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A dream
12 years ago
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I had a hell of a dream, and I really felt like I should share it. I may be misremembering parts of this, but I noted it down as soon as I could.
The dream took place in an mostly anthro-based setting, with a male dominated modernish era society. Women were pretty much second class citizens at best. There did seem to be a few quadrupedal sapients, but only among the males I think. More directly, it took place exclusively in a boarding school of sorts, coed, and ranging from K through late high - early college it seems. (~5-19 years old) Odd, considering equality was pretty much crap. In any case, I happened to find myself among the oppressed, a female cat... maybe? This mild confusion comes into play later.
Things were going along about as well as they could be for being second-rate targets of sexism, and we were living our lives and doing what you normally do in school. Then something happened. I don’t know what, but apparently we hurt the poor males’ egos somewhere along the line. How horrible for them. In any case, War was beginning. Of course, we’re talking a school, so it’s not like there were guns coming out or anything, (Because that never happens in real life) but bullying and harassment spiked. And whatever authority existed apparently was of the “boys will be boys” school of thought and completely stayed out of the whole thing. I don’t even recall seeing anyone but students. We were ALL on our own. The females didn't want to fight, but hell if we weren't gonna take care of our own if it came to it.
It wasn’t gonna take much to boil over. And in the middle of all this, I managed to lose my cell phone, would you believe it? This meant I had the joy of trying to scout around hostile school grounds in the hopes that I wouldn't run into trouble, and locate my phone before it got snatched up. I know we were holding a fundraiser of some kind as I was searching, because I passed a really long table where our people were making something for sale to fund our war effort. I think I found my phone eventually, but somewhere during the escalation of hostilities, a rather unpleasant male wolf quadruped did something. I don’t remember what it was, but I wanted his hide, metaphorically. People who know me know that I generally don’t hold that level of grudge. This was srs bzns, whatever he did.
We finally took to the field of battle, with what appears to have been the complete student population. We in the female camp had no weapons other than our own bodies, hands and feet and such. I know the males did, but nothing directly lethal. Training versions of okinawan weapons is all I remember. (Think ninja turtles and you’re getting there) Before we set out to engage, I remember two things. One, I was talking to someone, and I was about to reference my identity as a “girl” cat (As opposed to saying female or such) in a flippant comment, when I had the strangest sense of species and gender dysphoria for a moment which gave me pause. I think there was a flash of fox in there. The other was a little cat, she couldn't have been more than maybe six or seven, and was unsurprisingly worried. I knelt down to talk with her for a moment and help reassure her and give her a hug, which seemed to help us both, because I remember her saying something that made me laugh as she walked away.
Then it was time, and we went forth to engage. Battle was a bit of a blur, as it tends to be. I went from attacker to attacker, bringing them down as best I could with hand to hand and throws. I could describe the fight as like the biggest playground brawl you’d ever seen, it wasn’t to the death, at least as far as I knew. At the time I wouldn’t have been surprised if there were ‘accidents’ among the female population though, animosity from the male camp would be an understatement. One male came at me with unsharpened kama, (Small scythe-like weapons) and somehow I managed to get one away from him. We fought kama to kama for a bit, then the blades started to come loose from the handles. Somehow I actually fast talked him into somehow taking a timeout to put them aside before we continued. I think his heart wasn’t quite in it or something, but remember no one really was intending to do serious harm, again as far as I knew. I think I ran into my four-legged adversary after that, but I don’t remember how that went. I may have woken up after I met him.
So that’s my dream, give or take some read/write errors in remembering it enough to write it down. I actually feel like I want to write this story as an actual thing. I get the odd hint of bad High School AU fic, (Don’t even say Metroid High School) but I think if it was treated seriously from the source material it might be interesting, odd bits and all. I actually am considering drawing something simple and sketchy from it, it was fairly vivid.
The dream took place in an mostly anthro-based setting, with a male dominated modernish era society. Women were pretty much second class citizens at best. There did seem to be a few quadrupedal sapients, but only among the males I think. More directly, it took place exclusively in a boarding school of sorts, coed, and ranging from K through late high - early college it seems. (~5-19 years old) Odd, considering equality was pretty much crap. In any case, I happened to find myself among the oppressed, a female cat... maybe? This mild confusion comes into play later.
Things were going along about as well as they could be for being second-rate targets of sexism, and we were living our lives and doing what you normally do in school. Then something happened. I don’t know what, but apparently we hurt the poor males’ egos somewhere along the line. How horrible for them. In any case, War was beginning. Of course, we’re talking a school, so it’s not like there were guns coming out or anything, (Because that never happens in real life) but bullying and harassment spiked. And whatever authority existed apparently was of the “boys will be boys” school of thought and completely stayed out of the whole thing. I don’t even recall seeing anyone but students. We were ALL on our own. The females didn't want to fight, but hell if we weren't gonna take care of our own if it came to it.
It wasn’t gonna take much to boil over. And in the middle of all this, I managed to lose my cell phone, would you believe it? This meant I had the joy of trying to scout around hostile school grounds in the hopes that I wouldn't run into trouble, and locate my phone before it got snatched up. I know we were holding a fundraiser of some kind as I was searching, because I passed a really long table where our people were making something for sale to fund our war effort. I think I found my phone eventually, but somewhere during the escalation of hostilities, a rather unpleasant male wolf quadruped did something. I don’t remember what it was, but I wanted his hide, metaphorically. People who know me know that I generally don’t hold that level of grudge. This was srs bzns, whatever he did.
We finally took to the field of battle, with what appears to have been the complete student population. We in the female camp had no weapons other than our own bodies, hands and feet and such. I know the males did, but nothing directly lethal. Training versions of okinawan weapons is all I remember. (Think ninja turtles and you’re getting there) Before we set out to engage, I remember two things. One, I was talking to someone, and I was about to reference my identity as a “girl” cat (As opposed to saying female or such) in a flippant comment, when I had the strangest sense of species and gender dysphoria for a moment which gave me pause. I think there was a flash of fox in there. The other was a little cat, she couldn't have been more than maybe six or seven, and was unsurprisingly worried. I knelt down to talk with her for a moment and help reassure her and give her a hug, which seemed to help us both, because I remember her saying something that made me laugh as she walked away.
Then it was time, and we went forth to engage. Battle was a bit of a blur, as it tends to be. I went from attacker to attacker, bringing them down as best I could with hand to hand and throws. I could describe the fight as like the biggest playground brawl you’d ever seen, it wasn’t to the death, at least as far as I knew. At the time I wouldn’t have been surprised if there were ‘accidents’ among the female population though, animosity from the male camp would be an understatement. One male came at me with unsharpened kama, (Small scythe-like weapons) and somehow I managed to get one away from him. We fought kama to kama for a bit, then the blades started to come loose from the handles. Somehow I actually fast talked him into somehow taking a timeout to put them aside before we continued. I think his heart wasn’t quite in it or something, but remember no one really was intending to do serious harm, again as far as I knew. I think I ran into my four-legged adversary after that, but I don’t remember how that went. I may have woken up after I met him.
So that’s my dream, give or take some read/write errors in remembering it enough to write it down. I actually feel like I want to write this story as an actual thing. I get the odd hint of bad High School AU fic, (Don’t even say Metroid High School) but I think if it was treated seriously from the source material it might be interesting, odd bits and all. I actually am considering drawing something simple and sketchy from it, it was fairly vivid.
