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houseofstrangeThis is actually an idea I have had for some time - definitely years now but I don't recall how many.
The gist of the dream is that a space colonial assessment team has set up a temporary base while surveying a planet. While doing so, they discover a living slime that eats people that touch it. However there are two members of the team who are not immediately eaten away by it.
The first is a young man who professes that the slime is a collective mind of every creature that has been absorbed and actively advocates for the rest of the team to join it.
The other is a young woman, Faelin, who on being infected by the slime is able to fight it off and eventually neutralises it, but in the process of doing so, regrows a set of insect-like faerie wings.
The team opt to retreat from the planet and declare it dangerous but their departure is complicated by the guy who is acting as advocate of the slime trying to stop them, so Faelin has to fight him to give the others time to take off, with herbflying to meet the landing shuttle before it leaves.
Now of course, as happens with my dreams, I spun the original dream into a story with further context.
Earth society back home has a distinct intolerance to unusual abilities and the practice of disabling them in children via surgical intervention is common. Faelin see suffered this when her faerie featuresxwere amputated, disabling her further paranormal abilities. But then so did Mr Slime Advocate, who I am summarily dubbing as Nate.
The real reason that comes out as to why Nate loves the slime collective is that he was an empath as a child, but the societal intolerance drove his parents to put him through a procedure that destroyed his ability. But in doing so, Nate was very badly traumatised as he'd lived his life up to that point with a constant background hum of everyone around him just being a natural part of how he percieved the world. Aft3r losing that he was plunged into a state of what he descibes as a deafening silence that left him permanently depressed and low-key terrified.
The slime collective gave him back the empathic noise that had been taken away from him and he was desperately driven to share the sense of unity it gave.
In the fight to give the shuttle time to prep, Nate tries to Infect Faelin again, but she takes control of it and turns it back on him, ending up purging the slime from him, and then taking him with her to meet the shuttle in the sky.
My recent rememberance of this has had me thinking of the after effects, with 5he rest of the crew distrusting Nate, but Faelin defends him and insists that if he is put into lockdown, she will share it with him.
The other effect that i think is a new concept to this but I am not sure, is that in the process of purging Nate, Faelin also heals him similar to how she healed uerself, and creates an empathic/telepathic link between the two of them.
This results in a growing friendship that form between them and develops into a full-on romance.
There are vague ideas of a legal, social battle once they get home, both defending Nate from charges due to his trauma, and challenging the societal hatred of paranormal f eatures and abilities.
But it is a fight Faelin and Nate will face together.
The gist of the dream is that a space colonial assessment team has set up a temporary base while surveying a planet. While doing so, they discover a living slime that eats people that touch it. However there are two members of the team who are not immediately eaten away by it.
The first is a young man who professes that the slime is a collective mind of every creature that has been absorbed and actively advocates for the rest of the team to join it.
The other is a young woman, Faelin, who on being infected by the slime is able to fight it off and eventually neutralises it, but in the process of doing so, regrows a set of insect-like faerie wings.
The team opt to retreat from the planet and declare it dangerous but their departure is complicated by the guy who is acting as advocate of the slime trying to stop them, so Faelin has to fight him to give the others time to take off, with herbflying to meet the landing shuttle before it leaves.
Now of course, as happens with my dreams, I spun the original dream into a story with further context.
Earth society back home has a distinct intolerance to unusual abilities and the practice of disabling them in children via surgical intervention is common. Faelin see suffered this when her faerie featuresxwere amputated, disabling her further paranormal abilities. But then so did Mr Slime Advocate, who I am summarily dubbing as Nate.
The real reason that comes out as to why Nate loves the slime collective is that he was an empath as a child, but the societal intolerance drove his parents to put him through a procedure that destroyed his ability. But in doing so, Nate was very badly traumatised as he'd lived his life up to that point with a constant background hum of everyone around him just being a natural part of how he percieved the world. Aft3r losing that he was plunged into a state of what he descibes as a deafening silence that left him permanently depressed and low-key terrified.
The slime collective gave him back the empathic noise that had been taken away from him and he was desperately driven to share the sense of unity it gave.
In the fight to give the shuttle time to prep, Nate tries to Infect Faelin again, but she takes control of it and turns it back on him, ending up purging the slime from him, and then taking him with her to meet the shuttle in the sky.
My recent rememberance of this has had me thinking of the after effects, with 5he rest of the crew distrusting Nate, but Faelin defends him and insists that if he is put into lockdown, she will share it with him.
The other effect that i think is a new concept to this but I am not sure, is that in the process of purging Nate, Faelin also heals him similar to how she healed uerself, and creates an empathic/telepathic link between the two of them.
This results in a growing friendship that form between them and develops into a full-on romance.
There are vague ideas of a legal, social battle once they get home, both defending Nate from charges due to his trauma, and challenging the societal hatred of paranormal f eatures and abilities.
But it is a fight Faelin and Nate will face together.
