let the little man dance

why wouldn’t he take that chance? he says he cares about no one, that he has no attachments, so even if quackity was lying, why would he care?

i can’t stop thinking about it, not because there’s the implication that dream either cares about techno or still clings to the hope he can use the favor to get him out.

but because he’s been in that jail for over a hundred days, tortured for over sixty and he still said no at first. because even after calling quackity ‘sir’, even while cowering in the corner, he still looked at the person torturing him and shouted, ‘you like it! you like torturing me!’

bc i dont know how to tell u this…. but the only reason we think of them as sympathetic villains is bc we’ve always gotten their pov.

we saw wilbur’s pov of l’manberg. we saw his pov of the elections, we saw his pov of the festival and him losing it. THERE’S VODS OF THAT SHIT.

same w quackity. we saw his pov of swag vs pog. we saw his pov of the schlatt administration. we saw his pov of the war, and we saw his pov of feeling abandoned by kinoko kingdom. we sympathize w them, bc we understand why they act the way they do. we understand why they’re villains.

that does not apply to dream. we know next to nothing abt him. we’ve NEVER seen his perspective of any event on the smp, and not only that we will usually see dream through the eyes of people who fucking HATE him (tommy, tubbo, ranboo, sam, etc)

that should honestly be the whole point of any post that decides whether or not a villain is sympathetic: how much we’ve been ALLOWED to sympathize with them. We haven’t been ALLOWED to sympathize to sympathize with c!dream because the storytellers don’t want to give us the opportunity.

Something that i’ve noticed is that people who believe c!wilbur can change and become better are the people who watched his POV. whereas those who started watching after Nov 16, who only ever saw him through others’ eyes are more likely to view him as an irredeemable big bad.

mama puffy and her duckling!!

confrontation

(based on @kingjem ’s post on this!!)