I made the somewhat questionable decision to spend the last two days slapping out a bunch of character portraits to pop into a planning document for a personal project I’m working on!
So here’s a bunch of au sans portraits.
Woooooo
Nightmare and dream by jokublog
Eclipse’s concept by llamagoddessofficial , design by me
I've read and reread @warriorstale001 's amazing fic "One Small Difference" twice now and this image stays glued in my head!! If you haven't already I highly recommend checking out this fic, it may not be complete but it absolutely rips your heart to pieces and is easily one of my favs <3
In my heart Nightmare is so sorry and the very next morning he goes to see Dream and immediately has a change of heart and they both go to therapy and Dream goes to the doctor 🧡
Don't worry they're still FAR from the conventional nuclear family lmao
PJ is by @/7goodangel
Gradient is by @/askcomboclub
Template by @/unu-nunu-art
Error and Fresh by @/loverofpiggies
Ink by @/comyet
Design notes under!
Design Notes for PJ:
-Error patches up the tears on his scarf! Very nice of him to do.
-All the art materials he has stashed on his belt are for food. He likes to snack on em often.
-Because of Error's..."tolerance" of him, he has more strings that he can use. He's got enough to form legs.
-Fresh gifts him magical ink durable Heely shoes! Instead of shedding footprints all over the place, he can instead heely/skate around and leave behind lines. He's creative on using it during battles. He would never admit it, but he appreciates the gift.
Design Notes for Gradient:
-I based his outfit off ye old web aesthetics like Cyber Grunge,,, I really liked the big pants look on him.
-I placed his scarf on his neck to match with his family, but also to match Template's scarf hehe, a little sign of his influence.
-You can't see it but his laptop bag has a ton of pins and merch of random dated internet references.
-His shoes looking old design Ink's shoes were complete accident but I liked it enough to keep anyway. Maybe Ink gave it to him and he spiced it up!
is ftfo still relevant around these parts?? (/lh) but hi yes if you havent heard of this fic, you're missing out. its got heavy hurt (it gets worse before it gets better) but if you love found family its sooo so worth it bc omg i Love the found family SO MUCH (also ft. some human healer!ink and ftfo!error designs bc slay)
also some (sorta spoiler-y doodles) !! theres a few more on my insta but im too lazy to get em all lmaoo
How many people witnessed softie food addict horror who needed something in his mouth or he would actively kill and turn to cannibalism 🧍♀️ or was that just me.... anyways honestly it was silly.. he'd maybe get along with cook horror... I just like fanon crossovers guys*sadge
Anyways canon horror is also silly(really silly. What an asshole, man)(no seriously he's actually such an asshole.. I might love him for that but-) I don't think he would get along with the others(loser)
utmv fics i'm too burnt out to write myself so uhhh fic ideas for yall (please write these omg or if someone's already done one of these [preferably smut free] please send it to me)
-kross barista au or smth
-reaper angst of some sort with him being depressed about him having to take lives of innocent people
-crossmare.
-satire invader zim au with fresh as gir, ink as zim, error as dib and geno as gaz (PLEASE)
currently can't think of any others but uhhhhh yep!
tagging my sister @eclipse-dreamsss because im fairly sure she'll wanna see this too >:]
I really wish that Killer being competent and observant was a more popular interpretation of him. Because to me it makes the most sense, both with the fanon Nightmare gang dynamic and with the more canon-adjacent one.
In canon adjacent interpretations, it makes no sense for Nightmare to have Killer as his right hand man unless he contributes something more than a tool could, because there isn't any emotional attachment reason for him to do so. Like, that's just a skeleton like many others. He kills good, but so do the others.
And for fanon, while you could play it as the underlying reason being favoritism (which is interesting in Its own right) that's usually not the angle people go for either. Killer tends to be relegated as the dumb silly comic relief which the others tolerate.
In general, I think him being the observant one in the gang would be a great fit for him. I mean, he had to study Chara and their moods in their partnership to survive, and in canon-adjacent situations, he had to do so with Nightmare as well. It would make sense if he became really good at reading people because of this.
For fanon Nightmare this could be great because I imagine there is still a certain level of detachment he has from the mortal experience after spending so much time as goop. He needs someone who can be more attentive and understanding of the needs of the rest of the gang.
And for canon-adjacent Nightmare, that way he has someone who can easily keep the others in line. And probably, having someone who can tell when the others are getting antsy and ready for some betrayal is a nice perk too.
Just in general, I love my boy and I love when people make him actually clever