[fanfic fifty] [heart no kuni] Prompt 30. Gone

[spicy_diamond]

Title: In Sleep
Author: spicy_diamond
Fandom: Heart no Kuni no Alice
Characters: Nightmare Gottschalk / Alice Liddle
Table: Four
Prompt: 30. Gone
Rating: PG
Challenge: fanfic50
Summary: [Heart] Somewhere along the line she'd grown accustomed to having all of her dreams be his.
Word Count: 504

Comments

[anonymous]

Awesome Halloween present!! Thank you very much!

[spicy_diamond]

Glad you liked it!

[harroe]

Very cute!

Nightmare was so sweet. It sounds more like a story that would happen in a love route than a friendship route. I'd love to see something like that in the games.

[spicy_diamond]

Thanks~

Nightmare really a romantic at heart, I think. Things sorta get shaken up once he's physically there in Clover, but Anni does a pretty good job for the Dream once you get on the Nightmare Love route. Very much a 'romantic world for two'. (Nightmare's opinion.) Even if it isn't practical. (Alice's opinion.) XDD

[harroe]

Yes, Nightmare does seem to be quite the romantic. I liked when he gave Alice the bouquet in Clover, even though she refused his proposal. Sure he probably didn't know what else to do with it, but his dialogue there was really cute. I can't wait for winter, so I can finally play Anniversary. I'd assume that Nightmare comes across more like he did in Heart, being mysterious, and a little scary at times. Because he's in the dream world all through Anniversary, is there a big difference in how he interacts with Alice on his love routes(compared to Clover)? I loved him to bits in Clover, but I thought Quinrose overused him as the comedy relief. In Anniversary, I'm hoping to see more of his mysterious side.

[spicy_diamond]

Hmm, if I had to summarize Nightmare's routes in one word I'd have to say 'pampering'. He likes showing off for Alice and doing things that none of the other roleholders could do. Even if it comes off as a little cheesy, over-the-top at times... There is a little of the mysteriousness that Nightmare pulls so well, especially for some of the alternative ends; but I think they could have added more to it than they did.

They sort of smoothed over some of the duality of Nightmare's personality. Like the bit Alice points out in Clover, about how she said she wasn't ever really scared of Nightmare, but that the incubus scared her at times? Yeah, coulda stood to have more of that. I mean really, after teasing us with that bit in Joker? Where Nightmare does the vulcan mind meld on the faceless guy for merely thinking bad things about Alice? Seriously, I want that expanded on.