#the one in Fringinghoe wick

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This is probably gonna be a long post but I had a thought recently about Nightmare (cause of a Cosmo Sheldrake song) this is more of an AU than any headcanon at this point 😭

So basically when Nightmare dies instead of turning to dust he'd become a tree: specifically he'd become the new tree of feelings, now that would mean there's a new tree of feelings and dream is still there. So maybe instead if Nightmare (or dream for that matter) dies his twin would die as well, effectively resetting the negativity/positivity balance.

So boom, you have no twins and a new tree of feelings born from either one. But you need guardians, so Nightmare (as the new tree of feelings) would create guardians just like Nim created both of the twins.

But also it means that Nim could have been a guardian before she died, she probably had a twin.

Maybe the guardians have been in the multiverse for a long time, each time coming back again and again from trees made of the former ones.