I’m Just Trying To Explain Something I Was Thinking About With The Nightmare Still Being A Child Thing

I’m just trying to explain something i was thinking about with the Nightmare still being a child thing so here I go.

He was transformed into the goop at the age of six, which is sad and all because he was just a kid, but also, the goop gives him transforming abilities. An example of it is in Underverse where he can shift and transform to dodge attacks and even absorb knifes and such.

In my mind, since he is an immortal being, what if, when he had transformed into the goop being, that was when his aging froze, and he’s stuck a child now under all that goop. In my mind, he’d have been sitting and panicking as the goop tendrils took care of everyone for him subconsciously. As if protecting him from harm.

After realizing however, that instead of wanting to hurt and scar him like usual, people feared him and would run from him due to the goop, he started using that to his advantage. He would shift and transform to appear older and more threatening, putting on a more ominous mask.

To sum all it up, he looks like an adult and has a more threatening and dangerous appearance to keep himself safe but it’s all just a special form he’s created for himself and his true form is just what he looked like as a six year old kid, except all goopy.

He’s keeping himself out of the possible issues that could occur, along with setting up the Bad Sans to do stuff for him so he wouldn’t have to go out and spread negativity himself, making it so he’s at less risk. Spreading negativity will also make him feel more powerful and less weak, which is something that would comfort him from his past trauma of being too weak to do anything against the bullying, giving him a sense of security.

I think that’s about it. Sorry for just spilling my head cannon all over y’all but I needed to put it somewhere :3