#swad

anyways hi sorry for dying my semester is finally over </3

spring sun ☀️ summer heatwave

commission for @wishbonewhispers !

If you read enough roundups of AI companion apps, they all start to blur together. Candy.ai shows up, a couple of clones show up, and the verdict is usually some lukewarm draw. I wanted to be more precise than that, so I judged sweetdream.ai on the things that actually matter day to day rather than on marketing copy.

Realism is the first axis. SweetDream's chat reads as natural and emotionally aware, and it carries memory across conversations, which is exactly where most rivals quietly drop the ball. You feel the difference within a few exchanges, when your AI girlfriend references something you mentioned last week without being prompted.

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In the original Dreamtale canon, Dream is constantly exuding a positive aura that makes the people around him feel better. This is helpful and like awsome sauce and allat other stuff, but it leads into a lot of emotional issues for him, as he sees his relationships as fake because of it. Very few people are immune to him so literally almost everyone is biased towards liking him,thus it's very hard for him to know who his real friends are. NTM he can't hang around like 90% (most) people for too long because he doesnt want them growing dependent on his aura. But what if he met reader who is completely immune to his aura? Like deadass just a human who just happens to be immune to the aura of the gardian of positivity.

Dream x Immune!Reader i guess?

I actually don't remember if you include his aura in your hcs/oneshots or not (curse my memory that's genuinely worse than Ink's) but i do know you do it for swad I think (...I hope I'm remembering right and it isn't like, the other way around) so if you don't do it for Dream you could do it for swad instead since he's so backup material tbh. Pulling him out of his nest every few months and then gently (aggressively. lethally. violently. roughly. unsafely) put him back in

Ughhh sorry I hope this makes sense I'm like one blink too long from passing out (did that even make sense I don't thinso) if you need me to clarify anything lmk... anyway, goodnap (..heh..heheheh..heheh... get it...okay sorry don't throw tomatoes at me please/

So I personally headcanon that Dream learned to reign in his aura after meeting Swap, because he'd never been taught how before. Because I find it hard to believe the villagers ever taught this kid to make them less happy. However! this is a rally awesome idea and I'm gonna roll with it!

Dream

Finding someone who’s a hundred percent immune to his aura is rare, and he’s actually very excited 

He can let loose around you and not worry!

Might be slightly more inclined to hang out with you than with someone else, but he’s also a bit of an introvert, so don’t count on it being anything exciting

Curious if you’re immune to Nightmare as well, but not going to subject you to his brother

Swad

Thrilled. I’m so sorry.

You’ve become his new playmate, which is a step above a toy at least, but still not very fun for you

This is a potential first step into his obsession circle, so be careful 

Shattered 

Fascinated that you don’t react at all to his butchered aura

No negativity, no positivity, you’re just immune