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[thatgiantsoulffle]

I'll just...leave this here.

If only this was possible in canon, huh? But yeah 💔

I also have this on my Amino account. Why Amino? Uhm...exposure?

And now that my new tablet is here. I'm finally able to continue drawing for fics hehehehe---

[thatgiantsoulffle]

So...bitties!

Did a few drawings and rough sketches for @factory-defect-bitties Letter type of bitty (a blind sansy) with his unlikely companions (My OCs---Ezekiel/Key and Chiaroscuro/Ros) between study breaks.

They are on the quest to look for a good shelter suited for the abused little skele they found---and they have to do it fast because the Letter bitty is deteriorating slowly but surely.

Nothing goes smoothly for all parties involved, of course, since the human duo are also on the run (practice rough sketch! Sorry if it's bad xDDD)

ALSO:

Stolen Items Acquired!

This is them trying to earn the trust of the little skeleton person (that's what the two call 'bitties' because they know next to nothing about them). Life of crime doesn't bother Key or Ros xD (except for murder but that's for another time :))

[thatgiantsoulffle]

Apple Incident FAQ

Putting it together in this form to better organize all the questions I’ve gotten.

Obligatory disclaimer: All of the things written here are applicable only to my interpretation of DreamTale and do not reflect the canon version of the story in any way.

= General lore (how everything functions and stuff) =

• DreamTale is treated as a part of UTMV.

• Dream and Nightmare aren’t monsters. They’re actually balls of energy inhabiting solid bodies. Consequently, they’re physically stronger and more resilient than monsters are. Their bodies also won’t dust if they die.

• Consequently, the twins don’t have monster magic. So they can’t form any projectiles until they consume the apples. The only type of magic they’re capable of is the one that allows them to manipulate the motion of their bodies (and some objects, as seen with Nightmare and the throwing knife).

• The twins can’t sense other people’s emotions until they consume the apples.

• The apples don’t produce the energy of feelings but “cleanse” and redistribute it. They actually work as an essential element in the cycle of feelings, and without them the emotions’ “efficiency” will eventually fall to zero. However, they aren’t an infinite energy source; they collect, manage and expel existing energy instead.

• Nightmare before the Incident and corrupted Nightmare are treated as the same person in this AU. There’s trauma and a variety of ailments setting those apart, but he’s the same person at his core.

= Comic-related questions =

• Why the villagers wanted the apples in the first place?

Dream described them as a magical source of positive energy. How exactly they work isn’t quite clear, but whoever has them probably gets to be happy for the rest of his life, right? :D

• Was the whole village in on the plan to steal the apples?

Nope, only the three attackers plus the bunny, who was their accomplice, and the family member she’s heard talking to off-screen.

• What’s up with the tea party? Why were they trying to drug Dream?

The plan was for the twins to come to the “tea party”, where the bunny would drug them, and they’ll just sleep peacefully while the trio takes a few apples. In the end, no one was supposed to get hurt.

• Why did it take so many cups of tea to effect Dream?

The tea is supposed to work on monsters — and affect monster souls and monster magic — and Dream isn’t a monster.

•  What did Dream do with the last golden Apple?

Ate it, thinking he’d be able to keep it safe from the “attacker” that way.

• Why did Dream become a statue?

Basically, that’s what happens when positive energy violently clashes with negative, and they rapidly cancel each other out.

• Is Dream conscious inside the statue?

Not entirely. He’s in a dream-like state that can be affected by the fluctuations of energies around him (so, pretty much he’s seeing a vague continuous nightmare). However, he isn’t conscious enough for time and reality to register. Let’s be real, otherwise he’ll end up completely insane by the the time he breaks out.

Does Nightmare think Dream is dead or does he know that eventually Dream will be un-petrified?

Nightmare doesn’t know anything for sure, but he hopes Dream is still alive. Otherwise he wouldn’t have bothered taking the rest of the black apples. It was initially a protective act rather than a vengeful one.

• Are there villagers that survived/didn’t go on this punitive crusade? Or did Nightmare finish them all off and leave an empty world?

Yes, there are those who survived. The mob shown in the comic isn’t the whole population of the village. There are people who were lucky enough to be rescued early, and then there are rare few that Nightmare spared — and they got rescued after that.

Other than that, the world left behind is devastated and soaked in negativity, with zero intelligent life present (except for Dream).

= Future story =

•  What does Nightmare do with Dream’s paralyzed stone body after the attack?

He lets it be. He starts visiting it a few centuries later, even tries to free his brother, but is ultimately unsuccessful.

• How long will Dream stay stuck in stone?

Just like in canon, it’ll be 500 years before he ends up free.

•  How does Dream get revived from stone?

Simplified answer: Core Frisk gets help in taking the statue to a highly positive AU, where Dream’s energies are finally stabilized, and he is naturally freed from stone. Inside corrupted DreamTale the energy of the golden apple is in constant conflict with the surrounding negativity — which maintains the state he’s stuck in. (Just to clarify: general, directionless negativity alone isn’t enough to turn him into stone again.)

• What is Dream’s reaction to Nightmares corruption?

Very unsure, actually. It takes him a little while to figure out the goopy monster is even the same Nightmare, and even then he has trouble telling whether his brother is still in there. It messes with him a lot.

• Is Nightmare angry at Dream? Will they become enemies when Dream breaks out of his stone prison?

While I could spend a long time just explaining Nightmare (rationalizing his behavior and his story is a huge part of why I even ended up making this alternative interpretation), the simplified answer would be… Nightmare, the way he is with all the black apples and corruption, sees any kind of positivity as a threat. Positivity literally hurts him. Depending on how strong it is, it could bring unease and nausea or it could result in excruciating physical pain. And his natural instinct (especially early on) is to destroy the source of pain.

Dream just happens to be one of the brightest, strongest sources of positivity, so he’s just… a natural threat, so to speak. So the animosity Nightmare experiences towards his brother is directed at Dream as an entity, not as a person.

• So Nightmare’s fully corrupted now? There’s no way to bring him back?

The only way that wouldn’t end up in an absolute disaster would be extracting his apple “soul” (killing him in the process), merging it with Dream’s “soul” and replanting the Tree of Feelings from the resulting “seed”, which would pretty much just restart the cycle.

• Would anything significantly change from here on out from the canon, or would there be subtle changes?

That’s a question I struggle to answer simply because I’m not sure what’s canon anymore.

Technically, this whole thing with reinterpreting DreamTale started with an alternate multiverse I call SpectrumVerse, but that’s a huge different thing for discussion. I can talk about it, if anyone’s interested, but I don’t think this FAQ is a place for it.

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Okay---but you didn't have to point out all my struggles like this, gosh 💔

Dunno if this has been asked yet but for Mal and Edge with an SO who has really long (below the buttocks long), poofy and wavy hair? Is this dumb? Sorry ^^'

It’s not dumb! (but i’m having flashbacks to when i had hair that long and yikes im glad i cut it all off)

Swapfell sans- Is s/o sure that they want hair that long? He won’t tell you to cut it or anything like that, but he can’t help that he worries. That hair would be an easy disadvantage for an assailant to.. well.. take advantage of! It would be very easy for an enemy to grab s/o by the hair. 

“It does look nice though.. and it is soft. But it is still easy to get grabbed or to have tangled in things so be careful!”

Underfell Papyrus- “WHY IS IT EVERYWHERE?” It might look nice, and it seems cool from a distance but when living with it one has to face that humans do, in fact, shed hair. Not nearly as much as animals, but they do. And humans with long, heavy hair, lose A LOT of it. 

Needless to say, Edge is in the market for a new vacuum cleaner: one in which the spinning brush doesn’t stop spinning after vacuuming up too much hair. Honestly, he shouldn’t have to clean out the vacuum nearly as often as he does. 

But alas, he does care for his s/o and if they are happy with long hair then he will support them. And possibly buy them a better hairbrush. Or just make them do the vacuuming. 

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Still keepin' things simple but I can't resist making this at least.

Quality is still an issue but we can all ignore that :P

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Have my self-insert in @berryberryberryanddeath 's fanfic, Flesh in You https://archiveofourown.org/works/24815581/chapters/60020449

---obviously, the Horror bitty and Nightmare bitty is my favourite 💕(I still love Papy and Dream but please---these two gremlins...)

[thatgiantsoulffle]

Reblobbing my other stuff here since this will be my main now 💖

Tumblr sucks things used to be easy gdi but I see they still haven't changed how it ruins colors and pic quality :))

Inky is supposed to have his 'Belle hood' here but I want to show his dress off a little LMAO

ANYWAYS

This fic...I swear to god---

Didn't know I needed this gem of a rare pair until recently having read THIS FIC: https://archiveofourown.org/works/25231012/chapters/63040492?view_adult=true

@cafe-sugar-skull you are talented in drawing AND writing ❤️ I'm sorry if this isn't good TT u TT Thanks for this beautiful fic because it's gonna ruin me 💖

I'll do better next time, if it's the last thing I'll do, damn it