*Staying Alive*

"He tried to talk with his brother because of the bruises he saw, but Nightmare lied to him. "It's okay, I just tripped, it was nothing". Nightmare's intention wasn't to trick Dream, it was to protect him. He didn't want his brother to complain to the others, who might take revenge on him. He couldn't allow his brother to feel the same pain that he was feeling" - Dreamtale, Pg 11

Little did he know, Dream was hiding pain from him as well.

But no scenario would have prevented what comes next.

Yes, these are all their canon fears, though, I'm giving them a bit of reasoning behind them that wasn't necessarily expounded on in canon. Call them my headcanon explanations.

I suppose you could make the argument Dream got over his fear of storms since it was only ever shown in his childhood, but I think he continues to dislike them due to just how loud they are. Involuntary reaction rather than an actual held 'fear' any longer.

Dream is vegetarian in canon, yes yes. He loves animals.

Dream's canon birthday is December 21, but that's our time and our world. What would it actually be in universe? I'm not sure. I don't think he'd ever know. Just another addition to his timeless nature.

Inverse to being called a child, when he tells people his actual age, sometimes they treat him like he's super old as a joke. This also sometimes translate over to fandom discussions too, where people will also call Dream an old man when talking about him.

I would stand to argue Dream is actually pretty young in terms of mentality. Though his canon took place over the course of many years, and I could tell you approximately the timeline we have, at the point he gets his second outfit, I can't reasonably place him as anything higher than the human equivalent of in his twenties. I am of the belief his original story was effectively a coming of age story. We've mostly skipped over that, because I find his later explorations through the multiverse more interesting. We'll go back to when he was younger, too, but not right now. Ink shares an actually incredibly similar dilemma. He is also in his twenties, but he just kind of... spawned in, in his twenties, and also doesn't age. What fun with the two ageless immortals.

I still don't actually know how readily Ink can read scripts. The specifics aren't exactly explained all that thoroughly. Let's just keep saying he can...... and not quote me on that.

I also like to think Ink makes a bunch of references to media in our world. As though he knows the popular memes and /refs that creators make. He starts to catch on to them, starts to reference them himself.

That's about it.

Mixing a bit of canon and headcanons (based off canon) here. It was never really explored how the stone felt other than that his memories of it aren’t the best. But his statue is crying in almost every comic it appears in. This can really only mean one thing, to me at least.

He was not by any means completely unconscious. And why would he be? He’s the apple, not the vessel. Only his body was turned to stone, by one final act to save his life.

And Dream’s age is 502 immediately after breaking free of stone, I just chose 515 for the story because it feels right and gives you a sense of the timeline I imagine. We don’t have a strict one in canon.