#chat lore

[carnation-notebooks]

As far as im aware, Tommy has not officially decided what his chat is.

But its probably there. Sometimes. He didn't pay attention to chat today, but this stream is so much sadder if you think about chat being there.

Because on the bench, everyone was singing My L'manburg.

They have no music, watching the sun set in silence.

And it hurts even more if chat is something like the wind. Or maybe the spirits of L'manburg citizens who died for the country that barely saw the light of day. Or just an echo of the past. Everyone sitting around, singing happily, during one of the few times people felt safe.

Whatever it is, it's singing. Singing the anthem of the country that these boys now represent. They dont talk about it, but the words their brother sang once is softly playing in the background. They have no music.

It's singing a goodbye to a boy who deserves the world, and who is about to give that away to everyone else. A goodbye, hoping maybe he'll realize just how important he is. That he doesn't deserve this ending, if only it could be better.

It's singing comfort to a boy who has lost, and lost, and will lose once more. A boy who will tell the others story, who wanted to go to the moon together. Who would have given the world for them both to live. A boy who will be protected to the end.

It's singing a goodbye to L'manburg, to Tommy, to their friendship. It's sad, but it still sings. Because their on the bench, for the last time, and they have no music. So it will make some for them. It's the least that can be done.

[descriptev]

I was thinking about how we, as “the chat”, are canonically crows or doozers or particles or whatever depending on who’s stream we are watching, and how we kind of get to participate in the dream smp when we watch certain content creators, because some ccs made their chats part of their character lore. Some viewers even get really into the roleplay, calling themselves particle# 245820 or whatever when they make a donation.  And it’s kinda fun.

We don’t really get to do that with c!Quackity.  I like the cinematic lore a lot, but cc!quackity’s streams are more like going to a movie premier where the director/actor is seated in the audience trying to gage everyone’s reactions.  There’s nothing wrong with that.  I like movies.  But we can’t be part of the story if all improv is filmed before we can make our comments. 

(And cc!Dream doesn’t even stream his lore!  Chat can’t participate at all in the story because we never even get the opportunity to.)

But that got me thinking... does cc!Wilbur’s chat potentially have a part in the dsmp lore?

Because cc!Wilbur doesn’t really acknowledge chat during his dream smp streams.  He doesn’t reply to comments or thank subscribers or ask us questions about things that he’s missed since his last stream.  At most, Wilbur will sometimes look at us and wink, like we’re the audience members in his silly little play.  I guess this means cc!Wilbur’s chat is kind of like cc!Quackity’s in a way... but I don’t know...

Have you ever seen Fleabag?

In Fleabag, the titular character will occasionally glance at or talk directly to the camera.  And none of the other characters in the show will notice these brief asides.  The character is merely breaking the fourth wall like she’s in a film noir.  

But then there was this one time when Fleabag “shared a look” with the audience, and the hot priest went, “What are you looking at?”  It shocked me to my very core when that happened.  Because suddenly, I realized that maybe I was more than just a member in the show’s audience.  It was more like I was in the character’s audience and always had been.

So... what if it’s not cc!Wilbur who “shares a look” with chat on occasion, but c!Wilbur breaking the forth wall to acknowledge the audience in his head that none of the other characters notice?  And what if, one day, another character does notice?

Suddenly, we, as cc!Wilbur’s chat, are no longer just mere bystanders watching cc!Wilbur’s performance and clapping at the end of the scene.  No, we could potentially be the made up audience in c!Wilbur’s head.  We could be c!Wilbur’s delusions brought on by stress or mental illness, a way to cope with his trauma manifested as a theater kid’s beloved and attentive audience.

And you know what, I’m kinda down for being a manifestations of c!Wilbur’s mental illness.  That sounds like a vibe.  I could roleplay that, no problem! :)

[ninma]

Chat souls, warmth part 1

I didn’t know there was a limit and now have to split it in two and seperating the context so now nobody is going to stick around to read because they won’t see how it relates to anything in the Dream smp (well more chat lore) without reading both parts. Rip 

But I’ll post it anyway on the off chance someone actually will.