#outofthedeck

(though, in about half those dreams he re-appears at some point and then Kris, Susie, and I help him out either by stopping the roaring or helping him exist in the light world. Though in that second example he turned into a mishmash fusion between SpongeBob and my dad made out of bright blue shag carpet, but that's not the important bit)

Thoughts?

My first thought is: you need to lay off the cheese before bedtime XD

But on a more serious note, that's pretty interesting... One of Ralsei's key "characteristics" (for want of a better term) in Chapter 2 is his tendency to step back and not be noticed, particularly when there are large groups of lightners involved. And thinking about this in terms of his behaviour in Chapters 3 and 4, we can kind of understand why he was acting that way - he wanted Susie and Kris to spend time with "real" people, and make "real" friends - things which he believes that he'd only get in the way of and cause more hurt than is necessary.

I'm not going to go all "dream interpreter" on you or anything like that, but given what we know about him so far, I suppose it would make sense to dream about him in that way, wouldn't it? Perhaps he's telling us not to become so attached to him, as he's destined to disappear from our lives too one day...

The bit about him becoming Spongebob and your Dad might be a cheese thing though. Unless... well, I suppose we'll have to see what happens in the future chapters, in case your dreams turn out to be premonitions of what's to come...

I now have an excuse to tell another person to play outer wilds please play the video game outer wilds (not to be confused with outer worlds). You play as part of an alien species that exclusively uses they/them pronouns.

It's a space-faring 3d first person puzzle platformer where the main draw is its incredible ability to draw out your curiosity. There's stuff to learn in every corner, and you can go anywhere at any point if you know how.

All the planets are hand-crafted with intent and care, all the lore and knowledge feeding into each other in a wonderful package.

Slight spoilers, but I'm going to describe two planets a little just so you get a gist of the ideas on display.

The Hourglass twins (named Ember and Ash Twins) are two planets that rotate around each other close to the sun. As they dance about, sand from one planet will get pulled into another, revealing the secrets of Ash Twin while filling the caves of Ember (and potentially crushing you to death). Eventually, the cycle reverses.

I won't tell you any more because this game is very weak to spoilers, but please consider playing!!! This is literally the best video game of all time. I'm not exaggerating.