I also just caught up with the Puffy lore and this lines???
“I’ll give them an era. I’ll give them a new era, but not an era of peace. An era of bloodlust I didn’t even know was possible”
“Welcome, welcome to a period of darkness that’s gonna be cast over the Dream SMP. If they want war I’ll give them war, if they want death I-I’ll-I’ll kill them all. (...) But to the people that failed me, to the people that I’ve trust time and time again and who’ve just taken my trust and thrown it in the trash! Those people... those people all I’ll say is: welcome to Doomsday”
This lines are absolute bangers!
Can’t believe I missed all the cool ass lore yesterday!
Also, since I’ve been pretty vocal in the past about being honestly kinda fed up by all the villain arcs I do want to add something about this: Puffy’s arc is not a “Villain Arc” in the conventional sense, she still very much has part of her core beliefe of protecting those she cares for and she doesn’t seem to want to cause harm and destruction for their own sake, more so to keep safe those few she still got left. As a matter of fact, it’s more of an acceptance of the cycle of violence in the server, it’s an acceptance of the idea that “violence is the only universal language” or that “power is the only thing that matters” which are basically the base line of morality that the big majority of people on the server already operate with.
Yes she is going off the self-imposed heroic path that she chose at the beginning, but that doesn’t put her anywhere near to other so called “villains” in the server.
Basically what I’m saying is that she accepted that the method she was using to go about solving the server’s issues was not working (which the Red Banquet proved when her supposed friends executed her son in front of her), so she now has to adapt to the methods that almost everyone else was using already that she despised.
There is also an interesting parallel with Foolish who, upon discovering his apparent weakness, still chose to persevere in the path of pacifism. They both went through a very similar moral conflict and yet came out of it diametrically opposed.
