Nightmares meme

[exeggutorhead]

SO, with our characters having had their final nightmares, let's have a meme where we can all share what they were. If you hadn't planned them out completely, or didn't have ideas for all of them, you can still go ahead and share whatever you did think of! Be as detailed or as vague as you want.

Even if your character didn't participate in the nightmares, go ahead and let us know what they might have dreamed about if they had!

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[doitrockapella]

Featuring in Carmen's nightmares are Chief the Kadabra, Zack the Porygon2, and Miles the Charmeleon — choices significant because they're sort of her favorites of the roster, in that Chief was her starter, and Zack and Miles are her babies in various capacities.

Her first nightmare invoked a particular canon reference from her personal history: when she was about sixteen years old (and still a detective), she worked a case pursuing the man who would ultimately prove to be one of the series' Big Bads, an ocean-themed psychopath named Dr. Gunnar Maelstrom. In the course of that pursuit, there was a point where Carmen got kicked into a holding tank containing a giant squid (yeah, I know, 90's edutainment), and it ended up grabbing her and pulling her under such that she couldn't get free. In her actual memory, her partner the Chief came to bail her out before she drowned; in her nightmare, she ends up perilously close to drowning before Chief the Kadabra shows up to get her free of it.

Her second nightmare was simpler and more Route-focused; she dreamed of having Zack stolen and forcibly evolved in front of her, playing off of the idea that it takes a Dubious Disc to evolve a Porygon2 into a Porygon-Z, and that Porygon-Z are suggested to have a glitch or corruption in their code that wasn't present in a Porygon2. And because you can't undo an evolution, it was basically a nightmare of having Zack taken away and irreparably harmed right in front of her, and there being ultimately nothing she could do about it.

Her third nightmare invoked some of her former CR with Special Agent Dale Cooper (and some mutual themes in their backstories); Carmen's earliest memory is of escaping a fire that she believes killed her parents, and fire figures heavily into Twin Peaks as a theme of evil and so on and so forth. Also, when Miles the Charmeleon was born (as Miles the Charmander), he was born scrawny and sick and had difficulty keeping his tail flame lit, despite the fact that he's quite possibly the most overpowered babything on her entire roster. So this nightmare involved Carmen and Cooper staying up late like good parents to watch over poor sickly Miles, after which Miles accidentally set fire to the house and Cooper* proceeded to hold onto Carmen and keep her trapped in there with him such that they both died in the fire.

As you can see, she had an excellent series of nights here. :|b


*For those familiar with Twin Peaks, it may not have Actually Been Coop, if you know what I mean.