Dream a little dream
May. 16th, 2010 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoRay was a marine, stationed offworld dealing with some alien menace. I met him during one of the quieter phases of the engagement--lots of just keeping an eye on each other--when I'd been assigned to write a story about the current situation. I'm not entirely certain whether it was a flag waving puff piece, a hard hitting gritty pulitzer grab, or an expose of imperial corruption and opression.
What I do know is that Ray was killed in some sort of geothermal upwelling; a rock that was plugging a vent got shot into the air and crushed him. It was another senseless loss of human life, but an unusual one for the front.
And then, when I was a superhero with ice-themed powers, I found out Ray had a sister. She was a magic-using villain who sold tie-dye and hand-crafted thingummies out of her VW microminibus, until she started squatting and operating out of the basement of a store front I owned and hadn't started using. When I discovered her, I found out she was also deaf. I signed that she should go get her bus, and I'd help her pack all her crap up. While she was gone, I changed my mind and set up shop for her upstairs, as a surprise. Unfortunately, in the way of villains, she came back with the magic bus and rammed the store and attacked me and all my altruistic helpers. Our attempts to assist a patriot veteran's down on her luck sister turned into a fatal battle for her. It was very sad.
Later, when I was in gold-rush Juneau, one of the dance halls was doing a benefit for Ray's parents, who... something, I don't remember. All I know is that Ray is seriously starting to cut into the 'naked women' portions of my dreams, and he'd better knock it off, war hero or no. He wasn't even a major character in the first dream. Supporting characters do not get "Save Ferris" style running themes.
What I do know is that Ray was killed in some sort of geothermal upwelling; a rock that was plugging a vent got shot into the air and crushed him. It was another senseless loss of human life, but an unusual one for the front.
And then, when I was a superhero with ice-themed powers, I found out Ray had a sister. She was a magic-using villain who sold tie-dye and hand-crafted thingummies out of her VW microminibus, until she started squatting and operating out of the basement of a store front I owned and hadn't started using. When I discovered her, I found out she was also deaf. I signed that she should go get her bus, and I'd help her pack all her crap up. While she was gone, I changed my mind and set up shop for her upstairs, as a surprise. Unfortunately, in the way of villains, she came back with the magic bus and rammed the store and attacked me and all my altruistic helpers. Our attempts to assist a patriot veteran's down on her luck sister turned into a fatal battle for her. It was very sad.
Later, when I was in gold-rush Juneau, one of the dance halls was doing a benefit for Ray's parents, who... something, I don't remember. All I know is that Ray is seriously starting to cut into the 'naked women' portions of my dreams, and he'd better knock it off, war hero or no. He wasn't even a major character in the first dream. Supporting characters do not get "Save Ferris" style running themes.