Pasithea is a calm soul, and she rarely ever reacts to anything without a distant smile. Her sisters always struggled to get her to be more energetic, but they love her for her mellow personality. The only person who can get her out of her dazed state is Hypnos, who makes her laugh with his humor.

Morpheus was a quiet child growing up, always sleeping and holding onto Hypnos’ old plushie Dizzy. As of now, they try their best to portray their father’s upbeat attitude but struggles under the weight of being the God of Dreams. With their father missing, they are the one in charge of leading the Oneiroi (dreams) and fixing the dreamscape.

Phobeter/Icelos was an interesting creature as they grew, but their maturity stayed the same. They always have the poppy necklace on in order to differentiate them from other beasts they take the form of. They are always seen with a smirk on their mouth and their laugh is the only human words they can form.

Phantasus takes after their mother in which they are happy to take a backseat on most situations. When their help is needed they are happy to assist, but would otherwise prefer to stay in one place as they take the form of any object that holds their interest. They worry for Morpheus and would try their best to make Icelos behave.

I feel like Hypnos is an amazing dad, Hades Game, Percy Jackson, whatever

Also that the Oneroi are his sons just makes sense

In that sense...

IT MUST REALLY SUCK FOR THE HYPNOS CABIN WHEN SOMEONE DIES

LIKE, SURE, MOST GODS ARE RELATED, BUT HYPNOS CABINS UNCLE IS LITERALLY DEATH

Hypnos be like to his twin, Pwease don't kill my baby I know it's you job but I love em 🥺,

Like he has so many immortal children it's so hard for him to imagine his kids dieing, like he'd put them in a coma to save em or something

I feel like if they do die, or close to death, he may turn them into Oneroi, is that possible??, so he can always be with them

Man can go visit his kids in their DREAMS, Zeus got nothing on him, buddy would be visiting his kids probably to spite him, we all know that one myth

Last note, I feel like Phobetor, God of Nightmares and son of Hypnos, wouldn't give his siblings nightmares, and only them, gives everyone else nightmares too

Hypnos' kids in the Supergiant Hades style (Phantasos needs a redraw but I didn't want to exclude him)

Hey Supergiant hire me, I have a GREAT idea for HadesIII, what if... instead of Hades, it was Hypnos. And we use Epiales as the blank slate for the main character.

Hello guys ◇

Today, I'm sharing with you a drawing that I have drawn as wallpaper of...

Phobetor (Icelos), the God of Nightmares!

I'm not sure, but in Greek mythology we have Morpheus and Hypnos, right?

I don't remember anything about Hypnos in The Sandman comics. Is Hypnos another one of Morpheus' names? Do you have any posts about this? Tell me your thoughts!!

Hey friend!

It’s complicated, and it’s the old chestnut about the Greeks and the Romans throwing their Gods at each other (or not), and sometimes making them interchangeable 🤣

Morpheus and Hypnos are distinctly different. The only time we ever really hear about Morpheus is in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. And Ovid was Roman, although the name Morpheus has Greek roots (that’s why we also call him the Shaper, because it’s essentially what it means).

And Ovid makes Morpheus one of the many sons of Somnus (only three of which we get to know by name), who is the Roman God of sleep, although parts of the Metamorphoses deal with events of Greek mythology (it’s all a wild stramash). Morpheus has a special place though: He is the only God who appears in dreams in human form, unlike his brothers (as an example, Phobetor gives you nightmares and usually takes the shape of some frightening animal or snake). Hence, Morpheus usually plays a big part in oracle-like dreams only reserved for special people like emperors.

But scholars now tend to lean towards that Ovid made Morpheus up, although it might have been based on older Greek tales/myths.

The Greek God of Sleep is Hypnos (as the equivalent of the Roman Somnus, and in Greco-Roman mythology, they’re often used interchangeably). And quite strictly speaking, everything we hear about Morpheus in The Sandman is very based in Hypnos’ myth:

The poppies, the closeness to the muses (he was married to one of the Graces), the associations with Lethe and Styx, his parentage and siblings (Nyx/Night is his mother, Thanatos/Death is his twin brother).

So really, Dream is all of them rolled into one, and all Gods are born and die in his realm anyway. I don’t know why Gaiman chose Morpheus as the name we most associate with him. My guess is because we see him in his anthropomorphic form, which is very close to Ovid’s take—he was the only of the Somnia (or Oneiroi in Greek—that’s why Calliope never calls him Morpheus in the comics, but Oneiros) who could take on human form. Also, as we all know: He collects names for certain reasons 🥺

Does that help at all?

Dionysus: *slightly cringing but mostly smiling* Well, yeah!