The Nightmare Man

## Stats

**The Nightmare Man,** also known as simply **"The Nightmare"** was an individual of unknown affilation that operated within the first half of the Grandline. Using his abillites; he would drag unsuspecting victims into the dream world and trap them in an endless nightmare in order to steal their memories and power-up; whilst also killing them within the dreamworld to prevent them from regaining the power he had taken.

His original scheme was thwarted by the Apex Pirates, forcing him to re-evaluate his plans; formulating a plot of revenge against the pirate crew, intending to trap them within his nightmare and eliminate them, and then control their sleeping bodies devoid of life to serve under his bidding. He would lay in wait at the end of Paradise; Fishman Island *(locking Au D. Ino, an escappee from the Level 6 of Impel Down in an eternal nightmare and controlling his sleeping body)*, and awaited the arrival of the Apex on Fishman Island; enacting his plan of vengence when both **Ronen & Kosui** appeared in the Fishman Anhillation Tournement broadcast, revealing they were on the island. Almost succeeding in his revenge plan, as well as nearly plunging the population of Fishman Island into a nightmare which they would either perish within

This would prove to be his ultimate downfall; as by the combined efforts of the White Hairs, a young merfolk by the name of Galefii and Dylus Dundee, they were able to defeat him and put an end to the Nightmare for good, with Dylus slicing him in half with **"How Suchomimus Hunted in Ancient Times"**

## Appearance

The Nightmare wears quite sinister clothing and a demonic mask that is stapled onto his face. He has glowing yellow eye and an average build. His hair is brown, thick and braided.

## Personality

The Nightmare is a egocentric, selfish and spiteful person who enjoys nothing more than being in a postion of absolute control and power within his domain of the nightmare. He is unreasonable, and cares little for the lives and wellbeing of others; even going so far as to use others as his pawns if it means he can achieve his goals. Such as enslaving Au D. Ino in an eternal nightmare to use in his vengence or manefesting a dreamed version of Leralia's father in order to manipulate her into killing Kosui within the nightmare.

His goal and dream is rather simple; gain power and control. Seek strength and discard those who try to impede against his ruling authority of his nightmare. When Kosui willpower managed to overpower his own authority within his domain; he became spiteful and swore a vendetta against her spefically, as well as the other Apex Pirates that aided her. This is also shown when Galefii is able to draw his attention by altering the dream's future with her writing *(when she casted Foresight & Taunted the Nightmare)* causing his spiteful personality to wish death upon her; even going so far as to try instantly kill her with the powers of his devil fruit's trumpcard: **Fatal Nightmare.**

## Powers/Abillites/Equipment

### Overview

Whilst the Nightmare himself lacks physical power; he makes up for it with his abillity to trap his foes within the realm of his nightmare; a place where he (under normal circumtance) has absolute control. Within the dreamworld, he is able to manefest people or objects from the memories and minds of those trapped within (such as when he manefested several past figures of the White Hair Pirates to have them fight against them in hopes to defeat them) or even use creatures from his own imagination (such as a shadowy orge he attempted to use to kill the Apex during their visit into his domain.)

He has also been shown to have the power to control the sleeping bodies of those within the dreamworld, however, it seems limited to one individual; as he wasn't able to control anyone else whilst he had Au D. Ino under his command.

### Devil Fruit

The Nightmare as an unnamed paramecia devil fruit that allows him to put people to sleep and enter their dreams, turning them into Nightmares. This abillity to put people to sleep takes the form of a black water-like mist/fog that encapsulates the area and infects the target, rendering them unconcious and asleep. This black-mist is also capable of unleashing an extremely powerful abillity that the Nightmare can only use once before he needs to recover in order to use it again; the abillity to instantly kill a foe with a **Fatal Nightmare** that gives them a heart-attack. He can also use this trump card in the dreamworld; however, the targets death can be more creative; in reality, they still die due to a heart attack from outside the dreamworld.

The rules of his nightmare seem to be similar to Elm Street Rules (Damage taken in the dream transfers to reality)

### Legendary Resistance

The Nightmare has at least one legendary resistence in reality. Whilst he was fought within the Nightmare by the Apex Pirates however, he had at least two of them.

## History

### The Nightmare Arc

During the events of the Nightmare Arc, He dragged the Apex Pirates into the Dreamworld, attempting to kill them within the Nightmare. After the crew fought their way to him, they clashed within the dreamworld, with him eventually losing after Kosui's willpower overcame his rule of the nightmare and allowed her to control the dream; ressurecting Ronen (Who the Nightmare had JUST dispatched using his **Fatal Nightmare)** and combining her Kira Kira no Mi with Forest Legend's Tori Tori no Mi, Model: Pengiun to defeat with their new special combo attack: ***DIAMOND PENGUIN!***

Being utterly defeated, his Nightmare on the Apex Pirates ended, and the Nightmare Man, on a nearby island was forced out of the dreamworld badly injuried, and begining to plot his vengence against the Apex Pirates *(especially Kosui; who had overruled his authority & Ronen; who dared defy his absolute Fatal Nightmare by coming back from death)*

### Fishman Island Saga

#### Fishman Anhillation Tournement

The Nightmare can be seen from the shadows of the seating entrance in the stadium, watching the match between Cain and Yujiro Wabo, whilst keeping an eye on Usine who was within the crowd at the time. Leaving shortly after the match, having not seen any other members of the Apex Pirates present

He watched the match between Kosui and Ronen from a broadcasted screen in the plaza; as he grinned and began to initate his plot of vengence.

#### The Returning Nightmare

Unleashing an Eternal Nightmare upon the Fishman Island in order to eliminate Kosui, Ronen and (to a lesser extent) Usine, he made his way to the palace to make it the source of the Nightmare's strength, due to its fortified structure. He would, however, encounter the Wraith Ronen within the throne room of the palace as the Nightmare Man approached the unconcious princess. Surprised, and frustrated by Ronen's immunity to his devil fruit's power; he expended all of his assets and strength against the Ghostly Samurai; sending forth Au D. Ino, as well as pulling from the memories of those within the nightmare to bring forth strong foes to subdue him, eventually managing to wear the wrath down, and bring him to his knees. However, thanks to Ronen's stalling; Cain, Leralia & Galefii were able to arrive just in time to the palace in order to confront the Nightmare.

With Dylus arriving shortly after, The Nightmare continued his plan whilst his mind controlled servant fought against them; his goal to extract the greatest nightmare of the Fishman Island Princess and use it to lay waste to Fishman Island (and finally destroy the remaining Apex Pirates for good), however, he had underestimated Galefii's abillites. Losing to the Merfolk's geninus as she was able to incapasitate him and undo his Nightmare on Fishman Island. Frustrated and enraged by her medalling, he combined his **Fatal Nightmare,** with the Princess's strongest Nightmare and threw it at Galefii; but she was too strong; she had countered it. Leaving open a small window for Dylus to transform into his **Enchanced Form** and finish off the Nightmare Man by decapating him using **"How Suchomimus Hunted in Ancient Times".**

## Major Fights

* Nightmare Man vs **Apex Pirates** - Lost
* Nightmare Man & Au D. Ino vs **Cain Ulner, Seidon Leralia, Galefii & Dylus Dundee** - Lost

## Trivia

* The Nightmare Man's theme is based loosely off Bray Wyatt's character: **The Fiend** due to its powers to control the dreamworld *(being based off the Fiends Supernatural Power shown)*
* The Nightmare Man first appeared in the **One-Shot** for the Apex Pirates ran by SpiderHunterMD titled "The Nightmare"
* Whilst their devil fruit was never revealed; it is pressumed to possibly be the Nemu Nemu no Mi (**Sleep-Sleep Fruit)**