Dream
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Background
Dream is the third in age of the seven Endless, seven entities that are older and more powerful than many gods. He is in charge of dreams, visions and stories in all worlds. His siblings are Destiny, Death, Destruction (the prodigal), Desire, Despair and Delirium. Desire and Despair are twins, as they would be; Delirium was once called Delight. The canon is that Dream, himself, is much less powerful than either Lucifer or the Judeo-Christian God.
He does not need to sleep, full stop. He doesn't exactly need to eat, though he was very hungry after 75 years in captivity. He's a really bad boyfriend once he gets past the initial infatuation stage. For example, he once sentenced a woman to eternity in hell for turning him down, and let her out 10,000 years later when his siblings pointed out he may have acted a wee bit hastily. His other relationships did not go much better. In canon, the belief is that mortals should not be in relationships with the Endless.
Personality-wise, he is cold, arrogant, proud, and all but entirely oblivious to people's feelings. He is also highly creative, incredibly devoted to the things he does care about and insanely conscientious about fulfilling his responsibilities. It is only recently that he's come to see a single human life as anything other than entirely disposable; remembering that helps to put a lot of what he does into perspective.
Where Canon and Dream go separate ways
In canon, Dream is made to kill his son, Orpheus, who has been a disembodied head for thousands of years. The experience is very traumatic for him, breaking as it does the Endless rule against spilling family blood. (These issues were collected in the paperback "Breif Lives"). The canon is that immediately after this, he becomes the prey of the Furies, which eventually leads to his death and the ascension of a new aspect to Dream's throne (all of which happened in "The Kindly Ones.").
All of that still happened to FH!Dream. He just got about a year of breathing/brooding -- and when Dream breathes, Dream broods -- room between "Brief Lives" and "The Kindly Ones," which he spent in part in Fandom.
In Fandom
Living Arrangements
Dream stayed in the Dreaming, venturing out only for his classes and other school-related duties.
Relationships
Ha. Please.
That said, he was not entirely without warm feelings toward Angel, M. Parker, Rory Gilmore, Elizabeth Weir, or Zero Hopeless-Savage.
Classes
Fall 2005
Spring 2006
- Classical Languages (TA Sydney Bristow (II))
- Foreign Literature 101 (TA John Connor)
- Creature Languages (TA Zero Hopeless-Savage)
Other
Midsummer Night's Dream co-director, Spring 2006
Adventures
During the Kitty Pryde/Angelus plot, Dream was brought and spoke to Lockheed, ascertaining that Kitty had been killed by what Lockheed called "a killer."1
