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Sweet Tooth Notes
🕑 Added 2021-08-04 03:23:34 +0000 UTCIn between working on commissions I've been writing notes on my nightmarish OC Sweet Tooth (finally decided on their name). They've been on my mind for a while now, and while the initial comic was originally intended to be a standalone piece, I've wanted to do some more work featuring Sweet Tooth, but am unsure what that would be. I'm thinking of writing a story of some kind. Until then, I've written down everything I can think regarding Sweet Tooth's nature, in case any of you are curious or even want to make fan works with them. Some of the stuff here has already been said in the original comic, but there's a lot new info as well as elaborations on old info here as well!
Another thing I wanted to note, but didn't write down here: Sweet Tooth's pronouns are they/them, and occasionally "it". Partially because gender doesn't apply to a being such as Sweet Tooth, but also because in the realm of dreams that they reside in, Sweet Tooth can occupy multiple dreamscapes at once, as the physical laws of space and time don't apply there as they do in the waking world.
(also: if you can't read my handwriting let me know and I can transcribe it here)
Comments
Cedric Moon
Your monster is even worse than Freddy Krueger! X)
Omny
Doesn't matter- If Sweet Tooth catches someone while they've stopped moving, they vanish from reality, though they still "exist" within the dreamworld. Of course from there they are taken back to Sweet Tooths lair and devoured alive entirely, fully aware and undying during the whole meal to the end. What happens to them afterwards is known only to Sweet Tooth. The only difference with lucid dreamers is that they are slightly more aware of what's going on, so really they are worse off.
Cedric Moon
I'm sorry if you've already explained that. If we die devoured in the dream, the disappearance is systematic or it's in certain cases only? (Like lucid dreams, for example?) And the reaction of the willingly sacrificed, in the end, is not much different from someone who would freeze in fear in front of something threatening his life!
Omny
Well, in that case, Sweet Tooth would kill them as normal, though they wouldn't be any more merciful with that person than with anyone else. Sweet Tooth has no desire for worship or affection from humans, and would probably think even less of the human in question for doing something so hilariously stupid. The human, meanwhile, would most likely regret their decision as they are slowly and painfully torn apart and eaten without any care or intimacy and not just killed, but erased from history and reality entirely.
Cedric Moon
Let's imagine, we fall in an few likely but possible case, that the person in his lucid dream accepts his fate and literally offers himself to Sweeth Tooth? (Put like that, it may sound strange, but we must not forget that in ancient religions some people voluntarily offered themselves as sacrifices to the gods.) If I haven't misunderstood, like in Matrix, if you die in the dream, you also die in reality?
Omny
Its very unlikely- Sweet Tooth rarely shows up in dreams in its full form, typically taking whatever shape will most likely get that person to run away (what form they take isn't entirely voluntary; its based on who's dreaming. It could be a werewolf, a swarm of flies, or even a panzertank). Plus, most people have no control over their actions in dreams, so whether or not they're afraid of it in real life hardly matters; they will run. Of course there's lucid dreamers, who would otherwise dismiss monsters in dreams as mere figments of their own imagination. But Sweet Tooth is something different; something alien to your own mind. Looking at them in a dream, some part of you instinctively realizes that whatever this thing is, it's not only real, but a real threat that will kill you if you don't get away.
Cedric Moon
Do you want to be the next Stephen King? ^^ I have a question. In the rare but possible case that "it" comes across someone who is not afraid by "it"?! See who is not afraid of being devoured?! What would happen? What would "it" do?
SFaccountant
They just seem like an all-around swell guy! Er, thing.
