4th horseman - Death
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1st horseman - Conquest 2nd horseman - War 3rd horseman - Famine
timelapse and random details under the cut
this one is i think the simplest design out of the 4, mainly cuz i didn't have to design a weapon for him (but figuring out the placement of the tentacles was still kind of a pain)
the apple is meant to represent nightmare, and the 3 souls are for the murder time trio. killer's is obvious but the other 2 are based on my headcanons for each of them (maybe gonna write something about that sometime? idk)
the background is supposed to be leaves, though idk if it really reads that way (or as vegetation at all)
so
Why Death for Nightmare?
death's attributes are: the color "pale" (as in greenish/yellowish white, or the color of dead bodies), hades (as in the place people go when they die), and death (self-explanatory).
nightmare's color is always kinda dark, but i've seen it as purple, blue, cyan/teal-ish and kinda green, so it being so vague matches with "pale". also that's why i made the background that color.
hades is a bit more tricky, but it has pretty much the same link as death does. i'm going a bit more metaphorical with this one so hear me out
back in his og timeline, nightmare died when he ate the apple. whether or not "night" and "nightmare" are the same person, he never was the same afterwards and his psyche has been completely destroyed/traumatized. but he also killed people afterwards. he decimated the village he grew up in. i have my own idea on whether or not that was out of self-defense or out of cruelty, but regardless, he brought death to them all.
(this is where the metaphorical part comes in) when nightmare found the bad sanses, they were all in a pretty bad state. dust was all alone in the underground, with no food or electricity, killer was without the ability to reset in a world that (rightfully) hated him, and horror was starving along with everyone he knew. they were pretty much all about to die, and what nightmare did was take them away, never to see their timeline again. so basically nightmare can be interpreted as literal death, killing them and taking them to some kind of "afterlife" (could be heaven or hell depending on how he treats them)
so in short, nightmare has "died" in a way, so victim of death, and brought death to others (the villagers and the 3 sanses)
(also i wanted nightmare to be death because it's the most important horseman and the last one of the 4)
timelapse! (i forgot to hit record at the start TT)
