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Stand for the flag!
some perspective drawings of the big jack manifold hotel and manifoldland
Now that we’re getting Jack Manifold lore, I just wanted to speak up a bit on it.
One, he climbed out of hell and came back to life. I don’t see enough people talking about this? Not only the sheer... wow, but the trauma, the suffering he must have endured? Now, we don’t know what exactly ‘hell’ is like in the Dream SMP universe, or death, or anything like that, other than vague details from Ghostbur, but in any case what he went through definitely would not have been easy.
It also speaks a lot about his character as a whole. Jack has been a background character for most of the SMP’s history, other than in the creation of Manifold Land and a few funny moments, but he was stubborn enough to resist death and simply just... come back. I’ve always seen c!Jack Manifold quite similarly to c!Tommy. Both are extremely stubborn, strong headed characters, and both can be comedic relief, yet are also full of themselves.
By being full of himself, I mean the amount of times Jack has jumped into battle and claimed that whatever they are fighting for is safe because he has arrived. Of course, this is just Jack introducing humour into conflict, but I like to think it’s naive hope and belief. That leads me to my next point, his youth.
Jack is so young? I’m not quite sure how old he is in lore, but if Tommy, Tubbo, and Ranboo’s age are equated to their irl ages, I can only assume the same for Jack Manifold. He was only 17 during the Dream SMP and L’Manberg war for independence, and only 18 when Schlatt took over and every other major event happened. If Tommy and Tubbo are traumatized kids? So is Jack. He moved away from L’manberg to make Manifold Land so that people would stop stealing from him. All he wanted was peace for himself, and even that he wasn’t granted.
So now he’s against Tommy, and working with Niki. This is extremely interesting to me. Both of them have clearly antagonized Tommy in their heads to a point of no return. Both have them have trauma that has been continuously, continuously sidelined. Both of them fought for L’manberg, but no longer see any hope for it. Niki has finally snapped, and that’s a story for a different day, but to me, Jack is just lashing out. He’s doing what everybody else has done to him. He wants to get close to Tommy and then betray him, because every time he has supported something, they have given him nothing back, and to him that is betrayal. He wants others to feel his pain, and he wants the source of his pain to go away.
I think that, unlike Niki (Who I think is going to go down with this arc, or change, but is not going to be the same as she was before) Jack Manifold can be okay. I think all that’s missing is some attention and a conversation. A clear example of this is Tubbo. If Tubbo hadn’t given him the bare necessities back in New L’manberg, if Tubbo hadn’t shown him some basic kindness, Jack would be against Tubbo too. All Jack needs is a glimpse of hope, a glimpse of understanding to show that Tommy isn’t an awful person, and I think he’ll stop. I think if he gets that he can understand. To an extent, I think if he understands that, he could even be a close ally to Tommy. They have the potential to work well together with how their personalities are so similar, but they were just stuck on opposite ends of the ever changing tapestry of the Dream SMP.
i really wonder how tubbo is going to react to manifoldland (if at all, everyone seems to be ignoring jack at the present LMAO) but like... it could go 1 of 2 ways:
1. tubbo doesn’t care. he lets manifoldland prosper beside new l’manberg. it is one of the only pieces of the original land not affected by the explosion, so it could realisitically just exist undisturbed. a small, lightning-bolt adorned flag flies beneath the strong and proud new l’manberg one. a sister nation.
2. angst time. tubbo decides that any disruption to unity is the worst thing for new l’manberg and decides to... declare war? politely ask for jack to stop declaring independence? who knows.
manifoldland is a small plot-point that can easily turn into something bigger or stay as a joke and i’m excited about it basically :>
