#SURE IT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN THE GAME BUT WHOS TO SAY NORMAL MALZENO CANT RECOVER FROM THE QURIO WITH HELP?

[localsharkcryptid]

@thenaiads fucking GRABS YOU

Thank you for opening the door :)

So let me speed yap about Malzeno ecology real quick:

This guy, is Primordial Malzeno -

He's the 'original' form of Malzeno, specifically he's mainly noted for being a protector of all things! An elder dragon who lives near humans and actively protects them - garnering a whole mythos about him being this revered guardian in the past. He's fairly peaceful and doesn't even attack without being sufficiently provoked into it.

Then we have normal Malzeno, this beast -

Who is Primordial Malzeno but effectively fallen from grace. He's developed a symbiosis with these vampiric parasitic creatures known as Qurio and become something far more vicious. A bloodstained shadow of his former glory, and worst of all, no one really knows of Primordial Malzeno - it is a forgotten myth initially. All anyone knows is that the one cloaked in scarlet who is the seeming source of the parasitic force that plagues the land.

This all isn't of course 1 to 1 with Dream's character but there's enough story notes for me to be able to draw the connection and make something of this cause like HELLO? PHYSICAL DISPLAY OF HIS CORRUPTION?? OF BEING LOST TO HIS OWN OBSESSION WITH THE REVIVAL BOOK AND HOW IT'LL FIX EVERYTHING ALL WHILE DIGGING A DEEPER AND DEEPER HOLE THAT HE CAN'T EASILY RETURN FROM??? HE WAS ONCE TECHNICAL PROTECTOR OF THE SERVER CAUSE IT WAS HIS SERVER AND OH HOW HE'S FALLEN FROM GRACE, SUBJECT TO A HORRID KIND OF SYMBIOSIS- A GLIMPSE OF IMMORTALITY, THE REVIVAL BOOK THAT HOLDS UNFATHOMABLE POWER, BUT WAS IT WORTH THE COST OF LITERALLY LOOSING YOURSELF AND BECOMING SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW? SOMETHING SO VICIOUS IT OVERSHADOWS THE MAN HE ONCE WAS- WHETHER HE LIKES IT OR NOT-

Additionally Primordial Malzeno lines up with Dream's fighting style, something with aggressive amounts of power yet also accuracy and control - something that is lost as time goes on due to the symbiosis it develops with the Qurio, and Dream similarly loses his own original fighting style as time goes on - becoming more vicious, more underhanded and brutal and eventually to something new entirely after the prison arc due to the damages done to him.

We also have the connection of how, over time Dream becomes just 'The Villain' to most of the server - his old self is forgotten and disregarded, in place of the image he purposely made for himself.

ALSO ALSO Primordial Malzeno does spend quite a while during its fight resisting the Qurio as well - it struggles against the symbiosis but inevitably succumbs without outside help... After all it's the only option... Sounds familiar to Dream- that's all I'm sayinggggg

THERES PROBABLY MORE IM FORGETTING BUT LIKE THE VISION

The Monster Hunter fixation is back and chat I may end up making yet another Dream AU cause well-

Malzeno lore goes hard and so does his design(s) and he feels c!Dream coded to me (Yes I will elaborate if prompted please someone ask me why he's dream coded I'm gnawing at the bit here)