dream walking permissions

[hierophants]

D R E A M E R

In Solas' world, Thedas, he is what is known as a somniari, or Dreamer. Basically, this means he is a powerful lucid dreamer, and able to bend and control the Fade - or the land of dreams - to his will. Solas is extraordinarily skilled at this, and manages to do it safely; a skill beyond most Dreamers, since it is far too easy for them to attract demons who seek to possess them. Solas primarily uses this skill to walk through the different realms of the Fade, mostly to watch what spirits act out in memory of things that happen in the waking world. He has purposely gone to ruins to watch the history and lost memories come to life again, and learn what most people could only dream of ever seeing. But, due to his power, Solas is able to walk into other people's dreams, see what happens during them or even afterwards, and even control and shape those dreams if he so chooses to. This power understandably brings a sense of fear to many who know of Dreamers and their abilities, as they could potentially kill or gravely harm someone in their sleep by altering their dreams. Solas does not seem particularly interested in this, mostly using his skills to navigate and explore, but the potential still remains. If your character would not like Solas to have access to their dreams, be it due to personal preference or conflicting abilities, please post here! Solas is polite enough to leave well enough alone, and will not bring up what happens in most dreams unless he 1) finds it interesting or 2) fears for the dreamer. If you don't want him to interact with or see your dreams at all, totally cool! Just let me know here so I know it's off limits. Alternatively: would you like this strange, eggy man to visit your character in their dreams? Have an idea for a dream plot? Want him to get them out of nightmare land, or shape their dreams for some reason? Scare the absolute willies out of them? Let me know here! I'd love to have him use his dream walking powers.

Comments

[terraria]

You have the go ahead and send Solas into Aspen's dreams! There's going to be a lot of grand, sweeping vistas and it'll almost always have a component of flying, but possible nightmares are extremely triggery (see his infopage here, it has warnings.) There are some memories that Aspen is unable to fully comprehend or remember due to amnesia but could be clarified due to a similar power in his canon, so if you're interested in a plot like that, let me know!

[worldinnovator]

I am definitely volunteering for dreamwalking if you need a dreamscape to send him through. Sinbad's dreamscape is probably *mostly* fantasy Arabia, especially centered around the island country he calls home, but as he's a world traveler, there'd be a lot of different landscapes in his memories from deserts to the steppes to high snowy mountain ranges etc.

The potential different part that Solas might encounter in his dreams is that he might end up confronted if he comes into them - not by Sinbad himself (at least not consciously) but Sinbad has attained the power of 7 djinn in his world and they've sworn themselves to him and his cause. In his world Djinn basically have the power of deities or Flemeth-like levels of power/mischief/knowledge. So they might approach him should he wander in, either in their natural forms, or how Sinbad appears when he is actively channeling their power through himself. They'd probably be as equally curious of Solas in return, honestly.

But if this is something you'd be interested in, let me know!

[godbless]

i'm always up for eggs

i'm totally okay with dream-visiting! something that might be cool is having solas see kirei's dreams of his past memories of life with his wife and daughter—anything concerning his wife in particular can be really traumatic for him. something that's important to note (i will be putting up info about this on his journal, too!) is kirei is a walking trigger warning, though, so i'd want to check in with you about preferences and such before we thread just so everything stays comfy!

[semifreakingnormal]

Absolutely feel free to wander through Scott's dreams! I love writing dreams/nightmares/all that bullshit, and Scott's been known to occasionally sleepwalk after becoming a werewolf, so I bet we could come up with a solid side plot!

[witwanton]

I am so down for dream plots if Solas wants to take a peek around Camelot.

Pandora - Permissions.

[littlepandora]

1. Dreamwalk these dreams, please.
2. She commonly has nightmares about the night her mother was killed and she was kidnapped. She also has dreams about when she was just a spirit (though she doesn't remember it as such), and dreams processing other people's thoughts and memories.

Re: Pandora - Permissions.

[hierophants]

re 2: OH GOD solas will probably figure out she's a spirit or like, a human touched/in symbiosis with a spirit pretty quickly if so, would you want solas talking with her re: that

Re: Pandora - Permissions.

[littlepandora]

2. Yes, good. But also, if you want to complicate it, her self-image is formed by the minds around her so this Pandora now in strange places doing things that might look mage-like? IDK I'm open.

[hierophants]

👌 a plan is made

[samahl]

Please have Solas dream walk through Cyril's dreams. We could have some really awesome, trippy threads about it and it would be lovely. I need him to show up and Cyril be like "oh hey" to him and then show him bits of their friendship because he dreams about Solas's friendship a lot.

[bowstring]

You totally have permission to dream walk through Sathrian's or Shinsou's dreams. I doubt he would walk through Shinsou's because lol teenage boy but yes. You know you can talk to me and we'll plot stuff out if it happens. X(

[child_of_bhaal]

I'm all for it, if he wants to walk into her dreams at all. That being said, let me explain a bit about them, as she is not a normal dreamer.

Canonly, Syeira doesn't dream in the normal way. Since being on her own, she began having dreams that were extremely vivid and real. Often they were dark and violent, and a voice would speak to her, which she would be able to still hear the echo of when she woke up. This was the Taint within her blood, the Essence of Bhaal, her father. And it is trying to corrupt her.

As of her current canon, Bhaal's presence has escalated to physical manifestations in her dreams, rather than just a disembodied voice. It's violent and cruel, and will take on shapes just to manipulate her or cause her emotional distress. Or both.

Also canonly, the Taint really doesn't like to be poked at. A Fortune Teller once tried to read her, and she was assailed by horrible visions, which she would not describe, but it left her weak and unable to read others for a while after.

I don't think Solas would have as much trouble as the average fortune teller, with how powerful he is. I think his abilities would remain the same within her dreams, as well. He'd just have something equally as aware of his presence.

[goldrighthand]

Permission granted for doomboi here on both; his natural dreams probably tend towards conflict and strife just because that's...often on his mins anyway so lol

[ex_serum683]

pls walk through steve's dreams; his are mostly depressing dreams about being in the ice, or wwii, or totally mundane sadness errands while feeling totally numb to how intensely depressing his life actually is. he also specifically has nightmares of bucky falling off the train over and over and over and never being able to save him.