#lcitn asks

Killer hits you right back with a "not as cute as you~" which quickly dissolves into back and forth complements in an attempt to outdo each other.

Horror is pretty surprised the first time. Obviously your taste is a little skewed considering you thought Killer was an ideal datemate... but he's never met anyone that would think he's 'cute' in this state. It does make him all the more fond of you.

Dust curls against you, murmuring "Me too. I mean... you're cute, too." If there is any surface suitable for sleeping, he's going to take you there for a cuddle session and nap.

Cross' face flushes. He'll try to wave it off—he's not, you don't need to say that. But confirmation and a few more words of affirmation and he's practically melted.

Nightmare questions if that is really the right word you would use to describe him. All the while, though, his tentacles have curled into spirals—a telltale sign he's pleased.

Keep up the good work ^^

They are all HUGE hypocrites and would absolutely do this.

Killer gets more leeway when he hurts you because he really isn’t capable of any emotion or rational thought in stage 4. Most of the boys are more annoyed at you for continually approaching stage 4 Killer to calm him.

Don’t misunderstand—Nightmare adores that you can stop Killer’s suffering… he simply wishes you would wait until he was properly restrained before attempting to do so.

Dust, though? He would get in quite a few fights with Killer over it. If he knows he’s going to hit stage 4, then why can’t he get the fuck away from you?

Dust doesn’t mean it though. He knows Killer can’t always tell he’s slipping… and it’s not like he ever shows aggression towards you normally. He just needs a little time to cool down before making up with Killer. The two of them are used to it—they fight often, despite their love for each other.

Dust gets no leeway. Not from the others, and not from your emotional response to it. Unlike with Killer, you have a horrible reaction anytime he has a LV rush near you. It brings back memories of hands around your neck and glass cutting into your back… you just can’t handle it. You’ll leave anytime he gets one, and he understands why…

But if he was to successfully hurt you during one? All hell would break loose.

You can’t look at him for over a week, and it takes effort to build your trust back to be alone around him.

The others keep trying to figure out whether he MEANT to hurt you or not. Nightmare deliberately separates him from you on missions or appears whenever he nearly encounters you alone in the hallway.

Horror tries to have a few gentle conversations about it—what triggered the rush? What was he thinking while it happened? But mostly he just looks disappointed in Dust. Horror knows it’s not entirely his fault… he just hoped this wouldn’t happen again.

Killer and Cross are furious. Killer openly fights with him over it at every opportunity, while Cross stands guard over you when you absolutely must be together—sword in hand, not even hiding who he thinks he’ll have to use it on. He even throws a few extra nasty attacks into their training routine.

It’s not that the others don’t love Dust, or know that he loves you. They do… it just brings bad memories—and doubt—rushing back.

Horror doesn't have much magic, so LV rushes aren't much of a concern. His LV also is leagues lower than Killer or Dust.

What is a concern, however, is his amnesia. There are times when he forgets himself. When he stares at you like you're a stranger. Like you're something to catch.

It always passes within moments, and it disturbs Horror most of all. He quietly excuses himself and disappears for hours whenever it happens. You might want to talk to him about it, but Dust usually volunteers to go help ground him instead.

The only instance where Horror would ever physically hurt you is if you were to accidentally wander into one of the traps he sets in the woods during his episodes. He tries his best to find them all once they pass... but the woods outside the castle are vast, and his traps often so well made he can scarecely see them. There's usually someone with you when you do get caught in one, so they don't cause too much damage.

The others are often pretty understanding... but occasionally, on bad days, they might lash out as he's apologizing that he really should clean the forest up. The worst is when they're just... disappointed in him.

Again, they don't really mean it. Horror's amnesia has improved over time, but it's not something that he can help nor that will ever fully go away. But in the heat of the moment, as your ankles are bleeding and you're teary eyed... sometimes the others can't help but feel tired that this keeps happening.

The odds of Cross hurting you accidentally are quite slim. He doesn't get LV rushes, he doesn't forget... whatever it is truly would be an unusual mistake. Perhaps you swerved suddenly during training and grazed his sword, or he mistook you for something else during a mission and swung at you. More likely it would be something more mundane—a nightmare that has him shoving you off the bed, for example.

Dust would get a bit miffed about it. If even Cross is hurting you, then what does that say about your relationship with the rest of them?

Killer would be the only one to have any sort of big reaction to it. If it was a training accident, he'd likely snap at Cross on a good day. On a particularly bad day, he'd get into a physical fight with him over it to "teach him to be more careful". He would regret it later, when he finds Cross in your room gently changing out your bandages with the guiltiest look on his face....

If Nightmare has managed to hurt you on accident, something is seriously wrong. He has phenominal control over his magic and physical form—what he wishes to protect is held gently in his corruption, and only that which he hopes to purge faces its wrath. To hurt you on accident, he is likely ill or injured... barely aware of what he is lashing out at.

The others would be angry, but they'd also be far too worried about Nightmare to take it out on him beyond brief repremands and demands to stop.

Error would face the rage of the entire group if he so much as thought about violence against you. His frequent claims that one day he will destroy the multiverse, then you, then himself already piss most of the group off (save for Nightmare, who has yet to tell his old friend that his emotions say otherwise).

I adore your writing style!

There is a 99% chance that all the boys would be in the room when any doctor delivered that news, because none of them like the thought of leaving you alone with strangers—particularily once the wider multiverse knows you're Nightmare's spouse.

Nightmare would have to drain the negative emotions away from his boys to prevent a complete four way meltdown. The doctor hardly gets to explain what's wrong before he has you bundled up in his tentacles in the antivoid, shoving you into Error's arms.

All disease of living organisms is rooted in genetics—your own or an invading viruses—and such things are easily perused in your code.

They ask before Error fixes the code responsible. Error knows how you feel about him changing it, but surely this is an exception?

If you agree, it's a day of careful tweaking inside of Nightmare's chambers, while everyone fusses over you, showering you in flowers, your favourite foods, and sweet desserts.

And if you won't agree?

Well, Nightmare will tell you that's alright. That he can find alternate medicine. Anything for his darling wife.

And if one evening Nightmare gives you some "special" tea to help you sleep, and you happen to drink such a thing, only to wake up long into the next afternoon with the pain sapped from your body...

A follow-up on this ask :D

Dust spends the first few days of your imprisonment watching you. He might say a few words... let you know Horror's coming for dinner or murmur that you haven't brushed your hair, but otherwise he's so silent you could forget he was there.

Er... if he wasn't entirely creepy.

He's conflicted. You're Dream's healer—a human directly threatening his family. But Horror seems to think they abused your soultype.

Mostly, though? He can't bring himself to act any of his violent impulses out. You already experienced plenty when they took you. Plus... well... Every time he considers it, the faint memory of your magic flowing through him comes back, and he shortcuts away.

He doesn't trust you with Cross, but unlike in LCITN, he wouldn't object when Horror suggested bringing you to him, and would shortcut you there himself.

Dust starts actually interacting with you after he receives a nasty injury from Blue about a week following your capture and you fix it up for him. He'd been hiding it under his hoodie for several hours before you noticed it during his daily "stare-at-the-human" time. He never asks you to fix it... you just start doing it, and your magic is warm and strange and horribly sad. He can't help but try to experience it again. Every minor injury, and he's down there, letting you fix him up and exchanging quiet conversation about magic. Your facination with it is perplexing, yet strangely endearing.

Still, though, he's not opposed to Nightmare holding you for random, even if it starts to feel uncomfortable the more Horror shares about your naivity. Of course you didn't know who they were, or you never would have bothered helping him. When Nightmare resorts to some drastic measures, Dust ends up confessing how you saved his life, which contributes to his ultimate decision to allow you to roam the castle free as their healer.

While Killer still beats him at getting into a relationship with you, Dust takes far, FAR less time deliberating it. Plus, Horror's pretty quickly in agreement that they should show you some real love and affection.

Killer: Perseverence

His universe... the player... the creators... they all put him through hell. But still he kept pushing forward, until he took back what was his.

And if that perseverence now manifests as teasing the cute little human he found in some random AU until she's his datemate... well isn't that a sweet twist of fate?

Horror: Kindness

He was selfish, when he declared that Snowdin should eat any humans that fall. He did it on a whim—injured, his severed magic making memories hazy and anger unbearable.

But when the opportunity presented itself, years later, to free his people from that hell? He took it.

And now that he has a new family, he would do anything to look out for them.

Dust: Justice

His sense of it may be twisted, aligning far more with Nightmare's "neccessary/normal rights and wrongs of the multiverse"... and he may have a vendetta against the whole human race for the actions of a few... but it is, to him, a kind of justice.

Cross: Integrity

He is perhaps the only member of the group that has an honest sense of honour and morality that extends to all people. Horror may be a close second, but his is more of a list of personal rules than a true sense of right/wrong.

Nightmare: Patience

Nightmare is a man of many goals. He does not mind if they take long to plan and execute. Eventually, all will turn in his favour, and he will seize that which he seeks.

Error: Determination

As thanks for blessing my eyes and cursing my spinterest indulgence, some bonus Reader-Insert w/ The Boys™️ doodles

Ahhh I love your doodles!! The way Killer is just stabbing away... he's not even trying. This WOULD be how Dream and Ink looked if Reader had actually tried introducing them. Your persona is also super snazzy, I adore the glasses!!

If Reader was a cane user:

The scenario in the second doodle would happen way more than it should if you tried training with Killer or Dust. They get FAR too into the battle and completely forget to use their brains. That would earn you way more time with Cross and Nightmare, though, as they wouldn't haphazardly launch blasters around the only non-Sans-based member of the team.

Killer doesn't do too much differently, though he does accidentally drop your cane into the void the first few shortcuts. Not a great start when you're trying to date someone. When he kidnaps you, he wants to bring it. He really does. His hands wrap around it, but it's such an obvious act of consideration... the kind he would never do for anyone else. The kind Nightmare would notice right away. He's insanely relieved when he spots you walking around the castle with Horror and realizes he gave you a new one.

Every single time he incinerates your cane he comes to your room with a bunch of cats to apologize.

Killer has been touch starved ever since his soul was corrupted. Anytime he’s in a room with you or the others, he’s hanging off of someone or curled up in their lap, often absentmindedly nuzzling them. So you craving that from him? It’s a win-win babe. He cradles you close against his side each night and finds all the right words that have you melting in his arms.

His affection gets a little bit… possessive when you really get emotional, though. Where were the Stars, all those years? Why are you as starved for love as the rest of them, when you should have been safe in the Omega Timeline?

They’ll help make you better. And when Killer can’t be there for you, he knows the others will. You’ll never have to be alone again.

Cross lives to be praised. It’s the one type of affection he almost constantly seeks from the others. So when you react emotionally the first time you lay in bed, him clutching you close and whispering sweet nothings in your ears, he’s quick to recognize why you’re so emotional.

He doubles down on the praise and affection until nothing but joy is left on your face.

Dust immediately goes quiet and retreats from the situation, because his first assumption is that you're getting emotional because it's him touching you. You don't exactly have a great history... maybe he was pushing things too fast.

It isn't until the third time it happens that Dust notices you're burrowing closer to him and twining your hand in his. You... like that he's holding you this close. Then why are you so upset? Is it because of how they treated you when you first arrived? Because the Stars left you alone for so long? Or have they neglected you?

For days afterwards, the others find Dust randomly laying in your lap, refusing to go on missions or do much of anything besides be with you. Nightmare decides to allow this behaviour, as it seems to have improved your mood.

Horror clutches your shoulders and shoves you back the first time, searching your teary eyes. It’s fine that you like what he’s saying to you. That you like to be held while he makes dinner or waters the plants in the garden. But fuck… it’s just not normal for you to cry over it. Not if you had been surrounded by love as you should have. It’s sick, really, to deny a soul whose very essence is love what you need to feel whole.

Then he pulls you back, bundling you in his arms until you feel like pulling away. You’re okay now. They’re not going to hurt you anymore. No one is.

Horror discuses the incident with Dust afterwards, and the two of them lay on the sweet talk and physical affection extra thick during your next date.

Error isn't comfortable with a ton of physical affection. But if it really means THAT much to you, he supposes you can keep holding hands.

The way you flush and get all sappy at the slightest pet name from him was a bit annoying at first... but it quickly brings Error a deep sort of satisfaction. You really must be attached to him. As you should be. He's a far superior option to your harem of anomalies (plus Nightmare).

And if he says something sweet more than usual, or rests his head on your shoulder when you arrange afternoon tea for he and Nightmare.... it's only to prove he's the best of your lovers. Definitely not because he feels something deeper for your anomaly of a soul, or that the way you sigh contentedly and close your eyes at his touch makes his own soul flutter.

Nightmare is confused at first by your emotions. Time and time again, you’ll curl up with one of your lovers, or stop while they whisper sweet nothings in your ear during a supply trip, and Nightmare will sense a mix quite unlike anything he’s sensed before. Elation, affection, desire…. And abandonment, loneliness… a touch of obsession. You seem to crave them in a way beyond the love of your soul type.

When you become his lover and such an emotion rises from you, Nightmare weaves his tentacles around your limbs and holds you close, brushing your hair through his fingers. There’s no need to feel such loneliness with him. He is nothing like those monsters that abandoned you time and time again… He’ll always be there to provide the affection you seek.

like a really high pitched melody echoing down the hallway when they enter lmao

Dust considers how much Nightmare would punish him for cutting out your vocal cords.

Killer would find it really upsetting, but would have to repress that emotion in front of the others. When you were alone he’d give you extra nuzzles to try to cheer you up.

Cross gets really worried. You’ve been completely alone for a long period of time, other than them terrorizing you. It’s not good for a human mind. He tries to bring puzzles and books hidden under his jacket to help. He would have to bring them back upstairs so no one notices… but he’ll stay for a good hour or two to give you something to do.

Horror often stops to listen and gauge your mood. If it seems like it’s genuinely chilling you out, he might hum along to the tune.