#saff txt

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Hi, i’m alive, sorry for my absence. Lots of life stuff going on, including a death in my family. I’ll probably be away for a little while longer.

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I only recently found out about swap dreams. What's the au about?

Cause there's shattered dream but that's a whole different story

Soooo here’s the funny part… I had a pretty hard time finding out the exact beats of the original storyline for Swapdream (outside of the origin story), so I did my best research, and then kinda just… started writing my own AU with the window dressing? I do that a lot for a lot of concepts I find interesting, but maybe don’t love the actual story that currently exists. Hence the distinction of the sgs!swapverse tag (even tho i think that name is pretty inelegant LOL). What I’m cooking is a totally different meal. Song__A was the original creator of the concept, but their blog was deleted forever ago, and I’m not sure where their work is anymore.

The original Swapdream seems to swap details as opposed to roles. I guess it’s more a story shift compared to a direct swap. Dream is the one who snaps, eats the golden apples instead of the dark apples to protect a battered Night, and is immolated by their power as he is corrupted into the crazy bird guy. From there, it kinda isn’t super clear, other than Night taking up the role Dream normally would have. Idk what happens after that, so that’s where I started jotting my own ideas and making stuff up.

I kinda wanted to see how a version of Underverse would function in an altered universe like this, and Swapdream (Helios) got to Cross in the void first. Cross eventually becomes his knight and takes on the name Corvus, entering into the twisted role to escape the pain of his sins and XChara’s harrassment.

There’s other details I planned, like this universe having a Destroyer Ink and a Creator Error (Sumi and Mender, respectively, idk if posted them yet lol), they’re also involved in a sort of swapped version of their Underverse roles. Of course SwapNightmare/Swan (Cygnus) is acting as Dream would, with a different approach and vibe to how he fights Helios. (Also none of the weird brother stuff. No thanks. Just gonna make the object of Helios’ affection be Cross/Corvus)

So everything here is me playing around with some version of that, maybe with a touch of Helios’ madness and Cross/Corvus’ failure to cope driving everything off of a cliff, haha.

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hi Saffron!! just dropping in to say god fucking damnit sgs!swapverse is eating holes outta my consciousness. UGH 'selfish god of light'?? he's SO manipulative aaaaaaaaaaaa <333 the soft tragedy of Corvus (Cross) wanting to be loved, "wants to be cared for and loved and forget about The Horrors" and Helios' kindness without love, the conditional care, ahhhhhhh <333 GOD i love corrupted knight Cross. Swan is cool too but THE SOUR CREAM. (hilarious name btw) I LOVE IT. god is Corvus codependent? i love 'worth in becoming a weapon' tropes, especially in UTMV and even more so in cream!!!! UGH CROSS' INNATE GOOD HURTING HIM SO MUCH IN XTALE'S TRAGEDY WHEN HE LOST FAMILY ETC. TO THE POINT OF DISOCCIATION, just wanting to be free of the pain— aaaaaaaA—THEIR DYNAMIC IS SO COOL <3 i am very sane about this hehe.

HEHEH thank you!! I’m glad you like the twisted vibe XD And the pun name!!! Yeaaah!!

I’m a huge softie so writing something toxic like their dynamic is a bit different for me, but I love them a lot from a drama perspective. Corvus is definitely more codependent out the gate, but something I haven’t yet touched on in art, and have in some writing drafts, is Helios also becoming codependent on the attention, love, and genuine care his charge gives him. (These bitches unhealthy.)

Cross losing to the escapism is so interesting to me, especially after seeing how far he’s come in the most recent Underverse episode. I’m very normal about it.

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Hello! :]] A while back I got into Cross and Dream's dynamic, and found your blog! I instantly liked your soft and expressive art style and the way you portrayed Cross and Dream's relationship (just thought I'd let you know, since I've actually been a fan of this blog for a while). Out of curiosity, are you still in the utmv community/are you planning to make cream fan art at some point in the future (it's totally fine if you aren't though) :] I hope you are having a good day/are doing well :]

Hi there! Thank you for enjoying my art so much, it makes me happy to read ;w; I still really love these two and the storylines I’ve thought up for them. I’d like to return to making art for them eventually!

Without too much detail, I’ve been going through a rough time this year, and decided it’d be best to take a hiatus until I felt better. I’ve recently come back to my UTMV work and found that I still missed it a ton. I may start with putting fics up? That may be easier for my body to physically do at the moment, but we’ll see if I have time haha.

Thank you again for your kind words. I’m glad my work has made a positive impact!!

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I went to post and realized i’ve been hyprfixating on a completely different dreamtale au and now im like ohhhhh….. oh no

Gotta make that materpost baha

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How are you doing?)

Y’know, I’m alive. I’m here, with a roof over my head, and some pretty good music to listen to. I hope you are safe and well yourself :)

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I’m trying to figure out how to paint (as always), so anyone wanna toss requests in my ask box?

Lets stick to major sanses or UT/UTMV characters so I can find refs haha

Or u can give me more cream ideas because im insatiable

I’ll prolly take 5-10 and just do simple paint doodles over the next few weeks to decompress.

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Next Semester (21 Pilots) is stuck in my head again and i have the sick twisted desire to doodle Dreamtale angst to it so so bad goufgfhghghg