i wish people talked more about c!dream specifically & how it's clear he views everything as a game. how in prison, he tells tommy "i lost everything...." "i lost you," (paraphrasing) (as if he didn't realize the weight of his own actions). and if that doesn't sound like he mistranslates violence as affection then i'm not sure what does. the way he gets impatient in prison (as anyone would tbh) because he's wondering when it'll be his turn to make a move. the way he kills tommy because, for a minute, it was his turn again. the way that he's narcissistic in the sense that he believes he's the main character. i mean, the greater DREAM smp. it's in the name. he's a manchild. a manchild with a fucked up love language who deserves to be beaten forever
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A Michael_Beloved animatic about his final moments, because he is an underappreciated character, and has so much potential.
A ramble about him under cut.
TWs:
- bugs
- bones
- talk of death and decay
- I think there is a slight flash but I'm unsure? So flashing warning just in case
michael is an underated npc / character and people should utilise his dynamic more often. i will explain:
he's stuck, he has nothing to do, nothing he can do. because he's an npc, his life will never begin because he's not living. people overlook him and don't pay him mind, his own parents don't pay attention to him. it's not that they don't love him, they do, they just don't have the time nor ability to look after him, atleast not properly.
people treat him more like a glorified pet because he is still an npc, no one should, realistically, love him like a son, at most he is a pet. but he's one of, if not the only, npc on the dsmp that is canonically considered a son, not a pet. shroud is technically a pet, yoghurt is i think considered fundy's son? but if you check on the wiki, michael is the only one of actual listing and not just an addition of another. michael is his own person, and yet is still an npc. he can't do anything, and yet is his own someone. he is someone, not someone's addition. he's not tubbo's son, or ranboo's son, he is michael.
and yet he's still stuck in his room. still stuck having to go along with other people's wills. because he is code. he can't do anything but follow his code.
and so with the charactarization of michael, making him his own person, it allows him the ability to think, yet not do. "i think therefore i am" and yet he can't think. not actually. he still has to follow his code. if you hit him, he must attack back, its in the code. so you can characterize and personalise michael all you want, give him hopes, and dreams, give him depth, but in the end, he is an npc. he can't leave his room, he can't make friends, he can't go explore. he is stuck in his room. just like how rapunzel is stuck in the tower.
in this essay i will explain why michael's song is "when will my life begin"-
[shots fired i bleed out as someone drags my body away]
Ok but in actuality, the rotting aspect of Michael is so great for potential in fics;
michael can be used in fics and i'm heartbroken people don't. see, michael is a zombie piglin, he is quite literally rotting. he is a sick, dying child of neglect and no one uses this to their advantage. do no fic writers see the potential devestating catastrophe of michael? how angsty it could be if he's used right?
I like Michael, can you tell 🥺
And you don't even need him to be a piglin in fics either, he could be a dying plant, or an injured yet beloved pet. He has potential please people listen to me 😭🙏
You can make him disability rep, please I love disabled characters in fics (if done right) and there's so much potential here.
I was messaging my friends while making this too, and I was shattering their very souls with my angst, and the thing is, you can shatter your friend's souls with angst too! Please use Michael, even if he's just a side character in your fic, if you got Tubbo, or Ranboo, please include Michael in some form, like a melted candle, or a torn doodle.
Anyways continuing on with angst!
They say the eyes are the route to the soul, and I like to think piglins only die when their souls are damaged. Only when their light fades.
Michael's usually twinkling eyes, now dull and a sullen blue, holding nothing but pure sorrow, and childish hope now shattered. His parents aren't coming. No one is coming. He's going to die alone. He's going to die, without embracing his parents one last time.
His body so decayed and rotten his ribs are fully out, spiders finding a new home where his once beating heart of love was, and yet he allows them to stay, allowing the bugs to feast on his carcass, because it's something. It's another being simply touching him. And so he lets the bugs eat his dying self, because at least it's something, a distressing comfort to accompany his final moments.
He's not alone. Not yet. It's fine. He's not alone. He won't die alone.. he thinks with his last thoughts, salty tears prickling his eye as he tries to comfort himself, just as his parents would if they were here.
I hope you cry, I hope you sob, I hope those silvery drops of sorrow prick your eyes and roll down your cheeks. If you are angry at me, perhaps you should scream into the bottomless pit of my soul, maybe a shard of guilt might scream back one day. Today's not the day though.
You know what I appreciate about DSMP? And the fandom? The platonic character relationships. Clingy duo, Emerald duo, and Quackity and Charlie (Dap duo?). These pairs are all important to the series and none of them are romantic. And the majority of the audience reads them as platonic and embraces that.
AND it’s not put in the box of being “sibling-coded” or anything (something I find annoying in fandoms sometimes lol)
It’s probably a result of the CCs being friends. I feel as though if DSMP was some sort of series with actors, the audience may be compelled to ship these duos based on their closeness. Which wouldn’t be inherently bad or anything, but I do adore the portrayal of intimate angsty fluffy complex relationships that are platonic. And I appreciate that most of this fandom is on the same page as me about them, feels nice. Y’all are really cool :)
Something ironic Ive been thinking about is how practically the whole servers is made up of very dramatically designed and by in world lore, dangerous and scary mod hybrids, and they’re just casually walking around and not scaring ppl.
But out of everyone it’s the human looking dude with blank white eyes is the one that scares the most ppl.
Like I’ve seen ppl give everyone these epic designs and then there’s eret with them big ol blank eyes and just normal looks.
Makes me think that maybe I should include some offputting or uncanny aspects to eret’s design that make them look unusual but still cool. Give them reason to be so unsettling that most scream in terror or immediately tell them to put the glasses back on. For goodness sakes eret nearly married quackity but got somehow mistaken for a ghost. There needs to be something more than just the cool eyes. The only one not spooked by their eyes is foolish.
I’m gonna figure it out but if anyone got suggestions I’m open to hearing them.
Also thinking about that one eternal duo fic that has my entire heart.
thinking about how dsmp tntduo are not enemies to lovers at all, they’re actually lovers to resentful exes. i think the whole point of their dynamic was the ‘right person wrong time’ trope and that shit stings
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It's like that one rant I had with postal dude how there's just a variety, for Sam you get like 50/50 on how much is he human leaning or how much is he monster leaning
You got the ground middle where it's both, or he's full blown fluff, or just human with some ears or a hint of green OH AND THE CENTAUR FORM TOO !! quote un quote I think it's neat I also experiment with the way I draw Sam just for shits and giggles
Anyone else really intrigued by the theology aspects of the DreamSMP? Like... They have canonically existing deities; DreamXD, Mumza, Motherinnit, The Blood God™️, etc.
And they also have Church Prime, which indicates that there is a system of semi-organized worship within their theology.
But like... are there a multitude of pantheons? Monotheism vs Polytheism? What’s the mythology for how these deities came to be?
Is there overlap for the spheres of control for these deities? Like I’ve seen Mumza depicted as not only the goddess of death, but of the sky and the night as well. Same with Motherinnit being depicted as the goddess of life, but also the prime goddess, and the goddess of the ocean. Do the deities have specific epithets that indicate all their spheres of control?
Are Tommy and Wilbur technically demigods given their connection to their respective goddesses? What does that make Dream with his connection to XD? What about Technoblade being a minor deity of sorts?
I need to go to bed, holy shit. If I stay awake any longer I’m going to start making up answers to these questions.
c!techno is like nonono no revenge until you at least take a damn shower and has his hound army surrounding the perimeter to make sure they all collectively pile him into a cuddle when he tries to climb the fence
c!phil is like dragging him together to build their secret bases bc he says its therapeutic (and free labor)
