Sandbox / Character Development Thread Dream II

Dream II

To prevent full thread chaos, writers should keep the following in mind:

• New locations that your characters find in the forest should be added to the "Locations" list.
• Like in the previous thread, writers with characters in the same Cast Herd will be taking turns to come up with new locations, but your characters can still leave a mark on places established by other writers, if you wish.
• While it is encouraged to bring things into the dream that evoke strong emotions in your character or bring back certain memories, be mindful of your fellow writers and make sure everyone has an opportunity for character exploration.

Locations

• Forest: These misty woods serve as an in-between place for the other areas. Distances are not fixed, so you can wander this area as much or as little as you like before arriving somewhere else.
• Farm: A small, well-used blue-painted barn and pasture, enclosed by a fence and gate. Strangely, it seems to be morning, but only within the confines of the Farm's pasture fence. Its animals are slowly returning.
• Ritter Clinic: A house/ medical clinic by a frozen river. The area around it is snowing heavily. It's formally known as the Gamino District 2 Clinic, but the people of Andelin have taken to calling it after their local doctor ever since he was assigned there.
• Wasteland: Arid badlands where the soil is red and dusty, complete with a barren city. Hot, dry and desolate. A deeply hostile environment... except for the Hakoda Imperial Academy nestled within the city, a safe haven containing a large garden with birds fluttering about.
• Ruins: The remains of an ancient civilization, with partially collapsed buildings and many statues and carvings featuring fanged creatures. The shadows of those who lived here remain, as do the shadows of the undead who lived here.
• Tranquil Underworld: A subterranean realm of memory and healing, in which lie unfulfilled dreams waiting to be made real and preserved beings of past eras. Its Gate lies under a small pyramid with a bell atop, which is periodically ringed by the Gatekeeper. The Underworld proper is an infinitely big upside-down tower inside a star-filled void, that combines architectures of various eras, inhabited by cursed people in various degrees of insanity, and their ghostly caretakers.^note No longer active
• San Francisco: From Lauren and Henry's memories. Two versions: hippie-era (1967) at their house, and 1980s at their warehouse/residence.^note No longer active
• The Eldritch Factory: Mysterious place of organic design, the place is much like a factory- Entire sections dedicated to the creation of specific components, such as The Forest of Bone (littered with 'trees' resembling humans reaching skyward) and The Heart Forge (a giant heart-like dome where blood flows like water, with hearts being grown) amongst other areas. Connecting it all together is Sanity's Descent, the only known way to enter and leave.
• The Graveyard: A place ravaged by ancient magical warfare, contaminated and twisted. The laws of physics are notoriously weak around here, with all sorts of weirdness going on.
• Misery Manor: An old dark haunted house inhabited by zombies, originating in a Death World, but recently re-located to the Graveyard. The interior of the manor used to be cursed such that its appearance and architecture reflects the deepest, darkest fears of anyone who enters, but now it's just an ordinary collapsed and abandoned house.^note No longer active
• Beta Town: A small city populated by unfriendly robots, ruled by a Humongous Mecha named Lord Metatronic. Originally from the virtual world of Mystrica, where the Elemental Guardians are from.^note No longer active
• Yukijou-minato: A port town where the Senjimese Navy's Northern Fleet is based. Located to the south are Akamori, the pine barrens, and Yukijō(Snow Castle), a massive castle complex with a five story main keep. The north part of town contains the harbor and naval shipyards.
• Twilight Ball: A lively gathering taking place in an open-air and open-sky (through a glass ceiling) hall with an aesthetic similar to Crystal Spires and Togas (minus the togas), in the twilight region of a Tidally Locked Planet called Orenya. There's a stage, several tables, and even a buffet serving every kind of food and drink imaginable.
• Marble Corridor: A plain marble corridor. It is lined with arched windows that currently show pristine snowfields stretching out as far as the eye can see.
• Field of Souls: An eternally dark wasteland with a powerful magic field that makes thoughts manifest as images. Contains crystals that separate souls from their bodies, which Ferisen also used to create her latria. Located on the planet Orenya, where the Four Bardic Sisters are from.
• Eight Wings Library: A Library from the Arginan Empire, maintained by the Church, were works of almost all areas of knowledge are stored, as well as preserved exemplars of both artworks and lifeforms native to Argina, numerous lesser relics and a temple (complete with sacrificial chamber). Its name comes from its eight curved halls, each with windows for a color of the rainbow, and a windowless one that acts as a deposit (and is very restricted in its access).^note No longer active
• Cathedral of the Four Swords: A Creepy Cathedral in eternal night, with a Weird Moon, a garden of dead roses, and spectral bells which play to the mind. Offers "baptisms" in two pools inside: one which evokes pleasant dreams and the other which evokes nightmares.
• Rozeta Marga: A once bustling tropical port city upon man-made islands, now an abandoned ruin. One of the islands has been overrun by kudzu.
• Magdalene's Realm - A field of bright yellow flowers created by Magdalene in the image of her ideal world. Its most notable feature is a massive tree that looks like a cross between a cherry tree and a rose bush.^note No longer active
• Shinkyo Market District: The busy and chaotic market district of the Senjimese Empire's capitol city, albeit the spirit/dream realm's Bazaar of the Bizarre version that consists of anachronistic Bizarrchitecture.
• Eneritan: A village in the clouds underneath the late afternoon sun. In its center is a gazebo of gold called the Hall of Healing, which is said to cure any ailment, and even reverse death. Unfortunately it's now inactive, due to a quadruple solar eclipse that made it fall.
• Garden in the Sky: The fallen remains of Eneritan, sitting atop a high mountain in Endless Daytime, containing only the white shell of the Hall of Healing, which ended up in its own location in the middle of the Forest. Needs flowers planted around it.

Characters

Active Troper Characters

Technically everywhere

• The Eyes and Teeth: (Killer Clowns) An Eldritch Abomination from the Void Between the Worlds. The source of Iveya's magic, though she doesn't quite understand the implications; and also the reason for Alice Winters's apprehension to magic. Has only animal-level intelligence, but a predator's dangerously simple cunning honed by vast aeons.

Ritter Clinic

• Friedrich Ritter: (Snowy Foxes) A grumpy yet hospitable country doctor who seems unfazed by the fact that his house has apparently teleported to the river by his town.
• Heinrich Ritter: (Snowy Foxes) A cheerful, carefree general store owner and Friedrich's half-brother. He supposedly died about seventeen years ago, but has appeared in the dream nonetheless, aged up as if he had been alive all along.
• Iveya ul'Uelshu: (Killer Clowns) A mage of the Eyes and Teeth, whose morality and sanity have thus far survived the effects of her powers.
• Henry A. Safon: (Mrship21) An interdimensional traveller from 1989 who has seen a lot and whose paranoia landed him into this mysterious land.

The Eldritch Factory

Heart Forge

• Noire Blanc: (Kkutwar) A strange human(?) girl wearing Guro Lolita fashion, she regularly acts casually- Yet effortlessly carries a BFS one-handed and performing air-walking, hinting at an unrevealed nature.
• Ashleigh Sable: (Ladytanuki) An older twenty-something woman with a modest and old-fashioned sense of style. Very calm and motherly in nature, and also Catholic and plays a violin. One of the Elemental Guardians, a quintet of Mon owners (Keepers) from the virtual world of Mystrica. (picture^note second from right)
  • Geisha: (in Scanner) An elegant eight-foot-long fish with the power to hop across waves that she can summon.
  • Ludwig: (in Scanner) A ghostly music conductor with a powdered wig, fancy coat, angelic harp wings, and a sousaphone on his head. Speaks in a strange accent and uses musical attacks.
  • Meade: Looks like the bottom of a sapling, roots and all. Can transform into the Goddess of Earth (Vertilia), a fully-grown tree bearing magical fruits.

The Graveyard

Crater/Battleground

• Caleb: (Novis) A mailman with Volcanic Veins. While he has a hard time accepting that the people here are from other worlds, he is interested in learning more about them and this place.
• Patches: (Kkutwar) A Magical Girl adorned in patchwork cloth. Cheerful yet clumsy, and containing a seemingly great power.
• Father "Gabe" Gabriel: (Killer Clowns) A flamboyant but skilled demon hunter with lifetimes of regrets.
• Saint Nemol: (Killer Clowns) A mythic being able to permanently kill literally anything, but only with their permission, and who considers it his holy purpose to eventually end all things, one by one.
• Half: (Novis) A shadowy anomaly that considers Caleb his "larval form".

Marble Corridor

• Seilaan Ren: (Snowy Foxes) A young noble who makes up for her lack of height with magical prowess, pride, and firm dedication to her goals, whatever they may be at this time...
• Mazra Ji: (nrjxll) "Lord-Heir" of the Corinarchi Empire's House Ji. A slightly heavyset young woman with formal clothing, features that look East Asian, and a fondness for dreams.

Cathedral of the Four Swords

• Lacriment: (Ladytanuki) Mistress of the Four Swords. A cloaked possibly-holy priestess in an owl mask.
• Ferisen Baoshra: (Ladytanuki) Backup singer/latria player of the Four Bardic Sisters, a musical group from the planet Orenya. Skilled with Psychic Powers and recently became a lich in the Dream, and is of a winged fairy-like species called the sumiri. Clad in green and purple; also goes by Fair for short. (picture)
• Milly: (Will De Regio) A undead apprentice White Mage who is traveling the world to improve her medical skills and hopefully find a way to restore her homeland to its former glory.
• Alexandra Rosendorn: (Will De Regio) A bispectacled, Bifauxnen vampire and huntress of monsters.

Rozeta Marga

• Abyssal Empress Narea: (Will De Regio) A descendent of a race of Draconic Humanoids from the Moon of Aria, and former ruler of Rozeta Marga.
• Durnem: (Ladytanuki) The first fylin (woman-fish hybrid distinct from a mermaid) to join the Oradamin, an elite crime-fighting organization on the planet Orenya. Adept at aura manipulation and other forms of Functional Magic, and wields a Magic Staff named Watimari.
• The Midnight Stitcher: (Kkutwar) 'Humanoid' man of unknown origins, The Midnight Stitcher possesses incredible physical attributes as well as the ability to generate razor thin tendrils that he can manipulate.
• Arizona (Kkutwar):
• Blank (Pyxo): A half-machine, half-human hybrid that happens to look like a young woman. Able to morph her limbs into mechanical weapons.

Garden in the Sky

• Claire (Will De Regio): Kleptomaniac Hero, Destructive Hero, and Genki Girl witch.
• Emriel Baoshra: (Ladytanuki) Dancer and drummer of the Four Bardic Sisters, a musical group from the planet Orenya. Skilled with magic, and is of a winged fairy-like species called the sumiri. Clad in red and white; also goes by Reel for short. (picture)
• Amiluet Baoshra (Ladytanuki): Cheerful instrumentalist of the Four Bardic Sisters, a musical group from the planet Orenya. Skilled with magic, and is of a winged fairy-like species called the sumiri. Clad in yellow and orange; also goes by Lute for short. Also carries a magic staff named Dureminda.(picture)

Shinkyo Market District

• Megumi Akechi (Will De Regio): Rin's Cat Girl personal maid and bodyguard. She cares deeply about her master. She's highly proficient in combat and nimble on her feet.
• Raven Nachtschmidt (Will De Regio): Real name Karasuko Ikatamari, she is a young-looking tengu doctor, currently on her residency.
• Rin Tachibana (Will De Regio): The newly appointed, sleep deprived admiral of the Imperial Senjimese Navy's Northern Fleet. Her icy proficiency is a force to be reckoned with.
• Adam (MasterofChaos): A Scottish teenager who's another friend of Nick. Not sure how he arrived in the dream world either.
• Jackson Ruth (MasterofChaos): A British teenager who's an inventor and Nick's friend. He's not sure how he arrived to this strange dream world.
• Marie (MasterofChaos): A teenage girl who's another friend of Nick. Much like the, she's not sure how she arrived, and is confused as to why her friends are injured.
• Nick: (Masterof Chaos): A teenage boy who somehow ended up away from his friends to...here. Whatever here is.
• Gliosem Baoshra (Ladytanuki): Lead singer of the Four Bardic Sisters, a musical group from the planet Orenya. Skilled with magic, and is of a winged fairy-like species called the sumiri. Clad in blue and black; also goes by Glee for short. (picture)
• Sinistrina von Schwarzwald: (Ladytanuki) A tired and raggedy-looking necromancer witch, banished to the Deathly Glade by her twin sister Lucina. Was the owner of Misery Manor and the source of its curse. Originally undead, but recently brought back to life in the Dream. (picture) (mortal form - in Shinkyo post)
• Friedrich von Schwarzwald: (Ladytanuki) A fancily-dressed porcelain doll with a somber, hallowed feel about him. Created/brought to "life" by Sinistrina. (picture)

Inactive Troper Characters

• Alice Winters (Killer Clowns): A small but deadly corporate agent with a passionate hatred for all things magical, still reeling from a nightmare about her boss and friend dying and making her CEO.
• Eve Chance: (Too Many Ideas) An eighteen-year-old girl on the run from a war-torn America. Stoic and serious, but not emotionless, and in fact has a good appreciation for sarcastic and dark humor. Skilled in ranged and unarmed combat, but not specially powered in any way.
• Phoebe Heatherfield: (Ladytanuki) A ten-year-old chubby cowgirl who always has a smile on her face and is eager for adventure. Can get a bit too energetic at times, and also a little homesick. One of the Elemental Guardians, a quintet of Mon owners (Keepers) from the virtual world of Mystrica. (picture^note on far left)
  • Peggy: A white unicorn with a rainbow horn and wings, and with a pole sticking out her back like she came off a carousel. She can carry up to two people on her back - one if she flies.
  • Fooly: A two-feet-tall ragdoll modeled after a clown, with orange pigtails made of yarn. Loves skipping and Rhymes on a Dime.
  • Zippy: A brightly coloured hummingbird that's actually bigger than normal. Can transform into the Goddess of Air (Zephoria), an insect/bird hybrid with large streamers and a crystal heart.
• Yamiko Murakage: (Ladytanuki) A shy emotional teenage girl fond of Elegant Gothic Lolita fashion. Has a bad ankle and two apparent boyfriends (Remy and Lupin). She entered Misery Manor in the hopes of rescuing Lupin (who is trapped there) and confronting her great-grandmother Celia, who put a curse on her family. One of the Elemental Guardians, a quintet of Mon owners (Keepers) from the virtual world of Mystrica. (picture^note on far right)
  • Anaissie: A strange pixie-like creature who is easily frightened. Stands about eight inches tall and has telekinetic powers.
  • Lorraine: A ghostly sorceress with an unfitting sweet voice. Specializes in black magic.
  • Melusine: A feathered blue serpentine dragon. Can transform into the Goddess of Water (Cerula), an Eastern dragon who can both swim and fly.
• Lupin: (Ladytanuki) (picture) One of Yamiko's lovers, a gangster (presumably) dressed all in black yet with a classy appearance. Has apparently been broken by the manor's curse, but won't die unless Yamiko fails to save him.
  • Artemis: A purple and black wolf who is calm and wise at times and aggressively protective at others.
• Hiroshi "Gon" Tsukimaru: (Ladytanuki) A nerdy Japanese teen with a contentious personality, yet good sense of humour. Looks like he just got out of bed. One of the Elemental Guardians, a quintet of Mon owners (Keepers) from the virtual world of Mystrica. (picture^note second from left)
  • Aki: (in Scanner) A dragonfly/firefly hybrid who can breathe fire. Is about three and a half feet from head to tail, big enough to rest comfortably on Gon's head.
  • Galaxeon: An extraterrestrial knight in shining armor (literally), enhanced by alien technology. Carries a very lightsaber-ish sword.
  • Triumph: (in Scanner) A golden salamander-bird hybrid with a fiery attitude. Can transform into the Goddess of Fire (Kinaga), a nagini (woman-snake hybrid) with golden phoenix wings.
• Mariko "Ari" Tsukimaru: (Ladytanuki) Gon's little sister. A shut-in online gamer who is inexplicably walking outside after inexplicably escaping the clutches of Virtualmon. One of the Elemental Guardians, a quintet of Mon owners (Keepers) from the virtual world of Mystrica. (picture^note in the middle)
  • Natsu: (in Scanner) A parrot-sized Pretty Butterfly with thunderbolts hanging from her wings. Discharges electricity from the glowing ball on her tail.
  • Satori: An ice dragon with a Third Eye, holding a crystal ball. Similar to Kinaga shape-wise.
  • Lucky: (in Scanner) A sleek black green-eyed bobcat. Can transform into the Goddess of Spirit (Mythrine), a horse-sized lavender-furred lynx.
• Emperor Xeqa: (Killer Clowns) An unrepentantly ruthless conqueror and sorcerer, maintaining a magical facade of health despite having only months to live.
• Hana: (Blackfire667) A military official of the Hakoda Empire and the head of its academy. Blunt yet easily amused, and a devout social Darwinist.
• Miyuki (?): (Blackfire667) Seemingly, a fairly ordinary young girl. Barely a teenager, by the looks of things. Innocent and amiable.
• Miyuki's Shadow: (Blackfire667) A dark and unhappy spectre that follows Miyuki everywhere she goes. Made of black smoke and blacker truths.
• Aunrei: (Crystal Glacia) A not-exactly-mentally adjusted fashion designer and clothier still struggling with the horrors of his past.
• The Dragon's Daughters (Daird) Five girls wearing magical rings, with magical powers inherited from the goddess Tiamat. They can transform into Magical Girls, each (except Amy) gaining a weapon upon transformation.
  • Rachel: The tall brunette, with bladed gauntlets and the ability to teleport. (transformation)
  • Danielle: The redhead, with fire powers and a flaming sword. (transformation)
  • Charlotte: The dark-skinned one, with wind powers, including wings. (transformation)
  • Amy: The small blonde, with healing and other mixed-bag powers. (transformation)
  • Olivia: The Latina, with super strength, a giant hammer, and earth powers. (transformation)
• The Dark Caller (Darkblood Carnagefang)
• Dives-Deep-Waters (Darkblood Carnagefang)
• Celso Merquior: (Killer Clowns) The CEO of an arms company, Laboratório Pereira-Merquior, he seems to be an affable, cultured old man. Oddly suspicious of the dreamscape.
• The Warden (Lord Greyjoy)
• Fawn: (Sphinxyness): A brown-haired girl with a camcorder, who loves filming things. Appears to be working on a story.
• Salaam (Troperfrom 95)
• Anoerith: (EternaMemoria) A partially biological construct wearing a bronze mask. She is very curious about the people in the Dream.
• Terim (Eterna Memoria): Cira's old master, he was killed by the apprentice long ago, but found a way to cheat death.
• Cira (Eterna Memoria): A semi-human necromancer in search of knowledge. Short, redheaded, somewhat androgynous, with a big burn scar on the left cheek. Has a strange tendency to talk in rhymes at random times. Probably not a vampire. Biologically male, although Ambiguous Gender Identity is in play.
• Ethoya Uvalex: (Killer Clowns) A prominent Xayusa spirit of luck, seeking bloody vengeance against the Eyes and Teeth. Generally thought to be mythological, she may or may not be a dream-born manifestation of Iveya's religious beliefs and subconscious resistance against the Eyes and Teeth rather than an actual being.
• Ruth Diederich: (V Phantom) A Proto-Magical Girl Warrior from a universe where they used to exist, but they vanished a long time ago.
• Zeles Zepheiren: (V Phantom) A mysterious "metal knight" looking for Ruth Diederich. Capable of jumping through dimensions at will, ridiculously overpowered... but also principled and benevolent.
• Ceallagh: (Millership) The incarnation of conflict (especially of armed conflicts) and a fertility deity. Acts as a guide through the dream realm to her favourite, Nergui, although it didn't do him any good so far.
• Nergui: (Millership) The second son of the ruler of Ganzorighian Khaganate. Doesn't know how and why he ended up in the dream, and has only vague memories of his past life. The favourite of Ceallagh, although it didn't do him any good so far.
• Ren Yangchao: (Snowy Foxes) Seilaan's stern but temperamental ancestor. They consider themself to be genderless. Attached to a large, powerful mass of sentient energy (an Elder), and seems to be mostly in command of it. Currently using Seilaan's body to regenerate.
• Demo: (Gameknight102xx)
• Min Liao: (Collen) A street-smart thief with severe trust issues and a bit of a thing for knives.
• Varris: (Collen) Min's best friend and partner in crime, a dragon the size of a house-cat. What he lacks in size he makes up for with an incredibly sharp mind. Hates being underestimated.
• Reynardo Morales (savlamar): An architect. Short, tanned, sloppily dressed, endlessly polite, and most definitely a vampire.
• June (Will De Regio): A mysterious, green-eyed, red-haired woman with massive magical power. She likes observing strange people.
• Ayako Watanabe: (Will De Regio) A 15-year-old Magical Girl (who looks 10) with "magical tailor skills" and a member of the Japanese branch of AEGIS. She can transform her umbrella into various weapons.
• Magdalene Albrecht (Yomegami): An eleven-year-old Magical Girl whose powers revolve around manipulating souls. Outwardly appears to be cheerful and friendly, but is not entirely right in the head.
• Emperor Jairuma Imeriz: (Eterna Memoria) A man as radiant as the sun wearing a cloud-like mantle and veil and a sky-like armor to cover his blinding visage. Generally places little importance on dreams, respite or peace, but more concrete affairs are taking their toll on him.
• Lauren Safon: (Mrship21) A self-made, former CIA agent from 1989 who is questioning her past decisions.
• Fuwa (Will De Regio): A raiju kitten that inhabits Ruka and is the source of her electrical powers. She is currently in charge of Ruka's body. Rather intelligent for her age, she has a few difficulties communicating well.
• Ruka Yamada: (Will De Regio) A young Japanese half-ghost woman from the year 2081 with electric powers and a suit of Powered Armor(currently out of commission). She's currently wearing her white Future Spandex undersuit. She is a member of AEGIS.
• Tagui Teleri: (EternaMemoria) An ashen skinned psychic clad in red and orange robes, which conceal his prosthetic left leg.
• Sentinel Niru: (Eterna Memoria) A female being of ambiguous divinity that currently looks like human with golden eyes and seven horns with silver tips arranged like a crown.
• The unnamed spirit: (Eterna Memoria) another enigma. Appears to be linked to Sentinel, and refers to her as their heir. Looks like a ghostlike winged humanoid with an undetermined (and maybe variable) number of wings and arms that is only visible in parts, when illuminated by prismatic light shining from... somewhere beyond.
• Nathan Varnas: (Tehpillowstar) A licensed necromancer of extraordinary power with a dark past, a darker heart, and prone to bad dreams.
• Phantom of Light (FullMoon): An animated suit of armor who is actually a soul sealed inside it with no memories of who he was before ending in that state.
• Moreena: (Corvidae) An unusually down-to-earth death goddess. (Humanoid Form) Picture.
• Gwenafer (Corvidae): A totally honest airship captain from the island of Landfall, specializing in the recovery and/or transportation of unusual cargo.
• Vinicio Acquati: (Crystal Glacia) Ambiguously Human Doctor of Aitherophysics-and-Some-Other-Junk, and part-time farmer-horticulturalist-chef, the eccentric if slightly dangerous owner of a farm with no animals.
  • Lise: Vince's fluffy, exceedingly friendly pet Samoyed. Energetic and loves cuddles.
• Tsadro Oriyand: Vince's right-hand man and chief of staff. Well-studied, generally quiet, and pretty short, but also has a vain, prideful streak. (Updated appearance)
• Josef (Snowy Foxes): The nineteen-year-old heir of Pallone Island, whose coronation ceremony will take place on the day that he wakes up from the dream. He's an anxious overthinker prone to rambling, and would much rather remain at university and study biochemistry than go into politics.