Nightmare Embodiment

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

"I dwell in dreams already dreamt!!"

― Nightmare (Marvel Comics)

The ability to become the embodiment of nightmares. Variation of Nightmare Manipulation and Concept Embodiment. Variation of Dream Embodiment.

Also Called

• Bad-Dream Embodiment
• Nightmare Personification
• The Nightmare
• The Bad-Dream
• The Living Nightmare
• The Walking 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 user's body is destroyed, they can live on in dreams and possibly possess another person's body while they sleep and eventually take full control of them.

Applications

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

Associations

• Concept Embodiment
• Dark Arts
• Dream Demon Physiology
• Dream Embodiment
• Dream Manipulation
• Emotional Energy Manipulation

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 Users

• Ezizh (AFK Arena)
• Nightmare Cats (Dreamland)
• Vaermina (The Elder Scrolls)
• Dendar, The Night Serpent (Forgotten Realms)
• Nightmares (Gate of Nightmares)
• Epiales (Greek Mythology)
• Phobetor (Greek Mythology)
• Nightmare King Grimm (Hollow Knight)
• Nightmare King (Lego DreamZzz)
• Nightmare King (Little Nemo: Adventures in Sumberland)
• Antasma (Mario & Luigi: Dream Team)
• Nightmare Moon (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
• Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
• Dream Larva (Planescape)
• Darkrai (Pokémon)
• Nightmares (Psychonauts)
• Jano (Rayman)
• Pitch Black (Rise of the Guardians)
• The Nightmare Man (Sarah Jane Adventures)
• Walter Sullivan (Silent Hill 4: The Room)
• Pizza Jenny (Steven Universe)
• Nightmare (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Mystletainn (Yumekui Merry)

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.

Nightmare Moon (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Darkrai (Pokemon)

Nightmare King (Lego DreamZzz)