#doomsday war

Inktober Day 19: Ruin

we will all go together when we go

People were dedicated to l’manburg not out of cult-like patriotism but because living there made them happy. Being in l’manburg improved their lives, gave them a purpose, a community.     

1st place: Sapnap - 62 dogs killed; (are we really surprised??) 37,2 % of total dogs

2nd place: Punz - 22 dogs killed; 12,5 %

Tied for 3rd place: Jack Manifold and Captain Puffy - both killed 21 dogs; 11,9%

4th place: Technoblade, owner of said dogs - 15 kills; (honestly it could be more, as he killed a bunch of them at once. If I misconstrued, sorry) 8,5%

Tied for 5th: Eret and Philza - both killed 7 dogs; 3,9%

6th place: Tubbo - 6 dogs; 3,4%

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- 14 dogs also died from other causes (squished too much - 6; fall damage - 4; burned - 3; suffocated - 1)

- Honorable mentions: FossilNet, the only dog to be killed by a wither

Casualties in total: 176 dogs (RIP)

His stream genuinely began with c!Quackity in the lowest point we had ever seen him in. He had completely abandoned hope, completely given up on the idea that his enemies and the tyrants that he had always wanted to defeat could ever be defeated. He was solemn, tragically calm, to the point of acting genuinely depressed. The fighting spirit we had seen from him just the day prior was completely gone. And it made sense. Quackity had probably been the most adamant, the most determined to take down L’manberg’s enemies during Season 2. And that’s always been a big part of his character. Quackity hates tyrants, and anyone who tries to be tyrannical or hoard too much power. Throughout his entire arc, this fiery passion he had to take down anyone he saw as a tyrant, whether it be Dream, Schlatt, or even Techno, was a constant.

So Quackity tried various plans. The Butcher Army, Techno’s execution, Dream’s execution...but none of them worked. Each and every single one of them failed. His enemies, and the tyrants he wanted to slay, always got away, leaving him with only tragedy and defeat. And every time he failed, his anger, his aggression, his desire to achieve his goals, only furiously grew. His ideals became more and more corrupted, and his methods more and more shady. He began using tactics that he had previously been against (executions, lying to your people), because he so desperately wanted to accomplish his goals. It came to the point where Quackity’s next plan came into play: the potential execution of Ranboo. But when Quackity suggested this idea, it too was shut down (probably for a good reason), and Quackity was reprimanded. Another one of his ideas to take down the enemies he so vigorously hated had failed in front of him, and now the country that he had tried so hard to build up seemed like it was heading for destruction.

And on January 6th, when his stream begins, Quackity finally just breaks. He gives up. He gives up on L’manberg, on all of his friends, on his goals and plans to take down tyrants like Dream. Sadly and solemnly, he leaves L’manberg and runs away, planning to never come back. He even utters the infamous words, “It was never meant to be.” All of his plans had failed, his plans throughout the entire server had ALWAYS failed, and now it was going to lead to the destruction of L’manberg. L’manberg would be gone. By this point in time, Quackity’s goals and desires had become less about taking down tyrants and enemies in order to end their reign and because of justice, like they once were. No, he was taking down these people in order to consolidate power for L’manberg. He cared about building L’manberg’s global power, and making sure there were no threats to it. He wanted organization, and power, as he said himself. He even told Techno he didn’t care about the withers, or the anarchy. He wasn’t taking Techno and Dream down because of justice anymore, but rather to consolidate L’manberg’s power and control.

Now, without L’manberg, Quackity had lost hope and faith in all of his goals, because he had directly linked them to consolidating power for the government at this point. The fighting spirit he had was gone, and he saw no point in trying to fight the tyrants he hated anymore. He just wanted to run away, run away and never do anything again. So he takes his skeleton horse and runs, sets up a shack a few hundred blocks away from everything. He even contemplates killing the horse, but decides not to. Then, Quackity decides to read Ranboo’s memory book, out of curiosity, mostly. He had gotten possession of the book earlier, and kept it in his inventory. Ranboo, who Quackity had left L’manberg entirely hating. He had wanted to execute him, and despised him strongly for being a traitor. Quackity began to read Ranboo’s thoughts, Ranboo’s opinions.

He read through various pages, suddenly finding himself more and more immersed in the book. As you all probably remember from his streams, Ranboo wrote about how everyone seemed too occupied with fighting between factions and nations, when everyone should be allied against Dream. Dream is the real enemy, he has too much power, and he’s a tyrant.

But soon,Quackity pauses on one line in particular, a line about c!Dream, and goes silent. He highlights the line in the book, staring at it.

“Why does one man need so much power?”

Quackity reads the line to himself again and again, staring blankly at the page. Viewers can see it seems like he’s starting to have some thoughts, as he lets it sink it. And suddenly, he smiles, and laughs, repeating the line one more time as he looks at his horse and puts away the book. Why does one man need so much power?

And that’s when Quackity decides to come back to L’manberg and fight. And it’s such an integral moment to his overall character arc. Quackity here, was in his lowest position ever, and he opens up the book, the thoughts, of somebody who he had been so against, despised so much, and they changed his entire perspective. Quackity comes back to L’manberg and mentions to Tubbo how he had read a line by Ranboo, and it convinced him to come back and fight. However, Quackity also mentions that he knows L’manberg is doomed, but that it doesn’t matter to him anymore, and he would still fight. This is so important.

Up until this point, I mentioned how we had seen Quackity’s character motives and ideals shift from “I want to fight tyrants because I’m morally opposed to them, and I want justice. Nobody should have that much power to use for evil.” to “I want to fight tyrants in order to consolidate power for L’manberg, and I don’t want them to get in my way.” This plays into why, when he realized L’manberg was doomed, Quackity gave up on his fight. Quackity had slowly been forgetting what his original motives and ideals were. Fight tyrants, fight those with too much power, and ensure a better world for everyone. He had moved away from the entire reason he wanted to fight people like Dream in the first place. He cared mostly about growing L’manberg’s strength and power, and nothing else. Even if he became tyrant-like in the process, he didn’t care. He was even willing to execute Ranboo, execute the one who decorated the festival in their own decorations, like somebody else Quackity had been so against.

But this line, the line in Ranboo’s memory book. “Why does one man need so much power?” This line gave Quackity the reminder he needed. He needed to remember what his original ideals were, in order for him to continue the fight. Because that’s what Quackity’s entire character had been so passionate about: fighting those with too much power. And he had lost the true meaning behind this motive somewhere along the way, even if he himself didn’t think so. He cared more about L’manberg’s power. But here, Quackity remembers what he was on the server for from the very beginning. And it’s enough to bring him back.

Back to L’manberg? No, and that’s what’s important. Quackity understands that L’manberg is doomed, but he no longer cares. Because he remembers now what’s important to him: taking down tyrants for justice, taking down Dream because Dream has too much power. That’s why Quackity had such an intense hatred of Dream, Dream was a tyrant with too much power that used his power to constantly meddle in the affairs of everyone else and ruin the server for them. So even though L’manberg was doomed to go, Quackity had gone back to what his original was. Tyrants, more specifically, Dream. He cared about taking down Dream now, with the fighting spirit against tyrants that he had once had. That’s what gave him the spirit and desire to join the fight to protect L’manberg: to stop Dream. And even when L’manberg had been destroyed, he reiterated that taking down Dream was what was truly important. It always had been. In other words, one man does not need so much power.

Dreamsmp reality

“George honey. Do you really think now is the best time to be finishing up the project.” You asked slipping your nightgown on.

“Of course darling. I’m building this for us. I want us to have a home.” He smiled brightly at you before glancing back to the blueprints on his desk. You sighed slightly.

“But, George,” he looked at you, “there’s a war going on. Your friends, they need you.” I looked at him with a worried expression. He closed his eyes and his hands formed fists as they rested on the desk before muttering.