//dsmp, spoilers, roleplay
i want to go more in-depth about a theory i had a few posts ago about how karl, ranboo, dream, and the egg are connected. iāll refresh my theory.
the inbetween is the place where karl goes to once he finishes a tale. the inbetween is something that is very bittersweet to me, something that /seems/ sweet but has a hidden truth. karl reads books that is written by an unknown person(?) and it tells him that the inbetween is a safe space where karl is able to relax and recollect his thoughts. but hidden in certain spots within the inbetween, karl finds books that warns him to not āstray away from the pathā.
it leaves many of the audience to wonder who wrote the warning and why. i theorize that if you stray away from the path, you result in death. what i mean by that is the fact that the inbetween is somewhere where time doesnāt exist. i say that because the inbetween reminds me of what is /inbetween/ dimensions, meaning an area where time in nonexistent. so if you go against the guide, you immediately get sent to another place where time doesnāt exist, the void/afterlife.
this is where ranboo comes in. we all know ranboo is half endermen, but we never learn what his other half is. i believe that ranbooās other half is from the inbetween, or at least someone who died within the inbetween. if you also think about it, endermen ARE travelers since they are able to teleport from the overworld to the end and even to the nether. if ranboo were to have died and really is part of the inbetween, then this is where the revival book comes in.
it sounds crazy, but what if ranboo is someone who has been revived. it would make sense as to why ranboo has terrible memory problems and why he doesnāt remember where he came from. it also makes sense WHY dream has control over him.
dream has the revival book, something that controls death essentially. since ranboo is already weak-willed in terms of mental state, it gives dream more opportunity to have control over him. let me be a bit more specific: ranbooās other half is unknown, his unknown half is something from the inbetween/afterlife. the book was used on ranboo to bring him back to life, which explains his memory issues and why heās half white. the book has control over ranboo. dream has the book which means dream has control over ranboo.
this is why during the stage before ranboo filly āenderwalksā he hears dreamās voice. because dream is the one who has the book and ranbooās other half knows what dream is capable of and the power he has with the book, which causes ranboo to lose consciousness.
weāve seen as the audience through several perspective that dream acts different with every person that visits him. with badboyhalo, heās nice; with sapnap, heās quiet; with tommy, heās manipulative. itās almost like dream doesnāt know his relationships with others are which makes me believe dream isnāt dream.
i feel like dream is dead, heās been dead for a long time. maybe even as far back as the ādreamonā hunters ābitā. but the moment the egg came into the plot, thatās when ādreamā changed. maybe the dream we see now is just the dreamon. we all just assume that dream went power hungry but it doesnāt make sense since heās always had power to begin with.
so the dreamon fed onto its first victim and now has his body, which was dreamās body. so this is how the egg fits into this theory. the egg obviously possesses people but what exactly is in the egg? iām not confident to say itās dreamons BUT whatever is in the egg can send a dreamon. the egg controls all after all.
this is just a theory that lives in my head rent free. could be some flaws as more streams come about but feel free to discuss if you want haha.