#gale!nightmare

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More bugs more bugs!

Phoenix- Deathhead Hawk Moth Nightingale- Pipevine Swallowtail Strix- Harnessed Tiger Moth Rook- Northern Dune Tiger Beetle

Swapdream (c) song_a Shattered (c) galacii

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................. So I made more 😅

Strix the Shattered Dream Variant and Rook her Passive Nightmare Brother.

Info under cut

Strix and Rook were just Dove and Starling in another AU. Their AU was calm, the Apple Incident having not happened. Phoenix found this to be a PERFECT place to create a partner in crime and help him beat up his very murdery sister, Gale.

So he captured Rook and forced Strix to absorb a Golden Apple to become a 'base level Dream'. He had seen how other Shattereds came to be so he was being very careful with how he did this. Next was making Rook feed a Black Apple to Strix- as neither Strix nor Nix can hold a Black Apple without it turning Golden.

Once the results were what he wanted, Nix then burned the Tree of Feelings, fatally wounded Rook, and left with his new protege as the AU crumbled.

Gale thankfully was able to reach Rook in time, and finding a Black Apple had rolled away from the tree, got him to absorb it to live.

Now blind and alone, Rook trains under Gale and is a distance fighter with magic, including a spell that can help nullify Phoenix's aura. While Strix is learning from Nix, though her mind is as shattered as her soul now (think of like, the Batman Beyond Movie, the Robin storyline...)

Dreamtale (c) joku Swapdream (c) song_a Shattered Dream (c) galacii Gale, Nix, Rook, Strix (c) me

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FINALE LETS GOOOOOO

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*Nix Flees the Fight

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*Nightmare finds his Mate.

<-. first

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Even the ever strict Gale has some vices.

In this case, smoking soothes her nerves. Swapdreamtale (c) song_a

Nightingale (c) me

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"Lady Gale, what is a 'Twink'?"

late night doodles as i pin down the new siblings' personalities

Rook is very confused at all these new terms and words (his au was very fantasy medieval after all)

dreamtale (c) joku swapdream (c) song_a shattereddream (c) galacii

Gale and Rook (c) me

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Four more done, and a somewhat full body ref of Ducky finally wooo!

xtale (c) jakei

error(c) crayonqueen

swapdream (c) song_a

Shrike, Dal, Ducky, and Gale (c) me

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"Now remember," Gale starts, as Dream and Dove focused behind her on making their portal. "He's going to be expecting us. It's been obvious we've been working on breaking through his barrier."

"What is the point of breaking in then?" Her four eyelights turn to Nightmare, still so sour about needing assistance.

She sighs, reminding herself that he was just acting out. His family was stolen, and like every Nightmare she's helped before, he didn't know how to handle these feelings, being stolen from. "It's so he focuses on us three. You are to just rush- do NOT let your ego win. You run past him, you get to where your mate is. And get them out. Starling, Dove, and Dream got the boys."

"And I've got Nix." She growls, tone final.

Behind her, the portal had started to gather energy. Dove scoffed and glanced over. "Honey, no one wants that. You can have him." Earning themself another disgruntled glower from their counterpart.

A week was far too long with this flirty, flighty, rather airheaded version of himself.

He could feel his Old Man Age creeping up on him, despite Dove supposedly being 500 years older than himself.

But that doesn't matter for long. Soon the portal grows. energy nearly pushing him and Dove over as it expands. "Nightingale! It's open! Hurry, everyone!" He calls out to the group.

"Right!" She readies her scythes and motions them forward, through the portal. The Dreams slipping through before the energy could become too much.

In the realm of Phoenix, bathed in golden sunset colors sat a white stoned palace with gold trimmings.

And Phoenix waiting before them with help.

"Dearest sister and guests~!"

<-. first .->

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Gale attempting to rest after everything's said and done.

She knows four walls and a roof are safer, but it's hard to sleep like that.

Swapdream (c) song_a

nightingale (c) me