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didderd · 5 months

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i had a sleep paralysis nightmare this morning.

so i decided to make content out of it 👍

but really, sometimes if i'm not feeling well, i daydream about one of the characters i simp really like helping/comforting me.

n this time i started daydreaming about Nightmare comforting me. bc this was the worst sleep paralysis i ever had, and it left me feeling on edge for a bit after waking up. (i don't usually get nightmare-ish sleep paralysis)

n so i decided to make it into a little Nightmare x reader drabble where reader has a sleep paralysis nightmare, based on the one i had this morning.

this goes from horror to fluff real quick lmao. hope yall like it! :>

if you want to skip the sleep paralysis, go straight to the pink sentence!

(tw: sleep paralysis. sleep paralysis demon.)

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You're laying in bed, with half of your vision blocked by the hood of your jacket. All you can see is your bed.

You go to lift your hood.

But you can't move.

But you feel your arms move.

You feel yourself move to grab your hood. As heavy as it may feel, you're sure you did it.

But your hood is still there.

You don't see your hand.

Panic wells up in your stomach. You can't move. You can't see.

Gathering the little strength you have in your groggy state, you try to push yourself into a sitting position.

Again, you feel yourself scoot up the wall behind you.

But you don't see anything change.

Your vision feels frozen.

Closing your eyes, you try again to push your hood up.

When you open them, you can see your hand grabbing your hood.

But your hood is still there. and your hand is frozen in place. even though you feel it at your side again.

It's like your vision is broken.

But closing your eyes helped?

You close your eyes, and attempt to push yourself up again.

Opening your eyes, you think you're sitting up now. at least a little bit.

You close your eyes again and attempt once more to push your hood off your head.

It's off your head. You feel it on your neck.

When you open your eyes, you're laying down and your hood is blocking half your vision.

You try again.

You're sitting up. You can see your room.

You can see your window.

Something passes by your window. A shadowy figure. It looked humanoid, but were those antlers?

You're scared.

It happens again.

Your mother is in the room now. You're trying to ask for help, but she seems confused, and you can't get the words out.

She's standing near the window. Not too close, but you're scared.

Something. someone. appears at the window. but not outside it. They're inside.

Their eyes are wide, and they have an unsettling smile. Something about them seems deeply wrong.

You try to scream, and point at them to alert your mother.

Nothing but air comes out.

When your mother turns around, she only seems more confused. She doesn't see them.

Are you hallucinating?

You see something else in the corner of your eye. A dark figure.

You turn your head to look at it.

... Nightmare?

It's Nightmare. He's standing at the foot of your bed. Looking at you with a calm, yet concerned expression.

You remember you'd been living in his castle for a while now. This is your room in the castle... So why is your mother here?

Looking back, your mother and the unsettling person is gone.

Everything seems clearer. You feel like you can move better.

You look back at Nightmare as he walks closer. "Nightmare?" You spoke. You can speak again.

He stops next to you and places a hand on your head, comfortingly petting your hair. "You are safe. It is only sleep paralysis." His tone is soft, made to comfort you, and it works. You feel some of the fear melt away. You feel protected.

"Sleep paralysis?" You remember what it is, and it makes sense, but you ask anyways.

"Yes." He leans down and places the hand not petting your hair on your chest, just below your collar bones. "You should wake up now."

Everything fades out.

And you open your eyes.

Nightmare is sitting in a chair next to your bed, with a hand on your forehead. He'd pushed the hood off your eyes while you were asleep.

He opens his eye a second after you, and smiles warmly. "There you are."

You blink up at him, but immediately decide not to do that again, as the fear of falling back in runs through you. Instead, you decide to sit up, and Nightmare retreats his hand as you do, looking slightly more concerned, as he likely noticed your fear.

He places the same hand on your back to rub soothingly, and leans a bit closer, using the other to gently guide your chin to look at him. "Don't worry. You are safe.. I'm here." His words are firm, but so gentle.

Your face is warm at how intimate his hand on your chin feels, and his very smooth and handsome voice in your ears, yet it also helps so much to relax you and make you feel safe.

Half to distract from the warmth in your face, even though he's definitely noticed, judging by how his expression turns more smug than concerned, and half out of genuine curiosity, you finally speak. "Um... was that- was that really you in my dream?"

It seems to work to distract him as he answers. Moving his hand from your chin to tuck some hair out of your face as he does so.

"Darling, that wasn't a dream, that was a nightmare." His expression regains a bit of concern for a moment as he pauses, but it's gone before he speaks again. "But yes, that was me. I'd felt your fear as I was passing by your room, and when I came in, I saw that you were having a nightmare, so I decided to lend my aid." His hand had moved from your hair once he was done righting it, and is now resting on the bed, next to your thigh.

"I'm sure you know of my ability to enter and control dreams and nightmares. Sleep paralysis is no different. I was happy to help you out of yours, little shadow." His smile is fond as he raises his hand once more to cup your cheek, and rub his thumb over it, leaning a little closer as he does.

Your cheeks feel warm again, at how close he is, and how gentle his hand is on your cheek. You can't help the urge to lean into his touch, and so you don't even try to fight it, placing your hand over his as you lean into it.

Even though you know you weren't in any real danger, you still feel like he saved you. You're grateful to him. You're not sure how to repay him, but you do know what you so badly want to do in this moment.

Placing your free hand over his collar bone and lightly grip at his sweater, you lean a bit closer to his face, and look down at his mouth. but you stop there and look to the side.

You retreat that bit you'd just leaned in, your face feeling much warmer now. You don't know what you're doing. Maybe your lack of good sleep gave you too much confidence. As if The Guardian of Negativity would want to kiss you. What were you thinkin-

Nightmare chuckles. You look back at him with widened eyes.

His smug expression is mixed with that of fondness... You sometimes forget that he can basically read your mind... Fuck.

You look away again. Your face feels like it's burning.

But you quickly look back when he gets much. much closer. His hand moving from your cheek to the side of your neck, and brushing into the hair on the back of your head, while his other hand slides down your back to the lower half.

He chuckles again, no doubt at how red your face is, and your shocked expression. "Darling, if you thought I wouldn't want to kiss you just as bad as you want to kiss me right now, you'd be sorely mistaken.~" He just about purrs, inches from your mouth.

The hairs on your neck and arms stand as he speaks, and both your hands ball into his sweater over his chest. You didn't think you could get warmer, but you do.

His cheeks are looking a little flushed too as the lid over his socket lowers, and he looks down at your lips, before slowly, and gently closing the gap.

It's a very tender and loving kiss. Not what you were expecting coming from him, but it's amazing.

You lean into it the moment the shock melts away. You feel like you're melting in his arms.

After another long, blissful moment, he pulls away, before picking you up to move you over and make room for him on your bed, and climbs in next to you.

Once he's laid down, he pulls you close again, and combs through your hair, nuzzling your face, before sighing into your cheek, and then kissing it. "You make me soft..."

You're so full of warm feelings right now, it's almost overwhelming, and you hope it's not overwhelming for him. It's all so hard to believe, but seems so genuine. More genuine than you'd ever seen Nightmare. To think he'd let his guard down so much with you.

You almost let out a giddy giggle as you bury your warm face in his sweater, just under his chin, and he wraps his arm tighter around you, using one of his tentacles to pull your blanket over both of you.

As you lay comfortable and warm in his arms, feeling his chest rise and fall against you with his breath, you start to feel yourself falling back to sleep. You forget you even had that nightmare before all this.

The last thing you hear and feel before you're asleep again is Nightmare placing a kiss on the top of your head and speaking, almost in a whisper.

"Goodnight, little shadow."

#had to hold myself back from turning this suggestive lmao #wanted it to jus b fluff so ppl who don't like suggestive can enjoy it to :>#nightmare feels a bit out of character here #but that could just be bc out of context. him being super soft to someone seems vry out of character lmao #reader makes him feel soft and mushy inside #n he's finally letting that out wif cuddles :3 #i thought abt making it rice bc this feels more in character for him #but yall barley know rice lmao if at all #don't even have his design out. so ye #nightmare x reader #i rly like the 'little shadow' nickname for nightmare's reader -v-)#nightmare sans #dreamtale #undertale #undertale au #sleep paralysis #didderd writes #the person in the nightmare with the unsettling smile actually looked kinda like chucky the doll but with like. an adults body #i was gonna kinda describe that. but this felt like it kept the pacing better :p

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alaina-b · 5 years

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Child’s Play 2019 Review

Spoilers under the cut!

So tonight I went and saw Child’s Play and let me tell you, it was certainly a ride, and I didn’t want to get off.

Spoiler Free Review: Now I am in no way a critic. I am a casual moviegoer who thoroughly enjoys the thrill of a horror film. With that in mind, let’s get into it.

I’ve been a fan of the original Chucky since Halloween of 2018. I’ve watched all the movies (some more than once) and own the whole collection of the films. I was very skeptical when they first announced the remake and how Chucky would be portrayed (as an AI killer robot instead of a possessed doll) but the idea began to grow on me once I realized the possibilities that were opened with this new concept. I believe this movie acted on many of those possibilities while leaving many others open for use in possibly a sequel (I would love that).

The things that I liked about the film were the story and emotional turmoil, along with the actual portrayal of Chucky as an AI robot. His personality is absolutely nothing like his original counterpart, and I think that’s why I enjoyed it. It was a brand new, modern take on Chucky and how that was shown was very unsettling in a cute-creepy way. The story was very nice and Andy was a very relatable character to me. The aspects of that will be explored further in my spoiler review under the cut. There were so many emotions in this film and it made me tear up a couple times, actually. Gabriel Bateman as Andy and Bryan Tyree Henry as Detective Norris both gave amazing performances in their roles and I would love to see them reprise their roles.

Now let’s get into what the horror fans came here for, the gore and kills. I cannot express how big of a relief it was when I first saw that this film was rated R, and they used that rating well. The kills in this movie were gloriously bloody and so horrifying that they made me squirm and curl up in my seat (something only the Saw films had been able to do to me).

Some other aspects that I found were amazing: The soundtrack (which is available to listen to on YouTube and Spotify, possibly other places but I’m not sure) is phenomenal. It mixes a cute and comforting feeling with that of an unsettling and frightening tone and that is amazing. I’m a sucker for creepy music boxes and creepy kids songs in horror movies (think of Freddy’s song in the Nightmare on Elm Street movies). I also believe that the overall look of the Chucky doll is not that bad. He’s creepy while also keeping that “Hey, it’s kinda cute” vibe to it. Kinda like an ugly puppy, you just can’t see it as actually ugly. The look of the doll only grew on me through the film.

The only part that I thought could use work was the pacing. It takes a long time to actually get going, but once it does, it doesn’t stop. Once the movie gets started, it is very fast-paced and kind of rushed. It was only an hour and a half, and I feel that it would have been better if they had made it longer and drawn out several things (or maybe that’s just me wanting more Chucky, lol)

Overall, I say that it was a great movie and definitely worth a watch for any Chucky fan or horror fan in general.

SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT

Here is my SPOILER REVIEW of Child’s Play 2019. It will cover all above-mentioned topics, but point out places in the film where it takes place.

First, I’ll go back and start with the story. I absolutely loved the story and the emotional impact it had on the characters. Andy struggling to face what Chucky has done and what he’s capable of is heart-wrenching as we watch him slowly begin to realize that this doll is a killer and is not to be trusted. Chucky’s first act of violence is toward the family cat after it scratches Andy. Chucky tries strangling the cat (fun little nod to the “lakeshore strangler” title of Charles Lee Ray, the OG Chucky) and Andy has to stop him. This is the first problem Andy notices with Chucky and the shock on his face and his fear of Chucky is there, but his first concern is making sure that Chucky isn’t gonna do this anymore because he doesn’t want to lose him. This is seen more and more through the film especially when Chucky brings the head of Shane (or rather, the face). Andy tries just putting Chucky in the closet instead of immediately throwing him out. Andy has a real, true friendship with this doll and it is heartbreaking seeing Andy have to kill his best friend.

Chucky’s personality is that of a very curious and confused little doll. I loved that about the film because Chucky is so innocent compared to his original counterpart. We see him get excited when he thinks he finds a new way to make Andy happy, like when the group was watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 on Andy’s TV and they’re all laughing and smiling at the blood and gore (great choice, by the way. I adore TCM2). When the kids see that Chucky has a knife and is trying to kill Pugg, they all, understandably, stop him. But Chucky just looks confused, he thought they liked blood and gore. He thought the real-life version would make them even happier than the fake version. I love this aspect of Chucky. He’s just so confused and just trying to figure things out. Especially since he basically has consciousness and sentience, he has to figure out how the world works. Unfortunately, he keeps getting mixed signals. And I just love how that is what drives him to kill. He thinks that’s what Andy wants. It’s just amazing all around.

The kills in this movie, as stated before, are amazing. Shane’s death is now one of my favorite horror movie kills of all time. The impending doom of the garden tiller making its way to Shane’s head was so beautifully suspenseful and the satisfaction of seeing this asshole’s face get ripped off was awesome. The death of the stalking mechanic in the basement also had a feeling of satisfaction to it. Just the fact that the first two kills happened to total dicks is very nice. And I love a good table saw kill. Then we have the death of Doreen. Her death was tragic and the effect it had on me was great. As soon as we saw that Chucky was watching Doreen leave in her Kaslan Car, we knew it was over. That feeling of knowing what’s coming to such a lovable character is heartbreaking. It adds a layer of personal need for revenge to the story of Detective Norris. He will find out who’s doing this and he will not stop until they’re brought to justice. The acting on Brian’s part is amazing in the scene where he finds his mother’s body and you see the moment he looks at her his world shatters. My favorite kill, however, is the drone kill. The drone kill shown near the end of the film is amazing and I wish we saw more of those.

I won’t speak too much about the ending because this is already a very long post, but I loved the ending. The fight between Chucky and Andy while Andy is trying to save his mom is great, and when you think Chucky is down for good, he gets back up and jumps at Andy, and that scene was my favorite of the film. I also love that they left it open for a possible sequel and I would LOVE to see one.

As I said before, the pacing is pretty weird, but that doesn’t affect my opinion of the film at all. You can imagine scenes that could take place in between parts of the movie and use your imagination to envision things in the film that you didn’t necessarily see, but you can definitely imagine happening. I believe I talked about the pacing enough in my spoiler-free review above, but if you’d like me to talk about what parts of the movie were oddly paced, feel free to send an ask and I’ll gladly talk about it.

Overall, once again, I loved this film. This new, cute Chucky was a nice spin on the original and I loved his personality. If you disagree, that’s totally fine. I would love to talk about this movie more with anyone. (I’m just a huge fangirl who found a new son tonight and I wanna show him off to everyone).

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