«☆Dream angst oneshots☆» (Slow Updates)

✧☆Soulmark AU☆✧

Summary:
Everyone someone loves someone else (not just romantic love, I mean all forms of love), their soulmark appears on that person. When they die, the mark they left on others turns black/white. If the love is no longer or slowly no longer being reciprocated, the colouring of the mark slowly fades away until its purely grey.
Dream has dozens of marks on him, with his mark being on dozens of others in turn. But many of those marks are dulling, while the marks he left on them are still as bright and vibrant as the day they appeared.

Notes:
TW: Implied Character Death, Mild Blood
Angst, Hurt Maybe Some Comfort

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Chapter Text:

Phil watched as Techno and Tommy walk back in from sparring only for all three of them to collapse from the sudden pain striking their hearts and souls. The three of them feel a violent shiver crawl up their spines, violently remind of when Wilbur died.

Tommy feared for a moment that it was Tubbo, but shakily and frantically removing the glove on his hand revealed the mark to still be as vibrant as ever. He lets out a relieved sob, thank god it wasn't Tubbo. But his soul still ached for the lost person, who died? He desperately needs to know but it also terrified of finding out. Especially since he heard Techno and Phil collapse with him.

Techno only knows one person who has a mark that's on the back of his neck. Dream. He's the first to recover from the pain of losing someone close to his soul, with Phil only taking a bit longer due to it violently reminding him of his the aching pain when he had to kill his own son. How the man managed to fight off two Withers after striking down his own son and feeling his mark turn black is a mystery.

Phil always had a strange sort of fondness for Dream. He reminded Phil of him and his sons. If not for the mask, he would have his heart as open as Tommy, emotions out for the whole world to see. Even then, it was easy to see how much the boy cared for people when the mark he left on people never faded no matter how tattered their relationship became. He could see it on Techno's nap, behind Tommy's ear, and on his own wrist. The ever-bright neon green mask on their skin. Even Ghostbur's mark, though damaged from the stab wound when he was killed, was still so blindingly bright.

Punz was with the Badlanders when it happened. All of them collapsed except for Skeppy, who's first instinct was to check on Bad.

"It's Dream," was the first thing Bad said once any of them could even speak. He takes off his hood and removes his glasses, showing the group the now blacked out mark on his temple.

They all scattered to check the mark, if it truly was faded. If Dream truly was dead. Sam's right shoulder, Punz' forearm, Ant's neck. The mark was blacked out as well. Dream's dead. By the ice cold dread that filled their bodies when it happened, it tells them he died cold and alone. Bad sobs in Skeppy's arms. Ant curls up on himself and silently cries. Sam doesn't even try to hide his sobbing. Punz gets up and walks away from the group to punch something or scream or- or something, anything to take this cold ache away.

Once the pain subsided enough for them to get up, Karl was the first to realize why they all collapsed. He gasped and covered his mouth, pointing to Quackity's blacked out mark from Dream.

Quackity saw the blacked out mark and froze, feeling and looking at the mark. It was ice cold. Sapnap and George were frozen in place, hearts breaking at the thought of their ex-friend? enemy? best friend being gone for good.

Their hearts were all encased in freezing ice. All of them shivering from the cold, despite it being a nice summer's day. Karl shuffled over to Quackity, desperate for something to hold onto and to try and make the cold ache in his chest go away. George and Sapnap let the cold consume them as they crumpled into themselves and cried.

Fundy was the first to collect himself enough to try and calm everyone. He managed to get his family up and out of the Bakery, saying they need to find the others, make sure none of them are facing this alone.

He spots Quackity first, before seeing the figure curled up to him dressed in purple. Karl. As his group approached, Eret and Niki leapt in to comfort George and Sapnap.

"He- He's gone..." George choked out before Sapnap collapsed back into a quiet fit of sobs, with Niki rubbing his back, trying to sooth him.

Fundy lets them have a few more moments to collect themselves. Once Karl and Quackity are up and ready to check on the others, George and Sapnap join them with shaking arms and aching hearts.

They find Punz outside his base, punching one a wall repeatedly with bloodied knuckles. It's Sapnap who catches his wrist to stop him, before him and George hug the blonde while the others go inside the base to comfort the Badlanders.

Eret and Niki get Ant out of the corner he crammed himself into, while Tubbo and Ranboo comfort Sam and hug him until he stops shaking. Puffy rubs Bad's back as Skeppy holds his quivering form.

Bad lifts his head to look at her with pleading eyes, "D- Dream... he died... he died cold and alone... Why was he-?"

Puffy takes in a sharp breath, "I don't know, Bad, I don't know. I- He made a lot of mistakes. Hurt a lot of people."

"But- But he still cared," Bad said, his voice having a bit more power now, his words catching everyone's ear, "His mark on everyone never faded, not even once. Even when Tommy was exiled, Tommy's mark from him was still so bright. Why did... did no one think he cared?"

Sapnap and George glance to each other before looking down at the ground in guilt. Why did they never check his mark? They knew why, they were scared that the friend who loved so much and so violent actually stopped caring. But wouldn't that have been worth the risk? Checking to confirm the truth of Dream's heart rather than assuming the worse and letting their marks on him turn dull? Leaving him cold and alone as, slowly, the many marks on his body fade to grey?

Techno, Tommy, and Phil arrive at the community portal two hours after Dream died. There, they're greeted by the rest of the grieving server. Phil shares a hug with Puffy, knowing too well the pain of losing a son. Tubbo and Tommy cling onto each other, grieving the loss of a brother. Techno places a firm hand on George and Sapnap's shoulders, doing his best.

Everyone helps to set up the community house for a server-wide sleepover. This was Dream's first home on his SMP, it's been too long since it's been used as anyone's home. So they all decided to make it home for at least today. If only to honour Dream and the happy memories they had with him.

George and Sapnap happily reminisce about the many playful fights between the Dream Team in this house, the many small arguments over how to build it. Tommy adds in a few of his own as he talks about his first few days on the server and the chaos he brought. Slowly, the conversation turns from memories of and in the community house to memories of Dream in general.

Techno talks of how he doesn't know if Dream even has a house, teasing him about being homeless and Dream building a shitty dirt house, knowing Techno was watching and bringing Creepers in to destroy it.

"Does Dream even have a house? He said he had one really far away but it sounded kinda fake," Techno asks once he finishes his story.

"He does," Punz replies, causing some eyes to turn to him, "He built it deep inside a mountain with no clear entrance from the outside. I've never seen it, but considering the amount of stuff he had, I know it has to be real. He tamed a cat once, when we were out, and took it to his house. Don't know where it is or where that poor cat is now. But it's out there."

Just when sleep was about to creep up on everyone, Glatt walks in, looking paler than normal despite being a ghost.

"Schlatt?"

"Ghostbur and I found someone on our way here. Bring him in Ghostbur."

With that, Ghostbur walks in, gently dragging in a sheep hybrid with frostbite and scars over his body.

"Dream?"

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This story literally made me cry real tears when I was eating but this story was created by @mythical_song_wolf hope you enjoyed!

Link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/28420920/chapters/69643443
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