Dreamtale Animatic With My Redesigns

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Made a small pixel gif for funsies, I haven’t animated in a hot minute

I swear I draw things other than shitposts

i think people really sweep dream’s trauma under the rug wayyy too much to focus on nightmare’s. NOT to say his trauma is invalid but Dream definitely had it worse did you know that he wasn’t asleep when he was in stone. for like those 500 years he wasn’t asleep.

like he could sense stuff. think a coma patient who can hear and feel the outside world despite not being able to move or function. sure he probably slept the time away but imagine how traumatizing.

AND THEN he had to fight a war in which his BROTHER NOW KILLS PEOPLE and he is desperately trying to save his brother because he knows nightmare isn’t like this, his big brother is sweet and kind and he’d never do something like this, and he just doesn’t understand and he wants his family back, but all his hope repeatedly gets stomped on because his brother tries to kill him and the team he conjured up like on the daily, and dream’s awakening LITERALLY turned nightmare’s one goal into killing him because of his soul that he wants to take to destroy all positivity in the world (sorry chat the balance isn’t real and if anything nigjtmare is the one fucking it up).

NOT TO MENTION that dream is CONSISTENTLY DRAINED because there are BARELY ANY POSITIVE UNIVERSES in the WHOLE MULTIVERSE. think of more than 2 total positive aus out there. classic/swap aus don’t count because undertale is inherently a depressing game and thousands of genocide timelines exist for each and every au of those. if you had any difficulty my point is proven. NOT TO MENTION that dream is IN A LITERAL WAR. MOTHERFUCKER HAS PTSD !!!!! nightmare is the AGGRESSOR!!!!!!!!!!!

and as much as i ADORE fanon in order for me to like truce aus something i need is Dream bawling and shaking and having panic attacks and nightmares and barely being able to look his brother in the eye because he’s terrified of him and he hates it because he just wants to hug his brother but he can’t shake the intense terror that comes with staring at the same tentacles that were sharp and pointed at his chest time and time again, or closing around his neck with the intent of suffocation. and nightmare def has some apologizing to do

orrrr you know. we could,, haha idk,,, mmmm,,,,,, make the,, the ‘nightmare is freed from his corrupted and isn’t 6 purely bc i need him to heal with his brother with no angst about lost childhoods and having to raise your own twin pls and thank you’ more of a,,, a popular trope,,,, idk,,,,,,,,,,,, all im saying is that Dream deserves to cry in his brother’s arms—his brother, the way he remembers him, and they should both get to cry and latch onto each other like they’re terrified the other will disappear the moment they let go, and they just sob over what happened to them both.

If killer and cross were to say go on a picnic in another au and the stars saw them and paniced then realized they were on a picnic date what would each star do?

Hmm.. well, like you mentioned, they’d worry at first. Why would any of the Nightmare’s subordinates wander to some AU if not to cause mischief? They’d probably hide in the distance, curious to find out what they’re doing.

Dream would be the first one to realize that it’s a romantic date due to the intense positivity coming from both of them and would find it incredibly cute. He wouldn’t want to disturb them but would be really happy. It doesn’t matter that they’re enemies, he likes to see people being happy no matter which side they're on.

Blue would find it pretty cute as well. He wouldn’t be so apprehensive and hesitant, hoping for it to be just a date (he sees a lot of nice things in people, including Bad Sanses) and would be very happy when he realizes that it’s indeed just a little date.

Ink would want to jump into the conversation and ask Killer and Cross themselves but the other Stars would prevent him from doing that and just will go away, trying to keep his mouth shut and letting the pair have a peaceful date.

But who knows, maybe Killer and Cross knew that the Stars were hiding, listened in on their whispers and laughed after they left.

The next logical step after drawing them all in dresses

Trying to step outside my comfort zone with colors and digital painting so last night I stayed up just incredibly too late to draw little nighty <3 (yea ik I switched his eye light color and bone color fight me)

But yea, I might do a dream one as well cause this was fun :]

Seeing you hate on canon dreamtale is so validating tbh because when I was in fandom (~2016) everyone treated it like it was the greatest thing ever and the writing was perfect (it’s terrible guys be serious), so seeing someone also disliking the canon story feels so validating to my 16 yo self who thought the writing was shit and the creator sucked lmao

the writing was so ass. the concept is completely fine and i ADORE the concept but dreamtale's writing had never been good since day 1. truly one of the worst written things

A response to every person who’d ever asked me about Error/Ink!

Also, an in-verse explanation for fanon!Error and fanon!Ink, maybe?

Error belongs to @loverofpiggies

Ink belongs to @comyet