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!