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Published: 2008-08-11 02:36:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 1333; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 24
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Description Coma
Copyright Gwenevere Singley, AKA QueenGwenevere

Another of my original characters, revived from dormancy and refurbished... I'm entering her in She has a brother named Alain who will be tagging along, but won't be competing - Alain's Ref Sheet

Text-free version of this ref sheet is here.

Basic info is on the image, but read below for the finer details of her abilities and background.

Special Abilities:
Both Coma and her brother Alain are able to see other people's dreams and physically enter them. When inside someone's dream, they can modify their environment and circumstances to a limited degree, using techniques similar to lucid dreaming. Because they're modifying a dream that's not their own, they generally can't make changes beyond their immediate vicinity, and anything they do is liable to be overridden by the dreamer. Making and maintaining changes generally requires a great deal of concentration, and any distraction could blow the whole thing.

"Modifications" can include making small changes to the dream environment (such as creating a door or a set of stairs when needed,) or creating props (need an umbrella? Why look, there just happens to be one handy!) It helps if the changes can be plausibly worked into the dream experience... Hence, opening a nearby drawer to find the required item may work better than trying to make the item appear out of thin air.

Rules of Navigating Dreams:
Coma and Alain can see a person's dream overlapping reality if they are fairly near the dreamer, though they don't have to be in the dreamer's immediate vicinity to see the dream. The dreamer could be indoors in bed, for instance, and the dream will be visible outside the house. If Coma and Alain can see a dream, they can enter into it. Once inside the dream, they can no longer see the outside world, but are entirely immersed in the dream world. In order to return to the outside world, they need to find the dreamer's dream persona - this will connect them with the dreamer, and the dreamer will connect them with the outside world. When they return to the outside world, they WILL be right next to the dreamer, which can cause... awkward situations. Many's the time they've been thrown out of bedrooms.

Because they enter dreams physically, with their ordinary bodies intact, they can be injured or killed by dream phenomena - so they ought to be careful. Alain usually is. Coma usually isn't.

Background World:
Not important to the Nightmare tournament, but it wouldn't hurt to know that Coma and Alain come from a world that's basically like ours, but stuck somewhere in the 1920's (with a few retro-futuristic twists.) Hence, they tend to use 1920's slang, and would be familiar with a more or less 1920's level of technology (with, as mentioned, a few twists.)
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Comments: 26

WiltedAyame [2009-04-01 04:07:33 +0000 UTC]

All your characters are so interesting! I love that power, it actually reminds me of an episode of Spongebob. :3

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QueenGwenevere In reply to WiltedAyame [2009-04-01 05:34:56 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

(Er... never thought I'd hear Coma compared to Spongebob...) (Which I haven't watched, so I'll take your word for it.)

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WiltedAyame In reply to QueenGwenevere [2009-04-01 07:23:04 +0000 UTC]

Well, in one episode, Spongebob leaves his own dream and sees others' floating above their house, which he then enters. It's actually sort of funny, if you're like me and laugh at anything.

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DigiDayDreamer [2008-08-21 06:42:28 +0000 UTC]

You got a guide to 1920's vocabulary?

Really interesting characters you have here! So in Nightmare's world, they would fare better there than in the real world?

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QueenGwenevere In reply to DigiDayDreamer [2008-08-23 14:36:22 +0000 UTC]

Well, I've been reading lots of Wodehouse, Dorothy Parker, and back issues of Vanity Fair from the 20's just to get in the mood... But nope, no guide.

Yeah, they'd be pretty useless in a non-dream setting, unless their opponents fell asleep or started hallucinating or something.

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DigiDayDreamer In reply to QueenGwenevere [2008-08-24 00:15:50 +0000 UTC]

Ah, I see. Well, I'm sure I could find something vaguely similar on Google.

Oh, they can do hallucinations too? That's an interesting twist there.

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BeckKeep [2008-08-15 21:41:44 +0000 UTC]

This is gonna be completely and utterly awesome. I approve.

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QueenGwenevere In reply to BeckKeep [2008-08-23 14:33:32 +0000 UTC]

Why thank you sir. (Basks in approval...)

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TheTenk [2008-08-12 18:30:52 +0000 UTC]

Dream Manipulation + Nightmare World = OH SHI-

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QueenGwenevere In reply to TheTenk [2008-08-13 01:28:11 +0000 UTC]

See? SEE? This is why I HAD to enter these two. This tourney was practically MADE for them.

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MindOfGenius [2008-08-12 03:48:06 +0000 UTC]

Quit the flapper lass! wow, need to practice more...
to quote The Aristocats' Dutchess: "Schwingers? What are Schwingers"

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QueenGwenevere In reply to MindOfGenius [2008-08-13 01:29:10 +0000 UTC]

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that schwing!

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Demonchild1988 [2008-08-11 19:44:34 +0000 UTC]

Wow !!! Coolio, can't wait to see them in action .

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QueenGwenevere In reply to Demonchild1988 [2008-08-13 01:26:52 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! (Hope I make it past the audition... I'm itching to put them through their paces, myself...)

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The-Diet-Elf [2008-08-11 17:10:58 +0000 UTC]

Hi Gwen! I hope we get to compete together in the Tourney!

Maimai, this gurl looks totally awesome~ I hope to see her in action~

But god I need to finish my audtion comic and reference sheet...

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QueenGwenevere In reply to The-Diet-Elf [2008-08-13 01:25:28 +0000 UTC]

I hope we can compete too! Go go go! Finish your audition! Now I'm curious to know who your character will be...

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PhilRey [2008-08-11 06:54:59 +0000 UTC]

Hehe I like it. Wouldn't her dress kind of...slip? >> <<;; That could pose problems...

But it still rules :'D

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QueenGwenevere In reply to PhilRey [2008-08-13 01:23:14 +0000 UTC]

They actually had evening dresses pretty much like that in the 1920's - totally NO back. I don't know how they stayed on, either... but they look cool!

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PhilRey In reply to QueenGwenevere [2008-08-13 08:19:44 +0000 UTC]

>< I know

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komodofrog [2008-08-11 02:58:04 +0000 UTC]

I like the personality contrasts between her Coma and Alain. She sounds like a handful and I definitely want to see the two of them in action.

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QueenGwenevere In reply to komodofrog [2008-08-13 01:20:36 +0000 UTC]

They're a pretty bipolar duo. Should be fun...

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jaykitsune [2008-08-11 02:40:19 +0000 UTC]

i really like your style. very clean and expressive. keep up the good work!

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QueenGwenevere In reply to jaykitsune [2008-08-13 01:19:52 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! There'll certainly be more...

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kaitoiscool [2008-08-11 02:38:54 +0000 UTC]

8D i cant wait to see your audition!!!

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QueenGwenevere In reply to kaitoiscool [2008-08-13 01:19:03 +0000 UTC]

It's a-comin', it's a-comin'! (Scrambles to finish...)

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kaitoiscool In reply to QueenGwenevere [2008-08-13 01:20:41 +0000 UTC]

8D

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