Illusion

* Younger
* Corrupted
* Future

## Appearances

### Debut

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***"It was supposed to be ME! Why'd you do it, you F\*cking Idiot?!"*** - Illusion after confronting his brother *again*

SwappedFate!Nightmare, otherwise known as Illusion, is the misunderstood hero in an alternate story of Dreamtale.

**Appearance**

The same with his twin brother, he initially wore the same outfit as the Original Nightmare but after their battle, he has his sleeves rolled up and wore a light blue cape(which was actually a flag they tied around Mother Tree) with a royal blue colored star on it. His eyelight color are a pair of bright purple oval with stars inside. While in battle, he has a spear which can change into a scepter.

In his corrupted form, he still wears his usual clothes but his entire person is made up of bright purple flame(similar to his brother's). He only has one eye in this form and it's colored a bright cyan.

In his future concept, he is seen to wear a purple coat with cyan trims with sleeves still rolled up, a pair of dark purple pants striped with a darker shade of purple, and a pair of boots sharing the same shade of purple as his coat decorated with gold and a gemstone with a shape of the crescent moon. He still wear his pink star pin to pin his near black purple cape with cyan trims.

**Personality**

As a child, he was shy and humble, often spends time all alone. He was the kind of person to step down first in order to prevent more conflict. He was mature, kind and just wants everyone to do their best. Despite his soft nature, everyone still believe he's bad and remembers him for his misfortune and clumsiness. Because of this, he resorts in staying away from others as much as possible, letting his brother get all the praise instead. He once was a role model for his younger brother, always encouraging him to do his best at what he does and taught him everything he needs to know in order to not be like his older twin, to not end up what he would become. He was very accepting of the things that comes and go in his life and so with the fate he assumed was his.

As a tree guardian, he wasnt ashamed of it instead he was proud to be a protector and embraces his position as a good guardian before the time of corruption comes. He often tells children, who got to know him more than he was known to everyone, stories about the Mother Tree, his duty as a guardian and cherishing every thing and moment while it's there.

It shows that Illusion can cut off most of his timidness when it comes to being in battle, he also shows the ability to stand for himself and for things he knows was right. When an encounter is over, Illusion slips back to his shy and soft self. During his time as a rogue and a wandering hero, his clumsiness and lack of self-esteem shows so much because he believes he's not cut out to be in a position where his brother should be but he still try to fight his way. He was reliant on a heroic role model and constantly needs guidance for he taught himself his entire life that he was a villain and not a hero.

After his forced-corruption, he displays an unhealthy belittlement of his own self-worth, increased temper and a more grouchy attitude. He began to express anger and resentment towards his twin brother at the same time, feels guilt and blames himself. His new-found belief that he was destined to be a hero was instantly shattered and he felt like he was made a fool to believe he was. He mostly felt conflict with himself and is confused as to what he was meant to be really. Despite being corrupted, he was not able to help himself when his help was needed. During this form, he develops a sort of voice inside his head who he at times have conflicts with, with things he could do because it's what he is meant to do and things he should do because it's the right thing to do. It is said that this other voice is the source of his grouchy, ill-tempered personality.

**Abilities**

* Empathy and emotion balancing ability

Illusion has the ability to feel negative feelings and absorb them to balance it out.

* Dream walker

He also have been seen to walk around dreams and help people during a nightmare but this mistakes him as the one causing it

* Negative aura

As the being of negativity, he could emit dark auras that would cause people around him to feel bad. He's able to access positive AUs to even out the positivity and preventing it from being excessive therefore creating balance.

* Weapon summoning ability

He wields a scepter that can magically turn into a spear. The said spear could summon spear-shape projectiles for long-ranged attacks. His scepter is used for defense and his spear for attacks

* Extra limbs and teleportation

In his corrupted form, he's still able to summon his weapon but he sometimes utilize his extra limbs when he only needed to. The same with Delusion, he's able to travel faster and could get into small places with ease.

**Trivia**

* Illusion saved one gold apple after witnessing his twin's corruption
	+ He was later forced to eat 498 black apples that was previously gold apples that he accidentally corrupted.
* They were only 13 years old when the apple incident happened
* He was briefly a hero for 3 years before Delusion tracked him down and imprisoned him in stone
* It is assumed the second voice is the negativity trying to fully control Illusion but the positivity from his golden apple SOUL is preventing it
* At his corruption, Illusion was initially goopy. And due to all the stress he was going through at that time, it triggered the power inside his golden apple SOUL to protect himself, changing his form into a burst of flames, like his twin.