#sorry jo but dream has (1) defender and that’s hob gadling

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imagine hob and johanna somehow finding each other and becoming friends before dream escapes the fishbowl to meet with hob and once he does escape, jo is one of (the first?) human he comes across in the waking and she instantly learns his name bc of hettie. now imagine dream going to his meeting with hob and STILL not telling him his name (he forgot, hob didn’t ask, etc.) so jo and hob meet up for their weekly drinks sesh and jo is telling hob about her latest exorcism and how dream of the endless shows up etc etc, hob is sympathetic to her story like “yeah, this all powerful personification of the collective unconscious IS a dick” and bc dream is trying to be a better friend he has tuned in to when hob is thinking about him so he shows up to the new inn to surprise hob but instead he hears hob absolutely ragging on him and doesn’t know what to do with himself now. (this could go really angsty really quickly with a huge misunderstanding going on or it could go the comedic route of hob finding out his strangers name right after saying he’s a dick and having to turn back to jo and immediately take back everything he just said (jo is v aggravated that hob is so taken with dream already, she wanted to bitch for a bit longer))