okay while we’re thinking about lore that never happened. opinions on the Dream and Eryn storyline that might have been.
/rp dsmp
iirc from cc!Eryn’s pitch, the idea that was Eryn would have been on Dream’s side or something and then hurt a friend and realized the error of his ways or what have you? Honestly don’t remember the details but I don’t remember thinking it was too interesting. Probably bc I had the impression it centered too closely on the notion that no one could possibly align with Dream’s goals, and that Dream is Manipulation Incarnate etc etc.
I was more interested in Eryn + Dream possibilities that could focus on them gaining a sincerely neutral/positive relationship based on, ya know, treating each other with respect, that could then be poisoned by Eryn learning about Tommy. Like, for all the noise made about “but what if so and so learns about exile!!!!!”, Eryn is just about the only character that would actually apply to at this point. Outsider POV can be kinda fun.
Plus, that could be (the first?) actual narrative consequence Dream experiences for exile. (Not counting Sam and Q, because their motivations were complicated as fuck.) I think it would be interesting for Dream’s ruthlessness to cost him a sincere ally.
Anyway. Still not too interested.
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I had a dream where after escaping from prison Dream stopped to help the local post office recover from all the crossfire and brought them coffee helped them get the buffest most stat-perfect mail horses. Everything continued as usual except theres a post office with super strong horses who all think that despite the war crimes Dream is a pretty swell guy
this was such a funny ask to receive and i had to write something for it 😭 this is an au where loads and loads of people live in the smp !! tag for this au if i write more will be > au: smpost office
He’s such a nice man,” the workers whisper to each other as Dream leaves, arms now empty of the packages of cookies he’d brought for them, “really don’t know why he gets such a bad rep.”
Sure, he’d done a couple of not-so-great things. Blown up the houses of those living in L’Manburg, caused a few delays to postal services thanks to wars. But really, employees at the DSMPost weren’t about to start holding grudges. Not when he brought them such lovely gifts. They’re overworked and underpaid as it is: they’ll gladly take the help he offers.
Dream — former leader of the SMP, potentially former (or current) villain, recent former prisoner on the run — visits their post office every three to five business days.
“I don’t wanna show up too often,” he says one day, in that half-self conscious way of his, “I don’t want, like… people to realize I have a pattern of coming here. Or to think you guys are like, secretly working for me.”
“We literally would work for you,” Anya tells him very earnestly, absently petting one of the twelve horses Dream had gifted them, “you give us way better treatment than the boss.”
“You have a boss?” Dream asks, bemused. “Who?”
There are a few collective murmurs, before Ines, ever bold, says, “Well, technically Awesamdude. But it’s been a while since he dropped by, and he’s kind of a shitty boss, so… Mostly we just let Patches choose what we do now.”
If Dream falters at the mention of his former jailer, nobody is rude enough to bring it up. “Patches. Who’s Patches?”
There’s a meow from the corner. When Dream turns to look, there’s a tiny cat sitting proudly on a stool in the corner, angrily pawing at an empty food bowl. His heart melts.
“You know,” he says, “you could form a union.”
(Twelve hundred blocks away, Sam wakes up in a cold sweat.)
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Dream is a fast favorite of the SMPost. They turn a blind eye to a lot of things, like whenever they find him sleeping in a corner with Patches standing over him fiercely to protect him, or when he decks them all out secretly with netherite (“just in case,” he warns, “I don’t want you to get hurt”). And hey, if sometimes one of them shows up early for a shift and finds him rummaging through the post and replacing Sapnap’s letters to Quackity with live wriggling scorpions, they don’t get paid enough to stop him.
All in all, he’s polite, he’s helpful, and he gives them presents.
…And the offer of a union. What’s not to like?
“What’s not to like?” Eryn repeats, bewildered. “Isn’t he, like, an insane man?”
The rest of the SMPost shrugs, shifts. “I mean,” Tim says, “he’s pretty cool to us. Never hurt me before.”
“He brought a birthday cake for my kid,” one worker chips in, a bright smile on their face, “baked it himself. It tasted awful, but it’s the thought that counts. He passed out for fourteen hours after that.”
Yousaf points to the cookies in Eryn’s hands. “Made those, too. He’s way better at cookie-making than cake-baking. Brings them over every week for us whenever we run out.”
Staring between his fellow employees and the admittedly delicious cookies in his hands, Eryn decides he doesn’t get paid enough as a minimum-wage worker to report Dream to anyone. The guy seems fine, and hey, maybe he can even convince Tommy to join the SMPost. Seeing Dream might shock him into being his old self again.
“Fair enough,” Eryn says, “but when he comes back in, I’m asking him for a horse of my own.”
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I want you to imagine a c!aimsey who ends up in the tsmp and like it’s all normal there’s this guy Badlinu named Freddie who he’s never met, and then as they meet more and more SMP members it’s like..
oh funny…. Eryn what are you doing here.?
Jack..? oh that’s strange..
and shes thinking surely I didn’t wander back into this forsaken smp right? It was blown to bits. and then you just see the most horrified look on their face as they lock eyes on Tubbo.
and it starts all over again.
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I have words to say about c!Eryn because I adore this kid so much.
They’re just a little guy doing their best. He’s been trying to find his birth parents this whole time since he was a little kid, that’s why he ended up in the smp. While quick to violence, they care deeply about others and express that in their own unique way. They are also highly affected by emotions. Enough to feel so upset by the depressive vibe of the server post-prison break, that he had to hide away underground for several weeks. It was unbearable how he felt powerless to help make people feel better.
Despite the willingness to hide and deflect his emotions they get lonely very easily and miss having a family, which is why he got attached to c!Bad so quick. A fellow demon who has now become the closest thing they have to a close friend, a father figure, family. And he got close to Bad’s son c!Sapnap too, and views him as an older brother. Even when hearing auditory hallucinations from the past of corrupted egg!Bad’s involvement during the Red Banquet, they had firm belief that the kind, caring c!Bad he knows today would never do anything to hurt people.
This trust was maintained during the egglore finale streams. When faced with chaotic accusations being thrown at Bad left and right, that the demon is leading everyone to their doom again, c!Eryn was strong and never wavered in their belief that Bad is not corrupted, he’s good at heart and only wants to help. He defended Bad the best he possibly could. When they were the last two standing and Eryn considered asking the Egg the burning question of where his birth parents are, he still listened to Bad. The answer was within arms reach, it was the only chance to know the truth, but they ultimately decided not to because he trusted Bad’s judgement even more. That the two of them would go search for his parents after all this is over, no matter how long it takes - together.
Even when they got pushed into burning lava by egg!Puffy and canon died, there was only trust. This kid loves badboyhalo so much.
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Ok but Aimsey, Eret, Eryn and Ponk really really delivered. Like holy shit, the stream was incredible, the acting was on point- you could really tell that the streamers were really invested in the story (which immediately gets mirrored by the viewers because it makes for such a good experience all around) I had been wishing so bad for a plotline that would require people to come together and this one feels so fresh and interesting I can already tell it will emotionally destroy me. The concept of hope is new to the dsmp, and it immediately got me hooked!! All of the streamers involved did such an incredible job, I am just so happy rn!!
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