so here's the thing, about dream's relationships. they rarely last longer than a couple months, though we only have a small sample size as to why
and merv says this, at one point, and while merv's opinions on dream are always to be taken with a grain of salt, he is at least someone who's seen most of them fall apart
but from dream's perspective, we know he's never stopped loving anyone, once you have his heart you have it forever, even if he's not always the best at showing it, and is easily offended when he thinks you're rejecting him
so i think, what's likely happening here is, dream will put a lot of effort into courting someone, that we've seen, but once they get cemented in his brain as a thing he's not going to easily lose, he a) loses track of time, and b) finds it harder to keep prioritising that courtship over all of the other million things that need his attention at any given moment, which reads to anyone else as dream's stopped loving me
and i think about how dream is the most neurodivergent endless after delirium, and how many adhd symptoms are very dreamlike, with the skipping from one thing to another with no need to explain the middle, or the major difficulty regulating emotions
...how's that object permanence working out for you there, buddy? the "what no it's only been like, three days since we last talked, not seven months" trait is strong here, huh? "i still love you and last i checked you loved me so how could things have possibly changed in my absence?"
(kinda see that one with him being surprised the dreaming was so fucked up after a century's absence, too)
relationship degradation mechanic broke, local endless does not have a concept of time away from someone making you care less about them and is very confused and angsty over the whole affair
though hey if nothing else the dreamling shippers are in luck here bc if there's anyone in the world who's not gonna be offended by or stop caring about dream after long absences, that would be the one!
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