Dreamtale Nightmare - Blog Posts
was trying to make a comic but i didnt like the rest of it lol
Here are some of mine! Anything else not in any other color if probably purple I was just to lazy to do the whole thing.
i put dust x horror twice whoopsie daisy
he tryin' to be creepy or smth
Dream's design: most likely done! At least we're getting there. I don't know what kinda changes my brain will come up with later so consider this a (probably) temporary design lol
Below is a semi-coherent explanation for the last image
The 3rd image is like a visualisation of my notes on them, inspired by nature patterns. Dream and Nightmare are not total opposites of each other, but rather analogous to each other.
Resilience — Motion : their nature. Nightmare is prone to being static, while Dream is constant motion.
Continuity — Harmony : community. Dream likes the interconnectedness of large communities, while Nightmare prefers one-on-one and closer relationships.
Sensuality — Intensity : how they approach relationships. In their truest nature, Dream is like a blazing sun: intense and constant. If he clicks with you, then he'd be excited to fill in every corner that he can in your life. Meanwhile Nightmare is more like a cat: approaching only when he feels comfortable and when he wants to, even if it's rarely. But the weight/importance of his attention makes up for it (or not, depending what kind of attention you're getting..)
Connection — Stability : what both of them need to feel happy and safe in their lives. Funnily enough, it's also what they don't have.
Influence — Change : how they impact other beings/people, consciously and power-wise. Nightmare influences others by compounding on preexisting emotions/thoughts/insecurities/etc, making one more likely to do whatever (like for example fall into a depressive episode). Dream, on the other hand, doesn't do subtlety and smashes through (or into) anything, outright forcing one to change their mood or mindset. His powers walk along the line of hypnosis in that regard.
Update & Upcoming Artwork
Sorry I haven’t posted anything Undertale related for a month, I was taking a break then got super into another fandom so started to work on art for that, then I took another break and then I got sick for almost 2 weeks.
So for a long story short: I basically took a long break to rethink some things.
I think I got a bit overwhelmed with the amount of characters/AU variations that I ended up burning out.
But now, I’m gonna start on a project revolving around Neue AU Variants based on the Star Sanses and Bad Sanses. This will include the following:
-Eras (“Son”/Student of Dream)
-Lucida (“Daughter”/Student of Nightmare)
-Merriweather (Daughter of Underswap Sans)
-Crimson (Son of Horrortale Sans)
-Gisha (Child of Cross Sans)
-Vani (Daughter of Dust Sans)
-Sabon (Son of Killer Sans)
-Canvas (Student of Ink Sans)
Along with a few more.
Obviously for a few of these I haven’t completed their rough drafts yet, but for the ones I did, I’ll be redrawing/redesigning their appearances.
If anyone has any suggestions/questions for these characters, please feel free to comment down below.
Updated Height Chart
Here is an updated Height chart for the AU Neues.
It was interesting to see the colored versions next to each other. I found the size differences to be funny, especially with the tallest one (Crimson) being in the same picture with the shortest one (Miriam).
Neue & AU Variants: Body/Hair/Eye Colors 18/18
Here is the colored lineart of Quire, Mono, Styx, Mairanda, Eras, and Lucida.
Quire
Mono
Styx
Mairanda
Eras
Lucida
Lineart of Neue & AU Variants Pt. 1
I would love to see more of this headcancon, it’s really good!🤩
Yeah *slams nightmare design and trash headcanons* /silly
for my Nightmare I would honestly like him being like half corrupted. I think I've seen people draw him like in his original passive form with teal eye or something
But for my design half of his corruption actually affect his whole looks but besides that there's still passive inside. Unfortunately people mistreated him and bully him more because of his looks.
Another headcanon is that whenever he walks he would leave a footprint out of his goop or either drips
And the sad faces though I thought it would also kinda symbolize negative emotion? for the smiling face though I would love to think it would symbolize evils
" you are what you eat" actually made me thinking of Nightmare. He literally become corrupted because he eat the corrupted apple.
He is trying to resist the urg to kill anybody but failed. I was thinking that my version of Nightmare would have voice in his head convincing or telling him him to kill anybody or massacre
And more of this: whenever he came across any dreamtale timeline he would question reality about alot of nightmare and dream fighting each other
Unfortunately Dream in his timeline was dead. Causes are unknown but maybe his brother explored alot of timeline with the star sanses and someone killed him? who knows who?
I'm pretty sure this is kinda canon part :
for his survival I think negative energy are like his source of living not just eating or whatsoever. he need negative emotions so he can live longer! And also increase his strength since he needs something to defend himself.
Without negative energy he would become weaker and weaker and die.
Also gonna mention: Nightmare is a kid here he doesn't know any better due to lack of guidance
Yes I did not cooked but this are headcanon stuck in my head
..a fanfic I’ve been reading seems to haunt my brain now, so! To compensate and get more brain rot, I thought of an au idea where Rain goes back in time to before the apple incident happens, and they have to take care of lithe little guardians of negativity and positivity!
Frankly, I’ll probably make this a short comic while I work on Unwanted Souls and such hehehe
Day 10, reap what you sow.
Hehe, silly angst!
So uh my finger slipped and I have this now…. I don’t know what it is.
new headcanon
i like the idea that dust hides in clothes, like his hood and scarf hides his face but he also wears gloves and is one of the few sanses who wears pants instead of shorts. Basically, he constantly has all hint of bone hidden Dust felt like he had to hide from his empty world, from the "dust" that covered every inch of his au. BUT Killer didnt care at all he didnt care to hide, he saw his empty world as more of a freedom especially since he lost his emotions. so since no one is around why should he bother covering up? it started as just sleeping in the nude, to wandering around the house nude, to just grabbing something from grillbys nude till eventually, he has been alone so long that he is just like "Why bother all the clothes are dirty anyway and who would i be washing them for." too lazy to do chores he just goes bare boned 24/7. imagine him and Nightmare first meeting, Killer at this point just forgets about his natural state and Nightmare has to make rules about going out he has to wear clothes. OR what if NM spent a couple centuries alone and thinks this is the new norm for skeletons and just lets Killer be. its not till they recruit Dust OR Nightmare hears rumors that he has a "poor abused captive that he doesnt allow clothes." NM realizes that Killer is just weird and has to force Killer to wear clothes. Killer would definitely take to it like a chihuahua being forced to wear those tiny dog shoes, he would HATE it. Both Dust and Nightmare would carry shorts to make Killer wear when he inevitably "loses" his clothes.
One of my favorite things is the fact that so many people love nightmare. He creates so much positivity in the fandom canon nightmare would be so disgusted. I like to imagine how so many versions of him would be conflicted or confused about how people see him. Not even just things like dadmare or the bsp but also those who create evil twisted versions of him and still love him. I've always wanted a comic or fanfic of all the sanses reaction to the fandom and not the cringe of it but just all the love they have for these freaky traumatized skeletons
I've been watching the anime Castlevania and I love the castle aesthetic. Now whenever I picture Nightmares castle I picture him in Dracula's castle especially the extremely tall throne chair and Dracula's study. His castle is definitely all red carpets and wall height bookshelves which is funny since they are all short. Also Killers room is now Alucards room it even has stars on the ceiling! I would love to know what ya'll think nights castle looks like
Killer has a habit of laying across nightmares desk when bored, which is always. Nightmare has gotten used to it. I like to imagine when the others are still new they don't know how to react to seeing killer so casually flung across the bosses desk. One day nightmare runs out of ink (cause of course he uses an ink well and quill) and he just casually dips into killers eye goop (this is not the first time this has happened just the first time in front of others) he is also used as a stamp/envelope licker. Killer is quite the useful desk tool.