Me waking up in the middle of the night: the correlation between lava naps and future/present dream as things that could be taken as harmful to theo's wellbeing, but instead is used as a coping mechanism for his traumas, in this essay i will-
ah yes, you have finally correlated theo's beloved lava naps to future dream in the sense that both have the major potential of harming him but also sooth him in a way that he, himself cannot explain.
not to mention the blatant connection of them both in theo trusting future dream to keep him alive while he leaves himself vulnerable in slumbering in a bubbling dangerous pool of death-inducing liquid.
and though theo has insisted that he is no longer suicidal, the thought was there in the beginning and still lingers. consider it a way for theo to flirt with the 'freedom' of 'death' but is held back by dream's orders of him to stay alive, that he cannot kill himself to escape him- consider theo privately thinking that maybe dream will forget, and mis-time the potion, that maybe as he naps he had the small, shrinking hope that he will never wake up but of course that would never happen. dream values him too much to let him go like that, he has already been so generous as to indulge theo in his lava naps and is even keeping him alive and comfortable as he sleeps. is that not friendship? theo might have thought to himself one, quiet night after a particularly bad day.
of course that thought has long since stopped as he and tobi arrived in the past/present and now, not only he has present dream to keep him alive. but others as well, and slowly, maybe, he does not need to sleep in lava as much anymore.
maybe.
who knows, i dont. and this was totally what i planned all along and just didnt think on off the spot after reading this question and making the connections myself no siree.
(hi rabble, its been a while :] )