Dream and Nightmare Personalities
Dream is warm. He is friendly and inviting; always willing to host and provide for others. He is encouraging and supportive and goes far out of his way to help those who come to him. He is Summer; playful and lively but entirely capable of burning you if you don't treat him with respect.
He is busy. Far far too busy. But it comes out of fear; he didn't listen to Nightmare's concerns about the courtiers and their ambitions, and it cost him centuries of war and his relationship with his brother. His takeaway from that was two-fold: always consider the opinions of those close to you, but don't trust others to do your job for you. This has led him to overwork himself and spread himself thin but he makes it a point to listen to all those around him, and regularly holds meetings with his close circle to hear them out.
Despite this he still tries his best. His relationships have suffered due to his lack of time, but he holds much love in his heart for everyone around him. He is incredibly grateful for the last few centuries of peace and sincerely hopes he can build a new relationship with his brother. He's an optimist through and through and always looks for the good in people. While this might make him seem naive to some, this is a conscious choice that he makes. He wants to meet every day looking for the positive in everyone and everything around him.
Dream isn't known for his temper. It has a long fuse, rivalling Nightmare's current temper, but his anger is just as frightening. His anger is usually reserved for disrespect and injustice against those around him, but as a king he also has little patience for rudeness towards himself. He will tolerate a slight or two, as he doesn't like to assume malice and will instead presume ignorance, but even he has a limit.
Dream loves painting and music and regularly hosts exhibits for others to display/play their works. He will participate on occasion, but it's a rarity as he doesn't often get to indulge in his hobbies.
Nightmare is stoic, cold, and abrasive. He is Winter personified; capable of great calamity and harsh beauty in equal measure. He is eloquent and well-read and has learned to rein in his anger, but when his limit is reached it is still fearsome. He is hated as equally as he is loved, and he has unjustly hurt so, so many. He carries that weight with him always.
He is also stubborn and set in his ways. It is very difficult to persuade him of anything beyond his own opinion. Once he is set on something then that is law. He is King, he fought for his title, and he will not take anything less than respect and acquiescence. For him to change it must be something he determines for himself, or the evidence must be very clear. Charisma and flattery has little effect on him.
To his court Nightmare is a source of stability and wisdom. He has spent centuries coming into his own and becoming the leader he hoped he could be. It was a long and painful journey filled with mistakes and the reminder of them is always with him, just out of sight. Still, his heart is closed off and the walls are steep. He has been hurt, deeply, and while the wounds are not fresh they ache all the same. Betrayal and rejection is his greatest fear and, despite surrounding himself with a support network, he is very slow to trust and form new bonds.
Nightmare is also a secret hopeless romantic and has a small subsection of his private library dedicated to his favourite romance novels. He has penned his own poetry, art, and historical anecdotes kept in their own area in the public library. (he also has some that he keeps to himself in his private library, far too personal to share with the public)













