reanimated: (what the absolute fuck)
Nathan Young ([personal profile] reanimated) wrote in [community profile] thoughtformed2011-08-05 04:03 pm

YOU BURIED ME ALIVE, YOU DICKS

WHAT: So I heard you like dreams about being buried alive.
WHO: Anyone and everyone!
WHEN: Any point during the nighttime hours of Thursday - Sunday.

Nathan's growing tired of dreams within dreams. As a child, he trained himself to wake up from nightmares when they got too bad — one absent parent and one working double time to pick up the slack meant no crying to mummy in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, immortality has made this more difficult. Of course.

Sexy times with a faceless lady had turned into being ripped apart limb from limb, so he shakes himself from the dream. Wake up. Wake the fuck up. You're dreaming. His eyes open — but it's still dark, unnaturally so. Nathan lifts his hands and finds they meet solid wood, not more than six inches away from his face. "For fuck's sake," he mutters. No amount of telling himself to wake up will work at this point. Got to find a way out.

Odd, this feels more lucid than most of his dreams, so he resigns himself to banging on the coffin lid. Underground or not? Once he got out, only to find the coffin was at the bottom of the ocean. That's just uncalled for, subconscious.

"Oi, help me!" he yells, like he always does, like he did back when this happened in his own life. It didn't work then and it probably won't work now, but he hits and kicks anyway.

[identity profile] ariseanew.livejournal.com 2011-08-07 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
The sound of Nathan's voice draws Aradia, who has, until now, been wandering rather aimlessly. She's not sure, exactly, of the purpose of a human cemetery, and so she has been stopping every once in a while to peer curiously at the engraved stones before moving on.

She kneels beside the stone bearing Nathan's name, and conveniently realizes she has a trowel in her hand. She stabs it into the ground, and leans forward, whispering a careful, "Hello?"

[identity profile] ariseanew.livejournal.com 2011-08-07 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
Nathan's voice doesn't come through, but the sound of him hitting the coffin does. Aradia jumps back a little. She wasn't exactly expecting a reply.

She grabs the handle of her trowel and pushes it in deeper, removes some dirt. It's not exactly the most effective method.

"Okay," she says, louder this time. "Anyone or any...thing, that's in here, I'm going to try to help, but I'm not sure this will work!"

After all, she's not sure what the rules of dreams are, here.

[identity profile] ariseanew.livejournal.com 2011-08-08 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
It takes a little while, or maybe longer than that--but it's a dream, so time is really not that important anyway--but eventually Aradia has dug up enough dirt that she can actually hear Nathan's voice a little.

She repeats her earlier greeting, a little louder, and continues to dig.

"I think I'm getting closer to where you are!"

[identity profile] ariseanew.livejournal.com 2011-08-09 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh! You're the human Karkat is always yelling at. Well, one of them anyway!"

Aradia offers him a friendly grin. She wrenches her trowel free, and twirls it in her hand. "Thank you, though!"

She peers inside the coffin, and frowns, "What were you doing in there, anyway? Is this a human thing?"



[identity profile] ariseanew.livejournal.com 2011-08-11 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know what happened to my body!" Aradia remarks. "Probably it just stayed there at my hive, since my lusus wasn't around to take care of it either. Besides, I think other lusi end up eating remains anyway..."

Of course, she smiles at him when she finishes saying this, like it's not kind of a creepy subject.

"I'm kind of immortal too!" And a well-placed fluttering of her wings places her next to Nathan.

"Sorry you died, though."

[identity profile] ariseanew.livejournal.com 2011-08-11 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
Aradia skips after him, sparing the grave a last glance.

"I guess--" Aradia starts, suddenly lost on how to talk about this with someone who's a little like her, but not exactly. "I guess that is one way of looking at it it! Sometimes I joke about it too, but I don't think I ever want to die again, you know!"

She neglects to tell him that for her, in the right circumstances, it can stick. Maybe she'll bring it up later.