#∘☽∘ darker yet darker ∘☾∘ (headcanons)

[discardedpawns]

#∘☽∘ lancer cookies ∘☾∘ (art) #∘☽∘ ex court jester ∘☾∘ (jevil) #∘☽∘ darker yet darker ∘☾∘ (headcanons) #might do this for spamton later #sorry no sin here only trauma and tears

[fairy-verse]

I've been curious about this for a while since I read you mentioned none of the firstborns are 'siblings' and left it up to our headcanons, essentially?

What would a relationship between the firstborn of Summer and the firstborn of Autumn look like? How would they have become mates? How would their personalities go together in a relationship?

There are such differences yet similarities, and I'm curious how a relationship between Dream (who is shown to usually stay in his Valley) would go with Nightlight (who i remember almost never leaves Nightmare's area)?

Please do feel free to disregard this ask if you see fit, thank you for making such a truly lovely au, it's always fun to backread again whenever I have the time. Thank you for sharing your au with us :D<3

Before Nightmare’s corruption, a relationship with Dream would have been pleasant and filled with gentle touches and soft poems made of song and dance. They would frolic on the Meadow of the Firstborn as they were free from worry and grief, flying either naked or with flowing silks that made them giggle sweetly. They are different, that is true, but their earliest days were slow-moving and filled with nothing but time and patience, so they slowly drifted closer and closer, until eventually they interlaced and became inseparable… Up till the fateful day of Nightmare’s corruption and the demise of his innocence.

Their relationship would have become gloomy and distant. Nightmare would appreciate the support and love Dream gave him, but his broken soul would no longer be able to fully take it in, at least not yet. He’s split apart, changed, covered in corruption as thick and sticky as tar that he’s not yet mastered full control over. He shoves Dream’s love away, and Dream is left in the growing dark of autumn’s new visage.

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Now, you specifically ask for Nightlight, so I will show you how him and Dream end up together and how this development will affect Nightmare.

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Dream might rarely leave his valley of summer, but at the arrival of Nightlight, he will quickly begin to make frequent visits to Nightmare’s underground nest. He’s beside himself with delight at the sight of the fragile fairy and he cannot help himself but to weep from joy, grief, and relief. He cannot help the fact that he reacts this way, nor can he truly be blamed for not thinking it all through properly. Nightlight holds the memories of Nightmare’s early days, so his love for Dream is as present and strong as back then, too.

Their embrace completes a puzzle left undone for centuries.

Nightmare is happy at their love for one another. He’s happy that Nightlight is loved in more ways than one, and he’s happy that Dream is smiling like that again. He’s happy with this outcome.

He is happy.

… Then why does his happiness sting in his sockets and hurt so badly in his throat?

Nightlight looks and acts the way Nightmare did before his corruption, so of course, Dream would be drawn to him. He is what Nightmare lost, the pleasant sight of colours of early autumn and the gentle breeze of a cooling wind not yet biting cold. Nightlight is sweet and lovely and pure, and he and Dream are so wonderful together. They’re beautiful.

And that is what hurts so badly.

Nightlight is Nightmare in a way, but he’s a past version of him, the second half of Nightmare’s soul that broke apart and died. Nightmare is what was left, what survived the cruelty done by the Big Folk, the harsher and darker part of autumn that could withstand the defilement brought upon him. Nightlight is the part of him that fit so well with Dream, the part of his autumn that still held onto summer and cherished it as much as summer valued its gentleness.

Nightmare isn’t that. He’s not someone who can be careless and free together with Dream anymore, he’s the wrong kind of autumn for Dream, and he’s as deceptive as half of the season he represents, the one giving false promises of a prolonged pause before the bitter winter cold’s arrival. As such, it’s easy to lie right to Dream’s face as the firstborn fairy of summer cradles his cheeks in remorse and pleading mercy for his sudden reaction at the sight of Nightlight.

Dream realises that he’s gone past Nightmare and straight for his lighter counterpart, and he’s remorseful and sorrowful as he begs for Nightmare’s forgiveness and gives away terrible promises that he’ll stay away if he’s hurt him too badly.

Nightmare loves Dream and it breaks him to see Dream so willing to cast himself down just because he was overcome with joy and love for the rebirth of someone that he’d lost so very long ago. Nightmare doesn’t ever want Dream to feel guilty for expressing his raw and wondrous emotions, so he lies. He lies and tells him that it’s okay. That he wants Dream and Nightlight to be together and that he’s moved on. And he doesn’t even stop to think about offering himself to Dream, too, because he doesn’t think Dream wants him like that anymore.

After all, Nightlight is made of the best parts of him, he’s everything that used to be good about him. Why would Dream want him as he is now… melancholic, sarcastic, stubborn, sullen, withdrawn…

If only he’d asked Dream he would have known that he’s not below Nightlight. He would have known that Dream wanted him, too. But now Dream believes that Nightmare isn’t interested, that he has indeed moved on; Nightmare is too good at lying so Dream doesn’t see the grief in his soul, and with how Nightmare’s grown to endure the pain from centuries of being without half of his soul, he’ll be able to endure the heartache from seeing Dream and Nightlight together.

He will endure it, no matter how much it stings and numbs him.

#aufairyverse #utmv #ask for the fairy #fairy!nightmare #fairy!dream #fairy!nightlight #nightmare sans #dream sans #uncorrupted nightmare sans #trust me to turn lovely romance into angst #since you first mentioned “firstborn of autumn” which is Nightmare I assumed you meant a relationship between him and Dream #but then I saw you mentioned Nightlight later and suddenly my mind went wild with angsty ideas #so I went with angst because whoa... this is a tragically beautiful concept to imagine #tragic love is so bitter yet so sweet #can't help but love it #if you just want beautiful romance then you can send another ask for Nightmare Dream and Nightlight ♡

[discardedpawns]

3. is your muse typical about where they sleep or can they fall asleep just about anywhere?

Jevil:

Jevil can sleep practically anywhere, in the air, on the floor, crunched up in a box it doesn't matter. Especially since he literally had nothing to sleep on or with when he got locked up in his little freedom.

Spamton:

Once again the exact opposite of Jevil. Spamton likes being enclosed by something whether it's being surrounded by trash in a dumpster or enclosed by blankets and plushies he needs to feel something by him or on him.

#∘☽∘ act check ∘☾∘ (asks) #∘☽∘ ex court jester ∘☾∘ (jevil) #∘☽∘ favorite salesman 1997 ∘☾∘ (spamton) #∘☽∘ ... can anyone hear me? Help... ∘☾∘ (musing: Spamton) #∘☽∘ A BEAUTY IS JOYING IN MY HEART ∘☾∘ (musings: Jevil) #∘☽∘ darker yet darker ∘☾∘ (headcanons) #Spamton is a sleep deprived old man #he 100% needs weighted blanket of some kind #he'd be out for literal days

[discardedpawns]

13. how often does your muse dream? are they mostly pleasant or is their sleep more likely to be filled with nightmares?

For both of the blorbos !

Jevil:

Jevil is a very heavy dreamer, though unfortunately he is normally plagued by nightmares of the past or nightmares of things to come if he ends up losing control of himself again in his fits of madness. In those kind of dreams he'll always be coated in someone else's blood by the end of them. Though if sleeping next to someone he cares about he can escape his own dreamscape and enter theirs and have a more peaceful night's sleep.

Spamton:

Spamton is the opposite of Jevil in which he doesn't dream, for him it's either tv static or he somehow picks up signals from nearby tv/radio towers and will see/hear whatever it is they're playing at that time. If he does want to "dream" he'll turn on his tv and proceed to dream of whatever he put on that night.

#∘☽∘ act - check ∘☾∘ (asks) #∘☽∘ ex court jester ∘☾∘ (jevil) #∘☽∘ favorite salesman 1997 ∘☾∘ (spamton) #∘☽∘ A BEAUTY IS JOYING IN MY HEART ∘☾∘ (musings: Jevil) #∘☽∘ ... can anyone hear me? Help... ∘☾∘ (musing: Spamton) #∘☽∘ darker yet darker ∘☾∘ (headcanons)

[discardedpawns]

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#spamton doesn't have as bad of history like jevil does #∘☽∘ ACT - CHECK ∘☾∘ (asks) #∘☽∘ ex court jester ∘☾∘ (jevil) #∘☽∘ I'm the bad guy ∘☾∘ (king spade) #∘☽∘ darker yet darker ∘☾∘ (headcanons) #tw: body harm #tw: trauma

[discardedpawns]

I saw people doing voice claim stuff, so I'll throw in my idea for Spamton's voice claim here.

#Spamton is towards the end of the video #also i would do one for Jevil but his kinda already has a in game voice already #∘☽∘ darker yet darker ∘☾∘ (headcanons) #∘☽∘ favorite salesman 1997 ∘☾∘ (spamton)

[discardedpawns]

💖for Spamton

Send "💖" with a muse's name and I'll tell you want their heart looks like.

*Spamton's heart

Once a lovely green color it has since been almost completely taken over by a mysterious virus that has corrupted both his personality and body, though on very rare occasions a soft whisper of the bot's old personality will surface to cry for help. It seems that the new personality doesn't hear what it says nor notice the occurrence when it happens.

*Or does it...?

#∘☽∘ ACT - CHECK ∘☾∘ (asks) #∘☽∘ darker yet darker ∘☾∘ (headcanons) #∘☽∘ favorite salesman 1997 ∘☾∘ (spamton) #∘☽∘ lancer cookies ∘☾∘ (art) #background is not mine

[discardedpawns]

“εїз” For both muses

Jevil-

Jevil is numb/unable to feel pain. The reason why he'll flinch when hurt is either him reacting to the fact he was hit or the sudden feeling of blood on his skin.

Spamton-

Occasionally Spamton's voice will cut out (which causes the gaps in his dialogue). Though this was something he always had a problem with even before he become the glitched puppet he his today. Whenever his voice does cut out the sound of a cut-out bleep can be heard instead though he never seems to notice the event when it happens.

#∘☽∘ ACT - CHECK ∘☾∘ (asks) #∘☽∘ ex court jester ∘☾∘ (jevil) #∘☽∘ favorite salesman 1997 ∘☾∘ (spamton) #∘☽∘ darker yet darker ∘☾∘ (headcanons)

[discardedpawns]

εїз

Jevil's creation was a bit obscure compared to how most other Darkners were made.

Jevil's Lightner created him as a 'imaginary friend' in order to cope with the loss of their mother. The house Jevil lived in didn't have it's own dark world and instead it was mostly a dark void-like area whenever Jevil was in there and because of that, and the power his lightner held, he was actually able to manifest himself into the lightner world. (Though he doesn't remember any of this). And Jevil would spend his days playing with his young lightner and turning into the jack-in-the-box he was modeled after at night or when his lightner's father was around.

(Below the cut is some doodles of what young Jevil looked like.)

#∘☽∘ ACT - CHECK ∘☾∘ (asks) #∘☽∘ ex court jester ∘☾∘ (jevil) #∘☽∘ darker yet darker ∘☾∘ (headcanons) #∘☽∘ strange lightners ∘☾∘ (anons)