Dreamtale is a Multiversal AU created by the Tumblr user Jokublog. It's about a being of positive feelings, who travels the Undertale Multiverse and beyond to restore balance, as well as to save everyone from a horrific force that threatens to destroy it. Although it started as a story book, an animated continuation of the AUs is in the works.
The Dreamtale AU has many other AUs based off of it. Some popular ones are Dreamswap, DINTIS (Darkness!Dream), and Shattered!Dream.
Characters[]
Nim[]
The original guardian of the Tree of Feelings, and Dream and Nightmare's creator. Whilst stern when needed, she's shown to be calm and patient, though she looks down on all mortal life. She relocated to the Undertale Multiverse after she felt unsafe around the other Trees, only to be attacked by a human who came to obtain one of the golden apples. She was mortally wounded whilst protecting her respective tree. After slaying her attacker, she resorted to creating two replacements, hoping they will be able to guard it . She was ultimately slain by the vengeful spirit of said human, who was possessing Nightmare to do his bidding.
Corrupted Nightmare[]
He is the human responsible for the events of Dreamtale. He came to the Tree of Feelings to obtain the Golden Apple for ultimate power. He succeeded in mortally wounding the tree's Guardian, Nim, however she dealt a finishing blow to him. He was absorbed by the negative side of the tree. When Nightmare ate the black apples, he took complete control over the guardian's body. He's now roaming the Undertale Multiverse with the goal of erasing all positive feelings out of existence.
In his current form, he's completely covered in the Negative feelings that manifest in black liquid. He often uses said feelings to shapeshift. He can manifest tentacles for attacks. Nightmare preys upon the Sanses of the Multiverse, often gets seen in their clothing in order to frame them, henceforth further driving them into despair.
Dream[]
Dream is a light being that uses a vessel in a form of Swap!Sans to protect the golden apples of positive feelings. He's the more playful and vibrant of the two guardians, and is also an altruist. Despite his exterior, he internally suffers as much as his brother. Dream has the mentality of a 10-12-year-old child despite his physical age, as he was stuck in stone for most of his life. He grows more mature as time passes.
He wore 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 a sun on it that he and Nightmare made when they were younger. It ended up getting torn up by the latter during a fight. In more recent years, Dream has been portrayed wearing a new outfit. (Seen here)
Nightmare[]
Nightmare is a light being that use a vessel in a form of Swap!Sans to protect the black apples of negative feelings. He is more closed-off than his other, brighter half, due to the pain the villagers brought him when he was growing up. He is fairly smart and cunning. With the help of the apples, he lets his negative emotions overtake him. He gets corrupted by those negative feelings and becomes a nigh invincible creature of agony and despair.
Neil[]
A homeless cat-monster who lost his arm and family in a fire. He becomes Dream's best friend after he shows him kindness, and sees him as the son he'd lost. He, later on, helps him while he was stuck in stone along with the guardian of magic by taking him away from Nightmare, though he ends up dying at some yet unknown point.
Lanny[]
The guardian of the Tree of Magic, or Yggdrasil. Her personality is unknown so far. She is the one who vows to help break the spell that turned Dream to stone and becomes his teacher and trainer afterward. She holds a deep hatred toward Nightmare for everything he's done, but she also hates Dream, as she sees them both responsible for Nim's death. She is the only one without apples as her fruits are pears with a rainbow inside. She appears in one of Joku's live streams along with Quetzalcoatl here. Lanny was also the one that gave Dream his new outfit.
Ink[]
At Some point, Dream will encounter Ink during his travels and mistake him as a Guardian like himself (they meet when Dream still wore his first outfit, and Ink his old design). However, he later realized that Ink is only a selfish protector that guards the fates of the AUs and his viewpoints on life conflict with his own.
Quetzalcoatl[]
The guardian of the Tree of Life. He appears in some of Joku's live streams. He is actually two split guardians, one that represents life and another that represents death. Both are shaped as giant snakes. When not divided, he has a more humanoid appearance with snake-like traits as shown here. He is based on an Aztec god with the same name.
Miscellaneous[]
The three Trees[]
In the centre of all of the Multiverses lies three trees that provide Feelings, Magic, and Life to all of the Universes in the story. Their existence and location remain a secret among each other. Each Tree protect itself by projecting a humanoid deity to serve as their guardian. However, said Guardians is linked to their respective tree, and any harm to the tree will apply to them and vice versa.
Tree of Feelings[]
The Tree of Feelings provide said feelings across the Multiverses through the fruits that it bears. It bears two kinds of fruits: The Golden Apple and the Dark Apple. The Golden Apple provides Positive Feelings, while the Dark Apple provides the Negative ones. A Mortal can only consume one apple, as eating more can cause the body to rupture from the overload of Feelings they provided.
The Tree itself is currently dead, but it is possible that a new one can be planted to take its place.
Tree of Magic[]
The tree of Magic functions similar to the Tree of Feelings, though so far it's the only other Tree that was surrounded by Life (even before the Tree of Feelings). It was populated by Elves and Monsters, though Lanny favours the formers to the point she took their form. Its fruits were different form the others as they took the form of Rainbow Pears[1].
Tree of Life[]
The Tree of Life serves as medium to enforce the cycle of Life, Death and Reincarnation. Its apples are not edible, as they are made out of glowing blue crystal. When people die, their souls return to the tree and incubate within its apples. When said apple dropped to the ground, these souls break free and are reborn into different a different lifeform in a different universe.
Story[]
Trivia[]
- Joku created Nightmare for a cancelled AU, Underflesh. The concept wasn't very popular, but Nightmare was. Thus, she scrapped the AU and repurposed the character for Dreamtale.
- Dreamtale was inspired by the Dreamworks movie: The Prince of Egypt[2] and by Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.
- At the time of this writing Dream and Nightmare were currently 500+ years old. They're born on December 21.
- Dreamtale is stated to have 4 endings, one of them being featured in the upcoming animated series.
- It is stated that Dream and Nightmare will obtain their Guardian forms at the true ending of the story.
- The Dead can‘t feel in this story.
- Thanks to their respective apples, both Dream and Nightmare became Conceptual Beings - Physical Manifestations of Positive and Negative Feelings respectively. It was because of this, that nothing can kill them except one another, as they’re polar opposite that can cause them to be neutralized when they come into contact with each other.
- Being Conceptual Beings, they rely on the existence of their respective feelings to survive.
- If Corrupted Nightmare were to succeed, all of the Multiverses would die in agony.
- There's a collection of canon information that goes into great detail about the lore of Dreamtale and what Joku plans to do in the upcoming animated series, complete with sources[3].
- A Deviant blog was also created with said canon information as well.[4]