DREAM POST

[murimurimuri]

Free-for-all dream post!

Make your own dream threads, hop into others'. Bounce characters off each other, try out effects, see what sticks. Anything you want to keep you can keep, anything that isn't working, it was ~all just a dream~.

ESSENTIALLY:
- The character does not remember their name
- Something else is missing/altered as well. Memories? Feelings? Abilities? It's up to you. o7

Comments

[whenitrainsitstorms]

It'd be faster if you were down here helping instead of taking a dinner break.

[Here we go - second building.]

[court_chesster]

Do I look like a firefighter to you?

[After saying that he checks himself to confirm that no, he does not indeed look like a firefighter. He doesn't look like much of anyone. Instead of moving to help, he swings upside-down on his perch to pick up a rabbit to pet. The next building has a friendly puppy within!]

[whenitrainsitstorms]

[Already on his way out of the second building with the puppy by the scruff of its neck.]

You don't have to be a firefighter to fight fires.

And anyway - we're not fighting it. We're getting them out.

[court_chesster]

[Hops down and reaches for the puppy.]

Don't pick at the semantics! I'm trying to tell you I'm not stupid enough to rush headlong into a burning building!

[The buildings are starting to collapse into piles of smoldering ash, anyway.]

[whenitrainsitstorms]

[Ffffreezes. Did he spend too long bickering when he could have been getting people out?]

[There's time for one more building, right? He sure is going to try. Ignoring you for right now, there are more important things.]

[court_chesster]

[And behind door number three is... a tiger cub! It's pawing at a pile of ash that has some human bones in it. Is it mourning its master or does it just want to chew on one? It's hard to say.]

[Meanwhile, outside, this loser has made friends with the bunnies.]

[whenitrainsitstorms]

[Should have left the bunnies. Should have left the puppy. People were in here burning while I was busy with things that didn't matter.]

[Grabbing that tiger cub by the scruff of the neck anyway, practically tossing it outside as soon as he clears the building. Then he has to take a second to try and breathe, coughing out smoke.]

[court_chesster]

[Oh no, this is the best rescue yet. Setting down the other animals, completely ignoring the other person, he tries to coax over the tiger.]

Heeere kitty~

[whenitrainsitstorms]

[Aaaand there go the rest of the buildings.]

[Just kind of. Deflates a little.]

[court_chesster]

[Peers up from the tiger he's petting.]

Why'd you do that?

[whenitrainsitstorms]

Do what?

[court_chesster]

Why, when you see burning buildings, is your first thought, 'I better run straight in there'?

[whenitrainsitstorms]

Because it's better than thinking, "I'd better sit here and roast this sausage while people burn."

[court_chesster]

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you got the animals out, but it's better to burn a sausage than to burn like one.

[whenitrainsitstorms]

I'm still here, aren't I?

[court_chesster]

Sure. You got lucky.

[whenitrainsitstorms]

I took a chance for a good reason. It paid off.

[court_chesster]

...Whatever. It's your hide.

[whenitrainsitstorms]

[Grunts and turns pointedly away.]

So it shouldn't bother you, right?

[court_chesster]

Right...

[Scratches the tiger behind the ear.]

And yet somehow it's still deeply irritating.

[whenitrainsitstorms]

...anyway. Pick up your pets. We'd better get moving.

[court_chesster]

Why? It's not dangerous anymore.

[But he does start scooping up rabbits.]

[whenitrainsitstorms]

The whole town ran off who knows where. They'll be out out there without any shelter.

[Scooping up the puppy, himself.]

[court_chesster]

Do you have shelter to give them...?

[Puts the rabbits on the tiger's back. This will surely work out for the best.]

[whenitrainsitstorms]

No. But I'll figure something out.

[This serious business face is spoiled somewhat by the puppy gnawing on the sleeve of his coat.]