Im pretty sure Puffy joined the Syndicate so if Dream joins she has to see her the man she denounced as her duckling need someone like her more than ever and she has to decide if she wants to help him, or what to do if he doesn't want her help, and how she also hurt him by getting sweeped up in the "villian Dream" narrative because she wants nothing more than to help and heal those around her, how to help others understand Dream did bad things and they dont have to forgive him but that he still deserves help, how to help Dream realize he doesnt need to be the villian, how he doesnt need forgiveness to move on, how he himself shouldnt forgive himself but is still allowed to move on
oh boy, puffy would be so painfully conflicted, because on one hand, she knows how much damage and hurt dream has caused. she can see it all over the server - the half-built community house, the rubble and debris that remains of l’manburg, the underground room in a cliff far away that had almost contained all of their prized possessions to be used against them.
and she can see it in the server members themselves, too - tommy’s eyes never quite went back to their usual blue shade, and tubbo’s started carrying himself with an air of shame after being told he was the worst president despite there being a dictator and a hero-turned-terrorist in charge before him. she’ll never forget the bloodstained apron of quackity’s or how much fundy smokes or how sapnap came to her one night, soaked to the skin and softly asking her how to get over someone you thought you loved (platonically, familial, brotherly soulmates) but realised you didn’t know.
she sees dream’s influence everywhere. but she also sees dream’s influence on himself.
the uncertainty in his unmasked face, the empty look in his eyes like he’s had a part of himself ripped away (and he has), the hesitance in his walk, like he doesn’t know who he is anymore (he doesn’t). she watches him closely out of the corner of her eyes as he follows her silently and uneasily - my duckling, she thinks, not for the first time, but sadder than the other times - what have you done to yourself?
she decides to help him. because she can’t turn round and help everyone else from dream and leave one of the biggest victims of dream to self destruct. she slowly builds up a trust with dream, watches slowly as she coaxes him back to himself - his real self, not the dream he’d become.
and seeing him a year or two later, running around with george and sapnap again, egged on by tommy and laughed at by quackity, she thinks with pride that she’d done the right thing.
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