like doing a deep dive into the supernatural side of things based on the finale streams isn't my forte, but i really wouldn't be surprised if part of what makes c!dream + c!punz particularly Like That during the finale is the idea of them finding out about the cyclical nature of the server and ... reacting badly.
like, they specifically mention the end (which was replaced, apparently, by the XD clock world) and how it's been "corrupted," c!dream specifically mentions how "god" will end the world if they don't kill people
(but also mentions how death is part of the reason why the world needs to be reset)
punz and dream speak multiple times about how they HAVE to figure things out right how important it is to understand revivals and death and life and Understand This World and how knowledge is more important than anything but at the same time
what dream's mentioning of his goals (besides a very nebulous "research") doesn't seem to have much to do with an actionable plan to do anything at all -- he talks about focusing about quackity and sam and wilbur (which. i mean. we all know that kinda didn't go the greatest for him)
and specifically right we know that XD resets the world, that the world keeps ending and restarting cycles etc etc, and the revive book + time travel + egg + death book + limbo all of that seems to be connected to XD, maybe the other server supernatural stuff as well, though it's a bit nebulous as to what specifically was like caused by him. but it's also interesting to me, right, how c!dream seems to waffle a bit on things that "matter"--death and revival being the two most glaring examples. on one hand, dream is saying that revivals are where they fucked up by introducing instability (that they now have to fix through killing people):
but at the exact same time, dream and punz BOTH conduct revivals during these final streams, with the revival with tommy seeming particularly superfluous:
and along that same line of reasoning, dream both talks about death as being like the key to all of this, right, the idea that they have to kill everyone to reset the balance that death is more important that any of them imagined etc, that they have to kill in order to solve things, that Death Is The Answer--
but at the same time, in the next stream, dream makes a specific point about death...not mattering at all
and speaking of not mattering...that comes up. A Lot. c!dream specifically makes a lot of mentions about things being inevitable, or not mattering, throughout these streams:
like. there's a certain ... nihilism? to c!dream here? that's kinda impossible to ignore. and obviously, in their research into XD, it's very possible that the idea of the server as a loop or cycle would've come up, the idea that this world will end and then start into a new one etc etc. that no matter what they do, eventually XD is going to pull the plug and reset everything.
and with that in mind, the attitudes of c!punz and c!dream might be related to the idea of doing research, looking for knowledge in order to perhaps stop that process and preserve this world--while the nihilism, the revivals despite revivals apparently causing the problem, the lack of an actionable plan having to do with the inability to stop XD.
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