So. I was complaining about someone not knowing what Dreamswap really was. And thanks to @faleep and @thegreatyin it became angst. And okay so maybe I contributed to this a tiny bit as well but I don’t do a lot of angst anyway so whatever right?
Nightmare is immortal and will conveniently watch Cross and Error deteriorate to the point that they cannot walk without canes and will probably organise their funerals and be the only one to attend.
Plot twist: Dream attends because he might despise one of the dead people but his brother was… close to them so-
Dream doesn’t show himself until he sees Nightmare collapse and break down crying. Then he cannot help but run to comfort his brother. He hinself lost Ink. He knows what it feels like.
In the end, the only constant in his life is Nightmare, for he will never be alive when Nightmare is not. Not until he finishes the research into separating their fates. He dread the day it comes, and cradles a sobbing Nightmare.
The next day, someone has sabotaged any research made into it and scrapped any notes. No one knows who did it.
Okay but what if dream had completed the research and had gone through with separating their fates, the day before error and Cross’s deaths?
So by the time the funeral for the two come around, it’s too late for dream to change anything.
Okay but what if Dream brings Nightmare back to JR, softly cradling him and hiding him in a private study until further notice. Later, he publicly announces that the search for Nightmare, the infamous crimminal, will no longer continue- they were wrong about the source of negativity all this time. Dream and Nightmare are left the only two in the Dreamswap cast alive, and three scarves hang from the wall in Dream’s office- one blue, one black and white, and one brown.
And bonus angst points; Dream only did this because he found he has a terminal illness and is slowly dying and he didn’t want to drag his brother down with him.
And so Nightmare will get to watch his brother slowly deteriorate until he dies and then in the end it’ll be nightmare, forever alone, forever immortal
And the final nail in the coffin is that he dies of the same disease Ani did.
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