown,
- fletcher tringham,
- goliath,
- grim eyes,
- haku,
- hellion,
- irma lair,
- jamie hemeros,
- jamie mccrimmon,
- kang,
- katara,
- kate beckett,
- kate bishop,
- kaylee frye,
- kazami shiro,
- komali,
- lex luthor,
- luke skywalker,
- lyle norg,
- malcolm reynolds,
- matt olsen,
- muraki,
- nura nal-dox,
- oethel negavera,
- paco,
- plays-in-traffic,
- reinforce zwei,
- rhiow,
- robin,
- roxie schreiber,
- russel tringham,
- scarlet witch,
- sensor,
- shadow the hedgehog,
- sherry birkin,
- sofia mantega,
- stature,
- steve burnside,
- tali,
- temperance brennan,
- the vision ii,
- vivio takamachi,
- wyn callahan,
- xander,
- yuri otani,
- zelda and sheik
Beyond the Walls of Sleep
Slowly but surely, the nightmares have been chipping away at the mental defenses of the crew.
Even those who attempt to stay awake to avoid the nightmares find themselves too on-edge to completely concentrate their defenses.
And the Nightmare King has not been idle during all this, no. He has been slowly feeding off the crew, gathering his strength so that he may yet break free from his prison.
And he now uses that new found power, reaching out to affect the minds of the crew even in the waking world. Even those avoiding sleep will find themselves drifting in and out of their nightmares, bringing everyone a taste of despair.
After all, no one can escape the grasp of the King of Nightmares.
No one.
[ooc: OH NOEZ. As you can guess, the Nightmare King is getting stronger. As such, the crew will start experiencing waking dreams. These are much more subtle than the normal nightmares, however, and are more so depressing and surreal than actually brain-breaking. Mostly they would be miserable versions of the character's normal life, or perhaps even their life on the ship.]
Even those who attempt to stay awake to avoid the nightmares find themselves too on-edge to completely concentrate their defenses.
And the Nightmare King has not been idle during all this, no. He has been slowly feeding off the crew, gathering his strength so that he may yet break free from his prison.
And he now uses that new found power, reaching out to affect the minds of the crew even in the waking world. Even those avoiding sleep will find themselves drifting in and out of their nightmares, bringing everyone a taste of despair.
After all, no one can escape the grasp of the King of Nightmares.
No one.
[ooc: OH NOEZ. As you can guess, the Nightmare King is getting stronger. As such, the crew will start experiencing waking dreams. These are much more subtle than the normal nightmares, however, and are more so depressing and surreal than actually brain-breaking. Mostly they would be miserable versions of the character's normal life, or perhaps even their life on the ship.]
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He should never have even tried.
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"Vision? Is something wrong?"
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Jonas staggered sideways into the wall, blinking at the Scarlet Witch in startled confusion.
"[I...what...?]"
Had he fallen asleep? He did not even need sleep, technically. He chose to sleep sometimes, and there were benefits to it, but not when the Nightmare King was up to things.
"[What just happened?]"
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"[I...do not know.]" He put a hand up to his temple. Cassie had not actually told him that she just saw him as a replacement for Nate, had she?
His memories felt fuzzy. Indistinct. They should not be either.
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And what was that screaming sound in the back of his mind?
"[I apologize for avoiding you, my love,]" he said, reaching out and taking her hands. "[This ship does very strange things, it seems.]"
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"[...I suppose I did say that,]" he said. "[How strange. It does not make any sense though, does it? I still remember you, everything about you. Everything about us. Ask me anything, even the things we never told anyone else.]"
He was too short. That was probably what was confusing her. And while the diamond-shaped hole in his uniform over his chest was probably attractive to younger girls, it might be putting her off.
The Vision began to shift into something that Wanda would find more familiar.
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He looked exactly like her Vision. Jonas had said he shared their programming but this-
"Why are you doing this?"
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"[Of course it is real,]" he said. "[You were the one who told me that I had a soul. I know I have a different body now, but I am still the man you loved.]"
He touched a hand to the side of his head. The screaming...
"[I spend all night in bed with you, even though I do not sleep, so that I can be there to comfort you if you have nightmares. No one else knows that, do they?]"
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Wasn't he?
"It... can't be..." Was all she managed to say.
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"No, no. Vision, the second Vision, I know you're in there." Why was she saying this? What if that really was her Vision she was talking to? What if she was sending him back into oblivion trying to get Jonas to regain control?
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No no no no no no...
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"[NO!]"
He simultaneously shrank out of her grip and pushed her away, crumpling to the floor as the appearance of the original melted back to that of the second.
"[I'M NOT HIM!]" he shouted, too panicked to think about contractions. He scrabbled backward along the wall and floor, trying to put some space between him and Wanda. He had been gone, his memories as meaningful to whatever it was that had replaced him as the original Vision's were to him. But somewhere, deep inside, he had known. He had known it was wrong and he had been screaming.
"[I AM NOT HIM!]" he shouted again, if only to hear the words through his own hears in his own voice again.
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She didn't know what had just happened but there was a part of her screaming as well.
What if that really had been him?
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"[I- I am sorry,]" he stammered. "[I did not mean to...]"
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He had not known that the Nightmare King could do that.
He scrambled to his feet. "[I have to find Cassie- and the others.]"
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Jonas turned to go, but hesitated. "[...I will answer it if I can.]"
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He could lie. She had even given him a potential explanation for it. It could very well have been the Nightmare King, plucking something out of her head and putting it in his mouth.
But she had tried to wake him up from his nightmares, even though the latter had meant sacrificing a chance to have her husband here with her. And he did not like lying.
"[...I remember things that are not mine,]" he said. "[But I try not to, out of respect for the dead.]"
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