Morpheus/Dante Monroe (Earth-1

Morpheus formerly Dante Monroe was a young man who grew up in Skip City a city that was rich with crime. His parents where killed by the ravenous Cult Of Koko a cult worship a Raven Creature called the Darkness. To cope with the trauma of it he started doing drugs which led him to join the Mask Syndicate where he would try to work for drugs. Dante would end up doing many horrible things for The Madame such as killing a young politician. He led a raid on a Project:Capricorn Facility, a secret sinister government organization, on orders from Head Mask or Lucius Fry who heard rumors of them holding enhanced people which he had started collecting and turning into personal bodyguards like Ultraviolet and Cannibal, but instead of finding enhanced individuals, he found Capricorn's main experiment waiting there, Agent "Prism". She used her powers to kill all of them including Dante by throwing him through the window of the facility and into the river next to it.

He awoke however to find himself in the In Between where The First Morpheus who was shrouded in a brown cloak, who told him that he had been selected to be the Defender of the Dream World and the title of Morpheus. Morpheus explained that if he opened his mind to the powers of Morpheus then he could master this world and that if he did this it would either be his redemption or his breaking. He refused however but got nowhere the First Morpheus as he disappeared and Dante found himself now with his power in the Dreamworld. He was distraught that he had this power and tried to escape what he thought was a white room but soon calmed himself like Morpheus had said and mediated focused on the walls around him and slowly they transformed into a world around him. He saw himself in a nexus of worlds that looked like shadows of building and people. He searched this world finding that he had the ability of flight and being able to change the landscape around him. However as what appeared to him to be years continued on he slowly started mastering his ablities till the threat of The Lly arose and he became the defender of the Dreamworld, he found that other people could Dreamcast as well and use them. He would team up with Defenders of other planes of existence to fight threats.