A passive Nightmare AU concept I use in RPs with the wife.
Basically:
What if instead of hiding their pains from each other, the twins honestly expressed their feelings and their pains to each other. I felt that might lead to them avoiding the main conflict and thus…killing the AU. But not all at once. Since conflict is the source of a story.
I ended up wondering how an AU dying slowly would be like. I imagined it would be kind of like color fading out of plaster, and it all drying out and crumbling away. Peeling apart like old wallpaper.
So Passive and a single apple are the only things left with color, and everything else has stopped moving and faded, including Dream. There’s nothing to do, and nothing but this one apple he saved before the tree faded completely.
He takes a bite, morbid curiosity that might as well be stated since nothing matters anymore right? And with his desire to be anywhere else, he accidentally sends himself to a new AU as his first action after gaining any power. He’s a bit lost after that. Wandering around, avoiding people mostly (trust issues) but curious about other places.
Calling the idea One Black Apple or OBA for my own convenience. :P
