#this is related to the bad ending inkmare au thing as well btw

[azurem]

Inkmare but I actually believe they'd like the idea of playing into the concept of Ink as a prize™. Mainly because of how dramatic it is (they both love their theatrics) but also because it's just the way they naturalize the one truth they can't deny: at the end, they're not equals. They won't be if a truce isn't reached, at least.

Like. Of course they see each other as respectable beings and all, but their final difference in standing falls to aggression. Depending on who "wins" the final fight (either Nightmare ends up ruling the multiverse — either Ink lets Dream/the multiverse decide Nightmare's fate once he's defeated) this position either changes in favor of Nightmare's position (he'd raise in power, per say) or against it (he'd fall to imprisonment), but Ink's (if neither of them snitched on the other) remains. Nightmare's the one who has the most to win and the most to lose.

ANYWAYS its very late and my brain isnt working. I feel Nightmare would like to play into the hypothetical of his victory only. So I think he'd joke around once or twice with the idea of getting Ink as a prize once he wins cuz he's kinda a freak like that.

(also, very inkmare but they're very much. Symbols. To each other. Ink's favor is the multiverse to him — it's their help that brings him access to the whole multiverse. So it'd make sense for him that ownership of the multiverse suggests ownership of Ink themself) (also not on topic but Nightmare would be "the world" to Ink aka his connection to the characters as his companions/fellows/equals yadda yadda. So Nightmare is the "intra" for Ink while Ink is the "meta" for Nightmare. To connect to the people versus to connect to the beyond kinda thing or smth)