I'm wondering what is the Apple situation in nightwatch, is it 999 negative : 1 positive - 500 & 500 or something else?
Omg not the apples (I’m not mad I just think the apple ratio is silly)
Atrophy (nightmare) “eats” all the apples. Eat is in quotes because it’s more so his acidic body engulfing the tree with slime, instead of him just rapid gobbling the appy. He eats most the tree too as there is magic is inside the bark and leaves, but he misses one branch.
The villagers make the assumption that the tree is negative and positive, they assume the children correlate to that too (naming them dream and nightmare)
the tree and apples are simply a concentrate of Nims recycled soul magic (Nim is a dead god of emotion). And the reason atrophy later can only feed off negative emotions is because that’s the last emotion he has before becoming corrupted by the apples. So If he somehow ate the apples while happy he’d be corrupted by positivity.
Dream has magic afterwards mostly because he learns it. He does have a magic bow made from the remains of the tree, (which Enhances his attacks) but most his skills are learnt not gained via apple.
Also it’s important to note, the emotional magic is only representative of dreamtale. Atrophy is not the king of negativity throughout the entire multiverse, he just holds that specific magic from dreamtale.