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Dreamswap!Nightmare by Onebizzarekai Art by me [@lizzyflowers]

The first art i'm posting on the new years! Not my best work but i honestly just did what i felt like doing without much thought...

I'd say i've improved but with how much my art style changes it's hard to tell haha.. I tried figuring out how lighting, shadows and perspectives work but it's hard when you don't really look up tutorials for it (i'm a bit lazy and keep forgetting to watch tutorials, whoops-)

I also wanted to try using a different brush this time, this specific type of brush seemed to gravitate towards me for some reason, perhaps because of the flat edge and thick, clean lines...

Anyway, I'm going to add three more sentences to my current writing project now, wish me luckk

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

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I AM BACK FROM FINALS!!!!

Fellas, is it wrong to consider DS! Dream to be similar to Batman? Just a very, very, VERY murderous and unforgiving to criminals version of Batman who acts like an emotional constipated boy scout?

Not outwardly though. I'm pretty sure DS! Dream seems to be an emotionally available (specifically not emotionally vulnerable) kind of person to most. But it's canon that DS! Dream keeps people at a distance. And like, DS! Dream has a reputation to uphold and he is not about to be seen fumbling after his many, many efforts despite his anxiety. But man is in denial to the.. bad parts, of his extreme ideology that I'm pretty he has all those "negative/doubts" at the back burner of his mind and isn't about to confront what killing DS! Mare will end up like for him. What killing all criminals—instead of rehabilitating the few—would mean. Pretty sure that'll lead to a very meltdown, existential crisis, shutting down or possibly frantic acts of extreme redemptions. DS! Dream is a responsible kind of guy, so he'll definitely try to upheave the system (that he made) first to fix it first. Do a "leave no stones unturned" kind of thing.

But my point is that DS! Dream is like Batman who has Bruce Wayne's reputation (not being a playboy but a philanthropist) and Justice Reigns is like Wayne Enterprise.

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I don’t know how many boys follow me, but I gotta bet there’s some. I just wanna tell y’all to be careful.

Abusive girls exist and what they’re doing is seen as like “badass tough don’t take no shit” but your girl should not hit you. Ever.

She should not demand for you to hand over your phone to look through.

She should not yell at you and humiliate you either alone or in front of people.

She shouldn’t make you distance yourself from your friends or family.

She shouldn’t scratch you or twist your arms.

She should not call you names.

She shouldn’t tell you ‘she’ll kill herself if you break up’

These are just a few examples of abuse and it’s just seen as okay when girls do it and god knows I’ve fallen victim to it a few times, but you shouldn’t have to.

Never worry about not being in a relationship. If they’re worth it, they won’t hurt you.

No one has the right to hurt you.

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*emerges from lab, with messy hair, eyebags, and carrying a conspiracy board*

We've been thinking about Frisk's personality the wrong way! They're not either merciful or murderous, or flirty or childish. They're all of them at once. Their personality is one of possibly. They aren't one individual option, but choice itself.

They represent something we don't consider a part of their personality as a human, and that's something that makes them *so* human. Because humans aren't a set of choices, but all of those choices combined, and the drive and possibly to make any of them at any given moment.

They're not a blank slate or something you project yourself onto. They're their own character, you just help them choose.

The choices are always there, Frisk always has them. The choices are not ours, they're theirs.

The Frisk who flirts with every monster, being silly and becoming friends with them? That's Frisk.

The Frisk that's pissed off at everyone but still wants to be friends? That's Frisk.

The goody two shoes who's as nice as possible? That's Frisk.

The Frisk that does what is necessary to achieve the best ending? Frisk.

And the Frisk who kills off everyone, just to see what happens? Still Frisk.

They only allow the player to choose between a very specific set of actions. Fight, Act, Item, Mercy. And the ACTS change from monster to monster, only a few they seem really fond of staying the same.

As expected from a kid, they seem to be driven by curiosity. They want to know as much as possible about a given Monster. Conversations- there's quite the extensive set of options when calling someone. You don't have to give them any input for what to say if they choose to call anyone. Simply calling is enough.

It's implied they made quite a dirty joke if they're told to flirt with Toriel after calling her mom. Because believe it or not, kids sometimes know about weird topics without engaging in them.

Even their expression could be used as evidence: -_- is now they look- their eyes closed, they're allowing you to guide them.

Despite how people portray them, they're not a silent protagonist, they're not speechless. They're actually quite talkative.

It's like they recognize that you want to play the game, and that you can only do that by giving them choices. And they allow you to give them choices. But only those specific ones.

It's like they're saying "you can play, but you gotta play by my rules"

Not to mention the circumstances that have to happen for you to know their name.

Because despite all these options, the kid does have a preference. They want to be friends with everyone. Or at least, they want everyone to be as happy as they can make them. That's why, only once you manage to help them free everyone, you get to learn that they're called Frisk.

"You're not really [Player Name], are you?"

That? That's Asriel, not just acknowledging that Frisk is not his childhood friend and kindered spirit. The one he misconstrued in order to relate to them, who wasn't perfect, but still trying their best. He knows Frisk not them.

No, he's acknowledging that, despite everything, despite the choices made in their regard, Frisk is happy. Someone chose for them, but they did it by their rules. Everyone is happy, just like they wanted. And Frisk did not change as a person.

You do not learn Frisk's name if you do not appease them.

Instead, they disown your choices, and you by refusing to let you know who they are, if you don't make them happy.

If you do the opposite of what they want you to do, you only get what you've been doing reflected back at you.

By someone bearing your name but not your face.

And they? [Your name]? Chara? ? They will remind you, even if Frisk is gone, that you were the one to drive them away.

"You didn't follow the rules, you betrayed the trust I gave you. You proved yourself unworthy of control. I won't even allow you the illusion of playing through me anymore."

You thought you could do what you want with them, but now, they're rejecting you.

Despite how little control they seem to have, Frisk is the one pulling the strings.

This is their game.

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It's really fucked up when you treat characters like people and people like characters.

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I just need to get this out of my chest—

DS MARE IS THE TYPE OF BITCH WHO SMILES, LAUGHS AND CRY AS HE FUCKING DIES!!!!!!

That is all.

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The hands looks weird... Idk

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actually genuinely curious about this because anecdotally I think I've seen a shift, maybe even in my own reading patterns

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Obsessed with the idea of Dust having a LIFE before what happened to his au. That he was a classic. He was a handplates au, that he had multiversal friends, he knew people, and one day, he just.. vanished. His au code changed, no one could find him ,and it was assumed his au was wiped out by Error or something. And Dust, when he rejoined the multiverse, not that he WANTED to, of course, couldn't bring himself to find his old friends, to tell them what happened ,because he's one: not that person, that SANS any ire, and two, in his mind that Dan's is DEAD. he's a monster and not a monster, not a person worthy of love anymore. It's better to let them believe him dead over telling them what actually happened.

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I'm passing out today, i can5!:$:$!.

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Hello, is me again. Back at it again at the dead Nightmares agenda. Man. I just really want them to break. Especially DS! Nightmare. Seriously. I've been wanting to ask but like, why does he still try pranking Dream and the Justice Reigns? Like, it's probably less than what people think. Once a month kind of thing.

But i just wanna know why he does that. Like I know DS! Mare disapproves of Von Licht's action on how he deals with criminals—like straight up killing them for their crimes and arresting some of them and shit(horrible simplification on my part). So it's probably like, a form of his protests. And maybe to keep tabs on Von Licht too? DS! Mare is a kind guy, not outwardly, probably prickly or too friendly of a person with an agenda type.

(Which is why I consider DS! Mare to be more psychopathic rather than sociopathic. But he can also gain sociopathic traits in his century long ran from Von Licht. Von Licht seems to be the unrelenting type, and his employees and subordinates seems to be overzealous at times when they're mentioned—although it's more often when talking about DS! Ink. Probably because most of them are former people that have been rescued and recruited into Justice Reigns. They have this rose-tinted glasses most likely, extreme justice too for the struggles they went through. Like, they be projecting their trauma and shit.)

Anyways, I digress. DS! Mare is just a really weird guy for me. Too sentimental when he seems to be a logical kind of guy. When his books (death note, fanfiction edition) were found out by Von Licht—wait, is this canon or that one comic I read? Not sure but I know DS! Mare hides his books under his new base beds. Probably came back to fetch them.

(Although its really weird on why the fuck did DS! Mare returned for those book when its been mentioned that the reason he can't even return to his original au is because Von Licht has their base, JR HQ there. So, not only plentiful of positivity magic which can.. hurt DS! Mare(?) but also very hard to return to.)

I wonder if DS! Mare is clinging to the past. But thats so obvious? And oddly optimistic of the guy. Or maybe he's always been an optimist, he just has brainrot or dark humor?

Von Licht also seems so odd in my eyes. But he's more understandable, and he's just a misguided kinda guy with a too extreme view of justice, that it makes him look to naive, idealistic and an asshole. He wants the world to be a better place, and thus, he tries to make a better place and he's succeeded in most parts—horrible with what they're doing with the criminals and other such. But other than that, kinda hard to hate the guy. Just pitiful.

But DS! Mare is just weird for me because he's a conflict of interest, a juxtaposition of desires. He does what he want in a careless manner but he also calculates his actions—I refuse to believe that guy who's been pranking Justice Reigns for so long and has been managing to escape the jail cell plenty of times in the years that has gone by—that he definitely knows patrol time and shit. (When Cross first appeared to confront Ink, and stumbled up DS! Mare instead.)

He's a guarded guy with a friendly smile. He laughs a lot but he probably doesn't tell a singular significant thing about him. He's expressive and theatrical dramatic, and yet other than the expected chaos and dumbassery that would happen—do you know what's happening in his mind? Because other than causing the max amount of shenanigans from happening, DS! Mare's targets are often Justice Reigns and its members—from like fleeing and shit. In fact, Von Licht is his number one target.

It makes you wonder, other than the reaction DS! Mare is trying to get from his victims, why does he do it? For fun? But he'll get possibly caught. He can just escape? But why would he tempt fate that often when he knows what Von Licht wants to do? Isn't he scared? Doesn't he have nightmares about it often? Why is he pushing through his fears with such a smile?

I don't know. I don't know. He's such an interesting guy. But he's not very popular compared to Von Licht. Often, he gets devolved as the meme squad leader, the one who doesn't take anything seriously the numero uno memer. Even DS! Cross and DS! Error are more mentioned than him. Not that I'm complaining. But they always seem more fleshed out in fanfics than DS! Cross and DS! Error. And sometimes, they focus too much on the angst and the unrequited love DS! Mare have for Von Licht.

Which is why, I want that reckless, persevering gremlin shit head to one day give up. Just, hide away from the world. And then I want the world to go through a normal day. And then for it suddenly catch up. How is Dreamswap when their number one shit stirrer just.. disappears? Like Gaster-type disappears? (Although for some odd reason, I feel like DS! Blue will be the only guy who notice and will be the number one shit stirrer in DS! Mare's place. Or maybe he'll just let it be since DS! Error is more.. accessible now? Easier to go around DS! Cross even with his power. DS! Cross is more emotional after all. And a crashed out DS! Error is easy to kidnapped. Hm. Maybe. DS! Blue does find it hard to understand DS! Mare.)

For me, I figured it go horrible. If DS! Mare helps out DS! Core enough to bring people and stuff into that version of Omega Timeline that DS! Core actually gave DS! Mare a place to stay in peace.. and how he helped DS! Error and DS! Cross.. I wonder if there are more hidden actions of DS! Mare? If so, what will happen when that never happened in their minds? How will it go? Will Von Licht be restless for a reason he doesn't know why?

I don't know. But DS! Mare is very interesting in my eyes.

Thank for reading my DS! Nightmare rant that it turned out to be. Very not on purpose.

(Guess who's my fave character in DS.)