#ender rants

Okay so basically Wilburs arc started as a scrappy general trying to drag his army out of hell to get freedom, he was never the best general, never the best leader, he actually left most of the heavy lifting to Tommy but that wasn't bad, he was never a bad person, he had an ideal he fought for and he would die to get it.

In comparison L'manberg stood as a scrappy blown up ideal of a country, barely anything, but it was good, it was a home, it was enough.

L'manberg began to fall as Wilbur got paranoid, as Wilbur excluded Quackity from L'manberg due to him not being European, as he tried to rig the election to cement his power, L'manberg was a happy home for those within mostly, but as Wilbur put his need for power over the countries two main ideals of freedom from tyranny and protection from the dream SMP for any who would need it, it began to decay.

Similarly Wilbur was still strong and true he had strong ideals strong beliefs but his fears that he could never make L'manberg perfect lead to a horribly perfect oroboros of pain.

Which is why it's such a perfect lead in to his mental breakdown following the break down of L'manberg, as Manberg began to shatter so did Wilburs belief that he could ever make the country he aspired for, he became the way he did because he had fed into all his fears and reaped the rewards. His oroboros took it's expected course, he caused his own narrative downfall by taking L'manberg with him.

The destruction of L'manberg was in fact the death of L'manberg, not doomsday, when Wilbur pressed that button and demanded Phil kill him he wasn't simply killing himself he killed L'manberg, the true heart of L'manberg, with it.

Instead of the true L'manberg, New L'manberg was in fact a ghost of the happy ideals of L'manberg, a pale imitation, trying to erase mistakes of the past just to do them again.

Unfortunately because Wilbur is dead there is absolutely nothing this could parallel for him- /s

Ghostbur and New L'manberg were very similar in showing how erasing the bad parts of history never ended well, Ghostburs constant attempts to hold L'manberg to the standards of the anthem, standards it had failed once before lead to his break down in doomsday, he tried desperately to ignore the bad parts of new L'manberg, and himself, in order to make everything good.

The Tubbo administration similarly followed the exact trajectory of past mistakes, different causes certainly but Tubbo, and more importantly Quackity, ignored the warnings of the past, believing their administration could continue and that them repeating the same things as old L'manberg would be okay because it was them.

Ghostbur and New L'manberg were the same, and fell the same.

Now you're probably thinking "well L'manberg is completely gone and Wilburs arc isn't over yet so?????" WRONG

L'manberg was never a country! I lied in the beginning! Wilburs arc started right before L'manberg by bringing friends together to make drugs, Wilburs real super power was the power to bring people together and he used this power to create L'manberg, Lmanberg was never a country it was people, which is how Pogtopia was considerably more L'manberg than Manberg.

Yep, everything in this essay is a metaphor, Wilbur is a metaphor for L'manberg, L'manberg is a metaphor for Friendship, I might get into Wilbur being a metaphor some other time but it's not relevant here.

(I'm not gonna go into detail with this but a major failure in Wilburs character was that he couldn't recognise this fact, I actually lied in the Manberg part and in fact as L'manberg grew stronger in Pogtopia Wilbur became worse because he thought L'manberg was a country, he mirrored Manberg instead of L'manberg)

This is how L'manbergs story isn't over.

Did y'all notice, after his revival (which perfectly cooencided with Snowchester by the way) Ghostbur hasn't returned, who has however was Alivebur's ghost, different characters obviously, because this story is way too confusing.

When everyone on the server came together, the ghost of Alivebur appeared, he didn't quite understand why, but that L'manberg heart, fighting against Dream, brought him back for a little bit.

Snowchester is the sequel to L'manberg with new lessons learnt, Tubbo isn't starting a government knowing that they always fail (and also because he's really not fond of the idea of being killed by Techno again), he is trying to grow stronger so he can't be pushed around anymore, he's making a home that everyone will be safe in with the lessons learnt from L'manberg.

It's not truly L'manberg yet, but if everyone else can become friends enough it certainly can begin to be that way.

This revival of L'manberg is also timing well with the future revival of Alivebur, everyone wants Wilbur back, and they will make a home for him, when Wilbur is revived he will be the same cynical pessimistic Wilbur who destroyed L'manberg, but he could grow to change.

If Wilbur can do what Eret hopes he will, and bring everyone together once more, then, and only then, can L'manberg, and the people who make L'manberg what it is, have a happy ending.