#star's analysis

The power of this film is so beautiful and I actually felt what you're supposed to feel when watching a superhero movie.

“However, he [c!wilbur] feels he is not without sin.”

I just, okay, LISTEN, throughout that whole stream I kept giggling at their jokes and how they behaved but I was also going in my head “this is so weird.” They kept breaking the fourth wall, making references to outside of “serious dsmp lore TM” and it was such a contrast to Wilbur’s normal lore streams I was lost.

But THEN I thought about s1 clips and vods and videos I’ve watched and how they always danced back and forth on the line of serious and funny in such a beautifully mastered way and I just- THAT ENDING SECURES IT.

This entire stream held the exact energy I’ve seen from anything that happened in s1 and I just feel so fucking blessed? Since I got into this fandom I’ve always been so crushed I never got to experience the making of L’Manberg or Pogtopia or anything around that time live and this?

I’ve been given one of the greatest gifts I could’ve ever asked for. I finally got to experience what I always wanted. It was sad, it was perfect, it was stupid, it was FUCKING UTAH, but it perfectly encapsulates everything Wilbur and Tommy brought to this server. It brought us right back to the beginning and I’m so thankful to them both for giving me that.

He wants to show c!Ranboo he cares for and appreciates him. c!Ranboo is one of the only people to treat c!Wilbur like a person since he’s been revived in his eyes, not to mention the one guy in his corner who believes he can be better.

So he calls him “Ranbus” and “the best damn chef around” and cheers him on when he manages to speak his mind and puts effort into drawing him because he deserves a little effort, especially compared to himself and c!Quackity. c!Wilbur seriously cares for his friendship with c!Ranboo, even if he doesn’t show it in the best ways.

And don’t even get me started on c!Ranboo. The way he’s so unsure but knows that c!Wilbur is a good person deep down. How he goes along with c!Wilbur’s plans, whether that be stealing a horse, blowing up a restaurant or just spray painting dicks on a wall even if he isn’t sure it’s right. 

He does it anyway because he believes in c!Wilbur and fuck me is that amazing. Friendship should never be self-sacrificial but the fact that c!Ranboo recognizes c!Wilbur’s flaws, knows he’s got things to work through, and is willing to stand by him throughout it even if it’s messy is just something incredible. Something c!Wilbur desperately needs and something he desperately needed before he died. And finally through this anxious enderman teenager he’s got it.

Literally almost a year ago I wrote a post predicting that c!Wilbur would have a breakdown of some kind that would kick off a healing/redemption arc and it would be c!Ranboo’s fault. I never thought it would be like this.

That ending was heartbreaking in seeing how desperate c!Wilbur was to save c!Ranboo. Parallels to his own death aside, the way he begged him, insisted that he needed to stay around, that c!Wilbur needed him. It’s just soul shattering when you really think about how they weren’t boss and employee, manipulator and manipulated or even estranged acquaintances.

The literal ENTIRE POINT of that episode was giving us background on Marc, what he’s been through and why he desperately needs Steven. Steven is his comfort and care and humility and love and he needs that in his life, needs that reminder that he has it.

Marc was freaking out several times (understandably, having to reface so much trauma from his life) and every time Steven was there to calm him down. Even when Steven’s entire world was flipped on it’s head, his existence proven to be a lie, he still pushed it all aside to be there for Marc.

He sacrificed himself. For. Marc.

So I fucking refuse to believe after all that build, after watching these two lose it on each other, resent one another, and grow together to the point where they embrace the moment they find one another, Steven is suddenly left in the dust.

the mouse who runs from the clock - a c!discduo poem