Nightmare Embodiment

Nightmare Embodiment
Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) is the guardian of nightmares
Power/Ability to:	Embody nightmares

The ability to become the physical manifestation of nightmares. Variation of Nightmare Manipulation and Power Manifestation. Variation of Dream Embodiment.

Also Called

• Bad-Dream Embodiment
• The Nightmare

Capabilities

Users are the physical form of nightmares and bad dreams and can control them to their will. In the real world the user may have very little power but in the dream world the user has near limitless power, they can turn any dream into a nightmare and torture their victim with it.

Users gain power by causing nightmares but some may kill their victim and absorb their soul to increase their power further. If the users body is destroyed they can live on in dreams and possibly possess another persons body while they sleep and eventually take full control of them.

Applications

• Absolute Immortality
• All Nightmare Abilities
• Dream Recall
• Energy Manipulation
• Fear Empowerment
• Fear Inducement
• Insanity Inducement
• Nightmare Empowerment
• Omnifarious limited to dream worlds
• Oneiric Reality Manipulation
• Possession
• Psychic Energy Absorption
• Sleep Manipulation
• Soul Absorption

Associations

• Emotional Energy Manipulation
• Dark Arts
• Dream Embodiment
• Dream Manipulation
• Power Manifestation

Limitations

• Users can only affect dreams and as such may have no or little power in the real world.
• Some users can only exist in the dream world and as such can't affect the real world significantly.

Known User

• Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
• Dendar, The Night Serpent (Forgotten Realms)
• Epiales (Greek Mythology)
• Phobetor (Greek Mythology)
• Nightmare King (Little Nemo: Adventures in Sumberland)
• Antasma (Mario & Luigi: Dream Team)
• Dream Larva (Planescape)
• Darkrai (Pokémon)
• The Nightmare Man (Sarah Jane Adventures)
• Mystletainn (Yumekui Merry)
• Nightmare (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Walter Sullivan (Silent Hill 4: The Room)
• Nightmare Moon (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
• Pizza Jenny (Steven Universe)
• Nightmares (Psychonauts)

Gallery

Nightmare (Valkyrie Crusade)

Dendar, The Night Serpent (Forgotten Realms) is the original primordial source of all nightmares.

Walter Sullivan (Silent Hill 4: The Room) can kill any victims as a ghost, much like Freddy Krueger.

Pizza Jenny (Steven Universe) is a manifestation of Kiki's sister Jenny and is the source of her recurring nightmares.

Nightmares (Psychonauts)

Antasma (Mario & Luigi: Dream Team) was once a normal bat until he fed off the nightmares of a Pi'illo.