#2 things. c!Puffy's arc is specifically about how unfair the sterotype of 'being motherly' is. She was a teenager who made a bad descison

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My fic is more of a canon based but indulgent and revamped and with parts added to connect all the arcs into at least a couple coherent storylines. c!Puffy wasn't c!Dream's mother but was his biological aunt (even though she wasn't much older than him) Without spoiling the whole story, c!Puffy was basically forced into taking care of her nephew and neice and parentified. (A major plot point in the fic and somewhat of a vent too) while at the same time protecting them from increasingly unstable politics at home. Eventually she snapped and tried to sail away, not realizing Dream and his sister Clara (Yeah I repurposed the astronaut bit in this way) snuck aboard too. Then the ship hits a rough patch with bad weather, c!Dream and Clara get swept off of the boat and c!Puffy is badly injured, floating onto another island Where she was rescued by a totemn god. c!Dream and Clara both managed to survive for a while floating on a piece of driftwood, But c!Dream in his desperation to cling onto the raft made it harder for Clara to hold on, and she lost her grip as another violent storm caused c!Dream to crash onto the rocky shores of Logstedshire, half drowned, and rescued by c!Bad who happened to be walking near by. (In this fic Logstedshire was already an established place, It was just renamed to Logstedshire by Dream later) Puffy once she finally made it to the SMP had suffered amnesia caused by the concussions she sustained as well as genuine repressing of the traumatic memory. She assumed Dream was dead, and was guiltridden. She thought she saw something similar in the man who invited her to the SMP, but shook it off. For Dream, He- he started remembering parts of it. While at the same time an urge to go to a rocky, cold beach in a small grey town. So that naturally, to satisfy his curiosity, and maybe because he saw potential.. in c!Tommy (protege shit) The sullen cliffs of logstedshire was where he forced c!Tommy to go. And years later, when c!Tommy sleepwalked into that ocean, in the midst of the dark rushing water, swore he saw what looked like a ghostly girl trying to talk to him, and push him above the water. (I'm sorry I just got really excited sorry for infodumping about a not even released fic)

there are no good medical professionals on the dsmp in general it’s so weird how everyone writes them as competent. like even outside of the misogyny with c!puffy being reduced down to emotional support woman (and they’re not even letting her go to medical school) i've seen people treat c!Ponk like a wonder surgeon when he’s not a medical doctor at all. like the whole joke was that he doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing. no one on the dsmp is getting any medical care of any kind better than like basic field medicine or magic revival

And people always skip over those parts of the lore. Like especially with Puffy she had no training. Absolutely none. She also had amnesia and had recently gotten entangled in the egg arc that woman is not going to be a good therapist. The thing is I feel like a lot of c!Tommy fics with c!Puffy in that role basically use the characters name's and general designs and then dump them in a completely different setting and story with very little reference to dsmp lore outside of like Tommy himself. Because canonically, Puffy would absolutely not make a good therapist. She'd probably end up ranting to c!Tommy about her problems.