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I had *really* weird, elaborate soap-opera-y dream last night and I'm scrambling to write down the bits of it I still remember. I haven't had a weird dream like this is a looong time. I blame... reading through bits of my sister's 20th anniversary edition of Changeling: The Dreaming yesterday, and the number of amusing Thor things that I've been seeing on tumblr lately.

It involved the Addams Family (kinda), and Thor (kinda) and Hela form Marvel (kinda), and my friend C (kinda).

The basic gist is that someone came to the Addams' to help them bring people back to life who had been dead for years. This involved putting them into other people's bodies and some kind of rite where they had to marry children (like, older children, who had to 'agree' to this)? It was really *really* elaborate. Like, seriously it was watching some weird soap opera with whole different generations of stories. Things I remember:

-This was all taking place in some kinda southern gothic plantation mansion house
-The three people being reincarnated were Hela, Thor, and some woman with chin length black hair named Janet
-There was a little white terrier of some kind with brown on its face that later became a plot point
-Possibly there were time-travellers? Or something?
-Theoretically everyone was acting together to bring these people back, but in practice there were different factions who wanted their person awake first. Only Morticia and Wednesday really knew how to do things, and everyone else was sort or scrambling to figure it out or guess. I don't remember why the Addams' agreed to do this.
-This had been done or tried with Hela before? she didn't have much presence in the dream, except people were scared of her and she had some associate with Wednesday. Either Wednesday married her, or she was reincarnated into her? Maybe the kids who 'married' the people were the actual hosts?
-While Hela was basically Marvel Hela, Thor was not, or he was more entitled arrogant early-first-movie Thor who did't really question what he had or why he had it
-Thor got done first. The person whose body he'd gotten reincarnated into had a loyal and dutiful servant who was mistreated and used as comic relief, and didn't really understand what was happening to his master. -When Thor got reincarnated into his body he a: was a kid and b: didn't know who he was and was kind of mean to him and it was sad.
-At that point they were basically in a fight of some kind and Kid Tho was like: Oh a fight! Fetch me my hammer! His servant had wanted to be his second, but Thor'was like 'lol you can do my laundry' or something along those lines and he was crushed.
-Possibly this whole thins was an elaborate plan to get control of mjolnir? They didn't have the hammer, but I think they needed either Thor or Hela to get it back in this battle.
-Janet (or whatever/whoever she really was) was only brought back as a secondary consideration, because someone (possibly Morticia) had insisted she would be important, or had just cared for her/missed her sort of thing. Like if this was the plan of some evil overlord, and she was his rebellious daughter that he loved and wanted back even though she was a goodie two shoes. Something like that. Maybe they just needed to do three for Reasons? Oh - maybe she was supposed to be Jane, from the Thor movies, only.... highly filtered :p
-Her ritual didn't get brought back until the others were already awake, because she wasn't a priority and the people who were in her 'faction (one of who might have been Rupert Giles, or looked like him), knew the least about what to do and had the most moral quandaries about all of it. There were people at the house who cared for her and were genuinely worried about what was going to happen to her in his scenario.
-Predictably when she was brought back she was confused and horrified, but she wasn't as powerful as the others.
-The others were off at the fight, but she was still weak. Someone came to report that there was 'some Inuit girl' (WHAT BRAIN) collapsed on the grounds.
-It was my friend C (who is... not Inuit IRL, nor was she in the dream? But people thought she was?).
-Janet had apparently known her in life and insisted on being brought out to see her. I don't actually remember what information she was acting on in he dream - if she just wanted to go see the hurt person or what.
-She was helped/carried out to where she was lying, and then freaked out because it really was C only way older than when she'd seen her last (they were childhood friends?). She healed her some and they talked a bit about what she knew was happening which was not much.
-They wanted to help each other more, but it was deemed too dangerous, and Janet thought that if C were brought to the house she'd probably be killed (though someone was arguing that she might die anyway, I think? But maybe they were lying?), so C had to run away to...wherever she'd come from (still unclear)
-Later I was in the heads of two people who'd been sent to figure out what was really happening, if the rumors were true, or what.
-They had known some of the people involved, especially Janet, but also some of the behind-the-scenes folks, in an earlier generation (i.e. the bad guys).
-When they came to the door, the dog (who had also been de-aged? Or brought back?) recognized them and was SO EXCITED to see them! So they were able to convince the people who had come to the door to give it to them by saying it was theirs and they had lost it (?). This was close to when I was waking up so the logic was extra shaky. Like the people at the house were afraid that if they didn't just give up the dog they would get caught out somehow, but the people who'd come to check them out were like "omg its totally [dog] but de-aged into a puppy again so we can totally prove this is happening!" Neither of these arguments really hold up to scrutiny of awake-logic. I think the people at the house felt that no one would believe them that the dog was de-aged even if they knew, and that it was better to let them take the dog than to stay around the house. And they couldn't pretend it was a different dog because it was clearly so happy to see them in particular. So both sides were pretending to believe the lies of the visitors about the lost dog? That makes a little more sense, ish.
-the dog was Janet's though, and I think they were going to use it to show people and recruit allies. Janet was sad to lose her friendly little doggo, but glad that it got away to friendly people
-That's really all the details I can pull?

It was waaaaay more complicated than that, with the multi-generational thing and the ritual near the beginning and everything