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𝓡𝓪𝓹𝓾𝓷𝔃𝓮𝓵 ☼ (sundrop) wrote in chances_rpg,
@ 2024-05-04 22:03:00

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disney: rapunzel, julie and the phantoms: reggie peters, ~!game plot: paranormal activity

THREAD: RAPUNZEL & REGGIE

Rapunzel & Reggie Peters
LOW • March 5 • The Station

Uh... she's astral projecting. Help?

Rapunzel had gone to bed with a worry weighing on her that couldn't be easily fixed. The people around her were suffering in varying degrees or were also worrying about others. She tossed, she turned, and Rapunzel decided she couldn't sleep.

But instead of moving to get out of bed, she found herself in the lobby of The Station, uncertain of how she had gotten there. Everything felt... hazy, somehow, though Rapunzel would be hard-pressed to properly explain it. There was a vague sort of fog everywhere she looked and like just maybe nothing was tangible and would slip through her fingers if she tried to touch it.

The blonde wrapped her fingers around her elbows and stared out the doors that led to the street. Morning was going to arrive soon, by the looks of the sky. But she was sure she hadn't slept; she had been too restless. Rapunzel had heard of sleep-walking - had she done that? No. Her hair definitely would have caught on something because it was unbound and pooled around her bare feet. That... was also cause for a frown. Her hair should have been trailing behind her if she'd walked to the lobby. Rapunzel would have remembered gathering it all up in her arms but there she was: standing in the middle of the empty space with her hair all around her like she'd been simply dropped there. Gently, even.

"Hello?" she risked calling out and her green eyes, which were already slightly too-large, widened. The way her voice echoed and sounded so far... that couldn't be good.

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ghostboy
2024-05-07 02:19 am UTC (link)

Reggie started sleeping okay after they all got back from spring break. The eight solid lasted about a week before his insomnia kicked in again. There wasn't anything to cause it, like no reason for it, but he continued to use that time to work on his musical and do get ahead on his homework. He was a better student this time around than he had been the first time.

His feet took him all the way to the lobby, to the comfortable seating area just inside the door. His notebooks were spread out on the table, but he'd laid back on the sofa and was playing air piano as the music danced through his head. It was coming together. It felt like it was, at least. He could see it all in his head.

He hadn't heard the elevator or any footsteps, so when someone called out, Reggie jumped so hard, he fell off the couch and hit the floor with an, "oof" as the wind was knocked out of him. He was on his feet as quickly as his awkward limbs allowed and spun to face the direction of the voice. "Um. Rapunzel?" He stepped forward, his hands loose at his side like she might be spookable like a stray cat. If he didn't move too fast or speak too loud, she wouldn't disappear. Only, she was a little transparent, and even he had only seen spirits like that in the movies. The living couldn't see him when he was a ghost, but he and other ghosts always looked solid. "You doing okay?"

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sundrop
2024-05-07 02:40 am UTC (link)

She hadn't seen Reggie, not right away. But when he fell to the floor with such a clatter, it was like the fog was a little... less. When he spoke, when he said her name, it all sounded a little like he was under water and it took her another few seconds to focus.

Rapunzel held her hands up to look at her palms and frowned but she looked normal. It was everything else that felt... -okay? She blinked and looked at him. "I don't... know how I got here," she explained, trying to keep the plaintive whine from her tone but failing. Her hands lowered and she shook her head as though to clear it. "I can't remember coming down here." Rapunzel looked down at the circles of hair pooled around her and tried to take a delicate step forward to go over them, reaching a hand out automatically toward Reggie for help to make it the rest of the way.

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ghostboy
2024-05-07 03:29 am UTC (link)

Reggie reached out to help Rapunzel. It was a lot of hair, and even though it didn't look corporeal right now, he didn't want her to trip. When her hand went through his, though, his eyes widened. He'd never been on the solid side of that experience, and he felt bad for the people he accidentally walked through before. "Okay. Don't panic. You're okay." He didn't want to suggest the morbid yet, and he didn't want to accidentally reach through her again.

"Okay. Um. What's the last thing you remember?" He grabbed his phone and quickly opened a search browser. "We can look it up, or I can wake up your dads and brother? Or." He stopped talking, suddenly remembering that Julie had seen her mom, and May was stuck in a TV. "Yeah. What do you last remember? Because it might be one of the weird things that's happening to people right now, and maybe we can look it up and figure out how to get you...back? Solid?"

He looked back up at Rapunzel. "Also, please don't cry. I don't know what to do with crying girls, especially if I can't hug them."

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sundrop
2024-05-08 04:48 am UTC (link)

When her hand passed through his, her eyes widened further but she hadn't tripped (too many years of practice) and Rapunzel latched onto his assurances because that was all she could do at that moment. She wasn't sure how she was okay but Reggie wouldn't lie to her--right?

The questions came too fast and seemed to float in the air, every third or fourth just dropping from existence. Her hands came up to slide into the hair at her forehead, near her temples, and Rapunzel tried to focus on breathing. Which only brought about a whole other strange sensation because she didn't think she was actually breathing. What do you last remember? Rapunzel re-focused on Reggie. Back? Solid? Oh. Oh. Reggie seemed to predict her next move because her eyes welled with tears but then he was asking her to not cry and how could she ignore that plea? She rubbed resolutely at her eyes with first a hand and then her wrist.

"I went to bed," Rapunzel said. "Pascal-" She froze and realized that the chameleon wasn't with her. That was odd. "We both went to bed," she went on, sounding puzzled, "but it was hard to sleep. I was just thinking that I couldn't fall asleep and... then I was here."

Her voice went small. "I don't know what happened."

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ghostboy
2024-05-10 06:12 pm UTC (link)

He needed Alex. Luke was just as bad as he was with crying girls, but Alex...actually wasn't much better, but he probably had the braincell since he slept like a normal person. "If you need to cry, cry. I'm not the boss of you. I just. It's okay. I'll bring you a hug or ice cream later." Reggie had no idea if that was going to help or even land, but he was trying.

He took in what she said and typed in bed, sleep, ghost into his search engine. The results were all about sleep paralysis, and that wasn't this. He tried dream walking, but he didn't like those results, either, mostly because he was absolutely awake. He'd managed a few hours of sleep before being wide awake in the middle of the night and coming down here. But then one of the results mentioned astral projection, and he clicked into that article. "Okay! I think. Maybe this"

He read the AI generated result out loud for Rapunzel. "Astral projection is an intentional out-of-body experience that involves seeing your physical body in an external visual space. It's also known as astral travel, soul journey, soul blah blah. The term assumes that consciousness can function separately from the physical body and travel throughout the astral plane through a subtle body, known as the astral body or body of light." He looked her up and down. "Well. You do have a body of light, but you didn't mean to do this."

Reggie slowly started to smile. It wasn't the time or place, but this was cool. "Okay. So. I know this is freaky, and what a crap way to wake up, but...do you wanna test it? Like. If you think about being in a spot, will you show up there?" He glance up. "Like. Can you stand on the ceiling?"

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sundrop
2024-05-11 06:14 pm UTC (link)

Reggie was sweet and her smile, though it wobbled, appeared. He was trying and that meant the world to Rapunzel. Still, her fingers anxiously stroked over a handful of her hair though she was never able to complete the journey to the end of the strand. He seemed to be searching and then-

"Oh," Rapunzel said, blinking. No, she hadn't meant to do this. Had she? Maybe she had, thinking about how she should just get up from bed and do something else since she couldn't sleep. Maybe she had been perfectly able to sleep this whole time and her thoughts just went somewhere else... literally. At his smile, Rapunzel returned it automatically though she was uncertain. Her gaze went up to the ceiling. Rapunzel wasn't afraid of heights. But could she?"

Simple as that, Rapunzel was at the ceiling though not upside down. Her fingers pressed against it and she was floating. "Oh... oh, oh, no," she whined. Her hair hung down from her place and it was tempting to see if she could grab hold to pull herself back down. "Um..." Okay. Okay, think. And then she was floating downward because she wanted to be. "I... don't know why I didn't just reappear down here?" the blonde asked once she 'felt' her feet back on the floor. She blew out a stressed breath. "I'm never going to fall asleep again after this."

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ghostboy
2024-05-12 07:21 pm UTC (link)

One second, she was standing in front of him. The next, it was just her trail of hair, and Reggie craned his neck to look up at her. "That's so cool." He watched her slowly descend from the ceiling. "I don't know. There's no real how-to gui...oh, wait!" He laughed and opened the website. "Someone wrote a Wiki-How guide for this."

Angling himself and his phone so she could see what he was looking at, Reggie scrolled through the how-to guide until he found the part about returning. "Not reading all of this, but this person seems to think that it's not about sleep but being between awake and asleep." He looked up at her and gave her a hesitant smile. "So don't give up on sleep if you can still manage it. Insomnia kinda sucks." He went back to skimming, saw the word demon and scrolled back up before she could see it. "Silver cord? Do you have one of those? She says there should be a silver cord connecting you to your body, but, how could this even be a universal experience?"

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sundrop
2024-05-15 03:03 pm UTC (link)

She wasn't really sure what 'insomnia' was but Rapunzel took his word for it. She watched as Reggie scrolled and didn't comment as he kept going, frowning at the mention of a silver cord.

"No, I do not think so," Rapunzel said and turned to look around her. "Being between awake and asleep makes sense, though," she went on, "because I remember not being able to really sleep." Her frown grew but at least the blonde looked less panicked than she had when she'd first appeared. Green eyes moved to Reggie again. "I want to try imagining my bedroom but if I disappear, please do not think me ru-" And then she simply disappeared like the way smoke dissipated into the air.

"-de." Rapunzel blinked. "Oh dear," she sighed, looking toward her bed with a grimace as she prepared herself.

And then she sat up in her bed with a gasp. "Oh." Rubbing at her eyes, Rapunzel reached for her phone to text Reggie.

» That worked!
» Sorry for disappearing.
» And sorry for waking you up if none of that actually happened.
» I just realized I could have been dreaming. Go back to sleep if that is the case.

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