Blind Art

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## Contributors

### Artist/s

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**Blind Art** is a three-part AU written as a story, focused on Ink, Dream, Error and Nightmare. Some characters in the AU, notably Ink as he actually has a soul, are intentionally different from their canons in terms of backstory and personality.

*Note that all three of these stories include dark themes such as depression and suicide, and contain graphic depictions of violence.*

The story mostly focuses on Ink, Error, Dream and Nightmare, all of them with small, intentional differences from their canon versions.

## Characters

From *Blind Joy* onwards, minor OCs will make an appearance:

**Abu**: an old man and the oldest human resident of Dreamtale. He sports great wisdom and a big heart, and cares for Dream almost as much as his mother did. He is a shaman of sorts, and has some knowledge in magic.

**Arel**: Abu's grandson and the last of his family along with him, the rest killed off by Nightmare in the past. He survived Nightmare's attack with only a permanent scar over his eye, and is often moody, distant and taciturn.

**Shenshe**: a rabbit-like creature, and a close friend of Arel and Abu. She lives alone and is bold yet sentimental, and is really sorry for what their village did to Nightmare in the past and blames everyone for it. She is bent on believing peace can be restored.

**1, 2, 3, 82 and 40**: some of Nightmare's minions, dark replicas of Underfell's Papyrus. 1, 2 and 3 are the elites of the army, while 82 is the only compassionate one and feels sorry for what he's forced to do. 40 is the closest he has of a friend, but is mocked by him either way.

**Kamea**: whilst not an OC, this is the story's representation of the human who killed Nim, here portrayed as Quetzalcoatl's creation. He's loyal only to him, and otherwise exists to be cold and ruthless.

## Story

* Part 1: Blind Art
* Part 2: Blind Joy
* Part 3: Unseeing

* Chapter 1: Soulless
* Chapter 2: Blurred Memories
* Chapter 3: Hopeless Help
* Chapter 4: Nightmares
* Chapter 5: Good Deed, or Mistake?
* Chapter 6: Of a Hopeless Artist
* Chapter 7: Find Your Enthusiasm
* Chapter 8: Cruel Visions, but a Clear Path
* Chapter 9: Determination is Your Answer
* Chapter 10: The Disturbance of Happiness
* Chapter 11: Grieving Obliteration
* Chapter 12: I Will Not
* Chapter 13: Face Your Mistake, Face Your Limit
* Chapter 14: But What Was The Answer? {Bad Ending}
* Chapter 15: Here For You {True Ending: Part 1}
* Chapter 16: Hurting for a Very Hurtful Pain {True Ending: Part 2}
* Chapter 17: For Yourself, For Everyone {True Ending: Finale}

- Chapter 1: Sweet Dreams

- Chapter 2: Change to Worse

- Chapter 3: Withered Happiness

- Chapter 4: Help is Not Welcomed

- Chapter 5: Threat

- Chapter 6: Do Help, Do Not Help

- Chapter 7: Night Terrors

- Chapter 8: Where Answers Reside

- Chapter 9: Advice

- Chapter 10: Echoes

- Chapter 11: Our Last Hope

- Chapter 12: Margin of Error

- Chapter 13: Breaking, Broken

- Chapter 14: Mistake

- Chapter 15: Close, But Far Away

- Chapter 16: Back to Your Roots

- Chapter 17: Once Upon a Nightmare

- Chapter 18: Dark, Darker, Yet Darker

- Chapter 19: Once a Guardian, Always a Guardian

- Chapter 20: The Last Stand

- Chapter 21: The Tyrant

- Chapter 22: No Freedom in Darkness

- Chapter 23: Let Go

- Chapter 24: Weight of a Broken Heart

- Chapter 25: Brothers Under the Sun

- Chapter 1: My Brother

- Chapter 2: Suffer, Relate, Repeat

- Chapter 3: Despondent

- Chapter 4: Stop the Unstoppable

- Chapter 5: Lost and Found

- Chapter 6: Guess Who

- Chapter 7: Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover

- Chapter 8: Feathered Serpent

- Chapter 9: Paroxysm

- Chapter 10: Not Such a Close-Knit Family

- Chapter 11: Cope in The Rain

- Chapter 12: The Eye of the Storm

- Chapter 13: Power of Fear

- Chapter 14: Indelible

- Chapter 15: The Nightmare Incident

- Chapter 16: Darkness Vanishes

- Chapter 17: In Tears

- Chapter 18: Warnings, Lies, Hints

- Chapter 19: Trust

- Chapter 20: Written in Paper

- Chapter 21: Who's Choice Is It?

- Chapter 22: Gave Into a Cold Eye

- Chapter 23: Pawns

- Chapter 24: Blue Strings

- Chapter 25: Change is Forever

- Chapter 26: The Irony of Life

- Chapter 27: Helheim's Gate

- Chapter 28: In the Face of Danger

- Chapter 29: Prove Your Strength and Your Courage

- Chapter 30: It All Burns in Gold

- Chapter 31: Black and White, and Blue

- Chapter 32: As It Echoes

- Chapter 33: Time Passes, Strength Wavers

- Chapter 34: Story of a Feather

- Chapter 35: Twisted

- Chapter 36: Stagnant Waters

- Chapter 37: Blood in the Water

- Chapter 38: The One You'd Take a Bullet For

- Chapter 39: Lies Behind the Trigger

- Chapter 40: Murphy's Law

- Chapter 41: Bright as the Day at Night

- Chapter 42: Live and Die

- Chapter 43: Spread Your Wings, For You Shall Be Free

- Chapter 44: Go Tell the World That We Are Still Alive