A package is dropped off inside the sand fortress. Inside is a large, deep blue cloak-like dress. The front is littered with golden stars and patterns. The bottom of the dress fans out to show a space pattern on the bottom with a gold-rimmed finish. Attached to the box is a card that reads: Dear Mr. Nightmare, I'm sorry I couldn't get this to you in time for Christmas, but I made you this to celebrate you not being sick. I hope you feel as good wearing it as I know you are inside! From, Bandana.
Nightmare was sort of.. Unsure as to how people keep finding him. Yes, his base was very obvious, but to estimate its location in the first place amongst any other place on the planet was something he was still trying to figure out. This isn’t the first package he’s been given, except this time there’s no pelican around to chatter a bit with him before flying off. Instead, the box is alone. In his base, amongst metal and sand.
Nightmare was a fellow without a set height. He could be as tall as he wanted, and as small as a foot and four inches. But, he can tell when things are big in comparison to other things. This box is big. Big compared to the local wildlife. It’s like it’s specifically made for someone his size.
The card is pretty big too, and-
I hope you feel as good wearing it as I know you are inside! From, Bandana.
Oh jeez, he feels sick again. Alright, calm down, swallow the sick feeling.
Alright, how’s he going to open this box without tearing it to shreds.. Oh. Yeah, just.. Take off the top. Not like there’s a ribbon or anything keeping him from it.
Nightmare’s very careful with the contents, hovering high enough to assure that the fabric doesn’t drag on the sandy floor. He looks it over, shock and awe clear on his face.
Was one of the questions he had. For a brief moment, he forgot that creatures were capable of making beautiful works of art.
“A-Ah.. It’s so nice.. So..”
He could rip this thing up with a single movement of his hand. He could draw a long slash along it, break all its seams. He could destroy work that probably took forever with a single movement.
He could destroy it, then spawn a brand new one. No one would possibly be the wiser, he could-
“W-What a fantastic taunt.. It’s almost like he knows what I’m going to do..”
Nightmare goes from chuckling to silent. There’s nothing funny about it. It’s reflected in the ever so familiar expression the guy’s wearing. It’s the same sort of one that someone expects to see from him when he’s wearing his soft yellow.
He tries very hard to not tear holes in the thing as he grips onto it.
As he cries tears that lack sadness, it’s more than evident that they’re not normal. Infact, they’re black. Pure black. They leave trails of black down his face and act more like paint than water.
It takes him a small bit, but he coughs, then refolds the dress, puts it back into its box and everything too. Securing the top back onto it, he puts it into the Dimensional Cape for safe keeping. He couldn’t keep it out here, after all..
At the very, very top of his cape, the part mostly hidden by his pauldrons, darkness parts for the familiar colors of the sun’s rays.