#meanwhile claris and elliot saw them full feral

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So basically NiGHTS is watering themself down so they dont scare Helen and Will?

A little bit! Tbh they do that for most of the Dreamers they run into given that they're a Nightmaren to start with. Will and Helen get a bit more of NiGHTS' actual personality than the average Dreamer because of the whole helping them beat up Wizeman (and helping them deal with some of their siblings) thing, but they're also like. Twelve. And not all twelve year olds are quite able to process the kind of stuff NiGHTS went through without potentially winding up with a little trauma.

Elliot and Claris are basically the only humans around currently that get the full "I am a nightmare monster and that is okay but can we pause this conversation for like two seconds I'm hungry and the Nightopians around here taste like smores" experience.

(In hindsight, NiGHTS more or less lightly customer services at people. You'd think with as long as I've worked in retail I'd have realized I was doing that by this point lol)