#c!dream rambles

[lyllicoris]

(i made a tweet already about this and i wanna elaborate it more here since there's no character limit)

c!rivals duo dynamic >>> c!dteam dynamic

they are the only ones who haven't betrayed each other. they both relate to their friends betraying them and using them for their own merit.

c!george breaking one block of the prison then passing our vs. c!techno risking his lives just to check on dream despite knowing it was a trap.

c!sapnap threatening to kill c!dream, telling him he deserves to be in the vault forever, despite he himself has done horrible things to the smp with c!dream vs. c!techno owning up to his actions with c!dream and still humanizing c!dream.

i understand that cc!george wasn't active to make lore at that time but even so, it has made an impact on c!dream. he's been abandoned him, and c!dream didn't have any of them to rely on after lmanberg's war for independence.

to add from the latest prison lore, we see c!techno actually trying to befriend c!dream. sure he's got ulterior motive. they both have. c!dream wants to be free and c!techno wanted the revive book, but their "friendship" or allyship is the healthiest relationship c!dream has with anyone in the server.

to borrow the words of my friend, we always thought that c!dream will start healing when he becomes free and possibly joins the syndicate, but we can already see c!techno's impact on c!dream. c!techno prevents him from self-destruction, he reassures he'll defend c!dream if ever c!q comes back, tells him to focus on the little things and be optimistic. he is c!dream genuinely laugh after all the shit he's been through for months on end.

c!dteam barely can do shit for c!dream.

c!techno our emotional support pig. he's given c!dream the hope missing inside of pandora's vault.

[lyllicoris]

TW // mentions of exile arc, abuse, manipulation, c!dream defense

"c!dream apologists can't sympathize with c!dream because he has no pov!"

let me be honest on how, in the nicest way possible, dumb that argument is.

sure, he has no 1st person pov, but 3rd person povs literally?? fucking exists??

the issue there is that you guys haven't seen all the povs with c!dream like some of us had! i bet you've mainly relied on c!tommy's pov, who's clearly biased against him (rightfully so). and even then, if you were mainly watching c!tommy's pov, you only focus on the fucking exile arc, like it fucking defines!! every single aspect!! of c!dream!!

have you seen c!punz' pov during pogtopia arc? their conversation about sides? have you seen c!skeppy's pov when c!dream explained why he needed lmanberg rightfully gone? his one sided conversation with c!wilbur in pogtopia arc? (i might talk more about these in the future)

to clarify, im no way saying that exile arc isn't important or should be ignored, BUT i just hate how it's the center piece all the damn time when talking about c!dream. what about his character during the first lmanberg war when he was first painted as a villain? when he had a clear sway of judgement and morals during pogtopia vs. lmanberg war, wanting to stay out bc he "didn't wanna be the bad guy"? his desperate speech about spirit to cover up his attachments? you're all so busy seeing him as villain, you didn't see how he slowly spiralled into one like a 100k word slowburn fic.

yes, he's a bastard, a manipulator and abuser, a murderer, insane mfer with a god complex, hot, but to narrow all of his character down only to those points makes him seem like a one dimensional villain, and he's not. it does injustice to his character. like. what's fucking interesting about a villain that's just pure evil for no fcking reason..??

it's like narrowing c!wilbur as nothing but a selfish mad man, or c!tommy is just nothing but an annoying kid who does everything wrong (which i know half of you will disagree on), disregarding context behind their actions.

im NOT saying you can't dislike c!dream. you can. you can dislike any character for any reason like how you can like a character for any reason.

my main point here is that we c!dream apologists/sympathizers have a lot of content and povs of c!dream, enough for us to observe and analyze his character to our own understanding, enough for us to sympathize and like him.

we'd absolutely fucking love to have a c!dream 1st person pov lore stream, but as of now, this is what we have, and what we have IS reasonable enough to symphatize with him. you don't need to always choose a morally correct stance irl to symphatize with a fictional character.

[lyllicoris]

no bc yalls going for c!dream apologists, saying we're "abuse/manipulation apologists" for being invested in this interesting bastard vs. yalls going "he deserves it" when referring to him being tortured but you don't see us calling it "torture apologism."

"it's just an mc roleplay!" well i sure hope it only stays that way for yall too because u guys would be fucked up for saying that.

[lyllicoris]

c!dream "i gave up everything to gain everything." c!dream "i cut all of my attachments." c!dream "i don't give a fuck about anything actually."

this broken man is the same man risking his life to protect his only ally left (c!techno) from his abuser (c!q). he knows he's up to know good. he knows it must be a trap. he knows he might end up losing his only connection left.

for someone who claims to have cut his attachments, c!dream is loyal