[winter.sunset]

" D I V I N G i n t o t h e S E A o f D R E A M S "

Username:
My username is winter.sunset. I don't believe I've ever tried for a mako before, but I think I made the right choice in choosing this guy.

Name:
I would like to name this boy Astro. As soon as I saw him, I thought of this name.

Gender:
Despite his feminine palette, he's a male.I could see why you may think of him as a girl, but I just think it would be kinda nice for him to be male.

Dream:
A dream I have every night?? Well, it's a series of things that I didn't understand at first, and still don't.
The dream starts out when I open my eyes. I always remember hearing the seagulls crow,and looking up to an umbrella.I immediately think of paradise.
Suddenly, I'm floating out of my lounge chair,and being flung into the air. I remember the wonderful feeling of my flipping stomach,and I rise,up and up and up,until I'm thrown into the sea.
Don't stop listening now.This isn't your everyday generic sea.
This was a sea of dreams. I could feel the happiness of my childhood, the dreams that I had about race cars,cookies, sweets, monster trucks, and all that stuff I loved when I was a kid. Some dreams I remembered so fluently they spoke to me.
Random characters and bubbles floated everywhere around me. I was flung endlessly into the abyss of dreams...
...And it felt wonderful.
At that moment I felt like I could do anything. Like I was invincible. My tail would twitch with excitement as I would pop bubble after bubble,feeling the character or speech flow through my veins,into my head. The descriptions of every character and story line were so clear, I felt like I could see them right in front of me.
Suddenly,all the bubbles would pop on their own,and I would be left floating in this psychedelic abyss.
After a moment or two,an angelfish would drop in from the sky,and stare at me for a second. Then it would dash away.
Given my childlike instincts, I chase after it. I want to see where it will go.
As I chase it, the light ahead of me would get gradually stronger, until I couldn't see at all. At that very moment, I awake in my lounge chair on the beach. It made me a bit sad knowing that the entire experience was just a dream, but what can you do??
I close my eyes,hoping to have the dream again.
Then, I wake up in reality.
It really is too bad. I don't dream very often, so it's not every night I get to pop my bubbles of imagination. But some night, I want to have popped a lot of the bubbles. I want to remember the happiness I had as a child.

Art:
Currently, my art is a WIP. It will be displayed at the top.

[Vaughn.]

ends in about 3 hours.

[Vaughn.]

oh gosh i forgot about this ahaahahahaha
but yeah closed for judging now sorry

[mango sherbet]

good luck to everyone! eep

[mercury.]

wishing everyone the very best ovo good luck and happy holidays

[winter.sunset]

Aww, I didn't get to finish my extra.
But whatever, I guess I'll just leave it out X3
Good luck everyone!! I have my fingers crossed.

[Vaughn.]

Congrats to mango sherbet! The dream was very creative and had so much vivid imagery; I loved it!
Honorable mentions go to three. and Ditzy Derp.

Ｈ Ａ Ｕ Ｍ Ｅ Ａ

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ｕｓｅｒｎａｍｅ✧

Hi, i'm mango sherbet. This is the first Mako i've ever tried out for, and I appreciate the opportunity to win her!

ｎａｍｅ✧

I've decided to go with the name Haumea [ha-may-uh], which is actually a dwarf planet. There's no real significant reason for why I chose that name, other than that I think it suits her and the color of the planet also matches her eye color.

ｇｅｎｄｅｒ✧

Even though this Mako is fairly androgynous and I can definitely see it as a male, I chose to go with female. Why? Well, the thoughts of possible traits that came to me when I looked at her were more feminine than masculine, and, in all honesty, I think female suits what I have in mind for her much better.

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ｄｒｅａｍ✧

The first time Haumea had the dream, she woke gasping for air. Over time, though, her distress lessened, and her curiosity intensified.
Though she never remembered having previously experienced the dream while she was having it, some inkling of what she had already learned implanted itself in her mind, and so every time she woke up she realized she had discovered something new about it.
It was, after all, quite a strange dream, with many things to investigate. And despite Haumea's inquisitive nature, she found herself frequently overwhelmed by the dream. After waking, she would slowly recover, running the newest findings over in her head.
The dream was always the same. It began and ended the same way. There wasn't anything particularly stressful or exciting about it. It was mostly the environment that amazed Haumea to no end.
The conditions were confusing, to say the least. The gravity was skewed, skewed in such a way that Haumea wasn't sure which way she was being pulled- perhaps the gravity was so strong and coming from so many directions that she was being yanked around, or maybe it was so faint that she was floating. It was difficult to tell, because the strength of the scene made her eyes water and her head pound.
A strange substance clung to Haumea. At first, she had thought it was the sea, but closer inspection prove that it was actually semitransparent and resembled something like the sky- in fact, if asked to describe it, the only way she could would be as liquid sky. The substance was light and airy, yet definitely had a presence. Clinging to Haumea, and bobbing along the surface of the sky-liquid, were glowing stars, little specks of light and heat that pulsed with energy. They were so searingly hot that in normal circumstances Haumea would have been burned by each of their tiny pricks- but, in the usual, bizarre nature of the dream, they were simply there, and though she could feel the heat, it didn't affect her.
In contrast, a burning heat came from two very odd glowing orbs that, unlike the stars, weren't confined to the sky. They bobbed along in a slightly intimidating way, giving off a searingly bright light and an insane heat. They seemed almost like part of the landscape, rather than a separate component. It added to the mystery of this pointless dream.
Stretching above her head, like a dome, was the strangest cloud Haumea would ever encounter. It was full of tunnels and twists that seemed to go on and on in every direction. They looked heavy, like storm clouds, but their odd greenish color suggested they were more like seawater than rainwater.
And perhaps the oddest bit of the dream... there was no sound, at all. Considering it was a dream, it wouldn't ordinarily be so surprising, but Haumea always dreamed in sound and color and feeling- vivid dreams, realistic dreams.
For a while, she never noticed the lack of sound- her mind filled in the gaps for her; the splashing of the sky-sea; the humming of the stars. And then she realized it, and never remembered that she hadn't; it was as familiar to her as anything else.
Every night the dream came, and every night Haumea explored it with the same probing curiosity and alarm as previously. There was nothing to suggest a reason or meaning within the dream, and the only powerful emotion she felt was extreme helplessness.
She didn't want the dream, but she didn't necessarily dislike it, either. It simply existed, and she felt like there was nothing she could do about it other than keep on dreaming.

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ｅｘｔｒａ: ａｒｔ✧

I chose art as my extra because I wanted to have both a visual and written representation of Haumea's dream. I apologize if it's hard to understand in text, but hopefully my drawing makes it clearer.

Haumea's dream by me ✧ fullsize ✧ right side up
Haumea semi-chibi by me
Haumea anthro portrait by me
lil divider thing by me

[FoxerOwl]

Omg congrats mango! <3 Take good care of her!

[mango sherbet]

oh my god thank you so much! i'm so excited and happy to own haumea eeeeeee

[peppermintleo]

Congrats mango I was rooting for you ;u;