welcome to FatalDreams. an au i have had for a few years but don't have much content posted (but lots of lore in my head lol). in this au, Dream and Nightmare are vessels for creatures known as Darkness and Bright. or rather, Lucian and Solstice respectively. these two beings are immortal gods of Negativity and Positivity, pure embodiment of the two spectrum of emotions. Dream is the host of Solstice, the true ring leader of Justice Reigns, the founder of the organization and the true being who wants Nightmare dead - the vessel of Lucian, her eternal mortal enemy.
for many years Dream has had Solstice (the day he ate the golden apples, of which held pieces of her soul). due to being of weaker will than the Goddess of Positivity he has been shoved to the back of his own mind, trapped and unable to do anything as the goddess pretends to be him and is constantly chasing Nightmare to kill him.
everyone just thinks he changed, matured, after eating the apples. it couldn't be further from the truth.
as a mark for her future plans of a "bright future", Solstice has been marking those who work in the JR with a golden/goopy eye-socket; a mark of death.
introducing the "meme squad"...or rather, broken shambles of the fugitive friend group. after Nightmare was kidnapped and used in a binding ritual by a group of fanatic cultists worshiping Lucian the God of Darkness, Nightmare has lost all his ability to feel any good emotions. he is incapable of feeling compassion or empathy and this has caused a rift between him and his friends. however, Cross and Error stayed loyal - after all, they owed him one. he saved them so the least they could do was stick around...right?
unlike Solstice, Lucian doesn't care about multiverse domination, he'd rather just kill her and go back to sleep. out of the two gods, Lucian is surprisingly the compassionate one despite being darkness and evil incarnate in bodily form.
Solstice, Goddess of Positivity, Queen of Light and "Goodness". a malevolent being who cares only about herself and wants everyone to adore her. she will use any means necessary to achieve total domination to clench everything within an iron fist. if the multiverse burns then she will remake it all under her own ideals and image.
within the body of Dream, she forces torment upon the once-guardian, chipping away at him little by little so she would be all-powerful.
having woken fully from her slumber due to the summoning of Lucian via the binding ritual, she makes haste on her reformation plans.
Solstice's army of Molten have risen, her time has come to burn the old world.
Ink has become her acolyte, her "mouthpiece" as she can't truly speak words and no other beings can withstand her long enough to be telepathically talked to like Dream and Ink. after making Blue and Ink into her first Molten, generals of her growing Molten Army, she has renamed them to Nergal (Ink) and Shiva (Blue).
they are dead. being puppeteer-ed by her powers like dancing corpses, fueled by her desires and malice.
learning of Solstice's Molten, Lucian decides enough is enough of being in the dark; it was time to put his own plans into fruition - at the cost of his vessels' once dear friends. Cross, now Perses, has become his own general, embodying his will and being his own mouthpiece. because just like the goddess, Lucian can't actually speak, much less communicate to anyone else telepathically like he could with Nightmare and Cross.
Lucian's army of Dwellers are crystalline dragonic-like beings, twisted and reformed corpses to fit his powers of darkness. yet they are...strangely beautiful in a haunting way.