#the egg plot

> bad couldn’t fit in dream’s prison cell. he had to sit and keep his head down.

> he can’t go in,,, most buildings, actually. if he needs to talk to someone in a building he just sits near the window and talks thru it

> he doesn’t count his horns to his actual tall-ness (because it scares people even more than he already does) so he actually looks a lot taller.

> the only spaces he can stand to his full height comfortably is outside (duh) and the egg room

> speaking of which, he’s bigger than the egg. not by much, but it’s still absolutely terrifying to see this 9 foot tall demon standing defensively over a bleeding egg.

> before he got all possessed and shit, he’d give people rides

> (not really about the height but) he’s got digitigrade legs and occasionally walks on all fours because i said so

> him and skeppy met because skeppy’s 2’2 ass tried to climb him, failed and fell, bad caught him and had to deal with a mildly terrified diamond boy, and they bonded and it was adorable

The Egg preys on a person’s greatest desires, correct? What does Phil currently want? No governments. And why is that?

He had to murder his own son because of a corrupted government. (at least in his eyes)

Now while Phil has a strong passion for toppling down any government he feels is corrupt, that passion comes from the death of his son. That’s where he’s most vulnerable. While he seems to have kept that grief under control, it might be possible to make it flare up. Some big event maybe or possibly a moment of weakness Philza wasn’t expecting.

The only thing I can think of that would cause such a reaction is Wilbur getting resurrected. It is implied by Tommy that Wilbur is just bad if not worse as when Phil killed him. Now imagine a father seeing his son again just as broken and corrupted as when he killed him. All that grief rushing back at seeing the former shell of his son. Would he have to kill him again? Could he kill him again? Is it possible to get back the son he once knew?

And that’s when the Egg speaks to him. It could promise him a way to get his son back. Make his son happy. Make him happy. And maybe with a small push from Bad and Ant, he finally succumbs to the Egg.

i feel like i need to preference this by saying that i am not a dream apologist. not in any way shape or form. his actions are simply unforgivable in my eyes. however, this theory may allow some lenience for. please, as always, feel free to reply and reblog with your own thoughts, start a convo!  i need y’all to notice something. the people who are with the egg, coincidently are fans of dream. bbh and antfrost, canonically were are relatively good terms with dream. they were never hardcore against him, on his side for a good majority of the plot. punz worked for him with a baseline of trust, even though he did go against dream i refer you to punz being a spy. captain puffy was on dreams side, when she was under the influence. after she wasn’t though, she also didn’t like dream much. the people against the egg? sam and captain puffy clearly do not like dream. tubbo, doesn’t like dream. techno isn’t really a fan of it but he wasn’t against him until recently. sapnap isn’t terribly evolved with the egg plot but he was against it. karl and quackity, weren’t really for it.  it’s just interesting that all of the people who were more on dreams side are more with the egg. and vice versa. the people neutral or that it has almost no effect on, tommy and ranboo, both have their own vendettas against dream and their own things.  what if dream knew about the egg? what if in some sick twisted way, dream was somewhat protecting people from the egg while also pushing his own agenda? creating the big happy family, the people he cared about and deemed nessscarriy. sponsoring a big bad, and hiding himself away in prison to seem safe. 

i have a theory

probably not a good one

but still a theory