#acidgreenflames

Basically in the original story (finding a safe haven by @therealesino), Dream sensed that Nightmare needed help and tracked him down to a world he’s hiding in intending to have a talk, but Dream didn’t realize it was because Nightmare had a shard of light stuck in his soul after surviving a terrible attack from an unknown enemy causing him to become less emotionally rigid and more vulnerable to feelings. Dream brought Ink along with Blue, but Ink only saw it as an opportunity to eliminate the enemy and attacked Nightmare and the humans he bonded with viciously without a shred of hesitation - and they were only saved because Cross was with Dream at the time and he took a shot for the humans that would have certainly killed them, which Ink had seen as a betrayal.

(in the (headcanon) scenario, I thought about Ink finally catching up to Cross to make good on his implied threats like he did with Nightmare, after Cross had returned to his old comrades and tried hard to get away from his previous life …

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drawing in tahoma2d (opentoonz fork), sound in medly by me