#Dreamtale triplets somnus

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Be nice to him, he has every disease ever probably (Somnus)

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I love the way you think very much :)

skitters in here like a feral little beast

so first of all it’s a good time to mention i have a content sideblog @aroacearrowace for my fics n art bc i have like 6k posts on this blog and none of them are coherent. that blog is the one u will see coherency on. this one is chaos and horrors and a tag system that only i can navigate. as u can see, i’m posting on this one. so we’re going to be crazy tonight

usually i’m like not active on tumblr at all bc discord is My True Home. so usually u will just see me going feral on discord BUT i am currently thinking abt @andizoidart​‘s boy and idk their discord/if they have one/what kind of servers they’re in so now i’m just going to b going feral on here for the next however long it takes to fic idea.

normally i am only this unhinged on private discord servers with 10 people including me inside. u are all about to witness the horrors sooo badly get exposed to my mental illness get consumed by my chaos

normally i would put long posts behind a read more but when u read more u can only find the posts on the Account It Was Posted On and unless u archive.org it u literally cannot find it if ur blog is deleted for whatever reason. also i get really annoyed when ppl put things behind a read more bc i wanna see the content i don’t wanna GO TO A SEPARATE PAGE. also this is my blog i do what i want. so anyway no read more bc again, i’m feral!

anyway i spent so long just explaining my incoherency so now u will witness the me

first of all: ghost apples! they’re really cool. i want to squish one in my hands like soap. watch it break like glass. very stimmie very gender very ogh. my immediate keyword associations: ice, glass, ghost. i could EASILY make an oc sans that’s all of those things and then shove them in to kiss dream and nightmare on the mouth but that’s the easy route. what i want to do is use ghost apples as a theme to an overarching story full of slowburn and suffering.

(prepare for technical writing terms that were literally made up by me and never elaborated on)

i usually write in a very metaphorical, emotional way. when you read each line of my work, i want it to make you feel an emotion and carry you to the next paragraph, which makes you feel a different emotion, guiding you on a journey of my very own design. metaphors. i like metaphors

now the keywords i chose were “ice,” “glass,” and “ghost.” i have two options here: make each segment of the story pertain to a different keyword, or make each character pertain to a different keyword. i like metaphors! so i’m doing the latter.

easily, i come up with:

nightmare - cold like ice, frozen to the touch. standoffish. you know elsa from frozen? like in that one scene the do u wanna build a snowman scene? yeah yeah that.

dream - glass. instantly, glass, bc of the statue thing. fragile, delicate, easy to break. i really really like a dream who can kick ur butt for no reason whatsoever so i have elected to put my own twist on this: dream is treated like glass, but he’s made of stone. (see what i did there?)

with that, nightmare feels like ice, but is treated like fire. dream is treated like glass, but feels like stone.

then, somnus.

definitely. would b very fun. if somnus felt and was treated the same, as a foil to dream and nightmare.

somnus’s keyword was ghost. i’m realllyyyy torn on what to do with this one bc there’s so many options.

i could literally kill him off, and then make him a ghost, but that’s like, obvious. there’s not a metaphor in that. also what’s the point of writing a fic about a character if u kill them off in the first five seconds.

according to andi’s post, he has dysfunctional magic. instantly makes me think of a disabled metaphor, i like it. he searches for artificial magic, and he’s a little worm guy. goes digging in the dirt and pulls out a fistful of worms. brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

it might be a lot of fun to change the dreamtale story around a lot. i want nightmare to get corrupted, that’s definitely staying. maybe i want to give them wings, for funsies. not for any particular reason, just funsies. buuuut idk if i want dream to get stoned in a physical sense.

my metaphor was that nightmare feels like ice, is treated like fire. dream is treated like glass, is made of stone… so i think what if i made that metaphor really really apparent with the apple incident part of the story

i really like the idea that in like, any dreamtale au, both dream and nightmare get abused. nightmare is physically abused, yeah, but dream is emotionally abused. with somnus, it might be fun to include neglect as a third form of abuse, just so we get all of the abuse. i never said i was going to be nice to these characters

i think that, with somnus left in the dust, and dream being treated as though he’s made of glass, and nightmare being treated like a threat, dream would be the first to act. dream eats the apple, first.

i’m guessing the sort of idea behind somnus is that he’s the wood? dream is the gold apples, nightmare the black, somnus is the wood. so i’m not doing a shattered dream scenario bc i wanna stick with each of those themes. idk what the positive apples would do to you if you ate one, bc like in canon they just make you really lucky?? i guess???? but in this i want something DRAMATIC to happen. since this is just a fic outline i’m metaphorically inserting brackets that say [something dramatic happens that get all three triplets fighting against the villagers]

nightmare gets corrupted like ice, dream like stone, and somnus..? hm. i mean i have to figure out what somnus does to the tree bc i don’t think it’s good to just up and eat tree bark from some random apple tree. i don’t think that’s healthy. there was a mention of a palismen in the post i think unless i read it wrong so i think,,,,, mb the tree starts falling apart bc the other two are eating the apples so then the tree just goes YOINK ur getting stolen into the tree now.

and since somnus’s prompt is ghost i think. i think. i think it would b very fun if the fic was about dream and nightmare trying to find their brother.

welcome to my brain everyone xD

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Somnus if he was in Daybreakverse (not canon to Daybreakverse, just a thought I had).

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They would not be friends, your honor-

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And last but not least, 8/8, being a free space. I chose the Dreamtale Triplets for this one, seeing as I haven’t shown how the three have aged.

Following two centuries of trying to fill in for Dream, Somnus seemingly fell off the face of the earth. Even once Dream came out of stone after 500 years, Somnus was still MIA and assumed to be dead. When really he’s just a hermit in an unfinished AU that he decided would be a good place to hide out from his brothers’ war in-

Dream and Nightmare created by @/jokublog Somnus and the Dreamtale Triplets AU belong to myself

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The Sun, The Moon, and The Stars

Dreamtale Triplets has my in a chokehold again. Unfinished, but sketch of them as little guys. Let them be so happy and lay in the grass and nothing bad ever happen to them- Wishful thinking, right?

Dreamtale concept and characters originally created by @/jokublog Somnus and Dreamtale Triplets concept belong to myself

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Okay, but, like, I need you to consider…

Dreamtale Triplets AU.

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They are brothers and they love each other, the end. They used to have such a good familial bond…

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Young Nightmare trying to show Somnus something in his book and the other getting absolutely overexcited over it and invading his personal space.

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It would be difficult for him to say he hadn’t noticed the differences in himself from his brothers. Especially as they aged.

His brothers grew in their powers, and he just… didn’t. It was easier to bury himself in the busy work of his studies, learning medicinal techniques and potion-making.

Though a thought always lingered at the back of his subconscious. If his brothers were destined to their natural sides of the balance within a prophecy…

…where was he supposed to fit in?

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And so we begin! This AU has been something I’ve thought about for quite a while, I just couldn’t pin down the third brother. Be aware that asks are open to any and all questions and requests!

(I did not make Nightmare and Dream and will not claim to making them, I created this AU version of them and their brother Somnus on my own)

(reblogs are always appreciated)

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now I’m thinking about Somnus trying to show his brothers a spider and it goes something like:

Dream, shrieking: OH MY STARS GET THAT AWAY FROM ME, WHAT IS THAT, WHY IS IT HAIRY-

Nightmare: SOMNUS, PUT THAT DOWN, THAT COULD BE POISONOUS-

Somnus: Nuh-uh! It’s not poisonous-

Nightmare, relieved: Okay, g-

Somnus: It’s *venomous*, it’s a lil biter.

Nightmare: SOMNUS-

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siddles in here. @ ur tags i am first and foremost ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED to learn u are okay w those kinds of things (IN FICTION), im going absolutely feral. i didn't wanna send an ask before i knew u were okay with anything bc let's face it ppl on the internet are MEAN but i'm absolutely thrilled by ur response and going whhehehegegfegg *little gremlin noises.* i already love ur boy so much AND also has anyone told u i literally love ur art. AND ur a traditional artist HUGE props for that i could never.

p.s. pls tell me everything abt ur boy i want to know it all

BITES YOU AND EATS YOU IN THE MOST POSITIVE WAY-

I will answer this in order fhdhsjsk:

Yes! I am very much okay with viewing and perceiving what people ship! I find it fascinating in all honesty and try to understand the different sides of it (but underage stuff is a big no no in my house guys, gals and nonbinary pals).

I *absolutely* understand this point. People on the internet are absolutely awful and cruel sometimes, but I think if we can all learn to be respectful, that would be so neat and the opposite of toxic!

Thank you so so much!! It literally means the world to me when anyone compliments my characters, especially ones I’ve worked hard on thinking out and designing fhshjskd. Don’t you worry, I’ve got big plans in progress for this little boy-

Aaaa thank you!! I always feel like I’m at a bit of a disadvantage in the art world being a fully traditional artist QwQ,, Like, it’s not that I haven’t tried to do digital art, it’s that I don’t have the equipment, finances, or ability that I would need to do it- I love that everyone has their own unique style, though, it’s so fun to see!!

As for a little bit more on mister middle child nonsense, I’ll list some silly trivia about him and his brothers! Who knows what may be relevant ;]

Somnus’ Nightmare has collected little porcelain figurines since they were children, and has always had an affinity for horticulture.

Somnus was (and still is) obsessed with bugs, biology, zoology, and anatomy. He would absolutely freak Dream and Nightmare out by trying to show them the “super cool spider I just found”.

Somnus doesn’t have good magic control or stats. He sometimes wishes he didn’t have it at all, rather than being weak. Because of this, he took up a lot of material arts, such as medicinal practices and potion making.

Somnus is a *serious* insomniac. Like, the hardly sleeps insomnia with night terrors and daydreams attached (realizing the irony in that).

Somnus only started becoming interested in science because he was looking for a way to create and sustain artificial magic. His hope was that by using natural elements, he could find a way to enhance his magic. Heeee has yet to find that solution.

Somnus’ Dream was a very oblivious child. Not in the “dumb blonde” stereotype way, but in the way that if he wasn’t told something, it didn’t happen in his mind. He was, however, very observant.

Each of the brother’s gained something from their mother tree: Dream’s cape from the banner sigil, Nightmare’s powers from the blackened apple, and Somnus’ talisman carved from the wood of a branch that fell in a storm.

I can go on and on and on, I just love talking about my AUs and my boys-

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Very sketchy sketch of Dream showing Somnus how to make flower crowns

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what happened to Somnus after dream was trapped in stone?

In all honesty, he was really unsure of what to do. Nightmare had *broken* their one sacred rule, not to eat the fruit their mother tree bore, and that resulted in a lash of power that caused Dream to become petrified.

And he feels like it’s his responsibility as the older brother to step in for Dream while he’s trapped. He knew he wouldn’t get through to Nightmare, no matter how hard he tried, but he could do this one thing for Dream, right?

…However, their powers are nothing alike. His younger brother can cast arrows of light from his fingertips, and… he can hardly manage a portal.

“Dream… you always made this job look easy…”

“And… I just thought y-you were being bossy”

“but now…?”

“I wish you would tell me what to do…”

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Hopping right into the deep end with this one, huh? I so love answering asks about this stuff-

(I did not make Nightmare and Dream and will not claim to making them, I created this AU version of them and their brother Somnus on my own)

(reblogs are always appreciated)

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Follow me, and you’re as good as dead. You’ll only get hurt if you get in my way.

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Immediately following Dream’s petrification. There’s a reason the two haven’t tried to work things out since. Somnus is not afraid of his brother, he’s afraid of the consequences that come with trying to make amends.

Is that a warning or a threat…?

(I did not make Nightmare and Dream and will not claim to making them, I created this AU version of them and their brother Somnus on my own)

(reblogs are always appreciated)