Ooh! Imagine Dreamling if Hob was like. One of Death’s assistants/subjects. Like how Dream has ravens but for Death 🥺
This is such a galaxy brain concept!!!! Kind of love the idea of Death having a guy who tags along with her while she's working?? Like in Supernatural they had reapers who worked for Death. Maybe Hob is one of them. He's technically actually a deceased human being but Death made him a reaper because he was really sad about dying. And now him and Death are besties!
Death thinks that her little brother Dream needs to meet new people, and so she starts making excuses for Hob and Dream to meet. Like she'll send Hob to the dreaming with a message. One time she told Hob to take Dream a particularly nice selection of pastries, to appeal to his sweet tooth. And Hob would be mad about his status as a glorified delivery boy buuuuut. Dream is super hot. Hob doesn't get much opportunity to meet cute boys considering his job, so he absolutely takes every opportunity to flirt! And as much as Dream pretends to be infinitely irritated by this loud-mouth former human showing up on the shores of creation, he's actually quite fond of Hob.
And if Dream happened to be captured at some point, and his siblings were unable to interfere, well, there's nothing to say that a certain reaper couldn't liberate him from the fishbowl while sending Roderick Burgess off to the sunless lands. It was no big deal!
(The kiss that he got from Dream as a thank you was totally a big deal... as was the shovel talk he got from Death afterwards. Hob is just thrilled that Dream holds his hand on the shores of creation these days, instead of ignoring him. Theyre taking it slow, and thats ok! <3)
