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paintedkinzy-88 · 2 years

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Y’all I’m finally doing references ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

I mean, kind of. I had a little bit of time to do one, so I thought I’d start with the one that’s the most confusing. XD It was a little quickly drawn, especially since I didn’t originally plan for the skeleton version, but it’s good enough to get the gist of his design! This also gives me a chance to edit some design aspects I wasn’t totally happy with, specifically Nightmare’s bones!

Please do ignore any bad bone anatomy, it’s called Magic, and I hope the noodle boi makes a lil more sense now—

Note: because this is his main ref post, I’ll likely edit his information on and off when I think of something else to add or feel I need to tweek something already here. So this will be updated as we go! (〜￣▽￣)〜

Nightmare, Guardian of Negativity

Full Dragon Form Reference

Half Dragon Form Reference (WIP)

Dragon Breath:

Negative Fog

This smokey gas enhances the negative feelings of those around them, the intensity depending on what kind of intent Nightmare puts into it. That does mean it can be nearly harmless, if properly used. It’s completely opaque, so most victims caught up in it would loose all sight, left wandering in the complete darkness. He has a slight control over its very form as well, so if he wanted to, he could open bubbles inside to keep the fog from majorly effecting specific people, or just control where it goes. Without his presence, the fog will slowly dissipate by itself.

In use, Nightmare can either allow the victims to suffer on their own, or he can further torment them himself. The complete darkness makes his white bones and eyelights stand out drastically, creating a ghostly effect. Or, using his regular shape shifting, he could also taunt them as figures they know, similar to what he did to Cross in Underverse.

Downsides: Having too much magic or not enough control can cause him to puff fog out without his intending to and/or choke on it. Alongside that, his fog only enhances the negative feelings of a person. If someone feels absolutely no negative emotions, it’s completely ineffective.

General Abilities:

• Nightmare keeps all of his usual abilities:

- General negative aura, and absorbing other’s negative emotions

- Tentacles, while not naturally formed, can still be summoned from his back

- As previously mentioned, he can still shape shift — this means traveling via shadow-like puddle as well

- Mostly immune to physical weapons, with some exceptions

• Often uses his tail like a whip to either trip people up, or slice at them.

• Though he has no wings, his claws make it extremely easy to crawl around surfaces like walls/ceilings, through trees, or even up his own bookshelves!

• He is also not against stabbing someone with the spike on his snout.

Hoard:

Due to his past of being alone and afraid most of his days, and his guilt over accidentally turning Dream to stone, Nightmare has latched onto unfortunate monsters in unfortunate circumstances with a desire (that he thoroughly ignored and denied for a very long time) to help and give them a sort of friend/family. The first of his hoard was Horror, who he found around a year after getting out of his own dead AU. Horror’s hopeless negativity drew him in like a moth to a flame, and, upon seeing the large skeleton’s struggles to keep those around him alive, Nightmare felt the need to help him, and provide him a better life.

It didn’t take long for them to find an AU with a proper home (a castle, of course, as, even if subconsciously, Nightmare knew he’d be collecting more wayward souls), and his desire to have Horror near was disguised as having the mortal work for him. Soon, he’d come to give the same deal to Dust, Killer, and Cross, all while slowly coming to accept that no, these are not just subordinates to him, and finally coming to completely relax around them all.

He also offered this deal to people like Red, Edge, Razz, Error, specific Charas and Floweys, etc, all of whom turned him down, leading Nightmare to experience the pain of not being able to hoard properly. Eventually, he does add Ccino to his hoard as well, and even Dream later on (though neither with the same “deal” as the others).

Extra Info:

• Dream is not his biological brother — they had a brother-like relationship, but neither really considered each other as such.

• Regarding his more skeletal form, this is essentially his equivalent to the others’ unsummoned ectobody look, but for a different reason. As a full dragon, Nightmare doesn’t typically have an ectobody, as his corruption creates that form for him. However, if he were to sort of retract that corruption enough, or if he was low on magic, it would reveal more of his skeletal structure. This also holds the risk of exposing more of his bones, as shown in the reference, so it’s not something he often does.

• In the Dragon Balance AU, I go by the headcanon that Nightmare’s original bones are still present rather than completely turned into the corruption. However, after eating the dark apple, the negativity essentially broke out of his bones, shattering them into very tiny pieces. The corruption is able to “glue” him together, hence why his dragon form can show off that bone in so many places, and also why he’s slightly bigger than Dream now. These many cracks are barely visible, unless you actively are looking for them (this is why I changed the color of his bones to a dark cyanish grey as well— to show that it isn’t just pure white bone). Because they are such small pieces, he’s able to shape himself however he needs, but ultimately there’s only one way all those pieces fit back together.

And yes, this does mean that he’s in constant pain. But, after centuries of dealing with it, he hardly notices anymore.

• Surprisingly enough, in all the years of their fighting, Nightmare and Dream kept their balance almost perfectly. Because of this, neither went on a dragon rampage to fix it, and thus never knew they were actual dragon shifters in the first place until the start of Tipping the Scales.

• Nightmare primarily loafs. It’s the easiest way to sleep, since he can’t lay his head down properly with the spikes on his chin. He does occasionally lay on his side though, especially when sleeping in Dream’s hoard.

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gracefireheart · 1 year

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c3 ep56 spoilerino time, beware or be square 💃

What a big surprise to see the new character art this episode! And it looks like my thoughts about FCG’s new appearance was somewhat correct (mostly when it came to their blue and discolored parts of the metal), but I’ll do a bit more tweeking on the design I had previously :] So, at some point, I would have made a brand new ref sheet for my interpretation of FCG’s design.

Also, it looks like the era of FCG having their hair wires down- in my art- is over as they have it tied up now in a low-ish ponytail. So, I’m gonna headcannon that FRIDA helped put FCG’s hair wires up the day before they were leaving Uthodurn. I guess y’all can decide if it happened before or after the “draw me like one of your french robots” moment :’)

Onto actual stuff that happened in the episode that my brain took extra note of (and is written probably very much out of order of when it happened in the episode akjhfsdkasj);

God fucking damn is FRIDA and FCG just still so fucking cute with their lil’ kisses and hand holding and such orz

A lil’ sad they didn’t get to check Imogen’s dream to see if they could contact Laudna and crew through it (but I understand why they didn’t ofc).

I was both horrified and laughing my ass off at Deanna (and Chetney?) killing Jerry. That poor goat ;v; RIP

The chat between Deanna and FCG when it came to FRIDA (and Chetney), and then later on when it came to FCG seeing the Changebringer. Just very, very lovely all around <3

Oh yeah, FCG finally got to sorta speak to the Changebringer! Hell yeah :]

FRIDA realizing that “Oh wait, Chetney bit me when he was a werewolf, so I might turn into a werewolf. Uh oh.”

I might try to draw this lil’ moment of the very small convo between FRIDA and FCG- that happened after the “FRIDA might become a werewolf” chat between the Uthodurn crew- where FRIDA says “I just don’t want to hurt anybody.” and FCG replies with “Yeah... I know that feeling.”

There’s more moments my brain’s just not thinking about atm, so I might rewatch the episode later. But for now, I wanna draw 👀

#my thoughts #Bells Hells #CriticalRole #cr spoilers #cr3 spoilers #critical role spoilers #c3 ep56

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