#but ig that was the sacrifice to set them free or whatever bUt IM NOT GOING INTO DETAIL FOR SANITY REASONS

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Things im looking forward to in the hypmic 2024 albums: (BP spoilers)

EDIT updated

Nayuta Yamada waking up and FINDING OUT about all the drama. Her husband managed to find out a way to wake her up, worked with a new government that staged a coup, his kids disowned him and believed she was dead, and he made 30+ clones that were used for sacrifices on the hypnosis mic prototype. What happens when she wakes up and sees his cast from his broken arm that their son did 😭 i also hope shes actually an interesting character and not just that 'perfect dead wife' trope thingy. Ik i saw a great Nayuta headcanon that i REALLY want to be canon. I also hope we get a Nayuta design drop. Personally, I dont think she'll overly look like Ramuda bc Rei knew what the Ramuda clones were used for, so I doubt hed want to see her likeliness keep dying.

Oh my god the Yamada family drama HAS to go crazy. Like the whole hypmic plot was made bc one guy tried to get revenge on the world or whatever and wake up his comatose wife

I need to see what happens with this info publically. If Nayuta goes public, where does she live? On her own after she divorces Rei (JOKING but pls thatd be so funnyyyyy)? With rei in osaka? With BB? Godddd imagine saburo who didnt have the chance to really remember her and ohhhhhhh my ogddddd

God pls i want nayuta to pick up rapping since she was THE co-creator if not lead in creating the hypnosis mic AND have a cool mic design

ABOUT THE PUBLIC STUFF U NEED TO SEE DH'S REAVTION TO IT IF ITS NOT A SECRET. "You're telling us BB are your kids?! Wait wait you had a wife all this time?! What the fu-"

Mad trigger crew? Idk 🧍‍♂️ we might see more of rios commander, oh yeah id like to see what happens with samatoki and nemu in fighting for their ideals. There is the possibility that Nemu could become acting president or smth so ig if that happens? We see samatokis reaction? Honestly im just 💀💀 worried at samatokis words to ichiro from BP like "alright, if i participate and help in the festival then you have to listen to an order from me the next time that you cant refuse" like that sounds like bad foreshadowing even if prob nothing will happen to him 😭

oh yeah whatever happens to Ramuda AND THE OTHER CLONES OH GOD THE CLONES. do they privately help out at chuohku??? Live pubkic??? I remember chatting in the discord gc like "what if rei sets them up as a scam like u rent a ramuda and they live in ur home rent free for a while before going back". WHAT DOXYOU DO WITH 30 RAMUDAS. Im thinking they probably help chuohku as guard or w/e strictly in rhe building bc itd be chaos if ramuda clones got loose

GENTARO BBRORORORIRIRIROR GENTA BROOOOOOOO GENTBAROOOOO FUCK MAN THATS LIKE WHAT IM LOOKING FORWARD TO THE MOST FUCK. OKAY. THIS IS A BIG ONE. A DOOZY.

1) so gentsro took on his brothers identity THIS MESN THAT HE TOOK HIS NAME AS WELL, RIGHT??? WHAT IS GENTARO'S PREVIOUS NAME. IMAGINE IF HIS BROTHER WAKES UP AND THEN THE FIRST THING HE SAYS AS HE SEES GENTARO IS A NAME WE HAVENT HESRD BEFORE AND WE ALL GO "OH FUCK THATS GENTARO"

2) does gentaro still go public with chuohkus info as revenge??? Maybe not since hed just be focused on his brother waking up and all

i will be calling gentaros brother gentabro to ensure no confusion

DO THE YUMENOS GO PUBLIC WITH THE INFO??? gentaro is a celebrity rn with massive success so what happens? Do they still keep the switch private as gentabro does whatever and gentaro keeps living as his brother? Do they publically announce it? Just swap and gentaro changes his appearance a little so gentabro is still the author? Do they both work on publushing under the same name? I need to knoooow

FLINP POSSE MEETS THE YUMENOS. PLEASE bc of gentaros yume no kanata song MAYBE gentaro was still at least a little cynical and not so trusting before so IM GAINE IF HIS BRITHER IS LIKE PROUD OF HIM FOR MAKING FRUENDS. fling posse meeting them will be chaotic like "YOU HAD A BROTJET??????"

oh yeah whatever happens with dice and his mum. Im p sure thatll still be kept a secret but itd be so funny if it got revealled to FP

Ooohhhh id love to see jakurai reunited with his horrror movie protagonist son (WHY did he ring jakurai AND PROCEED T9 TELL HIM EVERYTHING WITHOUT HEARING HIS VOICE). maybe jaku gets emotional amd all then introduces him to Matenro 😭😭

Whatever the FUCK is honobono's deal and if things get resolved AKA she goes to jail for 1000000 years and whatwver needs to happen for hifumi to resolve stuff a little and put some closure on it

Homobono mic and spesker reveal PLEASE. oh god the honobono typos go crazy i once spelled HONKbono as well as bonobono just minutes ago.

PLEASE KR SHAKES BARS LIKE A MONKEY WITH RABIES I NEED HER MIC AND SPEAKER REVEAL STAT. girl doesnt even need a rap ability bc she only needs raw power to win

um ill update this list in the afternoon tomorrow bc i need to fucking studddyyyy exams start next week wish me luck! I will write a fuckton more of stuff i needd to see dw.

Addition still studying for exams hoping to crush it! Anyways:

i think everything jakurai and hitoya has been resolved already so not much need for that. BUT. IMAGINE IF JAKURAI AND REI MEET AS THE DILF DUO. I had a meme for this lol

DH? I dunno if anything needs resolving for DH aside from DH's reaction to rei and his family.

We need a Honobono and Shakku Harai showdown 😭😭 maybe its just bc shakku knows his son so well that his rap/sermon was effective but CURRENTLY THESE 2 ARE UNCONTESTED. pls shakku defeat the final boss

ummm ig thats all im mostly just looking forward to the gentabro stuff and everything related to the Yamada family. Like the hypmic plot would NOT be this convoluted or exist if it werent for Yamada dysfunctional nuclear family drama lmaoooo

OH YWAH HONOBONO MIC AND SPEAKER DESIGN AND NAYUTA DESIGN TOO PLS

Pls let nayuta be intwresting and not a perfect dead wife trope plz 🙏🙏

PS I FORGOT YEAHXI WANNA SEE WHOS THE PRIME MINIZTER NOW LOL. Is it otome stepping back up? Nemu despite being 19? Ichiro brime binister real? Im so curious.

[forgottengodfrey]

this is sooooooo so so sososos long and im soooo sorry alkjdfkjsdf welcome to my insanity

ok so i wanted to start by mentioning smth that i said to kate, but forgot to mention above alkjsdfkljsfd and that is that godfrey is looking for allies for edmund's cause everywhere, and one place i think he's def looking to get them is from his (unwitting) religious allies (sort of allies -- he wants to bring about the apocalypse, they wanna stop it, but...same belief system lakjsdflkjsdfj)!

i feel like godfrey's lowkey looking to cultivate the staffords -- and thereby the rest of the astairans -- as allies for team edmund so when the war breaks out, edmund's got the largest country in the world on his side. i think he hopes that he can even arrange for a public marriage (to take place after the death of roderick [ngl, im realizing godfrey is planning to potentially assassinate roderick asp so that he conveniently dies at the ~exact perfect time for edmund's team to be ready to sweep alkjdsfklsdjf but obv that's smth he aint telling nOBoDY], if not before, to one of the staffords but i honestly don't think he's super picky about which one hahaha -- the one that seems to have the most ~public loyalty~ on her side would be ideal ig hahaha

godfrey ~also wants the rebels on edmund's side, but tragically smth as seemingly simple as a marriage alliance, alone, will not achieve that, so i think he's looking to set edmund up to do like...relief and charity missions in astaira and, if he knew that edmund was into rose, he'd be like THANK THE GODS and make lots out of that hahaha but idk if he ~does know abt that?

WARNING: what follows is insane ljkdsafkd;fasdfj ;DDD (yes i did come back in and add this later but dslkjflksjf you've been warned ;D)

anyway, he'd def want their relationship to be ~accidentally discovered so he can effectively make edmund a folk hero for ~said w the utmost drama~ daring to love alkjfkjsf

so, this would 100% backfire for edmund, emotionally, but potentially work in his favor politically bc roderick would react v poorly, indeed, and it would ruin the malconaires, but that actually suits godfrey bc it plays up edmund being on the oppressed astairan side, and roderick and everyone else in his court being the oppressors and godfrey is @ the malcoanires like 'some of you may die but that is a a sacrifice i am willing to make' jk jK honestly he would feel terrible abt it esp bc edmund cares abt them and he truly doesn't wanna hurt edmund BUT godfrey would still be whispering in roderick's ear that he has to give the malconaires the most extreme punishment possible for daring sm, so that roderick can blacken his own name in the eyes of the astairans alkjdsfkljdsf that being said roderick wouldn't kill them for smth like that (but he absolutely ~would kill brigit for being a witch if that came out in all of this)

so yeah, godfrey would encourage them and basically then secretly arrange for them to be discovered (he'd esp love it if a secret betrothal/wedding was interrupted or smth dramatic like that! esp bc itd also up roderick's fury ratio big timE) to destroy them, and use this to craft a narrative where edmund's fight is for love of astaira (as symbolized by rose) which alkjsfljsf this would ofc conflict slightly w his plan to marry edmund to a stafford, so rose might have to tragically kick the bucket while imprisoned (and then he can also spin a 'did edmund's jealous and cruel varmont siblings have her killed to avenge themselves or whatever on their hated astairan-loving brother?' narrative -- he might even insinuate in this case that she was pregnant w edmund's heir or smth as a further reason as well as a further fratricidal reputation -- to blacken ~their names alksdjfkljsdf)

anyway, then -- after a suitable mourning period -- that would conveniently leave edmund free to marry a stafford so he can come back and free astaira from the shackles of his siblings after roderick's demise alsdjfklsdf

BUT ANYWAY!!!! this might be a moot tangent bc idk that godfrey even knows abt rose but this is what he'd do if he ~did ljasd;fjksdjkfdsf #bestuncleaward godfrey, abt to make edmund feel guilty af and inflict even ~more trauma: 'its all for your own good, edmund!' no, but like i said, he'd legit feel awful abt hurting edmund, but he'd consider it worth it bc its ~all for the greater good~ creating a better world for those that follow them etc etc etc in his mind

ANYWAY!!! i got carried away bc!! this is a plan that i didn't know godfrey had (he keeps doing this to me alksdjflksjdfkl buddy, you wanna tell me stuff???? he's like 'isn't it more fun if you discover it along the way?' alkdjfjlksdf) but he was like 'btw if you wanna get astairan loyalty, i have a diabolical scheme that just might make that happen' apparently alkjdsfkjldsf #thanksgodfrey

ok now back to our regularly scheduled reply lakjsdfkljsjkf

honestly (despite what i just said above abt how godfrey is literally planning to traumatize edmund aldksjfklsdf) yesssss!!! i agree that godfrey is deffffa more consistent father figure to him!!!! and honestly??? i think he loves him in a away that roderick frankly ~can't bc roderick is sort of emotionally cut off from his own heart by all his demons. like? does roderick love edmund? absolutely! can he ever express it in a healthy way? probably not! his version of love is kicking a dog to see if it comes back to him; godfrey's version is ride or die loyalty -- to the point that, like, 'i will burn us both down to get you what you want and save the world for you' lakjsdfjklsdf but anyway alksdjfjsdlf not sure that godfrey's love is that much more ~healthy, but it is defff way more emotinally available alkjdsflkjsdfjkdf and, yeah, even when he was away, he was writing to edmund consistently and, yknow, maintain a relationship etc not just occasionally dismissing a harsh-worded reproof bc his spies told him that edmund did smth he didn't like lakjsdfalkjsdfsd

godfrey would be delighted to help him! in fact, he might have even been the one to approach edmund himself bc he feels its literally life or death for him -- even if edmund miraculously never wound up on the battlefield, himself, there will always be assassins etc out to get him and his last line of defense is never a bodyguard -- it is always himself. i do see godfrey as a v patient and supportive teacher, too, and he probs honestly encourages him to hide his skill -- better to have his enemies think him weak and be surprised by his strength kinda deal, yknow?

godfrey def wouldn't pit his kids against e/o! he'd find other ways to ruin his kids' lives ;D no, but tbh i do think godfrey is one of those ppl who's good at assessing others' skills and abilities and he'd help anyone he loves play to their strengths, yknow? he honestly believes that ruling is -- conveniently enough -- a strength that edmund has, though he does see edmund as more of a visionary and strategist, which is why he needs a ruthless ~hand like godfrey to help carry out that vision and strategy asldjfsdkljf (even in ways edmund wouldn't necessarily actually ~want tbqh)

honestly godfrey already ~is proud of edmund! he has a good heart, he's clever and capable, he'd not easily knocked down and when he ~is down he still gets back up -- like, if godfrey could've picked a kid to call his own, it honestly would've been someone like edmund, and he couldn't love him anymore if he ~had been his own child!! he does see edmund as someone worthy to literally wield the power of the gods (which is literally smth he's tryna get for him kajlsdfkljdsf and ~roderick thought ~he had big ambitions for his kids klajsdlkfjaskldjf) but yeah he's team edmund all the way guinevere simply won't do as far as godfrey's concerned! he aint trusting anyone who aint got edmund's heart and head and witch-blood with divinity lkajsfkljsf

i don't think edmund ~does know the lengths godfrey is willing to go to, and i think that he frankly hopes that edmund somehow ~never finds out bc he knows it'd probs break a lot of what they have. ho wever, he sees that as a sacriice he is willing to make for the good of all mankind and he def has the pov that, despite all the pain itll inflict on edmund, it is ~for edmund's own good which alkdsjfljdsf but anyway aklsjdfkljsdf

godfrey sort of sees himself -- his life his hopes his longings -- as a martyr, a sacrifice he's willing to offer up to the old gods: he'd give it all up, make everyone hate him, become a monster, destroy countless innocents, to pave the way for a clearner, better world, and he is perfectly willing to -- and in fact 100% expects -- to burn with that old world. the only piece of himself he seeks to protect from that fate ~is edmund, a boy he helped to raise, yknow? but as a result, in the name of saving edmund, he's willing to be reviled and detested by him and anticipates that if edmund ever learns much of what godfrey's done/will do (which godfrey knows is likely esp once edmund's emperor) that he'll hate him forever...so yeah he's at once selfless and self-obsessed, in this way, yknow, seeing himself as the one whose strong enough to do the wretched things in order to usher in a new golden age, but also the one who has to give everything to do it???? he's so weird idek alkjsflkjsdf obv another patented super healthy kate aa character idk what to tell you hahaha

ok so yeah obv idk if its true, but i def think godfrey is a devotee of the belief that you can do that, and he means to use those powers himself to do whatever he must and then hand them over to edmund as he dies w the old world...he's got a lil bit of a thanos belief system ig??? where he 's like 'yeah ill destroy all of this to save the rest of it?' he ~def has more of a moral strain to it seeing most of the world as bad and only the ~good deserving of survival but he sees himself as a good man who plunged himself into the evil to save the rest of the good and thus must die w the bad so like...weirdness but anyway!! he LITERALLY plans to make edmund god-emperor of the known world alsdkjfklsdjfksdf after he's finished w the purging apocalypse -- but yeah i dont think edmund knows ~that either precisely

ok so here's what i think edmund knows alksjfkljsdf (or at least what godfrey intends for him ti know obv he might've picked up on other things etc whatever you think but this is what godfrey's intentionally raised him with) here's the sort of ~general worldview godfrey presents:

much of the world is in desperate need (i believe godfrey and amira may have grown up this way, themselves, tho their younger brother may have had better circumstances by the time he was old enough to remember idk, he just seems different from them lakjsdfkjldsf but he also had two big siblings to rely on so manybe that's it? idk this can be sorted when those rpers appear but this is my hc until that time ;D) and edmund as emperor will be in a position to help them, and thus must prepare to do so when he is ready

the needy are in these straits bc much of the world is bad and thus the bad must be guarded against and punished for their wickedness (tho this is probs a slightly more nebulous lesson bc godfrey doesn't feel he can talk abt it too much), and a wise man must always be on his guard against treachery as a result bc bad men often wear the masks of good ones to get their way

bc of these things, a good man w power must be willing to do hard things to protect those who need it from those who would harm them, even when -- and maybe esp if -- it hurts

w this philosophy in mind, here're general strategies he's sought to instill:

be watchful, be careful, be clever, and take full advantage of enemies' weaknesses (esp bc they'll be doing the same in return), their foolishness represents opportunities for your cleverness and never let an unexpected opportunity to pass you by

use charity to the masses to 1) be your best self and genuinely help but 2) also to cultivate a superior image esp while arthur is def 100% distracted by tryna appear tough -- it is better to rule from a place of loaylty than from one of fear like roderick

strengthen and advance the schemes and desires of allies to help strengthen your own. they'll be better able to help you from a position of power -- and more motivated, too, but be careful of treacherous men. if you help one of them in this way, be ready for a reprisal, too

always be prepared for your schemes to fold back against you. always have a backup plan and an escape plan. never fully trust anyone outside of you and me, no matter how much you love them. love is the greatest blindspot of all (roderick is out there reinforcing this one too) but don't let that stop you from loving, anyway, bc love can be a source of profound strength as well (roderick is NOT reinforcing this one ;D) and true loyalty -- though rare -- is stronger than pain or fear

if you seek power, always be prepared to make the hard decisions. you can only feel regret if you're still alive

regret is a powerful teacher and thus ought to be embraced so make mistakes often and well (this is a weird one that flips forward and back on itself and is also somewhat nebulous bc he can't talk a lot abt it lasdkjflkjdsf -- and also bc its yet another reflection of how messed up godfrey is)

let you enemies talk. inevitably if they open their mouths enough something foolish will come out. when it does, pounce.

be flexible and open to change. you never know what's coming and you're never the only clever man making schemes. embrace this. overcoming makes you stronger and cleverer. a nd it can be fun, too.

always ask questions. always be curious. learn and learn and learn anything and everything you can. you never know what knowledge will best serve you, from the humblest thing to the noblest. know all that you can.

know your enemies strengths and their weaknesses. know how to play into the latter and counter the former. remember their weaknesses are your allies as much as their strengths are your enemies. let them flounder with it. they will hang themselves, if you only give them enough rope to do it.

justice is the loftiest of virtues. hear all sides. weigh all options. try your best to take your personal feelings out of the question. as emperor, you are the artbitor of justice. the ruler who listens to no advisors is as foolish as the one who hears none, but always remember each advisor will each have his own selfish angle. the ultimate decision is yours alone. make the best call, but once the decision is made, stick to it. if you privately doubt it later, make a different choice next time, but in public always defend the bad choice you made. it will do no one good to wonder, and will only breed discontent which will in turn sow the seeds for bloody conflict and innocent lives will pay the price. never allow doubt.

with this background, here's what i think edmund knows about godfrey's plans to crown him:

destabilize his siblings' standing, but less in their father's eyes and more in those of the ppl, and don't just. notice guin and arthur, pay attention to ~all of them. this doesn't have to harm them (though don't be afraid to do that when necessary), it just has the erode public trust. i think godfrey knows that roderick will literally never name an heir or if he does, it'll literally be on his deathbed, past when he's able to cement their position bc he'lll literally utter it w his last breath, so now is the time to lay the groundwork for trust in edmund and distrust in any of his siblings. further, the common folk don't care who has the best claim by birth and blood. the y care abt who can help them make it. so its important to establish in the public consciousness that that person is edmund.

put himself in the public eye, but only when and how it benefits him. godfrey is actively discouraging him from tourneys, but he ~is spreading info about how it was edmund's battle plan that won the astairan war at the definitive strategic battle. this increases fear to stand against him AND trust that he can protect those who stand behind him.

do lots of charity!!! be seen in humble places doing good things for those in need. roderick will say this is humiliating and hate it and try to stop it, but do it everywhere and everytime you see an opportunity. do it and don't stop. it is the right thing AND it will help you gain the ppl's love and respect. godfrey is 100% making it known any time roderick punishes edmund for trying to help the commons. (roderick is meanwhile teaching that this is demeaning and erodes the ppl's view that they are ~above them etc and therefore ought to rule. it is for elsser ppl to do lesser jobs. don't wash the feet of the poor! etc.)

anyway, ive been writing this forever and my brain stopped working hahaha but yeah i think its just general stuff like that, and basically being slick and able to pivot and keep doing the hard things when they're the right thing no mattter what so like???? weirdly i feel like he's almost kinda teaching edmund to disrespect what godfrey is ~actually doing??? but he ~wants to teach him that??? idk its so werid lizzy he's got issues idekkkkk

i think there is a lot of stuff that godfrey is like 'let me worry about that' and he's sort of tried to instill not to ask (tho he's also taught him to always ask questions so lskjfasdlkjfdjksf) but yeah whether or not edmund has actually gotten any of these memos is totally up to you, esp bc a lot of this is contradictory, this is just what what he's ~tried to teach hahaha who knows how successful he was alkjsdfkljdsf

but yeah for example he'd classify revealing arthur's bastardy as taking advantage of an enemy's weakness (and he'd def encourage roderick to think that if marian cheated and lied once, she may have done it three times, disinherit allll of them!) but like the outcome might cost ppl their lives -- is that smth that edmund, taught to instill justice and good wherever he can -- would agree with? godfrey doesn't know so he holds that close to the chest. he also feels he's protecting edmund this way.

OOC | Godfrey & Edmund

nephew!!! godfrey honestly can't wait for the day that edmund is emperor!! he's got a lot of ideas about how the empire can be run more smoothly and like???? god, he's so weird idek how to explain sdafjklsdjf ok so i feel like godfrey is a really weiRD mix of characteristics like???? he's cutthroat and ruthless but he's also innovative and altruistic, like he legit wants to make the world a better place!!!!! but mostly bc he thinks its a black terrible place and he thinks it'll take a monster to carve a paradise out of the muck basically????? and he aint afraid to make the world a lot worse on his way to the top to do that?????? lskjflasjdkfjf

anyway uncle godfrey out here literally willing to lie cheat steal and kill to get edmund on the throne!!!! and then he's gonna do everything it takes to realize his vision of a better future like????? he's so weird idek let's blame the witch grandma bc its always good to blame the witch </3

i feel like godfrey and amira and tristan had a really tough time growing up, saw some really bad stuff, and godfrey is convinced that he needs to cleanse this world and, thanks to edmund, he can! thanks, bud! and i think he's like 'they can hate me, but my children will have a better future ahead than i ever did etc' but!!! i don't think he is ~just team edmund bc edmund's his nephew (tho that's not nothing to him!), i think he genuinely believes in edmund and thinks he's brilliant and capable and is the ideal princeling to help him achieve his ends!! and godfrey can be his pet monster, cleansing this world for him w fire and sword!!

but all that being said, i ALSO think that godfrey legit loves his nephew v much and is super proud of him and protective of him and always has his back in his own particular distant and scheming way!!

im also toying w the notion that, given his witchy grandma, he may know about the guardians BUT, if so, i lowkey think he might actually be in favor of the apocalypse like -- i think he might actually lowkey be egging on roderick about his monotheistic religion intentionally to bring that on bc that would be a v effective cleansing reset for this wicked world and after that anyone left can help clean up whatever's left over alkjsfkjlsdfjksf BUT he wants to get safeguards in place first -- like, godfrey aint letting his family members get swallowed by the apocalypse so i feel like he's building various stuff into his new keep but!!! anyway!!! idk!!!! it depends a lil on what the mythos about the apocalypse is like if there's no chance for humanity if that happens then he's def against it hahaha -- also, alternately, he might not believe in any of that stuff at all and might just think their grandma was a crazy old hag and there are no gods whatsoever, even monstrous ones etc idk aljskdfkjdsfjk

but yeah basically the cojent points here are that he's messed up af and wants to make the world a better place...by lowkey destroying it -- like, he does terrible things and legit believes he's doing it for the greater good, he wants his nephew to rule, and finally in his own bizarre way he loves his fam v much and would do anything for them but its complicated bc he's hella messed up asdljfkdskjfkljsf so yeah yet another super mentally healthy family member for edmund over here lkajsdfljksdjfjsdkfl

[urmomification]

SWAG ANOTHER DREAM SMP AU FIC IDEA THAT ILL NEVER WRITE POG

this is a very long post please im so sorry my brain it just

(tw for like slight possession n shit)

(sorry its all jumbled i write all of these in discord to my friend and copy paste them here please if u have questions ask me im always willing to talk abt this shit please it haunts me)

(context: i saw a tiktok abt the hc that both dream and techno are gods of some sort bc theyre mentioned in the tales of the smp by karl a time traveller and my brain just ran w it)

going back to the techno and dream are gods thing right so dream is a vessel for the god dream xd (??? work in progress youll know what im talking about at some point its really funny tho uve def seen clips of it) and he was possessed?? by the god after the server started (when he started going from super friendly with everyone to control/power hungry) when he started sacrificing everything for power so no one could have power over him? that was the god making him do it bc the god was terrified of not being in control since theyd lost it all to techno in their past. thats why we never see dream and techno fight and why we see dream extend help and support to him at times as well as respecting his boundaries and such bc theyre scared of techno (again w the best of 10 duel reference, techno killed the god in a past life which is why the god has been forced to use a human vessel to get anything done on the mortal plane) but when something that powerful spends pretty much any amount of time in something mortal and mundane like a person, the host body starts to change (hence the mask) i like to think that the god would be akin to that of a biblically correct angel?? like the ones w multiple eyes n shit yk so after time things start to happen to normal dreams body he gets extra sets of eyes and he gets taller and overall his body seems just Too Small for whatevers inside of him and thats why he (hc) started wearing the mask in the first place he knew something was wrong w him but he didnt want anyone to know even tho they would most likely help him he was ashamed that he was different in the first place so he started wearing the mask once the other eyes showed up. and i think that the god would talk to dream similarly to how technos voices work yk? except its just the one voice instead of many many small ones. and again with the mask thing when he lost to tommy and they took him in, part of his mask broke to the point where u could see just a bit of the right side of his face but enough to see that it Wasnt Right there were two eyes where there shouldve been one and spots on his cheeks bright enough to resemble stars and where the color of his pupil should have been is just a sickeningly neon green with nothing else behind it. so they let him keep the mask even tho they already know something is wrong but it clearly makes him Very Distressed when asked to remove the mask or told to give it up. blah blah blah god harassing its host bc it got them caught and thrown in a prison and dream goes ever so slightly insane having to share a mind and body with a literal ancient god w a vendetta against everything hes built whos forced him to sacrifice everything he loved and cared for out of fear yk the usual prison shit and then techno comes a long and breaks him out or whatever but on their way back to his house he drops a really cryptic line abt how 'its nice to see an old friend again' and 'i thought i got rid of u for good last time' and dream is just ???? what are u talking about?? weve never been friends and youve never gotten rid of me? what. until techno spins around and just 'im not talking to you im talking to the thing inside u' or whatever and dreams eyes flash some brilliant gold or sumn and boom this is ur fellow god speaking how may i help you and dream xd (that feels so wrong to say but) and techno bond or well ig just talk abt how the past centuries have gone and ig while xd is fronting (??? i think itd kinda be like DID in a sense w multiple people being able to front yk?) dream is in a sort of semi conscious state but still hears everything going on around his own body until hes thrown back into the drivers seat (i think that xd would only be able to front for short periods of time due to the vessel n shit that makes sense right) and hes so confused someone please help him hes just a dude who happened to get possessed by a god someone help him so when they finally get back to technos house he sits dream down and explains the best he can without literally melting dreams brain. which would also play into the 'technoblade never dies' bc hes. literally a god. mortals cant kill him unless they have idk some sort of super weapon idk and blah blah blah xd gets what they want and finally has the ability to leave finally leaving dream literally the shell of a man with no home friends materials or anything with techno to basically take care of him until he reaches some semblance of stability again (which would take ages, realistically (wdym realistically) going from normal, to a god sharing a body with you and speaking in you brain living as a single being together and hearing their thoughts, to back to normal but with all the memories of what you did and what they made you do and also no more god speaking in ur head it would take a hot sec to recover from) so he lives with techno (whos, not to mention, another god) for a while until he can fend for himself again and after a good year or so passes and no one hears from dream they start to look for him and see what happened bc he went from the biggest threat on the server to just. gone. no one knows where he went after whatever he did and they want closure. is he dead?? who knows. so george and sap set out looking for him and decide to ask techno for help since hes good w directions n shit also he was the last person to see dream alive so he might have an idea of where he is and they walk up to his house and knock on his door and techno opens it and just stares at them he knows who they are, dreams talked about them before but hes never met them really so he talks to them, getting through the polite hellos how are yous before sap finally asks 'do you know what happened to dream? no one knows where he went and we just want closure' techno huffs and tells them to wait there he (this is the basement door im using his arctic tundra house in my head) goes down the ladder to the second basement, they can hear him talking to multiple people (ranboo phil dream) but cant tell who everyone is before coming back up the ladder, back to the door. he tells them to wait outside he needs to get something first (its dream hes getting dream) theyre standing out by carls stable when the door creaks open and dream steps out looking around for who the fuck could possibly be looking for them he betrayed everyone and most people thought he was dead who could possibly be here asking for himself and not ranboo or philza and when he steps out, his green hoodie (memento made by ranboo to help him cope w the loss of the voice in his head) catching the morning light off the snow and he was happy and then he saw them standing by the house hed grown to call home at least for now he breaks. he missed them so so much it hurt. he never expected to see them ever again much less them come looking to see him but hes scared he realizes he doesnt know what to say there is nothing to say he fucked them all over he ruined everything and then hes being hugged. they missed him too. they dont forgive him jsut yet but they missed him and thats enough for him right now. the three of them stand there just being in each others presences and techno creaks the door open to make sure they arent trying to kill each other and sighs and leans against the frame smiling. hes happy again and thats the best he can do for him. he invites them all in and offers to explain everything to them to try and ease the blame off of dream bc in all honesty it was his fault but xd made it far far worse that it should have been (a bit late but foot note abt xd i think that they would be an idle god until someone w intense feelings of powerlessness and insecurity like awoke them from their techno induced slumber and inhabited dream to help him fulfill his desires for power and control) and by the time he and dream are finished its late at night and sap and george are ??? so u were possessed by a god who techno killed centuries ago in a duel and it amplified ur feelings of insecurity and ur thirst for control to the point of isolating urself from us and destroying everything everyone cared abt?? also technos an ancient god who lusts for bloodshed but also makes turtle farms in his free time?? are we getting this right????? and techno and dream are just yea thats abt it glad this all made sense then they all go to bed (its a small house dream has a lil shack like ranboos and sap and george somehow slept over there for the night) and in the morning sap and george leave again but promise to come back, they still arent ready to forgive and forget bc even tho it wasnt all his fault his emotions getting away from him is what caused this all in the first place so they do need time to process now that they know he isnt dead and dream continues to live near techno in almost full independence and eventually moves back with his friends even tho many still hate him. hes happy and for now thats enough. another foot note; even after xd leaves his being, he still has the extra eyes, glowy freckles n is xtra tall n shit that cant just be reversed but now that hes himself again these things take their tolls on human bodies so i think hed have something at least similar to arthritis bc of how his bones were literally manipulated bc of how strong ethereal magic or whatever is. so he would still wear the broken mask but he takes it off now and is ok with it being off hes working on getting better now that hes himself again and everyone living w/by techno is helping him with that. also i think that he would get blinks of xd's memories like from when techno was killing them and have sumn like ptsd panic attacks from it and techno feels super guilty abt it but theres literally nothing he can do except apologize and after the first few times dream stopped him from apologizing bc it is his fault but he didnt do it to him so it doesnt matter to dream at least and they live in pretty much harmony until dream finally moves back in w george and sap the end. he also started wearing the mask in the first place bc of the extra eyes but he played it off as being uncomfortable around new people and not wanting them to know what he looked like until he trusted them (bc that literally makes sense irl how funky is that) so sap and george never pushed him and when they caught him without it on on the rare occasion they wouldnt pressure him to leave it off or anything even tho they already knew what he looked like (when they respect ur boundaries </3) they just assumed that it was insecurity (it was but also mans had like 3 eyes so) and just left him alone