| Rem Nighdrem | ||
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| Gallery | Quotes | Relationship | ||
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| Kana | レム・ナイドリム | |
| Romaji | remu・naidorimu | |
| Physical Appearance | ||
| Monster Species | Nightmare | |
| Gender |  Female
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| Hair | White | |
| Eye | Dark brown | |
| Height | 177 cm (5'81")[1] | |
| B-W-H | B75(A)-W54-H??[1] | |
| Monster Profile | ||
| Occupation | *Exchange Student *Black Lily Employee | |
| Media Debut | ||
| Manga | Chapter 69 | |
Rem Nighdrem is a Nightmare, who debuted in Chapter 69, where she asks Centorea for advice on finding someone to give nightmares to. While she appears shy and says it's normal for her species to cause nightmares in others, her trustworthiness remains skeptical.
Appearance[]
Rem is a tall woman with dark skin and light hair that is tied at the back of her head in a somewhat disheveled ponytail. She has black rings under her eyes due to lack of sleep and exhaustion, and she is wearing a light blouse with long sleeves. She also wears a black dress specially made for the lower body of a Centaur.
As a Nightmare, the most noticeable feature of Rem in her appearence is her headless horse's abdomen and pointy horse ears. Compared to most other Centaurs, Rem has a very modest bust size, but it is not known whether this is a personal characteristic or a basic characteristic of her subspecies.
During the race at the Kobold Stadium in the bonus comic Centaur Girls Hot to Trot, Rem wore a light-colored, short-sleeved sports shirt and a sports suit specially made for a centaur's lower body. Before the race, she also wore a long-sleeved black sports jacket.
Personality[]
Rem is a little shy, but also a bit inconsiderate when it comes to other people's feelings. This is seen as she gave Centorea nightmares, not caring that Centorea was already traumatized by the nightmares. In this respect she also seems to be a bit mischievous, since she gave Centorea many nightmares in a row, which was not previously agreed upon.
It is not easy to judge if Rem cares much about the inconvenience of the people she gives nightmares to, which makes even Kimihito question whether she's a person to trust. According to her secret pages, it's generally a hobby of Nighdrem to give other people nightmares about shameful situations, which shows that she have a slightly mean streak. Nevertheless, Rem also has standards becauce, as can be seen in her conversation with Kimihito and Centorea, she she is not willing to commit a forbidden act in this regard, and don't will enter people's houses to give them nightmares in their sleep. Like most Centaurs, Rem has also an archaic side, describing her encounter with Bacqueline as "the work of fate" and as "miracle".
Rem also seems very proud of her affiliation as Nightmare. When Kimihito suggested solving the problem of finding someone Rem could give nightmares to by simply not doing it, Rem found the idea downright terrifying, since giving nightmares to others is an integral part of the Nightmares' culture and identity. Ultimately, Rem isn't a bad person as she doesn't want to harm others, but due to her unintentional neglect of the possible negative psychological effects her nightmares can have on others, she can be viewed with skepticism.
As seen in the bonus comic "Centaur Girls Hot to Trot", Rem is not good at sports activities such as racing, which is why she doesn't care much about winning in competitions and likes to leave first place to the real athletes. However, she is still uncomfortable being the slowest in a race, to the point where she was ready to sabotage the much faster Alusia with her hypnosis and put her to sleep when Meamil offered to match hers pace on Rem's pace, if Rem sabotage Alusia. At such a moment, however, Rem can also be susceptible to manipulation herself, as the elimination of Alusia from the race was a plan by Mr President and Meamil, and the Dairy Breed Centauride wasn't intend to keep her part of the deal towards Rem in the end.
In summary, these examples show that while Rem is not sneaky and manipulative like Meamil, she still has a selfish side which that makes her no different from the latter as whether intentionally or not, she doesn't always consider the harm she does to others, and is willing to (or can be manipulated to) do something mean to someone if she hopes to gain an advantage by doing so.
Skills and Traits[]
Personal Skills[]
- Hypnosis: With her pendulum, Rem can use hypnosis to put other people to sleep. As she explains in Chapter 69, this is a learned skill and not a natural skill of the Nightmares and according to her omake's Rem learned her hypnose in online classess. Rem's hypnosis seems to be strong as even Centorea fell asleep almost immediately, although previously she was unsure if that would even work since Centaurs are quite light sleepers.
- As seen in "Centaur Girls: Hot to Trot", Rem's hypnosis can also work in a milder form, as it only made Alusia sleepy, which only in combination with Alusia having drunk a bottle of Meamil's warm milk beforehand led to her falling asleep on the race track a few minutes later.
- Unathletic: As Rem herself admits, she is not an athlete and does not seem to have much stamina in general, as a race of 1000 meters through the Kobold Stadium was enough to exhaust her completely, although in this respect it must also be taken into account that Rem was not in the best shape due to moderate lack of sleep.
Physical Traits[]
- Nightmare Physiology:
- Taste Buds: As herbivores, Centaurs generally have twice as many taste buds as omnivores (e.g humans), while omnivores have over twenty times as many taste buds as carnivores (e.g Lamia).
- Normothermia: Like horses, Rem has a higher body temperature than Humans. Her's is 38°C (100.4°F) to be precise, which is the same as the average horse.
- Centaurs Ears: A Centaur's ears are capable of reflecting the centaur's mood as they are able to move much in the same way as a horse's ears.
- Caused Nightmares: As a Nightmare, Rem is able to cause other people nightmares and to do that, she is able to read their minds to see what they're afraid of. According to her Secret Pages, it's generally a hobby of Nighdrem to give other people nightmares about shameful situations, such as public nudity, which suggests that Nighdrem can actively choose or influence the nightmares she gives to others. However, this ability only works when Rem is in close proximity to a sleeping person and not at a greater distance. If the person is not asleep, Rem can put them to sleep beforehand using hypnosis.
- Sense of Smell: Due to their equine biology, Centaurs have a sense of smell that is 1000 times greater than that of a human, as revealed in Chapter 71.
Possession[]
- Pendulum: Rem has a pendulum which she uses to put other people to sleep through hypnosis.
History[]
Rem Nighdrem is an exchange student who came to Japan through the Cultural Exchange Between Species Bill of the Black Lily Innovations Research Laboratory.
Rem looking for sleepers.
During her time in Tokyo, Rem tried to give sleeping people nightmares, as this is an important aspect of the Nightmare's culture.
However, this proved difficult as most people sleep in their houses at night and since Rem would need to be at their bedside to give them nightmares, she could not enter the houses due to trespassing. So her only choice was to look for people sleeping in public places like parks or in front of the station at night. Those chances were rare, however, and after Rem's unsuccessful search for a reliable partner to give nightmares to, she sought the help of Centorea after hearing that she gave advice to other Centaur girls and helped them with their problems.[2]
Plot[]
First encounter with Kimihito and Centorea[]
Rem makes her debut in Chapter 69 when she goes to the Kurusu house, only to find only Kimihito napping on the patio. Rem then takes the opportunity to give Kimihito a nightmare, although he finds the dream more uncomfortable than scary. Kimihito then wakes up but is very frightened of Rem, whereupon she hastily apologizes while Centorea rushes over, worried if Kimihito is okay.
Rem apologizes again for giving Kimihito a nightmare, although he doesn't understand what she's talking about. Centorea then introduces Kimihito and Rem and explains that Rem is a Nightmare, a Centaur subspecies with the unique ability to give sleeping people nightmares.
Centorea asks Rem for the advice she wants from her, to which Rem explains that she doesn't have enough reliable partners to give nightmares to. Kimihito throws in that she gave him one a second ago, but Rem explains that such good chances are few and far between since most people live in houses and trespassing is not a option for her. So, Rem has no choice and must look for people who sleep in public places, but even those chances are rare and the constant search for sleepers around the clock has in turn left Rem chronically sleep deprived to her despair.
Rem is horrified at the idea of stopping giving nightmares to others.
Kimihito doesn't really understand these worries and asks Rem if she even has to give people nightmares and if not, she could just stop. Rem, however, is totally horrified at the idea and say's it is not a option, since giving nightmares is part of the Nightmare's identity and raison d'etre. Kimihito reluctantly says he can understand that, although he notes that Rem's expression doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
Centorea, not sure what to think of it either, asks Rem that she has no serious intentions of asking her to find someone for Rem to give nightmares to, to which Kimihito also questions whether anyone would agree with that. Centorea thinks for a moment and then asks Kimihito if Miia and Papi are in the house and if they are sleeping, so maybe Rem could give them nightmares. However, due to his care for the girls, Kimihito refuses, adding that nobody is home today, anyway.[2]
The nightmare torture[]
Rem uses her pendulum to hypnotically put Centorea to sleep.
Seeing no other option, Centorea makes herself available for Rem to give her nightmares. Rem is happy by this idea while Kimihito expresses his concern about it. Centorea points out that Rem should come back at night fall, but Rem explains that she expected something like this to happen, so she learned some hypnosis that she can use to put Centorea to sleep regardless of the time of day. As Rem hovers her pendulum in front of Centorea's face, Centorea is unsure if this will even work since Centaurs are quite light sleepers. However, she falls asleep very quickly.
In her nightmare, Centorea wakes up in a huge but completely empty room. After she's calmed down a bit, she prepares for an potential threat (imagining a fearsome beast) that she believes will face her as a nightmare. Instead, to Centorea's astonishment, she sees Kimihito, who suddenly appears in her dream, although strangely he seems very nervous and says something about Centorea's chest. The next moment, her breasts start to get bigger and bigger, to the point where her shirt is coming off. Horrified, Centorea wakes up from the nightmare, with Rem, who has been watching the sleeping Centauride with Kimihito, asking her what she thinks of her nightmare.
Centorea angrily tells Rem not to give her such distasteful things as a nightmare, to which Rem uncertainly says that a nightmare is distasteful. Centorea angrily says that what Rem considers "distasteful" is the problem, though Rem responds by saying that that's just her "personal Nightmare style". This casual remark only enrages Centorea more, however, and she tells Rem not to talk about it like she's discussing music or something.
Unsure, Kimihito then asks Centorea what kind of dream she saw anyway, but Centorea ignores him and tells Rem to give her a dream about fighting something. However, Rem then says that if Centorea wants to see the dream, it's not really a nightmare then. Centorea reluctantly agrees, although she is still furious. Unnoticed by the three, however, another person overhears the argument from a distance, and the person pricked up by hearing the word "nightmare".
Meanwhile, Rem suddenly holds her pendulum in front of Centorea's face again and says it's time for the next nightmare. Startled, Centorea backs away and clarifies that Rem hadn't previously said anything about giving her not just one, but multiple nightmares. However, Centorea's protest is lost, when she quickly falls asleep again under Rem's hypnosis.
A proud but sinister smile.
As a result, Centorea suffers a whole series of nightmares in which she has to deal with unpleasant things, such as standing naked in a town. Horrified, Centorea wakes up every time and begs for a break, but Rem is deaf to her pleading and just keeps giving her the next nightmare right away. After the ordeal, Centorea is pretty much at the ends of her mental stress limit, but Rem proudly says that the last nightmare was intended to be quite the horror.
Worried, Kimihito asks Centorea if she's okay, but she only asks, traumatized, if she's really awake, whereupon Kimihito tries to calm her down. The next moment, however, he and Rem are suddenly approached by a stranger who asks if she can ask them a quick question.[2]
A new partnership[]
The next time Centorea wakes up, Kimihito asks her how she is, worried. Centorea is still a little dazed from all the nightmares and realizes that this time she didn't have any nightmares, but she also didn't have any normal dreams either and it almost like she didn't sleep at all; at this, a strange voice then speaks up, stating that it seemed that it worked as intended. The woman apologizes for her late introduction and introduces herself as Bacqueline. When she adds that she is a Baku, Kimihito, who has apparently heard of Baku, asks if this is the species that eats dreams, which Bacqueline proudly confirms.
Bacqueline goes on to rave about having recently come to Japan with the Interspecies Exchange Program and even found a wonderful homestay. However, she now has the problem that she cannot eat enough nightmares because her host says that since she has been with him, he only has happy dreams, and the search for sleepers is just so trouble-some for her. Kimihito doesn't quite know what to make of this and wonders if Bacqueline is bragging about her abilities. However, Rem can fully understand Bahkurin's point of view, since she herself has trouble finding sleepers.
Rem and Bacqueline form a "perfectly symbiotic relationship".
A little embarrassed, Bacqueline explains that she can get by with normal dreams and food, but that sometimes she just wants to eat a nightmare, which Rem totally understands. This is also why Bahkurin ended up dropping by when she heard Rem talking about nightmares, to which Rem says it was "the work of fate" or more appropriately a miracle that they both met. The two then solemnly decide to form a "perfectly symbiotic relationship" in which Rem gives other people nightmares while Bahkurin eats the nightmares.
Rem and Bacqueline want to give Centorea more nightmares, much to Kimihito's annoyance.
However, after the two have decided to do so, they state that they still have the problem of finding someone who is okay with giving them nightmares. Until then, the two decide to continue with Centorea. Kimihito, worried about Centorea's mental health and angry that Rem and Bacqueline aren't taking care of it, shouts out loud that that's enough, and that they can instead give him the nightmares so they can let Centorea go. Centorea, who is in a very traumatized state, tries to calm him down by saying that it's fine since she thinks this is all a nightmare anyway.[2]
The Race of the Centaur Girls[]
Some time later, in the bonus Comic Centaur Girls Hot to Trot, Mr President was angrily confronted by Ms Smith after learning that he has made Nico an offer to work for him and sold the scraped powder of her horn to his company, although the sale of Liminal body parts is forbidden by law. Ms Smith sees this as a personal blow to herself, as Nico is actually one of the Liminals under her care as her coordinator under the Extraspecies Exchange Bill, although Mr President counters that Nico came to his company of her own free will. To resolve her ongoing dispute with Mr President, Ms Smith announces that she will have a "Centaur game" with him.
Nighdrem together with Meamil and Cheron in Mr President's team.
A short time later, Ms Smith gathers the six Centaur girls (and for some reason, Centorea too) in the Kobold Stadium and announces what she has come up with for the "Centaur Games": Two teams of three centaur girls each are to compete against each other in a race. Since Rem was one of the girls who worked for the Black Lily Laboratory, she was one of the girls in Mr President's team, together with Cheron and Meamil, while in Ms Smith's team are the three Centaur girls who are under her care (Alusia, Pegasania, Nico). The race was scheduled to take place on the stadium's thousand-meter course and the team with the first racer to finish would win it.
Ms Smith stated that if Mr President's team wins, she will never interfere in his business again, but if her team wins, the Prez must promise never again to make an offer to work for his company to one of the Liminal Girls under Smith's care. In addition, the winner of the race was allowed to request any wish granded to Smith or the Prez.
Rem talks to Nico before the race.
Rem wasn't particularly interested in this prize, mainly because she didn't think she had a chance to win anyway because of her unathleticism. In addition, Rem was not in his best form due to lack of sleep, and also Polt, who oversaw the race as a commentator, gave her the advice not so much to push herself. Although Rem wasn't that interested in winning the race, she hoped that she wouldn't be the slowest, so after figured out that Nico was about her speed, she approached the Unicorn woman before the race to subtly get her to run slowly and leave the winning to the real athletes. Nico agreed with her at first, but when Rem casually mentioned the wish the winner would receive, she accidentally motivated Nico to want to win the race after all, because Nico wanted to get new idol merchs through this prize.
This sudden motivation of Nico made Rem very depressed, as she feared that she would be the slowest in the race after all, as the other centaur girls would now run faster than her (or at least would be motivated enough to do so). Meamil noticed Rem's dejection, whereupon the Nightmare girl described her concern. Meamil was sympathetic to Rem (or at least pretended to be) and promised her that she would match her own pace to Rem's during the race if Rem would do her a "favor" in return.
Rem sabotages Alusia before the race through hypnosis.
Said "favor" was that Rem helped Meamil sabotage Alusia by first giving the Lightweight Centaurine a bottle of her warm milk to drink, while Rem then put Alusia into a sleepy trance with her hypnosis. Rem only did this because of her selfish desire not to be the slowest in the race, but what she didn't know was that sabotaging Alusia was not Meamil's own idea, but a plan that the Dairy Breed Centauride had previously discussed over the phone with Mr President, as the Prez knew that Smith's team through Alusia's speed would easily win the race and therefore he wanted to get her out of the way. The act of sabotage worked, as Alusia fell asleep on the race track just a few minutes later when the race started.
Rem exhausted from the race.
After Pegasania and Cheron were also eliminated from the race, only Meamil, Rem and Nico were left in the race, with the latter two almost at the end of their rope due to their low stamia. It was also to be seen that Meamil was not willing to keep her promise to Rem for the "favor", because she did not match her speed to that of Rem and ran ahead of her and Nico. In the end, however, Meamil also flew out of the race when her breasts slipped out of her top while running.
A close head-to-head race between Rem and Nico.
As a result, only Rem and Nico, who were both at the end of their strength, were now in the race, although Rem had the advantage that she was lighter than Nico and therefore in the lead. But finally Nico managed to overtake Rem by a very narrow margin, after Ms Smith had shouted to her as motivation that she would buy her as many idol merchens as she wanted if she would be the first to cross the finish line. While it initially seemed as if Nico had won, Rem vomited from exhaustion at the finish line.
In the end, however, none of the six Centaur girls emerged as the winner, as Centorea who, for some reasons, was involved in the race as a seventh participants and did not belong to a team, won the race instead (and without anyone noticing). As her prize, Centorea made it a condition to Ms Smith and Mr President that they should never again hold something like this race to settle their differences.[3]
Zoological Classification[]
- Main article: Centaur
Nightmares are a demihuman subspecies of Centaur that can enter the dreams of sleeping individuals and create nightmares, although the exact reason why Nightmares must give other people nightmares, except from that it is part of the Nightmare culture, isn't explained. If a individual is awake, a Nightmare can also use hypnosis to put the person into sleep, although this skill must be learned as hypnosis is not an innate ability of the Nightmares.
Trivia[]
- After Lilith, Rem is the second character in the manga series that can use hypnosis, but in contrast to Lilith, Rem uses a pendulum because her hypnosis is a learned skill and not a natural skill of her species.
- She considers "thinking about what can cause nightmares" as her hobby.[1]
- Rem's profile mentions that she has gained the problem of having a lot of nightmares herself which in a way is karma since she gives them to others.[1]
- Her last name is probably a pun on the word nightdream and the first, REM, which stands for rapid eye movement that is associated with sleeping state.
- As revealed in Centaur Girls Hot to Trot, Nighdrem is one of the Liminal girls who works for the Black Lily Innovations Research Laboratory.
References[]