#and c!dream's logic is VERY EXPLICITLY the latter

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one of my most random but lowkey biggest pet peeves I think about c!Dream and the prison is the assertion that c!Dream...didn't expect it to be bad. like yeah he didn't expect it to break his whole psyche sure, this guy also very likely tortured himself to Figure Out How To Fix Death And Also The End Of The World before he even put himself in solitary. he knows what solitary confinement is! he didn't start throwing himself in lava Just Because he "didn't know" how bad it'd be to put himself in a small enclosed room with almost no amenities and was so negatively affected by solitary alone that he was burning himself in molten rock within 24 hours. he wasn't just "betrayed by Sam" in the sense that he thought that the prison would be a cushy easy stay in a safe location until Sam started hating him out of nowhere when c!Dream literally purposely made the guy hate him and then proceeded to aggravate the point even more by talking about exile and c!Tommy specifically. like. was the prison worse than c!Dream expected? oh, 100%. but was the prison also designed to hurt? well.