My Shattered Canons for Roleplay
My version of Shattered Dream is rather emotionally complicated, he acts like he cares about absolutely nothing besides himself when in all honesty he is quite lonely.
He is still in contact with Swap and Ink to an extent; Swap is trying to bring back Dream, however Ink is just now keeping his distance and staying uninvolved with Shattered despite having two children with Dream.
Palette and Grisaille are canon to my version of Shattered, and are the only part of Dreams life that he will fully acknowledge as his own—regardless of the corruption, those are his sons.
Shattered is an insomniac, however this isn’t by choice but moreso necessity. This is due to when he’s asleep he’s not in complete control of his body, and he doesn’t want Dream to wake up while he isn’t conscious.
Dream and Shattered are both the same AND different people. Due to the mental strain from the negativity in a body that was made to hold just positivity, it’s singled out all of Dreams resentment and traumas to form Shattered. So they are both Dream, but it’s more like there’s the whole him that’s in a bit of a stasis and then there’s Shattered that’s running on Dreams bottled anger and pain.
Shattered genuinely cares for Nightmare, but shows it in very convoluted ways that could be easily seen as aggression or hatred. This is due to the way Dream had to fight Nightmare for so long and finally ‘understanding’ him, so Shattered instead utilizes his love to make himself a worse person than Nightmare to instead give him the light of the better of the two of them. (For example: Hurting someone he cares about for Nightmare to play ‘the hero’)
Shattered absolutely despises himself, not just because of Dreams lingering existence but also because of his perfection complex. Prior to corrupting, Dream was always pushed to have to be perfect due to the symbolism of what he was. ALWAYS. He wasn’t allowed to have issues so he had to bottle and hold down absolutely everything while it turned into self resentment. That lingering self hatred from not being perfect bleeds into Shattered’s mentality.
Shattered is heavily Asexual, he’s a very people and sex repulsed man. Also just very affection repulsed as well. He needs a hug sometimes tho.
Due to having all the memories of Dream, Shattered wants the multiverse to suffer for what’s been done to him and Nightmare—having the full belief that they were set up for failure and that the world should burn for it.
Hes no longer the guardian of positivity due to his corruption, Positivity only still existing due to his Sons—which he wouldn’t hurt unless he felt he had too but certainly wouldn’t kill regardless.
