ok sorry the OTHER thing about lucienne is like. as previously stated she is dream's handpicked emissary from the waking world to the dreaming she's the diplomat in chief she's the translator she's the bridge. because the dreaming is, in a very real way, dream's own psyche, this is tantamount to giving lucienne a tremendous degree of access to his interiority and by transitive property also tantamount to entering into a deeply emotionally intimate relationship with her (unimportant for the purposes of this post whether that relationship is platonic or romantic).
now, in general, looking at the pattern of dream's close emotional relationships—dream doesn't share himself with people as a rule (beyond the access that all things that live have to the dreaming; but i'm talking about his self here, the one he doesn't like to acknowledge he even has), but when he does share with people, it's with people who have some shadow on the soul, so to speak. just looking at attested relationships in show canon, his deepest emotional connection seems to be with death, who embodies the duality of light and dark even better than he does himself. calliope is the muse of epic poetry—heroism and tragedy—and also bears the sort of divine pride that led her to cut dream off for hundreds or thousands of years when he wronged her. the less said about that other guy, the better, but he's no sunshine-rainbows-unicorns type—he's a soldier of fortune, a bandit and a killer, a man who profits from the sale of human life. even best bird matthew, in comix canon, had a sordid past that will maybe be partially retconned for the show but has still been gestured at.
dream likes the complicated ones. he's drawn to them. they speak to something in him that he won't acknowledge in himself (he has to be Whole, fully integrated, without reservation, because he is the king and he is the dreaming and if the dreaming ain't whole then the universe is in trouble—but he feels that ache nonetheless).
all that is to say: when people try to portray lucienne as dream's Designated Well-Adjusted Neurotypical Friend, i begin to harm and maim.
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DSMP Finale Things that make me feel like I'm back at the Beginning
-Tommy's checklist, especially finishing his base with Tubbo
-Shroud set free
-Zombo the Second cured and set free by Eret and Tubbo years after they first caught it
-George sleeping through most of the event (but being there for the End)
-Tommy banning Dream, specifically by tricking Sam into giving him Op
-Tommy blowing up the hotel (with Sam rigging it up for him)
-Eret fixing all their old builds/restoring all their stolen beacons
-"I don't give a fuck about Spirit" speech throwback
-Tommy and Tubbo revealing what's in how to sex (the first volume) and it being the most stupidly funny thing ever
-Tubbo and Sam visit the ocean monument where they first met
-Tubbo and Eret jungle base visit where they became friends
-Tommy and Dream walking the prime path
-Punz finding his house griefed after being inactive for months
-Prime farming
-Huge donos
-Accidental media share opening up on Tommy's stream
-Dream respawning in the prison because he forgot he set his respawn there
-Puffy giving people (Antfrost) weednip
-Eret museum visit, appreciating it and walking through memory lane
-Hannah got her elytra back
-Philza doing hardcore while important DSMP stuff is happening
-Chat hoppers in Philza's chat telling him to go on the DSMP
-Philza telling them to fuck off
-Hannah on the cake path
-Tubbo trying to visit Michael, raging when he can't find Michael, and Sam finding Michael in Ranboo's base after Tubbo already left
-Visiting Techno's base
-Catmaid Antfrost skin
-Oogway visit (and people messing with the item frames)
-Punz, Sam and Tubbo trying to get Hannah's elytra
-Boomer roasting people
-Foolish build appreciation
-Seapeekay getting a part in the museum
-Mentions of El Targay and McPuffy's
-Eggpire site visit
-Visiting Alyssa's builds
-Bass boosted go pros and autotune shenanigans
-Tommy failing an MLG bucket clutch
-Dream spawn killing Tommy to the disc music while Tubbo defends him and saying he wants the discs (throwback)
-Church Prime
-Hannah's frog statue
-Puffy's builds being destroyed as collateral damage
-Everyone freaking out over George joining
-Callahan joining and immediately leaving
-Group dance session
-Punz smack talking people on instinct
-Ponk asking people for food cause he never has any
-Sam being stacked with everything everyone needs
-Hbomb innuendos
-Maidbomb mentions
-Skephalo jokes
-No one being prepared to go to the end and having to get ready in a rush
-Peeople getting lost on the nether highways and taking wrong turns
-People getting pushed out of the portals when there's too many trying to fit in at the same time
-"I WAS HERE"
-Everyone forgetting to bring ender eyes for the End Portal
-Callahan summoning withers in the end
-George continuously dying to endermen
-Tubbo killing the enderdragon and respawning at world spawn
-Bad staying on brand and wanting the enderdragon egg
-Tubbo and Tommy on a bench, listening to discs and watching the sunset
-Warden Sam and Prisoner Dream moment
-Techno's temple in the New World
-Skeppy joining after all the action already happened
-Sharing screenshots, secrets and final thoughts
-Puffy, Bad, Sam and Eret visiting all the sites and reminiscing
-o7
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