#this was such an underdeveloped arc ngl I wish there was more

[llitchilitchi]

What is The Bad Ending where both Dre and sap die????

And in your "Dark! monarchy restoration au" where the Dteam got corrupted with power: what Techno and the rest of The Syndicate do about it? And what about Ranboo and Punz? Especially Ranboo who wants a unite Server and at the same time he doesn't like what is happening (probably), and you said that "Dream was going to revive Ranboo and there was going to be a full Endersmile Worked Together The Whole Time thing".

And in the let's say "good ending" where the Dteam leaves the server for good, what exactly happens to the Server after its Admin leaves? And what about Punz? Does Dream ask him if he wanna leave with him the Server?

ohh this is a big one. let's take it one at a time

The Bad Ending came from DreamXD's "Dream and Sapnap are connected" thing - it seems to have been dropped by canon, but he said something to the effect of "if Dream dies, Sapnap dies with him because they are connected through the Death Book and Revive Book". this ending would be a bad ending tied to the DTeam trying to take over the server but in the process, Dream gets killed and loses his last canon life. as George holds him and watches him slowly fade away, Sapnap approaches him to comfort him but as Dream breathes his last breath, Sapnap dies with him. George can do nothing but watch. shortly after, he's approached by DreamXD who offers to take him back in and trap him in a dreamworld where they are both still alive. George hesitantly reaches out and accepts the offer.

the whole "DTeam take over the server" thing is, unfortunately, rather underdeveloped. there are some obvious targets they would start with, ones that Punz and Ranboo would have no issues with, and possibly not even the Syndicate. they'd tear Las Nevadas down, similar to canon but not quite. I knew I wanted a confrontation, and I knew I wanted Dream to be caught off guard by Quackity (I posted a sketch of it at some point if I remember correctly) and we'd get an emotional fight between Sapnap and Quackity with Sapnap taking Dream's side after learning of everything that happened in the Vault.

Sam would be next, for the sake of both Dream and Ranboo. it might be a turning point for the DTeam, slowly realising that together there is nothing that could stop them.

Techno would approach Dream, the same way he would have before, and tell him that he doesn't like where all their activities are heading. at that point it just depends on whether Dream would be willing to slow down at least a tiny bit for Techno's sake, or if he's okay with breaking off whatever friendship they have for the sake of achieving his goals. he was okay with bombing New L'Manberg for peace, so what difference is it if they tear down one country at a time...? they'd try to reason, maybe, but their relationship would most likely never be the same.

Snowchester could technically be annexed through Ranboo's extended influence - once Dream realises they have nukes, they need to be taken care of.

as of the rest, well...

Punz would follow, never having questioned Dream's methods, ever loyal. and so would Ranboo, either because he was always complacent to all the terrible things Dream did, or because he wants to keep Tubbo and Michael safe (c!Beeduo are alive and well in my head)

this would have been really fun to develop just to see how far they can be pushed before snapping and turning on Dream, or maybe to see just how easy it could be for them to take things further than intended without prompting. Punz never seemed to care as long as there were fruits to his labour, and Ranboo, well, I just wish we knew more about his enderwalk.

as of the "good ending" - I never took Dream for an admin, at least not within this AU. he was always Just Some Guy who happened to found the place. their departure would be of little note to everyone else.

Punz would be given the offer to leave, Dream ever so great with his words would leave him a note with coordinates to the portal and nothing else. an indirect invite to join, if Punz wishes to, or go his own way. either way, it is a new chapter in their lives, and he can do with it whatever he wants.

[deadpoppet]

:fire: adventure zone

(I think this one’s gonna be a bit long...)

1) The Lost Century Arc was the weakest arc of Balance by far, and it coming in right between the end of the last Lunar Interlude and Story and Song/the ending arc didn’t help. People rag on The Suffering Game for whatever reason, and even though the “losses” in that arc didn’t matter much in the end, I still like it overall way more than I do LCA.I enjoyed getting the IPRE NPCs backstory, and I like the interactions Merle get’s with John (more on him later), but the arc just went on too damn long (even though it’s ending was fucking amazing).2) There’s aspects about Story and Song I would have liked done better, ie the part with Joaquin, and then there’s just A Lot Of Cameos Because We Gotta going on, which I would have preferred more so in the epilogue versus being crammed all into this one arc.

3) I think John’s just sorta underdeveloped and blah. The Hunger was more interesting when it didn’t have a persona attached to it, imo. Even though she isn’t a villain, Lucretia IS the antagonist of the season despite also being a hero, and ngl I wish that Griffin went in harder on making her regret her actions a bit more? It’s been a while since I’ve listened so take my opinion on her with a grain of salt.Besides that however, I think Griffin’s better traditional villains are the jokey ones, with Edward & Lydia being notable exceptions. I don’t really care about the abombombs (sp?) in Amnesty so far much either...4) I wish the orc kid from Gerblins (Kurtz?) got reused in another arc, lol. I just found him interesting.

5) I hate ultra pretty Taako headcanons, even though I Guess it’s corrected based on DnD lore. People doing this to Duck also sorta sucks.

6) I would have liked Dust for season 2 over Amnesty initially, but Amnesty is finally finding its groove 8 episodes or so in, so I don’t mind now.