#Dream was a wily and mischievous bean before the villagers gave him anxiety.

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In the Unicorn AU, how does Ink know about claiming mortals; and by proxy, does Error know? Did either of them used to have unicorns for their respective roles, or maybe they learned from elsewhere? What about Nightmare? How did he Unicorn the gang? Did he learn from Dream and Blue's example, was he told, or was he just as clueless when he turned the gang? Dream (and possibly Nightmare) not knowing- does it have to do with their past? Were they not born Alicorns, and as such not have (possibly?) innate knowledge? Were the others not born as Alicorns? If so, is there some sort of. . . requirement when it comes to transforming into an Alicorn? (Although, in a multiverse where AUs are plentiful... wouldn't there be more Alicorns? Assuming the multiverse is vast that is...) Reaper and Life as well! Do they have any claimed Unicorns? Is Reapertale!Papyrus an Alicorn too; does Reaper!Paps even exist, or the rest of the Reapertale Pantheon? What is their relationship with the other Alicorns? What do they know- or even don't know? (Apologies if that's too much for one ask!)

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INk, Error, Reaper, and Life all gained their titles of guardians from the previous guardians. The balances existed long before them they are just the newest of the guardians. Each of the previous guardians would carefully choose and claim them as one of their unicorns, instruct them, and eventually give them the final powers that where needed to become an alicorn guardian. Though the Instruction proved very different for each of them. Error's mentor could be rather harsh and tended to let Error learn more from mistakes than anything else like actually teaching him. she was a bit of a prick tbh. Ink's Was nearly just as chaotic as him if not far more experienced. Lessons would often be derailed to put it simply. Reaper's and Life's Instructors where twins(not dream and nightmare) and older than Ink's and Error's mentors. They where also better teachers. probably the reason why the life/death balance is the best kept one. The old Life and death guardians had a few other unicorns they watched over that still hang out around Reaper and life. Nightmare IS unaware of what Claiming a mortal truly does as he was never taught and never had a close enough relationship with another Alicorn for them too tell him. Dream was also never taught but Ink assumed He already knew because He thought Dream was taught like he was. Blue turning unicorn was no surprise for Ink. Nightmare was defiantly confused as too why Blue had changed, he thought maybe it was something Dream had done on Purpose. So he didn't really expect it when The gang Got Unicorned. Nightmare and Dream are a little different than the other guardians. For one they are born unicorns. They where born before Nim got tree'd. Nim was actually one of the less job focused of the guardians, mainly because her balance was supposed to naturally fluctuate based on circumstance and was not needed to be kept as rigid. Because of the more free time given she was able to create Dream and Nightmare, or their names being Nightingale and Foxeye at the time. Their name changes are something that happened due to them not fully remembering their names when the villagers showed up. Nim dream and Nightmare where attacked by someone seeking to take Nim's horn. Some believed doing so would grant them immortality. a false myth. Nim had too Sacrifice herself to Save Nightingale and Foxeye (Nightmare and Dream) Making the tree. Dream and Nightmare would have a hard time remembering the time before the Tree of feelings. and so would have a hard time remembering their names. The Villagers started calling Nightingale Nightmare since he could only remember the Night part of his name. Foxeye somewhat bullied out of his real name being pressured to take on the name Dream as the Villagers where incredibly Superstitious about foxs. Dream only remembered the Fox part of his name. as for there being other Unicorns and Alicorns out there, their are probably a few Unicorns though they aren't very common nor do they show much of themselves. There are a few au's that probably have something similar but the magic is different. It isn't the same as the Ancient magic. The magic used by creatures not bound by au's. (Like the ancient dragons in my Au where Nightmare got adopted By a dragon Named Vira)

Reaper has one claimed unicorn Being Geno, and Life doesn't have any. But as said before There are several Unicorns that ha been claimed by the previous guardians that still hang around. Reapertale Paps isn't a unicorn as he wasn't selected for the role which isn't something he is mad about and he still talks with his brother. Reapertale papyyrus is currently just the death god for his world and finds that already has plenty of responsibility especially since reaper is now a guardian. The rest of the Pantheon's opinions on The Alicorns and Unicorns varies. (I am not an expert on reapertale and is you all want too tell me more it would be appreciated) Some are wary as the Unicorns and Alicorns have a tendency to be a little strange, that and most unicorns used to be mortal and now they are not exactly mortal.