DABS MY WHOLE WAY INTO THIS EVENT, both my characters will be getting a couple of themed dreams, so here's what's up. As a warning, some of these have sensitive topics, and will be marked appropriately.
ALPHYS She'll be focused on round one, and will be getting dreams from Sorrow, Delight or Love, and Hope.
Sorrow: (CONTENT WARNING: SUICIDE, BODY HORROR) Before Alphys came to Hadriel, she was tasked with the goal of exploring a magic called Determination, in an attempt to free monsters from where humans locked them Underground centuries before. Unfortunately, her experiments went hella bad, and the (supposedly dead) monsters she was experimenting on came back to life and literally melted into one another, losing their personhood. Alphys had locked herself away in her lab, hiding from telling everyone what she had done, until the Human arrived. In a bid to win their favor, she asked her friend Mettaton to pretend to be their adversary so she could save them... and it ended up getting him killed. Before showing up in Hadriel, Alphys 'disappears' from the Underground, off the edge of a waterfall, and the Amalgamates starve to death because no one else knows they're trapped in her lab. Obviously, this is a big goddamn pain point, and the dream for her will center around her mourning- for her decisions,for the Amalgamates, for Mettaton. This one's gonna be serious as hell.
Delight/Love: IN HAPPIER NEWS, Alphys will also be getting a dream centered around Hadriel at the end of last year- back at the start of the year before the Doubles event, when all of her friends were living with her (Sans, Papyrus, and Undyne) and everything did not yet suck so bad. This may also include little nods to the skelebros prankwarshenanigans last winter. The timeline's going to be a little woogedy (Undyne didn't show up until February, for example) but yeah. I haven't decided exactly which god this is going for yet, but it could be either depending on if I wanna do top levels in both halves of the event or not.
Hope: This one's going to feature a happier thought of a future, where she gets to go back home but a) isn't super dead and b) everyone gets to live happily ever after (a la True Pacifist ending). She needs something Nice.
TAAKO He's getting a couple prompts too, based around Fear, Rage, and Confusion.
Fear: (TAZ spoilers through episode 47) So without going into too much detail, Taako used to have a traveling cooking show a number of years back, but that ended when he accidentally served a poisoned dish in the final episode and killed 40 people. He found out pretty recently that he wasn't actually responsible (he didn't do the poisoning, but he certainly wasn't kind to the guy who did it to get back at him) but he gets night terrors and still thinks about this pretty often. May or may not involve seeing some faces of the friends he's made here in the crowd.
Rage: Taako and his twin had a really scrappy childhood, being on their own from about 12 years old traveling between caravans and cooking to earn their keep. Obviously, this was rough as hell, and there were more than a few fights along the way. But also, like, cute child elves with noodly arms and ears way too big for their got damn heads.
Confusion: (TAZ spoilers through episode 66) About ~12 years ago, Taako suffered a huge memory wipe due to magic, causing him to lose the memories of about 100 years of his life and the memory of his twin sister. He's gotten those back lately, but the confusion dream is actually going to be around remembering what it was like to forget- and how hazy everything still is surrounding that time period, because boy howdy is that some mental stress. I'd like to play with scenery and the dream becoming very out of whack in this one, so it could get very weird.
OTHERWISE if people know canon and would like to work in something specific/would like some sort of closed starter/ANYTHING please hit me up I'm so hype I'm gonna burst
Taako and Alphys
ALPHYS
She'll be focused on round one, and will be getting dreams from Sorrow, Delight or Love, and Hope.
Sorrow: (CONTENT WARNING: SUICIDE, BODY HORROR) Before Alphys came to Hadriel, she was tasked with the goal of exploring a magic called Determination, in an attempt to free monsters from where humans locked them Underground centuries before. Unfortunately, her experiments went hella bad, and the (supposedly dead) monsters she was experimenting on came back to life and literally melted into one another, losing their personhood. Alphys had locked herself away in her lab, hiding from telling everyone what she had done, until the Human arrived. In a bid to win their favor, she asked her friend Mettaton to pretend to be their adversary so she could save them... and it ended up getting him killed. Before showing up in Hadriel, Alphys 'disappears' from the Underground, off the edge of a waterfall, and the Amalgamates starve to death because no one else knows they're trapped in her lab. Obviously, this is a big goddamn pain point, and the dream for her will center around her mourning- for her decisions,for the Amalgamates, for Mettaton. This one's gonna be serious as hell.
Delight/Love: IN HAPPIER NEWS, Alphys will also be getting a dream centered around Hadriel at the end of last year- back at the start of the year before the Doubles event, when all of her friends were living with her (Sans, Papyrus, and Undyne) and everything did not yet suck so bad. This may also include little nods to the skelebros prank war shenanigans last winter. The timeline's going to be a little woogedy (Undyne didn't show up until February, for example) but yeah. I haven't decided exactly which god this is going for yet, but it could be either depending on if I wanna do top levels in both halves of the event or not.
Hope: This one's going to feature a happier thought of a future, where she gets to go back home but a) isn't super dead and b) everyone gets to live happily ever after (a la True Pacifist ending). She needs something Nice.
TAAKO
He's getting a couple prompts too, based around Fear, Rage, and Confusion.
Fear: (TAZ spoilers through episode 47) So without going into too much detail, Taako used to have a traveling cooking show a number of years back, but that ended when he accidentally served a poisoned dish in the final episode and killed 40 people. He found out pretty recently that he wasn't actually responsible (he didn't do the poisoning, but he certainly wasn't kind to the guy who did it to get back at him) but he gets night terrors and still thinks about this pretty often. May or may not involve seeing some faces of the friends he's made here in the crowd.
Rage: Taako and his twin had a really scrappy childhood, being on their own from about 12 years old traveling between caravans and cooking to earn their keep. Obviously, this was rough as hell, and there were more than a few fights along the way. But also, like, cute child elves with noodly arms and ears way too big for their got damn heads.
Confusion: (TAZ spoilers through episode 66) About ~12 years ago, Taako suffered a huge memory wipe due to magic, causing him to lose the memories of about 100 years of his life and the memory of his twin sister. He's gotten those back lately, but the confusion dream is actually going to be around remembering what it was like to forget- and how hazy everything still is surrounding that time period, because boy howdy is that some mental stress. I'd like to play with scenery and the dream becoming very out of whack in this one, so it could get very weird.
OTHERWISE if people know canon and would like to work in something specific/would like some sort of closed starter/ANYTHING please hit me up I'm so hype I'm gonna burst