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Color is experiencing a lot of emotions here, a very chaotic mix of l knowing too much, but still being presented with information that changes a lot for him, of wanting to learn more but not knowing what that means. He spent so long in the void, without a story, that suddenly the change up is both exciting and a bit frightening. Dream says there’s a place he could go, but he can’t go anywhere for very long, he has to return to his void. And, although he generally likes Dream’s presence (at least a lot more than Ink), it’s still one of the first people he’s met and forgive him for being a bit distrusting and closed off, though he tries to act friendly.
all that combined with Dream’s aura which is overly relaxing his emotions. The second Dream leaves, the loneliness is overwhelming. Which begs the question. Is Dream just that nice of a presence to have around, or is he manipulating Color’s emotions on purpose?
Color doesn’t know. Anything could happen now, and he still doesn’t know what his place in it is meant to be. That’s a bit nerve racking, I think. What does it mean to experience a completely different story from the one you were ripped away from?
Also, I think it’s fun to see how they have yet to figure out how each other communicates compared to the later comic with them. Color is still learning all of Dream’s little quirks and Dream has no knowledge on what happened to Color to actually know how to talk to him in the most beneficial way.
Ink’s getting really out voted on the whole “how stories work” thing. Literally no one else believes that characters can just wrench themselves from a script and go interfere with others LOL. Color thinks that everything that ever happens will be intended. Dream agrees with him. But they see this in very different lights. Still, Color is jealous of Ink, isn't he? ;)
imagine being able to delude yourself into thinking characters could be anything but a character.
there’s three more people that will be brought into the mix of knowing about characters. One who hates the idea more than anything, one who’s obsessed with eliminating such a concept, and one who knows the absolute truth of it all. They all have yet to make an appearance, but feel free to take a guess. (I mean, one of them is obvious, but still)
had some thoughts about the Dreamtale twins + Cross in the typical UTMV setting
@zu-is-here my apologies for tagging you in such a long post, just wanted to hear your thoughts on this analysis! (cream brainrot go brrrrrr)
Cross is a foil of both Dream and Nightmare.
Let me elaborate; they all share a mistake (or at the very least a perceived mistake) made that ended in the destruction of their world and loss of their family. Dream and Nightmare with Dreamtale, Cross with XTale.
In Nightmare's case, his mistake drives him down a path of self-destruction when he's corrupted by the apple as he loses himself. This is paralleled by Cross' own self-loathing created by his own mistake in XTale's last timeline. This mistake drives them down a path of self-destruction, and it isolates them.
In Dream's case, he also made a mistake (or, a perceived one, be it unintentional neglect or ignorance of Nightmare's situation depending on the interpretation) that cost him both his world (Dreamtale) and his family (Nightmare).
However, although Cross is a foil of both, it is with Dream where he can find healing with because of one key difference between the aftermath of how Dream and Nightmare's respective mistakes, of the difference of how they emerged from their mutual tragedy.
2. The parallel between their tragedies
Nightmare's story was and is a tragedy. The story of XTale is also a tragedy. Dreamtale is in itself a tragedy, from Nim's departure fueled by paranoia of her peers to her dying alone because of it. From the very start it was a tragedy. Though the birth of the Dreamtale twins was indeed a hope born of Nim's death, they too suffered their own tragedy of the Apple Incident.
There we see a pattern. Tragedy, hope, then tragedy.
But after tragedy, is hope. And that hope in this iteration of the cycle is Dream. Dream is a representation of how kindness and hope can survive through tragedy. That no mistake is unforgivable, unsalvageable.
That concept of how no mistake is salvageable is exactly what a self-loathing Cross needs. Does he not have the tendency to hold onto his sin, his mistakes? And his self-loathing, self-blame. Dream's existence is a manifestation of the antithesis to what he believes himself to be: there is more to post-tragedy than pain, than regret, than shame. He still has the capacity to be kind. to love. He is still able to love, and be loved. He is not unsalvageable.
3. As such, Dream is Cross' penance.
Dream represents both how a sin/fault, no matter how disastrous or destructive, is the end of. Dream represents the hope that contradicts the very idea of self-blame and self-damnation.
If Cross' sin is hating himself, healing is his penance. Forgiving himself, his own mistakes, through the embodiment of a mistake repented for through kindness. Through Dream.
Dream is his penance for his sin against himself.
And thus, Dream is Cross' weakness because he is Cross' penance.
4. Because Cross is a foil of Nightmare, Cross is also Dream's penance.
Even if Dream could not save his brother from losing himself, at least he could save someone from their self-destruction. At least, this time, he could save someone from themself.
As such, Cross is Dream's weakness because he is Dream's penance.
Good day, what are your favourite ships from UTMV 😜😏 (Like top 3 😌, please)
Oh em gee… it’s kind of an embarrassing answer bc it’s just like the same ship repackaged three times but I’m a big fan of cream (at no1 of course, they’re my otp) then kross at 2, then driller at 3. (And of course, my true fav is all three of them in a polycule.) silly but yeah !
(if that’s too much of a non-answer, I have a soft spot for horror/dust/killer poly and dreamberry)
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It’s finally time! My Cream fic has been completed…
“An Oasis for the Weary” is now posted on ao3! It has a final word count of ~25k, and will have daily updates. With the final chapter, the accompanying animatic will be posted!
I hope you all enjoy <3
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