This is during my Art rush phase... I realized they didn't post it properly, so I will ^^
Dusk is cooler than I expected to draw him, I love their OC too ;w;

Collab Partner is: @ORANGUSS

It was rough for Night... Afraid of flooding the feed section, so all I need to say is: This encounter started Night's fear for spiders, but it's also what also what allowed Dusk to exist...

Also now you guys see how much Night's outfit will glow in the dark, even if most of it is actually his jacket that was designed for him from Hope himself (who used to be Dream)

Despair's original name was Dare. He was actually more up to challenges back then, known to try to test anything that already exists, which for a guardian was a risky job. But due to his own Ambition being as strong as it was, he couldn't help but try to test what was already the way it was.

One man did the unthinkable, so after being told "Don't look back from now on" his grin grew wider, since now the permission to keep going forward was permitted. But he didn't always go in a straight path and he was known to break things before they landed the wrong way, which hasn't changed since he became "Despair" but it still held a different quality of him.

In my story he's what should have been Passive Nightmare, since an egotistical and cocky boy who tries to prove a point after all of the pain that impacted him, going through the cycles of the repeated emotions after old ones burned off due to Nightmare's deception. Even if Fate had the odds against him, his spirit had never burned this bright before, making it clear that this time it will be different.

Nightmare could tell the difference and it satisfied him to see what he was waiting for, even if he was the one who "grew the tree to be this resilient", but not through care... Through breaking it apart and watching it try to survive, watching the struggle was always his job as the Mare they had to face.

The young boy had a lot of struggles actually, Nox wouldn't be assigned to guard him without reason, but it wasn't obvious what was going on at first. Night was born during a time where conflict was already in action, but he grew up trying to learn and improve for a long time, motivated from Despair who Night used to trust until this conflict started.

Night liked to adventure into other timelines, mainly due to Hope's connection to Ink, who also showed him how to play a flute. Eventually Night went by himself and was supplied by a weapon, but many of them used it as a way for Night to practice his emotion effectively. Things only turned for the worst when Nightmare found Night, who messes with all of the Negative guardians.

For a the negative guardians were actually preparing the stage for Night's resolution, but since Nightmare didn't want it to happen, but also wanted to see the result he decided to push Night while he was still vulnerable and didn't make it easy for him to prove himself worthy. The conflict is ongoing, but it does slowly crush his trust in the world more, which is why the other guardians slowly stepped in quietly. As Nightmare would say "If I can get to you, then that means you Guardians already failed"

You know there are some things in this world that is worse than you think from the outside... What gives you fear in a moment? Well usually it's from what you remember- no... It was looking back or looking forward. You always need to see something from an angle to form an interpretation, but the way you interpret it changes your reaction to it. What if you could only see things in one way, see things within the framing- the only one that holds the truth at the moment.

Intrusive Thoughts... What make them intrusive? Well it was yours, but not correct. It was something you truly believed, but now it feels incorrect and it's sharing room with the rest of your thoughts, but can you tell where things distorted between what was real? Maybe not... That's the scary part. This is something that behaves just like that... Your nightmares are the same way "How can you tell that it actually happened or not if it just intruded in your dreams themselves?"

Well just know this... He's interested in all of it, since he watches things and founds it enjoyable... You cannot shake him. He wins when you fight back or struggled, since you still noticed him. You remembered his impact. That makes him stronger. He's still dangerous and violent, but he doesn't need to do physical violence to get the point through. He doesn't even need to reveal his mouth most of the time, which makes him harder to predict from the outside, but it also makes his creepier moments more obvious.

Most of the time you remember his words or his grin, but you never remember the shape he was in- He can look different everytime... That's the point. But his impact always is strongest when you perceive him directly, when you realize he was watching the whole time... Uncanny, Intrusive... Nightmare...

So the thing is, he is interpretation based, whatever he sees is what he believes, so if someone forces him to see only one thing or convinced him that only one thing is true, then he will have a hard time breaking that lock. If you're guilty for something you never meant to do, even if you did actually do it in the way it was framed, how can you tell yourself that the frame was wrong if it was still saying things that were true? Oh how fragile interpretations are...

SO... This was on an ORBs Jam and I tried to clear the doodles, but it's okay...

THANK YOU for peaking with me >:3

If the two Multiverses could ever meet, Hope would be much taller and older (mentally) than the Original version, since Hope was mentored by Light and was never turned to stone... Plus I can see Hope treating the other Dream like Day, even if he know they'll part ways.

The only gift he'll lend to him is a crystal from their AU, not wanting to change their own timeline for good, but giving Dream's positivity more of a chance to grow and improve. Plus Hope will just tell him "You still have a Promise to fulfill yourself, so go make it happen, other me"

You know most people think that a God of Positivity would be happy and would be a stable person, but this god will shatter your belief on it. To the God, it's not about being the emotion, it's about maintaining the image of happiness. Anyone who is happy cannot be purely happy without pain or conflict, that is if we remain as the emotional creatures we are.

In Masquerade's ideal world, he ("it" when not a part of the act) will give other's masks and ask them to play along with him in a "party", creating the delusion piece by piece by giving others rest. The only reason why it's wrong is because the delusion is real, nobody is facing reality and "it" is reenforcing it by trying to maintain the image...

The god is actually obsessed with one of the past Guardians, who in theory is still alive, but had died due to a tragedy and it caused more conflict than imaginable. The appearance and beauty she had... All lost to one idiot who didn't want to see it forever. "She could have been the most wonderful Mother to the Future... You know, since your REAL Mother cannot talk"

What a blinded fool... Only one grin would know how much blind spots it intentionally creates for the pain to settle in. Oh what an irony, the Future Guardians only have it worse from here because of "HIM".

[Note: He's meant to be bent backwards but I didn't know how to finish the angle]

Okay so posting it cuz Yam did it and this is SOOO CLEVER

Okay so random Nox Lore drop: He doesn't need the scarf, he chooses to have it, since otherwise it would be in his body. Also uh... He's more sad than you think. He may look chill, but he's a gloomy guy, and even pretends like it's not true

Sin and Grace had the conflict before Day and Night arrived, but Sin is actually still alive... Hollow came before the two did, as a direct response of "Silence" that came from the tragedy and because of Hollow's arrival Despair finally acted out to cut the Positivity God's false protection (numbing the pain)

Hollow had to witness the burning fire and a "War" between the positive and negative side, as the conflict over Grace's death, even if the event was formed from the distorted collaboration of the "Positivity" god and "Negativity" God... "The delusion of happiness met the distortion of the pain, so neither side agreed... Because each were wrong from the beginning. The more they understand eachother and see their values get protected from the other side, the more that the conflict resolves.

"As long as the Sun keeps burning and the Moon keeps returning, the chaos of this world can be forgiven" (That is my current words of this)

I had to work around the comic like that due to I think a kid who moved their drawing there on the canvas? I don't care.

This illustrates first show Nox likes Killer, but honestly the ship never turns out cuz Nox always helps Killer get to Color. Yeah it's a doomed ship... But it illustrates how Nightmare actually manipulated Nox a lot too, since he couldn't see very well after his reality got fractured.

To Nox, Night is just a memory of a lost young boy, who he once tried to protect but failed to very quickly. He never knew that Nightmare was using Nox like a beacon, but it eventually lead him to believe that misfortune followed him everywhere, since that became his purpose the more things got distorted.

This is the time Night started to get afraid of Nightmare, which started his fear of spiders too, but Nox couldn't prevent it for the King as he would have liked- (his original authority that oriented the "Useful" lens).

The "fall of a Trusted Lie of Reality" is linked to Night's wish to the Moon btw... I have a Plot Idea that is going to be SOOOO fun to write tomorrow.

A spirit that once existed as a Guardian of Emotion, still following its own instincts, but its perception of what it was has changed too much. It holds its shape with negative emotion, which his spirit is naturally tuned to, but it takes effort to control the shape of the emotion looks like (manipulating negativity) and remain stable through it. And the colors of his spirit that naturally change often can be seen through it, Blue (Useful), Magenta (Meaningful), Cyan (Question), and White (Neutral)... More complex than that but still.

One single collision in his thoughts can cause him to lose it, so often the spirit will lose its ability to operate in those moments, making managing the emotions difficult. Nox, when he has a body can lose his sight in his broken eye (his spirit form lost this eye), due to him struggling to make sense of what he was seeing or believing. He had no mouth because his own answers became dangerous eventually, since the question still remained "If I am a Shadow... Then why do I change shape?" (this explains more than it looks)

He was once the Guardian of Shade, someone who worked with the positioning of things, knew how to handle information that came... But then one day he was a Shadow, who was made to be the "Third Eye" of his "Creator" (Emotional consequence that shaped another emotion, often relational- not this version). Then he stopped seeing himself as anything but the Eye, simply because remembering what he was made him lose control of his negativity. (Know that Nightmare reframed Nox's reality through a conflict with Night. I explain another day)

... Why did Nightmare interrupt the boy's wish? All that he wanted as something to make him feel safe, but he asked it by saying "Can this world be upheld in a better way?" And Nightmare was the one who answered him "You can get a New King".

But the whole time a certain shadow was listening and watching, because long before Despair (who was meant to mentor Night into becoming a Guardian himself) sent it to protect the quiet one, the one who "Saw more than he should answer". The witness that influenced others to see what he saw, to catch onto something and call it "Meaningful", all because he one day met Hope. The Shadow knew its job, it was made for duty and devotion, since endurance to preserve and be utile was its purpose... But the preservation was for memory of what was meant to be kept secret- to be left Unknown but still there just Hidden.

But the Shadow forgot a lot about what it originally was, as once it formed its own identity leading it to lose its origin, because someone else fixed its lens... To remember his point of origin and be able to find it again he named himself "Nox", even if the shadow was now being casted by someone else... Or was the shadow just the outcome of who he was himself? Nightmare said "I made you, therefore I decide what you are", which breaks those reminders and questions of the past... "At least the Guardian of the Moon still gives orientation to guide eyes away from distortion, even the Moon is the destination he himself if looking for"

The AU is named after the Generations of Guardians that has existed in the AU (But the name is temporary, unless I decide to keep it). Many of the OCs I have are a part of the story, but not always classified as a "Guardian". In Canon Dreamtale there are 3 Trees... It's the same here, only- the focus of this story is mainly on the Emotion tree.

This only shows snapshots of a few conflicts that happen, but it is all linked together as a part of a major discussion going on in the story... One of the important discussions wasn't shown yet... His story would be better explained from his perspective than the discussion of others. But these are things that I couldn't explain before that is meaningful in my AU

Yes this is kinda a lazy sketch- But I just can't render this kind of thing

I got bored today and went to a public canvas... Ended up rendering Nox.

Random lore drop: Nightmare isn't actually kind to Nox at all, but that's just how Nightmare works. Nox just tolerates a lot because fulfilling his purpose is more important than... What else he needs. Still, he has forgotten a lot about who he is sometimes, so he keeps memories in objects... The moon sticker on his cheek is one example.

So the new idea is that Despair (so Passive Nightmare) was kinda normal at first, but he just had high ambition to become the next King (In their AU the guardians cycle like generations of a family), so it's no surprise that he'll do anything to get there...

Mr Goopy man (Canon Nightmare) basically tricks him, as I am not sure how it is supposed to happen, but this is meant to lead to his later corruption. And it might even happen when Dark took a vacation in secret and LET Nightmare get the throne to test him, but he was still never fully corrupted somehow. Plus: Later he'll meet Night and that dynamic should be interesting (it has been a while since I thought about how their first meeting would look like)...

Anyway, Mr Goopy Man has partial control over the AU. Plus he stole one of Despair's creations (Nox) later on, so like... (Btw this will make sense one day how Despair does it, trust me)

Yeah so cuz I wanted to hug a friend, I decided to make my Sansona finally and I am proud to be a gentlelady, since nobody said that ladies cannot be polite. I thought the design was nice too and if I end up cosplaying in the future, I will dress exactly like it (just human version)...

Night is happy this time! Not QUITE silly, but just my lil boy :3

A lot of things has happened and Despair (their NM) hasn't really been teaching Night much tricks about how to fight, so he often gets attacked by people and loses his bodies, so to protect him Dream asked Ink for who would be good support and Jusvery was the suggestion...

Truthfully speaking, Dream would have helped Night learn how to fight if he could, but he was already Day's mentor. The most he does for Night is giving him a safe space, so that is enough.... Alli I pass you the opportunity to have Jus teach Night as much tricks as you want (you can draw them too, but make sure you finish all of your ideas for drawing first, lmao)

One day the young boy gazed up at the Moon while they were gloomy, as nothing but a shadow lingered with him. He was tired of the role he was pushed into, since in their AU it was a generational thing for Guardians to come and go. Many guardians do not survive for long, so training for the next always come after they are created. They may be spirits, but losing their body means nothing, so sometimes negativity follows with coldness.

Warm to the feeling of positive emotions Night would stay at the Cabin where Dream and his Twin (Day is), but one Night he felt tired... Because the Nightmare in his AU decided to take a more serious approach on his training, even going to their local Blacksmith to get him a new weapon. It was cold... So cold that Night would rather run away... Now he has a different reason to Run.