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영어 조금 알아? 아니면 항상 번역 써? 우리 그냥 한국어로 써줄까??

Hello! Aww, that's so sweet of you. Thank you so much for enjoying my comics! 😚😚

I actually like that little "what if" scenario quite a lot myself. I even drew a few extra scenes for it, but never really found a good chance to post them. I'm happy I finally get to share them.

One of the things I love about the twins is that, despite giving completely opposite first impressions, they actually have a lot of similar features once you look closely. In fact, it's hard to find similarities in either their usual expressions or their personalities.

Visually, it's especially difficult to realize they're twins at first glance. Nightmare is covered in constantly flowing black liquid, making it difficult to even make out his silhouette at times, while Dream has bright white bones that almost seem to glow and always keeps himself neat and tidy.

But if you look closely, you'll notice that their facial features are actually incredibly similar. Because of that, people who have had the chance to closely observe both of their faces usually have no trouble realizing they look exactly alike—even though half of Nightmare's face is covered.

Dream heard it most often from Ink. Back when they had just started spending time together, after nearly every battle with Nightmare, Ink would say something like, "Wow, you two really do have the exact same face!" He must have said it well over ten times. Ink has always been incredibly observant, especially when it comes to distinguishing physical features.

Dream always loved hearing that. No one else ever tells him he looks like his brother anymore, but Ink kept repeating it as if it were the most obvious thing in the world—even if it was only because he'd forgotten he'd already said it before. Honestly, I think that might've been one of the reasons Dream grew attached to Ink so quickly. Even during one of the most painful and confusing periods of his life, those words brought Dream a great deal of comfort.

As for Nightmare, naturally, it's not something he hears very often. His social circle is extremely small to begin with. Besides, bringing up Dream is practically stepping on a landmine for him... There aren't many people who could say something like that to his face and live to tell the tale. Error just happens to be one of those rare exceptions.

Error is blunt, and he isn't the type to throw around empty compliments. He's always angry, and even more so whenever Nightmare is around. Ironically, that's exactly why, when Error casually remarked, "You two really are twins, huh," with no anger or mockery behind it—just simple curiosity—Nightmare couldn't find anything insulting about it. He couldn't even come up with an excuse to get angry. Instead, he just looked completely drained, left almost immediately, and acted as though the whole thing had never happened afterward.

When Dream hears that he looks like his brother, he feels longing, sadness, relief, and happiness all at once. They're complicated emotions, but they're undeniably warm ones. They remind him of old memories, reassure him that he and his brother are still connected somehow, and let him hope that things might still get better.

For Nightmare, it's much more complicated. Those words reopen one of his oldest wounds, yet at the same time they offer a kind of comfort he can never fully reject. Most of the time, his immediate reaction is defensive anger, followed by a sense of emptiness. Once the anger burns itself out, the quiet gloom he's lived with for so long simply settles back in.

Whenever Nightmare experiences emotions that intense, they're almost always related to Dream. Those small emotional outbursts eventually turn into resentment toward him. Poor Dream ends up taking the blame for something that was never his fault.

That's why, even in a small "what if" scenario like this one where the twins have made up, Nightmare still refuses to believe they look alike. It's the complete opposite of Dream, who has become so confident in his brother's love that he treasures the fact that they share the same face even more.

The funny part is that Nightmare genuinely believes Dream is adorable. Dream gets embarrassed whenever his brother says things like that, but at the same time, it makes him incredibly happy, so he only ends up acting even more spoiled around him.

That's why Dream can't help wondering, "If my brother says I'm cute, then why can't he accept it when I say his face is cute? We have the same face." It's difficult for him to understand that Nightmare simply can't accept the very premise that the two of them look alike.

Ironically, though, Nightmare doesn't look exactly like Dream only because they're twins. After his corruption, when he first tried to recreate his own appearance, he could barely remember what his original face had looked like. Standing before the statue of his younger brother, frozen forever with a look of despair, he tried to reconstruct his own face by using Dream's as a reference.

As a result, the face he has now is essentially his own appearance recreated from fading memories, using young Dream's face as the primary reference. In a way, that actually makes him look even more like Dream than Passive Nightmare ever did. After all, the face right in front of him was far more reliable than memories he could barely hold onto.

And yet, he can never accept that they look the same. No matter how carefully Dream lays out every piece of evidence, Nightmare has no logical rebuttal. He just stubbornly repeats, "That's different," over and over like a child throwing a tantrum. It's simply that sensitive of a subject for him.

Well, there I go rambling about them again... Anyway, those were the thoughts going through my head while I was drawing that comic. Since Nightmare doesn't even like looking at mirrors, I figured seeing his own face behaving like Dream would make him deeply uncomfortable. It's become such a familiar discomfort that he probably mistakes it for nothing more than simple disgust.

I've spent a long time thinking about this topic, so it's a lot of fun to talk about—but this has gotten long enough already, so I'll stop here! There are still other things I wanted to reply to.

And thank you so much for being considerate about my native language! I'm not fluent in English, but I'm comfortable enough to read it and try to understand it. I do rely on dictionaries and translators quite a bit because there are still lots of words I don't know. Honestly, internet slang is probably the hardest part 😌

So please feel free to use whichever language is most comfortable for you. Of course, seeing my native language always makes me happy and comfortable, but I also try to write in the language that most people visiting my blog can understand.

And honestly... I've noticed that I've learned quite a few new words from doing this. Reading has gotten faster, too. Even though I still rely heavily on translators, I don't feel like I'm standing still, so I'd like to keep trying. People always say the best way to learn a language is to keep using it 😆

Thank you again for being so thoughtful in so many ways. I'm really happy that you enjoy my work, and thanks to you I got to ramble about these two again, which was a lot of fun. I hope we can keep enjoying these stories together in the future.

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