#OSD AU

[orbital-inclination]

GOLDEN HOUR the more votes OSD!Dream gets the closer his brother is to rescuing finding him

Leviathan!Dream @skumhuu

OSD @calcium-cat

Dream Tournament @nashdoesstuff

[wolvesbaneandbuttercups]

The creator of One Small Dream may not support you but the characters sure do! Oh, and Error's there too ofc :3

None of these guys are cishet.

I know trans woman Dream is a popular headcannon but I just cant decide between trans man and trans woman Dream so I just left it ambiguous :3

Flags:

Killer; agender

Horror; genderqueer

Dream; transgender

Dust; nonbinary and pansexual

Nightmare; gay man

Cross; demi-boy

Error; not shown, so imagine him holding whatever flag you like offscreen :3

All Sanses belong to their original creators and One Small Dream was written by @calcium-cat

[warriorstale001]

Killer & Dust: doesn't like Dream being in the hideout cause its stressing Nightmare out

Dream being a prisoner: I would leave if I was able to... please just let me go I hate it here

Nightmare *visibly stressed out while talking to Dust and Killer*: How many times do I have to tell you both that Dream's presence in the hideout isn't bothering me at all?

Dust and Killer *exchanging looks before glancing back at Nightmare with a 'Seriously?' expression*:

Dream in the background *wishing he could be literally anywhere else right now.*

Well at least OSDiff Nightmare will be facing his denial sooner rather than later because of his actions... Unlike some hehe ;)

[undertalepinkhorsepro123]

I haven't spoken up about the Calcium Cat stuff yet, mainly cause I wanted to get more facts, and also didn't want to risk accidentally writing anything wrong or, well too emotional (I've written stuff meant to be encouraging while enraged/taking in the news before, never ends well).

Cal has confirmed that she is transphobic, and the way she phrases it is sickening. The people she liked posts about are, in general shit people (I sure as hell ain't talking about that shit hole of political madness though-)

I didn't answer yet about it though, as I still wanted to... Really think it through what I would say.

The main reason I was unsure how to go with this is one, the fact I have a book for Calcium Cat, and two, I am not one of the ones affected by this. I'm cis so, I can't begin to imagine how those who loved her, only to find out how she thinks about their existence must be feeling. I decided to wait, and seeing the fandom's reaction is, strangely heartwarming. The (although passive aggressive towards Cal) support for those in the community is inspiring, and helped me come to terms about what to do.

So, I've finally made up my mind about my book, and how to go about this in the future.

I am still going to continue Two Small Dreams. But since I changed a lot of Daze's (very dark) backstory to adhere to her rules, no shipping (abusive relationship for anyone wondering) and also, well dark adult topics, I am thinking about redoing the story to include those topics. It is no longer a gift for Calcium Cat, it'll be a gift for all of the supporters of the fandom, and for those who are affected by this news but still loves OSD.

At the end of the day, One Small Dream isn't Cal. I will not support her, but I support the fandom of little Dream and big brother Nightmare.

I'm thinking of even changing the Nightmare and Dream of OSD in the story to be more canonically correct backstory wise (and some HCs of course). (Maybe even add some trans Nightmare for spite-)

If anyone who once read cannot read anymore, I completely understand. Do what's best for your health.

I'll probably make a poll at some point to ask if I should continue the story or redo it.

But for now, happy new year!

Don't let the news ruin the last of 2023, take a breath and look around, see what you've accomplished. Be proud of yourself, and remember that she doesn't deserve to feel your sorrow.

[ponds-of-ink]

So um

@calcium-cat’s Hades!Nightmare is giving me such a rush right now.

I am officially beyond digging the design and am currently fighting being too flustered too type by the sheer coolness factor this guy has.

[astra029]

Cross sans belongs to Jakei95

Dream sans belongs to Jokublog

[orbital-inclination]

In which there were SO MANY moments I wanted to draw out but this one... this one punched me in the gut! I don't think I did it justice but I HAD to try!

OSD. @calcium-cat

[dreemurr-skelememer]

I know we shouldn't encourage kids saying bad words but imagine

OSDream, stubbing his toe: Ow f*ck that hurt

Nightmare: Someone's dying where did you hear that word

Killer: *Slowly trying to sneak away*

thank you for giving me an excuse to draw this meme

[warriorstale001]

OMG THIS LOOKS SO COOL AND IT'S ANIMATED AND EVERYTHING ASKDBKDBAKDHLSB!!!!

Poor Dream tho... His expression and the tears running down his face just hits me right in the feels...

Love the way you animated Nightmare's tentacle goop and the 'I'm sorry's in the background.

Thank you so much for this amazing fanart <3!

fanart for @warriorstale001 ‘s One Small Difference

hehe i did a thing

[warriorstale001]

One Small Difference Bonus Drabble

The Beginning.

A drabble that takes place right after Nightmare returns to the cell after checking up on Horror in One Small Dream Chapter 2 and can be considered the start of the OSDiff story diverging from the OSD story.

Written by both me and @calcium-cat (who kindly gave me permission to use one of the flashback scenes from an OSD drabble of hers in this drabble, as well as the first line below, which is from OSD chapter 2 so I'm able to show where the two stories start to differ).

Warnings for angst (less than the Prologue) and implied torture (again related to what happens to Dream just before and during the Prologue).

Hope you all enjoy ^w^

Nightmare looked down at his twin.

Yes, it seems as though Dream is still lying unconscious as a result of the potion, having not moved an inch from the spot where Nightmare left him when he went to check up on Horror per Cross’s request.

He nudges his brother’s motionless body with a tentacle, pleased to find Dream’s aura has completely faded from his body, no longer burning him like it did before.

A huge grin forms on Nightmare’s face as he chuckles darkly to himself. Now he can really get started with his revenge.

But before that…

Nightmare slips a tentacle under Dream’s crown, pulling it rather harshly off of his skull right after. His brother won’t be needing that here in the cell and he certainly doesn’t want to see him wearing it every time he comes down here to punish Dream.

In fact… he should probably just get rid of it altogether, considering his brother lost the right to call himself their tree's guardian centuries ago. He doesn’t deserve to proudly wear the crown on his skull with a smile on his face everywhere he goes…

Nightmare opens a small shadowy portal in front of him that leads to the void, holding Dream’s crown just above it to drop it in. Once he lets go, the crown will be lost in there forever… never to be seen again…

…

He looks from the crown to his brother several times with a slight frown on his face, thinking over his decision to throw away one of Dream’s most precious possessions.

Hmm… maybe it would be better if he hangs onto the crown for now, instead of getting rid of it altogether like he originally intended and not because he has any attachment to the foul object in his hands himself of course…

Nightmare is sure the crown will be a valuable tool that he can perhaps use against his brother later. Then when his brother least expects it, he can dispose of the wretched thing as Dream watches on, powerless to stop him from destroying his beloved headpiece.

Yes… seeing his brother’s despair in that moment will surely make it worth the wait of holding onto in the meantime.

His mind made up, Nightmare closes his shadowy portal to the void and places the crown in his hoodie pocket for the time being. Once he’s back in his room, he’ll throw the annoying object in the wardrobe with the other one…

He’ll decide how exactly he’ll use it against Dream later…

Nightmare looks down at his unconscious brother again, wondering what else he can take away from Dream to make his stay in the cell even more unbearable.

The corrupted skeleton’s eye light lands on his brother’s gloved hands, causing a scowl to form on Nightmare’s face. Those gloves give Dream a better grip on his infuriating bow, the same bow that has shot arrow after arrow into his corrupted body. They also tend to provide his brother’s hands and arms good protection during battles.

But they won’t be protecting them any longer while he’s here…

Nightmare quickly strips his brother of both his gloves, leaving Dream’s arms and hands completely bare. He then tosses these into the void, finding no reason to keep the gloves when he knows he won’t need these to potentially bribe Dream with.

With Dream’s gloves removed he’ll actually be able to see the damage he does to the bones on his arms later during his revenge.

Now then… there’s just one more thing he needs to take care of before he can start his brother’s punishment.

Nightmare gently grasps Dream’s cape in one of his tentacles before pulling it over his brother’s skull.

Oh how he’s longed to rip his brother’s beloved cape to shreds for centuries, but all he had managed in that time was one large tear in the fabric that Dream had, of course, found a way of fixing when he started wearing his new outfit to their battles.

But now there’s nothing that can stop him from destroying the cape entirely so there won’t be even a thread of it left in existence.

He holds it between his two hands, pulling a little in preparation to rip the delicate fabric in one strong, swift movement.

Nightmare peers down at the skeleton still lying unconscious on the ground. Dream will be waking up any moment now to see him tearing the cape apart and he won’t stop until there’s nothing left of it, no matter how much his brother begs and screams at him to stop.

It… shouldn’t be too hard to break it surely… just… one small tug should do the trick…

… So why can’t Nightmare move his arms to do the deed right now…

…

…

Is it because of… that memory…?

“Okay… you can look now.” Dream instantly opened his eyes, his sunny eyelights expanding in their wide sockets, and gasped.

"Oh wow, Nighty, it's beautiful!" he exclaimed with awed excitement.

"I thought you'd like it," Nightmare smirked as his brother took the blanket from him.

Dream wrapped it around his shoulders and nuzzled his cheek against it. "It's so soft…" he said, then added "Hey, look! It makes a great cape too, see!"

He started to run in a circle around him, his "cape" trailing behind him in the wind.

Nightmare pressed a hand to his mouth and laughed, "It's not going to stay on."

Dream halted in front of him and frowned. “Oh yeah… oh! Wait-I got an idea…” Dream trailed off as he started fiddling with his tunic clasp.

When he got it undone, he tried to use it to pin the blanket to his shirt collar and predictably struggled to do so, his browbone furrowing in frustration. While Nightmare thought it was a silly idea, he rolled his eyelights and stepped forward.

“Here, let me do it,” he said, stretching out his hands.

Dream agreed and let him try. It took a couple, but he eventually pinned both the clasp and corners to his brother’s collar. He adjusted the star pendant upright before standing back and giving his fidgety twin his space.

“There. Is that good?”

Dream lifted his arms out and started spinning this way and that, looking over his shoulder at the tail of his “cape” flapping behind him.

“It’s perfect!” he finally exclaimed, and Nightmare couldn’t help but smile at the pure happiness radiating from his brother.

Whether it was a “cape” or blanket, if it made Dream happy, that’s all that mattered.

Suddenly, Dream lunged at him, wrapping his arms in a tight embrace. Miraculously, Nightmare managed to remain upright, and once the shock wore off, he returned the hug a touch more gently.

“Thank you so so much, Nighty, I love it, I really really love it…!”

…

…

…

As thoughts of the memory fade, Nightmare’s tentacles seem to move on their own, picking Dream slightly off the floor just enough so he’s able to slip the cape back onto Dream’s shoulders without difficulty where it belongs.

Although a part of him still wants to ruin Dream’s cape… he knows he’s not quite ready to do that yet there’s too many memories attached to it… and although painful to think about… he doesn’t want them to be destroyed with the cape just yet.

At some point during his revenge, he’ll make sure to take the opportunity to tear it to pieces… but just… not at this very second… or soon for that matter.

Dream can keep it on him in the meantime… but only because he doesn’t want the damn thing cluttering up his wardrobe… not for any other reason…

As Nightmare fixes the cape so it sits correctly on Dream’s shoulders like before, his brother begins to stir, groaning painfully as his eye sockets slowly flicker open.

Nightmare retracts his tentacles from Dream’s cape immediately, his eye light wide at the thought of his brother figuring out what he was doing before he regained consciousness, but the other skeleton is still clearly too out of it to realize what just happened… or to know where he is right now.

After a moment, Dream’s fuzzy eye lights meet his own, causing a puzzled yet exhausted frown to form on his twin’s face as he squints up at him.

“N…Night…mare?”

The sound of Dream weakly calling out his name causes a malicious smile to form on Nightmare’s face as he narrows his eye socket to stare down at his brother.

“Rise and shine, Dream~.” Nightmare sneers at his twin, wrapping a tentacle around his waist and arms before shaking the clearly disoriented skeleton in an attempt to wake him up a little.

Dream whines in discomfort before trying to opens his eye sockets a little more, though they remain half lidded and droopy, making it look as if his brother is struggling to take in his surroundings right now. A side effect of the potion perhaps?

Well… that just makes things even easier for him.

His dazed brother held tightly in his grip, Nightmare starts to walk over to the far wall of the cell, where a number of chains have been left lying on the floor in preparation for his brother’s stay.

The corrupted skeleton’s smile becomes truly unhinged as he glances from his brother to those restraints, his eye light flashing for a moment before he speaks to the other skeleton once more.

“Welcome to your new home for the next week Dream.” Nightmare smirks, making sure to make eye contact with his brother as he does this and is rewarded when he sees Dream’s more focused eye lights shrink fearfully. “I’m sure you’ll have a dreadful stay here.”

Once he reaches the far wall of the cell, he drops Dream from his tentacles so that his brother falls onto the floor with a loud thud, causing him to let out a cry of pain.

The sound is music to Nightmare’s skull.

He steps forward so that he’s towering above Dream’s pained and hunched over figure, casting a large shadow onto his terrified twin.

Backed up against a wall and knowing now that his magic has been rendered utterly useless by whatever he had been forced to drink before falling unconscious, Dream can do nothing but stare up at Nightmare in pure fear. His mind races in horror as he thinks about what this corrupted version of his brother can do to him at this state. Just what does Nightmare have in mind for him here?

“Now then brother…” Nightmare grins widely, forcefully grabbing Dream’s left arm in one tentacle and a restraint in another, all while staring unblinking at his brother the entire time.

He almost can’t believe it…

His revenge…

It’s finally about to happen…

And he’s going to make sure it tastes so sweet.

“…I think it’s time we start having a little fun in here together… wouldn’t you agree...?”

~~~

Hope you all enjoyed!

Like I mentioned before, the flashback scene is from one of the extra drabbles written by calcium-cat for OSD, which I thought would work perfectly here to show why Nightmare just can't bear take the cape away from Dream. Also because the timelines in OSD and OSDiff are meant to be the same up until a certain point, it only makes sense that the flashback of Nightmare giving Dream his cape be the same in both stories.

Hope you're all excited for the next chapter of OSDiff which will be coming out in 9 days (yes, I'm counting down the days, but not just because of the chapter coming out ;3). I'll be sure to release a teaser at some point before then.

Feel free to ask me any questions about this drabble or the prologue over on AO3 if you wish. The ask box is always open ^w^

Thanks for reading down this far! Have a wonderful day!

[undertalepinkhorsepro123]

Chapter 6 Crushing Guilt, and A Movie Night

We come back from crushing angst to your regularly scheduled hurt with comfort!

[warriorstale001]

AAAAAAHHHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MORE FANART!!!

I know I've said this before but again I just think it's so sad to think how sweet of a moment this could have been if it was simply just Nightmare taking care of his sickly brother, but instead it's Nightmare holding his sickly brother captive in his hideout and waiting for him to get better so he can punish him even more or at least that's the plan right now anyway.

You did an amazing job at drawing the scene tho, I can see the regret in Nightmare's face and the way Dream is subtly watching his brother while Nightmare is trying to make him comfortable sure he doesn't get cold and sicker.

Thanks again for doodling this scene ^w^!

warning for osdiff spoilers and a very tired, and very traumatized dream

i did it

it took me a bit because its finals week and i had my science final today

well i got it done regardless so

thb im pretty neutral on this drawing

it isnt horrible

but ive def done better

oh well

osd by @calcium-cat

osdiff by @warriorstale001

[nashdoesstuff]

Dream Tournament: Semifinal Poll 1

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thought I’d draw one more thing for the current poll Vote here if you still haven’t voted! Cool art to check out as well below the voting stuff too OwO

OSD belongs to @calcium-cat , Dream tournament hosted by @nashdoesstuff

[ask-modern-verse]

i can imagine dream during the tournament just walking to the arenas and asking for pictures

like, he'd just walk in on shattered and monarch having this massive fight and he'd just "hey, can i- oh god-"

or osd!dream talking to leviathan in the cutest way possible and they all take a selfie together. that would be so cute!

I love this so much. Yeah he wouldn't dare to approach as they're too intimidating for him.

And here's a bonus picture for the second idea:

Now I must sleep, I've been drawing for the past.... 6 hours? Maybe- but it was worth it.

[monellian]

Memories.

His hand used to he holding something... But it's not anymore :)

OSD belongs to @calcium-cat