The Pawn

Date: 10/1/2017

Cool aliens! Cool telepathic powers! Low-tech worlds! A huge war! A boy and his dragon creature companion! An additional giant bird telepathic companion! A quest to rescue a younger sister after the parents of the prophecies child were brutally slaughtered by parasite-wielding rival aliens! An underground network of rebel spies made up of children who fell from their homes and couldn’t climb the canyon walls and so they were pressured into working for a parasite wielder and the telepath boy and the wielder were both suspicious of each other but the kid fought so well when the group was threatened by a rogue parasite that the scruffy old wielder let him stay and work with them. Mind melds with dragon things! Giant trains in deserts! Suspicious town leader lady who was possibly behind the killing of the boy’s parents and/or kidnapping of his sister! Kid using his power to grab an enemy out of a moving train when leader lady slowed it using her own super strength. Suspicious townsfolk when the boy develops parasite-wielder-adjacent type powers! Caveman style weapons! Confusing conspiratorial plots! Intimidating parasite-wielder leaders (two of them, in battle armor) who practically made me shit my pants in-dream cause they had a super menacing aura and a shit ton of power! The main kid had white-blond hair. His sister didn’t question the way of things as easily as him after everything in their lives went to shit. The canyon kids broke the fourth wall a bit and acted like they were in a show while still genuinely believing in their roles and their unfortunate position. The canyon kid boys were mostly gross in the way they spoke, but also reliable and protective in the way they acted. The two girls were very done with their perversion and often pretended to be boys until the boys forgot there were any girls at all. The main boy did not care. I think he was aroace, but also he was focused on figuring out why his dragon creature bff was acting weird and go rescue his sister. Also, in the beginning, his dad gave him an upgraded knife just before three parasite-wielders closed in on them and then literally threw his son at them and vanished. His leg was broken and he was bleeding out and dying, but he was enough of an asshole to power through and make his son doubt that he’d ever been loved at all. Near the end, the boy possessed a mammoth when he and his dragon creature returned a herd to its caretaker and the mammoth fell to the ice in the canyon below and the mammoth shepherd and the few rescued canyon kids all thought the mammoth was dead and it was sad but not super sad cause they didn’t know an actual person was in there. Meanwhile, the leader lady was also there and she knew the mammoth was possessed and believed the boy would find a way back to them and rescue the mammoth in the process. Another part involved the boy and his telepathic friends fighting a swarm of other, larger, grosser, less sentient dragon creatures. They flew into the mouths of two of them, and sliced their way out the other end and the boy grumbled the second time that surely once had been enough but his bff just smirked and basically said it was worth it to look as cool as they did. There was also a part where I went on a quest to get a good Cardcaptor Sakura image I could print out for a family game night thing my mom wanted to have but I was thwarted at every turn by “images” turning out to actually be videos I couldn’t pull still images from and half the time they weren’t even from the right anime. Some of the fanart I looked up, however, turned out to be an aged up version of the boy from the main dream and his dragon creature bff. I also saw a shirt with an espeon and Sakura’s wand from when she was first learning to be a magical girl and the literal key that unlocked her powers and I considered using that image but it wasn’t Cardcaptor-centric enough and the shirt belonged to my brother’s boyfriend anyway which seemed like a shame since he didn’t watch Cardcaptor ever. I lose track of when in the dream all this happened and whether it meant that the boy’s story was “fiction” or “reality” within the rules of the dream.