Morpheus: I Am The King Of Dreams And Nightmares.Everyone: And What About It?

Morpheus: I am the King of Dreams and Nightmares. Everyone: And what about it?

enough toxic masculinity I'm ready for salubrious mexicanity. I'm ready for a social movement that encourages (esp straight, cis) men to indulge in things that make them more joyful, emotionally healthy, and help them strengthen not core muscles but core compassionate communication skills.

Thinking abt Dream "No mortal has loved me without coming to ruin" of the Endless and Hob "Then ruin me, Christ have me, just do not go where I cannot follow" Gadling....

Unfortunately now I'm imagining a version of events in which Dream, touch-starved after Events but also too stubborn and prideful to actually admit this to anyone who knows him and additionally too (understandably) distrustful of anyone who doesn't hits on the perfect solution: what if stray cat who just happens to hang around the New Inn?

Then pets? Cuddles for Dream? Yes perfect nothing could EVER go wrong with this completely normal way of acquiring physical affection.

So now Hob has this actually shockingly affectionate cat who turns up every now and again and naps in his lap in the bar and then disappears for a handful of days or a week but keeps coming back. It sits with its little chin resting on his thigh and purrs softly while he pets it. It bit someone who was flirting with him and Hob still isn't sure why he took the cat's side in that but it's never bitten *him* so. That guy was probably a cock anyway.

Unfortunately the plan that could never go wrong has now gone horribly wrong for Dream because all he can think about is Hob touching him with such easy affection.

Which means he can either a) be Hob's unnaturally long-lived cat forever or b) confess

Anyway that's how Hob ends up with a two hundred year old cat.

So Hob is immortal because Death promised her little brother not to take him. But that doesn't explain why he doesn't age. In order for that to happen, not only Death would have to leave him alone but also Time.

Time, who happens to be Dream's and Death's father.

You know what that means?

Finding Dream a boyfriend is a family project.