Post-redacted threads + other nonsense

[lionson]

This post is mostly for threads with Shiro involving Redacted stuff. So either other time loops, post-game, stuff like that.

But I'm also throwing my other shit in here too because yes.

If you want to make a top-level just drop the name of the character you want in the header of your comment, I'm cool with whatever. Muselist is over here.

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[resumed]

[The dream bubble is new. He'll be the first to admit it, because he doesn't really quite know how he'll meet up with this demigod he's meant to help and as per usual, Hades had been his infuriatingly vague self when he sent his son out on a quest to control things across the globe.

So when Lalli actually steps into Nico's dream, what he'll actually see is a lot of darkness. For someone used to traveling by shadows, it seems as though his own dreams are equally dark and private. Nevertheless, entering the dream will find a younger teenager who seems to be walking through the woods. In the far distance behind him there's the remnants of a summercamp, as if Nico's just left to begin his journey.

He's quick to notice he's not alone though and he pauses, looking up and staring straight in Lalli's direction.

Perhaps it's a little bit unfair that he has an advantage here knowing a little more than he'll let on, but it comes with a price of its own. Instead, he stays still with a stygian iron sword at his side and equally silent until he speaks up.]

This is different. [It's not really entirely conversational, but it's a fact. Demigods are prone to having prophetic dreams, sure, but this sort of meeting is new. It's a way to test the grounds, too, to see what Lalli has to say.]

[silentscout]

It's your dream, I just walked in.

[For Norse demigods, dream bubbles are normal. It's a common way to protect the mind from attacks that might come during their sleep. And indeed, the space between dream bubbles can be dangerous. Lalli has just been traveling the bubbles for years and knows how to avoid the dangerous space between them.

But he doesn't realize that dream bubbles aren't a constant across the world, so he is a bit perplexed when he hears Nico's reaction to one. Is the dream different, or is it being conscious during one that's different.

Also, dream bubbles have the handy feature of built-in translation, so they can understand each other just fine here. No extra magic needed!]

Do demigods not go into each other's dreams where you are from?

[resumed]

[No extra magic needed!! Which is nice because Nico already has three languages under his belt, nobody needs a fourth.

Still, he seems almost perplexed when Lalli explains and he even looks over his shoulder as if his dream would explain what, precisely, happened. But he frowns after that and he shakes his head.]

Our dreams don't work that way. Sometimes we can receive messages, but normally they show things that are happening or will happen in our future. Like a prophecy.

[Perturbed as he is, he can't help but be curious.] This is something you do often?