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Dream has spent seventy years trapped - unspeaking, near unmoving. He will not capitulate. He will not give in.
But that doesn't change that he can't help but dream too of a day of when he is out, able to return to his realm and function... freedom (in a sense) from this glass prison - though... his function... that overwhelming responsibility...
It doesn't matter... he may never get out... no one is coming... no one will help... he's alone. Even if he dreams of another world where that isn't true. It's fleeting, but he is Dream of the Endless.
And it's all he desires.
**When Roderick decides on using a spell, as a last ditch effort, to get his son back, he doesn't realize the catastrophic outcome of trying to force an entity of fantasy and reality, one with his own hopes and dreams of freedom, to conform - to create a son reborn.
AKA Roderick accidentally turns Dream into a two year old... and everything falls down from there.
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Although she hears it constantly, Death knows it's not truly her fault when mortals' time comes to pass. She may help ferry them, but she does not kill them - not truly. She may help with the circumstances, she may help nudge them, but she doesn't murder anyone. Her function was the most natural part of every mortal's life. She took joy in her function.
Which would never change. Shouldn't change.
Except it does. All of it does. Everything comes falling down and apart when it's not Dream that's taken by Roderick but Death. And it's Death who suffers his hospitality, and it's Death who is faced with a choice every week to let a man die or save Randall.
Every day, she's called a murderer. Death is not... she won't... but perhaps for Roderick and company, when she is free, she'll make an exception... and she's certain she'll take quite a bit of joy from it.
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I Looked Down into the Depths by TanithCooper
Fandoms: The Sandman (2017), The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
28 Apr 2026
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'Hob sighed and steeled himself before looking down to a reflection that was not quite his. He was pale, paler than anyone he had ever seen, water streaming down from his hair that had been laced with kelp and seaweed, eyes sunken and cheekbones more pronounced than they had ever been in all of his lives. He opened his mouth to gasp, eyes widening as he saw long pointed teeth that couldn't possibly fit in his mouth but somehow did. Dream logic, he reasoned with himself, turning his head this way and that to make sure that the reflection below him was actually his.
“What am I?”
“You’re one of us, little nightmare, perhaps one of the most important of us all.”'
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Hob gets to be a Nightmare just as a little treat
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Her debt to Hell is coming due. His heart might be the price.
Eighty-four years in the dark forged a bond neither of them wanted. The six years since all but destroyed it. But now Hell is calling in a debt and Andromeda is dragged back into the orbit of the Dream Lord who left her behind.
Somewhere between the Waking World and the Dreaming, between desire and damnation, they will have to decide what is worth the risk: his realm, her soul… or each other.
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The Dreaming once had a queen. Word around was that she was firm yet fair, worked with the people, and with dreams and nightmares alike. On the other hand the king himself, it is rumored, is not fond of his queen. No one knew why, all they were aware of was that she did what she could for them and their realm.
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Contrary to belief, the Endless did not know all. They were not the most powerful beings in the universe. They existed to serve the world they were born into by Time and Night. Time and Night, who in turn, only existed by a wave of the hand by the Creator - when the universe was born.
What was known was that Lucifer and Michael were fated to fight until the end of days - the war between the silver city and Hell constant and ruthless. However, it was not fought directly by them - but by their cohorts... demons for Lucifer and Nephilims for angels.
Nephilims were feral beings, no better than demons - only marked with grace and wings instead of blackness and horns. Creatures that were vicious and ravenous - feasting on the blood and essence of their enemies.
The Endless did not know everything, but even Dream knew that it was best to never meet a Nephilim without a muzzle... and better yet, it was best to not cross the considered leader of the Nephilim, the only female - Mikayla.
But as said before... the Endless... Dream did not know everything. He did know duty. He did not know her.
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- Part 1 of Duty and Function
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Reflections In Glass by BeccaOfThePen
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
05 Apr 2026
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“Sister,” Morpheus cut over her, “why are you doing this?”
Death glared at him. “Why?? You seriously have to ask me that? I don’t want to see you scarred, Dream!” she snapped angrily, hurt. “If this goes wrong, you’ll carry the scar of this until the end of this universe! I don’t want that, and setting aside the part where I love you, brother, the very thought of it is abhorrent to me, to my very nature! And I don’t want to see that poor women withered away into little more then a spiritual tumour for you to bare!”
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Lilly's gaze fixed on his eyes and the stars, the galaxies, the universe in his pupils. When he reached for her she stepped back with a gasp. “What are you?”
“I am everything I have ever told you I am, that my sister told you I am. You just didn’t understand, didn’t appreciate, the scale of what that meant. I have never lied to you, Lilly.”
Her eyes were wide and frightened as she whispered, “Dream...”
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When a single mistake creates a cascade of events with only two possible outcomes, either joy, or tragic devastation, all pieces on the board must be brought to bare.
With the Endless, magic, and love, lies just a hair's breadth away from the depths of insanity.
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Dream of the Endless is trapped by Roderick Burgess and attempts to free himself. This has consequences.
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Y/N sought anonymity as a maid at Fawney Rig, but the house held a dangerous secret—Dream of the Endless—imprisoned. When Y/N's blood breaks his binding, it unleashes a powerful, undeniable connection, blurring the lines between god and mortal. Y/N becomes temptation incarnate, and Dream embodies vengeance and dark desire. Their intertwined fate is set in motion, as freed dreams threaten to consume all.
Disclaimer: Contains adult and supernatural themes. Please read the warning at the start of each chapter before proceeding, thank you!
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In a bleak, cybertech post-apocalyptic London, Hob, a prototype augmented agent burdened with a haunted past, is summoned by the enigmatic Prime Minister Roderick Burgess. Tasked with hunting down the elusive Dream, their relationship evolves from cold antagonism to an unexpected bond marked by trust, vulnerability, and dangerous attraction. As the lines between duty and desire blur, Hob must confront the shadows within himself and the dystopian world around him.
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Dream was patient. Endless.
Roderick Burgess was neither. In time, he and his followers would inevitably die or make a mistake.
Dream would wait for them to do so. And, in the meantime, he would give them nothing but his silence.
At least, that was his plan.
Until a human child changed everything.
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AU in which Roderick Burgess is a more effective villain with a better plan to salvage his failed summoning ritual; and, as a result, Dream breaks his vow of silence.
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As a Stranger I Know Myself by sleepsonfutons, Stormysaslytherin
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
06 Jan 2026
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In 1916, word of his son’s death makes its way back to Roderick Burgess from the war front. A man of wealth and influence, Burgess vows to bring his son back and that very same year successfully summons one of the Endless. Alas, he fails to summon his intended target, Death, and instead finds himself with an, at first, seemingly useless Endless, Dream, who holds no power over life and death. Who is powerless to return his son to him. Unwaveringly determined, Burgess uncovers Dream’s other names: Lord Shaper and Shaper of Forms; and not long after, the means to bind his captive Endless’ form. The means to reshape the Shaper of Forms. The means to bring his son back to him by any means necessary.
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- Part 14 of Stormy's 2023 Dreamling Bingo Fills
- Part 7 of 2023 Dreamling Bingo Fills
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What if Dream had agreed to be friends with Hob when the immortal asked. What if Hob learned how to visit the dreaming and began to take up responsibilities there? What if the Dreaming came to rest on Hob's shoulders when Dream went missing and he had to look after the kingdom at the same time as trying to find his friend?
This is that story.I DO NOT SUPPORT NEIL GAIMAN
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Dream is convinced that the Wizard Hob is naught but a fairy tale to teach kids how to behave, that magic isn't real. Until he gets cursed by the Wizard of the Waste and finds himself in front of the famous Moving Castle from all the stories...
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Dream's Christmas Carol by Lover496 for LeotheLionathefootofOrion
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
24 Dec 2025
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Dream is a moneylender and hates Christmas and all its charities begging for his money. One Christmas Eve, three ghosts show him the error of his ways, and forever change his life.
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Going broke was never something Hob Gadling had intended to do. In fact, with barely enough money in his account to pay for a hotel and a storage unit, he goes to have a pint with Johanna Constantine, who offers to put him up in the remote and mysterious Dream House, with a long and bloody history. And has been in the Constantine family for centuries, meaning that Johanna has the keys. Hob does not take much convincing. What could go wrong, really?
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What started out as a Haunting of Hill House AU has now spiraled into so much more, as Hob navigates love, loneliness and his own psyche as he realizes he might not be able to trust his reality.
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- Part 1 of The Horror of Dream House
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When my bones become dust (and trust, you said) by inmyfleabagera
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
01 Dec 2025
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After three years and four months of his disappearance, Morpheus Endless is found. With his return, him and his family grapple with the situation and try to heal.
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It begins with a song followed by silence.
With a father who feared grief more than death, and a son who suffered because of it.Centuries later, in a London tavern in 1889, two strangers meet again: Dream, endless, unknowable and Hob Gadling: an immortal man, impossibly hopeful. Both of them stubborn. Both of them aching for something they can’t quite name.
What begins as curiosity slowly becomes something deeper: a love that stretches through time. Through change. Through laughter and loss, through the building of a family and the beauty of choosing to live fully.
This is the story of Morpheus and Hob, of dreams and devotion, of quiet conversations and fierce promises, of love blooming in the cracks left by sorrow.
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and behold, a white horse (his sickness calls to me) by JustPrime
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
09 Oct 2025
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coughing
not a sound you want to hear emanating from within the glass of a prison
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Roderick is warned against an unexpected, outside threat to his ability to keep his prisoner. She will come for him, or so he is told.