Kuroyume

Kuroyume (Japanese: クロユメ Kuroyume) is a quest-exclusive NPC that appears in Yumemizuki Mizuki's Story Quest, Tapirus Somniator Chapter: Act I - Dream Eater's Melancholia.

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Kuroyume is a fearsome, malevolent entity who responsible for the nightmares in anyone's dreams and acts as a nemesis to the yumekui-baku and other youkai. He is the last of his kind, and is at least as old as Yumemizuki Mizuki (that is, several centuries old).^[1]

Appearance

It is currently unknown what Kuroyume looks like in the real world. In Emura Chuuya's nightmare realm, he appears as a giant, leering eye appearing in the sky.

Quests and Events

Story Quests

• Tapirus Somniator Chapter (Yumemizuki Mizuki)
  • Act I: Dream Eater's Melancholia
    • Descendant of Nightmares

Lore

During the events of Descendant of Nightmares, it is revealed that Kuroyume survived the extinction of his kind by hiding inside "the borderland," a dream that lives deep within the collective Inazuman subconscious. He watched for centuries as the yumekui-baku learned about humans, eventually using that knowledge to devise a plan to revive his kin. Kuroyume attributed the fall of his kind to the weakness of their human hosts, whose minds would deteriorate rapidly under the weight of their nightmares. His solution was to force the host to repress their negative emotions, causing them to fester and creating a permanent home for nightmares in the host's subconscious. In turn, the host would feel only happiness, prolonging their lifespan (at least temporarily). Kuroyume himself used this method to take over the mind of Emura Chuuya.

By the time the Traveler and the yumekui-baku Yumemizuki Mizuki uncover his plot, Kuroyume had already begun using the power of his victims' negative emotions to turn the borderland into a nightmare. He was also creating copies of himself, which he could implant into the dreams of all Inazumans, as they were all connected to the collective dream. His plan was ultimately foiled by Mizuki and the Traveler, who "utterly defeated" him. It is unclear if Kuroyume was killed or survived from them.

Trivia

• Kuroyume may be based on Yume no seirei, a yōkai believed to cause nightmares.

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