#can we just have ONE - O N E - c!Dream POV without the inniters making it all about their problematic meow meow?

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#...how am i even surprised that people are taking the speech (c!dream's honest words) and making it about tommy #HOW??? i should fucking know better!! >:( #god forbid anybody open their eyes and ears and realize what he's actually SAYING for fuck's sake #op i am very much platonically smooching you on the forehead and framing this on my wall what the fuuuuccckkkk #he's a person! he's always been a person! he's been hurt and caused hurt BUT HE IS STILL A FUCKING PERSON!! #he's been dehumanized to hell and back but that doesn't erase the fact that he IS a person goddammit pls recognize that!! #c!dream always causing me anguish that is exacerbated by the fandom's ridic bias and gigantic c!tommy-shaped blinders like shit man #i just like him okay and i want him to be okay and find happiness and be treated like a person again by more than two people :(((

“Tommy is snake.”

Dream: monologues a cool ass speech that accurately describes his character using snake metaphors of all things, explaining the reasoning for his actions but not excusing it, all the while keeping it in character. And it works. It’s great. Very c!Dream. 

Non-Dreblr hot take: Tommy is snake. Dream is the hawk kicking the Tommy-snake. 

W H A T. 

No. But—what. 

Hold up. 

“I’m not gonna stop until you put me down. Because I’m no longer protecting my eggs. They’re already gone.”  

Does that sound like Tommy to you? 

Tommy is not the snake. I am at a profound loss as to how you could connect 'Dream Snake speech = Tommy'. The speech isn’t describing Tommy. It doesn’t ‘fit’ Tommy more. The speech isn't even about Tommy.  

Just because Tommy was traumatized doesn't mean you get to dehumanize Dream. That doesn't mean you get to reduce him to a power-hungry villain who abandoned his allies and only cares for himself and not much else. That doesn't mean you get to take his speech, a speech literally about that, a speech he made for himself, "a reserved guy" (aka an emotionally repressed bastard), expressing his feelings in the only way he knows how, in the only way he won't be judged for it, the culmination of all his past trauma and the main driving force of his character and use to further your own agenda. For fuck’s sake, he acts like someone hurt, who hides his pain because his pain has never been validated, ever. (Punz and Techno aside, it really hasn’t.) You speak of how Dream is a hawk who cares for nobody and nothing at all but kicking the Tommy-snake, but that's missing the point. Dream is the snake, not Tommy. Tommy would never be the snake, because he would never be Dream, and weaponizing someone else's trauma for shitty reasons is filthy and awful and something he himself will never condone–how would you think he’d react to Quackity justifying torture by claiming it was for Tommy? 

Dream is the snake, because the speech is Dream indirectly admitting to himself that Dream cared, because like the snake cared so much for those eggs, Dream cared so much for what was his, and just cause a snake's hiss isn't as loud as a hawk's call or if their body runs cold doesn't mean they don't. Care.  Dream is the snake because nobody sees him as human enough, so much so it's been drilled into his head (he was literally tortured). Dream is the snake BECAUSE he did bite back, because he'd been cornered, because it was a last resort, because in his mind he tried literally everything else, but biting was the only thing that worked. He wouldn't be the snake otherwise. 

Dream is the snake because it's not upset about being kicked too much, of being hurt, of being reduced to a mindless beast, because all of that is nothing—nothing—compared to the loss of his eggs. His nest was threatened, and he was supposed to protect them and now they're gone. This is Dream, telling the story of a snake silently crying for help until there had been no point anymore. This is Dream, speaking of loss. This is Dream, and he is lost, and devastated, and it's a fucking tragedy. 

The point is that Dream doesn't need to become a hawk. A snake can just be a snake. A snake is capable of hurting others. A snake is equally capable of loving others. A 'villain' is capable of grief, of loss, of love, of hate born from love. 

Did you ever think about that? 

Do you? 

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“Cause imagine the snake finally decides: Fuck you. I-I am just gonna bite. I'm gonna lie in wait in this bush, gonna watch your ankles go by, the clock ticking while venom slowly fills my fangs, and I'm not going to stop until you put me down. Because I'm no longer protecting my eggs, they're already gone. They were stolen by the hawks when you chased me away from my nest. So, some snakes do just bite. Do I? Do you? Not even once?” 

P.S. This is not an attack, more like an explanation after the straw the broke the camel's back. I'm just really upset. So much that I practically came out of lurking because as much as this has been a goldmine of a month for c!Dream and Dreblr content, I’ve been seeing just as many takes that just rub me the wrong way. I get that for many Tommy is their comfort character, but for some of us, c!Dream IS their comfort character. I have so many emotions for this green blob, and when they tried taking this too... I just want people to understand that Dream isn't a Disney villain, he's a person too. He's fucked up and he fucked up and that's just because he's fucking human. He lost so many things, let him have this. It’s just one fucking speech, dude. :(