#cpunz

go. my bullshit.

Dream variants

-Suguru geto (JJK)

-Jinx (Arcane)

-Raiden Shogun (Genshin)

-Kurapika (HxH)

1. Abuser who is/was abused, a leader of others that they manipulate

2. Fallen hero turned morally ambiguous villain with good motives who has lost sight of their goal and uses control to feel secure

3. Extremely powerful and indomitable outwardly, internally an emotional traumatized wreck.

4. Extremely self-destructive, self-isolating, and self-loathing in their pursuit of their goal. After their mind breaks, they either reach a turning point where they choose a dark path or they redeem themselves

Punz variants

-Killua (HxH)

-Akane Kuronoke (Oshi no ko)

Mukuro Ikusaba (Danganronpa)

So some patterns for them

1. Admiring and looking up to their partner, who is a place of trust for them after feeling isolated, lonely, and disconnected from the rest of the world.

2. Becoming a right hand man and an enabler who helps them down their destructive plans.

3. Helping them in a dream that they do not understand while also being an emotional replacement for that dream.

4. Idealization of the person who they attach themself strongly to, making them perform to try to maintain a sense of normality

mostly how dream has been shown to have an issue with food - using it as a bargaining tool with sam, needing to have gapples - being desperate for food because he isn't used to making farms or settling down.

and I think about punz who gently tends to their bees and keeps their green houses full... and I think about how food is such a trust thing. I think about punz feeding dream post prison, and I think about how cooking for each other has to be some kind of love language. it's an act of trust. you won't poison me, you'll consider what I like.

like yeah sure, there's the humor of a grilled cheese sandwich date (who the fuck eats cheese sandwiches on a date?) but the act of mundanity that dream won't allow himself. that other people won't allow him. it's absurd, but the wound persists. he just wants to be a normal human. he just wants to eat sandwiches with someone close to him. but he'd never let himself have thaaaaaat.

so sure. maybe at 3 am, when dream can't sleep, because all he can feel is the sweltering pain of the obsidian walls against his skin, punz makes them both grilled cheese sandwiches.