Watery Prison

Yep.
In an event where characters are either trapped in an eternal nightmare or blissful reverie I decided to send my punching bag Marionette to hell. :'D
I wasn't even going to do any of this since Armonia is going to close up shop soon in June, but I just loved the visual of Marionette floating around like this so I drew it anyway~


So what's going on?  Well, as some of you may know, Marionette has a severe case of hydrophobia.
Long ago, the tiny thing was thrown into a small cage and tossed to the bottom of the ocean.  Unable to escape and without oxygen to keep her inner wax hot and molten, Marionette's body solidified and was thusly trapped under the waves for several weeks.  It would have been longer, but thankfully there were actually people looking for her at the time and they managed to fish her out.

Marionette had always distrusted the ocean for a variety of reasons, but it was that day forth she began to be terrified of it.
She fears that if given the chance the ocean, or whatever large body of water she's near or in, will pull her back down under the waves and never let her go.  She absolutely refuses to enter deep water without someone there with her, for if she does end up trapped there would be someone who would have a good idea where she is and notice her gone.

This fear has been with her for many years, but it wasn't until recently that the risks of such a situation has increased.
If she ends up trapped underwater and nobody finds her it would likely take a very, very long time for the girl to get out.  Such a long entrapment would mean that all her friends, her family, the ones she feels gives her life and existence worth and meaning... They would be gone.  Dead they'd be if she's gone for too long, or if she's lucky enough she might be able to see that they have moved on without her.  Which is more painful to experience?  Finding out that the ones you treasure most are dead or that they have seemingly left you behind in their memories without consequence?

All of this is what plagues Marionette in regards to her fears.  Being trapped with no hope of help is bad enough, but her fear of losing everything she's ever loved and cherished due to such imprisonment is what terrifies her most.
And thus, here she is in her waking nightmare.  It's a mix of her past self when she was first thrown into the ocean all those years ago, hence the dress, and her current self, hence the mature body and scaring.  This is so that way her fears born in the past and fears born in the present can intermingle to create this hell.


Aside from the fact that granting her blissful happiness would have been boring, this nightmare was prepped up by the very method of which they were stuck on the deserted island, so it had to be done.  The girl had never liked that underwater train; she was always afraid that one day the sea would break through the glass and claim everyone on it, including her. It's the same reason why she's always so nervous when visiting the aquarium.  So when the train started to flood the tiny girl freaked out hard and spent most of her time the next few days crying and refusing to let go of Harlie.

The girl probably would have calmed down with time, but then everyone was driven into that cave by bad weather where she was forced to live through the nightmare she had been dreading.
Waiting for someone to come save her...
Forever waiting for someone to come pull her out of her watery prison.

Harlie is likely her best bet because he's her fluffy boyfriend, but that might take some time.
He's stuck in a blissful paradise with a dream Marionette in a world where everything is perfect and right.
How long will it take for him to realize his girl is in her own private hell and leave his heaven to save her I do not know.  But hopefully she won't have to live through this for another two weeks like last time.

And as you can imagine, a nightmare like this means that she is incapable of doing anything but be chained down in a bunch of water until someone comes to save her.
A convenient excuse for me really.  I normally like to do the treasure journal thing for these kinds of events, but since Marionette already has so much crap and the group is closing up I decided not to bother with it.  Ah well.


Pokemon (c) Nintendo
Marionette (c) Mine