Weezer looking ass babies

Telly (The Cowardly Knight) is by @its-a-me-mango

Pedro (The Kindly Wish Granter) is by @dietplant1

Lily (Princess Lilaine the 3rd) is by @mini-joy

Sam (Space Cowboy from Space) is by @lizaluvsthis

Ophelia (Queen Ophelia of the Universe) and Charlie (the Little Lion) are both by @starteas and @crypticscarecrow

"My only wish.. for us to have one last happy dream."

Yes, he's finally here!!! The second in the probably thousand yard line of ref sheets and lore of Dreamloop!

Buuuut if were gonna excuse the fact he looks like he gives warm hugs (seriously that cardigans making me all warm and fuzzy idk bout you-) Let's just get to their whole lore because Ho-ho-HOLY SHIT IS IT ALOT!!!

After WOTFI '25, Puzzles, WPNZ and Toomp (yes, in my version Toomp comes with them) end up.. somewhere, maybe another world or the edge of time itself, can't really say because I never figured that out, but however or wherever you put it, they end up getting pretty lost in such a vast, odd place.. however, that is until Puzzles stumbles upon a mysterious star. With nothing to lose, he quickly brings it to the others and he immediately jumps to wishing for a way out, however that went a bit awry as they all had different ideas on what to use it for, WPNZ wanted to wish for somewhere to stay and to have something to eat while Toomp.. well, neither really could guess what he wanted. With a sigh of disappointment, he decides to take the star for himself, until he realized.. why would they want to get out at all? They've done too much harm, and besides.. they've got eachother, and that mattered more than anything. And so, they all compromised and Puzzles decided to wish for a shared dream, one that would finally give them a good nights rest after all they've gone through.

While he does share the dream with WPNZ and Toomp, he prefers to isolate himself from them (you can only guess why), creating his own separate part of it called "Puzzle World" where he eagerly awaits any visitors who come by, always ready to put on a show.

For this reason, Puzzles would pretty much serve as the Loop for the most part (if their outfit didn't scream that already), being the one to cause it and the one to spread it to others, giving the dreamers each a turn to spare himself the suffering once and for all. However, this quickly backfires once WPNZ gets his turn.

Despite all of that, he still cares for them deeply, not just WPNZ and Toomp but also the dreamwalkers (Meggy, Melony, SMG3, Sharb and Peep), and he truly didn't want to put them through the suffering he went through over all the loops, but alas.. what else was he to do to spare himself the constant restarting of an infinitely repeating dream?

And of course 4/Athrú and him are going to have the PARALLELS, primarily with how they left their worlds behind and severed themselves from reality due to circumstances beyond their control. (See 2 Hats for a better understanding)

Aaannd.. yeah I think that's about it, I do have a LOT more to say because I love him just as much as 4 and I could go ON about the layers and complexity these two have, but of course I have to shine the spotlight on the others at some point, wouldn't be fair would it?

And I kinda half-lied about the surprise, it's going to be a separate post because it's a gift to a rather famous Puzzle fan, not naming names but I will say this again..

We heal together. 💜

"I just want my wife and kids to be happy, even when I can't be there.."

THESE TWO!!! OH BOY OH BOY THESE TWOOO!!!! You don't know how long I've wanted to yap about them!!!! HoohoHOOOOOO do I have LORE for them!!!

So let's start with the gun show daddy-o himself, WPNZ!

now as previously established, WPNZ made a wish with Puzzles and Toomp, his was for his family to be happy (because of course the letter wasn't enough.. he gets better tho dw). Now I'm sure your wondering why he's dressed like he came out of a western or something.. well let's just say I got a biiiiiit inspired by Laika (the game, not the studio.. or the dog), but if you want something deeper and cooler; he's meant to sort of look like a bandit, someone who's always on the move, always running and being stealthy.

Despite the looks and constant mystique, he's actually pretty chill and a bit of a wisecrack, always knowing how to make others laugh. And, being quite literally built for battle, he can be a real fighter when the stakes get high.

His relationship with Puzzles is a bit.. err.. rocky.. with the years of looping the same dream over and over it managed to drive him a little mad, as every chance to ask him why he was doing this or what's wrong always ended up dashed the moment it all resets, and it only worsened when their worlds separated. Despite this, he still deeply cares for Puzzles as he had in his waking life, even when he tries to deny it.

His only companion throughout this endless endeavor was Toomp, but even he would go off and do his own things, but that doesn't mean he was not always there to ground and support him.

Speaking of Toomp..

Toomp is.. alot.

In my lore, Toomp came along with Puzzles and WPNZ when they were closing the anomalous rift (an idea courtesy of @starteas ), he jumped in at the last minute and joined them in the endless void. While no one knew what his wish was, one could only imagine the worst..

Toomp mostly serves as the support, not just for WPNZ, but others too, though he's not just the cute and possibly demonic blob he makes himself out to be, as his turn of the loop reveals he's actually quite the philosophical vagabond. Then again it also gave him telepathy powers and reveals his voice and way of thinking is akin to Sora from the KH fandubs (seriously, go watch the dub and TELL ME I'M NOT CRAZY.)

(Gift for @the-lion-guard-88 ! Happy birthday Siffrin Puzzles!!!!)

+ small Dreamloop!4 sketches from days ago

Maybe if Puzzles knew how much people loved and cared for him, if he knew how many he'd hurt just by his own sacrifice, he'd feel guilty about it, even if it was the right thing to do..

Maybe he'd cry too.

[Icon used for floofy hair reference by @midnight1nk ... who I also blame for why I love Four now.]