Random Writings

Sliipwalker

[Yes, the title is a pun, I know, im sorry. This is something im kinda just gonna wing, heh]

[Context: earlier this year a sort of glitch happened in my game of Tomodachi Life one early morning. Most of my miis were still sleeping, including Vlinny. I checked on him a few times, but something weird happened. The first time up checked on him he was just sleeping in his apartment. But the second time I checked on him, he was still sleeping in his apartment, but he was now wearing different clothes. The third time I checked, he was no longer sleeping in his apartment, but rather was now sleeping in the house he shared with Dheerse (they're married in my game). I thought that was kinda weird. It was almost as though he had... sleepwalked while my 3ds was closed? I wasn't sure if that was something that actually happened in game, so I asked some friends on a discord server I was on (which has sadly since ended) to see if this was meant to happen or not. One joked that Vlinny was breaking free from the game (XD) and another said it probably just a glitch, and that weird stuff could sometimes happen, and if they do turning the system off could help (I dont have a screenshot, so I can't really remember their exact wording). So yeah, it was just a glitch. But, since that happened, I decided I kinda liked the idea of Vlinny having a sleepwalking problem, and it became a headcannon of mine. So thats what this is. Exploring that headcannon abit. This takes place after the canon events of Tomodachi, before Vlinny goes to the ice planet I have for my tumblr header image (I should probably make it the header image her too), and I headcannon Miitopia as prequel. So yeah, let's get this rollin, I guess.]

"Hahaha!"
We danced together amidst the falling snow. There was no one else in sight. I didn't even know where we were, the billowing snowflakes obscuring our surroundings entirely. Said snowflakes caught in her hair, and though it was midday stars shone in her eyes. We slowed down and just held each other for a second, looking into each other's eyes.
"Are you getting cold?"
Dheerse shook her head and laughed, "No!"
"I hope you're not lying," I joked. "I'd hate myself if you got frostbite."
"Pfft, please," she smiled at me, the stars in her eyes dancing. "With you, I could stay out here forever."
"Haha!" Though my mouth was always in a perpetual smile, I tried to convey to her with eyes and voice how happy she made me. How much she meant to me. "Yeah, me too... forever."
"But it wasn't forever, was it?" Vinehsauce's voice cut through the bowling wind, and everything was suddenly very still and silent.
"In fact, it wasn't for very long at all."
I looked at his silhouette briefly. "Fuck off, Vine," I hissed. "Can't you see we're-" I froze when I turned to look back at Dheerse. She was gone from my arms. Gone completely. The memories cut through me like a knife.
"You!" I turned angrily to Vinehsauce's silhouette. Past the snow, I could just barely see his expression. It was oddly blank. But that didn't matter. What mattered was what he did to her. What i wanted to do to him.
"How could you?!" I advanced towards him, first clenched. "She was innocent! She never did anything to you or anyone else!" I stopped in front of him. "I-" tears streamed and immediately turned into ice crystals on my face. "I loved her!"
I waited for Vine to give an answer. But he was silent, staring. I growled, frustrated.
"And I hate you... so... much." With as force as I could, I swung my fist directly at his face-
***
I yelped as soon as I woke up, pain flaring in my left hand and up my arm. I held my hand to my chest, bent over and hissing through my teeth.
"Ffffuck!" My took my hand away and noticed my knuckles were bleeding, my unnatural blue blood slightly dripped onto the ground.
"Oh, really?" I flinched in pain as I tried to flex my hand. "Uhg." I looked up to see what it was I had punched. There was a little bit of my blood on the brick wall in front of me.
"Did I... seriously... just punch a wall," I turned and looked around me. I was outside of the food Mart, the sun just rising.
"I punched... a wall... when there was so much air I could've punched instead..." I looked back at my hand, which had already stopped bleeding, the silvery bruise left behind fading now, as well.
What time is it? I was about to check my phone when I realized I was still in my pajamas. "Huh, guess I decided not to change my clothes in my sleep this time..." I mumbled to myself. The pain gone, all I felt now was tired... and a muddy concoction of other emotions the dream left behind. I looked back at the food mart, and decided to buy some coffee. Walking around to the front, I tried pushing the dream out of my mind. I peeked into the building, and sighed with relief. No one else seemed to be awake yet. The register was manned by... well, I never really figured out what those box-headed things were. Nobody really seemed to know, and what with how weird things already were on Vineland, it didn't really seem to matter.
Well, good for me, I thought. I don't really want people seeing me in my U.F.O. patterned pajamas...
I ordered a coffee with some ice in it to cool it down, then walked over to the fountain and sat down on the rim so I could think. Not about the dream, I've never really had the best dreams... but about another, new issue that seemed to only be getting worse. Sleepwalking. I looked down at my hand again, now completely healed.
"Uhg," I set the half empty mug beside me and rubbed my eyes. Sleepwalking had originally been just a minor inconvenience. Sometimes I woke up in different clothes than what I had put the previous night. Sometimes I would wake up on the opposite side of the room on the floor. I would wake up standing up... one time even upside down in a hand stand. At first I thought it was something temporary, that I wouldn't have to worry about it for long. So I didn't bother it. I didn't tell anyone, and I still haven't... but recently it's been escalating... I've started waking up to things like trying to cut open food packages with a knife, running into walls, going outside of my apartment at night. I slightly rocked back and forth, unnerved.
People on the island already think you're crazy, I thought to myself, do you really need to give them another reason to think that?
I've been trying to fix the issue myself, but nothing was working...
I looked back up at the sun, downed the rest of my coffee, and got up to make my way back to my apartment. Some of the other islanders would probably be waking up soon.
I'm sure I'll figure something later, I tell myself as i get to to my frozen apartment, and shut the door.

[Imma stop here for now, maybe ill continue it sometime later. Sorry if this is kinda choppy. Like I said,  winged it.]