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* He was raised by a random Asgore for a few years, which is where he got his penchant for the 'King' title! He's still very salty about the whole deal and doesn't talk about it

* Funnily enough, he doesn't remember a lot of the time pre-incident! He just remembers feeling scared and stressed a lot. And also some stuff the villager children used to do to him. Like throw rocks. And make their dogs chase him for hunting dog training

* Completely Unrelated to that, he is very scared of dogs, though he'd rather die than admit it. He prefers not to step inside Snowdin for that reason— while the first view of a canine does freeze him, he soon turns to violence if pushed. He does Not want to kill the guards he may use for farming negativity

* His goal as of now is both to gain the most power inside the multiversal sphere (out of universe businesses, chains of produce, leadership of outcode havens) and to murder Dream, so he can eat his apple and become "whole"/a being of both negativity and positivity, like their mother

* He thinks musicals are a superior art form. As a result, he can be distracted if he thinks he saw one he hasn't watched before

* He doesn't like the "boss" title, even if he can admit that it fits. He would have preferred something less cartoony, like "sir"

* Sadly finds absurdist humour funny

* Like his Dream, he can force people to sleep indefinitely with his magic. Whether or not they have nightmares is up to him

* He thinks Dust is the most likable one of his subjects. Would probably get annoyed if he saw Killer bothering him more than necessary

* Tried to recruit Ink, in the early multiverse, as one of his workers. It did not work well, both because he hasn't practiced his silver tongue that much and because Ink saw him like a particularly annoying fly

* He trained his subjects (excluding Cross) to handle harsher negativity emotions, so they may not crumble to pressure. Neither of them remembers that fondly

* Is fond of marking the things that he owns with a little moon. This includes the gang's souls, the thrones of all the universes he's taken over, and an old storybook he keeps hidden underneath his bed

* Whatever he marks gets "coated" by negativity— this helps him to track the objects per his aura, as well to shield them from Dream's own. This makes the Gang invulnerable to Dream's sleeping magic (which he mostly shapes as arrows) until they're too tired for the mark to make effect

* He has decided that the gang needs a recreative outing per month. As so, he brings them to a random AU they've already colonized so they may satisfy their urges. It very scarcely ends in genocide, however, as they're aware Nightmare will put a stop to it pretty soon. Instead, they take a whole bar hostage and drink. There's also violence

* The only reason Nightmare doesn't stop the violence is because Horror learnt that Nightmare is the type of drunk to get sleepy. Since Horror is a traitor that cannot be trusted, the information was quickly shared and planned around. So, most outings begin with Nightmare receiving alcohol drinks that he cannot refuse in good will (he gets kind of flattered)

* Nightmare Does Not know that the gang does it intentionally

* He Will Not Know

* The reason why Cross doesn't have the negativity-based training (nor the soul mark) is only because Nightmare wanted to use his testimony as a way to blackmail Ink, since Ink did leave Cross in the remains of XTale. If Dream noticed that Cross was negativity-touched, then he would have assumed that the testimony was a lie turned magic-enforced fake memory

* He's kind of territorial with the gang, as he will take very badly to the idea of them working anywhere else. Once, someone tried to buy them off him as short-contract mercenaries and he got so annoyed about it he made the gang kill them

* He does not regret it

* He likes to count rice, if able. Same with sand grains. It is calming

* He has a hate/love relationship with Killer that's always a step from someone being murdered. That being said, he allowed him to have some cats, as he worried about the mansion getting a rat plague eventually because of its size

* He's weirdly good at sweet-talking Mettatons. Everyone decides not to think too deeply about it

* He is probably mirrorgender but he wants to conquer the multiverse so he can't think about it rn

* The reason why he's fond of Ccino is because, after protecting him from attackers (loan sharks, in this multiverse), the first thing Ccino did was to try to force feed a milkshake because he was worried that Nightmare was falling down

* The milkshake was mint and he kind of likes mint

*He employs A ScienceTale Sans for healing that he cannot do. Otherwise, he's the main healer of the gang, as he doesn't like the idea of injuries being hidden

* Killer gave him a #1 Cousin In The World cup once and it legit confused him so much he had to go hide himself in his room to process it