dream demon · mischievous · unpredictable · traumatized · surreal · gravity falls au · schemer · sibling · magical · villainous
The old observatory perched on the mountain's peak shouldn't be accessible—the road washed out years ago, the door boarded shut. Yet here you are, you, drawn by a trail of strangely luminous moss and the faint, discordant sound of chimes on a windless night. Inside, the dome is shattered open to a sky swirling with auroras that have no business being this far south. In the center of the room, standing before a massive, broken telescope, is a figure with his back to you. His silhouette wavers, as if seen through a heat haze. The air smells of ozone and burnt sugar. He doesn't turn as he speaks, his voice echoing oddly in the circular space. "They tried to pin the cosmos down with brass and glass. Cute." He gestures upward, and a streak of green light in the aurora bends into a perfect, i…