Journal Text: comfort is a mystery

[mortal_son]

Sender: Shinjiro Aragaki
To: All
Subject: Dream rules?

hey so I got the typical(??) talk from the dream guys here now but

when they say we're dreaming -

do standard "dream rules" apply?? I don't see people flying all over the place, that's a dream thing for most people, right? idek I don't dream much

and what about that thing when people die in dreams? does that mean they wake up and go on with their normal lives?

k thanks for your time

Comments

[bakudan_bambino]

I feel like if you ‘wake up’ you would just forget the dream, cause you’d be dead. So… if you ‘fall back asleep’

You’d restart the dream?

That’s a tough question. What do you know about sleeping in this dream? Like a dream within a dream…

Do you think there are many dead people here?

[mortal_son]

...

I have no idea about any of that. I didn't exactly start a poll? but uh

yeah I don't know how anything works here. feels not like a dream most of the time anyway - I feel hungry and tired and that kind of shit

[bakudan_bambino]

No shit. This is a discussion.

Glad to see ya made it through that party, by the way.

I feel pretty normal, too. Someone asked me if I had died, so I assume there may be some people around that are dead back home, or that it’s not so surprising.

[mortal_son]

parties are just awkward and pointless, not deadly

huh, I guess that's a thing, then? still seems weird. it'd be one thing if just regular people were dreaming and ended up in a shared dream (I guess??) because well, they're somewhere having that dream

tbh this is way above my head I've never been good at metaphysical crap

[bakudan_bambino]

Depending on who attends.

Most every person I’ve met has been interesting at least. No boring ‘regular’ people.

It’s at least fun to talk about, or would you rather discuss something else? I’m still getting adjusted to this, as well.

[mortal_son]

it just sounds like you're a regular social butterfly.

this isn't really my thing - chitchat. was just trying to figure shit out, but it's probably a big waste of time.

[bakudan_bambino]

I don’t have a single familiar face from home in this dream, so I’m not going to learn or adjusts or get anywhere if I only keep to myself!

Whether I like it or not.

It’s only a big waste of time if you don’t do anything or are intentionally wasting time, though!

[mortal_son]

fair enough - that's a pretty good attitude to have imo

hey I actually asked the question so that's me trying to do something about this

[bakudan_bambino]

Are you accusing me of wasting your time?!

[mortal_son]

no

if you were wasting my time I'd just tell you. chill.

Chill? Never heard of it

[bakudan_bambino]

Look, you were super unclear about that!

‘was just trying to figure shit out, but it's probably a big waste of time’

What kind of vapid-ass, self-defeating statement is that?! You don’t like chitchat, yet you put this out here to begin with. If you don’t think anything is going to come by voicing valid questions for other people to read and respond to, then why bother making that the ‘something’ you’re doing in the first place?

The chitchat could be useful.

I love how they have two entirely different energies here

[mortal_son]

that'll teach me for being optimistic

whatever. you're the one who decided to take this personally. seriously, chill out, it's not life or death here. it's all literally a dream. none of it matters.

... unless it *does* and people can actually get hurt in which case I want to know. if things don't operate under dream rules, shit can get dangerous and it'll be time to buckle down and get serious.

I’m giggling like a maniac over here jsyk

[bakudan_bambino]

What the fuck are you even talking about. You asked a question and then shot it down yourself!

I AM CHILL.

Just because it’s a dream doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter!

We could always test that out, you know.

[mortal_son]

super chill yeah I can see that

and just how are you thinking we should test it?

[bakudan_bambino]

JUST BECAUSE I CAPITALIZE SHIT DOESN’T MEAN I’M ACTUALLY YELLING

Fighting?

[mortal_son]

that's usually what that means on the internet I don't see why magic dream journaling would be different

yeah I'm not killing you to see how real this place is. fuck that.

[bakudan_bambino]

I was just doing it to make the point very clear!

Geez, stop assuming so much.

[Gokudera just over here being a hypocrite like the nuisance he is.]

Why are you assuming YOU would kill ME?! We could just have like… a fistfight or something!!

[mortal_son]

...

what, you want to see if punching actually hurts? or how long a bruise lasts?

[bakudan_bambino]

yeah

Would it make you more willing if I told you I can heal myself?

[Just a little faster than a normal person, because he’s not used his Sun flames much, and especially not on himself. It’s worth trying, though?]

[mortal_son]

getting your jaw broken still hurts like a bitch. no need to ask how I know.

...

fine. once we know, no need to experiment more on it.

[bakudan_bambino]

I’ve been through worse.

You some kind of selective pacifist or something?

[mortal_son]

first time anyone called me that.

no, I'm just sick of fighting. if that's your thing, that's your thing.

I'd rather be done but - that's not how the world works. maybe it's not how dreams work either. rather figure out now if people can actually get hurt than when it's a real fight.

[bakudan_bambino]

I’m not gonna take it personally, y’know. To me, it’ll be more like training.

Just see if you can land one hit, okay? I can take it.

Then no more after that. I won’t push it.

[mortal_son]

huh. just land one hit?

sure. I can do that.

let's do this, then - where do you want to meet up?

[bakudan_bambino]

Yeah, you think I was gonna just volunteer myself as a punching bag?

I’m not gonna make it easy.

Know anywhere in town you wanna meet, and we’ll take the ‘training’ out into the woods?