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Interactive Dream 🛸 Days When My Mother Was There
Who: Futaba and YOU!
Which: Open Interactive Dream!
What: Just because you think you're over some trauma, doesn't mean a weird moon in a dream realm won't fuck that up and bring those feelings back to the surface! :D
Warnings: There is some heavy suicide themes/mentions involved in Futaba's backstory, and some will be brought up— regardless if they're true or not (they aren't.) Tread lightly.
Bonus is some mood music because her Palace has the most chill music in the game tbh.
Somehow, you've ended up in Egypt. Or at least, what looks like it? You're between a great pyramid and a small, rundown town. Should you explore the town, there's naught there but some bandits who talk about stealing a "great treasure", but all you find (if you beat them up and beat the treasure out of their pockets) is a map of the pyramid.
Well, maybe that'll come in handy. Otherwise, there's not much here but the weird bandits who turn into bird gods once you begin to fight them.
Inside the pyramid
Once you're in from the heat of the desert, the pyramid is actually cool... almost as if there's air conditioning on inside? Huh. There's a long corridor going up to a barred gate, and upon getting up too the gate, a familiar face(?) greets you, and she has a simple question:
"Why are you here? Why are you defiling my tomb?"
Depending on your answer, she may chat a while with you... or disappear and you get to Indiana Jones it by running away from a giant stone ball that tears down the corridor. Lucky for you, there's some narrow paths over a big pit of quicksand. Going back up the stairs will net you some extra rooms to check out. Maybe something will lead to the top, where the Noctaere Futaba has gone? In fact...
Murals
Three of those rooms, after some initial puzzles and trap-dodging, have giant murals that look like a slide puzzle itself. Solving these slide puzzles will show off one of three murals:
One of Futaba being read to off of a paper,
One of the woman throwing herself in front of a car,
And the final one of Futaba pulling on a woman's clothes, as if wanting something from her
Each one will have specific whispers, other voices talking about Futaba in a negative light.
"'I wish I had never had Futaba, she was always such a bother...' you caused your mother a lot of trouble, didn't you, Futaba-chan?" is heard from the mural depicting her hearing what is called her mother's suicide note, her mother yelling at her how it's her fault at the second, and Futaba asking her mother to go on a trip with her and being denied. It's not a great sight, but solving these puzzles open each gate to the top room...
But first, Noctaere Futaba appears again, in front of the last mural.
"I killed her. It's my fault. Before, maybe it wasn't, but something keeps nagging me, in the back of my head. Maybe it really was? Maybe I was mistaken. She was so angry at me for asking to spend time with her while she was busy..."
No matter what happens here, the Noctaere will disappear at the end of any dialogue, but perhaps you'll give her something to think about.
Pharaoh's Chamber
The doors to the chamber are barred, but luckily this dream doesn't have to have you change her cognition (unless you want to try to reason with her on why she should open the door!)— break part of the caution tape on the door and it'll open, bringing you to a platform on the top of the pyramid, where Noctaere Futaba stands. There's no Sphinx monster this time, just Futaba herself.
"Just leave me here. It's mine to rule over, anyway. Why have you bothered to come here? I'm not that important, just a selfish child who drove her mother to an extreme ending. You saw it, didn't you? You had to have seen it to have gotten here."
She's not a fighter, but she does have some abilities should any negotiations go wrong, knocking you back through the door, and sending another stone ball after you to dodge before going back and trying again. If you're successful... well. If you're successful, perhaps she'll tell you what really happened.
Wildcard
I don't mind some wildcards either, if you want to use one of these prompts for something else entirely! If you're familiar with her canon and want to use a different part of her Palace, I'm also down for that as well! Replies don't necessarily need to be prose, they can be action brackets as well :) If you wanna plotty something for this, hit me up in the Song discord (raini) or on plurk at![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
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Which: Open Interactive Dream!
What: Just because you think you're over some trauma, doesn't mean a weird moon in a dream realm won't fuck that up and bring those feelings back to the surface! :D
Warnings: There is some heavy suicide themes/mentions involved in Futaba's backstory, and some will be brought up— regardless if they're true or not (they aren't.) Tread lightly.
Bonus is some mood music because her Palace has the most chill music in the game tbh.
Somehow, you've ended up in Egypt. Or at least, what looks like it? You're between a great pyramid and a small, rundown town. Should you explore the town, there's naught there but some bandits who talk about stealing a "great treasure", but all you find (if you beat them up and beat the treasure out of their pockets) is a map of the pyramid.
Well, maybe that'll come in handy. Otherwise, there's not much here but the weird bandits who turn into bird gods once you begin to fight them.
Inside the pyramid
Once you're in from the heat of the desert, the pyramid is actually cool... almost as if there's air conditioning on inside? Huh. There's a long corridor going up to a barred gate, and upon getting up too the gate, a familiar face(?) greets you, and she has a simple question:
"Why are you here? Why are you defiling my tomb?"
Depending on your answer, she may chat a while with you... or disappear and you get to Indiana Jones it by running away from a giant stone ball that tears down the corridor. Lucky for you, there's some narrow paths over a big pit of quicksand. Going back up the stairs will net you some extra rooms to check out. Maybe something will lead to the top, where the Noctaere Futaba has gone? In fact...
Murals
Three of those rooms, after some initial puzzles and trap-dodging, have giant murals that look like a slide puzzle itself. Solving these slide puzzles will show off one of three murals:
One of Futaba being read to off of a paper,
One of the woman throwing herself in front of a car,
And the final one of Futaba pulling on a woman's clothes, as if wanting something from her
Each one will have specific whispers, other voices talking about Futaba in a negative light.
"'I wish I had never had Futaba, she was always such a bother...' you caused your mother a lot of trouble, didn't you, Futaba-chan?" is heard from the mural depicting her hearing what is called her mother's suicide note, her mother yelling at her how it's her fault at the second, and Futaba asking her mother to go on a trip with her and being denied. It's not a great sight, but solving these puzzles open each gate to the top room...
But first, Noctaere Futaba appears again, in front of the last mural.
"I killed her. It's my fault. Before, maybe it wasn't, but something keeps nagging me, in the back of my head. Maybe it really was? Maybe I was mistaken. She was so angry at me for asking to spend time with her while she was busy..."
No matter what happens here, the Noctaere will disappear at the end of any dialogue, but perhaps you'll give her something to think about.
Pharaoh's Chamber
The doors to the chamber are barred, but luckily this dream doesn't have to have you change her cognition (unless you want to try to reason with her on why she should open the door!)— break part of the caution tape on the door and it'll open, bringing you to a platform on the top of the pyramid, where Noctaere Futaba stands. There's no Sphinx monster this time, just Futaba herself.
"Just leave me here. It's mine to rule over, anyway. Why have you bothered to come here? I'm not that important, just a selfish child who drove her mother to an extreme ending. You saw it, didn't you? You had to have seen it to have gotten here."
She's not a fighter, but she does have some abilities should any negotiations go wrong, knocking you back through the door, and sending another stone ball after you to dodge before going back and trying again. If you're successful... well. If you're successful, perhaps she'll tell you what really happened.
Wildcard
I don't mind some wildcards either, if you want to use one of these prompts for something else entirely! If you're familiar with her canon and want to use a different part of her Palace, I'm also down for that as well! Replies don't necessarily need to be prose, they can be action brackets as well :) If you wanna plotty something for this, hit me up in the Song discord (raini) or on plurk at
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Ah, a kindred spirit. Pain in the same things.
"Yes, her. My mother. It feels like you've been through the same thing. Adults telling you it's your fault, that you shouldn't exist. Am I right?"
Though for Futaba, it wasn't just some shitty adults telling her she was worthless, it was herself telling her that eventually.
"You probably have yourself locked up like I do, in your heart." In his subconscious, where his cognition tells him the very same things she hears. "It's too much to bear."
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The boy rubs at his arm, considering the girl's words. "Look, it's not like I ever asked to be locked up. I mean, I only wanted my great aunt to notice me, but all I ever got for my trouble was six months trapped in a box and... Cursed."
He's not entirely sure why it came out like that. Maybe the nature of the dream has something to do with it? Whatever it is, good to know that he's not alone right now.
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A simple answer, but even with how emotionless she seems, there's a bit of empathy in her eyes, especially the more he goes on. While Wakaba certainly never did any of that to Futaba, sometimes she really just wanted to spend time with her mother and just... wasn't able to. But with nightmares exacerbating the issue, it's made much worse here.
"Cursed? Cursed how?" She was too, but... it could be different. "Adults have no right to treat us like that, even if we feel like we deserve it." Much like she does now. " I'm sorry."
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The girl's kind of creepy to look at, he will admit, but she doesn't seem that bad. That last thing she said, though? He's a bit thrown off by it.
"Huh? Why are you apologizing? You weren't working with my great aunt Cruella, were you?"
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Even in her case, though se deserves it. It's a weird circumstance for her, but for Hunter? It certainly doesn't seem like he would have done anything to bring out someone's ire, and certainly not for just existing, which it sounds like is his case.
"And no, I don't know your great aunt. Is she the cause of your whispers? Of your curse? Of what you hate about yourself?"
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He probably did. If he never tried to drag that big, teetering vaccum himself he wouldn't have spent six months in that stupid shipping crate... But he wouldn't have tried to do that if he didn't try to steal a bunch of puppies at once, and if he didn't try to do that...
Urgh. He can feel that unseen presence glaring at him again. There's nothing he can possibly say to explain anything, so he just... Nods. Once.
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If Futaba remembers all of this, well... they'll have something to commiserate over later, won't they?
"If this is too much, I can lead you out of here. Or you can stay, see the downfall of the Pharaoh. I'm sure something will happen to me here eventually." She pauses, thinking it over for a moment. "Or, maybe something will happen to the both of us? You're like me, even if you don't deserve it..."
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He turns to her with an uncertain, yet hopeful look. "I... Yeah. I'd like to get outta here, but... You sure you don't wanna come with?"
He's pretty sure he actually deserved some of what happened to him... At least the thing with the storage container. So leaving the girl here alone just feels wrong.
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But Hunter doesn't deserve it, not to her. So why be stuck here in a creepy pyramid with a bunch of traps and weird murals... and a weird, creepy Pharaoh Noctaere that feels a lot of hatred for herself right now.
"But I can show you past the monsters and the traps to the main room. You don't deserve to be in a tomb, no one should trap you in something like they did from what you said."
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"Hey! Wait a minute!" He starts, "Didn't you just say no one deserves to be stuck in a place like this? That includes yourself, right?"
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Rarely were others entombed with a Pharaoh, and so she didn't want him buried in here along with her. He didn't deserve that.
"It's what I made for myself when I saw it happen, with my mother. When I kept hearing all of those voices telling me I should die, too. when I kept hearing voices." So why, then, should she leave?
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But that's something he might have considered if he found himself here six months ago. Now he can't help but see some holes in her argument.
"You saw her die. That's not the same as killing her unless you actively pushed her into traffic or something. What makes you think that was your fault?"
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That's still pretty heavy guilt associated with that, even if deep down she knows he's right. Not that she could have done anything at the time— she did something later, but it didn't change the past.
"So of course I was at fault. No one wants a weird, creepy child who is also selfish, only pestering their parents for their time." Not that Wakaba wasn't also just as strange as her daughter, but that doesn't really matter at the moment.
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Hunter has little idea what the girl's family is like, but... He crosses his arms, glancing at the ground in thought.
"I mean, it's not like you could help it if your mum was constantly tied up with work or something but... You don't seem creepy or selfish to me."
Was something wrong with his shadow right now? It's hard to tell in this lighting, but the sillouette seems to have gotten his hairstyle wrong...
He's not gonna talk about it. Maybe if he ignores it it might fix itself. "And... Who even told you that stuff anyway?"
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Wait, was that right? It couldn't be... right? Her head hurts trying to think about it, so she shakes it off instead.
"But everything else you hear in here is family. People who like to say they're family, anyway. They just wanted an excuse to get money to use for me, but not use it for my well-being. Schoolmates who thought I was weird for what I can do, how I can remember things."
There's a glance to their shadows, and there does seem to be something strange going on... it's probably obvious when she looks at Hunter and back to the shadow a couple times. Hm.