Cas

"A little help." - Part 5

Dream belongs to jokublog

Killer belongs to rahafwabas

as far as I'm aware, it was never explicitly stated in canon when the villagers arrived and built their town around the tree of feelings, but we would have to assume it was pretty early on in the twins' life. that is, if it wasn't there to begin with. and when the villagers learned of the twins' powers, and Nightmare started getting bullied, Dream started being used by the villagers to do chores and overall be a busy body for a bunch of adults.

then the apple incident, and the subsequent 500-ish years he spent in stone. all of which probably left him with some heavy trauma that isn't really explored.

then, he's forced to fight what he maybe sorta kinda thinks might be his brother until he finds out that it isn't his brother and he has to come to terms with that. ALL WHILE he's an unpaid therapist for basically the entire multiverse as said not-brother is actively hunting him down to try to kill him.

Nightmare is selfish, and he likes to keep what is his. that mindset would only extend to his gang, then, right? because they are his mortals, and his alone, and he would rather die than have anything of his no longer in his possession.

whether you see Cross as one of the bad sanses or not, he's most definitely one of the most mentally and morally sound characters within the aforementioned group. and Nightmare is entirely aware of that fact.

so, he offers a position in his group for Cross, and promises that he won't have to do anything he's uncomfortable with, knowing full well how important promises are for the majority of sans variants. only, as time passes, Nightmare grows more and more comfortable easing Cross into doing tiny 'favors' for him that perhaps tap at Cross' morals. slowly, though, those favors turn to requests, then commands, and they only get worse as Nightmare gently assures him that he will only ask if he will be comfortable.

we've all mostly come to the conclusion that Killer was Nightmare's first mortal, the first one he took in and houses and 'healed'. then comes Dust, who was strong, maybe even stronger than Killer himself. and Killer was scared.

scared that Nightmare would replace him with someone new, and toss him out like garbage, or even kill him just to make sure no revenge plots would boil up. scared that Dust would inevitably become a better aspect to the growing group. scared that he would be left behind to rot away in Dust's shadow.

so, Killer was a big instigator for the first year or two that Dust was there, and they would bicker and fight like no tomorrow.

the rest go to the back and get stoned. except cross who vapes (white chocolate caramel swirl flavour) because weed gives him panic attacks

CW : MENTIONED DRUG USE

like, yes, we've pretty much all come to an agreement that there is some sort of balance between positivity and negativity that they try to uphold, and there are missions and such that they go on in order to do that. my main question is what those missions entail?

personally, I would think there's a few different things that they would do that aren't necessarily common headcannons.

I would think that Nightmare, on occasion, would go out himself personally and 'take out' a person of positive influence if the balance is really messed up. even if the person only has influence over one universe, I would think that it would be enough to tip the balance in his favor just enough to warrant not needing to do anything else.

as for other missions, I don't really have many ideas. like, of course the general raids would provide some negativity for Nightmare while also providing them food and such, but what else could they do to generate some negativity??

"A little help." - Part 4

Dream by Jokublog

Killer by rahafwabas

" A little help." - Part 3

Dream by Jokublog

Killer by Rahafwabas

"A little help" - Part 2

Dream by Jokublog

as far as I'm aware, Passive is well and dead in canon, with no hope to come back as a spirit. but what if he did?

he'd be forced to watch this...thing control and use his body to spread terror around the multiverse and hunt down his brother for sport. he would use his name for his own benefit, and nobody would ever know the person who had that name before. his title would be usurped to mean something entirely different than what it's supposed to, and Corrupted would take so much pleasure in that.