#Jesus the amount of people in the multiverse that probably see dream as a manic pixie dream girl of sorts? wild

[saints-helen]

The apples were never purple

The events of dreamtale were Always meant to happen, no matter what, one twin was going to end up corrupted, and in This version of the multiverse, it was Always going to be nightmare.

Ever wonder why no one ever intervened? Why, despite being such a powerful source of- everything, despite being a beacon in the multiverse, no one ever entered in from outside? Error, for example, never noticed it? Ink?

The universe was locked from the inside out from the very beginning. No one gets in, no one gets out, that's what the code dictates.

Until "the event" happens, no one is allowed to interrupt, no one is allowed to intervene, and No One is allowed to change the script.

Reapertale, _____tale, dreamtale, why is no one going in? Why is no one going out? Why do, none of them, even Suspect the existence of other universes?

The more important a universe is to the multiverse, the tighter the lock around it is, why did none stumble upon ink?

This way, its events are transpired safely, events that Need to happen, things that Cannot to be allowed to happen, events that affect the Entire Multiverse and its balance, are safely carried through.

Why does reaper only reap in his universe?

Dreamtale stays locked, safe, hidden in some corner of the multiverse until it is safe to be let out. The code tucked neat and tidy where it sits, waiting to be followed, used, the goals laid within its conscious achieved.

It goes as follows:

Nim guards the tree.

Nim dies.

Nim makes the decision to make the twins.

The twins are born.

The village moves in.

The villagers make the active decision to hurt nightmare.

The parasite calls to him.

Nightmare listens.

The apples are never purple.

Nightmare corrupts.

Nim dies again.

Dream gets trapped in stone.

Nightmare leaves.

His apples are never purple.

And then, after the script has been followed and the scene ended, the theater is open to all who wish to visit.

.... Almost.

Error is not allowed in, as he poses a threat to what parts of the script have yet to be followed (Dream waking up from the stone)

And Ink is not allowed in, as he poses a threat to the script as a Whole.

Didn't you ever wonder why everything happened as it did? Why in every multiverse, only One twin gets corrupted? Why the world shifts its balance when need be, putting the responsibility of negative emotion on Dream when Nightmare dies, and the responsibility of positive emotion on Nightmare when Dream dies?

Why dream's eyes and apples are golden and Nightmare's eyes are purple but apples black?

Dream's shirt is blue, that is alright, it is not the colour of his apples.

Nightmare's shirt is purple, that is alright, it is not the colour of his apples.

Why?

Why is it this way?

Why?

Dream's apples hold no hue, only colour.

Yet nightmare's apples hold Two hues, the colour black, iridescent purple and, and iridescent Green.

Why did the parasite do what it did? Why to nightmare? Why not dream? Why now? Why does it take his name? His identity? Why does it pretend it's always been him? Has it no name of its own? Why? Why doesn't it?

How come nightmare has all that time to eat those apples uninterrupted? How? It makes no sense now does it? How something so easily stopped was allowed to happen?

It was always Meant to happen, it was always Meant to happen here, on this day, in this time, these events, in this order.

Nightmare eats the apple.

Nightmare corrupts.

Nim dies again.

Dream gets trapped in stone.

Nightmare leaves.

The scene ends.

Why?

Nightmare was always meant to die. His body was always meant to corrupt. Dream was always meant to be trapped in stone.

Why is his soul purple but his apples black? When dream's soul is golden and his apples gold?

Why is he bullied in every universe? Swapped fate? Dreamswap? Switched destinies? Nightswap? Reset dreamtale? Swapdream?

Why is dream always So beloved?

Why does only one of them get to make it out Alive?

Maybe this was always meant to happen.

Maybe this was Always meant to happen this way.

Why are the apples black? Why is a tiny bit, a small, easily missed hue in them purple?

Why has he been reduced to a hue in a sea of black, instead of a colour?

Why isn't he the apple?

Why is he the thing trapped inside it?

Maybe he was always meant to end this way.

Why is it that, when dream corrupts and becomes shattered, nightmare suddenly uncorrupts for no apparent reason?

Can the universe not hold both of them together? Can only one of them be corrupted at a time? Can only one of them be sane and whole and Living?

Why does nightmare's name stay the same, but dream's changes? Still nightmare, so why Shattered?

Is he a foreign entity? Can It not recognise him as he is now? Is he not supposed to be this way? Is dream supposed to stay dream and nightmare supposed to be nightmare? Did it rename him? Was he supposed to stay dream? Was nightmare supposed to stay nightmare?

Was he always supposed to be corrupted? What came first, the apple or the baby? The baby or his fate? Why were his apples always black? Has he been made to be corrupted? Has this always been his fate?

Has one, then, if they are born to die, ever have been alive at all?

Why is it that they are never allowed to be the same? Why are they opposites in every way? Why can only one of them Yearn and only one of them Hate?

Why can't it hold them both Together?

The balance interrupts, the script gets confused, this was never supposed to happen, dream shouldn't corrupt, he shouldn't have an apple to eat To corrupt.

Dream's skull shatters.

It goes through its code.

This isn't supposed to happen.

Only One twin should be corrupted.

The tentacles sprout from dream's back.

It goes again.

This isn't supposed to happen.

Only One twin should be sane.

His screaming turns to garbled laughter.

It goes again.

This isn't supposed to happen.

He is corrupted. He's not supposed to be. Nightmare is corrupted. He's Supposed to be. Why can't it reverse this? This apple isn't from here, the code is foreign, it doesn't know how to reverse this.

This is not good.

This is not good at all.

The script isn't being followed. It needs to be followed. Only One Twin Should Be Corrupted.

.. So then It looks to nightmare.

The multiverse, the beautiful multiverse, in all of its Sentient, Living glory, turns to look at nightmare, and rewrites the code to fix it.

He uncorrupts suddenly, with no explanation as to why, and shattered's bones break to shards and rearrange themselves inside his corruption.

It changes his name, as the "Dream" supposed to follow the script no longer exists, and in his place this foreign entity lays, it renames him "shattered" in its code, and they are no longer the same person.

Are they?

Nightmare gets an eye back, shattered loses his.

Nightmare's tendrils disappear, shattered gains his.

Nightmare Uncorrupts... And Shattered becomes corrupted.

And all balance, again, for that single, glorious moment,

Is restored.