c!Dream is off on a mission, to a location he does not know, for a purpose he does not know, but it’s probably not dangerous, and he also brought snacks so it should work out in the end. Honestly, given his poor map reading skills, the lack of direction isn’t that different from normal.
When Dream started his mission to… somewhere, he hadn’t been expecting it to feel so different.
Unlike his usual adventures, full of sidetracks and distractions, he found his feet pulled forward. His body almost moved as if it had a mind of his own as something called for him. Faintly but desperately. Like a ghost screaming and clawing at his skin, but only coming across as a gust of wind.
He couldn’t say how long he walked for. Time faded away, the light stopped mattering, the sights and sounds blended together until-
Until he reached it.
The entrance to a cave, made of rock he’d never seen before. It was perfectly smooth, like river rocks, but it shimmered like crystals. Every time he looked, it was a different color. Refracting and reflecting light until you lost yourself looking at it.
It was huge. It was narrow. It was more than big enough to fit him. It felt like it might consume him.
The call was coming from the cave, but equally just looking at the cave felt like he was doing something wrong. Like he wasn’t really supposed to be here, even though he’d been called.
Taking a deep breath, Dream strode forward. Holding his head high and hoping his mask would keep him safe, like XD had promised it would.
Inside the cave, there was no air. Inside the cave, Dream didn’t need to breathe. He forgot how to.
The only thing he could remember was how to put one foot in front of the other.
There was no sound, not even his own footsteps. There was no light. He could see just fine. He could not understand what he was seeing.
Whatever was under his feet was no longer rock. Maybe it never had been. He still didn’t know what color it was.
Deeper and deeper into the cave he went, nothing changing but the feeling in his chest of something approaching. Something watching him. Something was waiting for him. He didn’t know if he wanted it to find him.
Dream was pretty sure he didn’t have a choice.
Finally, he stopped. Unable to walk any further. He was here.
In front of him was…
Well it looked like a pond. But it wasn’t full of water.
It was full of void, deadly still and frozen.
Without thinking, he knelt at its shore.
The room felt stagnant, empty, neglected.
And then..
He felt- not one but two somethings join him in the room. No- they had been there the entire time.
Is this it? The one we’ve been waiting for.
Yes. It feels strange, but it is the one.
It does not feel like the ones that came before. Something’s different.
It is meant to be this way. It is the one. It is meant to be different. It would not survive if it were the same.
This one has survived. It has come to us at last. We’ve been waiting a very long time for it.
I told you it would come, eventually.
I know. The waiting was still long. But it has come. It is here now. It’s time to begin again.
It can hear us. Let’s not make it wait. It has not yet won. It has so much to do.
I know. I wish it were easier. It has already come so far.
It has come far, and we will watch where it goes. We cannot make it easier, but we will be there to witness its story unfold.
“Um, my name is Dream.”
Dream wasn’t quite how he managed to speak, but he did. He could feel- surprise? shock? delight? Silence from the voices reverberating through his skull. Only for a moment though.
Our apologies, little Dream. You’ve come very far. You have much farther to go.
“I know. XD told me. He said this was the first step. Can I ask a question?”
You seem to be able to. Although our answers may not satisfy you. We must speak carefully. We are not here to shape you.
Never. We are here to watch, we are here to witness. So that you know the universe is with you.
“Okay, well, I know I was supposed to come here. I assume there’s something I’m supposed to do, like a task or something? But uh, before that, you guys seem to know a lot. Like about everything.”
We are everything. Everything you see, everything you feel, everything reaching out and holding you close.
We have been here a very long time. We will be here for a very long tmie, here to witness you, little Dream.
“Okay, well if you know a lot about everything, do you have any ideas about what I could get XD for Christmas? I really wanted to try to get him something, but he seems to be able to conjure anything. There has to be something that he wants though! Any ideas?”
There was a long pause, Dream almost thought the voices were gone, and then he felt something like laughter, like a breeze ruffling his hair, like a baby bird’s first awkward attempt at flight. Not cruel, soft, but chaotic.
We could-
Shush, Dream can still hear us. Speak with care.
I know. But he has asked. Can we not share this much?
XD would love any gift you brought him, he loves you. He can create any material, but only you give him something that communicates your love.
If he’d been able to, Dream would’ve rolled his eyes.
“I know, but I want it to actually be special. There has to be something that I could get that he can’t get on his own. I know it must exist!”
The voices paused again, only for a moment this time.
There is something you could get him, little Dream. But it is a very difficult task. It is very dangerous.
He is still small. The challenge is great.
That is not our choice to make.
“Wait, what is it? I can handle it! XD has been training me for years! Also I'm not that small! I'm a whole foot taller than Sapnap!”
If we tell him, we have made his choice.
What about a story then?
We could try a story. They are safer. Not entirely safe, nothing can be entirely safe. But safer.
Yes, let’s try.
The story starts with a boy. Young, small, but very brave. He was made of love, of new ideas. Dangerous new ideas.
The boy set out on a quest, dreams had haunted him at night, driving him forward until he found a dying world.
The world was dying because it was being poisoned by a monster. A great beast that had lost itself, that was in pain, that had already told its story but hadn’t yet been freed. It wasn’t allowed to wake up, to start a new dream.
The boy was very small, but very brave. Full of love for the world. Made of that love. He couldn’t stand to see the world hurt. So he set out to free the monster.
He used a weapon made of teeth, found deep in a strange place outside of the universe most people know. Given to him when he started his quest. Teeth and bone from the emptiness that stretches from one universe to the next. The maw of the nothing that binds everything. The only thing that could wake up the monster.
It was a long and hard fight. The monster was hurt, it was lashing out, it was too lost to understand that the boy was doing what it needed. But the boy managed to strike a final blow, sunk the teeth of the nothing in between everything into the monster and set it free. So it’s dream could start anew.
This was not the boy’s final quest, it was his first. It changed him. He was still made of love, but a new kind of love. Changed, as all things are by their experiences. He was something new.
The boy completed his quests, and each changed him more. At the end, he came out victorious, a brave monsterslayer. Feared and revered for his skill. He had everything he could ever want.
Almost.
Almost, you see, he was full of love, surrounded by others, but he felt alone. Nobody else could slay a monster like he had. His accomplishment isolated him. He wanted very badly to find someone else that could slay monsters like him. That could do what he could do. Someone else who was full of love and dangerous new ideas.
The universe felt sad for him, but it could not take his sadness. It could only witness the boy in his loneliness.
“What was his name?” Dream asked, trying to puzzle out the story he was being told. He thought he might understand, but he wanted to be sure.
You would need to ask him.
It is not our place to name others. Only to know their name. Only to witness them.
“Did the boy find someone else? Someone else who could slay monsters?”
That is your choice, little Dream. The story isn’t over yet.
We are almost out of time.
“Will I meet you again?”
We are the universe, and you are part of it. You will never be apart from us.
We might speak again, one day. But for now, it’s time for you to return to your story.
Wake up, little Dream.
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Okay enough it's enough, now you need to tell me more about the vampire au that you are creating.
Alrighty!
I guess I can share some stuff bout this crazy AU.
• Dream’s a Hunter (for anything and everything).
• SBI are a coven, Mumza’s the matriarch, Phil her right hand and Wil, Tommy and Techno are her ‘children’.
• Neapolitan trio are not blood related, they’re ‘blood brothers’ though (Mumza gave her blood to the three of them for their transformation).
• Scarification for SBI’s coven mark, oh yeah.
• Dream got a job from the town’s mayor to kill a monster that had been terrorizing the town, which the citizens started to call “Blood God”.
• Said “Blood God” turns out to be a vampire (we know it’s Techno, it’s obvious for us), and so when Dream encounters him, it stops being a hunt and starts a battle for their life’s.
• It ends as a tie, but the contract is still up and Dream searches for Techno again. This becomes a usual for both.
• It’s just by mere coincidence that they start to talk while they fight, starting with sarcastic comments, then the closest thing they can give as a “compliment” to each other’s skills, and ending up talking about anything in their mind during, and after their fights.
• Their fights turn from the purpose of killing to simple spars. They get to know more about the other.
• Dream decides it’s useless to pretend anymore and gets Techno to agree to leave the townsfolk alone. To prove the mayor the monster was gone, he brought a piece of clothing and some jewels from the vampire, covered in blood. The mayor accepted this as enough proof and gave the reward, dismissing him soon after.
• Dream got to meet the Mors Corvi (SBI’s coven’s name), Techno introduced him and prevented any kind of misunderstanding his family could have.
• They know Dream tried to kill Techno, and how it suddenly turned into friendly spars, they don’t know all the details, but they’re happy for Techno.
• Mumza offers a place for both of them to stay, remaining inside of her territory but just far enough to get privacy from the townsfolk.
• “Omg they were roommates.”
• Techno likes to get what he wants whenever he wants, so when that stops happening, he gets pissed and if it’s bad enough, he’ll go on a hunger strike.
• This only makes things annoying for Dream, who has to work with a stubborn vampire and the hunting instincts that go haywire for the lack of food.
• If a vampire goes long without food, they can get aggressive, but they’re mostly conscious of what’s happening and what are they doing. If it goes longer than a couple of days, the vampire will turn feral, nothing gets through them as the need to satisfy their hunger is the only thing that occupies their mind. If it goes longer than this, the vampire turns docile, no strength in their system as it tries to keep as much energy as possible, they’re very docile in these conditions and it’s hard for them to understand things that happen around them.
• Most of the times, Dream gets Techno to drop his tantrums and come back to his senses in the first stage, some other times Techno goes feral and Dream has to tie him up, it can be fun for him to do that (more if the vampire got pissy because he’d been wrong (Techno’s a brat, I don’t care bout ooc, this is such a crack AU JAJDJS)).
• There’s been a couple of times Techno has gone too long without food, some were because he didn’t want to eat and one time he couldn’t eat. All of those times, Dream had been able to help him go back to normal.
For the moment that’s what I’ve got planned, not really thinking of making this one an Ao3 work (already got too many), so it’ll stay as these notes with story and drawings.
If you guys want to ask these two questions, feel free to do it (SBI may answer too ☕️)
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I am having AU brainrot and I must share it.
So it’s bedrock bros God of War basically. Obviously Kratos is Techno and Atreus is Tommy and the plot is pretty similar but there are some things that are different that changes some things.
First off, Tommy was given to Techno by the goddess of Death (Kristen) not his (technically) biological son. (Although this is kind of obsolete because of Reasons, Tommy is Basically his bio son without him having actually…created him)
Secondly, Techno named Tommy Theseus, but the woman who raised him gave him the nickname of Tommy. The woman who raised him is Not Technos wife, but just a woman he trusted to take care of Tommy, named Clara. She dies, obviously, leaving Techno to come pick up the kid he should’ve been raising.
Techno, instead of having the title of God of War, instead has the title of God of Blood. Instead of his skin being stained white by the ashes of his family, his hair was stained red by the blood of the innocent he slaughtered. As this story is later in the future, his hair has lightened to more of a pink color :)
Also, instead of Realms, it’s dimensions, of course the ones we know and love, Overworld, Nether, and End, but there will be a couple ones that might also be familiar that I won’t spoil :)))))
Anyways, Technos home dimension is the nether, because he was born piglin and the ‘gods’ that he killed there were all the leaders/rulers of the respective mobs of the nether, including his own father.
One of the most crucial things that is different is of course the Voices. Sticking with the popular headcanon, the voices in Technos head are people who have died/he has killed or caused the deaths for. These voices can send him into a rage where he goes blind with bloodlust and kills everything around him. Despite the fact that this has not happened in many many years and the fact that he has much more control over them, he is still deathly afraid of losing himself to them once more. So that’s why, instead of raising the son he was given, he instead gives him away, believing that anywhere would be safer than by his side.
There’s a bunch more subtle and huge changes I have planned, but I really need to start writing this shit down and legitimately planning before I can spoil anymore lol.
Look out for when the first chapter comes out, I already have it completely planned but I want to plan a couple more chapters (at least 5-6) before I start really getting into the writing of it. Hopefully, by doing so, I can bring out a more fully fleshed out story that will be much more enjoyable to read.
If you’ve read this far you are a real one and probably interested so make sure to follow 👍
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