Little daydream

Pandora's vault

Little: Dream
Big: Techno
Others: Quackity, Puffy, Patches, Sam, Phil, DreamXD
Mentioned: George, Sapnap, Karl, Hope, Tommy

Plot: Basically a cDream prison arc character study, kinda inspired by the image

Tw/Cws: Scars/Cuts, Missing teeth, Torture/abuse, Impure regression, Neglect, Panic attacks, Mentioned animal death, Mentions of death, crying, swearing.

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Techno watches as Dream slumps against the wall. His fingers twitch with the urge to reach out and comfort him but Dream had reacted negatively to the touch before so he refrains.

Dream sticks his thumb in his mouth in a attempt to self soothe without a pacifier or teether and Techno cringes internally at just how much dirt the little ingested.

He doesn't say anything though because he just got Dream to calm down and he doesn't even have anything to replace the thumb with. He just looks away and pretends not to see.

He can see Dream staring at him in his peripheral vision but he doesn't make eye contact, he stares at the wall instead. Techno doesn't know much about cat hybrids (Especially not when they're mixed with other animal genes) but he does know that direct eye contact means aggressive intent.

He supposes he learned that when Phil adopted a cat when he was younger (He doesn't know what happened to that cat) and he realized it applied to Dream soon after when eye contact made his tail flick and his pupils grow smaller.

In fact, he learned quite a bit about Dream from that cat. He learned that the younger hissed when threatened, he learned that Dreams pupils were tell tale signs of his emotions, and he learned where not to pet him (His tail and face).

Techno glances over at Dream. He's staring at the wall now rather than Techno which means Techno can get a better look at him.

He's been in the prison for a few days now but he still hasn't fully taken in Dreams appearance.

The first thing he notices, of course, is his hair. It falls in thin stands around his face. The color, once a blond brown, has faded into a pale blond and Techno wonders why that is. His curls are gone, and his hair falls limply and straight around his shoulders. It can't feel comfortable with the matts and knots but Dream hasn't complained yet.

Then he notices his eyes. You wouldn't notice the change unless you've spent time with Dream outside of the prison but the brightness that meant he was once playful and competitive, is now gone. It's been replaced by a dullness that can only mean that he's given up. Given up on life, on people, on being saved. On everything.

He notices his scars next. There's a large, pale one going across his nose that had been there before but there are also newer ones. Ones that are pink and not fully healed. Ones that are brown and are healed. And ones that are so new, they haven't even began to scab yet.

Dream yawns and Techno notices his teeth next. He's missing a few (a lot), mainly his sharper ones. Techno thinks about his diet of raw potatoes and feels a pang of sadness. How is Dream supposed to eat raw, hard potatoes without his teeth..

Techno takes in his clothes next. Well.. you can't really call them clothes anymore. They look more like scraps of cloth that had been poorly sewn together. You can see that they once resembled clothing but now they're so torn up and stained that they look like rags. There are blood stains covering the fabric along with rips and tears everywhere.

Dream raises a paw to scratch at a knot in his hair and Techno notices how his paws are trembling. He doesn't know if it's because of potential nerve damage or if it's because of the panic attack he just had but regardless, it makes his chest feel tight.