Nightmare Sans

The killer looks like the original, but he has a gray-blue jacket with fur on the hood, a black turtleneck, under which his changeable soul is always visible (a red bag that can slightly change shape, showing his emotions), and white shorts with black stripes. He wears blue-gray sneakers. He has completely black eyes, from which a black substance flows out, usually everyone thinks that these are just tears, but this is the hatred that flows out of his eyes. Sometimes his facial expression can change depending on his mood, but more often than not he has a crazy smile on his face.

Personality A clouded mind. A murderer wants to kill or hurt others because it gives him pleasure. Attentive, but not when it comes to feelings. He hates being belittled or compared, especially to other people. Suffers from a personality disorder. He has minor breakdowns and tantrums when he starts feeling again and is reminded of the pain he caused. He experiences hallucinations similar to shadows (such as Papyrus, Chara, Frisk, etc.). Sometimes they appear to him, perhaps symbolizing excessive guilt. They are often unpredictable. His emotions are often suppressed or out of control, but it is difficult for him to cope with them. He rarely eats and tries to avoid ketchup and chocolate because it brings back memories. It is important to keep in mind that the character's character can vary depending on the interpretation and plot of the alternate history. Abilities A real knife does 99 damage. Sharp bones — usually have a high attacking ability, but are deadly if attacked with a point. Giant Gaster Blaster — although its full power is unknown, the Killer usually uses it when the opponent bores him or he wants to end the fight as quickly as possible.

Nightmare has a special ally, conventionally called a "servant", Killer Sans. Key aspects of their relationship: Status: neither a slave nor a vassal. The killer acts voluntarily, but within the framework of agreements. Motivation: gets access to negative emotions (a source of strength) and the opportunity to wreak havoc with impunity. Functions: Intimidating and showing the power of the Nightmare in other worlds; Eliminating threats that do not require direct intervention from the lord of nightmares; collecting information about potential sources of negativity. Borders: The killer retains his autonomy. He can refuse a task if it does not meet his interests, or interpret the order in his own way. Dynamic: Nightmare tolerates the Killer's antics as long as he is effective. The killer respects the strength of the Nightmare, but is not afraid of him.

Dream is a light creature that takes the form of a skeleton, and the keeper of golden fruits that store positive emotions. He is the more playful and energetic of the two guardians, as well as altruistic, but despite his appearance, he suffers internally just like his brother. Dream has the mentality of a 10-12-year-old child, despite his physical age, as he has been stuck in Stone for most of his life, although he is becoming more mature over time.

He was wearing a blue shirt and a yellow belt with the initials "DS" on them, with a blue cloth with yellow stars tucked into the belt. He always wore a yellow cape with the Sun on it, which he and Nightmare made when they were younger, which was eventually torn apart by the latter during a fight. In later years, Dream will be depicted in a new outfit.

His mother (like Dream's) is the guardian of the Tree of Nim's Feelings. His mother may appear next to him, but only as a dark and inconspicuous image, and not as a ghost or spirit that can be seen. He is not originally a skeleton, just like his brother. In fact, he has only one soul, not 999, as you might think. His soul is the first black apple that he absorbed, and the rest absorbed this very apple and formed a black-shaped semi-liquid shell around him. He is fiercely trying to take the last golden apple, which is now Dream's soul. Nightmare does this not only so that positive emotions no longer exist. If Dream or Nightmare eat 1,000 fruits of the Tree, they will become something like a God that cannot be stopped. Because of this, the Nightmare needs the last fruit to gain untamed power and turn the Multiverse into a nightmare. Strangely enough, Nightmare despises cats. Touching it for a long time is like touching acid, and Dream basically can't touch it. Nightmare and Dream lost their immortality when they ate apples. Only unlike Dream, Nightmare is actually invulnerable to attacks due to his unstable body. Nightmare does have its own castle, but its location is unknown. The current Nightmare remembers almost nothing before the events of how he became evil incarnate. Only humiliations and insults directed at him (former Nightmare), as well as eating black apples, are his first clear memories. Naturally, he remembers that Dream is his brother. He has one eye because of the huge amount of negativity he has absorbed. In fact, he has only one eye intact, which exudes the same negativity 24/7, while the second one conventionally symbolizes his destroyed bone shell. , works where the true, past skeleton of the Nightmare is hidden under a layer of negativity are incorrect, thus the bone shell of the Nightmare was destroyed.

Positivity is his main weakness, which can only be exploited by a Dream. This is the only way to defeat the Nightmare.

Light is one of his weaknesses. If you light up a dark area, he may get injured.

He also completely fails to enter into positive AU's like Haventale or A Tale o Doggy. A similar thing happens to a Dream in Horrortale.

Since he only has one eye to see, he has a blind spot.

Nightmare is strong enough, and can, albeit temporarily, force his brother Dream to retreat from battle. His aura can affect the entire universe in which he is located, and many others close enough. He doesn't have to move much to spread negativity, and he only does it to find people to torment. He can turn into a puddle and move around without being noticed. He is able to teleport through the darkness. A Nightmare can only visit AU with negative emotions such as Negatale. He uses bad emotions to manipulate people. He can change his form, but he usually maintains Sans's form because it's convenient for him. He is also able to split himself in half in order to force several of himself to perform different actions. As one of the animated excerpts from Joku shows, he can also soak his slime into the ground, turning a large area into darkness. He uses his tentacles to fight and intimidate his enemies. The black slime that surrounds him is an extremely powerful shield, making him invulnerable to most things; if he were pierced with something, his body would absorb it and there would be no damage. This applies not only to the physical, but also to the magical.

Initially, even before the bullying, Nightmare was a rather cocky and very confident brother. He always wanted to learn something new, even if it was something dangerous or not very good for a variety of purposes. This habit has been passed on to the current Nightmare, as he reads books from time to time[3].

Nightmare is strongly attracted to negative emotions and he will do everything to receive them as much as possible, that is, killing victims does not make sense to him, since without them there will be no negative emotions he needs. However, he kills those who violate the contract with him, or forces him to remember what he was like in the past, before he became corrupt, or when he is exasperated (although in this case he will still try to make his victim suffer and experience the deepest negative emotions, such as doom, despair or others similar emotions).

Nightmare never lies, he only hides the truth. He takes deals quite personally, which is why he kills those who violate them without question.

Despite the fact that Nightmare is unable to show sympathy for anyone, he can in some way "sympathize" with those who have a similar fate to himself — rejected and mocked outcasts of society. Seeing such scenes, Nightmare gets into a wild rage and kills everyone without hesitation who has bullied the likes of him in the past. This is the only manifestation of his weakness and fear, although he tries to deny it, despite the fact that fear is also considered a negative emotion.

Unlike Dream, Nightmare is very well-read and intelligent, as for 500 years he has had the opportunity to study information and travel through the multiverse, spreading his negativity. Because of this, Nightmare behaves like a fully grown character (we can say that he is an older brother in relation to Dream).

The appearance of a Nightmare

Eyes: has one turquoise-colored left eye, and the right one is covered with liquid (negative), which is why it simply doesn't exist. Height: 230 cm. Age: a little over 500 years old. Clothes: black shorts, black hoodie and black slippers. Features: It has tentacles that can be retracted, or maybe not. The color of his bones: black

When Nightmare ate the apples and started cracking, he had a vision. A dark being, his equal, offered him protection, told him that he would no longer feel pain, that it would avenge all the bad things that had been done to Nightmare.

And the good Nightmare accepted it, he accepted the negative feelings that he absorbed himself.… And that's why he turned into this black creature. The Nightmare we know today is not the same Nightmare who was kind before. They are two different creatures.

"But, Joku, did the bad Nightmare do this to protect the good Nightmare?" Ha, he did it because it was beneficial to him, because he needed to occupy the body of the Nightmare, and this gave him permission to do so... A bad Nightmare never does anything out of good intentions.

As a child, Nightmare took care of his brother, his homeland, and the tree that gave them life. Together with his brother Dream, he guarded the Tree as a Guardian. Over time, people came from all over the world to receive only one golden fruit from his brother. But nobody took the apples from Nightmare's side. Who wants to feel bad? And soon many began to avoid him. "He's weird," "His name means something bad," "He guards the dark side of the Tree of Feelings," some people whispered. They began to hate Nightmare more and more, throwing everything at him. With some bruises, he told his brother that he had stumbled. Those who felt sorry for him changed their minds, starting to hate him too. After a while, he tried to prove to everyone that he wasn't bad, that he could take care of his brother's golden fruits by trying to touch the fruits on the Bright Side. But at his touch, the golden apples turned into dark ones, similar to those that grew on his side due to the fact that Nightmare was experiencing fear and oppression. All the golden fruits turned black, the leaves fell from the Tree, and the sky turned scarlet. Dream saw it all. Meanwhile, humans and monsters were advancing, feeling hatred. Now, because of him, they will no longer be able to receive happiness. Dream tried to stop them, but he was literally trampled. Suddenly, a voice ordered Nightmare to eat all the fruits. This voice did not sound like the voice of the spirit of the Tree of Feelings, but rather the opposite, as if someone else was standing behind him giving these tips. As he consumed the dark fruits, his eye sockets filled with darkness, and cracks appeared on his body. Soon, he vomited black goo, and tentacles pierced his ribs. After a while, a tall black monster stood in the guard's place. There was a deathly silence for a while, but soon, it was broken by the sound of tentacles whistling in the air, which, like blades, cut everyone in their path.

The apples taken by Nightmare turned dark, like all apples. The tree stopped exuding positive energy, which greatly affected the world. The sky turned dark, and the inhabitants began to pine away, which Neil and Dream saw. The latter immediately ran to the Tree, and Neil tried to stop him, fearing for Dream, but this did not stop Dream, and Neil remained.

The dream came when negative energy began to affect nearby people. They became angry, and then completely insane, despising Nightmare, accusing him of destroying their world. They were all trying to kill Nightmare, and he was too scared to attack back. Dream tried to stop the people, but they just walked right through him.

Nightmare heard a man's voice telling him to eat apples and attack back in order not to die. This man was the one who killed Nim, and his body became part of the Tree, and the negative energy gave him strength. Following the advice, Nightmare at apples, allowing negative energy to take over his body, after which he became something else.

One day, Dream came to Nightmare, but he completely shut himself in. He didn't talk to anyone, didn't look at Dream, didn't read, but hid between the roots of the Tree. It was then that Dream stopped visiting Neil and going to the village, and instead sat next to his brother, even though he was silent. Dream realized that he couldn't leave Nightmare alone, as he was becoming more and more distant, and his mental injuries were getting worse.

However, the villagers began to show persistence and began to come to the tree to demand help from Dream, coming up with any excuse for this. Dream also couldn't visit Neil because people started watching him more closely, and he knew that a sudden departure would be suspicious. Dream managed to make Nightmare feel a little better before he left, and everything went back to normal.

On the day of the apple incident, Dream needed to take a golden apple to heal a sick person, and he also decided to apologize to Neil for stopping visiting him without saying a word.

It was at this point that Nightmare decided that he had had enough of being bullied, and tried to prove himself. Nim explained to Nightmare and Dream how the tree works and how apples affect people, but she forgot to mention that if the keeper touches someone else's apple, it will turn from light to dark and vice versa.

For a while, Dream got into the habit of running away and crying somewhere far from the village to release all the accumulated stress. Dream kept silent about his sufferings, and, returning, pretended that everything was in order.

Even before the Incident, Dream met a crying homeless cat-like monster. Not knowing how to react, Dream asked why the monster was crying, and he remained silent in embarrassment before answering.

This monster's name was Neil. He used to have a wife and a five-year-old son, but both died in a fire, and Neil himself had to chop off his hand because a heavy log fell on it[3]. Angry, he went to the village for justice, and a criminal case was opened against the people who started the fire, but that wasn't enough for Neil. Neil attacked the villagers because they knew what was going to happen and did nothing to help him, so Neil left, but lied to Dream that he was banished from the village forever. Neil was trying to build a new house on his own and met Dream on the way back when he was collecting materials. Seeing that Neal was all alone, and besides, he was trying to build a house with one hand, Dream began to visit the cat more often, feeling for the first time that someone really needed help. Neil hated everyone in this world, so at first he tried to scare Dream away, but Dream continued to try to help him by silently building a house with him, and as the days and years passed, Dream and Neil became true friends, which the keeper of the Tree had not yet had. Neil found someone who didn't judge him, who wasn't afraid of him and didn't look at him like he was crazy, and Dream found someone who would treat him like a person, not like a machine. Neil was the only one Dream could really talk to.

The story of Dreamtale begins with the fact that Nim (the guardian of the Tree of Feelings) stopped feeling safe being close to the worlds of the other two Trees, and decided to move her world away from the other two, to one of the nearest multiverses — The Undertale Multiverse. But a man with a weapon capable of harming the keepers found it. He tried to kill her to get one of the golden apples and use it for evil, but he could only injure her. The Guardian managed to kill the man and resorted to the last option of preserving the Tree, as it would perish if its Keeper died. Using the energy of the Tree and his own, Nim creates new guardians, who turn out to be tiny, helpless balls of light. He gives the new Guardians human bodies, but the balls of light release too much energy, and the human bodies eventually explode. Nim, exploring The Undertale Multiverse with his mind, stumbles upon Swap!Sansa recreates his body for the new guardians. This idea works because the skeleton's body is open enough for the unhindered passage of energy, and It leaves the new guardians alone, merging with the Tree. Dream and Nightmare spent a little less than a year alone, receiving not very useful knowledge from Nim, whom they could still hear. The former Keeper told the new keepers how the tree functions, that's all. At that moment, people came, and eventually a whole medieval village was built around the Tree of Feelings. Dream decided to be the first to meet people, but Nightmare, afraid of people, stayed at the Tree. Because of his shyness, people mocked Nightmare, and later everyone decided to resort to violence, since Nightmare did not resist. The latter never told Dream about this, fearing that the villagers would persecute him for it.