I had a dream where a young girl found out she was secretly from a noble warrior family but she had to unlock the lost familial power one seal at a time, and when she finally undid the last seal, this little lump of a man with a huge head of long, coppery red hair appeared, and her family was like, "uh??" And then he was like, "I dunno what you want, but I'm a great cook," and the little girl was like, "I'll take him!!" Because she loved food from being poor all her life. And her family was like, "So, if you're the guardian spirit of this warrior family? Do you...fight?" And he was like, "No! What are you talking about, I'm a cook!" And they were very confused, but later he was talking about people he cooked for and was like, "Oh that guy Death has some weird tastes. Loves pumpkins. Just crazy about the stuff. Turns out you make him a nice bowl of pumpkin stew and he's putty in your hands." Turned out this famous warrior family's special power was really just that they could survive impossible situations because they knew how to bribe Death with pumpkin stew. And I think that's the most clever twist my sleeping brain has ever come up with.
