A Friendly Heart (working title)
Dreamling - The Last Unicorn AU
Dream of the Endless sat on the stairs of his throne and mulled over the last reports he had received. The dreamers were acting strange lately. Nightmares thrived more than usual, finding new and awful inspiration in their host’s minds. Additionally the dreamers seemed to grow in number, filling all the places of the Dreaming. He had heard many a voice asking him to create new places for sleepers to go because the dreams were overflowing with them. As if there were more and more humans, craving sleep…
A hoarse throat was cleared loudly and Dream sighed wearily.
“The audience has ended for today, Mervyn. I will receive no-one else.”
“Boss, actually, I think you’ll want to receive this one.”
Dream looked up, curious at Mervyn’s unusual lack of swearing. The pumpkin-headed man stepped aside and through the heavy doors of the throne room a colorful tiny thing danced and fluttered. It was a butterfly.
Its wings tinkled as it flew and spun above Morpheus’ head a few times until he held out his hand to let it settle. A buzzing sensation ran through his hand where the tiny thing had landed and colorful shapes crawled over the back of his hand and back again to the wings of the butterfly.
“Welcome, little friend. You come from my sister’s realm. What news do you bring?”
“News! News! News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens! But not here, so much happening all the time!” it chirped happily.
“Yes?” Dream prompted gently.
“But a lot happens, oh so much! Everywhere, from there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere! There is nowhere to go but everywhere, so I just keep on rolling under the stars!”
Now the butterfly’s voice had taken on a sad note and its wings quivered. The Lord of the Dreaming frowned.
“What has happened? Is there a problem in Delirium’s realm?”
“I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this – but she’s gone, no light, no light in her bright blue eyes, I never knew daylight could be so violent…”
“She’s gone? My sister?” Dream tried to solve the puzzle of the butterfly’s words with a growing sense of dread. The little thing’s wings had turned almost grey and flapped only weekly. Could it not sustain itself any longer?
Morpheus carefully blew a kiss at it and again vibrant colors began to glow on the gossamer wings. It lifted itself up and began to sing:
“Thank you, you! There is no one alive who is Youer than You! Thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body!”
“It was gladly given. Now tell me, what happened to my sister? Where is she?”
“No, no, listen.” it whispered suddenly, intensly. “Don't listen to me, listen. You can find the others if you are brave.”
“The others? What about the others?”
Dread had formed a cold stone in his gut. Dream got up and started towards his gallery, the butterfly spinning happily around and around him like a rainbow ribbon.
“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing!”
The Dream Lord did not think it was telling him anything with that, it was simply enjoying the energy he had provided it.
He was not easily frightened. But he was worried.
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Batfam’s handwriting headcanons!!
Alfred (right handed): cursive, normally neat and kind of flowery calligraphic(?) (he usually write the gala, party invitations for worthy guests himself), his notes are written just as neat but the letters are more narrow and tilted to the right.
Brucie (left handed): writes in cursive, bubbly letters, flowery, extravagant with endless numbers of loops and stems, big flourishes (picture light yagami writing) watching him write is a performance itself (near impossible to read, looks like an art piece from afar)
Bruce (self-trained ambidextrous, favors his left though is equally efficient with both hands): rounded print (for notes in reports), and cursive (for personal writings), he’d had some influence from alfred so theres a little extra in his writing like an extra curve, stem (ie: his i’s & t’s got lil hooks, his v as a downward stem at the end), but its overall quite minimalistic and tidy, there’s sufficient force on the paper.
Batman: doesn’t write >:( computer <- duh (if he really has to like idk the riddler forces him to write sth he would in caps block letters very strong straight lines, almost like excessively forced and he also place his pinkie on the pen/pencil to further deter identification, he switches hands every time to keep people off-track)
Dick (trained ambidextrous, favors his right, naturally right-handed until robin): cursive quick and kind of messy but still eligible writing, he’s used to taking quick notes (cop job), his letters are jaded, pointed (ie: his b’s are written like music notes, not rounded). he uses average force when writing (dents the paper but not through multiple pages), his letters’ spacing are nonexistent they overlap a bit, his words narrowly apart.
Jason (circumstantial ambidextrous, favors his right, his left handwriting is still neat, not as pretty as his right’s): cursive, his handwriting experienced several metamorphosis, he was left handed by birth & mother’s teachings, then at school he was taught write right-handedly. His writing was somewhat neat minimally scratchy, letters joined with loops, generous spacing. during his time with bruce he copies writing styles from his favorite authors (look up Jane Austen), Alfred and ends up with a very distinct, tilted to the right, beautiful scripture, some loops (Mary Shelly), long y’s and consonants. Post-death, he still got a nice handwriting, just less of the pizazz, the flare of personality bleeding through ink, its more tamed, still slanted, he doesn’t take as much care to force distribution (calligraphic way) but it just became more subtle, not completely gone.
Cass (ambidextrous, writes left handed): print, when first asked which hand she’d like to learn to write with she chose left, she didn’t learn to write ambidextrously. clean yet a bit weirdly spaced, she dots her i’s and cross her t’s after whole sentences. She likes making capital first letters of her text flowery like brucie’s, its amusing how out of place it looks.
Tim (self-trained ambidextrous, born left handed, writes with both hands interchangeably): cursive, young tim researched on lots of encryption, alternative writing systems. he take notes in shorthand’s, his handwriting is fairly eligible but frequently misses letters from words (ie: handwriting -> hdwritig). his lines are slanted downwards, narrow spacing overall.
Steph (trained ambidextrous, writes right handed, batman’s ambidexterity training for her hadn’t reached handwritings): mixed, her handwriting alternates between really messy and scratchy and more eligible curvy with sharp ends to her words (when writing lift pen up fast, bigger hand movement, picture a tame and hinged light yagami). Her lines tilt upwards from left to right. her writing’s eligibility depends on her mood, what she is writing.
Duke (right handed, trained ambidexterity but opted out of handwriting training): mixed, his letters are rounded and evenly spaced, fairly neat but scrawls when he’s in a rush (makes more sharp loops, longer curls at the ends, more connected words). his letter have thin loops, sometimes subconsciously dots his i’s with crescents. his lines tilt upwards slightly in the middle (he prefer to keep his lines straight so he take notice and fixes them).
Damian (natural ambidextrous, favors his left for arabic and his right for english): cursive, strong neat strokes, clean writing, clear appropriate spacing. its almost a font, print-like from how consistently he writes. His signature on his arts is more rounded with a bit of lilts and curves (the end of his m curve like the symbol for scorpio zodiac sign). His personal diary/journal writing is softer, his paragraphs more densely packed, the first letter of each entry are more ornate than the rest (loops, curves, tiny doodles)
note: handwriting style main variety are these
these headcanons are based on handwritings of people in my life & myself :)! not based on graphology (during my search for specific adjectives and vocabularies i came across some graphology & writing analysis articles and found them to be kind of mean & biased, rude etc so just clarifying im basing these hcs on my friends and family’s)
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newsies as things said during my rehersals
Race: I AM NOT A TWINK
Albert: TWINK, ALMOST AS BAD AS TWINKOTHY CHAMALAMADINGDONG
Finch: Regina is the bee and I am- I am a worker bee, and I am a bee who is also a jewish bee
Race: this is the plot of the bee movie
Spot: do you have a watering can on your head because you're damp, stupid, and I hate you
Race: oddly specifc
Spot: ...why does your voice sound like that- look the storage room is dark I can't see you
Race: don't turn on the lights
Spot: ...
Race: I can't tell if you turned the lights on, my heads in a watering can
Spot: HOW DID YOU EVEN FIND ONE
Albert: Race goes out and complains about it being cold and then makes us practice outside in the cold because he was too lazy to move the prop and gave up before he got inside
Race: it's like three times my size :(
Spot: Race pitches his song down and thinks he wont notice
Jack: I thought we all knew about that and just didn't say anything
Albert: we do, except I bully him about it and he shushes me because he thinks people don't know
Jack: what's going on? I thought we were running meet the plastics
Dave: Race fell asleep on the prop and we don't have the heart to wake him up
Jack: even Spot and Al?
Albert: he's curled up in a little ball and cuddling a prop teddy bear, how could you wake him up
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