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"A little help." - Part 5

Dream belongs to jokublog

Killer belongs to rahafwabas

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can we talk a little bit about how Dream has never actually been able to be a person?

as far as I'm aware, it was never explicitly stated in canon when the villagers arrived and built their town around the tree of feelings, but we would have to assume it was pretty early on in the twins' life. that is, if it wasn't there to begin with. and when the villagers learned of the twins' powers, and Nightmare started getting bullied, Dream started being used by the villagers to do chores and overall be a busy body for a bunch of adults.

then the apple incident, and the subsequent 500-ish years he spent in stone. all of which probably left him with some heavy trauma that isn't really explored.

then, he's forced to fight what he maybe sorta kinda thinks might be his brother until he finds out that it isn't his brother and he has to come to terms with that. ALL WHILE he's an unpaid therapist for basically the entire multiverse as said not-brother is actively hunting him down to try to kill him.

anyways, in this Ted Talk I will-

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what if Nightmare made his boys immortal without them knowing??

Nightmare is selfish, and he likes to keep what is his. that mindset would only extend to his gang, then, right? because they are his mortals, and his alone, and he would rather die than have anything of his no longer in his possession.

and eventually, they would have to find out, because nobody, not even boss monsters, live to be as old as they have without looking to have aged a day.

[azurem]

I feel like something I see a lot in fics is Nightmare doing paperwork . which is cool but I do wonder what it could possibly be about if not, like, Ccino's taxes or smth . and then I thought about Nightmare writing book essays instead and I really liked the idea because it just felt fitting in a way. he's a nerd

That is fun cuz I thought about it. The thing is. If Nightmare is in ownership (even illegal occupation) he Would need to do paperwork even if it's just to check whether his AUs are being properly monitored. By what assume would be In-Verse AU characters traitors (or outcode people he swaps around) that are to serve as like. Puppet monarchs just to keep the Negative status quo up.

So like. Imagine him having to check expenses— hed want the habitants to have food but not enough. He would also want to have a number: there Would be "moon law" enforcement going on, aka people that keep the AUs as negative as possible, lead by the puppet leaders. He'd want to know how effective they are, whether there's active resistance, whether there's lethal force being used. He would also want to monitor the leaders themselves, cuz they May get too big headed and try to act as if Nightmare doesn't have them leashed. He'd also monitor Outcode apparitions, if they happen. I imagine he does not want his taken universes to interact with the wider multiverse, so he'd want a following on whether such thing happened.

Like. Nightmare Would have traditional colonies. All the paperwork is mostly monitoring because there Are stuff that his aura won't catch until it's too late.

He would also like to do espionage, wider multiverse wise. He Would employ people and have them catch onto the Big News of the multiverse (aka Universe Destruction, Outcode organization in-fighting, new alliances). He would Also need to read it and follow it. That is Also paperwork

I imagine Ccino is also like. A big info source since fluffytale is neutral grounds. Ccino manages his own taxes though

Anyways! Regardless of that, I do like the book essay idea....... I can see him doing it recreationally. He may also review books online. Like. He Writes reviews. He would do that

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imagine Nightmare gradually breaking down Cross' morals over time.

whether you see Cross as one of the bad sanses or not, he's most definitely one of the most mentally and morally sound characters within the aforementioned group. and Nightmare is entirely aware of that fact.

so, he offers a position in his group for Cross, and promises that he won't have to do anything he's uncomfortable with, knowing full well how important promises are for the majority of sans variants. only, as time passes, Nightmare grows more and more comfortable easing Cross into doing tiny 'favors' for him that perhaps tap at Cross' morals. slowly, though, those favors turn to requests, then commands, and they only get worse as Nightmare gently assures him that he will only ask if he will be comfortable.

all the while, Cross' morality slowly crumbles without him even noticing.

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I like to think that Killer despised Dust's existence in the beginning.

we've all mostly come to the conclusion that Killer was Nightmare's first mortal, the first one he took in and houses and 'healed'. then comes Dust, who was strong, maybe even stronger than Killer himself. and Killer was scared.

scared that Nightmare would replace him with someone new, and toss him out like garbage, or even kill him just to make sure no revenge plots would boil up. scared that Dust would inevitably become a better aspect to the growing group. scared that he would be left behind to rot away in Dust's shadow.

so, Killer was a big instigator for the first year or two that Dust was there, and they would bicker and fight like no tomorrow.

eventually, the hatred cooled, but I have yet to come up with an actual, decent reason for that.

[usernamesroverrated]

nightmare does five hundred linkedin posts a day and constantly requests meetings that could have been emails

the rest go to the back and get stoned. except cross who vapes (white chocolate caramel swirl flavour) because weed gives him panic attacks

CW : MENTIONED DRUG USE

nah, Nightmare's too old to use any sort of social media /lh (he probably doesn't even know what social media is tbh). but I could totally see him calling meetings for things that could've been a one sentence email. it annoys his gang so much, and Killer has tried multiple times to get Nightmare to use emails, even teaching him how, but Nightmare maintains his old ways.

I don't personally see any of them using drugs often (if at all) but I feel like a few of them would struggle with addiction. like, im pretty sure Dust is canonically an alcoholic, and ofc Nightmare couldn't possibly have that for one of his mortals, so he helps Dust get better slowly. it's currently a work in progress.

it's that way with all of Nightmare's mortals. if he notices that they may be struggling with one thing or another, he would step in without question and more or less force them to quit.

[usernamesroverrated]

a lot of people are pretty vague when it comes to what exactly Nightmare's gang does.

like, yes, we've pretty much all come to an agreement that there is some sort of balance between positivity and negativity that they try to uphold, and there are missions and such that they go on in order to do that. my main question is what those missions entail?

personally, I would think there's a few different things that they would do that aren't necessarily common headcannons.

I would think that Nightmare, on occasion, would go out himself personally and 'take out' a person of positive influence if the balance is really messed up. even if the person only has influence over one universe, I would think that it would be enough to tip the balance in his favor just enough to warrant not needing to do anything else.

as for other missions, I don't really have many ideas. like, of course the general raids would provide some negativity for Nightmare while also providing them food and such, but what else could they do to generate some negativity??

some of them would probably also be sent out on infiltration missions/spy missions in order to get some ideas of what the Stars could be planning. those would probably have to be done by duos, and with the ranking system I have for them (here, if you want to read it), it would have to be Killer, Dust, or Horror. Nightmare ig could tag along if he disguised himself (shape shifting), but otherwise probably not for the same reasons as Horror (easily recognizable). Killer poses some of the same issues with his eye goop and his soul, so that would really only leave Dust. at least until Cross could more training in and move up in his ranking.

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"A little help." - Part 4

Dream by Jokublog

Killer by rahafwabas

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[duskiningdawn]

I feel melacholic for no reason and that happens a lot, so Here's sum Dream angst apologizing to his younger self as he failed to save the only person he was ever close with...but never close enough to tell what they feel. As a result to permanent regret and sorrow over the loss of the person you say you loved...but do you truly love them? Because if you do You'd tell the truth, the flaws, the trust.

But I suppose that was never the case for both Brothers that are now at loss.

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" A little help." - Part 3

Dream by Jokublog

Killer by Rahafwabas

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[kyomon0]

teaser and his ever so lovely victim

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I like to think that Killer loves flirting with Dream on the battlefield, either as a distraction or an actual declaration of his feelings towards Dream.

and the funniest part? Nightmare wouldn't stop him, because regardless of his reasoning behind it, it is working to distract Dream from his goal.

[usernamesroverrated]

you ever think about how despite them being twins, Dream probably wouldn't remember the exact details of Nightmare's face since there weren't photos or cameras back then??

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"A little help" - Part 2

Dream by Jokublog

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dream is an exceptionally good liar.

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can you even imagine being in Passive's position after the apple incident?

as far as I'm aware, Passive is well and dead in canon, with no hope to come back as a spirit. but what if he did?

he'd be forced to watch this...thing control and use his body to spread terror around the multiverse and hunt down his brother for sport. he would use his name for his own benefit, and nobody would ever know the person who had that name before. his title would be usurped to mean something entirely different than what it's supposed to, and Corrupted would take so much pleasure in that.

and Passive could do nothing but watch the thing controlling his body, stealing his name, and hijacking his title cause complete chaos.