#diasomnia chapter 7

[etheries1015]

What about Diasomnia going into MC's dream? They had been through Lilias time of war and magic, his tragic backstory and beautiful history, and suddenly they were in your...much less "exciting" world.

A boring life seemed to be a harsh description of what your world was, but there wasn't many other words to properly describe your world and your life. The reality was as such; boring. Every day was the same - work whatever that may have been, home. Work, home. Work, home. And although you may have had people around you, there wasn't ever truly a time you seemed to be...happy.

A lonely life. A boring, magicless, mundane, and slow life. That was how you would describe your world- the color grey, vibrant hues stripped from its core leaving behind a shadow that never seemed to leave your side.

Of course, there wasn't anything inherently wrong about living a slow and boring life; however it just never seemed to feel right to you, experiencing little to no excitement, no danger, no risks...the place you felt most at home was the comfort of your own mind.

You seldom spoke about your life prior to Twisted Wonderland to any who would inquire, you had a laid out response every time someone asked;

"There isn't much of a story to tell."

And suddenly they, Lilia sebek and Silver, were standing in front of you.

You, who was sobbing into your hands inconsolable.

You, who was absolutely miserable

This wasn't their fun sunshine prefect they knew,

This was a shell of a person who hated their mundane life.

Sebek Lilia and Silver all stared at you from a distance as you simply stared at the sky with a somber twinkle in your eyes. It was useless to come up to you- there was no way you'd understand where they had come from, and no way you remembered magic. Instead of marveling at the prospect of being inside a place completely opposite of Twisted Wonderland, they were instead silent in their sadness staring at the prefect they had come to love.

You looked up at the sky which was turning dark, taking notice of a singular star that had planted itself directly above you. This star was particularly beautiful- beautiful enough for you to decide that perhaps it had the properties to bring you peace of mind.

"Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight," You hesitated before letting out a breathy chuckle while shaking your head, almost as if you were making fun of yourself for speaking such words.

"I wish I may, I wish I might, have this wish I wish tonight." Another stretch of hesitance reigned as you simply stared at the dark sky, contemplating whether or not it was worth trying. You seemed to have made up your mind, letting out a sigh and offering your wish to the star.

"Please, just...Send me somewhere. Anywhere but this place."

A moment of silence seemed to tease you at your request, and you sighed yet another pathetically melancholy sigh. The three boys truly pitied the sight before them. Although not a backstory of betrayal, war, or fantasy, seeing you so disheveled and in a state of disrepair was a different kind of tragedy.

The silence that rang was rudely interrupted by the sound of clicking against the ground and a neigh of a horse- you didnt have a moment to realize what was happening until it was far too late. You stood up in a mere second of panic as you saw a horse with a carriage in tow, a large black carriage you hadn't even a split second to notice the details.

You heard the sound of voices calling out your name

Before the carriage had come and made impact

ultimately granting your wish.

[local-ground-apple]

sleepless

I haven't seen the part 3 of chapter 7 yet... Basically what you & Malleus are doing when everyone is under the sleeping curse

,,Malleus !”

You thought the last thing you would hear before falling asleep for the eternity would be Lilia’s desperate scream prompting Malleus to stop casting his unique magic and turning every student into some sort of fairytale protagonist.

No matter how hard you tried to fight drowsiness, your eyelids seemed surprisingly heavy. Eventually they drooped and you closed your eyes, taking one last look at the frightened faces of Prefect and their friends.

Perhaps the eternal slumber wouldn’t be that bad, you silently thought to yourself, feeling sleepiness washing all over your form.

Then you blinked and your eyes opened involuntarily.

As quickly as you awoke, you closed them, feeling a slight panic threating to take control of your tired body.

This wasn’t supposed to happen.

You were supposed to fall asleep just like everyone else, waiting for a knight in silver armor to wake everyone up.

However, you were wide awake. You tried desperately to calm your uneven breathing and steady your racing heartbeat. After all, in the sleep people should be the epitome of tranquility. You were aware that if you didn't manage to calm yourself down quickly, you would be discovered and you weren’t keen on finding out the consequences of your strange immunity to the curse.

You took deep breaths, slowly relaxing your tense muscles, trying to appear as if you were dreaming calmly. You forced yourself to stand still, yet you couldn’t exactly help the way your legs slightly trembled in panic. You clenched your fists for a brief moment, reminding yourself to calm down, as you forced your body to comply.

You could feel the fatigue and sheer stress washing all over your form, threating to uncover your disguise to Malleus.

Just pretend you’re sleeping, you’re sleeping, you’re sleeping. Focus on your breathing…

You told yourself multiple times in your head, praying that it would work. That you would manage to fool the dragon faerie that was revering in his successfully casted curse. You could faintly hear his footsteps, as he was pacing around the room. Sometimes they would get closer to your form, only to move away again after a brief while.

You were thankful for not standing near Yuu or the rest of Malleus’ Diasomnia friends. He seemed to stop near then every once in a while. You could hear him speaking something, yet you couldn’t make out the words leaving his mouth, as you were way too focused on trying to come up with a solution from your current predicament.

You felt lost.

And you knew you couldn’t hold on for long.

You were just a mere human and after a stress-filled hour of standing still, keeping your eyes closed, as you tried to relax your tensed muscles, you felt exhausted. You knew it was a matter of time before you would collapse and Malleus would discover the exception to his curse.

You could feel sweat beginning to form on your forehead, intent on running down your cheek. You wanted it brush it off, yet you weren’t sure where exactly Malleus was standing. He stopped walking around a while ago and the dreadful silence was sending shivers down your spine.

You didn’t know where he was.

Yet, you couldn’t briefly open your eyelids and peek.

You weren’t brave to make such a risky move. No, it simply wasn’t worth it. You weren’t mentally prepared to be discovered just yet.

You took another deep breath, as you tried to think. What could you possibly do in such situation. Maybe you could attempt to wake someone up ?

Absolutely no, you were quick to brush off this solution. There was no way you could wake someone up, if you didn't even know why you weren't cursed in the first place. It appeared that you would have to silently leave the room and look for help.

I'm so dead, you thought to yourself at the mere prospect of even attempting to walk out of here without Malleus noticing. It seemed almost impossible. Even if you were to open your eyes for a brief moment and peak, you were convinced that escaping quietly would be failure.

Before you could take another slow breath and try to think once again, you felt a cold breath on your exposed skin, as clawed fingers grazed over your cheek.

It seemed that you had been discovered.

,,Hmm, why aren't you asleep, Child of Man ?"

You shut your eyelids with all your might, your whole body tensing up at the mere touch of sharp claws that were threatening to cut your delicate skin. You could feel your body trembling in pure fear, as you didn't have to pretend anymore how petrified you were.

,,My, my, I am aware that you're not sleeping. Might as well stop pretending"

You could feel a hint of impatience in his tone of voice that seemed always playful. As of this situation was amusing. You supposed that maybe it was, to him. You, on the other hand, were petrified. The tears were welling in the corner of your eyes, as they threatened to run away.

You squeezed your eyes closed, refusing to open them up and come face to face with overblotted Malleus. No, no, no, no, no, if only you were asleep, just like everyone else.

The claw that was gently running down your cheek seemed to grow impatient, as it pressed harder on your skin, earning a surprised yelp from you. It didn't draw any blood, yet you could feel that it was only a matter of time.

You opened your eyes abruptly, when it pressed hard enough to finally make the crimson droplets run down your cheek.

,,That's quite, hmm, unexpected"

Malleus stated, as his hands gripped your chin, forcing you to look at him. He titled your head slightly, as he was engrossed in his thoughts. You could only glare at him, as tears rolled down your cheeks. You didn't even bother to struggle, fully aware of his iron grip on you.

It was the end.

Or was it.

,,It certainly didn't work on you, Child of Man. Even when I attempted to cast the curse once again. Why is that ?"

You were painfully aware of his full attention on you and the way he was staring at you. You didn't know how the respond to his question, you were as perplexed as he was. You furrowed your eyebrows, slowly feeling anger remplacing your initial fear.

It you were going to die either way, you may just as well go down in a epic way.

You abruptly pulled away, catching Malleus slightly off guard, as you managed to get away from his grasp. You quickly regained your balance, as you crossed your arms over your chest. You weren't even going to run away, aware that he would catch up to you in the span of few seconds.

You brushed away your tears, as you took a deep breath in a poor attempt to calm yourself.

,,I don't know"

Your voice slightly faltered and you cursed yourself mentally for this pathetic display of weakness, yet Malleus didn't seem to mind. He tapped his clawed fingers gently on his chin, engrossed in his thoughts, as if he was considering some possibles options.

Then it hit you.

Your eyes slightly widened, as you remembered one event from few months ago.

,,Maybe it's because I was already once under a similar curse. When me and Silver were fooling around near the spinning away..."

You whispere, yet Malleus had heard you loud and clear, as he raised an eyebrow.

To be completely honest, he didn't remember you that well. He knew you were another magicless student that just happened to end up in Twisted Wonderland, just like Yuu. You just never bothered to really get in troubles.

Malleus hadn't really talked a lot with you, yet he knew that you were quite close with one of his knights. You and Silver were great friends, in his opinion. He had even let you stay in Briar Valley during the winter break.

That would explain how you had seen the spinning well. However, it still didn't quite make sense in his opinion.

,,Fooling around the spinning wheel ? How come I wasn't aware of this ? How did you wake up, Child of Man?"

You grimaced hearing all those questions.

The real answer probably would be, because Malleus was way too busy caring about Yuu to actually even notice you getting cursed in his own castle. And since Sebek wasn't even aware of that situation, Lilia could be bribed and Silver decided to keep quiet about it, Malleus had absolutely no clue what had happened.

,,Well, Silver woke me up and we bribed Lilia"

You responded honestly, as you watched Malleus furrow his eyebrows in confusion. The whole story seemed just so bizarre to him and you couldn't really blame him for this. You and Silver were equally confused as him, when he managed to wake you up. Only Lilia seemed so done with you both that he forbade you two to leave his sight for the remaining time of your stay.

Silver.

It reminded you of something. If the curses were similar, perhaps you could actually wake him up. You glanced at Malleus that seemed to be still processing your story and you bolted in the direction of Silver. You were going to risk it and take your chances. If your kiss was able to wake him up, you could...

You weren't quite sure what you both could do against Malleus. Perhaps nothing, but at least you wouldn't be forced to sit here with the dragon faerie.

Yet, he was faster.

As if sensing that you were about to kiss Silver, Malleus grabbed your wrist pulling you back with force. You let you a startled scream, as you struggled to get away, yet he was way too strong.

It took you a while to calm down.

You were screaming, cursing Malleus, hitting with your weak punches that absolutely did no damage to him. You were crying while yelling your rants till you eventually fell asleep.

Not because of the curse that you seemed inmune to. No, you collapsed from emotions and stress, giving Malleus few hours to peacefully gather his thoughts.

He wasn't planning on killing, how you had yelled at him. No. Not especially since now he knew how Silver felt about you.

He may have gone insane, yet he also knew when to stop. Malleus supposed that you would stay here as long as he deems it necessary. Till he figures out how to effectively curse you.

You were just a human.

A human.

Yet, he couldn't force you into the eternal slumber.

Perhaps, it was the side-effect of the previous curse from the spinning wheel that you had suffered from. Or you were just inmune to his unique magic in particular. Malleus furrowed his eyebrows. He couldn't comprehend why Lilia wouldn't inform him of such situation.

He had to brush his thought off, as a tired and quiet voice.

,,Just let me wake up Silver, please"

Malleus sighed heavily. So you woke up after all. He had hoped that you would be sleeping for a little longer, so he could come up with any sort of plan.

,,No"

He responded and he watched just how quickly your face had changed from exhausted and hopeful to filled with pure hartred and anger.

You opened your mouth to argue with him and attempt to change his opinion, yet he was faster than you.

,,Since you're awake, you may as well just talk with me, Human"

reader after few days be like:

you: day 32th of asking you to let me wake up Silver malleus: nO

alternatively:

you: this isn't fair. i feel excluded, i really wanted to be under the sleeping curse. i really enjoyed the one from spinning wheel malleus: you're not okay you: as if you're the one to talk, man

[tartppola]

awakening

[egophiliac]

What do you like about the Diasomnia boys if I may ask?

I always love hearing about the different reasons people enjoy characters.

I mean, c'mon. he has split custody over Sebek okay

also, Lilia in particular has maybe the best timeskip character development of all time

[sunanthonyz]

I'M NOT SAD AT ALL THAT SILVER WAS NOT GIVEN ARMOR, NOT ONCE, AT ALL, I DID NOT CRY ABOUT THIS TO ALL MY FRIENDS--- let me dream

Well also here are my favorite moments from the new chapters

[eze-3]

"call me what you want... except father."

[darkacua]

Two princes fighting the same war from different sides.

I'm not going to lie to you, I'm a sucker for angst when it comes to these two and their sibling relationship.

I also decided to stop lying to myself and say that I was going to make a cleaner version of this drawing.

[amnayel]

a common misconception that i have been seeing in the fandom is that malleus chose how the dreams are

malleus didn’t choose anyones dreams

we have to remember that THE ENTIRE ISLAND is under his um, how would he choose everyones dreams when he doesn’t know 1/10 of these peoples?

also, lilia’s dream was set in a time malleus didn’t knew and showed a fact completely different from what malleus was told. he was just as shocked with the reveal that lilia was the one that hatched him as any of us, if malleus would choose he definitely wouldn’t make lilia go through the pain of losing maleonor and raverne again

that doesn’t mean he CANT control the dreams, he was offering lilia a new dream based on what he believe that would be a better reality for lilia, himself couldn’t accept that true happiness for lilia still included losing his loved ones, the war, his magic and his lifespan, just for the joy of seeing malleus being born.

that also doesn’t change that malleus concept of happiness IS messed up, but i’ll talk more about this in another post

how his um works exactly is up to debate, but it doesn’t make any sense for him to have chosen theses dreams, these are the character deepest desires, is what THEY think will make them happy, not what malleus think that will make them happy.

yes, lizard boi is wrong for thinking that sleeping for eternity dreaming about a perfect world is what everyone would wish for, but what that “perfect world” looks like is not something he decided.

[ventique18]

One person left to hit bingo

[hdavjje]

[lucyfloyenworkshop]

Both the Greatest Foe than the Devoted Protector

“ Carry my soul, into the night. May the stars light my way. I glory in the sight. As darkness takes the day.

Tell the ones, the ones I loved, I never will forget.

Never will forget. “

I had this illustration in mind since I wrote that essay on Malleus’Overbolt music theme. Since how goes chapter 7 with each Dorms Leaders facing their Phantom, their greatest fear or darkest side. I have the feeling that at the end, Malleus will confront that loneliness that haunt him to long and froze him in the darkness and finaly be able to protect his familly and all the persons dear to him…

I had already made an Diasomnia illustration based on the lyrics and the haunting music of In Noctem by Nicolas Hooper, now I think with Pippin's Song, Edge to the Night, it fits so well to the journey of Malleus…

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If you are interested, there is the link to the essay :-) [Awaking the Dragon: Malleus Draconia Overbolt Theme]

Artwork made by @lucyfloyenworkshop

. Please don’t use/repost/trace my artworks without my permission

. Reblog (with my copyright) and likes are welcomed :-)

[etheries1015]

Chpt 7 spoilers utc

A scenario in which...perhaps tears could persuade Malleus to end his reign of dreams?

When we got into Sebek's dream, I found myself getting a bit emotional when Lilia and Malleus started talking about living in Briar Valley together. Then Malleus finally arises and shows he's aware he's manipulating dreams to be pleasant for everyone as such:

What if...you start crying? You're in a world of magic, thrown into a completely different environment a sheer contrast to your boring and magiless life. Experiencing things you never thought were real, it's only a matter of time before you break down. So, before Malleus reveals it's actually him, you begin to have tears in your eyes from utter worthlessness and frustration?

All of them look at you in dismay as tears well up in your eyes and you bite your bottom lip, holding back choked sobs.

"(y/n)...?" Silver said in concern, taking a step forward and reaching out a hesitant hand, before pulling back in the uncertainty of how to handle such an unforeseen situation. "Why are you..."

"You know why," Your voice cracked, "This is all just...so..." Shaking your head, you hid your face behind your hands, tears pouring down your cheeks unable to stop.

"My dear," the dream version of Lilia coaxed, "This isn't a time for tears! This is the mark of new beginnings," He attempted to console you.

"As Lilia said," Malleus pointed out, "Where we can continue to get up to our shenanigans and create new memories that will last a hundred lifetimes-"

"That's not what I want!" You cried out, breaking free from your emotional confines, "I just..."

"Not...what you want?" Malleus stared at you with wide eyes at your sudden burst of tears entangled with anger. This is where his facade had begun to fall apart at seeing your state, where he hesitated in his resolve, only for a moment before becoming angry again at the notion of someone defying his ideals.

"What more could you possibly ask for?" He scoffed almost mockingly, "A life where you do not need to worry about people vanishing on you, a life where friends alike can create even more memories..." You had to force yourself not to fall onto your knees and begin sobbing right then and there, coming out of hiding from behind your hands you pointed an accusatory finger to the black-haired fae.

"This is no better than running away from the truth!" You cried out with tears pouring out of your melancholy orbs, "You can't keep painting over black with vibrant colors, Malleus. No matter how much we wish things were different, no matter what color we want it to be, you cannot just...override and disregard the decisions that were made!" Sebek took a step forward to chastise you but was blocked off by Silver, who had placed an arm in front of the male and looked at you with the same gaze of concern yet understanding.

"Change is scary, I know it is," You began to lower your voice, "But we made our choices. All of us have. Tears will be shed," You stepped forward looking into Malleus's wavering emerald eyes, "I can't do anything to take away your pain, Malleus. I can't do anything to fix what has been done, I can't just un-do the agony of your heart, and we can't force people to stay in our lives when they have their own to pursue." You stepped forward, opening your arms and engulfing the fae in a hug, digging your head into his chest.

"I just...want you back. And I promise, we can work through the sorrows together..."

"Just come back to me, please."

ngl I was 100% thinking about this scene of Betty and Simon from Fiona and cake:

[suntails]

destiny

[tartppola]

very specific au thought, silver if he was the shield instead ( read the tags to see explanations )

[fearmeeeee]

[sunanthonyz]

You pay attention, I continue, it’s an equal exchange, isn’t it? 😋

So our egg carnival continues-

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