This idea come to me when i saw the ballet "Giselle"♡
This idea is set in the 19th century.
Morpheus is forced by his parents to marry Burgess as punishment and humiliation for not being the male standard of the time.
As always, Burgess is a terrible person and only accepts the marriage for the money, but has no intention of staying with him.
So, on their wedding night, he tries to kill him. Morpheus fights back, knocking Burgess down and managing to escape, but not without being wounded.
Bleeding from Burgess's attempted murder, he reaches the forest, where at dusk the female figures known as the Willis appear.
Upon finding him, they attempt to punish him as they would any man who steps on their territory. But they notice something strange about him, a despair and pain that is very familiar to them.
Then, in the face of such madness, Myrtha, the queen of the Willis, appears. She approaches Morpheus cautiously and, after recognizing a shared experience, they take pity on him, allowing his wandering spirit to roam with them on this earth when he dies, making him their protégé but not a Willis; after all, he is nothing more than a man.
Elsewhere in the same village is Robert Gadling, who was recently widowed when his wife died in childbirth. Anyone who saw him would say he is just another wandering spirit from the myths, but no, he is just a devastated man.
Until one day, at sunset, in the forest, he encounters what he perceives to be a sad young man with sickly skin, Clothes as dark as night, and black eyes shining with permanent tears on his eyelashes.
When Hob tried to approach and talk to him, he run away and ignored his calls. He asks the townspeople about this young man, but no one answers him. They only give him suspicious and compassionate looks, so he decides to return to the forest.
Sunset after sunset, he tries to call out to him, simply to talk, to get to know him perhaps, to find out why he is there alone, until he manages to catch up with him and talk to him.
The young man is hostile at first, but after Hob does nothing but stay at a distance and just talk, he becomes less cautious and sometimes speaks, until at one point they can't help but say they are friends in a way.
The young man tells him his name, Morpheus, but nothing else. Usually, it is simply Hob who talks, with a few contributions from the other, but that doesn't bother him; it's better than nothing, and little by little he fell in love with that mysterious young man.
Until one day his curiosity gets the better of him, he asks too many questions and presses too hard, Morpheus gets angry and disappears into the night forest.
Hob never finds him again, sunset after sunset, until one day at their meeting place he meets a woman who calls herself Teleute. She heard him asking about her brother, tells him his story, and asks him if it is possible to he free her brother's soul from the Willis so that he can rest in peace.
After Teleute's departure, Hob is in shock, Not only because his love turned out to be a ghost, but also because of his tragic fate.
After this discovery, he decides to do the right thing and go apologize to Morpheus, to show him that he is not like Burgess and that he truly loves him. So he ventures into the woods at dusk, despite knowing the consequences of being in the Willis' territory.
When he finds Morpheus, he tries to talk to him, but Morpheus ignores him. Hob tries and tries to get his attention, to apologize, to do anything, until, in desperation, Hob confesses his love, that he has fallen in love with him after their brief but wonderful encounters.
Morpheus is surprised and unable to say anything until the Willis appear. Noticing Hob, they try to punish him by making him dance to death, but Morpheus intervenes. With each attempt by Myrtha to make Hob dance, he gets in the way, infuriating the queen of the Willis.
Morpheus makes a decision and dances for Hob, apologizing to his queen for his disobedience.
And, moments before dawn, footsteps are heard. Burgess, who heard Hob talk about his ex-fiancé, is looking for him to kill him and prevent rumors that could harm him. When he appears, Morpheus stops, looks at him, and all the anger and vengeance that has kept him in this existence all this time becomes present.
The Willis notice this, understand, and change their objective, forcing Burgess to dance and dance until his body can no longer take it and he dies, allowing Morpheus to fulfill his vengeance.
After dawn breaks, the Willis disappear, along with their queen, who, with her anger calmed, ends up sparing Hob's life. Hob, exhausted after the Willis's various attempts to make him dance, sees Morpheus approaching and kneeling beside him.
He looks more alive than he has ever seen him before, his pale skin no longer looking sickly, his eyes replaced by a pair of more human but no less beautiful blue ones, his dark clothes illuminated by the rays of the sun, and he smiles at him, kisses him goodbye, grateful for having freed him and reciprocating his love, before vanishing into the morning mist.
Then Hob knows that this will be the last time he will see Morpheus, for he has fulfilled his revenge and Hob his promise, he has freed him...
after all, it is a happy ending for Morpheus.
