#it’s both admirable and scary when taken to extreams

[heartrevoked]

i think c!awsamdude is super interesting actually!!

cw: torture, abuse/neglect || all /rp & abt the characters not ccs

there is a lot of time spent in the dsmp fandom claiming that certain characters are morally grey, and while i have my own gripes with how that phrase is often misused and overused, man i think sam really exemplifies being morally grey to a tee, and it has an interesting execution!!

he’s in such a peculiar situation, he’s head of an inescapable prison that he built from the ground up, that only houses one prisoner; an abuser that the whole server hates and wants locked up, who’s only alive because he has the power to revive people. oh yeah and that dickhead was the one whole commissioned the prison in the first place. which on it’s own is already a super interesting premise!

i personally think that sam has good intentions, he doesn’t do things out of greed, but more of a desire to keep others safe or out of a sense of duty, an obligation to his position of being the warden. he has such a strong sense of obligation to being the warden and protecting people that it can be a fault. we see this when he’s faced with the ultimate trolly problem; getting tommy out of the prison cell but with the risk of letting dream out vs making sure dream stays in and can’t hurt anyone else in the sever (he can revive people, so he’s free to murder) and he chooses the later, in the process leaving tommy stuck with his abuser, where he eventually gets beaten to death. he protected the rest of the server but at what cost.

something i’ve noticed about sam is how his actions tend to be passive. for example; not giving dream food. it’s a form or neglect which is passive abuse, a lack of meeting a physical need rather then an active action. (note: neglect is still just as bad as more active forms of abuse!! and it should be taken just as seriously, i’m only bringing it up to show a pattern of behaviour that sam displays) he doesn’t physically torture dram, but gives quackity the tools and turns a blind eye. he has a vary serious and no nonsense persona as ‘the warden’ a stark contrast to his usual friendly personality, shifting his sometimes cruel actions onto the persona, away from him as a person.

but recently there’s been a bit of a shift, ponk stole sam’s warden cards, and his response was to hunt him down, torture him and rip off his arm. we’ve always known that sam takes his warden duties extremely seriously but i don’t think any of us would have predicted that he’d chop of the arm of his close companion and valentine.

what lead to this suddenly more actively violent sam? well, we all saw how he reacted when tommy was killed because sam didn’t get hi, out of that cell, he truly failed tommy and being particularly responsible for your friends death has to have an huge effect on you mentally, especially being someone so dedicated to your duty as sam is. paired with getting used to having a separate scary persona that you associate your wrongdoings with.. and then there’s the egg that possessed him at one point (remember when he cannibalised himself??) and just the weight of being responsible for the one guy who if let out could go ona. whole torture murder spree- what i’m saying is: things have been building up and it’s all starting to take a tile and really distort sam.

sam has gone from basically switching the lever on the trolly problem to passively facilitating abuse if it will help keep others safe to chopping off his closest confidant’s arm to get back cards he needs for his duty as warden and it’s scary as fuck!! he wants to keep dream in the prison to keep the rest of the server safe but he’s come to the point where he will hurt others in order to keep everyone in the server safe and i honestly don’t know what will happen if he keeps going down this road.

and i mean sam nook is also cool so there’s that!