The Thing About Snakes Is, And The Thing I Really Like About Cc!Dream’s Metaphor, Is That Snakes Don’t

16 for those choose violence fandom asks?

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

One dimensional, flat, Villain™ c!dream. it's so... boring. Reducing a very complex, multifaceted character like dream into the most storybook, children's version of an antagonist makes me want to chew glass 😭. Taking dream and using him as a vector for the most boring uninteresting ctommy whangst or as a scape goat to explain why every bad thing happens in your fanfiction (cough... passerine... cough). Like this does NOT deserve as many fics, posts, and headcanons as it gets. It's lame and boring. straight to jail, do not pass go do not collect 200 dollars.

*Obama voice* let me be clear. there is not a single character on that smp that is Just a villain who only does Bad thing for Evil Bad reasons. Even the Eldritch unknowable egg monster is fucking complex. There is no easy antagonist, full stop. And obviously all of us over here on this side of the Mississippi understand that because we're all adults with media analysis and super well adjusted and cool and medicated people. but in the wider fandom this Irks me

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i dont remember if u were active then but that time dream and punz played on saps hardcore world together and dream kept wanting to build his house where punz was? so sweet i havent stopped thinking about them, i need them back so bad im gonna throw up

WAIT I WAS FUCKING BUSY FOR THAT STERAM AND I NEVER WATCHED THE VOD oh this is gonna be an experience yall prepare yourselves cause my demons.. ough my demons

pretty obsessed with the idea of 'somewhere on the aroace spectrum' c!techno who has been around for a long time and never had anything more than a deep (q)platonic love for c!phil meeting c!dream and going 'phil, i think i might be in love' and phil just. pointing at dream like 'that? really? him? of all bloody people?'

and techno just nods, 'yup.'

text from my coworker

beesssttt friiieeenndddss :)

hope the cat it's so cute!! How's she?

She is doing good! So far she has warmed up to me surprisingly quickly, no longer hiding when i come into my room or shuffle around and even letting me pet her :D

c!dream: trust me bro i am totally gonna do [thing he could've done already] if you don't stop me. i'm gonna do this for Reasons. by the way i built this giant prison also for Reasons. i wasn't gonna put you in this giant prison but now i will, for Reasons. who was i gonna put in the prison? You Don't Need To Know but it's you now. umm i'm going to kill your friend or something and then put you in the prison if you don't stop me (perhaps with this prison that i just told you about? 👀👀) why? Reasons. trust me i am totally gonna steal everyone's items look what i already have [his own fish, some random animals, this axe he just got, skeppy cage] say goodbye to your friend while i count to ten for way longer than ten seconds. oh look it's punz with the entire server for some reason coming through this giant portal i made sure to frame in the most cinematic way possible. put my items in the hole? sure i couldn't possibly fight all these people [takes a billion op items off his pockets] yeah sure go ahead kill me. thanks i am literally nowhere near any of these people now and could easily escape but i will come back since you threatened to kill yourself. by the way i can revive people so you can't kill me permanently or everyone is dead forever (you can put people inside prisons if you can't kill them 👀)

c!tommy, c!tubbo, c!wilbur: wow that was all very convenient wasn't it very weird

majority of the fandom, apparently: no it sounds legit

amnesia as a trauma response has the potential to be so fucking funny because imagine you just spent like 6 months breaking Whumpee down piece by piece, stripping them of their rights, destroying their mind and body with scars that will never heal, relishing in the irrevocable damage done by your hand even after they've been rescued

and then you run into them at a grocery store and they're like "oh hey (: sorry didn't see you there ((((: no i have no idea who you are but you're blocking the shelf i need to look at"

my ass would be humbled so goddamn fast. i would be shinji gripping the sink sobbing in the mirror because Whumpee basically just called me cringe. my brilliant torturing apparently meant fuckall and i'm not even worth the time of day. they'd probably misspell my name on a starbucks cup. whumper turned whumpee because how do i recover from that. what the fuck.

the problem with this culture of dehumanizing the people you hate is nothing is ever good enough. there is no apology someone can give that will be 'enough' once they have been othered. it won't be sincere enough, it won't be long enough, it won't be good enough.

because apology and growth were never the goals. the goal was always to have something to use to punish the person with.

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