(Aka Epic deserves love and I was going feral over ideas for future WIPs, so here’s Epic being a homie-romantic xD)

Apologies in advance for meh art

Page 1: Delta, Color, Fresh, Killer, Ink

Killer

Color: Firelight, Firefly, Habibi

Dust: Bunny (derogatory)

Horror: Axe

Cross: Little Soldier

Delta: Bonehead

Epic: Cookie, Buddy

Nightmare: Boss, Master, Your Highness, Your Majesty, My King (depending on Nightmare's mood)

Dream: Glowstick, Great Savior (mocking)

Ink: Squid

Blue: ... (his feelings on the matter are complicated)

Pomme/Lust: Fluff, Pal

Red: Mutt, Friend

Pomme/Lust

Color: Darling, Cheeks (he finds his rainbow blush adorable)

Dust: Bunny (affectionate), Love, Beloved, Cutie, Fluffy Bunny, Darling, Dear (the list continues on endlessly, he really likes giving his boyfriend nicknames)

Horror: Teddy (short for Teddy Bear)

Cross: Handsome

Delta: Puppy, Darling

Epic: Sugar, Darling

Nightmare: Dickhead

Dream: God?

Ink: God??

Blue: Darling, Dear, Handsome, Bestie, Berry, Sweetie

Killer: Kitten (Killer is a big fan of that one), Darling, Bestie, Kitty Cat, Paws

Red: Pupper, Pup, Puppy (he tends to get associated with dogs a lot, he really doesn't mind though), Darling, Bestie, Chomper

Red

Color: Sweetheart

Dust: Sweetheart

Horror: Sweetheart

Cross: Sweetheart

Delta: Sweetheart

Epic: Sweetheart

Nightmare: Ew

Dream: What are you, a cop?

Ink: What are you, a cop?

Blue: Sweetheart

Killer: Sweetheart

Pomme/Lust: Sweetheart

I’ve recently started creating Cyber Pets, and I absolutely adore these little ones! I’ll be gradually sharing more of them here in the future.

They are called Bunnydeer (Lepus cervus). As an individual grows larger, its appearance becomes more deer-like; the smaller the individual, the more rabbit-like it appears.

A dark version, and:

A light version! I’m more preferable to dark mode things but figure having options never hurts xD

Explanation for the design below!

Dust's magic/color is mostly turquoise/cyan, so I made the border and reflected that, and he has red hearts around the bunny to mimic Phantom Papyrus hovering around his neck, but also red because of the Determination (and not an actual scarf since canon Dust doesn't wear Papyrus’s scarf). Pomme's deer has green hearts since his main Trait is kindness, and the green speckles mimic his freckles.

Pomegranates were added in both because of the symbolism of Pomme and Dust paralleling Persephone and Hades, but also because that's his name ^v^

Pawprints for Princess, Pomme’s beloved cat, to fill up the empty space, both an aesthetic choice and how she was all Pomme had for a long while.

This fic will remain as a two-chapter fic, but I just felt like I wasn't satisfied with only that first chapter. I don't mind writing open endings, and it still has one, but this one I'm far more satisfied with. Besides, I just wasn't done expanding on that world and those characters.

Anyway, enough with the rambling.

New word count: 11,108

Summary:

It was hard for him to get a second of peace. Even his brother who had once been the most persistent and negative of the specters haunting him, was slowly growing annoyed at the crowded state of his mind. Whispers followed him everywhere. At night, or what passed for it in that place, shadows danced along the walls, they circled him, eyeing him with predatory intent. The worst of it all, however, were the screams. Whenever he even just thought about dozing off, the voices of all of those who had fallen by his hand created a deafening chorus of agony.

No rest was ever granted to his wicked soul.

(...)

In the drunken haze he was permanently stuck in, the best solution he could come up with for his conundrum was to go down toward the station and hope to find at least a single prostitute who would give him the time of day. The reason for that decision was that it felt less vulnerable to pay someone for a service than to ask for help from someone he knew.

Perhaps it wasn’t the most logical course of action, but he was desperate so he couldn’t care less about efficiency, he just wanted a break.

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or, Desperate for some sleep, Dust seeks help in the most unlikely of places