#mindlink as a guy who has privacy issues is so very fun and interesting to me

[stonehenge-asexual]

Hey. Gift for u. Thoughts on mindlink in the dbd smbts au

god don't even get me started. mindlink connecting the teens initially during fights, and then niko is able to connect them even outside of transformation and they can talk during classes. edwin trying to focus in class but having to tune out the background noise of the other three and getting very annoyed and tossing out a i am TRYING to focus very loudly in their minds and it's quiet for the rest of class the same was its quiet in the car when your parent raises their voice with you bc they're annoyed and driving and just want you to be quiet so they can get you home safely. figuring out that they can send each other mind version of Game Pigeon games and doing that during study sessions or late nights where they can't sleep.

learning how to distinguish between thoughts based on their cadence. edwin and niko both having ramble-y thoughts but edwin's stay focused on a line of thought while niko's jump between topics. charles think less in full sentences and more in emotions and individual phrases. crystal's thoughts coming through quick and having an echo-y feel because of the divination aspects of her powers.

connected nightmares :) initially not knowing that they're experiencing each others nightmares, but then they fall into nightmares that there's no way that they would have them (stumbling into a nightmare niko has about losing her dad, crystal falling back into old habits with the team, charles' nightmares about his dad, nightmares about each other getting hurt) and figuring it out and now they're seeing each others fears and worries and not even their dreams and nightmares being private (edwin and charles sharing dreams of domesticity before they get together but they both think it's their own dreams and both being worried about the other stumbling into those dreams).

feeling strong flashes of each other's emotions. one of them being up late and feeling a spike of loneliness or fear from one of the others and having to piece through who sent it and going to their room to check in. charles not wanting to burden the others with his negative emotions, learning to lock down his mind from the link but the absence of his thoughts feels bad in a different way.

just, thinks about being so connected to people they literally know you inside and out, they're actually able to look inside your head, but also the absolute lack of privacy they have initially.