#xdnf fic

[demonstars]

i go from au to au in my mind spinning dnf in different scenarios

[nuttellaonwaffles]

🥲 NO BABIES BE TOGETHER KISS KISS DOTN BE SAD RAHHHGGGGH

Their lips parted.

Oh, so much dèjá vu

That was it. George turned around immediately refusing to face DreamXD, whose expression had not changed at all. He could feel those all-seeing green eyes pinned on his back.

"Was it bad?" DreamXD remarked, tone as neutral as it could be, as if… as if nothing had just happened.

George threw his hands in the air. It hadn't been bad, it hadn't been good either. It was nothing, that's what it was. It had been just a kiss. He had no idea what he was expecting, a soul-crushing kiss? Something life-changing? It was so quick it had barely been a kiss.

"I don't know," he muttered, "I DON’T KNOW," he said raising his voice. DreamXD took a step back cautiously. He was getting frustrated. What was he even angry at? Was he expecting him to kiss him like he used to? George laughed at his own stupidity.

And now I can feel your love

He turned around to face DreamXD. Sometimes he hated looking at him. The spitting image of… him, yet so distant, so cold, so alarmingly peaceful.

"It's not him, okay? Is that what you wanted to hear? It doesn’t feel like him at all," George said, hands shaking as he tried to calm down.

"But... I look like him, I sound like him," DreamXD said faintly.

"THAT DOESN’T MATTER, YOU ARE NOT HIM, OKAY?" George yelled tears running down his cheeks. He didn’t mean to yell. He shouldn’t have yelled. Eyes still watery, he looked up at DreamXD, expecting a fit of rage, a fearful face, or just him gone, having vanished in the wind. But DreamXD just looked… confused, batting those pretty lashes slowly.

"I don't get it." he slowly let out.

George smiled slowly. DreamXD was like that sometimes. An all-knowing creature! To which George had to explain the simplest things. Why do cats meow, why are flowers so pretty, how you can bake bread from scratch instead of spawning it from thin air… In this case, well, a kiss. He sat down on the ground, turned to DreamXD and gestured for him to sit beside him. When he did, George grabbed one end of his cloak and blew his nose with it. DreamXD snatched it back immediately while George laughed, and DreamXD rolled his eyes.

"I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't have expected you to… to understand or anything. Do you even…? Have you... y’know… you probably haven't-"

DreamXD lowered his head. He seemed to be thinking. Then he smiled. George couldn’t help but notice how beautiful he was. The sun draped along those broad shoulders, highlighting his golden hair and making his freckled skin look like a starry sky. George sighed at such a sight. It was funny how his surroundings changed with him, DreamXD smiled and it all felt warmer, more colourful. DreamXD stared at a blue butterfly resting on his finger that George had not noticed until now.

"I did, once..." he exhaled. George looked at him astonished as if he couldn’t believe DreamXD had loved before. It made sense, he had lived for so long, yet…

"George,” he said pointing a finger at him noticing his surprised look, “gods can feel that way too, we are not so different."

"Okay no, that’s not what I-"

“Wow, you really assumed you were my first kiss? Come on George…”

“NO, I-”

DreamXD giggled and looked at George tilting his head slightly.

"I’m messing with you. God, you look so stupid,” he said lovingly, carefully brushing George’s fringe out of his face, his fingers slightly skimming George’s forehead.

Your temporary touch

“It’s okay,” he dropped his hand to his lap, “Yes George, I fell in love once. I can do that by the way, it happens,” George rolled his eyes, “He was…” His smile started to fade, “He was…”

"What?”

“I don't… I don't remember. I don’t even remember his voice,” George looked at DreamXD’s face. He looked like was struggling to grasp his thoughts, his eyes empty yet full of sorrow. “I just remember what it felt like being around him, holding him close, saying his name. What was his name?"

DreamXD stopped speaking, lost in the thousand thoughts that mind held, while George wondered if he was going to end up living the same tragedy, loving and being hurt. He had already had so much and lost it so quickly. Was it meant to be that way?

It’s a hit and run

"A curious thing, a kiss,” DreamXD interrupted the silence, snapping George back to reality, “humans feel closer to heaven, yet beings from the heavens feel so…human, so vulnerable..."

George took a deep breath. As embarrassing as it was to admit, it used to feel like that. It was as if the shape of his hands had been imprinted into George’s, his scent, his kisses peppered across his cheeks… George shook his head. That was cringe.

You go back there when you’re done

As if DreamXD was reading his thoughts he just said, "Maybe it is meant to be that way. Love being a constant agonizing what if. I don’t understand why, though…”

“Me neither. Maybe it’s about the yearning? I don’t know,” George replied. Yearning… He didn’t like the taste of that word in his mouth. He needed to change the subject quickly.

"What happened to him?" George asked with a voice that didn’t come out as his.

"I wish I could remember George, I don't... I don't know... " he said with a sad sigh.

The sun was setting and to George, it all felt incredibly silly. The way he was talking about boys, like a lovestruck teenage girl, with god himself. George couldn’t repress a smile.

"I haven't felt like that in a while," DreamXD just snatched George’s thoughts from his head and said them out loud. George looked at him, and it all froze for a second. DreamXD was nervously fidgeting with his hands, not looking at George. George grabbed his hands, and those eyes finally met his own.

“I feel that way with you,” once more George thought it and DreamXD whispered it slowly like no one else was meant to hear, just George.

And then he leans in. And he cups George’s face in his hands, and George knows he’s kissing god but it’s surprising how different it feels. It’s nothing like the first time. This is not DreamXD pretending to be him and kissing George to see if he unlocks a memory, or missed him still. It's just him kissing George because he wants to. And it's him. And their noses bump. And they giggle between kisses, and it’s all so perfect, and all thoughts seem to have disappeared, and the only sound George can hear is his own heartbeat.

DreamXD starts to pull away and George’s mouth chases those lips like it’s a need.

Don’t you want some more?

DreamXD is still cupping George’s face in his hand, slowly dragging his thumb along George’s jaw. And George closes his eyes, and he holds DreamXD’s hand in his own. He opens his eyes and meets DreamXD’s smile. It’s a sad little smile that holds all the truths George would have rather ignored. And George hates it, and he wishes he had never opened his eyes. And he doesn’t want DreamXD to speak, he wants to stay there with him in silence. But he says it.

"I love you, George. But you are not mine."

[curosartgallery]

Hi ive been stumbling around your blog and never really saw your blog itself i really love your art and you zombie/vampire au its a cool story! just wanted to stop by and say hi and maybe if your willing we could colab? i have this XDNF fic that i wrote and really want art for it but cannot draw for the life of me XD

thank you for stopping by! I'm glad you liked my undead au. Truth be told, I was just trying to come up with something for halloween, but I want to keep exploring that idea.

As for the collab, I'm really busy with end of the year stuff (college deadlines, gift exchanges), but if you drop the link, I'll be happy to read it when I have time and maybe make some fanart for it.

[dsmprarepairbb]

i'm very excited for this as a rarepair enjoyer! this is a great thread on the subreddit that might be a good starting point to think of cut-off qualifications: https://www.reddit.com/r/FanFiction/comments/eohtgm/what_exactly_counts_as_a_rarepair/

while i'm very on board with this event, i think trying to say 'anything but dnf' can feel too targeted, and i don't think it's the intention at all, it might make people feel singled out or unwelcome here. for instance, i think karlnapity and quackbur are also ships that are worth disqualifying (and i say this as someone who loves those ships XD).

good luck with putting this together though! i know a lot of work goes into these things <3

I held onto this ask for a long time for a very specific reason: I really enjoy spreadsheets. I wanted to wait until after I had closed the interest check so I could go through all of the submitted ships so I could get some data to back up my reasoning.

And back up my reasoning it did.

A total of 75 ships (including DNF) were listed by people who said they were interested. I took all of these ships and looked them up on AO3. I decided to look at AO3 for this as this is going to be mostly about content creation, and I feel that utilizing the otp:true function helps a lot.

Of the 75 ships, 15 didn't show up on AO3 at all, no matter how much I looked. For the rest, however, I noted down the number of works both in the tag as a whole, and with the otp:true filter. I put this into a spreadsheet and generated a pie chart using the otp:true data that looks like this:

Due to this discrepancy, I feel that it is valid of me to make this current rarepair big bang only exclude DNF. I am retracting prior statements of excluding XDNF, as that ship was lower than I had thought. In the future, the list will be refined, but for now, the only ship excluded is DNF.

Further reasoning below the cut.

So, this is not the only chart that I did. I also did a pie chart of the unfiltered ships as well.

As you can see, this percentage is lower that otp:true, but you can still see that the gap is quite large. No other ship even compares. Also worth noting is that in this view, fics where a poly relationship is present can skew the results, as many chose to tag their fics not only with the poly ship, but also the individual pairings (or smaller groupings) of that ship.

I also generated a bar graph, but due to the amount of ships its very hard to read. The first label, DNF, is even pushed off the view so you can't see it, but I will attach it here anyways as reference.

yeah its...bad lol. Its so hard to read.

I am aware that in the link you put, there are multiple ways to go about this. As I said, in the future this will be changed. I am most likely going to make a tier list of sorts for these ships based on this data. Also, I did not calculate based off of percentage of fics in the fandom itself as so many of these fics are crossovers, and I felt it was a futile effort.

Also, for those curious, I'm going to post the data I collected just for funsies. The ones with a -1 were the 15 that didn't show up at all. They had to be denoted this way to ensure that they were sorted correctly. You can see that Karlnapity (#8) and quackbur (#4) are also listed!

(I also calculated what percentage of ships tagged like that were also true because I'm a nerd who likes writing formulas lmfao)

I love dnf! Its fun! But you gotta admit that its reach is significantly more than other ships'. Also a fun aside from a friend:

[dnfao3tags]

DNF Reclist - Slice of Life/Plotless

aka fluff without plot :]

— the brink of boldness by xshittylialife (gen | comp. | 20k)

#GeorgeisinFlorida

— I blinked and suddenly by sweetuhcreature (gen | comp. | 7k)

Everything is better in person (bits and pieces of George's first six months in Florida, as experienced by Dream).

— ready to fight a god by primdise (series | gen | wip [3 works, all comp.] | 14k)

an xdnf au where george is a broke college student and dream is a homeless god, and then they were roommates

note: i love this series so much, solid gold i swear

— shampoo bottles, dish washing and loving by rednow (teen | comp. | 1k)

Dream and George are domestic as shit when in the kitchen together, but who can blame them? It's a Saturday, they're with their favorite person and Shampoo Bottles plays in the background.

— Love bites by ncthcritc (teen | comp. | 500 words)

And Dream loves George right back. It’s just that they show it in different ways.

note: what i wouldn't give for a longer fic w biting as a love language, such a cute fic

— but i was always on my way to him by womanhunt (teen | comp. | 2k)

Dream and George spend their first night together after meeting.

[sunlitmcgee]

I think they'd read some of the nightmare scenes in Heal and have an aneurism, honestly.

anon self reports…

[cearthduo]

oh i forgot 2 say in my last ask but how do you feel about c!georges relationships outside of c!dteam? im curious to hear your takes - 🍀

oooh this is an interesting question, alright.

George's relationships with other members is kind of hard to place since she treats everyone mostly the same. She's very cordial with other members, treating them as friends even if she has personal grievances. The best example of this treatment it Tommy. During conflicts it's very clear that George doesn't care at all for Tommy, often blaming him for the servers problems or calling him annoying/a pest(which she does even outside of conflicts) However when the two interact normally, George is typically friendly or at least cordial, even if sometimes you can tell there's underlying distaste. This goes for other characters George dislikes or is neutral towards as well, such as Wilbur, Ranboo, and Techno.

George's tendencies to treat everyone mostly the same even get her in trouble sometimes. A good example is this is right before dethronement, where George casually asks Techno if he has a cow farm and then gives out her location (when prompted by Techno) before Quackity's panic makes her realize that she's put herself in danger. I believe the reason for this (and similar) interactions is because George is unable to move away from the era of the smp where conflicts meant little to nothing and everyone was still friends at the end of it all.

Outside of Dream team, the only characters I see her being genuinely friends with are Quackity, Karl, Bad, Punz, Sam, and Callahan. I'd also argue that she seems close with Niki, Tina, and Hannah but since their interactions are more scarce it's hard to tell if those friendships are genuine or if it's just a case of George naturally being friendly. When it comes to friendships in general, George seems to utilize them similarly to how Dream utilizes his friends. It's a very "You benefit me in some way or we're not friends." type of midset. You can see this clearly with how George treats Callahan throughout the server, making him do her bidding and harming him whenever he doesn't (usually as a form of entertainment). You can also see this during George's godhood stream. Once Karl gets in George's way, and presents himself as an enemy, George kills him without much hesitation despite them being close friends. You can also see it when it comes to how fast George drops Bad when he becomes a threat during eggpire, or how little she seems to care about Quackity once he strays away from the group (despite Q being one of the only characters to stand up for George's rights)

George seems to view friendship as an exchange. They do what she wants and in return she does things for them (which is likely why her and Dream fell out so hard during dethronement. Yikes!) Though I will say, George gives lots of chances to people and even if they screw her over (in her mind) she'll continue to be friendly. A good example of this is how fast she returns to being Sam's friend despite him threatening her life on multiple occasions (one of which directly resulted in her dethronement)

Now... I'll talk about the elephant in the room. The character relationship that's one of the most important that I hate to talk about... DreamXD. Honesly, I could make an entire post about how much I HATE XDnf and the fandoms portrayal of him and George's relationship (and I am. Literally right now, I'm typing it up the second this is posted) but for now, I'm just going to say a quick little thing.

Ahem.

GEORGE HATES XD.

Ok, hate is strong, George tolerates XD. Primarily because it gives her things, reminds her of Dream, and tends to protect her in Dream's absence. That being said, she's very clearly annoyed and a bit disturbed by It. The romanticization of XDnf needs to be studied because to me, their interactions barely seem friendly 😭 but maybe I haven't read enough badly written fics to truly understand. Pfft.

But yeah, that's my takes on George's relationships overall. I really want to do some specific in depths analysis' of specific George relationships. I'll probably do Tommy, Quackity, Sam and (as said before) XD because their dynamics with George interest me. I also have a Dnf analysis in the works andddd I'll probably do a little something for Punz and George because their relationship is overlooked in my eyes. If anyone wants to see a specific one (even out of those) send me an ask and I'll talk about them a little bit for you.

[tiniinbookland]

i got a comment on my xdnf fic in the year of our lord 2024, rejoice everyone

[gg-selvish]

a brainrot i've kept in reserve for xdnf's dynamic can actually be transferred pretty easily into a georgenap dynamic and i'm like 90% sure i've used it in a fic before or maybe an old poem? but it goes something like 'have you ever loved so much it turns into rage?' the passion is so strong, so deep, you can't even recognize the emotion anymore you just know it's heavy in your chest and won't budge.

[flamedoesart]

okay but also hwhbh!XDnf because I want to make you smile

WEHHHHHHH

Listen they’re the blorbos. A slow burn between God and their special little human. Sunny you don’t understand you are basically the only xdnf fan who does them right.

I want them to be happy, I want h!george to be comfy with XD, I want XD to vibrate with cosmic happiness. They are kissing and holding hands and are soft with each other. Old married couple vibes fr.

Anyways when are you gonna finish WTULWLI and the other fic 😏 /nf I promise

[acrylic-reverie]

Kinkmas 2023 Masterlist

♡ 1st December - 24th December. Featuring characters/content creators from DSMP and Roblox Daybreak.

♡ Made a new tag since I'm starting to post a bunch of fics on this account, so they can all be found in one place. (#lucidity ⋆ fics)

♡ I won't be writing anything explicit here aside from providing this list. All of my writing for Kinkmas this year will be posted on AO3, and whenever I post the links here, my posts will be censored like this one.

♡ I'm not taking any asks/requests since I already have a masterlist written out, however this isn't set in stone and I might move fics to different dates if I feel like it.

♡ Sometimes I might get busy and miss days! Hopefully this doesn't happen, but even if it does I will continue to catch up on what I missed even after the 24th passes.

The current list alternates daily between DSMP and Daybreak. I will try to stick to this format, but if I feel like prioritising one fic over another, I will make changes!

First Time | mistborn!DNF

Primal Play | Finlo

Breeding + Scenting + Biting | omegaverse!DNF

Corsets + Fishnets | Emari

Aphrodisiacs + Size Kink + Hair Pulling | mafia!George & mafia!Sam

Voyeurism + Edging + Begging | Finlo + Kelvin

Knife Kink + Blood + Hatefucking | mafia!SNF

Punishment | Finlo

Xenophilia + Overstimulation | c!XDNF

Mirrors + Praise | Emari

Double Penetration | cc!DNN

Exhibitionism | Finlo

Petplay + Titles | eggpire!Velvetfrost

Religious Imagery | Emari

Voice Kink + Masturbation + Lingerie + Nudes | cc!DNF

Toys + Humiliation | Emari

Impact Play | c!Drunz

Breath Play | Finlo

Cockwarming + Piercings | mafia!DNF

Bondage + Temperature Play + Sensory Deprivation | Emari

Gun Play + Object Insertion | mafia!Drunz

Oral Fixation | Emari

Wet Dream + Somnophilia | c!XDNF

Face Fucking + Dry Humping | Finlo

[sunlitmcgee]

every other xdnf fic sucks compared to my "XD has an internal panic over george's really nice ass" masterpiece in the making

[dnfao3tags]

Hi! Do you have any fics that are lighthearted snd easy to read or like comforting? Example is your comfort fics that you like to re-read. i don't mind angst so long as it's a happy ending!

(sorry if this is very broad haha)

yeah this is quite broad but i'll take this opportunity to rec some of the fluffier ones of my fav fics ! i also already have a fav tag here

— go, george, go! by primdise (gen | comp. | 5k)

an xdnf au where george is a broke college student and dream is a homeless god, and then they were roommates

Part 1 of ready to fight a god

— falling into you by effervescentwolf (teen | comp. | 13k)

Dream accidentally confesses he's in love with George. The only issue is he isn't. Right?

— starlight, starbright by sadiehour (gen | comp. | 5k)

4 times George sleepwalks, and one time he's still awake.

— got a thing about you (and it won’t go away) by alltimecharlo (gen | comp. | 34k)

George is joking when he tells Dream to send him one of his hoodies. This doesn’t mean he regrets it when he actually does.

[badgod01]

100 Kudos on PRAYER + Author's Notes: WORSHIP AND PRAYER

While I was idly chatting with a friend, I noticed that I finally reached 100 kudos on PRAYER. Yay me! Thank you to everyone who made this possible, and thank you to my friends who helped me along with my fanfiction writing journey in any way possible—from helping me with ideas, to just listening to me ramble when I talk about my fics.

So, while I am here, I'll spoil you with some content including my writing notes on WORSHIP & PRAYER, both installments of my XDNF series.

WORSHIP

WORSHIP isn't the first NSFW fic I've written, obviously, but it was after a lot of WIPs—both NSFW and SFW—that have never seen the light of day, and probably never will. It is the second NSFW fanfic I've published on my AO3, though.

I began writing it on December 1, 2021, at 00:42 (my time) and began finishing it at 01:04, barely more than 20 minutes later. I published it on the same day as well.

As mentioned in the tags, angst was accidental, but I wrote it into the draft, so it stayed.

The draft's summary was simply, "DreamXD would do anything George asked."

As noted, I tried playing with the perspectives a bit by having George refer to XD as Dream with he/him pronouns and XD referring to itself with it/its pronouns. I believe I accidentally switched them up a few times and referred to XD in its perspective as he/him.

WORSHIP was named after a song's title, but you wouldn't really be able to guess which one.

PRAYER

I began writing on March 6, 2022, at 07:43. I wrote a little bit more on the same day before stopping for a while, mainly working on ideas that weren't PRAYER. I then picked it up again on March 12, 2022, and wrote every now and then until April 15, 2022, at 21:55, when I finished editing. I published it the following day on April 16.

In the drafts, the fic was called ...AND PRAYER, but I changed it to what it is now. This is because reading WORSHIP was not necessary to understand the conflict in the story.

I decided to go whole hog with the angst—obviously, with Dream escaping from Pandora's Vault in mind, which occurred on November 28, 2021.

XD is in George's dreams this time, but some commenters were clearly confused by the ending. Sorry about that.

WORSHIP & PRAYER (series)

The series was initially meant to be for XDNF fics as I planned to write more standalone fics with the ship (hence why it was created on the same day WORSHIP was released), but as soon as PRAYER released, I just updated it to be WORSHIP & PRAYER. I also figured that people could just filter my works, so...

No, the WAP reference was not intentional, but it was probably at the back of my mind. I always knew I wanted the sequel to be called PRAYER because worship and prayer just paired nicely in my mind—like handholding.

Thank You

Thank you if you've read this entire thing! I wrote WORSHIP (and PRAYER, somewhat) as a sort of personal fic, as I was going through a pretty tough relationship situation at the time. I don't write fics like that anymore, because while I believe that writing is good to help you vent out feelings, not all of those feelings have to be privy to the rest of the world.

I'm glad that a lot of people liked and read my fanfiction, even if you don't like W&P or haven't even read it yourself. Of course, I'm always glad to have people respect my work, even if I am a hobbyist.

I've received some very nice (and funny!) comments on my works. So even if you disliked my works, thank you for even presenting your eyes on it... everything helps ;)

— Vincent

[unethical-gender]

For context, I wanted it to be that the start of every chapter would be George and Dream talking in prison and eventually it would be just one big chapter of every chapter starter plus more and then george leaves the prison but I never got that far so. Enjoy👍

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"Why are you really here?"

George barely registered the question. He was still drowsy, the events of the day failing to sufficiently wake him. He didn't even look up to acknowledge Dream; he knew exactly where he was, sat a few feet away, slumped against the wall, dressed in torn, faded, and burned orange fabric that marked him prison property. It was a comfort to George, but also made him sick to look at.

"I told you why I'm here," George finally replied, voice as tired as he was and barely heard over the roar and crackling of the molten lava feet away, burning his skin. It was a familiar feeling at this point, nearly comforting, reminding him of the times that prisons didn't exist here, times when the only worry was temporary pain.

"I don't believe that you just suddenly want to see me," Dream said, the audible frown in his voice hurting George more than he expected. "You don't love me anymore. Why are you here?" 

"I still-" George started, voice caught in his throat. He forced himself to look up, to meet Dream's gaze, unfamiliarly unobstructed. His grey-green eyes shone wet in the orange light. George sighed.

"I still love you, Dream. I can't just stop loving you. That doesn't mean I like the person you've become."

Dream scoffed, breaking eye contact and instead gazing at his few belongings next to him. "The person I've become?" He almost laughed. "George, I've always been like this. You just chose not to see it."

George tightened his grip on nothing, un-cut nails digging into his palms until his joints ached from the pressure. He let his hands go slack by his sides.

"You're lying," George said meekly, trying to lace his words with a confidence he couldn't muster. Dream cocked his head, smirking with venom that George used to feel protected by. Venom that usually wasn't for him; now it was. Dream scooted closer, George forced in place by the deadly heat behind him. Now Dream was only a foot away, so close that George could smell him. He didn't smell very nice, dirt and sweat replacing his usual scent of wood and smoke.

"I'm lying?" Dream asked. "Since when do I lie to you?" George swallowed, words forming and passing through his lips before he could think.

"He said you weren't supposed to be like this," George's voice leaked the kind of anger only found in a deep love, the kind of anger that burns white hot because your heart has been broken. Dream's smirk faltered, but only for a moment. Almost instantly he was staring into George's soul and searching for an answer.

"Who's he, George?"

✳✳✳

George stretched, a newfound liveliness in his limbs. He could wander for hours without tiring, he felt. He brushed a hand through his hair, dried stems and grass falling out, he had been lying on the ground. He temporarily removed his glasses to quickly rub his eyes of all remaining sleep, keeping them shut tight until he replaced them. Bright, eternally summer days made his head ache without the dark filter of his sunglasses.

He quickly rose, searching for something to do. Conflict quickly rose around him every day, and he only wished to live like he did before there were worries and wars and death. He just wanted to run through fields and forests, to inhale moist, woodsy air and sleep in shady mushroom patches. So, he decided that's what he would do.

He walked until he fell under the shade of a forest (a natural one, not one that had been planted by someone), embracing the sweet and heavy air. He hadn't taken time to enjoy himself like this in a while. He walked until the trees were so thick he was nearly blind. He removed his sunglasses, face light from the lack of plastic. He still squinted, light occasionally squeezing through gaps in the thick oak branches.

He sat, leaned against a tree, and brushed his hands over the ground. He looked at the thick carpet of moss, the rotting, broken logs nearby, the red and white spotted mushrooms that grew around him. He felt at peace, like nothing and no one could find him or hurt him here. It was a pleasant distraction from his normally prison-themed thoughts. He decided he needed to do this more often.

He wasn't tired at all, he even felt energized, but the thick air was like a blanket urging him to melt into the tree and the moss and close his eyes once more. Who was he to deny the forests whims, to resist letting his eyes rest for a moment and let his other senses take over?

The forest air, of course, had a different plan, filling his lungs like a drug and quickly luring him into an undesired sleep amongst the thick flora. The forest almost seemed to want to claim him as it's own. It wouldn't be the first to try.

His awakening was rude, sudden golden light flooding in and burning his retinas through his shut eyelids. He quickly covered his eyes, head already threatening to burst. He groaned. Why was there suddenly a light source in the once blackened forest?

"Hello there."

A voice suddenly made George jump. The voice was familiar in a way that made his stomach turn and his heart drop. It was a voice he knew was impossible to be hearing.

"Dream?" He asked, hoping to be wrong. There wasn't a reply for a moment, swaying trees and distant water filling the silence.

"Is something wrong with your eyes?" The voice asked. George swore it echoed, but that must have been a trick of his aching brain, surely.

"Yes, you know that there is just- where are my glasses?" George groaned, reaching one hand around to feel blindly at the surrounding ground. Dream's possible escape from prison was second to him in his list of priorities, regaining vision being a clear winner for first place.

Suddenly, cool plastic tapped the hand covering George's eyes, making him jump. He quickly grabbed them and put them on, opening his eyes slowly to adjust and looking forward, expecting to see a disheveled Dream standing before him. The sight there, however, made him jump and try to slide backwards, a small yelp escaping him.

That wasn't Dream.

Instead of Dream as George had predicted stood, no, floated, what looked like an older version of Dream, if George had to guess. He domineered in size, twice the size of a human proportionally, large gold rings floating and crossed in an x surrounding his torso, spinning slowly. His face was obstructed by a nearly familiar mask, a large "XD" replacing the usual smile. George knew who this was, of course. Anyone did. He just never thought he would ever be face to face with DreamXD, with God, in any of his lifetimes.

He wore little clothing, a skirt-like wrap around his waist, emerald green and falling to his knees. He wore a hooded cape, a matching green, buckled at his bare chest with an eye of ender, or at least a replica of one. He stared menacingly down at George, curiosity visible on the lower, uncovered half of his face.

"DreamXD?" George asked, half hoping his eyes were deceiving him, that this was some headache fueled delusion. XD cocked his head, an action George found familiar to Dream.

"Yes. That's me." He replied, voice echoing by itself and eerily similar to Dream's. George was still stunned, hands gripping at the forest floor.

"What is wrong with your eyes?" XD asked, drifting forward and leaning down a bit. George couldn't back up, forced against the tree, so he sat still and stiff, contemplating how to answer.

"I, uh, don't know exactly," George started. "Its just they're super sensitive to light. I need the sunglasses to see." He gestured to the obvious glasses on his face. XD looked curious at every word George said.

"So if its dark you can take them off?" He asked. George nodded slowly, somewhat worried about what XD would do. XD was moving his hands, George watching as he waved through air with a determination George couldn't understand. When his hands stopped he held them out, an item materializing in his hands.

He held out to George a large sun hat, brim wide enough to go past his shoulders and colored bright red, uneven white splotches decorating it. It was a mushroom hat, resembling the ones George was sat amongst. George took it cautiously, leaning forward to make room and gently placing it on his head. It fit perfectly.

"You can take off the glasses," XD said. George's hands moved a bit, but hesitated. Sure, the hat blocked a lot of light, but if it wasn't enough it would be painful. Then again, how was he supposed to refuse the requests of God?

Slowly he removed the glasses, squinting his eyes in expectation, waiting for the spikes of pain to shatter his skull. It never came. He blinked, able to see the forest clearly now, untinted and beautiful. XD moved in closer; he would have been looking George straight in the eyes of his weren't covered by a mask. George had a feeling he could see him anyways.

"Your eyes are different," XD remarked. George darted his eyes around, trying not to look directly at XD.

"Yeah, they're different colors. Always have been." George muttered. XD looked like he might reach his hands out to touch his eyes, but instead kept his hands to himself, still levitating.

"You have pretty eyes, George," XD said in a way that made Georges stomach flip. He now sounded almost exactly like Dream. The echo in XD's voice had faded, yet was still audible, a small reminder that he still wasn't human. He had sounded like Dream before, sure, but the reverb had muddled it to a point of no effect. With the voice changed, though, George couldn't ignore the familiarity.

George didn't respond, just sat in a stunned silence, searching for coherent words. XD didn't seem to mind, seemingly content with staring into George's eyes, transfixed in amber and blue.

"Are you okay, George?" XD asked after a minute of George's nervous gaze. George blinked back.

"Yeah, Dream, I'm fine," he replied before he could think about it. XD didn't falter. It was his name, somewhat, even if it was apparent that George didn't mean it to address him.

"Why are you here," George asked, hoping to move the subject off of himself.

"Because you're here, George," XD said. He kept the echo out of his voice the best he could, watching the way something in George's eyes shifted. "You invited me here."

"Invited you?" George searched his memory for anything he did that could have summoned God. Nothing came to mind. "How did I invite you?"

"You're very welcoming, George. You seemed like you wanted to see me."

George bit his tongue. How did he seem like he wanted to see DreamXD? Wait, he thought, I was thinking about Dream and the prison, wasn't I? Is that enough to draw God's attention to you?

He forced himself out of his thoughts and slowly tried to rise without moving forward. XD followed him up as he rose, maintaining "eye contact" (since George couldn't see the others eyes, he wasn't sure it could qualify).

"I think I need to go now," George said, searching for an out. XD stayed still.

"Why? You have nowhere to be. You're asleep." XD stated like it was a known fact between the two. It was not.

"Im not sleeping," George corrected. "I woke up. You woke me up." XD shrugged as if to say "If you think so, sure."

"If you think you're awake, prove it to me," XD said. The echo in his voice had returned. George almost mourned the loss.

"How am I supposed to prove im awake, I mean, I just am," doubt began seeping into George's statements. He was awake, he was sure of it.

"Do you think I'm lying to you?" XD asked. "Why would I lie to you, George. What would I gain from that?" George opened his mouth and shut it just as quickly.

"I guess that's fair," he muttered. "But how can I prove im awake? Like, pinch myself?" He tried without request, hissing at the sting.

"Do you doubt the power of your dreams, George?" XD asked. George faltered for a moment. You aren't supposed to feel pain in dreams, right? Then again, you aren't exactly supposed to have casual interactions with God either, but here he was.

"So what, I'm lucid dreaming?" George asked, still disbelieving that a dream could feel this real. XD shook his head.

"You're still underestimating your mind, George," he said, echo slowly fading until it was nearly gone. "You're powerful."

George tilted his head down, the brim of his hat sufficiently blocking his face from view. Why must he sound so much like Dream when complicating me? He thought. Does he know the effect he has?

"So," George started carefully. "If im sleeping right now, does that mean im just imagining you?" XD shook his head again.

"I'm just as real as you are," he said, startling George as he reached a large hand to brush fingertips against Georges cheek, making his face flush pink. "Probably even more real."

"More real?" George asked, not moving away from XD's touch. "What does that mean? How can you be more real than me?"

"You ask a lot of questions," XD remarked, bringing his hand back and away from George. "You're smart. You can figure things out." George frowned.

"Why can't you just tell me things?" He asked. XD shook his head.

"You're asking questions again," he scolded. George was about to retaliate when XD held a hand up.

"I think it's time you woke up, George," he said. George felt a part of him panic. This was the closest thing he had gotten to a conversation with Dream in ages. Well, a conversation that wasn't a tearful and angry goodbye.

"Wake up?" George asked, now incredibly self conscious about the questions he asked. "Will you still be here?"

XD smiled, lowering himself to the ground finally. He towered over George, over twice his height and powerful enough to probably crush George's head between his hands without trying. He was closer, though, close enough that George could see slight strands of dirty blonde hair poke out from under XD's hood when he looked far up enough.

"I'm always here," XD said. "If you want to see me again, you just need to want to see me. I'll know." George shook his head slightly.

"That doesn't make sense," he criticized. "So can I see you when im awake, too?" XD's smile didn't change, but the energy of it shifted noticeably.

"You'll just have to see, won't you George?" George wanted to protest again, but his eyelids suddenly were overtaken with weight and his mind was slowing.

"Wake up, George. You can't sleep forever."

George was awake, the forest dark as it was when he fell asleep, glasses sat beside him and-

Holy shit.

The mushroom hat XD had made him in his dream was sat upon his legs in front of him. It was real.

"Probably even more real," the God's words ringing in George's head. He was more confused than ever now, unsure if he had actually been asleep or not. Other than the hat there was no sign of XD, the hole in the forest roof nonexistent now.

He already felt himself longing to hear that voice again. XD had told George that if he wanted to see him, he'd be there. XD wasn't there. Of course, this only lead to one thought for George:

He can only visit me in my dreams.

George now hated his energy, his lack of tiredness, and wished for sleep once again. He wished to hear the voice that tied his stomach in knots because it was once a voice that whispered sweet nothings into his ear at night. He wished to see the closest thing he had to the arms that held him tight and lips that declared George to be claimed by Dream in one way or another. This was the closest thing to loving Dream again, being loved by Dream again, that he probably would ever get. 

DreamXD had told him that he couldn't sleep forever, but in that moment he had fully prepared to fall into a coma with no regrets.

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