#ask the dream mate. i'm just its vessel.

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YOOO HOLY SHIT @maybe0rdinary !!!

Didnt include the other set of tags bc im not sure if you want those displayed in a reblog, but holy crap!! Fr!!!

cWilbur built himself up as the only person in the right and with the right to enact anything, believed in something greater than himself but tied his idea of this higher power to his own person,,, and then destroyed himself trying to make the false reality work once it became clear to him it wasn't true. God, the superiority built of feeling so small you must be just a vessel being Pogbur's downfall... it really makes a lot of little aspects of his character click in a new way, perspective. The grandiosity of how he spoke, as if Pogtopia and L'manberg were only cogs in a machine. The disregard for life in general that he gradually became more and more complacent about, as he falls into despair himself when things get worse, he clutches harder at religion, at god, starts to believe even spitefully that whatever happens shall happen, and if someone (he) dies, it was meant to be. Giving it all up to that higher power (his own depressed self 😔), and god forbid somebody asks him to explain himself. If he even tried to explain his growing apathy and strange humble self-destructiveness (Dream, i am your vassal), how would he even put it into words? He's grown into this skin already, its his reality. Wilbur is everything and wilbur is nothing, in his mind, it only extrapolates from there to the people he called to this place, to the happenings of war he incited.

/gen this is fascinating character analysis and its really neat how you tied some of your own experiences into this interpretation of cWil :0! I'm glad ur doing better though, mate. Delusions are rough.

Begging God to fix you!

(And other tales about religious trauma)

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I saw this in a dream after finishing Caligula Overdose, so...

That’s it. That’s the post. I saw this in my dream, made it in real life, and now I am at peace. Maybe I'll make one for Ritsu too… or even Lucid… maybe fem!MC once I kick off her playthrough…

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Obligatory disclaimer: I love Stede, I love Izzy, I don't think everything Izzy did is justified, et cetera.

Oh good g-d there's so much to unpack here.

Stede's father's contempt for his son wasn't because he's rich. It's because he's "weak". ("This is a man's work"). When he says Stede doesn't inherit because he deserves it but because he was born into it, the issue here is that Stede is the only son, and he wishes he had a worthier one. Like look at a man who disdainfully snaps "The poor marry for love. Mary has acreage" at the son he's forcing into an arranged marriage, and tell me that he hates being rich or some such. The issue with "lily-livered little rich boy" is everything in that sentence EXCEPT the word "rich". He's telling Stede that if he weren't lucky enough to inherit, the world would eat him alive because he's pathetic.

The Badmintons and co didn't have an issue with him being rich. It was a fucking boarding school for rich kids. They're all rich. Stede is an easy target, and he doesn't perform masculinity "correctly". Later on the problem is once again not with his money but with the fact that, despite having said money, he can't properly navigate high society ("in all its grotesque glory").

Stede doesn't hate being rich. He hates high society expectations. But the money?? He barely has a concept of the fact that he has it at his disposal and what that means. He "sold an acre or two" and built himself his dream boat with secret passages and expensive furniture and "the finest cherry wood from Brazil" for the mast. He packed TWO closets full of the finest clothes imaginable, and his china sets, and his cutlery, and his fine marmalade (which was expensive as SHIT in 1717) and his fine brandy and his crystal carved tumblers. Like most people born with that level of wealth, spending is barely a concept for him. Which is why I think he asked Roach to do the 40-orange glaze cake: it didn't occur to him that in the middle of the ocean, you can't just send the cook or a servant to get more oranges when you run out. Oops.

Look at the French captain. Who does he think to insult? Stede's the one bitching about "saucier spoons" and "supposedly first-class vessel", but the one that gets insulted is Ed. Look at their clothes in that scene. He thinks Ed is Nouveau Riche at best and lookie there. Not just the money; it's the societal class. (And the race, lbr).

Stede has trauma from being too feminine and what that resulted in. Does Izzy know this? ABSOLUTELY NOT, Stede didn't tell Ed, didn't tell anyone, except maybe the tribal elder, Izzy's supposed to know? Izzy knows that this is a rich idiot playing pirates financed by his inherited money who was a bitch to him in public TWICE (first meeting and then at Jackie's) without ANY provocation on Izzy's part. Zero. Zilch.

Are there femmephobic insults there? Sorta....??? I already made and reblogged posts about the whole "ponce", "namby-pamby" and even "proper little seductress". When he picks on Lucius's femininity, it's because he perceives it as weakness. Historically, it was. They're pirates! Even for men who aren't femininity is weakness! He thinks he found a weak spot to exploit because Lucius wasn't just lazy like the rest of them, he's downright insubordinate while speaking to Izzy, so he goes into attack mode. And Lucius tips his hand, nope no. Actually, I'm the one with power here. That's not a way you can get at me. And Izzy doesn't so much as speak to Lucius again until Ed wants him in the pillow fort.

Izzy is First Mate. That means he climbed from the ground up. That means he worked himself to death (and you can't convince me he didn't go overboard, looking at him now) to climb the pecking order, to get where he is. Every goddamn thing Israel has, he's worked for and strived for and fought for. Stede didn't, and he swanned in and, in Izzy's eyes, either stole or ruined his entire life's work. And I don't just mean Ed. Who respects Izzy anymore? Not even his own crew. Who takes orders, who does the chores that need done so the ship doesn't sink, or get stuck in a shoal, or crash, or catch fire, or lose a mast in a squall, or so nobody gets killed because of bad rigging, or so they know how stocked they are for food, freshwater, ammunition, gunpowder? Nobody. A First Mate has to see the deckhands get these things done. Even without taking a raid into account, the ship is perfectly capable of killing you if you don't do this stuff. But if he tries to give the orders he's supposed to, he's a bitch. And no, his approach to making people work isn't the best, I KNOOOOW. But also, he's been at the end of his rope for a while now and he ALSO now has to contend with this mess and the fact that that respect he's fought for his whole life is gone.

And I will say it again: Stede was an absolute bitch to Izzy twice for no goddamn reason, and the second time he even used a class-based insult to be a bitch: he called Izzy a "flunkey". Which is an extremely low-ranking servant, and usually one that grovels for its master. There's another post of mine with the full explanation.

So yeah, Izzy's hatred of Stede has absolutely a lot more to do with his being rich and pretentious than his being feminine. "What show did you watch" what show did you watch that you expect Izzy to know Stede hated high society when Ed doesn't?? What show did you watch where Stede resents his wealth, and not the people that came with it? What show did you watch where Stede communicates about his trauma Literally Ever? G-d above!

pack it in everyone we’ve now had every single possible reading of this show imaginable ending on Stede is driven by his trauma stemming from bigotry against rich people