Do you think that the rest of the dreaming will quietly be bitter towards Dream now that Wanderer is exiled? Or that he has any sort of instant regret? That last chapter broke my heart not gonna lie, amazing writing!! <3
Yes. You have to remember Dream is not the only one who had Wanderer in his life for centuries. Dreaming's inhabitants have all known Wanderer just as long. For many dreams and nightmares, Wanderer was their first exposure to humanity. First kind face too. Dream loves his creations a great, wonderful deal, but he's not the most outwardly affectionate individual out there. During those first terrifying stages of their new life, them just coming to grips with their very existence - for many Wanderer was the first loving, encouraging, patient voice they heard. Goes without saying that Dreaming inhabitants are loyal to Dream, but it really raises a question in tibyim canon how much Wanderer's banishment affects others leaving once Dream is captured. Whether, to a degree, they lost their faith in him because of it, because they themselves so fundamentally disagreed with the banishment but kept quiet about it out of respect to their creator.
As for Dream, probably not right away. He's so filled with righteous wrath. Because why won't she just tell him. It's his brother, his family. He has the right to this information. If she keeps this from him, what else can she keep? Too many bad past experiences claw at his mind, and it's as if something cold and painful has been pierced right through him. His throat feels too dry, ringing in his ears defeaning, the Dreaming seems to writhe with his turbulent emotion.
It's not until Wanderer fades from the Dreaming, obeying his order without a snarky comment or a word, that something else smoothes over the bitterness. It's a flash of a camera; those few dizzying seconds where light fills your sight, blinding and bright, but then fades from your sight, slowly, gone, gone, but you still see phantom lights bloating your vision. You see them everywhere. It's so tangible until it's gone. The last rays of sun before sunset, where you still sense the presence of warmth there, next to you, on you, around you, then it's gone. In the absence of these things, only cold, jagged suspension remains. The silence that devours. Where there once was something - laughter, affection, comfort, home and belonging - there is now nothing.
This time, she's gone. This time, she might never come back. And his great kingdom, his beautiful home, no longer feels so beautiful without its biggest dreamer.
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i keep thinking of prongsfoot grandparents.
james is overjoyed to hold a baby in his arms again. he tries to get harry to leave the kids with him as often as possible, to the point that harry’s like ‘dad, can we borrow our child for a sec pls? just to remind them who gave birth here’ and james just has this huge pout and a put-upon sigh like ‘yeah fine, i guess’
and sirius is like the extremely overindulgent grandfather (he’s still called papa in this universe btw. james is gramps) who’ll buy out entire stores if his grandkid so much as thought out about it. harry’s just like ‘seriously? u did not have to rent out an entire theme park for my five year old. she won’t even remember this.’ ‘sirius i don’t want them to grow up as spoilt brats’ and he’s just like ‘chill. u turned out fine’
and because they’re like, super young, right? u have the classic trope of j&s in public, someone going ‘oh your kids are so cute!’ and them going haha no while lilylu screams ‘gramps!’ in the bg.
(also o k listen. prongsfoot as silver fox babes???) (harry already knows the pain of having people around him fantasise about his extremely hot dads but now his kids have to go through round 2 of their friends doing the same w their grandfathers)
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