Dream fits an Alicorn because he symbolizes hope, positivity, and balance.
As a guardian who protects others and wields powerful magic, his role is larger than life, making the rarity and leadership associated with an Alicorn a natural fit.
Ink fits a Grifficorn (Griffin + Alicorn hybrid) because he embodies both creativity and freedom. The griffin side reflects his curiosity, independence, and adventurous spirit, while the alicorn side represents his immense magical power and his role as the guardian of Creativity.
Swap Sans fits a Pegasus because of his cheerful, energetic, and adventurous personality. His quick thinking, optimism, and willingness to jump into action reflect the freedom and agility that Pegasi are known for.
(He also shows that you don’t have to be an Alicorn or a Unicorn to be a true hero courage and kindness are what really make someone heroic.)
Lust Sans fits a Unicorn because of his charm, elegance, and refined personality. Unicorns are often associated with beauty, charisma, and magic, which complement his graceful demeanor and his ability to captivate and influence others.
(I had to held myself back from making him a Alicorn because his my favorite but whatever 😢 I gotta accept all my fav characters can’t be alicorns 💔)
What if he ate the golden apples? More information below! (This au is not finished yet)
Some facts about him:
I wanted to use roots with thorns to reference Nightmare's tentacles, and also to recall the roots of a tree, like the tree the two guardians used to protect. It comes out of Dream's back, and the first time they came out, right after being corrupted by positivity, they tore the back of his clothes and his cape, so he eventually changed the clothes he was wearing, but the old cape remained. Another reference to Nightmare in his design are the yellow and purple carnations in his left eye, not only because of the meaning of the flowers themselves, but because Nightmare of the goo covering one of his eyes, so I decided to do something similar, but with plants instead of slime. Dream is blind from the left eye after gotten attack from defending his brother from the villagers.
As for the meaning of the colors of the carnations that come out of his eye, I did very brief research, so don't take the meanings I'll write here for certainty. Yellow carnations represent rejection and purple ones represent loneliness. Although they are attached to Dream's body, they represent Nightmare's feelings towards the villagers who often mistreated him. The flowers grew after the corruption and after Dream discovered what they did to his brother.
What is controlling Dream's body now is not Dream himself, but rather a parasite that has taken over his body and identity, while the real Dream remains semi-conscious and unable to regain control of his body.
He feeds on positive feelings and his objective is to exterminate negativity for his own survival. He is not capable of feeling remorse, and will not be afraid to exterminate an entire universe if it has a very strong negative aura (like universes that follow the genocidal route, for example), but he cannot visit these universes alone since his magic works using positivity as "fuel", so he's dependent on allies to travel to negative universes.
He doesn't kill because of his moral compass and doesn't really care about what's right or what's wrong, who's good who's bad, he will kill them anyways if their negative aura is enough to give him a headache. This means he will kill innocent people who hold suffering on themselfs only to end with their negativity.
He calls himself a hero/savior/angel to manipulate people with false promises, when in reality, he only acts out of his own needs and survival instinct, not actual kidness.
There's only one who is full of negativity that Dream wants alive; for now, names won't be mentioned (who the person/monster is still not decided, it can be an already existing character or maybe i'll make an OC for this, but for now, feel free to imagine whoever you want to imagine) but their aura, somehow, makes the burning feeling of overwhelming positivity inside of Dream feel a bit less like it's burning. Yes, the positivity is too much even for Dream to the point it feels like it's burning from inside (remember how in original Dreamtale, a human body would barely even survive with the amount of energy the magic held inside the siblings body? Well, now imagine that now the magic way more powerful to the point that even his skeleton body hurts sometimes), and their negativity makes it feel less painful.
He is not completely incapable of feeling negative feelings, but it is VERY rare. Some examples are his fear of owls, a trait from the original Dream that remained, or the anger he feels when he is disobeyed.
He killed the citizens of the village when he saw the amount of negative feelings they caused his own brother. At first, he didn't want to kill Nightmare, but after he saw Nightmare attack him after the genocide he caused, Dream now seeks to kill him as well. He thinks of him as ungrateful for trying to hurt him after finishing off the people who caused him so much suffering, and he blames himself for leaving him alive, knowing that he is also the result of negativity.
Nightmare doesn't want to kill Dream, because he knows that the balance in the multiverse is important and it is their existence that causes it to exist, he just fights against him to not be killed and when some universe/being is being hurt by Dream. He wants to find a way to bring his brother back to consciousness, he still wonders if he could kill the parasite without killing Dream too. Dream, on the other hand, doesn't care about the balance.
His spines possess a poison that gives his prey the illusion of comfort, hiding the sensation of pain and fear within his own positive aura so that they do not escape when captured. It is rare for their prey to regain consciousness to realize the danger they are in, but not impossible, and some may be immune to the venom or his aura, like Nightmare, who'd feel a big pain if he got captured, which is a good advantage if you don't want to be trapped with Dream forever or eventually die.
Hai! I don't know if the requests are still up but ujj, can you draw one of these two? /NF
HELLO HI ITS BEEN A BIT.
I LOVE your designs they're so much fun to draw.
I started drawing sometime last year but w Christmas, ALL my siblings birthdays (coz they're all winter baby's the weirdos), and upcoming deadlines it kept getting pushed to the side
BUT ITS DONE. BEHOLD. YOUR CHILDREN. WITH THEIR PARENTS. YIPPEE.
Do you have. Any other social medias you'd like me to tag when I post there.
This one in particular blew up on Instagram so let's see if y'all will like it >:)
Also, fair to say that I have better plans for Shapetale, as I plan on featuring Dream, Nightmare, Error, Ink and others as secondary characters
As of right now I am making designs for the comic, some characters will have drastic changes to fit my views, while others will have tiny changes or none. The reason why I am making designs is because the comic will be black and white, so it will have to have good color coordination
I'm unsure if I'll post the designs for the comic just yet, but we will see!
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This drawing is a bit older, older than the previous one, so it has unnecessary bloom effect and not as good anatomy
I also don't think that it has much context other than to show off how big Darkness actually is
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
WELL WELL WELL look who finally wrote something again!!! In the 10-15 minutes before my first class I just whipped something up lol especially for @saphirathedragon and my friend Lemon who does not have a Tumblr (but she does have an insta, @lemon_lucid I highly suggest following her, her art is Amazing and I adore her) so hERE HAVE SOME FLUFF
yEET
(ps I ain't about to be involved in any drama so Dream and Dreamtale do not in any way belong to me, they belong to Joku)
