Dreaming
Poor Liz-monkey :p
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Scaring off the monkey trio,
Kai rescues his troubled Princess.
He recognises her straight off –
is his mind running to excess?
He knows the real truth it seems
about the lady of his dreams.
He’s happy, now, to have some fun
and see which way his mind will run.
It’s a dream date for them right now,
the poor helping out the rich.
But a new question has come now…
If she’s Lilo, is he called Stitch?
Nice one ending on the Stitch note :p
Poor Liz-monkey, indeed.
Lilo, huh? This arch is going to have us in stitches, lol.
I wonder what other character crossovers/mismatchs we’ll see. This could get interesting.
The head of the village down the beach looks like Marco. When Lilo explains what happened, Macro expresses his thanks and introduces his advisors/cabinet.
“This is my foreign affairs advisor. She has quite the way with words.”
“Hola, my name is Sydney Scoville.”
“This is my industry and infrastructure advisor. She really has a way of getting projects done quickly.”
“Good morning. Please call be Agetha Hetrodyne.”
“My sports and athletics advisor is around here somewhere. Ah, there he is, down the beach.” He points down at some people playing volleyball. The tallest looks like a brown wolf running around on his back legs. “There is Dex. You can meet him later.”
“Again, I want to thank you for rescuing my finance minister. Do you have any questions?”
Recognize the grrl power reference, pretty sure one of those is girl genius, but no idea on the last one.
There is agent Dexippus, shortened to Dex, in Leif and Thorn, and Dexter, shortened to Dex, in El Goonish Shive, but neither would be good as sport advisor …
Dex is meant to be a play on Rex, which is meant to be a play on Lex Luthor, at least in name. Sort of like how Cleo was switched to Lilo. I just colour-switched Rex to try to describe Dex. I guess I gave a better description of Florance Ambrose instead, but she would be in competition with Agetha for inventiveness, not athletics.
What about Junko Enoshima for his War Strategist? (See Daganronpa Wiki.)
Everyone instantly goes for Stitch xD
I should have called her Nemo xDD
And Kaya would be Dory? 😉
So, he knows that he is in a dream 🤔 Wondering, this will end with sleep paralysis
That’s not really how that works, I think :p
It’s definitely not how it works. If you are dreaming and you realize you are dreaming, it gives you at least some powers of lucid dreaming (it’s pretty much definition of it). Some small percent of people will end up with sleep paralysis but only if they DON’T continue the dream.
in my experience, dreams while you are sick tend to be a bit more lucid than normal. but unless you have experience with lucid dreaming, you are still just along for the ride.
Or they could be like Alex Carter and go entirely to another world, so much that they seem to be dead in this one, complete with lack of vital signs. (Yes, that /is/ a reference to “The Dreamland Chronicles” by Scott Christian Sava.)
Benji’s gonna be receiving some very strange ideas at the next C&D session.
Maybe, maybe not :p
Well, I HOPE so. There’s a lot a Catacomb Master can do with a doppelganger if they have the right inspiration, and someone familiar giving an unfamiliar name would definitely be inspiration enough in MY gaming circle.
(side note: I’m gonna link some of my fellows to chapter 6 and see if that baits them into reading the rest of the comic)
Uh oh, Kai is dreaming about Cleo.
This may not end well.
Nah, it’s gonna be okay :p
“Hey wel, wel, wel, *CHOO*! welcome home Sis. Umm, would you be okay if I asked Cleo out on a date?”
“Not when you are spraying napalm all over the place! Once you get healthy, we can talk about it.” She heads for her room. “Hmm, he must really be sick if he is that delusional.”
Alt-text: There should be a comma at the end of “that”.
Jesse’s Adventure, Panel 6: Ditto “thinking” and “normally”.
Noted for Jesse’s Adventure, and I’ll adjust the alt text 😀
Lucid dreaming eh? I do wonder if we will see Kai actively manipulating how the dream goes as it progresses. I’ve read that it possible for those who regularly do have lucid dreams to do that to some extent.
Lilo eh? Well guess we had better be watching for other name changes during the dream!
Well, for the story’s sake, there won’t be too much manipulating. Gotta keep the story going :p
I just wake up the moment I realize I’m dreaming.
I’ve done that a very few times successfully. -Slowly- waking and get stuck between dream and awake. Watch the dream unfold for longer than normal until I realize I am dreaming. After that I can -gently- nudge the dream along certain paths as long as I keep it moving casually along. If I pause too long or push too hard I wake up.
Speaking of lucid dreaming I recently found an artist on DeviantArt that goes by the name of Baron-Engel and from his notes he is a lucid dreamer in real life and he has this massive comic/story series that is based upon his dreams here’s a link to the first entry from way back in 2012: https://www.deviantart.com/baron-engel/art/Ponies-313105948
content warning: not all of his dreams are good dreams, his dreams can get rather disturbing at times.
Been aware of Baron and been following him for a few years. Yeah he’s got some experience on this subject. He’s a good artist and a decent storyteller. Will second though that some of his stuff can get dark. He also does some NSFW content so be aware of that before exploring past that linked picture.
I can’t help but imagine if this went in another direction…
“My deepest thanks, stranger. You quite possibly saved my life. How can I ever repay you?”
“There’s really no need to – Wait a minute[!]”
Why are you suddenly naked!?
*Looks down*
Ack! Why am *I* suddenly naked!?
Wait, what are you–
*groan*
*Suddenly wakes up*
Um, Dad, can you come here a minute? And keep Kaya away?
While Kai might be of that age (might even be a little late, age-wise), it’s not something I’m planning on adding to the comic xD
Not surprised. Few are so brave.
Well, it’s less about being brave and more about the comic not being the place for such a thing, in my opinion.
So…
…monkeys with 5 fingers, but only 4 toes … ?
:S
( … =”Puzzled/Confused” … )
Why not :p
So… While we’re on the topic of dreams, I’ve been wondering if other people have a certain type. I call them “episodic” dreams where you have multiple dreams that can be spread across several nights and sort of pick up after each other.
In my case, episode 1 I was a juggernaut type superhero busting into a lab I had escaped from to free the others, bit was captured in the process. Episode 2 and on so far I’m a speedster who was part of the group that escaped as we try to avoid recapture. Most of the conflict stems from our defacto leader being a “by any means necessary” type person… Who can make things explode so long as he can see it.
Dreams are an extremely awkward topic, and i’m surprised you came out and talked about it. Kudos for that, and yes, the same thing happened to me.
Nothing akward about superpower dreams. Not to mention the feeling of pacing back and forth a an appreciable fraction of the speed of sound was great.
There’s someone that joins the weekly sunday stream regularly that has these very frequently. He has a whole saga of dreams that seem to follow up on each other.
Cool, I’m the only one I know irl that does. They keep telling me I should make a book out of it or something
If you like episodic/lucid dreaming as a topic, there’s an artist by the name of Baron-Engel on DeviantArt who is a lucid dreamer by their own words, and he has in his gallery a huge comic/story based upon his dreams. Here’s the first page if you want to go check it out: https://www.deviantart.com/baron-engel/art/Ponies-313105948
I will warn you in advance though that not all of his dreams are good dreams, some of the entries are rather disturbing. But his amazing artwork and if you discount for typos his amazing ability to weave a cohesive story make it totally worth it.
“Must be a Dream. Just roll with it” Geez. He’s very adaptable to the situation.
Adept and overcome :p
Kai’s Awakening DX
Nonono, he’s still asleep xD
I think that’s a Zelda reference. Link’s first encounter is a girl who looks like* Zelda but introduces herself as Marin.
*I mean, by the 8-bit graphics. When she got an HD model for Hyrule Warriors, the similarities to any 3D-rendered Zelda are superficial at best.
Dangit, they didn’t get murderrrrred! *pouts*
Gotta keep it family friendly :p
That’s okay, we’ll have family friendly murder!
So, basically stay away from the egg on the mountain?
No egg on mountains here, no sir :p
And likewise with the egg. Sorry if you got those references already, I’d just rather risk telling you what you already know than risk leaving you wondering what the comments are joking about all arc.
And when he wakes up everyone will be surrounding him he will be like “i had the strangest dream, and you were there, and you were there, and you were there too” lol
Nice reference! We used to watch that movie on tv every year when I was little. 🙂
Poor Liz monkey. Kai has not yet updated his subconscious to tell him Liz is no longer with that group.
And yes, I like that he recognises it’s a dream, and just goes with it. Makes it easier to just roll with it as readers too.
That… Is some really dynamic reach-out-pose o_o love how Kai’s hand comes out of it’s frame. Must have been difficult to draw!
So Kai is a lucid dreamer, and able to recognize a dream when he’s in it. Lucky him. Just last night I had a horrible nightmare that I kept waking up from, and when awake it seemed so trivial and nonsensical, but every time I’d fall back asleep it would just continue and feel completely real. Some people can learn lucid dreaming, while others are naturally gifted with it and more fortunate than most of them realize. I wonder if Kai has yet achieved the level of mastery to the point where he could control the dreamscape? Whether he has or hasn’t, I’m sure Robin has an exciting chapter planned for us. I can’t wait to read more! One final note before I sign off: I know it’s been said already, but I love that frame break for Kai teaching out. It really adds to the depth of the sketch. Was it perhaps inspired by another famous image on the Internet? Or simply the result of your own mind? Regardless, I love it. Keep up the good work, and as always, stay awesome!
A -very- similar reaching-out pose was on a popular poster back in the 1960s. 🙂
Shhhh. His subconscious is trying to tell him something.
Yeah; “Wake UUUUPP!” LOL
JESSE’S ADVENTURE:
(-: I FINALLY noticed (and Like!) Troye’s invisible ‘ghost’ tail in panel three. 🙂
Well, now that Kai knows he’s dreaming, how long until either he’s wearing a set of MJOLNIR armor or everything goes Salvador Dali?
Watsonian retort: not everyone who is aware of their dreaming is capable of controlling their dreaming. Though I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of him at least trying one or the other.
Doylist retort: armor is a witch to draw, as several of my artist friends have informed me, and a melting environment would just make it harder to keep the backgrounds straight.