#damn maybe i can find some clips on YouTube that like... don't contain any

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why is everyone drawing that one man from Fallout

what's going on there i want to knowwww

[elmhat]

Hi! I really hope this is not that stupid to ask, but I've been reading your posts and I noticed I don't know a lot about cDream's more recent lore, but I'm not sure how to learn. The only povs I watched were Tommy's, Wilbur's and Techno's, so I don't even know how Dream's pov worked. All the streams I found about his lore aren't even his, like did he stream on his account at all? If so, where are the vods?? Or is his lore actually just what we see in other people's streams?

I know pretty much everything until the prison arc, from this arc and on I just know the general of what happened. If you have any advice on where or how I could learn more about his lore from this arc and on, I'd be very grateful. Oh, and you also talk about scrapped lore sometimes. What exactly is that?

Not stupid at all, you’ve come to the right place! Dream’s lore was pretty much entirely streamed from other people’s perspectives, which is what makes it so difficult to keep track of. The only “proper” lore he did himself was a short video on his DreamXD youtube channel (which, unhelpfully, has nothing to do with the DreamXD character) that briefly shows some of the stuff he was doing with Punz before the prison arc. I've linked it below.

This is actually amazing timing because I just recently made a bunch of youtube playlists compiling Dream’s lore! If you watched Tommy then I’m assuming you’ve already seen the disc war finale stream—I have a prison arc playlist that picks up straight after this point and should cover everything until Dream’s escape. After that, I have a post-prison playlist, but it gets a little tricky to compile because Dream would often only appear for brief and random moments in other people’s hours-long streams. I’ll try to link you the most important vods and timestamps below.

Also, the scrapped lore is something that Dream talked about in a twitter space after the Las Nevadas finale stream, which is most of the information we have about it. Essentially, it was a piece of lore that Dream, Sam and Quackity were going to record for Dream’s youtube channel, similar to the other DreamXD lore video, but the plans fell through, hence some people consider it semi-canon and others don’t. Here's the twitter space (40:20 to 46:50). I don’t know if you care about spoilers, but if you don’t want to see the summary, skip the next paragraph.

The premise would’ve been that sometime after the prison break, c!Dream is walking through the SMP when he notices that the flag outside c!Punz’s base has changed—a signal between him and c!Dream to investigate. c!Dream goes in and finds a note from c!Punz containing coordinates to c!Quackity, who c!Dream is currently seeking revenge on following the prison arc. But when c!Dream goes to the coordinates, he finds that it’s a trap, and that c!Quackity has built a prison cell in Las Nevadas that’s an exact replica of his cell in Pandora’s Vault, which stuns c!Dream enough for c!Quackity to throw potions at him and knock him out. c!Dream wakes up bound and itemless, and hears c!Quackity telling c!Sam that they should just kill c!Dream and be done with it, revival book be damned. c!Quackity leaves to find the pickaxe that c!Dream previously killed c!Sam with so that he can then kill c!Dream with it, and in this time, c!Dream starts trying to convince c!Sam to let him go so that c!Quackity doesn’t kill him (there's more detail on that in the clip). The camera would then cut to c!Quackity rounding the corner with the pickaxe, only to see c!Sam alone in the room, implying that c!Sam actually did let c!Dream go. c!Dream runs away from Las Nevadas in a panic, and he takes shelter in a cave, where he suddenly hears c!Wilbur say “Why are we hiding?” from behind him. And that’s it! That’s the scrapped lore!

So, if you’re looking for an order to watch stuff in:

DreamXD youtube video

Prison arc playlist (I’d say watch all of this, except for maybe Ponk’s visit and Sam hiring the guards — just search for the moments in vods that look like they’re set inside the prison lol)

Post-prison playlist (look below for which parts to watch)

What to watch from the post-prison playlist, in order (timestamps are when Dream is onscreen):

“Jailbreak” (Techno) - 55:45 to 1:20:20

“Punz’s lore stream” (Punz) - 1:12:15 to the end

“Dream escapes prison” (Tommy) - 5:50 to 14:20

“Late thanksgiving stream” (Sapnap) - 1:34:55 to 1:44:30

“Awesamdude lore vod” (Sam) - Watch all 4 of these Sam streams that are grouped together, in full (This is (most of) the daedalus arc!)

“Dream twitter space” (Dream) - 40:20 to 46:50 (This is the scrapped lore!)

“Inconsolable differences” (Wilbur) - 42:30 to the end

“Foolish vod” (Foolish) - 5:18:25 to 6:07:35

“The end of Las Nevadas” (Quackity) - You might as well watch the whole stream, great stream :)

“Dream shares unreleased lore script” (Dream) - If you ever hear people talking about the “snake speech,” this is it!

And then watch all the Tommy vods at the end!

Sorry, I feel like I’ve just given you homework kjshdgfkhjsd, I get a little carried away sometimes. But that should be a good starting point! You absolutely do not have to watch all of that, I just wanted to be thorough. I just think that nothing beats the original vods in terms of getting an unbiased viewpoint. I can always give timestamps for the prison arc playlist as well, if it’s confusing.

I hope that wasn’t too overwhelming… Let me know if you need anything else!