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Both characters are OCs. :P\n\nWhy does a 40-some y/o man humiliate himself in this way? ..I dunno? Autism? Furry? Too much Coke spiked with rum? The answer is 'yes' (just 'yes'). ^^\n\nSo a little about our characters before the story begins.\n\nPeaches is a kind-hearted female popple (80s version). She's a bit different from other popples, but we'll let the story explain how.\nPeaches likes to tell stories, and speaks with a slight US-Southern accent (but with none of those Southern-belle expressions---Peaches isn't old-minded).\n\nPeaches's color ref: https://sta.sh/017tm0e2hak4\n\nDreamheart Skunk is a large, ancient care cousin who can see into the dreams of children as well hear the wishes some make on stars.\nDreamheart never goes on caring missions, though her insight has proven useful a time or two (she's close friends with Wish and Secret Bear).\n\nNOW FOR THE STORY!!\n\nTRIGGER WARNING: gentle, human-child death D:\n\n[Peaches (a *colorless female popple), enters a clearing in The Forest of Feelings. A single star shines above, casting light on Dreamheart Skunk, sitting on the grass]\n\n*Peaches has lost her joy, hence her bright colors are no more\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed, somehow knowing the popple is there): \"Don't be afraid, Peaches; I've been expecting you. Come dream with me!\"\n\n[the popple hesitates before stepping forward]\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed): \"I am Dreamheart Skunk, and this is where I observe and contemplate the dreams of children all over the world\"\n\n[the popple sits beside Dreamheart]\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed): \"Your Riley had such wonderful daydreams---his mind was always thinking of the many things he would grow up to be and do!\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed, continuing): \"And you came along on all those adventures! You made him happier than anyone he knew\"\n\nPEACHES: \"He said our jokes and stories were making him well---he said when I was with him, he didn't feel sick ...but he was sick, and he never got better\"\n\n[Dreamheart, eyes still closed, takes the popple's paw]\n\nPEACHES: \"I came to Care-a-Lot, hoping the care bears could help---but they ignored me; couldn't they see my heart was broken?\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed): \"They didn't know; they neither saw nor heard you\"\n\nPEACHES: \"Then maybe I should've made a stink?\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed): \"Heh. No, you don't understand\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed, continuing): \"Some of us magical creatures exist for children, to love and comfort them, or to guide or entertain. We all serve whether we know it or not.\nSome of us live forever, while others disappear once the children they're sent to outgrow or no longer need or think of them. That is often the case for popples. Your story is a little different\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed, continuing): \"When Riley took ill, his parents packed a little box of his favorite things to take with him to the hospital.\nRiley hadn't the strength to play with these things most days, but he could look on them and imagine\"\n\nPEACHES: \"When a child's favorite things are together, and the child uses imagination, popples can a-pop-pop-pear\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed): \"That's right, and it happens that a parent's love for their child put that box of favorite things together. Some of that love rubbed off on you; you're a very special popple!\"\n\nPEACHES: \"I love Riley, but don't feel spuh-puh-pecial\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed, continuing): \"You placed your concern for Riley above your own desire for fun and pleasure. Such love, real unselfish love, almost never occurs in popples---it's not their calling; it's not what they want. Again, you are very special.\nRiley died at a time when his parents were at work and his friends were at preschool. You were Riley's very last dream, his final thought---and he was your final thought\"\n\n[the popple thinks for a moment, a tear in her eye]\n\n[the popple widens her eyes]\n\nPEACHES (dramatic): \"Wait, does that mean I'm a ghost? Un-boo-lievable!\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed): \"Not exactly. Riley never let you go, and his parents still love him, with the same love that resides in you---you exist as an image of that love; a dream unfinished\"\n\nPEACHES (sobbing; anxious): Then I'm still real to Riley; I do love Riley; I love him---he needs me, but I don't know where he is, and if I don't know where Riley is, how can Riley know?\"\n\nPEACHES: \"We're lost, Dreamheart. How can two who are lost find each other? Riley must be so afraid!\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed; comforting): \"Riley isn't afraid or lost, dear one, it's you who's confused. You've been holding onto him in this world, but I tell you Riley isn't to be found here\"\n\nPEACHES: \"Puh-p-please tell me where he is, if you know\"\n\n[Dreamheart places the popple's paw on the popple's chest]\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed): \"The answer is found here, in your heart\"\n\nPEACHES (trying hard): \"The love is there, but I don't see Riley\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed, suppressing a chuckle): \"Could it be you're looking for a sick little boy? You won't find Riley among the sick---he's strong and healthy!\"\n\nPEACHES: \"He is!? Oh, I want to see him, but I still don't see...\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed): \"Dream. Remember the stories you made together about the adventures you would have? Riley's there, waiting for you!\"\n\n[the popple is silent a moment; a smile begins to form on her face]\n\nPEACHES: \"...I. I see him! Dreamheart, I see Riley! Oh! Look at him go! Hahaha! He looks so silly in that puh-puh-puh-pirate hat! Do you see, do you see!?\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed, smiling): \"Of course I do! Now what are you waiting for---go join him! Go play!\"\n\n[Peaches doesn't respond; she's engaged in the dream]\n\nPEACHES (after a minute): \"...I-I've never seen Riley puh-puh-play before. All our adventures hap-puh-puh-pened in dreams and stories\"\n\n[Dreamheart places a paw on Peaches's shoulder]\n\n[Peaches touches the paw on her shoulder and rests her cheek on it]\n\nPEACHES: \"Thank you for showing me this, Dreamheart. I can rest now knowing Riley is healthy and safe; it's all I ever wanted for him\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed): \"So...?\"\n\nPEACHES (sad-smiling): \"So, everything I could give to Riley was pup-puh-pretend. He has no more need of me\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed): \"You think there's no place for dreams in Heaven?\"\n\nPEACHES: \"Is there?\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed): \"I am a seer of children's dreams. I tell you Riley is yet dreaming and thinking of you---even in his joy he has not forgotten the love and friendship you gave him in that cold hospital room. Only the pain and the suffering of those days has gone unremembered.\nIf what I've said to you wasn't so, you'd not be here to know the contrary\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed, continuing): \"You yet have a job to do, to give good dreams of Riley to his mother. You are, after all, her dream-connection to Riley\"\n\nPEACHES: \"Riley's mom needs me?\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed): \"Yes. Besides, Riley loves you and wants you to share in his reward\"\n\n[Dreamheart boops Peaches gently on her nose]\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed): \"It's yours, too, you know?\"\n\nPEACHES (excited): \"How!? Oh, how do I!?---puh-puh-please) tell me!\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed; pointing at the star above): \"Look to that light up there and it will take you home, to Riley\"\n\nPEACHES (trying hard, calling desperately): \"Riley!\"\n\n[Peaches bounces up and down, trying to get to the star, but her efforts are in vain]\n\n[frustrated, Peaches pops a ride-on rocket from her pouch]\n\nPEACHES: \"This should do it! [shaking the rocket] ...Oh?\"\n\nPEACHES (sheepish): \"Do you happen to have any spare rocket fuel lying around, do ya?\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed, mildly amused): \"You wouldn't get there that way. Reach for the light and it will come to you\"\n\nPEACHES (trying; becoming frustrated): \"I can't do it, Dreamheart---it's up so high! P-p-please take me to him and puh-puh-play with us!\"\n\nDREAMHEART (eyes closed): \"No! Your thoughts are yet earthbound. You don't need me; let me and this world go---reach for the light, it will reach for you!\"\n\nPEACHES (relaxing; extending her paw to the star): \"All right, I-I think I---it's coming closer! It-it's so bright!\n[the popple pops a pair of shades from her pouch and puts them on]\nThank you, Dreamheart! Riley! Wait for me! I'm c---\"\n\n[the popple vanishes in a flash of light; she's found her way to Riley]\n\n[Dreamheart, eyes closed, breathes a happy sigh of relief]\n\n[Dreamheart opens her eyes]\n\nDREAMHEART: \"No need to dream anymore. Your adventures are real now\"\n\nTHE END", "description_bbcode_parsed": "EDIT: slight story change...

So I thought to write a story about Peaches Popple (a popple!) and Dreamheart Skunk (a Care Bear Cousin). Both characters are OCs. :P

Why does a 40-some y/o man humiliate himself in this way? ..I dunno? Autism? Furry? Too much Coke spiked with rum? The answer is 'yes' (just 'yes'). ^^

So a little about our characters before the story begins.

Peaches is a kind-hearted female popple (80s version). She's a bit different from other popples, but we'll let the story explain how.
Peaches likes to tell stories, and speaks with a slight US-Southern accent (but with none of those Southern-belle expressions---Peaches isn't old-minded).

Peaches's color ref: https://sta.sh/017tm0e2hak4

Dreamheart Skunk is a large, ancient care cousin who can see into the dreams of children as well hear the wishes some make on stars.
Dreamheart never goes on caring missions, though her insight has proven useful a time or two (she's close friends with Wish and Secret Bear).

NOW FOR THE STORY!!

TRIGGER WARNING: gentle, human-child death D:

[Peaches (a *colorless female popple), enters a clearing in The Forest of Feelings. A single star shines above, casting light on Dreamheart Skunk, sitting on the grass]

*Peaches has lost her joy, hence her bright colors are no more

DREAMHEART (eyes closed, somehow knowing the popple is there): "Don't be afraid, Peaches; I've been expecting you. Come dream with me!"

[the popple hesitates before stepping forward]

DREAMHEART (eyes closed): "I am Dreamheart Skunk, and this is where I observe and contemplate the dreams of children all over the world"

[the popple sits beside Dreamheart]

DREAMHEART (eyes closed): "Your Riley had such wonderful daydreams---his mind was always thinking of the many things he would grow up to be and do!"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed, continuing): "And you came along on all those adventures! You made him happier than anyone he knew"

PEACHES: "He said our jokes and stories were making him well---he said when I was with him, he didn't feel sick ...but he was sick, and he never got better"

[Dreamheart, eyes still closed, takes the popple's paw]

PEACHES: "I came to Care-a-Lot, hoping the care bears could help---but they ignored me; couldn't they see my heart was broken?"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed): "They didn't know; they neither saw nor heard you"

PEACHES: "Then maybe I should've made a stink?"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed): "Heh. No, you don't understand"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed, continuing): "Some of us magical creatures exist for children, to love and comfort them, or to guide or entertain. We all serve whether we know it or not.
Some of us live forever, while others disappear once the children they're sent to outgrow or no longer need or think of them. That is often the case for popples. Your story is a little different"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed, continuing): "When Riley took ill, his parents packed a little box of his favorite things to take with him to the hospital.
Riley hadn't the strength to play with these things most days, but he could look on them and imagine"

PEACHES: "When a child's favorite things are together, and the child uses imagination, popples can a-pop-pop-pear"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed): "That's right, and it happens that a parent's love for their child put that box of favorite things together. Some of that love rubbed off on you; you're a very special popple!"

PEACHES: "I love Riley, but don't feel spuh-puh-pecial"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed, continuing): "You placed your concern for Riley above your own desire for fun and pleasure. Such love, real unselfish love, almost never occurs in popples---it's not their calling; it's not what they want. Again, you are very special.
Riley died at a time when his parents were at work and his friends were at preschool. You were Riley's very last dream, his final thought---and he was your final thought"

[the popple thinks for a moment, a tear in her eye]

[the popple widens her eyes]

PEACHES (dramatic): "Wait, does that mean I'm a ghost? Un-boo-lievable!"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed): "Not exactly. Riley never let you go, and his parents still love him, with the same love that resides in you---you exist as an image of that love; a dream unfinished"

PEACHES (sobbing; anxious): Then I'm still real to Riley; I do love Riley; I love him---he needs me, but I don't know where he is, and if I don't know where Riley is, how can Riley know?"

PEACHES: "We're lost, Dreamheart. How can two who are lost find each other? Riley must be so afraid!"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed; comforting): "Riley isn't afraid or lost, dear one, it's you who's confused. You've been holding onto him in this world, but I tell you Riley isn't to be found here"

PEACHES: "Puh-p-please tell me where he is, if you know"

[Dreamheart places the popple's paw on the popple's chest]

DREAMHEART (eyes closed): "The answer is found here, in your heart"

PEACHES (trying hard): "The love is there, but I don't see Riley"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed, suppressing a chuckle): "Could it be you're looking for a sick little boy? You won't find Riley among the sick---he's strong and healthy!"

PEACHES: "He is!? Oh, I want to see him, but I still don't see..."

DREAMHEART (eyes closed): "Dream. Remember the stories you made together about the adventures you would have? Riley's there, waiting for you!"

[the popple is silent a moment; a smile begins to form on her face]

PEACHES: "...I. I see him! Dreamheart, I see Riley! Oh! Look at him go! Hahaha! He looks so silly in that puh-puh-puh-pirate hat! Do you see, do you see!?"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed, smiling): "Of course I do! Now what are you waiting for---go join him! Go play!"

[Peaches doesn't respond; she's engaged in the dream]

PEACHES (after a minute): "...I-I've never seen Riley puh-puh-play before. All our adventures hap-puh-puh-pened in dreams and stories"

[Dreamheart places a paw on Peaches's shoulder]

[Peaches touches the paw on her shoulder and rests her cheek on it]

PEACHES: "Thank you for showing me this, Dreamheart. I can rest now knowing Riley is healthy and safe; it's all I ever wanted for him"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed): "So...?"

PEACHES (sad-smiling): "So, everything I could give to Riley was pup-puh-pretend. He has no more need of me"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed): "You think there's no place for dreams in Heaven?"

PEACHES: "Is there?"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed): "I am a seer of children's dreams. I tell you Riley is yet dreaming and thinking of you---even in his joy he has not forgotten the love and friendship you gave him in that cold hospital room. Only the pain and the suffering of those days has gone unremembered.
If what I've said to you wasn't so, you'd not be here to know the contrary"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed, continuing): "You yet have a job to do, to give good dreams of Riley to his mother. You are, after all, her dream-connection to Riley"

PEACHES: "Riley's mom needs me?"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed): "Yes. Besides, Riley loves you and wants you to share in his reward"

[Dreamheart boops Peaches gently on her nose]

DREAMHEART (eyes closed): "It's yours, too, you know?"

PEACHES (excited): "How!? Oh, how do I!?---puh-puh-please) tell me!"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed; pointing at the star above): "Look to that light up there and it will take you home, to Riley"

PEACHES (trying hard, calling desperately): "Riley!"

[Peaches bounces up and down, trying to get to the star, but her efforts are in vain]

[frustrated, Peaches pops a ride-on rocket from her pouch]

PEACHES: "This should do it! [shaking the rocket] ...Oh?"

PEACHES (sheepish): "Do you happen to have any spare rocket fuel lying around, do ya?"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed, mildly amused): "You wouldn't get there that way. Reach for the light and it will come to you"

PEACHES (trying; becoming frustrated): "I can't do it, Dreamheart---it's up so high! P-p-please take me to him and puh-puh-play with us!"

DREAMHEART (eyes closed): "No! Your thoughts are yet earthbound. You don't need me; let me and this world go---reach for the light, it will reach for you!"

PEACHES (relaxing; extending her paw to the star): "All right, I-I think I---it's coming closer! It-it's so bright!
[the popple pops a pair of shades from her pouch and puts them on]
Thank you, Dreamheart! Riley! Wait for me! I'm c---"

[the popple vanishes in a flash of light; she's found her way to Riley]

[Dreamheart, eyes closed, breathes a happy sigh of relief]

[Dreamheart opens her eyes]

DREAMHEART: "No need to dream anymore. Your adventures are real now"

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