*Rubs hands together and cackles with shipper's glee*
Blue absolutely adores nicknames/pet names, and between the three of them they've come up with some good ones. Dream has the most because he's so easy to fluster whenever he hears a new one, and flustered Dream is adorable. Among others, he's frequently referred to as sunshine, sunstar, daydream, dreamboat… the list goes on and on. I also headcanon him as the shortest of the three, and so Blue likes to call him "my little light," quite often.
Nightmare gets nicknames too! Nightlight, of course, but also starlight, shooting star, wish (upon a star,) moonglow… are you sensing a theme yet?
They also all use a lot of more usual monikers such as dear, darling, etc. And finally, don't forget things like idiot, moron, brat, all said in a tone that means "I love you but why do you do this to me," most often used by Blue when his boyfriends do yet another dumb thing.
Backtracking a bit to Dream being easy to fluster. The poor thing can handle platonic affection with no problem, but once you add romance into the equation he has no idea what to do. Blue especially loves to tell him he's pretty and dote on him with baked goods and forehead kisses and sweet nothings, and then when Dream inevitably becomes a lightbulb he just laughs and picks him up and tells him he's adorable.
Oh yes, that's another thing. Blue really enjoys picking up his boyfriends. Nightmare and Dream are both stubborn about it at first, insisting they don't need/want to be carried, they're fine, etc, and Blue listens and nods and picks them up anyway because yeah, Nightmare may say he would rather walk, but the tentacles winding around Blue's waist and shoulders to cling to him, and the faintly blushing face stubbornly looking literally anywhere else say otherwise. Dream is much the same, only minus the tentacles. If they really wanted to get down they could, so the fact that they don't…
Nightmare is the one who steals the blanket in the middle of the night, but it's okay because he grabs the other two in his tentacles while he sleeps so they don't really need a blanket anyway. They like to tease him about it, which results in lots of tentacle flailing-about and not-actually-mad smacking.
Their dates are usually the classic sort of things; picnics, walks on the beach, fancy restaurants, but sometimes they like to change things up a little with something like laser tag or a giant corn maze.
Ink is the worst fourth wheel. No one can quite tell if he tags along because he's actually too dumb to realize he's imposing, or if he pretends not to realize because he thinks it's funny. The amount of times Dream and Blue have had to physically stop Nightmare from just yeeting the squidiot is... honestly a tad ridiculous. And I would be lying if I said there aren't times when they're almost willing to let it happen.
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