𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

" Not only I can catch your Nightmares
I can catch you as well "

IN SOME NATIVE AMERICAN AND FIRST NATION CULTURES, dreamcatchers were created as a protective charm for children and to be looked after. Dreamcatchers represents a spider web, where dreams can travel through, but nightmares cannot, nightmares are caught in the web before entering one's dream and cause harm. The origins of the dreamcatcher are associated with a figure from Ojibwe mythology known as Asibikaashi, or "the Spider Woman." This mother-figure was a protector of the people, especially children.

BACK THEN, SHE WAS KNOWN as Kiisiis, her given name by her mother, which is translated "Sun" in her Native language. she was loved and respected by her people—her tribe. She created a charm for the children that would protect them from dreams and nightmares and that charm she called "Dreamcatcher". What she didn't realize was that the Dreamcatcher prevented her and her people from the Dreaming.

This caught the attention of an Endless called "Dream" also known as Morpheus—The King of Dreams, when he noticed a great amount of people were missing in the Dreaming. What he didn't predict was that he could not enter Kiisiis's dreams and her people's dreams, and the Nightmare being held captive in the hands of a merely mortal young woman. Eventually she captured Dream, himself— Earning the name "Dreamcatcher" by the Nightmares and the Endless.

After an incident involving the massacre of her people, vengeance led Kiisiis in the brink of death. Death saw the potential from her, so Death offered to spare her life and grant her immortality, which Kiisiis reluctantly accepted.

Dream gained a mortal acquaintance, the Dreamcatcher, herself. Allowing her to enter the Dreaming even when she's awake but as long as he's around. It was the beginning of their centuries of long and building friendship between the two.

For centuries, the Dreamcatcher shared many stories to her people, generations after generations, while protecting and looking after the children. The story of the Dreamcatcher had grown, she became merely a story, a story that eventually became a legend, a legend that became a myth as centuries stretched on and became part of her people's culture. She would come to their aid when her charm, Dreamcatcher is hung over their children's beds, watching them, guiding them to their dreams and protecting them from Nightmares.

When Dream of the Endless, Morpheus goes missing, the Dreaming crumbled slowly and decayed. Without him, the Dreamcatcher was not able to enter the Dreaming without the King's presence, unable to guide those who needed protection from Nightmares. The Dreamcatcher believed for so long that her friend had abandoned them all until she began to think he wasn't coming back. So she gave up, gave up waiting for his return and gave up her role as the Dreamcatcher.

Over a century had passed since Morpheus had gone, he has escaped from his cage and begins his quest to retrieve his items with assistance from his advisor Matthew the Raven and his long-time aquaintance, Kiisiis the Dreamcatcher— now named Quill Song.

𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓

QUILL SONG, portrayed by amber midthunder
( Kiisiis, Dreamcatcher, Asibikaashi, The Spider Woman )

MORPHEUS, portrayed by tom sturridge
( Dream, The Sandman, Lord of Dreams, Oneiros, Kai'chul )

IKO, portrayed by kalani queypo
( Iktomi, the Trickster, Spider Trickster, Shapeshifter )

also starring . . .

LUCIENNE, vivienne achampong
THE CORINTHIAN, boyd holbrooke
MATTHEW THE RAVEN, patton oswalt
JOHANNA CONSTANTINE, jenna coleman
DEATH, kirby howell-baptiste

(more to be added)

𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓

NO TIME TO DIE, billie eilish
HERE WITH ME, susie suh
AFTER DARK, mr kitty
THE POWER AND THE GLORY, iamx
MAKING WORLD, empathy test
BROKEN SLEEP, agnes obel
DECADES, joy division
POWERLESS, linkin park
IMMORTAL, marina and the diamonds
BEAUTIFUL CRIME, tamer
AFRAID, the neighbourhood
THOUSAND EYES, of monsters and men
MY BODY IS A CAGE, peter gabriel
ULTRAVIOLENCE, lana del rey
NO TROUBLE, other lives
SEVEN DEVILS, florence + the machine
MIDAS TOUCH, aurora
VIDEO GAMES, ramin djawadi

AUTHOR'S NOTE — yoooo, don't mind me, just exposing this draft lmao, and i'm curious to see how many of you will be interested in this story. it's been like a month since the sandman s1 came out and i'm still not over it. it had truly became one of my comfort shows <3

if the show gets renewed for s2, i'll try and write the first chapter :P... i pray it does, otherwise i'm burning netflix hq down..