neikare

i imagine he has these scars on his shoulder because his father once squeezed his shoulder with his gauntleted hand in a fit of anger during one of their arguments

idea 2 (this will be long and most likely confusing): when i think about how to depict his chat, i always come up with very abstract, more symbolic images (like this one). the reason for this is that i honestly always imagined that his chat is essentially more like eyes (and i know that eyes fixed as image of techno's voices, but voices speak, while dream's chat is just watching). our eyes. the eyes of viewers, looking for his appearances in other people's streams. it seems to me that thanks to his chat, dream knows what's going on on the server (since we are watching it). my first attempt at depicting it was an eyeball in the mouth (observing and transmitting information), which is somewhat preserved, but now it's more just something between the eyelashes and the teeth. idk if it makes sense but yeah

as for tommy's wings, i allowed myself to be a little petty, i admit. i once came across a post that said something like "we shouldn't be designing tommy-demon, but tommy-angel, who everyone thinks is a demon" or something like that. and i honestly get pretty annoyed by the "he's just a poor baby, he can't do anything wrong" attitude. so. a demon in angel feathers that is. (also a slight implication that he himself didn't know he wasn't an angel as a metaphor for the attitude towards him as "he's the victim here, he's the offended party" when he's not hehe)