This morning's dream
Nov. 3rd, 2015 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethThere was a plane full of army sponsored vampire hunters, including twins that look like Xander. (Yes I know the actor is twins. I try not to RPF even my dreams.) And at least one of them was an alcoholic, but they had it under control between them, pretty much.
The Xander looking twins frequently locked themselves in a compartment and had arguments, where one was super calm and the other was, well, very not. But in the field they were always both totally calm and professional, unless things were really tense and they'd drop into class clown mode for a little while.
But then one got bit by a vampire, in a Blade sort of 'verse where being bit is all it takes sometimes, and he starts having Calm vs Clown conversations with himself. Which, you know, kind of worrying, but he's having a bad day.
And then they get back to the plane and they forget to lock the door this time, and it turns out the calm twin worried twin conversations? They're both the calm one and they're both the other one. There's four people in those two bodies. They'd just been better at covering that up when none of them were turning into vampires.
Turns out that the twins were in the army when they started having alcohol problems, and then they did something really bad. Probably swinging an axe at Spike sort of bad. Something that wouldn't be overlooked. So the army offered them a chance at a new and experimental therapy. Well, you could call it therapy, or you could call it mind control. One of those. They dropped a new and much more competent personality in, the Soldier. And the Soldier didn't have any pesky alcohol problems, or indeed any other problems, he just had the mission. The only thing the personalities kept in common was that they loved their brother. Well, brothers, now.
The plan probably wasn't to induce a split personality. But when they're both kind of used to taking turns being Sober Twin and listening to whiny Drunk Twin, or vice versa, then having this new and improved Sober Soldier Twin in their head is just familiar. And while the new personality certainly doesn't want a drink, has never wanted a drink, cannot want a drink, well, it is in a body that kind of emphatically does, like generations before it. And there was a personality in there already that knew all about that. So. Two people. But the army considered it a success because the one that turned up to work was, always, sober. Which is like winning.
But then with this vampire thing? They really really need a drink. Just, you know, not the usual drink.
So the sober soldier half deals with it by deciding this, like other bodily urges before it, is the drunk twin's problem. And then they can just ignore the drunk twin. No problem.
And as far as the military are concerned the result is a soldier with all a vampire's strengths and yet under their control. Winning.
... inside their head? Not so much winning. Because you can't just ignore vampirism even with a really good support group and ever present sponsor.
Also, the soldier? Only noticed one aspect of the problem. The thirst it ignores. But it was actually actively designed for violence, so that side? That fits right in. Add to that the growing sense of contempt for humans, their slow messy fragile gross mortality, the way they're just all round less than them... they are building up a problem, and it clicks with all the programming the army only meant to make them a good soldier who doesn't waste time with civilians and their pursuits.
See the trigger for this plan was getting drunk and attacking someone. So the army fixed the getting drunk part. But they just use the attacking someone parts.
Have not in fact fixed the problem.
And while the four personalities stayed stable between them for many many years, adding vampirism? Kind of a really big problem. Which half the personalities are treating like an opportunity.
So, that's going to go boom, and soon.
Unless they find another way.
That bit was an interesting setup, kinda sorta, mixing vampirism as metaphor with the actual alcohol drink problem.
Most of the actual action of the dream though was packing, trying to pick up all my bags at once, and going down stairs that go down and down and down some more.
Dreams are weird.
The Xander looking twins frequently locked themselves in a compartment and had arguments, where one was super calm and the other was, well, very not. But in the field they were always both totally calm and professional, unless things were really tense and they'd drop into class clown mode for a little while.
But then one got bit by a vampire, in a Blade sort of 'verse where being bit is all it takes sometimes, and he starts having Calm vs Clown conversations with himself. Which, you know, kind of worrying, but he's having a bad day.
And then they get back to the plane and they forget to lock the door this time, and it turns out the calm twin worried twin conversations? They're both the calm one and they're both the other one. There's four people in those two bodies. They'd just been better at covering that up when none of them were turning into vampires.
Turns out that the twins were in the army when they started having alcohol problems, and then they did something really bad. Probably swinging an axe at Spike sort of bad. Something that wouldn't be overlooked. So the army offered them a chance at a new and experimental therapy. Well, you could call it therapy, or you could call it mind control. One of those. They dropped a new and much more competent personality in, the Soldier. And the Soldier didn't have any pesky alcohol problems, or indeed any other problems, he just had the mission. The only thing the personalities kept in common was that they loved their brother. Well, brothers, now.
The plan probably wasn't to induce a split personality. But when they're both kind of used to taking turns being Sober Twin and listening to whiny Drunk Twin, or vice versa, then having this new and improved Sober Soldier Twin in their head is just familiar. And while the new personality certainly doesn't want a drink, has never wanted a drink, cannot want a drink, well, it is in a body that kind of emphatically does, like generations before it. And there was a personality in there already that knew all about that. So. Two people. But the army considered it a success because the one that turned up to work was, always, sober. Which is like winning.
But then with this vampire thing? They really really need a drink. Just, you know, not the usual drink.
So the sober soldier half deals with it by deciding this, like other bodily urges before it, is the drunk twin's problem. And then they can just ignore the drunk twin. No problem.
And as far as the military are concerned the result is a soldier with all a vampire's strengths and yet under their control. Winning.
... inside their head? Not so much winning. Because you can't just ignore vampirism even with a really good support group and ever present sponsor.
Also, the soldier? Only noticed one aspect of the problem. The thirst it ignores. But it was actually actively designed for violence, so that side? That fits right in. Add to that the growing sense of contempt for humans, their slow messy fragile gross mortality, the way they're just all round less than them... they are building up a problem, and it clicks with all the programming the army only meant to make them a good soldier who doesn't waste time with civilians and their pursuits.
See the trigger for this plan was getting drunk and attacking someone. So the army fixed the getting drunk part. But they just use the attacking someone parts.
Have not in fact fixed the problem.
And while the four personalities stayed stable between them for many many years, adding vampirism? Kind of a really big problem. Which half the personalities are treating like an opportunity.
So, that's going to go boom, and soon.
Unless they find another way.
That bit was an interesting setup, kinda sorta, mixing vampirism as metaphor with the actual alcohol drink problem.
Most of the actual action of the dream though was packing, trying to pick up all my bags at once, and going down stairs that go down and down and down some more.
Dreams are weird.