All right, let's get into this! This story was thought up as part of my Inkwhumptobertale 2024 stories, and two of the beginning chapters will be directly copy-pasted from that, so they might be a tad bit familiar, hehe! I'm super excited to start writing this story, and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I will!
I'm going to be trying a bunch of new things with this, too, including writing some characters that I've never written before, and I think I'm going to even attempt writing Killer with his cool "stage" system! I'm not sure how it'll turn out, but I really want this story to be more character-focused, which means characterization will be at the forefront! While Defying Destiny is more plot-driven with less emphasis on characterizations (there are too many characters to properly characterize over there ugh), this story will be character-driven with a simpler plot.
And while the story will be somewhat Dream-centric, it won't be entirely Dream-centric. Some chapters won't have him in them at all.
With all that out of the way, I'll get into the obligatory headcanons and credits that will apply for this story.
Headcanon list:
1. Nightmare is a theater kid.
2. Anyone can create portals if they learn.
3. Killer stages go brr. Still debating on how this will work so I probably won't have it all down immediately.
4. Characters will all have personalities, and they can do whatever they want (AKA they can lie so don't believe everything they say lol).
5. Dream's magic won't work in purely negative environments, and Nightmare's magic won't work in purely positive environments. Nightmare is generally stronger than Dream in most environments, though, due to the fact that BRO ATE 999 APPLES COMPARED TO DREAM'S 1.
6. Core Frisk is omnipresent, not omnipotent or omniscient. They can only be locked out of places via code manipulation and AU claiming.
7. Any being with powers strong enough can claim an AU, gaining the ability to micromanage everything that goes on inside it, but Nightmare and Ink are really the only ones who make use of that power, and Ink typically only uses it temporarily.
8. The twins have dream and memory magic because I like that, as well as a few extra noncanon powers that will be revealed down the road. Oh, and Dream's magic is hot while Nightmare's is cold. I love that headcanon.
9. Blue is cool. You may witness just how cool he is later.
10. I think that's enough for nowww. Wow, reading over this, I'm literally just stuffing all my favorite headcanons into this story..I think I'm gonna like this, hehe!
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Credits for characters~
Toby Fox.
Dream and Nightmare ~ Jokublog
Error ~ loverofpiggies
Ink ~ Myebi/Comyet
Dust ~ ask-Dusttale blog
Killer ~ Rahafwabas
Horror ~ Sour-apple-studios
Cross ~ Jakei
Underswap ~ PopcornPr1nce
Underfell ~ Vic the Underfella
Outertale ~ 2mi27
Ccino ~ Black-Nyanko
Core Frisk ~ Dokudoki
Othertale ~ Super Youmna
Swapfell ~ Kkhoppang, from what the internet tells me.
Dancetale ~ Teandstars
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Started: October 30, 2024
Finished: Not yet!
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The Price of Power
FanfictionNightmare had been so kind. He'd said all the right things and done everything perfectly to gain Dream's trust. When had the proposition turned from the possibility of trust to the promise of power? I do not own these characters!
