#M; The Dreamer

[mandysxmuses]

//So I was thinking about my Keeper boys again, and figured it had been a while since I came up with any headcanons or anything so my brain began bubbling like it does

For some reason I've been really focused on the castle lately, like, the pre-everything going completely awful era

And I was like

So basically..

For the main 4 boys originally created during Emma's time in the Void, for most of them, a lot of the trauma that ended up shaping them came later on. Jemand's bullying of Niemand intensified into cruelty, while Todd was most certainly shaken by Emma's death it was the repeat killings (and how Jemand responded to them) that really set his self-destructive path in motion, and Laut really started feeling the effects of his isolation then.

But I feel like for Jemand, moreso than the others at least, the events in the castle had the biggest impact on his overall personality. I believe I've already mentioned that trying to use his powers to make Emma happy but always feeling like he couldn't measure up left him with a nearly unshakable sense of that, and made him even more desperately materialistic when trying to make friends in the future and frightened of any perceived flaws in what he created.

And the thing is, given that Emma wanting to see her parents again and just not being able to was such an important thing to her, I feel like she would have at least tried to show the boys who they were to hopefully help them understand the concept of parents and families better.

It didn't work, but as a result I think she would have kept a picture of them or something in her room. Something to keep them in her memory and to remember they do, or did, exist. If the picture couldn't make them understand better, at least she still had something with them on it.

And because the road to hell is paved with good intentions, I think Jemand might have seen that picture, and obviously knew by now how much Emma wanted her parents back, and tried to bring them back to her himself.

... By creating them.

But because these weren't actually her parents, not only did they not look or sound the same, but they didn't know who Emma even was, so...

Y e a h.

I'm pretty sure that would have been unforgivable to Emma, and at that point if not for Niemand and Trost living there she would have outright kicked him out.

[genderkoolaid]

"There aren’t any flowers within the images I make, but the flowers are the Black transmasculine people themselves."

[dreamer-garage]

by guywithacamera415 via Instagram

[daydreamerwonderkid]

Batman isn't even gay

DC made canon Joker self-cest mpreg.

But, yes, the canon sexuality of a 85 yr old comic book character is the real concern here.

[soracities]

Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking in at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars...

Anton Chekhov, from “Love”

[victormalonso]

dreamer | victor m. alonso

[angel-bunnie]

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[xagave]

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[captainhearteyepierce]

army dreamers - kate bush (1980) // m*a*s*h (1972-1983)

[tyrsgray]

[mandysxmuses]

🎬(Jemand)

Nobody had really been keeping track of the time. It was difficult to do so properly here... after all, the place had only been made so long ago. But it had been a few months. Exploring with Emma was generally fun, with Niemand... less so, but he was alright.

Still, she complained about her parents so incessantly that Jemand found himself getting angry at them -- or at least the vague idea he had of them. If they were that important to this girl, why weren't they just showing up already? According to her it was their job to take care of her in the first place.

And while Jemand would miss the kid, maybe they could pass her back and forth between homes. He doubted their house would beat a castle, but still. That would really be all the better. It might make Emma more grateful they were there.

In any case, though, it was time for dinner. Jemand summoned Niemand a bountiful plate of pulled pork and mashed potatoes, and then glanced towards Emma to give her a meal.

She created her own, first. ... It was basically a plate full of sugar, piled up with cookies and gummy candy. Any time she made her own food, she tried making it sweets. It took a while for the other two to realize this was going to make her sick, but by now Jemand knew it well, so he shook his head and summoned up the same meal he had for Niemand -- with some peas and carrots on the side, just for extra vegetables.

"I know you don't like them, but they're good for you." He said, lightly ruffling her hair. "If you eat those, I'll let you have some candy, okay?"

The little girl glared daggers at the plate, and then looked back up at him. ... Her eyes shifted, softening so much he thought something truly brilliant had come to mind. "Jemand? Can I tell you a secret?"

At first he had been starting to move to take his own seat, but this had kept him from going any further, and eventually Emma was beckoning him over anyway. He wasn't about to ignore that.

"You gotta get really close. I don't want him to hear." The child whispered it in that sort of way where it was abundantly obvious she'd said that, and was even pointing emphatically to Niemand when she did.

Jemand nodded, and began to lean down to her level.

The moment his head was in reach, she reached out and snatched a handful of his hair, clawing it as viciously and tightly as her small hand could allow.

He could feel individual hairs being plucked, and her short and stubby fingernails were surprisingly quite effective at digging in. Jemand gave a pained wince and gripped onto the edge of the table. "Stop. Stop that."

"No."

"That hurts!"

"Good."

He extended a hand up towards Emma's, but forced himself to stop just as fast as the motion began. He didn't want to hurt the kid just to get her to stop hurting him, and he was far over her size. The hand clutching the table was drumming its fingers anxiously.

His eyes met Niemand's, and the gardener was now shrinking in his spot at the table, slowly drawing a bite of food into his mouth as he watched. An eerie, uncomfortable silence drew over them as Emma used her free hand to begin eating her own meal.

She held onto Jemand's hair through as much of the plate as she was willing to eat -- completely ignoring the extra vegetables -- and then summoned her plate of sweets again, dismissing Jemand's creation with a hateful scowl.

After what had felt like ages of quiet, Niemand finally spoke up. "... I-I never got a drink, can I have a--"

"No," Emma shot back. "I'm mad at you, too."

But a cup of chocolate milk, complete with a straw with a flower on it, still appeared in front of him. ... Jemand shakily gave him a thumbs-up. "No problem, buddy."

The child's grip tightened mercilessly. He was pretty sure she had cut into him well before this point, but he was definitely feeling it now. "Ow. Ow."

... Emma did not release him until she'd finished a couple of the cookies on her plate, and then she stormed into her room and didn't speak to either of them for the rest of the night.

[roseillith]

Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer OST (1984) artwork

[dreamer-garage]

BMW M8

by 25thh via instagram

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Richard M. Jones - The New Psychology of Dreaming - Pelican - 1978 (cover painting by Patricia Dryden)

[soracities]

Theodore Roethke, from "The Abyss", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

[victormalonso]

[ ENSOÑACIONES \ CREPUSCULAR DREAMERS ] ph. by víctor m. alonso