Noussphere nightmare/robin !
First art of 15 year old nightmare made by the amazing @samygamer007 and the second art of the 30 year old nightmare made by the amazing @definitelynoterrorispink
(for context current nightmare isnt like actually just 30, its just that shes frozen at the age of 30 she grew up and kept growing up till she reached 30, read the story below for context)
Reminder that the Noussphere is a crossover AU between Undertale AUs Nasuverse and hoyoverse , so dont get surprised by hoyo and nasu concepts being mentioned here
Over simplification of the Noussphere dreamtale AU, please dont use this to judge the AU this is just one gigantic simplification eventually I'll write a 12 chapter long side story about dreamtale i promise:
Nim and dreamtale explanation(skip this and go to the nightmare explanation if you think that this part is too long, it's pretty irrelevant to nightmare I'd say)
Nim originates from the reverse side of the world just like any other divine spirit, a texture that exists between the giant human/monster texture (multiverse) and the none existence texture (the anti void) essentially it isnt neither "1" or "0". The world(multiverse) where Humans and monsters(human/monster texture that covers the multiverse) currently live employing the Laws of Physics is akin to a piece of cloth(texture) that thinly extends across the surface of the world(multiverse)and underneath this fabric exists the Reverse Side of the World, located roughly an unknown amount of distance right below the Spiritual Tomb of Albion in underprana, where supernatural beings shed there physical forms and have retreated to there original world after the Age of Gods ended(otherwise known as the end of the monster vs human war in undertale prime). The reverse side of the world is where higher functions of consciousness exists, its where the concepts that old medieval people worshipped come from once they take on a physical form. once a concept gains enough worships and reverberation it manifest itself a physical form from this realm into the base material world(human/monster texture). Think of the reverse side of the world as yetzirah and the base multiverse as the assiah realm pretty much from kabalistic idealism(i love this philosophy and concept so much btw), yetzirah is the template of all material functions of the physical world(assiah). Yeah thats basically what the reverse side of the world is to the base multiverse, once something has been fully conceptualized and believed in hard enough by worshippers it gains its own cognition that can effect and manipulate the understanding and inner workings of the laws of physics
Just like how individuals like zues came into existence once enough people started worshipping lightning and also as a way to make sense of how lightning formed by the primitive people's cognition perceiving it as someone from the heavens raining lightning. Nim came into existence when enough people worshiped the idea of emotions and feelings in a long time ago, roughly a 100K years before chapter 1 of the Noussphere. It was a time where sin or virtue hadn't been fully conceptualized and understood yet due to nobody bounding and rationalizing the borders and the duality of right and wrong. Hence they worshipped the idea of a god coming down and teaching people what right and wrong is and bestowing them with the gift of understanding bad and good emotions. Hence nim came into existence, around this time a mere earth fairy was being worshipped and perceived as the god of magic and mysticism. Which became true due to cognition hence gave birth to the practice of the mystic arts and the concept of magic and the supernatural, with that fairy due to worship transforming into a divine spirit, often believed to have been othinus the prototype of odin the all father who's the center of worship in odditiestale, also in this time mayan mythology was being recognized and associated with war and strife. Specifically one of its chief gods Quetzalcoatl (which was originally just a random statue and carvings) hence that statue was conceptualized as a great chief god of war that being Quetzalcoatl
(Yes as you can see there are 3 ways to become a divine spirit, one being a loosely understood concept given meaning and a physical form, second being a random somebody like a pharaoh or fairy turned god due to worship. And a statue being worshipped until the folklore behind it becomes realized as real)
Anyways back to nim, after her conceptualization the tree of emotions came forth at the same time, you could say they were both the same being but just different facets and emanations of the same being. Nim taught morality and the understanding of emotions, which was complex(and still is today)to understand and ground, eventually people just realized that it was subjective and that nim herself potentially didn't understand what she was teaching so she was just left alone, forgotten.
Some time later, she planted the tree in the current prime multiverse and just guarded it, with eventually that small landmass developing to be an entire planet and eventually a giant universe just because of the raw life force the tree and nim was emitting
Until eventually some settlers belived to come from the outskirts of another multiverse rolled around, thet plundered the land. Missed with the wild life and massacred some of the small indigenous tribes that nim unconsciously fostered, seeped there culture into the land. Until nim finally decided to roll up and face the foreign invaders(this is meant to parallel the spain invasion of meso-america IRL btw). Due to how weakened she was due to how many people stopped believing in her she eventually fell after a couple of weeks of fighting. Evident by the blood freezing scream that raptured and traveled throughout the AU, signaling the fall of a god, with her scream believed that it can still be heard from time to time throughout the multiverse itself, These invaders were somehow equipped with high grade divine constructs and weaponry forged from the bodies and blood of other gods, and skills and weapons that nim never saw before which all contributed to her death. Otherwise if she was at full power and not caught by surprise and wasn't as well acting so arragont and uncaring she would have won, its often believed that the mere resentment and negativity that the indigenous people held for there god due to her not aiding them potentially helped weaken her even more with it also strengthening the invaders even more
Nim, on her last breath. Decided to fake her death, while silently retreating to the tree. Fusing her existence with it to just preserve her life
Now with the culture and race of these folk replacing the grand history of the previous civilization, black skin and unique cultures now fully erased replaced with white and blond hair human and monsters walking the almost dead lands and other worlds that this AU has to offer, slowly but surely seeping throughout it and fixing the AU itself. They became now recognized civilians of the AU, incodes recognized by the cognition of the universe itself.
Thousands of amber era's (one amber era is in-between 200 to 1200 years) later. The new guardians of the tree, its new halves and emanations rose out 500 years ago prior to the prologue and first chapter of the Noussphere. Recycled from nims data and now reincarnated through 2 "siblings"
The power of nim was too much for human vessels. And monster vessels for that matter. Hence the creation of custom synthetic bodies were needed to be made, alongside nim's power being at first sealed and slowly being released more and more until there bodies grew strong enough to handle it. In which nim being the good "mother" she is would immediately take over and fully incarnate through the body of the first to fully seal her powers. A form of genetic lockdown, in which after doing this would consume the other half/twin and fully materialize once again, this plan was also made so that the twins can make people worship them, so that once nim is back she would be brimming with more powe then ever due to the worship power that she had in ger previous life in tandem with the worship and fables that the 2 twins would possess
Anyways onto the synthetic bodies stuff, she decided to make custom bodies. Amalgamates made out of countless codes and life forces of monsters and humans to make them, eventually making both of them a skeleton monster, one who isn't exactly a "sans". Just a monster from the skeleton race. After noticing the amazing magic efficiency and control such bodies would offer. Until they grow strong enough to gain forms adequate of that of a god. Yeah unlike canon dreamtale where they were planned to transform into white boys for some reason nim in Noussphere dreamtale made it so that once strong enough dream would awaken as a weird hybrid of an owl and tree monster. While nightmare just a giant mess of octupuse dragon with an exposed giant heart being outside of the main body
Now nightmare lore finally
Villager's(now descendant's of the original mad men colonizers) were having some sort of prophetic dreams 7 days before dream and nightmare were born. Visions of a green deity telling them that there saviors would be born under the great tree
Eventually, 2 infants wrapped in cloth adorned with symbols were "born" under the tree, welp born is the wrong word here. More like Just somehow came into existence out of the blue
The villager's rejoiced, in fanatic and maniac celebrations, probably due to the effects that nightmare and dreams presence held. They named the bright child dream as a symbol of the hopes and dreams the child holds, and for the gloomy one they named it nightmare due to quote "that child is Satan's Spawn, its a thing that will bring great ruin !" Yeah the villagers from day one had a massive hate boner for nightmare, just due to there vibe and the feelings it makes the villagers feel (like scp 053), there were a lot of times where they outright tried to kill the infant nightmare but to no avail. The freaking baby somehow was somehow immune to all forms of weaponry and killing methods held within those magical medieval times, most then probably due to its immediate godhood status it gained
Eventually when they reached the ripe age of 6 they officially crowned dream as there prophet, someone that is meant to lead them to a greater future. Dream being a kid and growing up in a society filled with such religious extremism and racial drama's didn't think anything wrong with it. Even when they began perceiving him as an object of worship rather then his own person. He still didn't think much of it and thought it was normal, even when they would do weird and uncomfortable rituals of all kind with him. He didn't think it was bad, he didn't hold the same knowledge of morality that nim once held, he was only at this moment just a mere place holder guardian who later will be replaced by nim. Nim had no plans to educate or help them
Nightmare was mostly ignored. Sometimes being shoved into some nobles house and being used for entertainment or stress relief. The beatings and abuse were taking a toll on the child, who couldn't even mentally process or understand what was happening, maybe villagers themselves didnt know what they were doing, they just associated the concept of negativity with bad and started punishing said bad. Thinking that they're in the right for torturing a child and that its morally correct
It was until they were 15 was when nightmare and dream after being seperated for a long while met once more, nightmare was more then happy to meet his brother. Dream wasnt, he just viewed nightmare as a great evil based on the now village turned Kingdom people, and with him being a people's pleaser and being more like a puppet that listens to orders. He just began ignoring(mental abuse/neglect) nightmare, not even processing there existence whenever they walked by, dream only came here for the tree and reconnect with it once more, something like nightmare shouldn't even be left around the tree let alone leaving under its leafs
Eventually nightmare just ran away, now in a more mature age that allows him to perceive and understand the abuse. They just wanted to leave it all behind
They ran and ran and ran, until eventually resting on the side of a rock, covering themselves with the wraps that once held them when they were little. The second thing that ever held them with care, outside of that small village girl that would pay them a visit from time to time, carrying food and other basic utensils for nightmare. Teaching them on how to read and other stuff, they were the one who got nightmare into reading books in the first place and taught them how to read them. I believe there name was something that rhymed with crisp ? Something like that
They slept and slept on that rock, huddling it. Until a certain green hoodie wearing man walked up to them, a man that has no connections to dreamtale whatsoever. As if something greater then even a god took pity on there story, or maybe it was just them taking a random stroll. With fate making them meet ?
While passing by the sleeping nightmare, they just took a glance at them. With no expression on there face
"Well isnt this a bit crazy"
The man from time to time would come back, carrying all types of food with them and leaving it next to the sleeping nightmare, nightmare each time they wake up would find the food neatly arranged Infront of them, eating it as tears welled up in there eyes
Until they managed to catch the man in the act via pretending to be a sleep, or did the man just act oblivious to the trap ? Either way nightmare began viewing this person as there savior and god, something that an emotionally unstable teenager would develop when idolizing someone
The man would tell them great stories and adventures that he once had
"Hmm ? Why am i brimming with so much tomfoolery and joy you ask kid ?"
"But of course i act like that because im free, dont mistake my act for a fool now kiddo, its just me acting however i want and please due to my freedom, i hate it when people try to limit my freedom by societal standards, telling me to act like a "normal" person as if they even know what that is"
"But why yes, each and every single person have there own way of attaining it"
"I received mine by smashing in the heads of anyone that tried to control me or enforce there worlds onto mine, which was only possible by gaining enough power to trample ontop of anyone that dare hurt me"
"Oh uh, is this "freedom" that you attained lonely ?"
"Noooot at all, sitting at the top of the food chain might seem that way, but i have a family that could relate to my suffering so it cancels it out, themes and such. Skibidi y'know yeah"
The child would laugh every single time the man would put on this act
They were greatly interested in what the man described as "freedom"
"also kid, one more thing"
"negativity has nothing to do with being bad. If anything it's arguably more healthy than just pure positivity. Positivity can be bad in situations and negativity can be good in situations. Dont let these troglodytes control you or define what you are"
"Negativity isn't bad, and one day you'll prove it. I know you will"
"also, I don't think i got your name. Or gender, skeleton monsters don't have a fixed gender and just identify as whatever they feel more comfortable in. So who are you ? Or a better question is, who do you want to be. Let this be your own choice. Your identity is what matters in this world"
"....they call me nightmare. I dont like that name, robin always seemed nice to me. Its a name that belongs to my favorite bird as well"
"welp robin you are, nice meeting ya. You can call me alaister. No need for honorifics like mister anymore, just alaister"
"oh nice to meet you alaister"
"and uhhh identities ? What are those ?"
"oh right, medieval times"
"uhhh y'know, girl, boy, none binary. Those stuff. Whatever makes you more comfortable is what you would want people to refer to you as"
"oh, hmmmm. Do i truly have the choice to choose what i am ?"
"but of course, if even the entire world thinks you're someone, as long as that someone that they perceive you as makes you uncomfortable. Then better shed that skin and tell them right back who you truly want to be"
"well uhhh, i had this friend. Back where i came from, i wouldn't mind matching with them, the villagers do refer to me as a man. So i would like to be the opposite of what they think of me"
"very well then missy. It was nice meeting ya robin"
"hehe, thank you alaister."
With a beaming smile and laughter shining in the forest, you would really think that this child was a child of pure heart and joy
If someone like them with their past can find joy in such a world, with such a disgusting identity that being a devil is attached to them. Then truly anybody in the world can find happiness
Life always finds a way, dont give up on your self
Some time later. When they woke up. They found a paper plastered on one of the trees in the road next to the forest. They were curious so they went to investigate
They tore the paper from the tree. Reading through it thanks to the teaching of their friend back "home"
They quickly began running through the road, back to the kingdom
There friend, friend friend friend.
It was an execution notice
They're gonna execute her and it's all because of her(robin).
The paper mentions how they're looking for the child of darkness. And are executing any associates of that child. On the behalf of the child of light
They must be using dream's name just to make sure that it's a great gathering, right ? They always use his name as a way to scam people in the name of "church funding" or to make sure that people will group up
There's no way this was all orchestrated by dream. Right ???
"yoooo, miss robin. Today's culture dishes are tajin from morroco alongside and tepan from france. Robiiiin yahhoooo where are youuuu"
"now where is she i wonder, i had this entire script made to explain the culture and history of Morocco and france just like every single one of my visits. Y'know as a way to teach them and compensate for the lack of school education"
"oh man, I really do have a habit of yapping to myself huh"
The man stepped on a note, in it robin explained her absence and that he could just drop the food. She'll eventually come back
He knew full well that was a lie, he knew full will what was happening all along. That's the merit of being the peak of all, you should stop acting y'know. Oh so called inquisitor of chaldea
"oh yeah, you can hear my inner thoughts. Forgot"
"well, I'm just gonna wish good luck to the kid i suppose. My brother or sis would have been infinitely better coaches than me but sure"
"you aren't gonna hear this but just know kid, whether you prove those idiots wrong by not massacring them once you become strong, showing that you aren't bad. Or just indulging in it and Killing all those who deserve it doesn't matter. At the end as long as it's your own choice that you made and know full well that you aren't gonna regret it. It doesn't matter what you do. Thats freedom"
As he said that, he began walking away. Slowly vanishing from the past and coming ray shifting back to his Future
The child began rushing faster and faster, more ferocious than ever with bloodshot eyes, a journey that would have normally taken a week on a carriage was being crossed in minutes. The Kingdom was already visible in the horizon up ahead
She need to go faster. That's what they think, they need to go faster and faster. That paper was a day old, she couldn't be late. She wouldn't be late. She will not be late for her friend
"guards ! lower the gates, A sandstorm is being built up ahead and is coming fast"
"what a weird looking storm, what's the nearest dessert again ? Wouldn't a carriage take months to travel there"
"yeah now that you mention it, it also looks a bit weird. Sandy, but weird. Almost feels like"
"built up magic particles rubbing with each other at high intensity"
The Captain of the knights order alongside his underlings were discussing the strange phenomena up ahead, they were going to close the gate how the captain instructed but the church head appeared behind and revealed its origins
"saint jafar, are you sure of-"
"do you doubt my words, that are the direct will and shadow of our god. Captain ?"
"then get in fighting formation, whatever is coming here is out for blood. I can sense their emotions from all the way here, the witch trial mustn't be halted"
"yes sir ! Soldiers, formation gamma !"
"sir, strong air coming from the south. Exact direction of the incoming hostile, permission to engage with air and earth magic to counteract ?"
""permission granted, now get in the firing formation of gamma. I'll take the tank position"
Formation was set and the sandstorm dwarfing the entire kingdom was setting in closer and closer
Until suddenly, the storm exploded outward, the figure now instead of being at the front of the storm was at the back of it. Sand filling every corner of the kingdom, just how big can someone's reaction core be to cast such a huge mana storm with sand properties ?
a figure cut through the earth walls and strong hurricanes during the chaos. Cutting through them like butter, blitzing past the entire guards before anybody could notice and blowing a hole through the giant iron clad compound gate as if it was butter
An ice block that dwarfed the entire gate exponentially in height was summoned forth from the sky. Dropping right on the silhouette, it was barely bigger then a modern car in terms of width to avoid unnecessary destruction but yet its caster had the enough precision to catch the assailant
"i got you, you damn heretic"
As the fanatic saint stepped forth. Head of the dream worshipping cult- i mean church. And the one that casted the spell
Only for it to instantly melt, with the figure covering the distance between him and the fanatic in an instant before he could even perceive it
The head was quick to react, summoning icicles poised Directly in the air above him. Shooting forth with speeds that ripped sound and part of the sand storm surrounding the gate
The figure was simply too fast, already disappearing into the sandstorm before the icicles even manifested, now instead ripping through a random noble's mansion in an instant due to there enormous size and instantly freezing it then reducing it to ice dust
"in the name of the dreamer what great evil have we angered ? Attention all citizens! Ignore trying to dissipate the sandstorm, all personnel available currently must head to the capital city immediately. We must protect our god against this heretic that infiltrated our holy land ! In the name of the crusade, i want any village or kingdom associated with this attack to be plundered with their women used for the reproduction of our church army and the men children and their next 5 generations of their families used for labor no matter how old they are. This is the will of the dreamer do you hear me"
(remember guys, meso America influenced by medieval Europe. Actually you might just call it Europe at this point)
Just as always, saint jafar used dream's name for political gains just like always, he knows that there probably wasn't any kingdom behind this attack. And yet he'll most then likely fabricate evidence to invade another nation and gain more power
Now with the entire kingdom with red gaze marching forth towards the capital. Hunting the unknown assailant, what will happen to our dear protagonist ?
"mister alaister taught me a lot of things about magic theory. Involving mana the act of performing the mystic through your own magical core, Parana the act of enforcing the supernatural through the mana of the ground, and aura the act of empowering your own body and making your magical aura gain distinct properties of certain things. According to him i had something called a divine core instead of a magical core, the average divine core is 100 times more stronger efficient and abundant with mana more than even the most gifted and developed magical cores. I didn't think I had to use what he taught me for violence...but that doesn't matter now...i have to save her"
Rushing faster than the eye could perceive. Blitzing past any maze or civilian before they can realize it. Rushing past city after city, She eventually made it to the core city in under 3 minutes. The capital where the "witch trials" are taking place in
She can see it, in the distance. Her first ever friend. The only one to make her feel butterflies. Her precious
She was tied to a stake. They already held burning torches, she could be burned alive any second now
She's here, she's here. All that's left is to just scoop her up and leave. Nothing could possibly stop her
She stopped moving, no. Being slumped would be the right word, she couldn't even perceive it. She didn't know what or who hit her. It happened in a instant
She looked at her left shoulder, it wasnt there.
Half of her entire body was blown away in an instant
The only corporate would be the shining light from the tower. The arrow of light that shot forth was so fast that the light and energy produced from it didn't even have enough time to fully dissipate. An arrow that landed before the bow and reality even realized it
As the light from the bow finally subsided. It revealed an individual
There was someone there, seated at the top of the tower. Revered by all
Her brother held no emotion in his face, he looked as if he was but a robot
"grab him" said the sibling. Still calling to his sister as if she was a man
Before she could fully process it. The fire ignited
She ran to the tree up the hill, with all of the strength that she could muster. Dropping underneath it. Sobbing and crying uncontrollably
She should be safe for now. It's illegal to build something or roam anywhere close to the divine tree in a full 1 kilometer raduis. And nobody outside of her dream and.....her friend could get close to the tree. The mana around it extends all around it covering a 1km distance. The mana and the air is so dense hot and toxic that it can crush anything that enters it. Its like swimming 50K feet under the ocean, such density and volume would instantly implode any average human or Monster for that matter. So she has time before her capture
She cant understand whats happening, nor does she have the time to comprehend or weep
She looks at the apples on the tree. She remembered a voice that boomed in her and dream's head, telling them that they signal their sealed powers, and if they ever feel ready to fully embrace their roles one should eat half of the apples aka all of the black ones while the other eats the other half aka the golden ones
Tho at the same time she's hesitant, these apples were meant to be used sparingly to spread joy and clean illnesses after dream modified and turned all of the apples golden. She doesn't wanna take that penicillium from good people in need
But she remembered. There doesn't exist a single good person in this world
Every single person in this god forsaken rock needs to die and disappear
They cant be allowed to murder any more innocent people or ruin others lives
"...To hell with their ideas about me, if they wanna see a monster then I'll show them a monster"
Dream quickly chased after his sibling, he initially was thrown off after they disappeared in a giant black smoke, but he quickly understood where they could have gone too
Taking light steps on the way there, not bothered by the world
He doesn't understand why "nightmare" needs to exist, why would positivity and sin need to exist in a perfect harmonious world ? He doesn't understand it, hence its imperfect and illogical
Dumb child, can't even comprehend how negative emotions like fear and adversity and emotional balance in general are important for humanity and monster kind. Your world would have been destroyed either way whether she ate those apples or not
Speaking of which, he's here. The tree
As he thought that, countless tendrils of different sizes shot from the tree. All of which instantly seeped into the ground and covered the entire planet in dark greeny substance, with giant stellar sized tendrils launching outwards, putruding to other celestial bodies. Each tentacle covering an object. Causing a chain reaction where the already infected planet or star shooting its own tendrils towards other bodies. Until the entire universe looked like one giant spider web, seconds later the light from white dots in the sky fully died out. As the only thing shining the universe was dream's own weak light that he passively emits, that can only shine a few inches out of dreams body
The motion was so swift and fast that dream was just left standing motionless for an entire 10 seconds after the infection completed. Only being able to let out one small whisper
Back in the kingdom, widespread panic Hit everybody. Everyone began lighting lanterns and torches that barely illuminated the environment. With all greatly struggling to move around due to the greasy tar covering the ground. Some even falling and barely being able to get back up due to the powerful adhesive
A powerful pillar of tar shot out from the tree's location like a jet, being at least a 100 feet tall. Illuminating its own kind of warm but sinister dark green glow
Inside this hulking mass, lay a small skeleton.
She heard a voice, not the voice of his supposed mother, but the voice of a new female
Robin is now at the crossroads (go and read the Cross profile for context-okay welp it doesn't explain much actually, uhh y'know project moon specifically limbus company and library of ruina ? And how the distortion and ego effect exists and how the intangible ghost of carmen comes to you and offers you 2 options, either listen and heed her words which will cause you to distort or ignore her and be yourself which will make you gain an efflorescence ego ? Yeah pretty much same exact context)
This female was seemingly... sympathizing with her ? She was asking robin if things really have been hard for her, and that she should just abandon everything and kill everyone. Attaining the fully sealed power of nim, the female tried to coerce robin into giving up and that there's no other path left for her, and that she should abandon all else and shed this skin, disassociate from all else and transform into your true self
Robin gave it a hard thought, she was just.too tired and heart broken, she couldn't go on
She almost gave in, but then she remembered her friend. And that green hood, the only 2 to ever believe in her and thought that there was more then just simple evil to her
She couldn't just forget about them and ignore what they taught her, who else would remember them ?
"Just like mister alaister said, i will carve my own path towards freedom. But not by becoming a mindless beast, but by simply becoming better than any version of myself....that's what it means to grow and become stronger according to his words. To outgrow the previous you"
And just like that, she broke from the shackles of her own mind and gained it, her own new self, her own identity. That she made and decided for herself, and not decided by any rich noble or religion extremist
The black giant tar pillar collapsed, as the spider web latching on all civilizations collapsed almost immediately
Like a butterfly climbing out of her own cocoon, she will not wear the face of an already predetermined vessel made by a neglectful god that tried to incarnate through her, Or the identity given to her by her abusers. She will become the opposite of that
As all of the goop retreated to the tree. The dumbfounded dream could only gasp in surprise as a now young human looking girl began walking forward.Her face resembling the witch he personally burned with her looking as young as her as well, with her thinking in her mind that her friend needs to be remembered which would explain the similarities. with her other features like skin and ears looking completely different. Adorning a black robe covering her body
"i will not be the villain that you want me to be, in your sappy little story. I refuse to prove that some idiots were right about abusing a kid, goodbye brother"
With that, she began walking away. Dream now thinking that a parasite has incarnated through his "brother", as a way to cope with this turn of events. Began firing at the young girl
She gracefully dodged his sneak attacks and quickly dropped him by sweeping him off the ground via emerging a tentacle under his feet
"no more, i refuse to divulge into your level. You murderer"
Dream, confused and dazed like a child. Just saw that half of the apples were left uneaten, he assumed that nightmare reversed the other half that he made golden into black then ate them due to the manipulation of the women Infront of him
Without warning, he pounced on the tree and began eating the remaining fruits. He will gain enough power to purge this great evil from the world and get rid of negativity all tegother
Nightmare, unbothered. Just kept on walking away, trying to figure out how to teleport and the mechanics behind it, she remembers mister alaister mentioning other universes and ways to traverse them. She's done with this pile of garbage
Until suddenly, she sensed. And aeon gazing at the dreamtale AU, welp not that she knew what an aeon was at the time. All she sensed was just a wholly incomprehensible being staring at the entire existence of the AU. Without her fully realizing that they were specifically gazing at dream
A blood curdling scream rang out throughout the AU, she looked back only to see a giant owl tree fusion behind her. She could sense some seperate godly force trying to emerge(it was nim)but due to the aeon's gaze it was being suppressed, just like how robin gaining an effloresced ego helped suppress the incarnation process entirely due to the world itself now recognizing her as her own existence seperate from nim
The form folded on itself, as a skeletal figure with yellow sockets and blue eyes emerged from it. Bloodied and furious
"...and now what have you done with yourself brother"
"DEMON, I WILL PURGE YOU FROM THIS WORLD. RELINQUISH YOUR CONTROL OVER MY BROTHER THIS ONCE"
"wait what- oh my- okay, dont tell me you think that some sinister force is controlling me or something like that. If thats your way of trying to cope around the abuse and horrible things you've done to me then oh boy you're nasty, lay down twig"
"dont you dare jest ! Everything I've done to him was for his own protection, to cleanse him from the evil within ! I would have eventually just imprisoned him in a dungeon to try and baptize him !"
"...you lost it, just go and take your daily caffeine amount. Beat it, also i told you as early as when we were 6 that i wanna be called by "sister" not as brother. Get it through your skull already"
As she finally figured out how to open a warm hole....dream with raging tides of new emotions due to path energy affected every knock and cranny of his being... somehow feeling new emotions all he felt was just pure confusion
He manifested a bow, a pure arc of light. Now channeling the positive emotional spectrum of every being in the multiverse unlike previously that allowed him to only empower himself with the emotions of his AU inhabitants. A ridiculous upgrade made real through the unbridled power of path energy
He drew the arc as far as he could, the earth trembling with the mere might of the power
Nightmare looked back again, now somewhat horrified with what she's sensing
"w-wait ! You inexperienced arragont brat ! If you release that thing you will obliterate everything and erase her and mister alaister's memory ! Dont you dare pull the trigger you maniac, you're playing with the lives of everybody you have no idea on how to control the destructive output of an attack with such shear power behind it !"
Everything went to black, silence filled the endless void expanse, she didn't know how long she was knocked out for. Thats expected when time and space collapse on themselves
She just got up, looked at the never ending nothingnes
And finally the dam broke, the endless years of torture and the death of her only one. And the destruction of her remaining memory, she finally had time and energy to weep, and weep
Eventually. She left, with a new goal in mind. To live however free and careless as she wants, those were there wishes
Aaaand that's an over simplification of the Noussphere dreamtale Au( called awakening of dreams)
And thats pretty much Robin's/Nightmare's backstory explained, is a rather morally gray character to an extent ehhh more like chaotic good or lawful neutral, she doesn't necessarily need to feed off negativity to survive(especially with her being the embodiment and concept itself of it) so like yeah, she only spreads negative emotions around as a way to uphill the balance that she's still unconsciously obsessed about. How contradictory ey, a wolf with the head of a lamb tries to live her life only for her to keep on spreading none harmful forms of negativity. Its like a drug that she cant fully move on from, anyways she specifically gives an the AU fear of a certain thing or makes them face some sort of mental or economical or physical adversity that would make them stronger, either that or sometimes spreads negativity in an AU that dream has already overloaded with huge amounts of positivity, these AUs eventually kill themselves due to the positivity and events that it leads to(with dream 90% of the time being unaware of his own harm that he's doing, and the other 10% him refusing to believe he had anything to do with it and chalks it up to something different then him that caused it. He's delusional yes)so nightmare just spreads negativity by inducing certain harmless events to the AU inhabitants to avoid such a tragedy
After the events of dreamtale destruction she would eventually grow up until her aging halts at the age of 30. Around that time she met a group of religous fanatics obsessed with gods that managed to imprison her, in which they did that to devour and sell her flesh. Treating her as livestock thinking they could ascend to a higher form of consciousness (aka divine spirit) via her flesh. Only for most of them to die grosome deaths due to the side effects of nightmares flesh, eventually she would meet killer when he tried to kill himself and erase himself from his timeline, she saved him and convinced him not to do that, they traveled with eachother for a couple of years up until Nightmare's mental abuse got to him. Yeah nightmare is a victim of abuse that continued the cycle of abuse in the Noussphere, and each time she would do something uncalled for she would just remind him that she saved him. Until he couldn't take it anymore sneaked her and almost killed her then left. Now with her feeling "betrayed"(like the average abuser when their victim fights back)she retreated back to an abandoned AU in a dense dark forest. Up until in the askerrorsans aftermath side story(which takes place 8 years before chapter of the first chapter of the Noussphere and 492 years after the birth of robin and dream)she would meet error 404 and the newly memories restored geno error. With them trying to convince her to join their reject team that's trying to regain their loved ones back
Her being intrigued and due to this pre memory restoration error 404 giving her vibes similar to what alaister gave off. She accepted on the condition of seeing what 404 is made out of
404 would get brutally destroyed and utterly broken by nightmare, but each time he would just get back up. With such charisma and determination, with 404 reminding her a great deal lot of alaister her friend and even her old self she eventually caved in and decided to join(with 404 immediately going unconscious for a couple of days due to how hard he was getting slumped)
Nightmare while dragging 404 to the base being led by error would leave a witty joke remark about geno's/error's arms which will make error instantly flushed blah blah errormare crumbs no more spoilers for askerrorsans aftermath
Anyways yeah in this 8 years in-between askerrorsans and the Noussphere prologue and chapter 1 her 404 would eventually develop a daughter father due blah blah and she would lowk realize through there adventure that what she was doing to killer was fucked up and doesn't make her any better then the villagers or dream
Also speaking of witty jokes robin like any sans is the type to say jokes/puns, specifically the witty dark kind. Go to drawings frisk profile to see the types of jokes that robin makes
Dream was in a coma for hundreds of years due to the explosion laying him out, until being discovered in underswap prime being frozen underwater in the swapped location of snowdin, where he would get woken up by prime swap blah blah star sans's get made(happens in the askerrorsans aftermath side story)he still wholeheartedly believes that a parasite is taking control of his "brother" and is currently hunting robin down. He also isnt homophobic and transphobic in a sense, its just more like he's incapable of understanding what sexualities and identities even mean ? And y'know old bigot dream over here based on the previous robin backstory text, whatever he doesn't understand he doesn't bother making sense of or rationalizing it and would just view it as people missing with him(that and in tandem with him being born in pretty much medieval Europe and being raised by literal cultists and colonialism and imperialism idealistic scum bags), so whenever he sees someone thats a boy who wants to be called she or they he just ignores them and keeps on calling them by there biological gender. Any people thats effected by his positivity cant physically get mad at him and can only cry that they cant do anything to correct, and those that aren't effected by it have previously slumped dream's ass in the past, like narrative change:hell chara who after dream miss gendered them 4 times in a row after 4 recorrections just decided to split his skull in 2, with the star sans's quickly running out of there because oh boy nobody wants to fight that guy now(read his profile on my Tumblr for context) and the other instance was core frisk who would just somehow warp reality and shut dreams mouth the moment he tries calling them "he/him" or would just teleport him to alpha centuri or any other star that comes to mind,core also does this whenever dream tries to call asperiortale chara(asperiortale being my take on reapertale)he him (reaper chara x core frisk for the win baby)
Anyways Noussphere is owned by me and is directed by me and team fate
Dreamtale is owned by the one who shouldn't be named
