Icon from a picrew by grgikau. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
I think Dream views most of his conflicts like the Trolley Problem. And very rarely, like .1% of the time, it’s a matter of the Collective Unconscious on one side and someone else on the other (like Rose during the vortex shenanigans), and that’s when he struggles and hesitates and occasionally ends up blowing up the trolley in a fit of choice paralysis because unfortunately he cares so so much.
Now the other 99.9% of the time, it’s the Collective Unconscious on one side and Dream on the other, and that’s not even a little bit of a problem for Dream, he pulls the leaver on himself without even pausing to consider his options. This is easy. Fuck, he’ll see empty tracks on one side and ask “is anyone gonna offer up their own wellbeing as a sacrifice over here?” and then not wait for an answer. He’ll just lay face down and tell Matthew to fetch some rope.
And meanwhile Lucienne is grinding her teeth like “Sir. Sir. What if we. Didn’t tie you to the tracks. So the trolley. Could pass by without hurting anyone. What if we made that a possibility here. We have the technology.”
But Dream is already fully in character as both the cartoon villain tying a maiden to the train tracks and the maiden in question because the trolley has to run over someone, obviously, don’t be stupid. Pull the leaver, Matthew.
Lucienne: what if we didn’t consider the worst possible scenarios here
Dream:
Lucienne: We have to deal with the vortex
Dream:
Hob: who actually taught you ethics???
Dream:
Matthew: We’re going to Hell?
Dream:
Hob: yes I still want to live, life’s so rich, don’t you think?
