Can I just say I love the contrast between Punz and Techno or at least how I perceive them. Because they are both Dream’s only allies and seemingly the only ones to give a damn about him, and yet they do so in different ways.
Punz is the type of friend to let you wear an outfit that looks bad on you but will compliment you and fight anyone who dare say something. Techno is the type of friend to tell you what you need to hear even if it’s brutal. He won’t let you leave the house in something that looks terrible on you and if you didn’t ask for his approval and did so, he might even be someone to poke fun at it in a lovingly playful way while also defending you from anyone else who dares make a remark. In either case, whether you wore the outfit or not, Punz and Techno would have your back just like good besties should, the difference is that Punz would respect your decision and follow your lead, while Techno would call it like it is. Punz might beat up every bully who makes a comment or try and even make it into a new fashion trend vs Techno is going to try and stop you from getting bullied in the first place.
And I think it’s cool to see two different types of friends navigate trying to help Dream, because in life sometimes you need someone who trusts you and goes along with your madness and compliments the outfit you put together because they know you have nothing else to wear, but sometimes you need someone who calls you out.
I think a couple scenes I’ve written that demonstrate this interesting contrast well are:
“I don’t give a fuck! I’m—I’m leaving!” Dream yells, having finally hit his limit with Punz’s cross examination. Irritation strategically covering everything else he might be feeling, he shoves Punz aside and marches to the doors.
No doubt, Punz could stop him. Given Dream’s current strength, the push shouldn’t have even moved him. But it does, and there is something almost kind about Punz letting it happen. About the notoriously deadly mercenary allowing himself to be pushed if only just so Dream can feel strong and capable of fighting back.
Techno, however, is not so willing to just stand by and let the green idiot leave to his untimely death again, which leaves only one option. If he can’t go anywhere else then he has to stay.
“You sure about that?” Techno cuts in coolly, raising his eyebrow and once again stepping in front of the doors with his arms crossed.
“Because I’m—I’m gonna be honest with you, Dream, as much as I love having you over to visit—and really I do, I don’t appreciate you ruinin’ my living room and drinking all my potions again. It’s pretty rude, man. It’s pretty rude. I’m really starting to think that you might need to just move in to save me the trouble of having to heal you every time you get stabbed. You know since you clearly don’t have a house of your own to go to-”
“Technoblade, what the hell is wrong with you?! I have a house!” [Crow’s Nest, Ch 11]
Pretending not to notice, Punz dunks a cloth in the bucket before slowly bringing it up to the wound on his side. He doesn’t fight back when Dream takes it from him and begins wiping away the blood.
It’s the dance they have. Punz would love nothing more than to swoop in and do it all, but that takes away Dream’s choice and his agency, it makes him feel incapable and helpless, which is the last thing Punz wants to do. So, he lets Dream be stubborn and do it, no matter how much it pains him to watch him struggle. It’s his choice and he more than deserves the right to that after being denied it for so long. Punz can’t heal the scars left on Dream’s soul and his skin, but he can at least not be another set of hands touching him without his permission. The last thing Dream needs is to feel coddled and weak.
Techno seems to disagree with that sentiment though, as he takes the rag from Dream while he’s trying to reach his shoulder, “Here, let me do it. Alright? You clearly can’t reach, nerd.”
Dream lets him and Punz tries not to allow that to bother him. How many times has Dream screamed at Punz for babying him and yet, he lets Techno do it? He can’t decide who he’s more annoyed at, Techno for just stepping in or Dream for not protesting. He should be happy that Dream is getting the help he so desperately needs. But he can’t help but be annoyed instead. It’s stupid and childish, he knows it is. And yet, he can’t help but feel envious of the way Dream leans into Techno’s tender touch. [Musical Chairs, Ch 12]
To be fair, in both cases I think had Dream pushed back hard, Techno would have caved, he wouldn’t force Dream to stay nor touch him without consent, but he presses back against Dream’s stubbornness at least offering logic to an alternative, which I think Dream needed. He needed someone to show a different path forward.
On the other side, I think it’s important to say that I think Punz does push back against Dream especially when it comes to big things. I don’t think he knew how inhumane the prison was when letting Dream get arrested nor that he’d lose two lives nor how long worse case scenario incarceration would be. I think if he had known he probably wouldn’t have gone along with it. Though, even Dream I think wouldn’t have done it if he had known. In any case, I don’t think Punz truly recognizes how potentially dangerous Dream’s self sacrificial behavior is until after prison, but at the same time while he may voice his disapproval I think he gives in much easier than Techno would. In the same way you still love and support your friends even when they make poor choices and don’t heed your advice. Life is about choices after all and ultimately it is their life and their choices to make.
Course it’s important to note that I have this perception because of the wanted trio assumptions I talk about here [post] and that I don’t think Punz and Dream did experiments on each other via repeatedly killing eachother or letting the other die. I mean why repeatedly kill eachother when they were also doing experiments on other people, it makes no sense [post]?… But I mean ultimately we don’t have a lot of their dynamic nor much post prison so it’ll pretty much always be speculation based off assumptions anyways.
Still, I love writing the similarities and differences between these best friends, both upset at the cruelty Dream faced in prison, both willing to die for him, both out for blood on his behalf, both trying to be his ally even when everyone is against him, and both trying to help him heal and deal with his trauma, and yet his relationship with them individually is different.
We can say Punz failed Dream for going along with Dream’s self destruction and we can say Techno failed Dream by separating from him after prison, but even with their flaws and failures I think they still should be considered good friends. They aren’t perfect but they are there for Dream and care about him and you can see it in the way Punz talks to Purpled and how he has been on Dream’s team from the start, and you can see it in how Techno willingly went into a trap just to check up on Dream and see how he was doing. Like unlike Tommy who dragged Tubbo into battles knowingly risking their one life for objects and then not showing up when Tubbo’s kid has been kidnapped and his husband has been murdered, Punz and Techno were by Dream’s side when he needed it most, just like he was for them.
Their friendships may be imperfect and their methods to help Dream may be flawed and different, but at the end of the day they are both good friends - best friends - genuine friends and they were all Dream had and in the end they weren’t enough to save him, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t do the best they could in their own way to support the stubborn self destructive teletubby…
I went from mainly shipping dreamnoblade to drunz to being more open to other ships but mainly drunz and I think this is probably why. Although it makes me think of how interesting a dynamic would be with dreamnoblade, not just centered around Dream but also with Punz and Techno and their shared feelings of being isolated and their value being reduced to their power and a simplified caricature of who they are, Techno urging Punz to find self-worth outside of Dream and being a reassuring, grounding force for the two of them...gonna stop here before I start writing fanfic. Maybe it's because I like Punz a little more than Dream, who I like a little more than Techno that I want to give them more focus lol.
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character variants of drunz? not entirely accurate but they remind me of cdream and cpunz
Dream variants
-Suguru geto (JJK)
-Jinx (Arcane)
-Raiden Shogun (Genshin)
-Kurapika (HxH)
1. Abuser who is/was abused, a leader of others that they manipulate
2. Fallen hero turned morally ambiguous villain with good motives who has lost sight of their goal and uses control to feel secure
3. Extremely powerful and indomitable outwardly, internally an emotional traumatized wreck.
4. Extremely self-destructive, self-isolating, and self-loathing in their pursuit of their goal. After their mind breaks, they either reach a turning point where they choose a dark path or they redeem themselves
Punz variants
-Killua (HxH)
-Akane Kuronoke (Oshi no ko)
Mukuro Ikusaba (Danganronpa)
So some patterns for them
1. Admiring and looking up to their partner, who is a place of trust for them after feeling isolated, lonely, and disconnected from the rest of the world.
2. Becoming a right hand man and an enabler who helps them down their destructive plans.
3. Helping them in a dream that they do not understand while also being an emotional replacement for that dream.
4. Idealization of the person who they attach themself strongly to, making them perform to try to maintain a sense of normality
5. Heavily toxic and enabling but with good intentions. It's harder to see what else they could do, especially with their own traum and codependency
I think Punz has a lot of parallels with Sua despite him seemingly being different. Complete and obsessive devotion to their partners, the self-destructive behaviors, except maybe it could be an AU where Dream is an actor that is forced into heterosexual roles as to climb the industry, and when the zombie apocalypse comes they become idols. Maybe their talent could be cross-trained and this shift reflects how they have become soulless products instead of wanting to tell stories and their own perspective.
I think also think in this AU perhaps Dream is obsessed with the status of acting and starts to lose the soul behind it, too busy chasing high-status films and forgets his dreams of making a meaningful performance. Punz, who was entranced by Dream's past acting, looks up to him as an idol and follows a shell of his past. The actor industry is also infamous for nepotism, strict beauty standards, physical and sexual exploitation, being pigeonholed into roles due to stereotypes, all things that would only make Dream chase harder as a queer man, and Punz who is nonbinary but is pigeonholed into more traditionally masculine roles due to his talent for acting cold and ruthless personalities, and feels as if they have to be on the binary side of gender.
Just throwing out some thoughts here though. Mizisua is my favorite pairing in alnst and I'm starting to realize there is a pattern in the ships I like lmao
Selkie au - Dream revealing his most well kept secret and trusting Punz to protect his seal skin before pandora/adjacent for the au
This is my contribution to @fairytalesfromthesmp I got the Selkie prompt^^ and of course i decided to make it drunz. Feel free to ask more abt the au btw :3
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Protege Tommy is so insane. He's the kinda guy to say shit like "Yeah, this old war dog found himself a new master" while making direct uncomfortable eye contact with Wilbur.
And obviously being around Drunz makes it to no one will ever pull him back from heing a little freak. They're literally the biggest freaks on the server. That's their freakling
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“The strength of my patience is the reason you’re alive” is still my favorite foolish quote of all time and it was said because badboyhalo built a tollbooth in the middle of his summer home
@kkastra honestly I kinda hurt myself a little with that one I need to draw them together more they’re so freaking sad. have some evil trivia about them + Prime because he’s kinda there too (cw cdream getting stabbed in a drawing)
-cDream was “born” fully adult physically, but mentally he was kind of like an amnesia victim and had yet to develop any kind of personality. ExDee was working on Other Things during this time period, so it was cDrista who worked with Dream in the beginning.
-Drista appears as a child, but she both is and isn’t. she is wise like an old woman and yet her mannerisms and actions imitate a child. she’s Dream’s silly little sibling and also his accidentally parentified older sister. she jokes and laughs with cTommy like she’s his age but she has seen so much more than him. she’s in a weird nebulous state where even she isn’t sure if she’s child or adult
-although Drista was created just as entertainment for ExDee, she does more than that and has “raised” all of the angels who came after her in one way or another, Dream most of all.
-Dream and Drista had a running discussion for a while about whether or not they actually counted as siblings, since they’re just clones of the same guy. eventually they decided that it was their choice, and the pair of them agreed to be siblings.
-sometimes Drista visits Dream in his dreams. sometimes he refuses to see her, sometimes they talk, sometimes they even have a good time together. regardless, Dream never remembers anything about it when he wakes up.
-Tommy can see Drista, but few other people can. cPhil probably could, but he thinks she’s a hallucination of Tommy’s, which is what Tommy thinks too, since nobody else could see her, including Dream. after exile, he chalks her visits up to his starving brain conjuring up an image of a little girl who wanted to play with him like little kids the way he missed out on to comfort him. it is kinda weird that his brain chose to send him a hallucination of such a creepy girl, but hey, who is he to judge? she was funny, and she was comforting.
-Tommy mentions her to Dream once, saying that he’s been seeing this weirdly pale little girl with huge creepy eyes and clown makeup and half her head gone. Dream reacts very very badly and it spooks Tommy out of mentioning it to anyone until much later with cTubbo and cRanboo, and by then he’s already convinced himself it was a hallucination.
-Michael can see Drista. so can Shroud. so can Yogurt. only Michael has the words for it (Yogurt is too young to speak and Tommy is still trying to learn to speak Spider and teach Shroud to speak English), though, and since he only sees Drista in dreams he doesn’t discuss it much.
-most of the other angels’ remnants have faded away, except for Drista and cPrime. Drista because she wants to watch after Dream and Prime out of pure hate and spite.
-Prime hates everyone except Drista. he extra despises Dream half because he killed Drista and half because he is super jealous of him for being the perfect angel.
-ExDee is a bit of a forgotten god, though cPhil and cTechno have been thoroughly informed about him through the Death Goddess and Blood God respectively (and as the server members explore server history more and cGeorge, cSapnap, cKarl, and more members have encounters with ExDee, he starts gaining some traction). most of the server worships smaller deities, but Tommy worships Prime. a small sect of ExDee’s followers defected after he killed Prime and chose to worship Prime instead. over time, the details of who and what Prime was changed so much as to be unrecognizable. these days he is purported to be a minor deity of good fortune (ironic considering his fate).
btw cDream’s jester motif is subconsciously inspired by Drista’s jester motif
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i truly love interstellar behind the scenes photos because they typically fall into two genres
HOYTEMA
(that's McConaughey in the parking lot of the Svinafellsjokull glacier)
(that's Hathaway's stunt double, Alicia Vela-Bailey, performing a manoeuvre for the actors to copy)
(unused shot from Mann's planet)
*The photography director, Hoyte Van Hoytema, was incredible on this set. The (simplified) process was as follows:
Everyone: we want handheld shots but all we have are imax cameras :(
Hoytema: have you tried picking them up *films the entire movie single-handedly*
2. Chris looking wildly out of place on set
(on the set of the Tesseract scene. McConaughey was a trooper, but all those hours in the harness and suit were tough! They're lying beside two of the fifteen projectors used for the visual effects.)
Like he's just lying everywhere
(on the Svinafellsjokull glacier, the set of Mann's planet. If I'm remembering correctly, this is where the fight was partially filmed.)
