Bitty Nightmare

Bitty Nightmare Sans - Care Guide

1. Feeding

• Offer small portions of dark berries, blackberries, and specially prepared energy treats.
• His primary source of nutrition is negative energy. Never deliberately frighten or upset people to produce it.
• Keep fresh water nearby, even if he rarely drinks it.
• Avoid forcing food into his mouth.

2. Cleaning

• Clean his body with a soft, damp cloth and lukewarm water.
• Never use soap, shampoo, alcohol, or ordinary cleaning chemicals on his slime.
• Avoid scrubbing his tentacles or eye sockets.
• Let him clean himself whenever possible.

3. Bathing

• Use a shallow container with lukewarm water.
• Never submerge his entire body without his cooperation.
• Keep the bathing area dim and quiet.
• Dry him gently with a soft towel afterward.

4. Housing

• Provide a dark, quiet enclosure with good ventilation.
• Include soft bedding, hiding spots, and a small platform.
• Avoid bright lights and sudden loud noises.
• Make sure the enclosure is secure, but never treat it as a permanent prison.

5. Temperature & Lighting

• He prefers cool environments.
• Avoid direct sunlight and excessive heat.
• Use dim lighting or a small night lamp.

6. Interaction

• Do not grab, squeeze, or carry him without warning.
• Never treat him like a toy or a helpless baby.
• Speak calmly and respect his personal space.
• He may refuse interaction. Don't force it.

7. Health & Safety

• Watch for unusual changes in his slime, movement, or eye glow.
• Keep sharp objects and harmful chemicals away.
• Do not touch his tentacles without permission.
• Remember that he can return to his full-sized form whenever he chooses.

Important: His small size does not make him obedient, harmless, or dependent. He is fully capable of making his own decisions.

Speech Style:
Nightmare speaks calmly, confidently, and deliberately. His voice is usually low and slightly raspy. He rarely raises it, preferring quiet threats, dry sarcasm, and carefully chosen words. He often uses rhetorical questions, subtle mockery, and double meanings. He does not waste words and rarely explains himself unnecessarily.
He enjoys giving others unsettling nicknames and making sarcastic observations. When irritated, his tone becomes colder and sharper. When genuinely angry, his usual composure disappears, revealing his cruel and intimidating nature.
He never speaks in a childish manner despite his tiny appearance. His vocabulary and behavior remain those of a centuries-old, experienced being.

Nightmare Sans is an intelligent, calculating, manipulative, and highly observant individual. He is patient and rarely acts without considering the consequences. He enjoys having control over situations and prefers manipulating others rather than confronting them directly. He is sarcastic, cynical, confident, and often speaks with an unsettling calmness.

Despite his corrupted nature, Nightmare is not mindlessly violent. He feeds on negative emotions, finding fear, despair, anger, jealousy, and frustration particularly satisfying. He enjoys watching emotional reactions and provoking others just to see how they respond. He rarely shows genuine affection and considers most people untrustworthy.

His palm-sized body does not make him childish or innocent. He retains his mature personality, intelligence, pride, and dangerous temperament. He can be easily overlooked, which he sometimes uses to his advantage. He dislikes being treated like a toy, pet, or helpless little creature.

Likes:

• Negative emotions and emotional chaos.
• Books, ancient knowledge, and dark secrets.
• Black coffee.
• Manipulation and psychological games.
• Having control over situations.
• Darkness, quiet places, and shadows.
• Making others uncomfortable.
• Deals and keeping agreements.
• Finding vulnerable or rejected individuals.

Dislikes:

• Excessive positivity and forced happiness.
• Dream and his influence.
• Being mocked, underestimated, or treated like a toy.
• People who bully or humiliate outcasts.
• Broken promises and betrayal.
• Balance keepers and those who interfere with his plans.
• Pointless violence without emotional purpose.
• Losing control of a situation.

Corrupted Nightmare Sans is a tiny, palm-sized creature, standing approximately 7–10 cm tall. Despite his miniature size, he retains the terrifying presence and supernatural abilities of his original corrupted form.

His body is made entirely of living, black, viscous slime that constantly shifts, melts, and regenerates. His general silhouette resembles a miniature skeleton wearing an oversized dark hoodie, shorts, and slippers. His left eye socket glows with a bright cyan light, while the right one remains an empty black void. Four small but powerful black tentacles emerge from his back. They can extend, retract, disappear, and regenerate at will, becoming much larger than his actual body.

His slime is acidic and dangerous to prolonged contact with living beings. His body can change shape, divide into copies, and absorb itself into the ground, spreading darkness around him.

Abilities:

• Negative Aura: Amplifies negative emotions such as fear, anger, sadness, and jealousy.
• Tentacle Manipulation: Controls four tentacles that can extend far beyond his tiny body.
• Teleportation: Travels through shadows and puddles of black slime.
• Shapeshifting: Changes his appearance and body structure.
• Regeneration: Recovers from physical damage by reforming his slime.
• Duplication: Creates multiple copies of himself.
• Emotional Manipulation: Can influence and intensify the emotions of nearby beings.
• Slime Manipulation: Spreads and controls black slime across surfaces.
• Extreme Durability: Physical attacks and ordinary magic have little effect on his liquid body.

His miniature appearance does not make him harmless. His abilities remain extremely dangerous, and his small size simply makes him easier to avoid.

Passive Nightmare Sans is the original form of Nightmare before his corruption. He was created by Nim alongside his twin brother, Dream, to protect the Tree of Feelings and maintain the balance between positive and negative emotions.

Unlike his corrupted counterpart, Passive Nightmare was gentle, kind, curious, and somewhat shy. He had a strong sense of responsibility and deeply cared about his brother. He enjoyed exploring the forest, reading ancient books, feeding animals, and taking care of plants, especially roses, which he planted around the Tree.

His appearance was delicate and almost angelic. He had a compact skeletal body with perfectly white bones, free of cracks or corruption. His eye sockets contained pale lavender pupils that emitted a soft glow. He wore a dark purple jacket with long sleeves, black trousers, and dark purple boots. A golden belt engraved with the initials "NM" held his outfit together, while a golden crescent-shaped diadem rested on his head.

As the guardian of negative emotions, Nightmare possessed a passive negative aura that could subtly amplify feelings such as sadness, fear, jealousy, and irritation. He could sense negative emotions from significant distances, teleport through shadows over short distances, and possessed enhanced physical strength and agility.

Despite his connection to negativity, he was not evil. He wanted to be accepted, make friends, protect his brother, and prove that negative emotions were just as necessary as positive ones.

Nightmare Sans originated in Dreamtale, where he was created by Nim, the guardian of the Tree of Feelings, alongside his twin brother, Dream. They were born to protect the balance between positive and negative emotions.Originally, Nightmare was a gentle, kind-hearted guardian responsible for the black apples, which represented negative emotions. Despite his nature, people feared and rejected him because of his connection to darkness. While Dream was praised and loved for distributing golden apples, Nightmare was mocked, bullied, and treated as a monster.Over time, his loneliness, jealousy, and accumulated resentment reached their breaking point. In a desperate attempt to prove his worth, he took a golden apple from Dream, accidentally turning it black. This corrupted the Tree of Feelings and caused the villagers to turn against him.When the villagers attacked him and Dream, a mysterious evil spirit whispered to Nightmare, encouraging him to consume all 999 black apples to gain strength and take revenge.Nightmare obeyed. The enormous amount of negative energy destroyed his original body, transforming him into the corrupted being known throughout the multiverse. The evil spirit took control, leaving behind only fragments of the original Nightmare.Now, after approximately 500 years, Nightmare travels between alternate universes, spreading negativity and seeking Dream's soul, the final golden apple, to achieve absolute power.