people started talking, putting us through our paces; dream team
pairings: dream, sapnap, georgenotfound x reader (separate)
summary: dream team when you get hate for dating them
warnings: discussions of receiving hate, some swear words sprinkled here and there
a/n: i accidentally deleted dream’s entire section immediately after writing it and i almost threw a tantrum
✧ regardless of whether or not you’re also in the public eye, i feel like dream would really want to keep your relationship a secret, because he knows you’ll undoubtedly be swarmed with a tsunami of negativity
✧ unfortunately, he’s no stranger to receiving hate, and i think he would try his absolute hardest to protect you from having to deal with it, because he knows how overwhelming it can be
✧ however, let’s say that whether by accident or on purpose, people found out about you
✧ a ton of dream’s fans are super nice and they really appreciate how happy you make him and they think you’re super cool!
✧ although, a good chunk of them also aren’t so nice, and there’s a ton of little b-words on twitter just trying to be mean to you >:(
✧ it’s sort of inevitable that when you’re around somebody with that much media attention, there are bound to be people with something bad to say
✧ i imagine you would have known this, and you’d brace yourself for it as much as you could, but it would probably be pretty hard to prepare for something like that, and naturally, it might get to you a little
✧ dream would be super apologetic to you, i think, because it’d be a bit hard not to blame yourself when somebody you love is getting that kind of attention just for being in your life
✧ you know it’s not his fault though, and you tell him that whenever he starts to feel guilty about it
✧ he’d definitely comfort you if the things people were saying started getting to you. i know i’m a pretty sensitive person so i’d definitely need a few hugs to feel okay after that
✧ he’d remind you of how beautiful you are and how much you add to his life until it was drilled into your head
✧ he’d tattoo it across his forehead if that’s what you needed to stop feeling sad
✧ i know he’s had a tendency in the past to speak out of emotion when people say things that upset him, so i think there could realistically be a possibility of that happening (because it upsets him that people who don’t even know you are being so blatantly cruel for no reason), but i also think he’d want to have a level head when talking about it, because it’s not just him he has to think about, it’s you
✧ the way i can imagine him addressing it is by doing a short stream, maybe 10-15 minutes and being pretty direct about it
✧ i think, to him, making a tweet would feel too impersonal, and, for your sake, he wouldn’t want to make it into a massive thing (i don’t know about you but my anxiety would go 📈📈 if i had the entirety of twitter talking about me), but it’s a big enough thing that he wants to speak one on one with his audience and let them know that he won’t tolerate any level of unkindness towards you
✧ he’d try to be as composed as possible, but it’s a naturally upsetting thing, and he’d come off as very stern (as he should though). i feel like he’s gotten pretty used to sitting there and accepting the hate he receives, because at this point, it’s part of the job and there’s nothing he can really do about it, but he refuses not to defend you, because there’s no way you deserve the way people are treating you
✧ if you asked him not to say anything about it, i honestly don’t really think he’d want to listen. he wouldn’t directly go against your wishes, and if you really didn’t want him to, he wouldn’t, but he’d definitely try to plead his case and let you know that it’s important to him that he doesn’t let people think it’s okay to talk to you like that
✧ at the end of the day, he just wants you to be okay, and he’ll respect you on the way you want the situation to be handled
✧ if you want him to ask his audience to stop, he’s already taking mental notes on what he’s planning to say
✧ if you just want to shut out the world for a bit and spend time together, he’s wrapping you up in a tight hug before you can even finish your sentence
✧ he loves you, and he’d do absolutely anything for people to realise how incredible you are
✧ sapnap is the one i can imagine getting the most angry over it
✧ he’s proven time and time again how fiercely loyal of a person he is, and when people start to be shitty towards the people he cares about, he doesn’t hesitate to put them in their place
✧ i can definitely see him not even waiting to ask you what you want him to do before he’s sending out multiple angry tweets about how he absolutely will not put up with anybody mistreating you, especially people who claim to be his fans
✧ i can’t see him talking about it on stream, just because that doesn’t really seem like his style, but he wouldn’t hesitate to ban people from his chat (or directly call them out) if they have nothing nice to say
✧ in all honesty he’d probably get so caught up in being mad about it and fighting people online that he’d sort of forget to check in with you and see how you’re doing with it all
✧ once he does remember, though, he’s very attentive to what you need to help you through it
✧ if you’re pretty upset about it, he’d probably have to fight the urge to pull out his phone and berate everybody who played a part in making you that sad
✧ but he knows in the moment that that’s not what you need, and he’ll remind himself to focus on you instead of them
✧ i feel like him asking you what you want him to do is less “what do i do?” but more “here’s what i’m going to do”
✧ he’s a bit like dream in the sense that if you really, really didn’t want him to make a big deal out of it, he would respect that, because at the end of the day, you’re his main priority in this situation
✧ but he’d be absolutely itching to let the people who are hating on you know exactly what he thinks and how little he tolerates their actions, to the point where it’s probably better to just let him do it and deal with the consequences
✧ once he knows for sure that you’re okay with him addressing it, oh boy, he goes off
✧ if you think for even a second that this man wouldn’t fight tooth and nail to defend you, you’re incredibly wrong
✧ he’d fight everyone in the entire universe for you if that’s what it took for them to shut the hell up and stop being bullies
✧ he’d probably shut his phone (and yours) off for a little bit afterwards just so there’s some distance between the both of you and everything else
✧ the time away would definitely do you some good, and it gives him the opportunity to give you his absolute, undivided attention, which, let’s be honest, he always does regardless
✧ george is the one i think would be the most passive about it
✧ not passive in the sense that he’s at all okay with it, because he’s definitely not, but more in the sense that his focus would be entirely on you and how he can help you, rather than on how he can address it
✧ he’d be like dream in the sense that he feels extremely guilty that you’re getting this hate essentially because of him (even though it’s not his fault in the slightest), the only difference is that i don’t feel like he’d bring it up
✧ he doesn’t want to make it about him, because you’re the one being targeted, not him, and you’re the one that needs support
✧ he already doesn’t express his emotions much, let alone when someone he cares about is going through something this overwhelming
✧ he’d probably dread having to bring it up to his audience, he very much doesn’t seem like the type of person who enjoys confrontation or any kind of conflict
✧ nobody likes being surrounded by negativity, but i think george would get extra uncomfortable when there’s some sort of contention within his community, especially when it’s regarding someone he’s close to
✧ when it comes to actually addressing it, i think he’s the most likely to properly ask you how you want the situation to be handled and build off of that
✧ if you say you’d rather not draw attention to it, he’s completely happy to just hang out with you for a few days and focus on helping you feel better
✧ but if you wanted him to ask everyone to stop, i think he’d sit down for about half an hour or so and plan out a few tweets that are kind enough that people know he’s not hostile but also stern enough that he knows they’ll listen
✧ george usually tries to be really accommodating to people even when they aren’t doing the same, so i don’t see him as the type to get noticeably angry, but you’d have to be blind not to see that he’s unhappy about it
✧ ultimately, he understands that there’s unfortunately not a whole lot he can do about it
✧ like, he can send out a few tweets (and he will) and block all the people in the world, but he knows that there’ll always be somebody with something to say, and nine times out of ten, it won’t be positive
✧ you know this too, and it really, really sucks, but you also know that nothing that anybody can say will change the way george sees you, and vice versa
✧ the two of you will get through it together, because you know he loves you no matter what, and that’s enough to make it all feel okay again
