30 days - Day 15
Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fan-fic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy
kailice.livejournal.com/14158.html#cutid1
So the basic bones premise is this: What if the people you thought you made up in your dreams were actually real? What if it was their job to collect your dreams, taking your memories of the dream with them? That is what Dreamcatcher is about. And now onto the part where I compare this fic to the new Star Trek movie and then spam you with excerpts from the first chapter.
Now this one is interesting because I like it for reasons I don't normally associate with fic. Normally I love fics because they are like little snapshots into beloved characters lives, or fics that have epic plots and could be part of the show. This one is neither of those. It falls under the category of an AU and the author stated she's had the plot in her head before becoming a fan. I liken it to the new Trek movie, you don't have to know the whole history of the prior Trek universe to enjoy the movie and old school fans have plenty to love too, there's even bonuses for them thrown in. In the end I want her to change all the names and spruce up a bit and publish it, because damn is it epic.
Ohno is a dreamcatcher.
That’s what they call themselves, at least. That’s always been their name. Dreamcatchers drifted between the imaginary world and reality, collecting dreams as simply as a child would pick up seashells buried beneath the sand.
Well, no, it isn’t actually that simple, even if Ohno found it to be. Dreams weren’t the remnants of the tide; they were fragile fragments of the subconscious. They all faced years of education on the intricacies of the workings of dreams and dreamcatchers, lessons that have always went over Ohno’s head without much pause for insight. But really, he doesn’t think it needs to be as complex as everyone makes it. Ohno isn’t concerned about the how. Some things are better left alone, to work naturally in their simplicities.
Ohno once told Jun that he’s positive that since dreams come from humans, dreams are surely something just as alive. Jun laughed, but when Ohno holds the dream, condensed into an object tangible in the palm of his hand, he can feel it, pulsating and thriving as if the heart of the dreamer is beating inside.
Jun says he doesn’t know what Ohno’s talking about. The rhythm of a thumping heart isn’t something dreamcatchers can feel - not in the people they meet in dreams, not in the compacted versions of the dreams they catch, and not even within themselves.
Dreamcatchers call humans “dreamers,” but Ohno knows that dreamers aren’t always sleeping. The way they live is fascinating.
Especially him.
Ninomiya Kazunari. Nicknamed Nino. Twenty-one years old. Working at as a private investigator with his best friend Aiba Masaki, another one of Ohno’s dreamers. He also plays guitar and performs card tricks on the street for extra money, which his other friend and Ohno’s other dreamer, Sho, happens to disapprove of.
There are so many things that make up the human called Nino. Ohno listens to him play his guitar sometimes, at home and in the park nearby. His favorites are the songs Nino wrote himself, because Ohno thinks that music is like dreams, and that they’re another living piece of the human who created them.
Jun is worried, because dreamcatchers shouldn’t get so involved in the human world. Jun doesn’t understand why Ohno is so interested in Nino, either, since Jun and Ohno catch from the same dreamers, and Jun has seen Nino’s dreams and really, Aiba’s are much more exciting. Plus, Nino plays video games a lot during the night, and if he buys a new game, he sleeps so little that catching dreams from him is next to impossible.
Ohno just tells him that he would probably never understand unless he sees the dreams Nino can create during the day.
(Ohno doesn't tell Jun that he waits for Nino to fall asleep by squeezing in the futon with him, watching his body grow heavy with deepened slumber, and wishing he could feel the puffs of breath against his cheek.)
It takes a while for Nino to start dreaming after falling asleep; dreams never come instantly. When the dream comes, after Ohno has stared at Nino long enough to memorize every line that makes up his face, he closes his eyes. In a dream, Ohno can talk with Nino, hold his hand, play with him, and fight alongside him. They were real to each other in a dream.
Ohno wants to be real to Nino.
"Oh." Ohno peeks over his shoulder. Nino is still staring at him. He probably hasn’t stopped since climbing on the raft. "I'm Ninomiya Kazunari. You can call me Nino. What's your name?"
Well, that's a little weird. Conversations usually aren't so straightforward and normal. Sometimes Nino names Ohno himself, sometimes others would be there to introduce them, and most of the time, Ohno is the one to tell Nino his name. There are plenty of patterns, but Ohno can't recall a time where Nino just asked before. "Ohno Satoshi."
“Ohno?” Nino bites his lip, narrowing his eyes. “I know you.”
“Do you?” It happens now and then. Ohno is never really the person that dream-Nino thinks he is. He’s just a character in Nino’s mind.
“You’re Oh-chan.” Nino’s voice grows a little louder as the realization hits him. “From the spaceship.”
The oar falls from Ohno’s hands, sinking into the suddenly bottomless river.
Ohno and Nino were on a spaceship the last time Ohno went into Nino’s dream, about a week ago. They were on a game show hosted by Sho, and they were trying to save Aiba from a kangaroo on the moon. But Ohno had caught that dream with no problems, just like all of the other times before. Nino shouldn’t know about it.
Nino isn’t supposed to remember.
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Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fan-fic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy
kailice.livejournal.com/14158.html#cutid1
So the basic bones premise is this: What if the people you thought you made up in your dreams were actually real? What if it was their job to collect your dreams, taking your memories of the dream with them? That is what Dreamcatcher is about. And now onto the part where I compare this fic to the new Star Trek movie and then spam you with excerpts from the first chapter.
Now this one is interesting because I like it for reasons I don't normally associate with fic. Normally I love fics because they are like little snapshots into beloved characters lives, or fics that have epic plots and could be part of the show. This one is neither of those. It falls under the category of an AU and the author stated she's had the plot in her head before becoming a fan. I liken it to the new Trek movie, you don't have to know the whole history of the prior Trek universe to enjoy the movie and old school fans have plenty to love too, there's even bonuses for them thrown in. In the end I want her to change all the names and spruce up a bit and publish it, because damn is it epic.
Ohno is a dreamcatcher.
That’s what they call themselves, at least. That’s always been their name. Dreamcatchers drifted between the imaginary world and reality, collecting dreams as simply as a child would pick up seashells buried beneath the sand.
Well, no, it isn’t actually that simple, even if Ohno found it to be. Dreams weren’t the remnants of the tide; they were fragile fragments of the subconscious. They all faced years of education on the intricacies of the workings of dreams and dreamcatchers, lessons that have always went over Ohno’s head without much pause for insight. But really, he doesn’t think it needs to be as complex as everyone makes it. Ohno isn’t concerned about the how. Some things are better left alone, to work naturally in their simplicities.
Ohno once told Jun that he’s positive that since dreams come from humans, dreams are surely something just as alive. Jun laughed, but when Ohno holds the dream, condensed into an object tangible in the palm of his hand, he can feel it, pulsating and thriving as if the heart of the dreamer is beating inside.
Jun says he doesn’t know what Ohno’s talking about. The rhythm of a thumping heart isn’t something dreamcatchers can feel - not in the people they meet in dreams, not in the compacted versions of the dreams they catch, and not even within themselves.
Dreamcatchers call humans “dreamers,” but Ohno knows that dreamers aren’t always sleeping. The way they live is fascinating.
Especially him.
Ninomiya Kazunari. Nicknamed Nino. Twenty-one years old. Working at as a private investigator with his best friend Aiba Masaki, another one of Ohno’s dreamers. He also plays guitar and performs card tricks on the street for extra money, which his other friend and Ohno’s other dreamer, Sho, happens to disapprove of.
There are so many things that make up the human called Nino. Ohno listens to him play his guitar sometimes, at home and in the park nearby. His favorites are the songs Nino wrote himself, because Ohno thinks that music is like dreams, and that they’re another living piece of the human who created them.
Jun is worried, because dreamcatchers shouldn’t get so involved in the human world. Jun doesn’t understand why Ohno is so interested in Nino, either, since Jun and Ohno catch from the same dreamers, and Jun has seen Nino’s dreams and really, Aiba’s are much more exciting. Plus, Nino plays video games a lot during the night, and if he buys a new game, he sleeps so little that catching dreams from him is next to impossible.
Ohno just tells him that he would probably never understand unless he sees the dreams Nino can create during the day.
(Ohno doesn't tell Jun that he waits for Nino to fall asleep by squeezing in the futon with him, watching his body grow heavy with deepened slumber, and wishing he could feel the puffs of breath against his cheek.)
It takes a while for Nino to start dreaming after falling asleep; dreams never come instantly. When the dream comes, after Ohno has stared at Nino long enough to memorize every line that makes up his face, he closes his eyes. In a dream, Ohno can talk with Nino, hold his hand, play with him, and fight alongside him. They were real to each other in a dream.
Ohno wants to be real to Nino.
"Oh." Ohno peeks over his shoulder. Nino is still staring at him. He probably hasn’t stopped since climbing on the raft. "I'm Ninomiya Kazunari. You can call me Nino. What's your name?"
Well, that's a little weird. Conversations usually aren't so straightforward and normal. Sometimes Nino names Ohno himself, sometimes others would be there to introduce them, and most of the time, Ohno is the one to tell Nino his name. There are plenty of patterns, but Ohno can't recall a time where Nino just asked before. "Ohno Satoshi."
“Ohno?” Nino bites his lip, narrowing his eyes. “I know you.”
“Do you?” It happens now and then. Ohno is never really the person that dream-Nino thinks he is. He’s just a character in Nino’s mind.
“You’re Oh-chan.” Nino’s voice grows a little louder as the realization hits him. “From the spaceship.”
The oar falls from Ohno’s hands, sinking into the suddenly bottomless river.
Ohno and Nino were on a spaceship the last time Ohno went into Nino’s dream, about a week ago. They were on a game show hosted by Sho, and they were trying to save Aiba from a kangaroo on the moon. But Ohno had caught that dream with no problems, just like all of the other times before. Nino shouldn’t know about it.
Nino isn’t supposed to remember.
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