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omniamutanturAs Dream is the living embodiment of everything dream-related, he has certain unique abilities! He's only technically the Dream of the DCVerse, which means his usual omniscience doesn't apply to most characters, but he still has a lot of stuff he can do.
Dreamsensing: Can he detect things you have dreamed about? If so, what might he detect?
Hopesensing: Can he detect your inner hopes? If so, what might he detect?
Talesensing: Can he detect if you have been in some sort of important narrative? If so, what might he detect?
Dreamwalking: Can he enter your dreams?
Sanding: Can he put you to sleep using his sand? Also, I will give a boonbuck to whoever figures out a better word for this than 'sanding'.
If you don't fill this out, I will just assume that none of these are okay and contact you if I have a question.
Thanks!
Dreamsensing: Can he detect things you have dreamed about? If so, what might he detect?
Hopesensing: Can he detect your inner hopes? If so, what might he detect?
Talesensing: Can he detect if you have been in some sort of important narrative? If so, what might he detect?
Dreamwalking: Can he enter your dreams?
Sanding: Can he put you to sleep using his sand? Also, I will give a boonbuck to whoever figures out a better word for this than 'sanding'.
If you don't fill this out, I will just assume that none of these are okay and contact you if I have a question.
Thanks!
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Date: 2012-06-18 08:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-18 08:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-06-18 08:59 am (UTC)SHELLY'S DREAMS GENERALLY REVOLVE AROUND: being an assassin yo. Being afraid of failure, wanting to be ~a good de Killer~ and all that!
EFFY'S DREAMS: Basically she wants to be as cool as all the people she looks up to, aaand I imagine a lot of her dreams involve her struggling with being respected by her peers.
Fffffff just ask me whatever you'd like to know óuò
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Date: 2012-06-18 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-18 02:36 pm (UTC)Dreamsensing: Madame's dreams center around her partner, Delia (a stoat), being made fun of for her physical weaknesses, her old adventures like flying on a dragon, and performing awesome feats of magic.
Hopesensing: Madame's greatest hope in SBURB is to get home. She also craves companionship and would hope to find friends in the game that she can rely on.
Talesensing: Madame hasn't taken part in any world-altering narratives.
Dreamwalking: He might get sideswiped by magic or creatures with large claws and teeth, but sure.
Sanding: Sure... and um... Perchancing? "To sleep, perchance to dream" an all that? *fails*
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Date: 2012-06-18 03:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-18 03:40 pm (UTC)All of that is in addition to normal troll day horrors etc. She doesn't have a steady supply of sopor, alas.
Inner hopes involve her kid growing up right, growing up at all, neither of them being killed, and knowing that she's done something worthwhile by raising him and abandoning her duties.
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Date: 2012-06-18 03:48 pm (UTC)Also, I am really curious about how the sopor thing is going to play out. The Dream for the Troll session is clearly very cruel. His sand is sort of like a superpowered sopor, in a way, so... (don't tell gamzee)
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Date: 2012-06-18 03:46 pm (UTC)Specifics...
Dreamsensing: Mary's going to be dreaming a lot about her sister Constance (who is as of JJ dead), about Cassandra, about Erik, about Stephanie, anxiety dreams, nightmares about a domestic paradise with her entire family, etc. Or, she would be dreaming-- except one of her selves died and no one's glubbed up a dreambubble yet, so she spends every night in the loving embrace of the Horrorterrors.
Hopesensing: To be in control, to be independent, to be in power. TO BE LOOOOOOOOVED
Talesensing: kerplop
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Date: 2012-06-18 03:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-06-18 04:08 pm (UTC)Hopesensing: hoping her family will be okay, hoping her family will be okay during and after World War Two which someone let slip about, hoping her friends in game will be okay, hoping the grand highblood will GET HIS JUST DESSERTS, the fast-waning hope that she'll get out of this stupid game alive and intact
Talesensing: welp
Sand...ing...: sure, if it ever comes up
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Date: 2012-06-18 04:43 pm (UTC)How did this get so long w h a t
Date: 2012-06-18 04:39 pm (UTC)Azula dreams of conquest, but also sometimes of her mother. In the latter dreams she is much younger and more vulnerable-seeming.
Hopes: Minoru wants to help people. He wants to learn more about worldgating. He want to connect with his past.
Azula wants to conquer. She wants to rule. And she wants to be loved by her subjects, but if you asked her she'd say she'd rather they fear her (and believe it; she doesn't realize how badly she wants acceptance)
Talesensing: Azula's fall from grace is a pretty significant arc in ATLA obv and you're free to be able to pick up on it; as far as she's concerned she's already won, so learning otherwise would be a nasty shock
Minoru...is an OC and therefore has no published tales. But every wizard, to earn their wizardry, experiences an Ordeal, which typically involves an encounter with the Lone Power, the source of all entropy and decay (not to be confused with death-as-part-of-the-natural-cycle) in the YW universe(s). If you want to sense his ordeal, I can talk to you privately about the specifics of what he experience for you to build off of.
Both of those would necessitate more conversation on how to handle them I think.
Sanding: Sure! For both
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Date: 2012-06-18 05:24 pm (UTC)Also nooo the Lone Power repented, why can't his echoes just be nice forever ;;
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Date: 2012-06-18 05:13 pm (UTC)hopesensing: Probably not oodles, in Buffly's case. A certain amount of suicidal ideation.
talesensing: Hmm. Yeah, I think so? I have been joking around with the idea of there actually being a Troll Buffy The Vampire Slayer show, but either way, Buffly is sort of the relentlessly archetypical hero type; most recently she saved the galaxy by jumping into a plothole or something.
dreamwalking: yes, Slaysters are canonically super susceptible to that kind of nonsense.
sanding (WHY WOULD YOU WANT A DIFFERENT WORD, HOW ADORABLE): sure!
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Date: 2012-06-18 05:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-06-18 09:11 pm (UTC)He hopes for a better world, people he loves to be OK (even GHB), basic hero stuff. He wants to go home. He wants to kill the Empress; he wants Redglare and Signless and Pyralspite to be proud of him.
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Date: 2012-06-19 01:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-06-19 02:07 am (UTC)Dreamsensing: He hasn't woken up on Prospit yet, so he still has normal dreams. I picture Jeff dreaming quite vividly, and getting a lot of inspiration for his writing from his dreams (much like H.P. Lovecraft did, and Jeff idolizes him). He also has a lot of bittersweet dreams about his ex wife. I think he'd also be quite familiar with Lucien's libraries, and just wandering through them would probably make for his favorite dreams of all.
Hopesensing: He carries one hell of a torch for his ex still, but his real hope is to find love again. He also hopes to be remembered for his stories.
Talesensing: Well, Jeff's a writer, so he's got all sorts of stories to tell. His own story seems to be just beginning though.
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Date: 2012-06-19 02:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-06-22 04:18 am (UTC)As Sirius is a wizard and has some innate powers of his own, I'd like to say that it's a bit harder for Dream to get into his head than normal Joe Human. He wears his emotions on his sleeves, though, and I'm happy to have Dream pick up on his subconscious hopes and dreams if they meet in person.
Dreamsensing: Not...really, especially now that he just goes to Prospit when he sleeps. He might be able to tell that half the time, Sirius had dog dreams. Otherwise it's a lot of normal 15 year old boy dreams, heavily smattered with nightmares that have to do with vampires and cages.
Hopesensing: He wants to go home and save his friends. He wants to never see his family again. He wants to be young and free and loved by everyone. He wants to see James. He wants Remus. (HOW he wants Remus hasn't really...developed yet.)
Talesensing: THIS one will get a bite. Let me know if you're not familiar with the Harry Potter stories, but yeah. It's a big important story, and Sirius plays a very flawed hero in it.
Dreamwalking: Sirius is already awake on Prospit, so there's no dream to enter?
Sanding: YES.
Gamzee:
SO I'M REALLY EXCITED FOR THEM TO MEET? I decided back when I apped him that Gamzee's aspect, Fear, has directly to do with nightmares, so he might be VERY interesting to Dream. He's currently still asleep on Prospit, and I think Dream should take full advantage of the opportunity to...do with him what he will - he is both attractive and extremely vulnerable. If Gamzee wakes up, I think Dream's free access to his mind will completely vanish.
There's a lot of Delirium in Gamzee as well - he's spent most of his life high as a kite and is still operating by a different set of mental rules than even most trolls who are weird compared to humans anyway.
Dreamsensing: Sure! Gamzee spent most of his life sort of in a dazey dream, and when trolls sleep without sopor they have hideous nightmares. He dreams of the sound of waves and an empty beach. His happier dreams are of a sort of twisted circus/carnival. Anyone else might find it a scary place but he seems to revel in the creepiness. His nightmares are just...blood and rage and fear, the feeling of his friends' flesh tearing under his claws, and howling alone at the sky.
Hopesensing: Yes. His greatest hope is for all of his friends to be alive and with him. (He considers basically everybody to be his friends, but Karkat and Tavros are primary among them. Usagi now as well, though he's clearly not really sure how to make that work.)
Talesensing: Gamzee is part of a very important story, but I think that's all Dream will get of that. It's an extremely chaotic tale.
Dreamwalking: While Gamzee is still asleep, definitely.
Sanding: For now... ;o)
Re: Sirius and Gamzee
Date: 2012-06-22 06:35 am (UTC)Anyway, thanks!
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Date: 2012-06-24 04:30 am (UTC)Dreamsensing: Sokka's apt to have all sorts of ridiculous dreams, but they would likely center around food, adventure, his father, the rest of the Gaang, Suki. Occasional nightmares of letting everyone down.
Hopesensing: Sokka's core hope centers around living up to and making his father proud. Plus the whole thing where he wants to be brave and strong and looked up upon despite not having any special bending powers. And also getting home + taking down Ozai + having a comfortable life after.
Talesensing: I suppose his quest to defeat the Fire Lord counts here?
Dreamwalking: Yes please!
Sanding: Definitely.
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Date: 2012-06-24 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-24 04:37 am (UTC)Dreamsensing: If you want to go ahead and say that dreamselves are dreaming even when the real selves are awake (which could be really interesting), Aradia would dream a lot about her death, Sollux and Vriska and Tavros, but also more mundane things like exploring ruins and digging around in the dirt.
Hopesensing: He'll detect a distinct lack of hope, or at least hope that's very faded. She'd given up on the idea of being alive again, but that's something that she's going to start have vague hopes of in the coming months. Also she wants Sollux to be safe and happy.
Talesensing: I think it might be fitting to say that her narrative has been cut short, and that he can sense that part? And that in spite of that, she has the will or reasons to continue existing and writing her story. This is all stuff that I'd rather him not mention to her, though, until some time from now - I'm going to go through a lot of development with Aradia, but it'll be a gradual thing and I don't want to dump too much on her too soon.
Dreamwalking: Provided that she has them, sure!
Sanding: Now this is interesting. Do you think that sanding might work on a ghost?
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Date: 2012-06-24 05:42 pm (UTC)Is that okay?
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Date: 2012-06-24 01:11 pm (UTC)HOPESENSING: He wants to go home and see his family again. He's also kind of scared to? He wants Signless and Troll Karkat to have happy endings, he wants EVERYBODY to have a happy ending, really. He wants the trolls to stop making war on each other and be friends. He wants to stop war and hatred and injustice. He wants to do cool stuff with science. He wants to REALLY UNDERSTAND the game. (And also, there are a lot of balled up nebulous feelings toward Theo and Sleipnir that he's not sure how to define but he definitely wants to be important to them.)
TALESENSING: More like somebody who maybe should have been, but wasn't? Maybe. Shit. His own family's narrative isn't that important in the grand scheme of things, but he's definitely a part of it and I would think that Dream might be able to sense that they're linked, in some indefinable transuniversal way, to the grand narrative all the trolls are enmeshed in.
Dream would also be able to tell right away that Karkat is one of his. There's little bits of Despair, Desire, and Del, but the lion's share of this kid is definitely Dream's.
DREAMWALKING: If he ever fell back to normal sleep, yeah.
SANDING: Sure!
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Date: 2012-06-24 05:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-06-24 01:36 pm (UTC)HOPESENSING: Usagi wants everyone in the world to be happy and friends with each other. She wants to be a beautiful bride. She wants a handsome husband and a nice house. She wants the trolls to stop fighting. She wants to see the Condesce deposed. She wants to save the world. She wants to be a hero and a normal girl and doesn't care that these wishes are self-contradictory.
TALESENSING: Um. FUCK yes. I think if he sees Usagi he will immediately twig onto the fact that actually, she is probably THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON in her home universe and if not THE MOST IMPORTANT, definitely one of the contenders. Specifically, that in her past life she was royalty, that she's going to grow up to one day be QUEEN OF THE ENTIRE FUCKING PLANET, that even now she's a heroine of justice that already saved the world once, that she has an epic true romance with Mamoru (not here and forgotten behind her memory block), that the bonds of friendship between her and the Sailor Senshi (also not here and forgotten behind her memory block) are legendary. (And he may or may not be able to tell that she's got a bunch of self-blocked memories of this destiny? Can Dream do that?) Oh, and that she's a messiah figure to some degree and quite possibly her universe's equivalent to Jesus/Aslan. .... yeah.
DREAMWALKING: If he can still do so when she's awake on Prospit, yeah.
SANDING: Yup.
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Date: 2012-06-24 05:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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From:Re: tl;dr about the silver crystal, sorry
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Date: 2012-06-24 02:47 pm (UTC)Dreamsensing: Another awake prospit dreamer here! Before Jake had mostly random dreams and nightmares of the normal teenage kind, silly dreamlogic story ones, and occasionally more pointed ones. Jake usually was in his own dreams, and his friends and aunt were too, but sometimes more filling "roles" in the dream. His subconscious would also use it as a chance to organize and sometimes give him a prod, not that Jake was really aware of this.
Hopesensing: Right now Jake is very focused on the hope of getting home to his friends. That takes a big slice atm. Other hopes are things turning out okay for his friends both at home and here, having lots more adventures, leaving behind as many people saved as he can, making up with his ex-moirail (his world's Vriska) so they can at least be friends again, and his friends back home mostly being safe.
He also might be able to sense something off(more about that below) with Jake's hope..? You know better then me how the abilities work.
Talesensing: :D Let me ramble at you and I trust you to pick out whatever for actual sensing.
Jake is a magical boy, which for his world means he got one wish in return for his contract. The contract gives him magic and some other abilities to help with his new duty, hunting down Witches. Witches are kinda destructive spirits who are pretty much pure id and live off despair and other negative emotions. More forces of nature then anything, they can cause natural disasters, and influence others towards murder or suicide. Magical children also turn into Witches, either by falling too much into despair or overtaxing their powers. Using magic consumes the hope of the user, so failing to purify themselves of this growing despair becomes a risk. I've characterized the magic as pulling Jake towards despair at times, as the goal of the system is to make Witches.
With Del she's been able to sense this offness, as I've described it as twisting natural affinities (I picture Jake as one of Dream's) and fracturing off a part to tie to Despair.
More personally, Jake is pulled from the beginning of a big story where he's playing a mentor and secondary character role. He's had some of his own adventures of course, being a magical boy for about a year and a half now, but that really pales next to what he's got going on right now. If you want more on that or the Madoka stuff, ask away.
Dreamwalking: I have no issue with this, just yeah, right now he has an awake dreamself so not much to walk. But if this changes, sure!
Sanding: Yes!
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Date: 2012-06-24 05:55 pm (UTC)Re: weeee Madoka Magica spoilers, of the up to episode 9 to be safe kind.
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Date: 2012-06-24 08:19 pm (UTC)Dreamsensing: Most of Murai's dreams with any kind of concrete setting are centered around either the farming community of Rath and the Temple of Ganesh that serves it, or the seaside city of Saltlace - Saltlace dreams are almost always horrible bloody nightmares. Her dreams also tend to have a lot of religious and folkloric imagery from a wide variety of traditions - since entering the game, she's started to pick up a little bit of Clown Cultism and Signlessism (both of which are probably fairly garbled) in among the mess of Hinduism, Meso-American religions, multiple brands of shamanism and ancestor worship, Eastern European superstition, etc.
Hopesensing: Most of Murai's stronger hopes center around stability - living situation, chain of command, mental state, and so on. She wants to be of help to people around her. She really hopes the other shoe will drop in terms of the whole "great destiny" thing, sooner rather than later.
Tale Sensing: Murai is recognized in her own world as a Destined Hero, although in what capacity exactly has yet to be determined. She's had a brush with a La Llorona-type deity in Saltlace, which nearly killed her and left her mental stability significantly compromised (she was doing reconnaissance at the time; her superiors didn't expect that the local population of refugee children had actually managed to create/call up a malevolent goddess). She's also played a supporting role in allowing the mythic cycle of a tribe of anthropomorphic hyenas to play out, in that she stood guard while others carried out a mercy killing on the fallen god He-Is. There's still a definite feeling that she, personally, is destined for a story of her own, though.
Dreamwalking: Absolutely!
Sanding: Feel free!
Also, I should mention: Murai has shown some ability to recognize powerful entities in her home canon - she knew what He-Is was by sight, and she's able to tell the difference between when the Statue of Ganesh is acting as a semi-autonomous representation of the god and when Ganesh is actually present (which isn't obvious to the untrained observer). Is it ok if she picks up on Dream's nature, at least a little?
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Date: 2012-06-25 12:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-24 09:04 pm (UTC)Dreamsensing: Ghost, technically, does not sleep or dream. Zhe does have a dreamself and in fact has "woken" on Derse, but it's more of a switch on/switch off situation. (Ghost is currently haunting a computer, so it literally goes into sleep mode.) Zhe can be where zhe wants to be, when. If Ghost dreams, it's going to be highly tactile and sensory, and focused on the "body": dreaming about being a bowl of hummus and experiencing the world that way, or being a spider or a phone or a table. Being a bird in flight. Being deprived of sense, too.
Hopesensing: Ghost wants very, very badly for everyone to get along, but it's more a kind of... wanting to be a pillar of stability, of clearheadedness, rather than a starry-eyed let's hold hands hippie kinda thing. Zhe's confused as to what zhe's supposed to do for everyone, to satisfy the game and hir personal quest as Soul of Self. Zhe also wants to pass on, some day, once zhe's done whatever zhe's meant to do.
Talesensing: Ghost has had several Things happen to hir! I'm drawing on several short stories/columns by Mallory Ortberg, not just Text Messages from a Ghost and Return of Ghost but also A Wizard Has Stolen Your Heart. (In my mushy and indistinct headcanon, Wizard comes first.) So many transformative journeys and narratives have already happened to Ghost. Now zhe's confused as to where zhe goes next, or if zhe dies for good, or if zhe's supposed to go anywhere at all.
Dreamwalking: Provided Ghost dreams, which might be true insofar as hir dreamself does "sleep."
Sanding: IF HE CAN? DON'T GET IT STUCK IN THE KEYBOARD
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Date: 2012-06-25 12:21 am (UTC)casually edits a million times
Date: 2012-06-25 04:58 pm (UTC)Dreamsensing: Yes! Archer doesn't sleep much and therefore doesn't dream very often, but when he does I think most of it is related to his past in some fashion. (I can elaborate on this upon request.) Gil probably mostly has mundane dreams of the "suddenly back in high school"/"suddenly late to work" sort, so nothing too exciting there, haha.
Hopesensing: Sure! Gil's hope are mostly of the, "Hey, maybe I can not die and then wherever I wind up after this game has finished, I won't have to constantly fear for my life and sleep with one eye open?" Archer just wants to get back to where he was before so he can resume protecting his Master and see her through the end of the Holy Grail War, and hopes that the Grail in this instance isn't as dangerous as the one he's familiar with.
Talesensing: Can you elaborate on this one a little? Archer is Heroic Spirit so obviously there's a story there, but he's not really a well-known one (because he's from THE FUTURE), and as of Fate/Extra he's more the spirit of a concept than the spirit of a specific person. (And this one doesn't apply to Gil at all, of course.)
Dreamwalking: Sure thing!
Sanding: Sand away~. (..."Sleepsending," maybe?)
(Also, I should note that Archer is technically a spirit, but he's able to take physical form, so...?)
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Date: 2012-06-26 05:15 am (UTC)The Talesensing thing is just Dream's natural affinity towards narratives. They don't necessarily have to be that important, but they do need to be larger-than-life in some way – for example, a wise sage who has learned the secrets of the universe and advised kings might attract his attention, even if little of said advice really affected anything. What do you mean by 'spirit of a concept'?
Also, jsyk, when I was trying to come up with a title for Dream Archer jinxed me TWICE; my first was Prince of Form and my second was Wright of Myth. I thought I was safe enough with an obscure, archaic word like Wright, but nooo! Guess there just aren't that many one-syllable words.
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Date: 2012-07-20 08:50 pm (UTC)dreamsensing: kanaya is a troll and a wakened prospit dreamer. she sleeps in sopor to keep her day/night terrors down, and they've lessened since entering the game. her dreams are unremarkable otherwise.
hopesensing: kanaya wants her friends to be safe, and to be significant in some way, more than just another jadeblood in the caverns.
talesensing: idk what you want to do as far as the Cult Of The Sufferer and their descendants
dreamwalking and sleepsending: GO FOR IT
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Date: 2012-07-21 06:24 pm (UTC)Hopesensing: yes! billy wants cassie to come back, everything to go back to normal, to train with doctor strange and become sorcerer supreme, to be an avenger, to marry teddy and start a family, to get to know his soulfamily (the maximoffs) better. his biggest hope in jarjammed is to get himself and his friends out alive and to see teddy again.
Talesensing: yes, but. I don't really have any idea, I'm sorry.
Dreamwalking: yes!
Sanding: ask me first.