Hang on hang on, hear me out…..
(Inspired by both fat!Dream and also the feedism kink ask:)
Dream realizes Hob has a feedism kink (specifically wanting to feed Dream) and so of course he’s like “ah so my physical manifestation is Incorrect™" and appears to Hob next with a more plus sized body.
But then Hob has to (lovingly and also sadly) explain that it’s not about wanting Dream to look different, per say. He asks gently if this form feels right to Dream, and Dream, hesitantly, shamefully, admits that it doesn’t (because he still feels starved, he still feels like he shouldn’t take up so much space, he still feels like too much). And he expects Hob to be disappointed, but he just smiles and says “so let’s work up to it together.”
So then Dream comes to Hob as he always has- as he has always felt, i.e. bony and skinny and starving and cold- and Hob just… loves him. He loves him with decadent homemade meals, and desserts, and spoiling him rotten and gently forces him be a pillow princess. He feeds him treats by hand, gives him massages, barely allows him to lift a finger when he’s in Hob’s presence.
Dream doesn’t do it consciously, but as time passes, without him even noticing, he begins to appear to Hob……… softer. His bones are not quite so prominent, he is not so perpetually cold, his edges are not quite so sharp. Dream doesn’t notice, but Hob does, even if he doesn’t mention it. He loves it all the more because he knows Dream isn’t doing it on purpose. He is simply settling into being loved, and fed, and satisfied.
It’s almost a shock to Dream when he realizes one day that Hob can no longer circle his wrists or ankles with his hand, that there is hearty flesh on him for Hob to knead and kiss and bite and worship. He has the briefest moment of guilt when he realizes how long it’s been since he first tried to form his body to Hob’s liking- how long it’s taken for that form to come naturally.
But then Hob looks at him, full of adoration and pride and utter devotion, and Dream thinks that maybe…. Maybe it is all the better that they arrived here together. That Hob took the time to care for him, and that Dream took the time to feel cared for. Maybe it’s better having actually been fed.
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Sobbing hornily and emotionally into my pillow right now, oh my goodness. Just wow.
If there's one thing that Dream arguably has plenty of it's time, right? He's Endless. Time itself is literally his dad. And yet, who has ever actually really given Dream time? In the sense that they're willing to wait for him, and have patience, and generally just be there and allow him his own journey? Well, Hob has done all that already - he might be the only one who ever has. So it's no trouble, no trouble for him to give Dream time in this circumstance. And if you ask Hob about it, he'd say that the process, the time spent and the moments together, they're all part of his enjoyment! Instant gratification is all fine and good, but Hob has all the time in the world and he wants to give some of it to Dream.
It's a process and it's about doting, caring, noticing little things. Trying new things together and relaxing into a bit of easy hedonism. Hob has this feeling that maybe he's teaching Dream how to have nice things, and although it hurts to imagine that he's been deprived... it's kind of incredibly sexy to be the first.
And of course there's Hob’s horny hindbrain buzzing the whole time over every thing that Dream enjoys eating, over every smudge of softness that comes to his body. Fuck he looks so hot with these new curves, new outfits fitting him just right to show off. Hob is rabid over the fact that HE made all that happen. The day that Dream is officially bigger and heavier than Hob he definitely has to have a quick wank in the bathroom just to take the edge off.
And like. It's a lot of fun to take Dream for an eight course meal and watch him eat it. It's hot as fuck, Hob is squirming and panting like a dog the whole time. But the best part of it all is that Dream actually accepts the treats as though he deserves them. He smiles and he enjoys and that is the most wonderful thing for Hob to watch.
