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The Hated Prince and his Gang

Years ago in the Kingdom Faery, Queen Nim gave birth to twin sons. With the two being near identical except for eye lights. Dream having gold eye lights and Nightmare having purple eye lights.

The two had been born with a rare fae trait of empathy and emotion auras. Dream could give and feel positivity and grow stronger from it and Nightmare could give and feel negativity and grow stronger from it. The two were raised together and loved each other, however, as they got older, Dream was declared heir. Everyone spent time with Dream and taught him, while Nightmare was left alone.

Everyone would talk about how Nightmare was the bad twin, the evil one, and Nightmare would hear. Nightmare hated the way they talked about him for things he didn't do, but managed to ignore it. He spent most of his time in the library learning about magic and history. He learned he could use his aura to calm people. He worked to try and prove he was as good as his brother.

One day, Nightmare was reading under a tree and some teenagers from the town came. They said he was a monster, a demon, and more. He ignored them. Then, they began to throw rocks at him. Nightmare had to run. Each time he came out without someone, he would get things thrown at him or he'd get beat up.

One day, a sickness had come and killed some villagers. They blamed Nightmare and attacked him. He was on the verge of death and remembered a spell. In an act of desperation he began the spell. It increased his negativity. Black goo began to cover his body, his purple eye light became teal, and he grew black tentacles. He killed the villagers out of instinct.

Nightmare snapped out of his daze, only to see blood, dust, and mangled corpses. He was horrified, he couldn't go back to his mother and brother like this. He snuck into the castle and grabbed his stuff. He took a last look at the castle before running. He ran and ran and ran for hours.

When Nightmare stopped running, he found himself in the woods. He noticed some negativity sprites floating around. Sprites were small fae creatures that looked like balls of light. These ones were purple and teal, colors of negativity. He followed the sprites as they flew deeper into the woods. After following them for a while, he found an abandoned mansion.

The mansion was huge and had plenty of room. It was in decently good shape and overgrown with plants. He did a bit off exploring and found a large library. Nightmare decided this place, in the forest between the barrier of the Faery and Glory kingdom would be a good place to stay. The Fae avoided it so they wouldn't run into any Glory Kingdom people and the Glory Kingdom avoided it because it was filled with magic. Here he could be safe and alone.

He fixed up the mansion some and was glad of this place. He became lonely though. He had been 13 when fleeing and was now 15. Then one day, he found a skeleton from Glory Kingdom in the woods, desperately fleeing. He could recognize their fear, the fear of someone who had done something on accident and was scared.

He met the scarred skeleton who was only 14. Turns out, he had experienced an accident with a witch who cursed him and that caused him to kill his village and be haunted by his brother's ghost. Nightmare decided he would take the skeleton, whose name he learned was Dust, in. He taught him some magic, enough that he could make his brother visible and semi corporal. It took a bit before Phantom, Dust's brother, forgave him, but he did.

Then, he found another skeleton. One with black spilling from his lightless sockets. He learned his name was Killer and he had an accident with a spell and a demon and had killed people. He was from kingdom Mystic. They took him in, but made him promise not to attempt those kind of spells again.

Then they met Horror and Terror from kingdom Soul. Horror had bear features and Terror had just skeleton features. They had been experiencing famine and had come looking for food. They gave them some food for their village and they ended up staying with them. They learned that an anger noble had caused the hole in Horror's skull.

They became a family with Nightmare being the parent figure and the others being the kids. They would occasionally do attacks on people who came to close to their forest if they weren't a kindred spirit or desperately seeking help.

Nightmare was happy, something he hadn't been in years in the Faery kingdom with his mother and brother. Now he had his little gang and they were happy. It didn't matter what their pasts were, they were happy.