#(and like. it’s kinda like the Kindly Ones were just /waiting/ for Morpheus to fail.

[void-tiger]

Dream’s kinda his own Worst Enemy in that in denying his own needs, he’s also denied the needs of the dreams and nightmares he created…to not be manipulated further by Desire and Despair…to not become overwhelmed by the dreamers’…to not overwhelm the dreamers…to not be alone.

And it utterly backfires.

#dream of the endless #morpheus sandman #…yES I want this guy to live even tho he doesn’t and the Softness he denies himself gets to go to Washedout Ass Frikkin Daniel #sorry but I prefer a different story #and I think it’s telling that altho Daniel has his own fanbase? #MORPHEUS is the one who’s actually iconic and used in like. all the old marketing and library/bookstore bookmarks #not to mention the one comics spent The Most time with #sorry daniel who. #(let the grumpy wet skrunky cat finish his arc) #(if he truly ‘wANTED tO dIE~ TM’ he’d have removed Death’s Seal on Orpheus around the French Revolution #(there’s kinda more…Proto Aspects. than Just Daniel. Daniel’s just the only annoying baby convieved in annoying circumstances we see) #(and like. it’s kinda like the Kindly Ones were just /waiting/ for Morpheus to fail. #(instead of. idk. euthenizing Orpheus themselves? if they truly cared? #(what IS their relationship with Calliope anyway.) #anyway. maladaptive stuff backfiring is Fascinating #BUT. let the guy grow and heal. otherwise…well. you can tell it left the taste of rancid peanuts in my mouth #…anyway. my other Take on Morpheus!Dream? ‘eh. he could be worse.’ #LiKE. Desire is worse. Despair is worse. Poor Delirium is worse. Destruction is worse in that he fucks off and leaves his friends to BlowUp #and Destiny is…kinda who Dream models himself after? (not thay he’ll ever admit it.) #Destiny gets to be distant. The younger Endless get to fuck around. #Destruction gets to LEAVE (and oh look. World Wars and MORE Epidemics and Technilogical Booms turned surveilance states and WORSE wars) #but no…the only one who Finds Out is the guy with depression who’s finally trying to heal #and for as Terrible as he self described and Desire Especially describes him? is. kinda Just A Guy #idk. fascinating pieces. but I don’t really care much for how they were fitted together thematically #if I was supposed to like Daniel Instead then idk. show Dream pulling the same shit as Desire and Despair and Delirium #vs just. very occationally lashing out. (and the only one who didn’t deserve that was Nada.)