Orphanâs Path Season 6 just finished.
Did you think the Dream SMP lore iceberg wasnât deep enough? Did you wish they didnât retcon the Antarctic Empire? Did you like cc!philzaâs hardcore lore? Did you not hate Philza and Technobladeâs characters with the fury of a thousand suns?Â
Do you just really want to lose the next several weeks of your life?
Then oh boy, Orphanâs Path might be the fic series for you!
This 542,000 word and 49 book long ONGOING fic series is about c!philza! (a fuckton of queerplatonic emduo, but mostly c!philza.)Â
âBut wait!â you wail despairingly at the screen. âIâm not caught up with all the lore! Itâs impossible to catch up with the Dream SMP! How will I ever understand this!â
Not to worry, we knew this would happen even before we started writing this! Thatâs why reading Orphanâs Path requires next to no fucking knowledge of the Dream SMP- if you need to know something, weâll just tell you! We donât cover every POV, but we crawl through as many VODs as we can, in the name of better scene work!
All you need is a passing understanding of Minecraft, and you can read this to your heartâs content!
Have an excerpt from our latest installment, The Fire Sermon:
âYour turn,â Techno offers. âTell me something nice.â
âYou first,â Philza quietly deflects. âIâm a bit short on rememberinâ nice things right now. Iâm gonna need a little help.â
Techno smiles. âOur first night in Antarctica. Youâd been scouting the land all day- you came back swearinâ up a storm about how trash the place was to build on. I couldnât understand half the words you said. I was just spacing out thinking about how the snowflakes kind of looked like stars caught on your wings.â
âIâd started to hate the stars before I met you,â Philza confesses. âCus they move, yâknow? I realized that if I lived long enough, the constellations I grew up with wouldnât exist anymore. It felt like losinâ a piece of the people I shared the sky with.â He turns to Techno, just slightly. âAnd then I met you. Seeinâ the stars in your eyes again, I didnât mind so much if it changed. Cus at least youâd have gotten to see âem.â
Starting with Philza and Techno meeting in the Nether, it covers their long immortal journey through life, queerplatonic yearning, a world of gods and eldtrich horrors, and deciding death is not only a woman, but prime wife material.
But itâs also about the smaller things.Â
Grief, loss, the passage of time. The smell of bread. Falling in love, for every given definition of it. The generational cycles of trauma and abuse, the inherent sadness of immortality, the tragedy of power and its corruption. Itâs about the cycle. Itâs about those who break the cycle, and the people that never got to escape it.
Itâs about the will to live.
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