#c!manbreg cabinet

[ladyddanger]

The “We where drowning but there was an understanding we where all drowning together.” Quote from bojack horseman but it’s the manbreg cabinet.

[ladyddanger]

A full analysis of the song why don’t even is perfect for the Manburg cabinet (c!quackity, c!tubbo and c!fundy because I’m a loser who likes musicals.

Sit back with a slouch in my spine

Quick laugh at a cliché line

Like

We're gonna have a great year!

[ these lines fit c!quackity the best. It’s the first meeting and he is quickly realizing how badly he messed up supporting Schlatt. Still he thinks he can make it work and keep some kind of control over c!Schlatt to keep him from going to off the rails]

Cue:

I don't want to stay here

[this is very c!tubbo. He didn’t truly want to join c!Schlatt but now he’s stuck here even through all he wants is be with c!tommy and c!wilbur]

Head up like you're proud to be seen

Arms crossed, no, you look too mean

Everybody's whispering

Show 'em you're not listening

[this is c!quackity and c!tubbo vibes. C!quackity is trying to encourage c!tubbo (this can be set before right before the festival for added angst) c!tubbo was forced into the role as c!schlatts right hand man and given way more responsibility then a kid should ever have. He’s nervous and scared and c!quackity knows that]

Don't you know they won't believe you?

They're all watching, no one sees you

[and this is c!schlatt talking to the rest of the cabinet. Even if they came forwards about his behavior nobody would help them, he’s the president. The whole nation is watching so they have to pretend like everything is ok even if it very much isn’t]

But I don't even care, I don't care

Promise it, I swear, oh I swear

I'm not always trapped in my head

Playing back the wrong things that I did and said, no!

I don't even care, I don't care

I just walk on air, I don't care

I'm the girl who lets it all go

Everything you see's going perfectly

I don't even --

You don't even know

[this is whole cabinet publicly acting like everything is fine even though it isn’t]

Countdown 'til someone gets hurt

[this is c!tubbo. He never wanted to join c!schlatt and was always at least a little loyal to c!wilbur and c!tommy. This lead him to realize how dangerous c!Schlatt was before c!Fundy and c!Quackity who joined c!Schlatt out of desperation and where rewarded with the validation they craved.]

Oh crap, what is on my skirt?

[this is c!quackity since lot of c!Schlatt’s praise and mockery cam from his physical appearance]

Goddamn, I think that I'm sick

Okay, do I have a TideStick?

Now is it too late to leave?

[this is all c!fundy feeling trapped and just missing his dad. Siding with c!Schlatt didn’t make his father treat him like an adult it exiled him and fractured their relationship more. Like any child now that things suck c!fundy just wants his parent]

I should help

Please just breathe

This night's gonna be far too long

[even while trying to help c!quackity is realizing how screwed they are and how he especially is in way over his head]

I'm doing everything wrong

[this is c!tubbo being under all the pressure c!schlatt put on him as his right hand man and the pressure of “being a man” or the warped ideal of masculinity c!Schlatt has while also being harshly criticized when he didn’t hold up to those standards.]

I'll just fade 'til nobody sees me

[this is c!fundy already getting abandoned by c!wilbur now getting ignored by c!Schlatt and slowly realizing that c!Schlatt didn’t care about him in the way c!fundy thought he did]

Oh thank god that everything's easy

[the whole cabinet again putting up a public image of perfection]

But I don't even care, I don't care

Done it and been there, it's all fair

No one's ever under my skin

You won't find me caught

Trying to plot how I'm gonna win

[this is c!fundy pretending like he’s still on c!schlatts side even while he’s working as a spy and that none of the jokes about him being a fox bothered him]

I don't even care, I don't care

Let 'em stop and stare, let them stare

I'm the girl who goes with the flows with it

I don't hesitate, overcomplicate

I don't even, you don't even -

Know

I don't even, you don't even know

[this is c!quackity dealing with being c!schlatts arm candy and trying to pretend that he still has some level of control over the situation. He is also trying to rationalize c!schlatts behavior to himself “they don’t know anything about c!Schaltt and his motives not like I do it’s fine”]

We are the soul of the school

The pride in the name

The heart and the flame

Our words are pure inspiration

Years of creation

Changing the nation

We'll give you something to hold on to

When you think your time is up

We'll give you just the song you want to

Hear when you're out of luck

We are the soul

Of the school, the pride

We are the soul of the

In the name, the heart

School, the pride in the

We are the

And the flame

Name, the flame

School, the

The heart

And the

Our words are pure

Our words are pure

Inspiration years

Years

Flame. Our words

Are pure inspir-

Of creation

-ation

Changing the nation

[this is whole cabinet trying to reassure the public pretend that c!Schlatt is anywhere near under control and stable. Even as Marburg falls apart they act like nothing is wrong trying to hold it together]

But I don't even

Care, I don't care

[this is c!quackity realizing that c!Schlatt wasn’t who c!quackity thought he was and trying to be ok with that. He tries to set aside his morals under the idea that at very least c!Schlatt would never treat him like treats everyone else “Ok Schlatt is a little more ruthless then I thought but it’s fine, it’s ok he still loves me”

Countdown 'til

Someone gets hurt

[meanwhile c!tubbo can see c!Schlatt doesn’t give a damn about any of them and he knows that one of them his going to end up dead (it’s gonna be him but c!tubbo doesn’t know that)]

Promise it, I

Swear I don't care

[c!fundy is still suck in a limbo state between C!tubbo and c!Quackity’s views on c!Schlatt. He dislikes him and is actively working against him however he also craves and enjoys c!schlatts approval]

Oh god what is

On my shirt

I'm not always

Trapped in my head

[ again c!quackity this time starting to have a more negative view of himself and his physical looks due to c!schlatts mockery]

Everybody's

Whispering

Playing back the

Wrong things that I did and

Show 'em you're not

Listening, I don't even

[c!tubbo trying to keep using c!Quackity’s advice in public and in his speeches. Even so he’s starting to copy c!Schlatt more as a survival instinct]

Said, no!

[c!quackity trying to stand up to c!schlatt’s harassment and getting threatened instead]

Now is it

Care, I don't care

Too late to leave?

I just walk on

I should help

[c!fundy fully realizing what c!Schlatt’s plans are and having to pretend that everything is normal while getting ready to wage war on him. He’s also trying to act like c!Wilbur’s rejection didn’t hurt him as bad as it did telling himself he doesn’t care even as he clearly dose]

Air, I don't care

Please just breathe

I'm the girl who

This night's gonna

Lets it all go

Be far too long

Have I said

[c!Quackity trying for the last time to brush off c!Schlatts actions and act in a way that c!Schlatt likes. “Letting go” of any of hurtful comments. He knows this is going to be a painful night but he’s doing his best to make it go as well as possible triple checking himself to make sure he’s doing everything right]

See's going perfectly

Everything wro-

We are the soul

I don't even

Oo-

Of the school, the

You don't even

-ng

Pride

Know

In the name the heart

Everything wro-

And the flame

-ng

Our words are pure

Inspiration, years

Of creation

I don't even

You don't even know

[finally the whole manberg cabinet. Things are terrible and as much as they try to hang on,their desperation creeps in as lyrics like “See's going perfectly” are meet with one’s like Everything wro-. They can’t hold Manburg together for much longer and they know it. Even with them trying to cope with and work with c!schlatt of the whole song they failed and nation is falling apart.]

[ladyddanger]

The Manberg cabinet is found family in the worst way possible. “It’s ok we’re stuck here and this sucks and we’re terrified but the whole nation is watching us.” It’s being pitted against each other it’s c!tubbo being held in higher regard then c!quackity even through c!quackity is the Vice President. Its blaming each other for c!Schlatt being in power, it’s wanting to protect each other anyway. It’s c!Fundy and c!Quackity desperately wanting c!Schlatt’s approval even as they hate him and desperately trying to talk c!schlatt down from killing c!tubbo and failing. It’s considering themselves friends even after everything because when you’re with someone in the most traumatic moments of their lives you can’t just forget and move on, you always remember and there is something to be said good or bad about being the only one to know how someone got their scars.

[ladyddanger]

This song is the manbrug cabinet thanks for coming to my Ted talk