#the bbh hallucinations stream is also up there

[the-crimson]

With the seeming end of the first chapter of the qsmp, I’ve been thinking a lot about my experiences so far and the moments that had me glued to the screen and bawling my eyes out. Ironically, it’s an event that was reversed and became a nightmare for Dapper but veteran q!bbh enjoyers know what I’m talking about.

Dapper’s death at the pillaged mansion is the most heart wrenching stream I’ve seen on the qsmp. Not just bbh’s screams begging Dapper to crawl to the entrance - they were glitched and were unable to do so which is why the death was reversed - but everything that happened after.

Bbh and Dapper we’re the only ones on the server thousands of blocks from spawn in a biome filled with deep snow with ZERO items at night. No food. No signs for Dapper to speak. No weapons to defend themselves. They had nothing. At night. Thousands of blocks from spawn.

Dapper just lost their first life but there was a very real possibility that they lost the second if any random mob found them. Even a vanilla zombie or skeleton could have ended Dapper’s entire story then and there. I can’t even begin to describe how tense the hour or so after the initial death was.

Trying to survive in an actively hostile environment with nothing to hope to defend yourself or your son. They managed to reach a forest where they made tools and burrowed underground where they’d be sheltered from mobs but they still had no food or armor and wooden tools. It was just… so hopeless.

Nothing on the qsmp has hit me as hard as this stream. No other egg deaths because it wasn’t just Dapper’s death but the hopeless situation following it. We all thought it was a very real possibility Dapper could have gone from two lives to none during this hour or so of utter terror and dread. It wasn’t a - welp dapper lost a life time to be upset for a while but move on. It was a - holy fucking shit we might lose Dapper here and now when we thought we were safe with the two heart buffer. Most egg perma deaths happen in an instant, there isn’t a build up of dread and fear like there was here.

It’s almost impossible to watch the stream now and feel what we were feeling at the time. We know the death was reversed and that Dapper is fine so you could never understand the pure terror and dread watching the stream live. They were so alone. They were so scared. Dapper was so small.

Idk I’m rambling. I’m excited for what this next chapter of the qsmp will bring and what horrors we’ll see but I honestly don’t think anything will ever top that stream for me. I can’t wait for them to try tho

[katiekatdragon27]

Being an artist is fun cuz I can draw whatever whenever as long as I have a group of people peerpressuring me /j

This all started as a joke talking about THANOS Muffin and sorta escalated/derailed into just sorta assigning OSC characters as a whole to the DSMP characters.

My gc and I had no real idea what we were doing, and this is honestly just for shits and giggles, lol. Everyone was assigned on dynamics and vibes instead of being logical. PLEASE DON'T BULLY ME FOR MY SPELLING, IT WAS SUPER LATE AT NIGHT WHEN I DID THIS.

The culprits: @always-just-down-the-street and @friiskuz (the main two), @mambari, and @glitchtypes

(Also keep in mind that I have never watched a full stream of the DSMP, I only watched certain content creators outside of the server. I barely had any say in this so don't blame me if you don't like iiiiitttt.)

Specifics under the cut:

Firey from BFDI is Tommyinnit. This was decided because of his main characterness, him being one of the most important characters in OSC history, and his mildly chaotic nature.

Leafy from BFDI is Tubbo. This was decided because of Firey being Tommy. Also, because I find the ship between Tubbo and Ranboo cute and this universe's equivalents really funny to pair up.

Taco from II is Wilbur Soot. This was decided because of the betrayal stuff, the violence and manipulation, and because we thought it would be fun.

Top Hat from TNM is Ranboo. This was decided because of vibes, trauma maybe(?), and some other stuff that my friend said. Also, something about hallucinating probably and just being in a general sense of not okayness.

Muffin from THANOS is BadBoyHalo. This was decided because this is litterally BBH. He is literally based on BBH clips from his videos cropped together to make a character. He started this whole thing.

"Blood" Diamond (although their built like Aquamarine) from BFDI (ABCDEFG) is Skeppy. This was decided because Skeppy's skin is literally a diamond. They're a "blood diamond" because of the egg arc, and they are probably a brother instead of sister since that short isn't really canon to anything. They're a blank slate, we can do what we want.

Oodle from AIB is Slimecicle. This was decided because of his omnipotent god powers (immortality) and just being a silly goofy guy in general. We considered Goo for a bit, but Goo's a little too young to have been around since the dawn of the server. Maybe before becoming Oodle he was Goo? Idk.

X from BFB is GerogeNotFound. This was decided because of who we made Dream XD. That's really it (they might have also had some weird romantic stuff happening in the stream before???).

Four from BFB is Dream XD. This was decided because of the revival aspect of Four's power and also their scary and overall powerful nature. The rainbows are because of Infinity being a rainbow in canon.

Call me cringe all you want; I can take the heat. If you want to feed into this hellhole, be my guest. Have a great day bros >:)

[infernothechaosgod]

okay kind of a long post that's less my theory and more of a backing up @rocking-space-dragon's theory

I 100% agree that that wasn't real, it would make no sense whatsoever The federation WOULD NOTICE also the whole stream we were given this weird hints if bad being capeable of eating living things and even domesticated one's I know it was mostly joking around but Even without that It was said in the stream that bbh ate both almost the whole cake and the whole chicken and that shit would fill one person up To the point where normaly they would comment on it after waking up by saying they feel weird or fuzzy something like that, so we know bad can eat ALOT and not really get affected by it

Also the scene itself seems so made up not only becuse it Was too perfect too domesticated too much good turn of events It was becuse it also seemed familiar Thats becuse EVEN BAD comments on how the plants ron grows are the SAME plants dapper likes, also ron who has been Used by the federation then kidnapped by bad and tortured...he would not dare to hit bad, he would not even dare to make any form of slightly agressive or even defensive actions around bad but you know who would? You know who would playfuly punch bad and easily forgive him while being slightly sassy?

Dapper

Whatever place we saw, it was not real, it was too good and someone would notice the making of it, the actions of both bad and ron were fake, animated even they were put to what bad wanted to see and feel

Also I know bad likes teasing us alot when were wrong, but he would do it in a diffrent way, directly saying things like "Im glad you didnt get eated!" Or "so happy you didnt end up in some monsters stomach" it feels too direct, it feels like not bad saying it to us or ron, it's like him saying it to himself

"Im so glad I didnt eat or hurt you beasicly"

But in reality Im sure that photo of bad and ron will either be him with a corpse, or him with nobody staring into nothingness

We already know bad hallucinates, Its not semi confirmed or teased or confirmed out of roleplay we saw it in action, we saw it in its direct action we know he's capeable of hallucinating both people and places And even both at the same time

Bad either killed ron

Either ate ron

Either damaged ron to extreme level and he SOMEHOW escaped and bad just assumed he was dead

i take no other options, something horrible happend there Something very horrible

[pixiecaps]

Pix im so sorry ur like my go to person for asking what happens cause ur always watching 😭 but if u can can u please tell whats been happening in lore these past couple of streams 😭 /nf btw!

i’ll go as fast and short as i can

DISCLAIMER i have bad memory my chronological order of these past few days is not the best some things may be incorrectly placed so just keep that in mind. some events may be not 100% perfect chronological order 👍

eggs wake up completely dirty one day. all of them. nobody knows why. the eggs don’t remember why or how. but for some reason they were covered in dirt and their cracks looked worse.

around this same time. theres a voting poll going on for a new rule. and basically someone went around stealing all the furniture from everyones bases. leaving only a tiled magma block. they also left black and white couches arranged in numbers and codes. when they deciphered it it resulted in to phrases “I see you” & “Tomorrow”

next day. they all disappear. they are not in their beds when the first person (fit) goes to check for their egg. all thats left on their bed is their little accessories so for instance chayannes bed only had his floatie, pomme only had her berret, and so forth. everyone begins panicking because they were most likely kidnapped and taken again. and some of them from their highly protected bunkers. theres only no note or anything so there is no hints as to where they went. when people ask cucurucho all he would say he classified.

also on this same day all the popular waystones get stolen like ones that’d go to spawn etc etc. they get placed on a platform above the presidents base with a warning not to break them or hell would break loose and also a bunch of binary that translated to viva la revolución. to clarify the eggs disappearing and all these puzzles seem to be separate occurrences.

at some point cucurucho tells qcellbit to investigate some shit and he begins solving enigmas again.

people at this point were pretty fucking fed up including the president who was ready to blow everything up from his anger. until he woke up the next day wearing a white suit and had a wide smile on his face. he keep saying how happy he was and how he couldn’t wait to see richas. there was also a clock that would tick louder and louder when the drugs began to fade. he would become hostile and violent. and then he’d take another dose and become happy again. people began logging in and talking to him particularly antoine was the first to speak with him and later spoke with bbh cellbit. they all agreed something was very wrong and began investigating. they found a secret room in forevers base and that led to a small house in that room with blue walls to represent the sky and fake png flowers and when they went inside they found what appeared at first to be richarlyson. until they walked closer and saw in the place where richas would be was instead a big gray boulder and stones. so they clocked quickly that the “richas” qforever kept talking about was likely given to him by cucurucho and him hallucinating his son on that bed due to the effects of the drugs. they began scheming a plan to get him off the drugs and save their friend. qpac also witnessed qforevers behavior and had an idea himself. he was going to willingly let them inject him and feed him those drugs so that he could find a way to create an antidote before the effects became too strong. while investigating qcellbit overheard a conversation qforever was having with the fake version of richas and he interrupted and tried to snap qforever out of it. however he this only caused a big argument as qforever would not budge so qcellbit did the one thing he thought would work and he broke the fake richas bed. instead of a lucid moment qforever only sat in the corner of the room facing a wall and said that he’d get cucurucho to fix cellbit too.

phil also arrives this day ^ and earlier after learning about all the eggs disappearance and all the shitshow thats been going on he decides with the help of two others masked individuals (tubbo & fit) to lava cast the entire federation building. the one that was creates during the election. and they did they completely covered it in lava then placed water over it and it was lava cast. phil then left a note at the top that read “we want answers. we want our children back. we know you know what happened to them. stop the games. you have until the end of this week.”

also that same day foolish found the missing capybara mr mustard and became king of the capybaras officially.

meanwhile all that was happening (honestly i may be mixing up what events happen on the same day so please excuse my chronology here) tubbo noticed two fed workers appeared at spawn who he swiftly dubbed fred and jed after speaking to them a bit. he became relatively closer to fred and taught him what a friend was however fred said he was new to the federation and didn’t know anything he was talking about when he asked about the eggs.

so the next day comes around and qpac is under the effects of the drugs. same thing white clothes big smile. fit and tubbo are the first ones to log on and see their friend in this state to they help and talk to him as much as they can. and sorta realize that when qpac is slowly losing the effects of the drugs he becomes depressed rather than angry like qforever did. he also has more lucid moments than qforever and sometimes broke out of the effects shortly before going back under. later cellbit logs on finds his friend in this state and decides he will not be leaving today until they are better. cellbit speaks with bbh and phil and they begin setting up a trap to secure a way to take the drugs off qforever. cellbit meanwhile starts investigating for some answers. in his base he finds a note left from qpac detailing his plan to take the drugs to find a cure and that it was in qcellbits hands now. so he goes to chume labs and reads a bunch of books and diaries that eventually led him to chume labs island. on this island he found another diary from qpac that wrote about the antidote and needing to use fermented spider eye on the drugs. and coincidentally two of the pill bottles in that same chest with the book. so cellbit immediately rushes back to phil and bad telling them about the cure and they begin brewing. and to their success it worked the cure was called reality dose which description was “A mixture capable of bringing back those lost in dreams to what is real.” so then they devised a way to get them to use the cure. and i won’t go into it in detail cause i was like half watching and i’m not the most informed in what happened next but i think qpac after some talk with the others and being reminded of his purpose in taking the drugs willingly took the cure. then qforever was harder i know him and qcellbit were screaming at each other and i think after they made qforever take the cure he began hallucinating that qcellbit was cucurucho

small edit here: ive been informed both qpac qforever took the antidote willingly and that qforever took it first.

and said that cucurucho told him that the eggs RAN AWAY because there is something on the island that is far worse than the codes or the federation. so the eggs were so scared they fled without saying anything. qforever then fell unconscious and is resting in the orders hospital.

outside of his enigma solving for cucurucho. qcellbit goes back into the abandoned adoption center room in hopes for some clues as to where the eggs went and he finds a map for what appears to be a maze. with code at the bottom translating to A1 and also he found more code somewhere else i cannot remember that said “the answer is not in the center.”

so then this same day tubbo gets visited by FRED the federation worker which gives him a book with a code and leaves. the code translated to “tomorrow 1pm pst” and so we wait for tomorrow to arrive

AND IT DOES tubbo is freaking the fuck out cause he thinks hes getting kidnapped. he tells pac and fit something is gonna happen to him at that time. fit has an encounter with the code entity and it drops a clock in front of him and leaves.

and so 1pm pst arrives and tubbo noticed at his base theres weird black concrete placed around and a black chest in the middle with a book saying not to tell anyone, go to spawn, and an x coordinate. around this time roier and slimecicle log on and also show up at spawn with their own books. after some time they figure out they need to put their coords together and go to that place so they do! its near the wall and they find fred standing there with a gun. he signals to them to go into the cave behind him and they follow. he tells them to keep quiet and once they reached the end of the cave he tells them he cannot go on further with. they see and it seems to be the entrance to a labyrinth. they go through making their way occasionally spotting fred who then they’d chase. until they reached a room which appeared to have two observations decks in the walls above. one with a black couch and the other with a white. there was also a room with a locked door. also what appeared to be a hidden underground section with iron bars and through the iron bars tubbo and slime spot. a cucurucho. however instead of white it was fully black and instead of the usual black pixel face the face was red. when they spot it it immediately runs away deeper into the underground section it was in. the three decide to go in and they reveal a round room with a roulette wheel in the center with all the accessories of the eggs around the wheel.

there was barrier blocks around the roulette wheel. tubbo saw that and glitched himself through with an enderpearl. realizing after he only had one and had successfully trapped himself in there. he also realized he put himself in the predicament where he had to spin the wheel without knowing what it’d do. tubbo began panicking because he didn’t want to be the reason any of the eggs died. all roier and slime could do is watch. after more panicking tubbo spins the wheel and it landed on 5! the room immediately begins flooding with lava with him in it trapped. the. egg accessories begin to cover with lava. tubbo begins pleading to the others to find a way to get him out of there but there is none. the room outside the barrier blocks also begins to flood with lava and mobs begin spawning so roier and slime begin panicking. at one point slime goes down and roier does a sick clutch save‼️ tubbo realizing once he uses a totem he gets fire res and is able to warp out. slime is able to warp out and roier stays a little behind to see if he could open the locked door. he isnt able to. he leaves but once theyre all safely out they decide to go back in to figure out how to open that door. more lava begins flooding the maze more mobs begin to spawn and mines begin to blow up and coincidentally one of the mines blows up the entrance to that locked door. and they go inside and reveal it is a simple federation office with a desk and computer. with nothing else really. they once again leave successfully and around this time cellbit logs on. they tell him everything and they decide to go back and show him the maze because turns out he had that map for it from the puzzles however they once they reach where the room was inside it is completely blocked off. but what they do find is a bunch of federation posters placed inside talking about order and happiness? and also a timer that had 24 hours on it ticking.

later this day we see a streamer tweet out an image of the roulette wheel from today and a went live twitch link. we see streamer bagi in minecraft. her character in an unknown rather empty building with a tree in the center. she walks further into the building and finds a chest with a book inside and a roulette wheel. the book says “let the wheel decide. you will have to follow the light.” she spins the wheel and it lands on two. the floor disappears and she is immediately is dropped below into the overworld. shes in the ocean its raining when she reaches land its snowing. she follows the light which appears to have chests with books that detail how cold it is and if shes getting closer. she follows the trail and we notice more and more black concrete surrounding the biome shes in. interestingly enough first watching i thought they were spruce trees until i realized it was all black concrete. similarly scattered to where tubbo roier and slime found their books. so then she reaches the end of the trail with the final book stating “they should be here any time soon :)” and next to the chest a quartz table with a ticket laying on top of it with her name on it.

and so shes kicked and thats her introduction for that day. quackity tweets out this

and so WELCOME TO THE QSMP BAGI🫶

there you have it you are now fully caught up to speed! that is almost a full week of daily lore recapped:) i hope i did good. sorry for any typos i literally woke up at 10:30 am saw this ask and did not stop typing until i finished. it is now 11:51 am LOL

oh and two upcoming events. today mexican independence and whatever that timer leads to and whatever “huge event” means.

[lxrd-ren]

Okok, newest q!BBH theory, holy shit this explains a lot

Credits to @demodraws0606 for helping me with this theory :)

So, I looked at the wiki for the soul vultures, soul heart and soul stealing potion in more detail and oh boy..

So, q!BBH has been letting himself be hurt by the soul vultures, so the soul vultures are slowly stealing his soul. Dapper was also doing this, keep this in mind. This was to get the soul hearts from the soul vultures. The soul hearts make the soul-stealing potion. The soul-stealing potion grants you the same powers as the soul vulture: soul stealing

And so, I think q!BBH has been making and consuming the soul stealing potion. Why? Because the blue on him is exactly the same shade as the soul vultures and we know it's not from the soul vultures directly / attacking him because Dapper did the same but we didn't see any blue on Dapper.

Plus, the whole blue stuff didn't appear overnight. What did appear overnight however was black patches. These black patches is likely his blood from getting harmed from the soul vultures so much. His blood slowly turned blue as he consumed more and more of the soul-stealing potion.

And we know now that he wouldn't know that it was his blood because ever since the eggs went missing he can't see in colour, he can't smell the blood nor feel the pain to know that he's actively bleeding.

And the blue blood is only one side effect of the soul-stealing potion. The infection on the side of his head that is making his eye blue is probably a side effect too.

Now, why would he be doing this? To defeat the federation ofcourse. We know Cucurucho can't be killed by normal means. However, soul-stealing isn't a normal mean. If q!BBH gains enough soul-stealing power, he could be able to steal Cucurucho's soul and essentially kill it.

It would also explain why q!BBH left that soul vulture (with the same soul-stealing powers) in Ron's cell; to test to see if the federation is effected by the soul-stealing.

Everything also lines up with q!BBH's behavior.

First, the soul vultures are stealing q!BBH's soul, leading him to quite literally lose his mind (hysteric / hallucination stream), memory loss being very frequent, etc etc.

And y'know how there's been so many deaths flags from q!BBH recently? This could be how he 'dies';

by losing his soul.

Second, him consuming the soul-stealing potion leads him to having more and more soul-stealing powers but by consuming the soul vultures souls he is becoming more and more like one as their souls replace his. Aka, the blue blood, the blue infection, the soul vulture noises we heard whilst no soul vultures were around but q!BBH was, etc etc

And to tie it all up in a neat little bow...

On the 23rd of September, q!BBH visibly became more faded, very similar to a ghost, like how his soul is fading away. And then, days later on the 1st of October, THE DAY OF THE HALLUCINATION STREAM, the fading on q!BBH was replaced by a shade of blue similar to that of the soul vultures,

JUST LIKE HOW THE SOUL VULTURES SOULS ARE REPLACING HIS SOUL

(If you've any questions about how I came to some of the conclusions you can ask or just scroll through my past posts)

[youphoriaot7]

QSMP RECAP : DAY 193 (10/1)

BBH…went fucking nuts.

BBH was talking to the posters/pictures of the eggs and cucuruchos in his base. he has signs up all around his base that read various forms of “no federation allowed” and “no trespassing.”

BBH yelled at all of the mobs in his house thinking that they were cucurucho. he also said it could be forever, foolish, and/or cellbit.

the spawn was COVERED with scaffolding?? for some reason? …BBH threatened a piece of it thinking it was cucurucho.

two cucuruchos tormented BBH all around spawn until he eventually teleported back to his base. they followed him there.

…i think BBH ate ron. i’m so sorry y’all-

[ooc] THE GREAT BRAZIL MEETUP CONTINUES! irl stream! everyone went to karaoke! lots of drinking! FUN DAY!

[note: i'm uncertain whether these bbh events were a hallucination or not so um. keep that in mind?]

[fruit-sauce]

Ok so here’s my two cents on Ron:

I don’t think that he’s alive like. at all. Or at the very latest, if/when Baghera goes to see him, there’s gonna be something SUPER off about him that only she picks up/can see. In a previous stream (the one after q!BBH’s episode) cc!BBH confirmed that the noises we heard during the black screen were damage taking and eating…

These are the same admins who are making Baghera and Aypierre and Maxo’s lore, there is just no way they would let BBH just have this wholesome, cutesy relationship with a federation worker he’s had kidnapped in his basement, and then turn to Philza and go “here is equal treatment!” [gives you paranoia and derealization]

I, again, am gonna go back on my statement and say that I still think BBH ate Ron! There’s just so much pointing to it, and if he didn’t, something’s so wrong with how Ron is acting, he could be bugged and is setting BBH up for some major consequences, special guest theory or not.

I went back to look at the books Ron was saying and it just doesn’t feel right??? Ron just felt way too emotional for a guy who’s still kidnapped and is speaking to the person responsible for said kidnapping and also torturing. He has so much sass and friendliness for it to feel natural, that hug too, while cute, was very random and like. I’m not insane for thinking that someone who’s been on the brink of death before would offer a hug to the guy who opened those Soul Vultures, right? And the fact that he knows what and who the eggs are (to an extent) when in the past he didn’t even know what they were, just doesn’t add up?

I’m all for Ron being a hallucination at this point, as silly as it is that he just waltz out of this cute house in the woods wearing a bathrobe and bunny slippers, it does NOT feel real, y’know?? It more makes sense that he, at the very least, is not at that location, escaped back to the federation, or died in the basement

What’s also very possible is Ron playing 4D chess and coaxing him to the federation for whatever plan they have, special guest theory is a contributor and I would place bets that it’s real and the federation brought BBH to the island to experiment on him

whatever the case is, I’m very excited for these next streams, from multiple POVs. I know the eggs won’t be back soon (cough cough twitch con) but everybody’s personal lore is starting to stack up and collide a bit…

[ruby-whistler]

The Prison Arc - a Complete Recap

[ /dsmp /rp - All of the people mentioned in this post are the characters, not the content creators behind them. TWs for mentions of fictional murder, abuse, torture, self-harm, and other canon-typical themes. ]

Watch the cut-down version of this recap here! The video doesn’t have all the details, but is well-edited and easier to watch.

Starting where we left off, after the Disc War finale, Dream reveals the last trick up his sleeve, the revival book. Seeing him as an active danger to the server, the people need a way to get rid of him in order to keep themselves and each other safe, but instead of killing him, they store him away for later use, also making the prison a Vault in a literal sense.

This is where the story of the prison seemingly begins, but - let’s rewind for a moment, because any and all information here is vital. What do we know about the prison? It was commissioned for 64 diamond blocks by Dream to be built by Awesamdude a day after Tommy was exiled. The prison was supposed to be inescapable, and hold a highly capable individual, yet allow visitors.

Getting back to the lore, a day after Dream arrives in the prison, Tommy goes to visit him. During this visit, Dream states that there is nothing to do in the cell besides watching the clock on the wall, and that he is planning on writing something in the books that were given to him. Tommy shows him how to spin the clock really fast, which Dream calls a new game. He says that he is doing well so far, that he gets fed raw potatoes and can write or “swim”. He goes on to jump into the lava that blocks off his cell, killing himself. Tommy teases him, Dream asking him to visit more as he is alone in the cell with no real interaction. He then argues that if he stays for a long while and gets better, he can be freed, however Tommy doesn’t agree. Dream then apologizes, presumably to convince Tommy he can be let go, and talks about feeling bad about things he lost during the Finale. Tommy gives him five books to write, saying it’s so that he can forgive him. After this exchange, Tommy asks who Dream misses the most, and Dream yells for Sam to make him leave.

Around this time, as he reveals later, Dream starts telling Sam about what he did to Tommy in exile, which leads to the Warden becoming increasingly fearful and especially hateful towards the prisoner.

Nine days later, BadBoyHalo decides to pay Dream a visit as well. Dream is slow to respond at first, commenting that BBH is the first visitor in a while. He says he’s doing good, and spins the clock, because apparently he burnt some of his books, and doesn’t write much anymore. Bad tries to be optimistic about his conditions, and Dream agrees in a very… unconvincing, tone of voice. (29:40 - 29:49)

He says that he gets potatoes, but they’re raw, so they’re not good food. Apparently, Sam has told him he couldn’t have any visitors for a few days, because he would try to get out. He concurs to Bad that he did bad things that got him locked up, and asks how Sapnap and George are doing - noting that they haven’t visited him yet. Bad tells him that Tommy has started a hotel, and about the Egg. Dream seems lethargic and preoccupied the entire time, spinning his clock - he says he’s named it, but doesn’t want to elaborate further. He gives Bad a note that says “thank you for visiting me badboyhalo!” and explains that his sentence is forever, which is later also confirmed by Sam, and goes on to talk more about the clock and how he “likes it halfway” it’s because c!Ranboo metaphorically is the clock-

He once again reiterates that there is not a lot for him to do, and that nearly no one has visited him. He reveals to BadBoyHalo that he sometimes does a “prank” where he’ll burn his clock, so that Sam has to come to replace it and he can see and say hi to him. After being asked whether or not he gets in trouble for it, he replies that Sam will sometimes deprive him of food as punishment, essentially starving him for his attempts at interaction, though Dream diminishes it and laughs about Sam reprimanding him. The Warden is planning to make an automated food dispenser so as to not have to come into the cell himself, which means even less interaction in essence. Despite all of this, he says that Sam is “treating him amazing�� and that he’s happy. During the visit, he sniffles and coughs as he talks, voice low and void of energy.

BadBoyHalo wants to become a prison guard so that he can make the cell look nicer, perhaps giving Dream a potted plant and flower or two, as well as promising he’ll talk to George and Sapnap who Dream says he wants to visit him the most. He encourages him to look forward to better things, think positively, and - (42:03 - 42:20) As BBH freaks out, he explains that hurting himself this way is how he keeps himself entertained, setting himself on fire again. He says he wants to summon Bad into the cell by breaking a block when he becomes a guard, but goes back on this as it would potentially make Sam mad. Bad promises to visit with his friends, and leaves the cell.

He tells Sam that he needs to replace the clock, who refuses to, seeming frustrated with Dream’s antics. Bad tries to convince him to give it back, Sam saying it doesn’t matter whether Dream has it or not, although it’s basically one of Dream’s only sources of entertainment, and Bad tells him to give him one more clock as a compromise. Sam asks whether he… said anything, suspiciously enough? And Bad says they only talked a bit and that he jumped in the lava. Sam confirms he does that a lot and he thinks it’s for attention.

BadBoyHalo feels conflicted, to say the very least. (53:34-54:02 54:16-54:33 56:34-56:53 1:02:24-1:03:05)

That very same day, Ranboo has a strange hallucination-like nightmare about visiting Dream. However when he tries to visit again, Sam tells him that he visited not too long after Dream was first locked up, also bringing a memory book with him. Later, during the prison podcast with Techno, Dream himself mentions Ranboo and says that he “used to visit a lot” before stopping completely - this lines up with what Ranboo does afterwards, having Sam promise to never let him in again.

On February 7th, Dream dies in lava repeatedly on someone’s stream. This happens a couple of times throughout people’s time on the server, and seems to line up with Sam’s claim that he swims in lava pretty often.

Twenty-one days into Dream’s stay in the cell, Sapnap finally decides to visit. Dream stands mostly still and silent, holding the clock in his hand, and explains through books that he’s not talking because he’s on strike. He places the clock and spins it - Sam seems to have renamed it to “DO NOT BURN”. He tells Sapnap that he took too long, who responds that it took him a while because he felt hurt, but also says that Dream can talk to him if he wants to. Dream’s cell has had some of the obsidian changed out for crying obsidian as a security measure - Dream could’ve, and tried to, light a nether portal in the cell to escape. Sapnap tells him he needs to stay in the prison, because that is where he deserves to be - Dream burns his clock in response, insisting that he will get better and get out eventually. Sapnap threatens to kill him if he does - Dream simply tells him to deliver a message to Ranboo because he stopped visiting, a smiley face, which seems to trigger his enderwalk when received, and promises to stop throwing his clock away in return. Sapnap says he’ll visit more, and that he’ll tell George to visit him as well.

The next visit is nine days later, and is an attempt at getting closure. Tommy notes there’s a little hole on the prison roof when he goes to check up on it beforehand. (1:39-1:44). When Sam asks, Tommy says he thinks Dream is deserving of being locked up, but he highlights he doesn’t think he deserves death. He implies he could or might deserve torture though. (12:13-12:16). He says he’ll only ever visit Dream if he needs anyone revived from now on, calling it the only reason Dream’s still alive. Upon entering the cell, he notices some of the obsidian is now crying obsidian.

The first thing Dream tells Tommy is that he lost his clock since the last time he visited him. Tommy seems nervous, stumbling over his words. Dream eagerly tells Tommy he’s glad he came to visit him, that it’s been a while, and that he wishes he would visit him more. He says he likes having people visit him, that he likes just talking to them (23:46-23:49).

Tommy tells Dream this is his last visit. Dream argues that forever is a long time, asking why it is the last time. Tommy tells him he’s the pinnacle of villainy and that he wants to move on. He says he’s been suffering from success while Dream wasn’t there. Dream replies that he has been too, except without the success part, just suffering - Tommy says he had it coming. Dream nonchalantly replies with “yeah”. He goes on to say that maybe one day he could leave, saying he’s already been changing since he came. They talk about the crying obsidian, Tommy comparing the situation to exile, which devolves into an argument. He finds out that Dream burnt the books he was supposed to write, and that BadBoyHalo visited at some point. Dream asks him to visit again, but Tommy refuses, saying he’s terrible. Dream says that everyone thinks they’re in the right, and that he did bad things for good reasons (31:51-32:13) - Tommy refuses to listen to said reasons, listing Dream’s crimes again, and says he refuses to stress himself out by going to visit Dream any longer. Dream says he’s trying to change, promising to be better if he comes back, and Tommy says goodbye.

In that moment, explosions are heard going off in the distance. The two talk about it for a moment, before Tommy starts yelling for Sam. His name disappears and the Warden doesn’t answer as more TNT goes off, Tommy freaking out and Dream seeming to find it interesting.

Tommy starts begging Dream for a way out, and Dream tells him calmly that Sam is dealing with the security issue. Tommy doesn’t get it, so Dream explains that it means he could be stuck in there for a little bit, maybe even days. Tommy is getting desperate, Dream tells him he knows he signed a book, because he’s the one who wrote it, that said that if there’s a security issue, he can be in there for up to a week.

Tommy rambles about all the things he has to do that week and calls out for Phil. Dream suggests they break out together, but Tommy refuses this offer.

Dream gives Tommy some potatoes, who hits him and yells at him to explain, to which Dream yells back he has no idea what is going on as he’s locked in a room.

Tommy accuses Dream that he’s lying, saying it’s too perfectly timed to be a coincidence, calling him the monster of the server, saying he hasn’t changed, and Dream trying to convince him he did or he’s trying to. The two argue, Dream bringing up exile in the process, until Dream suggests to just deal with each other’s presence, not hit each other, and explains he’s happy to finally have company, Tommy panicking and saying he wants to hurt Dream. He takes the “thank you” books from the chests, as well as empty books and quills, and burns them despite Dream’s protests, telling him if Sam hears him panicking over the items, he’ll come back - Dream begs Tommy to just wait, panicked, and gives him potatoes.

After quite a bit of arguing and Tommy nearly punching Dream into the lava multiple times, Sam says the prison is on lockdown. Tommy is incredulous. Dream says it’s not that bad, that they have tons of time to bond, and after Tommy repeatedly calls him dumb and evil, Dream loses his cool, yelling that Tommy’s the one that’s being dumb. Tommy calms down as the realization sets in, and the stream ends.

The next time we see Dream and Tommy, the scene opens with Tommy running around the cell, making loud noises, and Dream sitting in the cauldron, writing. He’s frustrated and asks Tommy to be quiet - who looks at the cat that seems to have appeared in the cell, calling it annoying. Dream disagrees, saying it’s the best thing that’s happened to them - Tommy tries to repeatedly lead it away from its place on the chest, however the cat always comes back. He keeps asking Dream questions, punching the cat to which Dream stands in front of it, asking him to stop. Sam appears to give them potatoes. He asks Sam to let him out, who refuses as the security issue hasn’t been fixed yet. Tommy complains about not having enough food, to which Dream gives him some as well as Sam dispensing more into the cell. Tommy punches Dream away from the potatoes, also getting the clock. He tells Sam that this feels like exile, but worse, saying he’s claustrophobic - he refuses once again, and leaves the two alone. Dream says it’s not that bad - that he’s gotten used to the cell, that he’s happy to have company and a cat with him. He burns the clock, and after Tommy asks to be let out again, suggests they escape together - Tommy says no, punching the cat as Dream tries to stand in front of it to take the blow. He asks Dream if he loves it, killing it when he says that he does and wants it to stay after Tommy leaves. In response to this, Dream says that the cat was hope he could stay in the prison and be content, however now he’s even more motivated to escape and get his revenge on everybody who’s wronged him. He says he’s grown tired of Tommy’s whining about being in the same box he’s been locked in for a hundred times longer - Tommy tells him he will never get out, and Dream promises to never use the revive book on him or his friends. He says he’ll be freed someday, because the only way he’ll ever revive anyone, is if he’s let out - Tommy reveals he doesn’t think the revive book, the only reason people are keeping Dream alive, is real. They argue, Dream asking if the fact he can’t be killed because of the leverage he holds makes him some kind of god - Tommy disputes that he has said leverage, Dream killing him as a result to prove the point that his life still holds value because he can bring people back to life.

In the aftermath of this event, Sam reacts by saying he didn’t anticipate Dream actually killing Tommy - hence he never reached the cell in time. When Bad mocks him for this, he replies saying that he thought he had “broken the will out of him” to act up that way. He also reveals that Dream laughed when he started screaming at him - he says he can’t think of worse ways to punish him than he already does, not knowing what time it is, without the clock and with only raw potatoes as food.

After this happens, Sam leaves for an island that we see in Quackity’s lore later on. Quackity comes to visit him, only to rile him up and give him the idea to kill Dream in retaliation - however, when they arrive in the prison, Sam realizes that Tommy trusted him to keep Dream locked up and alive, and decides against it because of his duty and the revive book.

Two days after Tommy died, he was revived once again, with Dream asking him questions about death and the limbo, such as how long he’s been there, who he’s talked to, and what it felt like. He says he was scared it wouldn’t work, because he had never tried it before; Tommy details that being dead felt horrible, he’s talked to Wilbur and Mexican Dream although Schlatt, strangely enough, appeared to be asleep. He expresses signs of trauma when Dream punches him after being asked to do so, and has somewhat of a breakdown in the cell. Dream proclaims he is a god as he can revive people, and Tommy says Wilbur said horrible things to him while he was in limbo with him, and tried to get Dream to promise him that he would never bring him back, declaring Wilbur worse and more dangerous than Dream ever was - Dream refuses, saying he is the only one with the power to decide on that, and he thinks Wilbur hasn’t done anything that bad. He also suggests experimenting on Tommy to find out more about the afterlife, and perhaps even become unkillable. Tommy realizes Dream is the revive book, in essence, and there is no other way to get rid of it than to kill him, to make sure Wilbur stays dead forever. Dream invites him to kill him, however Tommy realizes he can’t, because then he’ll be stuck in the cell alone forever - Dream even walks into lava for him, all the while detailing the possible consequences of such an act.

Dream says that when Tommy gets out, he can tell everyone the revive book is real - that he wasn’t lying. He also says since he can kill everyone and bring them back, they’re his puppets - when Tommy asks him why he killed him, Dream says he wouldn’t listen to him, and hence he had to prove the legitimacy of the revive book to him. He says he’ll let Tommy go, and not kill him again, just so that Sam doesn’t cut off his visitors further or starve him again - but also promises to bring back Wilbur, with whose help he will escape.

After eight more days, Dream and Tommy are still stuck together within the room, Dream remarking that he’s starving, confirming Sam hasn’t come back to give either of them food during the time since Tommy’s revival. He lets Tommy keep his when he says he has only one, and the two bicker after Dream hits him. They’re bored, waiting for the Warden, and have no idea how much time has passed - Tommy burns his food in lava as they argue again, before Sam finally arrives, and Tommy is released. Tommy warns him to not allow Dream any visitors, saying he plans to escape, and that Techno owes him a favor. He also calls Sam inadequate to run the prison.

After this experience, both Ranboo and Tommy start plotting to kill Dream, so that he can’t “bring back the villains” of the past, present, and future, allowing them to rid the world of such dangerous individuals for good.

However, another person also ends up becoming interested in the powers of the revive book - and that person, is none other, than Quackity.

He doesn’t intend to destroy its powers for good, though. He persuades Sam into letting him bring weapons into the cell as a means of getting the revive book, taking away the last bit of power Dream has, and allowing them to take his final life. Sam agrees in the end, giving him better tools before he steps into the cell, including netherite weapons and shears. During the first visit, Dream comments he hasn’t had a clock in a while, Quackity saying the cell doesn’t look very comfortable. He goes on to talk about Dream’s loss of control since he got locked up, to which Dream asks if he came to gloat. Quackity brings up Tommy’s death, and Dream is interested in other people’s reactions. The topic goes back to the revive book, Dream asking again whether people knew it was real now, saying it’s good that they do. Quackity begins to ask that he gives it to him, but Dream refuses, saying he burnt it a long time ago and it is preserved only in the form of knowledge. Quackty takes out the weapons, and after the initial shock, Dream begins to frantically yell for Sam, not knowing the two are working together. Quackity promises to come torture him daily until he gets the revive book from him.

Around this time, the prison’s keycards are stolen by Ponk. Sam builds him a room, planning on killing him and then burning him with lava, beating and poisoning him until he gives them back, even though at this point they aren’t even functional. (4:05 - 4:24) Ponk tries to talk him out of it, saying that the prison is controlling him as much as the Egg would, and that he’s changed. (6:26 - 6:38) Sam ends up cutting off one of Ponk’s arms, successfully getting every last one of the defunct keycards back.

Later on, while BadBoyHalo and Antfrost are handing out invites to the Red Banquet on behalf of the Eggpire, Sam greets them holding a clock and gives them empty books & quills he claims to have confiscated from Dream.

In Quackity’s next lore video, we get confirmation that he has in fact been coming in daily to torture Dream, always escorted by Sam, using different tools and staining his shirt’s sleeves red.

Tommy finally decides to come and kill Dream, sneaking in with an invisibility potion while using Ghostbur as an alibi. The lava starts dropping, and Dream seems to run around the cell once, before coming to a stop at the center. Ghostbur yells excitedly when he finally spots Dream on the other side. He looks at Ghostbur, coming closer to the edge to wave at him, but stops waving when he spots Sam. He backs off slightly, breaking eye contact with Sam. Ghostbur and Tommy cross the lava, and Dream has his back turned on Ghostbur.

As soon as Tommy arrives at the cell, and before the netherite bars drop, he reveals the Axe of Peace. Sam yells at them to stop. Dream takes a step towards the entrance, Tommy immediately turns to him, trying to hit him. Dream backs off until he hits the wall, letting out a small “What?”. Tommy crosses the bridge while Ghostbur stays. Tommy and Sam argue, Dream interrupts, but Sam shuts him down, telling Ghostbur to get further away from him.

Dream pleads for Sam to let him out, who tells everyone to shut up, as Tommy is asking Ghostbur if he can reach Dream to kill him. Dream yells that he has a hostage. Sam answers that he’s just a ghost, while Dream stammers that Sam wouldn’t let another person die.

Tommy starts insulting Sam, calling him a horrible warden and telling him to kill Dream, and they start arguing again. (31:00-31:13, 33:50-33:58) Dream shows that he has the revive book in his hands. Ghostbur starts pleading for Tommy to help him. Tommy and Ghostbur count to ten, Sam telling them to shut up. After he shuts down a last request to set Dream free, he kills Ghostbur as the lava starts covering the entrance.

After well over two months of daily visits, a scene opens with Quackity showing Dream which weapon he will use that day, choosing an axe. Dream tries to take it off the item frame, however fails and only gets himself in trouble, with Quackity yelling at him while he cowers. He says it’s getting tiring, but that he needs to come in to remind him every day about everything he’s done or else he’ll forget, to which Dream promises he won’t. Quackity then proceeds to ask him questions about his involvement and relationship with Technoblade, and tells him to write a note, inviting him to visit. He refuses to say why, but promises to give Dream a week-long break if he obeys. Dream doesn’t trust him, continuing to question his motives. He tries to compromise, offering to write a note to Sapnap instead. Quackity goes on to threaten to kill him, saying he doesn’t care about the revival book, and that he likes hurting Dream, because in his eyes, he can never pay back the amount of evil Dream’s done to everyone on the server. He says not even Sam can help him, swinging his axe around and hitting Dream with a sword while he begs him to stop. In the end, Dream agrees to write the note for him.

Outside of the cell’s confines, Foolish proposes to Sam an idea to reform Dream through community service. This idea is shut down immediately.

MichaelMcChill, a new addition to the server, also tries to break him out a couple of times because - because he. Because he thinks he’s hot???

Interestingly enough, Quackity doesn’t have the note to give techno and just tells him to visit Dream verbally - Techno does, getting trapped in the cell in the process. And, well, in the end: (4:24 - 4:40)

That’s it for the recap!

Thank you.

[thornztli]

i've been thinking about this since bbh's stream where he killed skeppy and i think i know what happened at the end

i’ve mentioned this to a few friends but never actually posted it so here

so if you didn't already know, skeppy's and bbh's canon lives are intertwined. they're soulmates. bbh cannot lose a canon life until skeppy has lost all of his. he's basically immortal unless skeppy canonically dies, which is what has made the egg shit so annoying. nobody can kill bbh. and as we know, at the end of the stream, bbh accidentally pushed skeppy into lava and skeppy refused to get out, so skeppy lost a canon life.

a lot of people thought that this was some sort of weird dream or hallucination but i’m inclined to believe that it’s real life.

so if you remember back when skeppy first became infected, ant and puffy had suggested that bbh kill skeppy to try to get rid of the egg infection since nothing else seemed to be working. not holy water, not sand, or diamond, or the number 14, nothing. bbh refused, and puffy almost killed skeppy, but skeppy just kept running away, and they gave up. however now that skeppy has actually canonically died, i'm thinking that ant's and puffy's theory was right.

at the very end of the stream, you see skeppy in his house in big daddy island, which he and bad built together on skeppy's stream. it was non-canonical and just a place for them to mess around and hang out. you see him calling for bad, and he's blue and normal again.

my theory is that ant and puffy were right. when skeppy died, it got rid of the egg infection. remember how skeppy wasn’t at the red banquet? if he was still infected by the egg, even if he had died, wouldn’t he have been there to see such a major event for the egg? and remember that skeppy’s spawn was set to big daddy island at the time as well. it makes total sense for skeppy to be normal again, just stuck at big daddy island, far away.

(for the record, skeppy didnt know tommy and wilbur were doing lore when he accidentally killed friend and i don’t think it should be counted as an important plot point for skeppy’s character)

nonetheless, skeppy’s death leads me to believe the egg arc is probably coming to a close soon. remember that bbh's entire motivation for joining the egg is that he didn't know how to cope with the loss of skeppy. skeppy got infected by sacrificing himself to save bad first, and his sacrifice was eventually, a sacrifice in vain, as bbh got so depressed about skeppy that he joined the egg in order to be with skeppy again. but we saw how bbh was acting there. skeppy still didn't want him, infected or not. and so, bbh just kept losing faith in the egg. he was promised skeppy, and he got nothing. he was constantly telling the egg to shut up, to be quiet, and only apologizing when skeppy told him to. now that skeppy's okay, bbh's entire motivation for being with the egg is gone. i think bbh might either a.) gamble away a canon life at quackity's casino to break free from the egg, b.) go back to the original plan with the egg, which was to destroy it to become the heroes of the smp, or c.) break free of his own accord, now that he has nothing keeping him with the egg.

of course, bbh doesn’t know that skeppy could be cured now, but he implied at the end of the red banquet that he would be on his way to big daddy island, the last safe place he knew.

(it could also mean l’sandberg, but that’s unscripted as far as i know)

nonetheless, bbh is probs not gonna stay with the egg, leaving the eggpire as basically, just punz and ant. we have no idea what the egg has offered punz or ant, since we know nothing about their motivations. back in november or december, there was a theory going around that the egg offered ant his bf, velvet, and it would be how they introduced velvet to the smp, but that never happened and ant has refused to speak on his character's motivations (which probably isn’t an accident). punz isn't gonna do lore anyway lmfao he never logs on but if i had to judge, i'd say the egg offered him money, since it seems to be the only thing that works with him. as for ponk, ponk has lost a canon life and was only pretending to be with the eggpire in the first place to spy on them, and if my theory is right, he isn’t actually infected, just staying with the egg to stick it to sam for hurting him, since he lost his canon life after being infected.

purpled wasn’t actually infected, just a mercenary, and obviously sam, foolish, and puffy aren't a part of it. this also connects back to quackity’s casino. if gambling away a canon life can cure someone from the egg’s influence, how many people would take that chance? would bbh himself take it if it meant being able to be with skeppy again? would quackity take the lives himself if he came across that information?

just a thought.

[ph1lzascrows]

What we know from Ranboo’s 1/30/2021 lore stream (the facts)

Ranboo did a 35 minute lore stream today, and now we seem to have even more questions than answers.

Did this I re-watch both BBH’s and Ranboo’s prison visits to compare the experiences? YES.

Did this I make note of every single thing that could have been off or weird between the two streams? YES.

Is the entire fan base confused about what is real and what is fake? ALSO YES.

So, here are the facts. Then we can make theories.

c!Ranboo starts his stream in the Panic Room. The place where he last confronted “the voice of Dream” supposedly getting rid of it for good. 

c!Ranboo wants to go visit c!Dream in prison, despite them barely interacting, as some sort of closure to further prove that he has not done bad things. This is a bit strange. These two characters have barely interacted so the fact that c!Ranboo chooses to seek out c!Dream seems out of place.

c!Ranboo mentions being nervous, but not knowing why. He actually mentions this several times, including to c!Sam who even noticed his nervous behaviors and mentioned it directly.

At the Prison entrance, c!Sam takes a very long time to show up after the button is pressed. (He does not appear very quickly during both BBH’s and Tommy’s visit either, but it seems to take even longer for Ranboo’s stream) We do not know if this is intentional or not.

When greeting c!Ranboo, c!Sam sounds way more like his upbeat and friendly self compared to the colder more responsible warden persona he takes on when giving tours to both BBH and Tommy. The difference is night and day.

When going through the portal to enter the prison, c!Ranboo come out of the portal in a warped forest biome, instead of the blackstone and obsidian enclosed portal room we see in both BBH’s and Tommys streams. Fans initially thought that this was because something broke in the portal system, but c!Sam continued with instructions and c!Ranboo entered the prison through the same portal like it was normal. Only the portal location in the nether was changed and was not how it was earlier when BBH visited.

c!Ranboo enters the lobby of the prison from the main portal, and sees c!Sam standing behind the desk across the room. Suddenly we see only Sam’s face, because Ranboo seems to have been teleported to Sam’s location. (Timestamp 14-minutes, 20-seconds-ish in Ranboo’s Vod) Whether this was intentional or a nether portal glitch, we do not know. c!Ranboo has not been able to teleport like an enderman in the past so the quick location change is very strange. It is not really mentioned by either Sam or Ranboo.

Ranboo is allowed to keep his book, despite the extreme emphasis Sam made when telling BBH and Tommy they can bring nothing into the prison.

Throughout the prison procedures c!Sam continues to be kind and friendly to c!Ranboo. He often explains the procedures and different parts of the prison to c!Ranboo, more so than he explains things to both Tommy and BBH in their visits. Whether this is because c!Sam is being friendly and helping to calm c!Ranboo’s nerves or doing it for other reasons is unclear. Some of the explinations are quite specific.

All waivers and books that are signed by visitors and all introduction questions asked are the same for all visits to the prison. All rooms, checkpoints and stages to the prison are the same. (If the theory about c!Ranboo hallucinating the visit is true this is very concerning, because it means c!Ranboo does know the prison, well enough to remember all these parts of it)

-Now to the confrontation bit of the stream-

The item frame for c!Dream’s clock is missing in Ranboo’s stream. This is likely because of the modded texture pack Ranboo has been using to allow for the Nukes to be visible. However, it is still worth mentioning.

Dream immediately greets c!Ranboo and says that he is glad he visited. He states that they talk all the time and are close friends. Ranboo reaffirms that he has barely talked to c!Dream but Dream denies this causing c!Ranboo to confused. 

Dream asks why c!Ranboo is acting different. (This could likely be a nod to the “other-state” or “wandering-state” Ranboo mentions several times on stream. He likens it to sleepwalking. This theory is unconfirmed, but I thought it worthy to mention)

Dream starts referring to himself in the third person, exactly like the voice of Dream c!Ranboo hears in his panic room.

In BBH’s stream c!Dream mentions burning several of his books. When BBH looks in his chest several empty slots are in the top row of the chests inventory (where the books Tommy had written in where stored). In Ranboo’s stream the entire chest is filled with books (26 books), all called “DO NOT READ” and filled with similar text, all exactly like his own memory book that he is carrying. The one difference is the addition of a single :) on the first page of every book. In a previous stream c!Ranboo made a point to delete all the markings and notes made by Dream, but now all of the new copies of his memory book have the :) added to them again.

Dream once again says that ‘c!Ranboo has helped c!Dream,’ and that ‘He is not even real’ that ‘He is actually c!Ranboo.’ Dream tells c!Ranboo that the reason he “got rid of the voice” was because c!Dream was put in prison and so it was ‘harder to remember his voice because he stopped talking to him. He used to talk to him every day.’ and that ‘c!Ranboo would help c!Dream do things he asked.’

After declaring once again “I’m not even real” Dream disappears from the cell. There are no particle affects and not notifications that appear in the lower screen when this happens.

Whilst panicking, the screen begins to warp. Suddenly, either the ceiling seems to fall onto Ranboo, or he seems to fall through the floor (the screen is getting really warped and hard to see at this point). Then Ranboo dies, with the death message saying “Ranboo hit the ground too hard.”

Ranboo ends his stream with a similar end graphic to previous lore streams of a black screen with a white smile. This time there is no crown. The crown appears later in a pattern fans immediately knew to be Morse Code. Ranboo confirmed later on his alt twitter, that the coded message at the end was “Not Free Yet.”

Those are the facts, literally what was seen and heard on stream and compared to BBH’s stream which happened earlier that day. If I missed anything or something is incorrect, please notify me so I can add or add to the post. 

-Now go ahead and theorize, because god damn did this stream only provide us with more questions and zero answers. Thanks for that, funky enderman boy.-

[back-on-my-bucky-bs]

In light of my mindscape revelation here’s a more elaborate and wordy rundown of what I think was going on in Ranboo’s stream today

c!Dream seems like he’s a lot like Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls in the sense that he’s a dream demon. Not a dreamon, but a dream demon as in deity of dreams/nightmares/hallucinations because Ranboo’s visit to the prison today was a actually just a dream. 

Or rather a nightmare. 

Ranboo’s alternate state is a sleeping state, hence the sleep walking we’ve seen in Fundy’s stream and BBH’s stream and the sleep talking (in Ender tongue) we see in the chat. This means that in this state Dream can manipulate Ranboo since that’s literally his power. And the perk? Ranboo’s unconscious the whole time and doesn’t know what happens to him in that state.

We know that Dream loves playing mind games, it’s in his character, much like Bill Cipher. We see this when he is manipulating Tommy in exile, literally calling him “fun” on Doomsday and alluding to playing with him like he’s food on a plate during the finale while also letting Tubbo think he was a good president since quite literally the beginning of his presidency only to call him an idiot in front of the whole server. 

But here with Ranboo, Dream is quite literally and purposely making Ranboo derealize by manipulating him and telling him that he (Dream) is not real and talking about himself in the third person. (He was talking in the first person before he realized Ranboo wasn’t in his alternative state in his dream, which on another note is interesting because that means that the sides are switching, since lately he’s been in his alternative “unconscious” state more often and today his conscious self was awake when he was in the dream, which in itself is terrifying). [Think in GF when Standford spent so much time in the mindscape with Bill that he was becoming more sleep deprived and crazy in the real world since he was “awake” when he was “asleep”.]

Dream is messing so much with Ranboo’s head. Ranboo’s “asleep” when we’s “awake” and now he’s “awake” when he’s “asleep” and Dream is taking advantage of that. First by making Ranboo his “servant” and using him to blow up the Community House and now by making him think he’s hallucinating his voice when he’s actually just vibing in his head or “mindscape” since the poor kid has a sleeping disorder and Dream is literally the god of dreams/nightmares. 

[waterfannumber1]

Testing the hallucination theory

This is just me trying to disprove all the proof I’ve seen of Ranboo’s 30.01 lore stream being a hallucination as it’s the best way to test a theory. 

Ranboo woke up in the panic room: Meta-vise this was probably just so Ranboo wouldn’t have to travel through the nether as the world copy (explained later) doesn’t have the same nether, but it could also just be because C!Ranboo was very nervous and stressed about the visit.

C!Sam was nice despite being harsh to C!Tommy and C!BBH: This is harder to prove but bear with me. C!Tommy and C!BBH wouldn’t be willing to lay their lives and free will into the hands of someone sweet and empathetic, it’s not part of their character, they’re both too proud for that, so C!Sam had to act powerful and mean to get them to completely listen to him. He wouldn’t have to do that to C!Ranboo who responds better when people are nice to him. C!Ranboo listens to authority, telling C!Sam that he lives with C!Techno and C!Phil, despite not even telling C!Tubbo that at first.

C!Sam let Ranboo keep his memory book: C!Dream already has a plethora of books and C!Ranboo handed C!Sam the book so he could have read through it. It couldn’t help C!Dream escape. Additionally, if C!Ranboo forgot what happened in the cell C!Sam would have no way of knowing what happened without the book as C!Dream isn't exactly reliable. Meta, but it also added to the drama later.

The nether portal went to a Warped Forest biome instead of the actual prison nether hub: The stream didn’t happen on the actual Dream SMP server. Ranboo confirmed this on his later stream from what I’ve heard. Ponk’s stream overlapped and at 1:13:57 tab is open and only him and Quackity were online. The lore stream was streamed from a world copy, the world copy probably didn’t include the nether and additionally didn’t include the map paintings.

C!Dream had copies of C!Ranboo’s memory books: C!Dream has had access to at least one of C!Ranboo’s memory books before, given C!Dream’s resourceful and manipulative personality it wouldn’t be out of characters of him to memorize what was in the book(s) he has had access to. The smile in C!Ranboo’s actual memory book he had on him was probably added while “sleepwalking”. The books don’t align with what was in the chest when C!BBH visited, but it’s not unreasonable to assume C!Dream had the access to more books.

The clock on the wall was weird: Time on the Dream SMP is not a plot point. During the November 16th streams you could see the lighting change as someone did time set day. Technoblade has pointed this out a stream at some point (I don’t remember which). 

C!Dream talking in the third person and knowing things only Ranboo/the Dream voice knows: I’m honestly very unsure but I think most of the dialogue was C!Ranboo’s internal monologue. C!Ranboo reacted strongly to C!Dream calling them friends, which played directly into C!Ranboo’s fears that he’s a villain who’s helping C!Dream. I think this awoke the dream voice in C!Ranboo. I think C!Dream kinda played along using what he knew to bring out sleepwalking state C!Ranboo whom he has a positive relationship with.

C!Dream disappearing and the room falling apart: At this point C!Ranboo was very stressed and fainting. Object permanence goes pretty quickly when you’re about to faint and lack of understanding in your environment/feeling like it’s falling apart is also pretty common. I think C!Ranboo fainting is also the reason a cause of death didn’t show up on the respawn/title screen menu , he didn’t die, he fainted.

[ranvwoop]

TALK ABOUT AMERICAN HEALTHCARE I HAVE AN IDEA OF WHY IT'S THERE BUT I WANNA HEAR THE EXPLANATION ALSO THE ONLY HOUSE THAT"S NOT ON FIRE (YET) FOR THE SAME REASON I JUST WANNA SEE THE ANALYSIS:TM: IF U WANT I WANNA SEE IF I GOT IT RIGHT :D

Hi :DDD. Thank u for asking,,,, I have many thoughts. I am sorry in advance. This is one of those things I will put under a readmore because I am into rambling. IT GOT A LOT LONGER THAN ANTICIPATED IM SORRY. Like. a lot. It was 4 pages in google docs because i dont trust tumblr to save my drafts

Okay a lot of my Ranboo thoughts are about the syndicate / boreal trio / peerpressure duo. But you’re probably aware I am a Them enthusiast first and both a dsmp enjoyer and person second. Because. I really like the syndicate. I also don’t have too too many thoughts on the more recent lore past the experiments. Once the in character monologues stopped, so did my brain. I communicate through monologue to monologue communication.

American Healthcare is actually gonna be the main reason why this is so long bc it works Very Much for like three different reasons. One sorta niche and abstracter reason is a stream that was basically never elaborated on back in March, either the day after or very close to the peerpressure Egg confrontation stream. The egg called him a coward (for some reason my brain can Only come up with the “stop saying i look like chicken little. he’s dumb, and a coward, and i am NOT a coward” vine), and he is not a coward, so he decided to make an action plan to bring the server together by acting as a mediator for all parties and try to make sure that everyone is happy, because he’s the only one that can see all sides, or something. This was where he said the big happy family™ line but other than Ranboo Become Dream?? analysis nothing else really happened and everything went along as normal.

(I also always held a little bit of suspicion on this stream actually and thought it might be the influence of the egg, because it says it can give one whatever they want, and ranboo wants to make everyone happy and this was a totally foolproof way of doing that. Sort of in a similar way that BBH is convinced that his plan will totally make Skeppy happy. But also Ranboo is just like that, but this felt a little more on the nose than usual and he did fall into the egg and made his decisions after being egged on by it, buT WE’LL NEVER KNOW, WILL WE?

… also I really wanted to see more egg conflict at the time. Peerpressure rlly got involved in the egg plot for cameos at the banquet and nothing else. I do not blame anyone and respect the ccs for all of their attempts to weave plots together but also. also…. we.. we coulda had so much…)

That was a little off topic from the point, but… he really just thinks he can save the sick… he can see that everyone on the server is unwell and is wrong but, y’know, look inwardly, the unwell is coming from inside the house. And an inherent problem of the way that the server runs. And if this is still lowkey in effect or not (idk man a) ranboo has monologued a lot I simply chose a one off from march to grow emotionally attached to and b) i think that my brain has shut off once ranboo stopped solo lore streams), it would probably go the way that most choosing to change the system from the inside goes. Which is the point of the song and stuff! He will inevitably decide what’s too far, whether he will either admit it’s a choice or just feel that it’s what he has to do. The, uh, dealing with the devil, to be polite.

in conclusion (but we are not close to done here i’m holding you for a bit longer), i think a lot about that stream and i think that shows what he wants to be, at the very least, and continuing down that path would definitely go into being far more trouble than just a noble goal of wanting to help people, from negotiating with corruption (The lobbyists, the Congressmen and lies bit) and that the server can’t really be brought together and saved like that (When things are more and more this way / Sometimes it's like they'd rather die)

THE LESS. vwoop why have you written an unnecessarily long post about one stream in your playlist character analysis reason is both more literal and piece by piece and also Syndicate, My Beloved, you know the drill. We are going line by line because I have a lot of feelings about American Healthcare, apparently.

This also comes back to that everyone on the server is doing Really Badly, all of the time, but mostly his time in L’Manburg. For one, he is pretty complacent in everything and doesn’t really accomplish much in terms of actual change, so like Well people die every day / I wouldn't have it any other way / I just think they should feel good while they are alive. An example of this is Exiled Tommy — who I’d also metaphorically put as the dead man just for funsies, since Tommy’s whole exile thing was one of the first things Ranboo experienced on the server—as he did try to be friends with Tommy and keep him company with his letters, but he still has no power over the actual issue at hand. Just trying to make it a bit more bearable. Similarly is Techno, while Ranboo still participated in the butcher army that was trying to kill him, he helped in the meantime until he “died”.

And then it’s the Realization that participating in the system doesn’t really help much, and the subsequent Everything. It could be getting mad at the whole government system and that he didn’t mean to contribute to the harm, or how he fought with Fundy using hs ideology but not in the way that Ranboo thought. It could also be standing up to his hallucination Dream, in that he doesn’t try this hard to be a good person just to be accused of helping with all of the things that he may or may not have helped with. (That is… a discussion for not right now, I don’t know.) And I think this sort of area is also where it’s like they’d rather die is also relevant, cause Doomsday. Nobody could just set aside their governments and just get along, though Ranboo had his own solution to fighting and things.

And then he joins the Syndicate! And the lyrics of the song are directly Government Bad, because government bad. Canon anarchist, has done things that he’s not proud of as a part of the government. The lines it was the government / … It got louder over the years / Until all that I could hear was flies and all.

But honestly I think in the Syndicate he’s still trying to “save the sick”! Because the Syndicate don’t All fit eye to eye either. He’s the token pacifist, and a vote against violence whenever it comes down to it. Not all anarchists are violent but Techno and Phil will probably react strongly when provoked, due to All the past events, and I live in a world where their trauma and issues get talked about as much as everyone else’s. Since everything is decided by vote it’d probably be split between them and Ranboo + Niki, who is in her healing/no longer resorting to murder arc. He’ll help them negotiate and then everything will Be Okay, ideally.

(Also I just like the idea of Ranboo believing that he is helping the people he’s living with because canonically cc!Ranboo has said he just really cares about his family and the syndicate are included in his family shut up but they also just believe they’re helping him and yes it’s self indulgent. I care them. Particularly Endduo, actually, or whatever they're called, I am not bold enough to think Ranboo looks at Techno and thinks I Can Fix Him, but. Philza Minecraft will one day talk about his feelings. One day.)

There’s also radioduo and beeduo as of recent— really I’m just saying I think that Ranboo constantly has a Need To Help People, believes he can do it, and it will come back to hurt him in the end (except for the Syndicate because I’m in denial. The Syndicate can’t fall out if they never stream together :) ).

THIS CONCLUDES THE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE PORTION OF OUR SHOW.

The Only House That’s Not on Fire Yet !! I like this one. This is also blatantly there cause Syndicate. They are the only faction that is not actively falling apart, and this could absolutely be because they never stream together. But I do not care. However we are also going to go through this one piece by piece because we’re nearing 1500 words here and I might as well embarrass myself more. I am writing an incredibly informal essay about Ranboo My _Beloved (i assume his middle name is My, and he’s just one of those people who write his full full name) and this is the third page. If you’re still reading this, I’m sorry. Here we go.

There are lines that just seem like an unwell but recovering person, and I like to sort of think that way about Ranboo in the arctic during the down time. “I feel knotted up today / But in a most exquisite way” and “I feel strangely regular / But honestly I prefer it to / The usual bizarre” are just! He’s just hanging out. He’s doing good. There is the acknowledgement that he’s usually not doing well, and all of the episodes that he’s had in the past, and it’s probably strange to be doing well in the midst of everything, and there’s probably something impending, but now? He’s doing good!

The verses directly after both of those ones are about uncertainty and trust and such, and I feel like that’s not necessarily about just One relationship but all of them. Will cause problems as long as he has an accomplice. He is not confident but he trusts and loves people.

“This suit doesn’t fit me / I made it conterfeitly” I just like to think about Ranboo in his fancy suit, but it’s just a little wrong because he actually has no idea what he’s doing. I also like to think about Ranboo in a cape to fit in with boreal trio and later the syndicate, and emerald duo had matchy blue outfits from the Antarctic Empire… and trying to fit in with them…. or maybe They make him something.. You know. Much to think about.

“Killing me with déjà vu” I think is like. A little less fun, because despite how well things are going, the enderwalk is still not resolved and he had even less answers when I started thinking “this is a ranboo song”. Just as it relates to having a strange sense of reality and stuff, which goes into specifics of enderwalk headcanons, which would make this far longer. Even though I’ve framed it as a negative, there is also the more positive note of “Oh! I just thought of how to change all the hate / Into love with the old switcheroo / Dancing in my déjà vu / You'll be dancing too” which I’d rather explain broken up but I feel like as it’s a full verse it should be together. The first part is connected to my general thoughts of him explained earlier tbh, he’s trying Very Hard to make everyone happy and fix things. And adding the second part to it is just like! He is trying to make sense of everything, and it’s not so scary as time goes by. Since the experiments where he’s been (questionably) trying to be more comfortable and get more answers.

This was very long. I am sorry. I am ending it here and probably not going to do much formatting to make it readable because it is very late o’clock and also this is four pages and 2000 words I am so sorry. But if you read this far then. Uhhh thank. ^v^.