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redstonedust · 2 years
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yknow i disagree when people point towards atus for all the popular watcher imagery, i feel like the only thing they really codified was the masks, and i dont even see the masks that often lately. like in evo the watchers depict themselves with wings and their skin has robes, and the purple is kind of an obvious carry over from purple generally being a color of magic and power in minecraft (nether portals, the enderdragon, etc.)
idk i feel like even if atus didnt exist we wouldve gravitated towards similar imagery we do now because its just kind of common symbology for 'powerful magic guys that see all' fkdmKG
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I fully believe Herobrine powers > DreamXD’s powers solely because of Herobrine's ability to corrupt worlds. After all, what’s a guardian deity compared to a force that doesn’t need to conform to reality? c!Eret is an unknown variable, and DreamXD can’t afford to mess with them for fear of risking the world itself.
(For those of you who don’t recall, this was Phil and Ranboo’s reaction after seeing c!Eret’s eyes).
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altair214 · 1 year
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The finale has raised many questions in my mind, first of all, why did this happen at the same time as the Egg hatched? 
Does this have something to do with c!Dream saying that the server was off balance? Did c!Karl have anything to do with this? Did someone kill DreamXD? Was there just some cosmic event that cause the server to implode? Did the nuke cause the Egg to hatch? Did the combined deaths of all the people in the prison and those involved in the Egg finale cause the Egg to hatch? Did c!Foolish have anything to do with this?
Where does DreamXD fall in all of this?
What of the rest of the server? Where is everyone that hasn’t died yet? 
Why did c!Tommy, c!Tubbo, and c!Dream end up where they did with no memory of anything that’s happened? Where is c!Jack and c!Punz? Are they on the same world, are they in a limbo of sorts, or are they on a totally different world? (somehow I managed to type this as Tubbo got asked on stream about this exact thing). Does this mean that limbo was created by the revive book? So since the only people with the revive book died, that destroyed limbo? If so, what of the people in limbo?
What does c!Sam and c!Boomer’s lore have to do with all this? 
I have so many questions. Feel free to add on to this with more questions or theories or anything really.
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The last stream is tomorrow... I'm so excited, but also sad. No more theories to make, no more ideas to give really.
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So this is my last theory:
It will go to plan. Sort of.... Tommy will get there and stop Punz and Dream, but after pressing the button, there will be time left to just wait. Tubbo will run to Tommy to help him. Confusing Dream and Punz, and even Tommy on how he was there.
And suddenly, They all blow up. But they are not in limbo, they will be in the end. And Tommy and Tubbo will have to fight the dragon. And when doing so, they free the server. And will be seen as Heroes.
That's the hope at least.
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It was fun making theories of this series, I hope to make more someday if they do a season 2 or make a new SMP.
To everyone following me and who did like my theories, I say thank you. You are all so wonderful and I will see you on the flipside!
To all, Have a good day/night!
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bsders · 2 years
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DreamXD is a Dreamon
/dsmp /rp /c!
blahblah blah dreamons its old who cares blaj blahHHEAR ME OUT
dreamon ritual
the first time we see dreamXD is during the dreamon lore era
tubbo says dream was a transmuted dreamon which means he swaps between the two entities when triggered
dreamxd shows up after tubbo and fundy "free dream" from the dreamon and starts punching tubbo and seconds later both tubbo and fundy log off
2. times he shows up after this ritual
the next time we see dreamXD is when techno and phil find the stronghold and the end portal dreamXD logs on and destroys it and rebuilds it wrong
the third time is when he helps george and bad build a mcdonalds (💀) this is surprisingly where u see how twisted dreamXD is, when george and quackity get into an argument dreamXD claims that he is going to help george spawn trap quackity with obsidian and lava but ends up betraying george, upon seeing how upset george got abt it he immediately says that he did it to trick quackity and even tried to kill badboyhalo to comfort george (it works 😭??????)
we see how dreamXD has no issue in swapping sides just for his own entertainment and how death is his main entertainment
the forth time we see dreamXD is when bad is leading george and niki to the egg (also anyone else thinks the egg is a dreamon) and dreamXD logs on, after killing bad (poor bad lmao) he hangs out with george and he starts acting strange and revealing important things
his voice switches into a more demonic voice to an echo-y voice to finally a normal no sound effect voice
the change to the demonic voice seem to happen when he is upset example: when george asks him for stuff because he views it as george using him (tbf he is)
the change to the echo-y voice probably happens when he is upset? possessive? angry? example: george saying he would rather be with bad than with him, dreamXD starts chasing george claiming he is not going to hurt him
and then lastly the normal voice, its dream calling out to george "george its me dream!" but dreamXD brushes it off immediately saying "hm he is gone"
which is interesting cause later he says that he isnt dream but he is a part of him and he also says that he was hunted (tbf this line holds the whole theory together)
they try to prank bad and niki but it didnt go as george planned, even sending niki to hell and bringing her back
maybe its because dreamXD does not understand the concept of jokes so he shares his entertainment and what makes him laugh with george not realizing its not normal
3. the books arefor dreamXD´s entertainment
dreamXD is the creator of both the revival book and the death book
we know that if u revive someone thats not dead or if u kill someone that doesnt exist it summons dreamXD
the first time we see this happen is in the prison, when dream and techno try to revive someone thats not dead, he shows up and its the first time dream sees dreamXD
techno asks "how come god looks exactly like you?" (really nice quote)
dreamXD gives techno a bell and leaves.
the second time we see this is when sapnap kills someone who doesnt exist and he is summoned, dreamXD says its interesting and that he didnt expect sapnap to get the book
"listen up this is a ME thing not a YOU thing okay? IM in charge"
"you cant kill the owner of the revival book, you just cant!" "what is this like some game to you?" "actually it is a game! i watched death note i thought it was good and i thought yeah it will be fun!"
dreamXD wants dream alive, even as a ghost, maybe cause if one of them dies they both die ?
dreamXD would prefer if dream and sapnap were partners, he wants infinite deaths "you kill he revives you kill he revives YOU KILL HE REVIVES OOOOHHH ITS SO PERFECT!"
dreamXD is also connected to dreams (haha) he sees peoples dreams and gives people nightmares maybe fundys lore is also tied in here who knows
maybe thats why they are halled dreamons
dreamXD also rules the end so like maybe there is a connection there???
idk but i find it really interesting
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honey-sunsets · 2 years
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Presenting: You Didn’t Connect Shit — My Theory on How It’s All Coming Together
Featuring: three time travelers, a heartbroken god, and barely there but extremely plot-relevant GeorgeHD.
Brought to you by Tree Michael Multicolor. Sponsored by my shower and the void of my brain. Inspired by the Minecraft end poem.
DreamXD and GeorgeHD are the green and blue voices in the Minecraft end poem. They rule over a small pocket of the Universe together.
Something happens to GeorgeHD that kills him, or whatever the god-equivalent of dying is.
XD scrambles to find a way to bring him back. He invents resurrection, and in doing so tangles the connection between life and death, thus creating Limbo.
This cuts off a soul’s ability to move on to a merciful afterlife, as well as the ability of people like Phil and Kristin to easily move and make contact between realms.
So resurrection was completely unsuccessful for everyone involved. XD moves on to a new tactic. Surely leaving behind traces of his old project (*cough cough* the revive book) won’t have any consequences.
XD creates time travel in the hopes that he can save HD before he’s even killed. However, because of [continuity reason], he can’t travel himself, so he has to send someone else to do his bidding.
His first traveler is everyone’s favorite forgetful king, you know him, you love him, that’s right you guessed it, it’s…
Eret!
Eret travels only for a short time before [something else goes horribly wrong], causing Eret to seemingly disappear off the face of the earth and lose all of their memories. Thankfully, due to their ties to Herobrine, the amnesia stops there without the chronic memory loss seen in the other travelers.
Nevertheless, Eret finds herself compelled to preserve history, even if she can’t remember why.
XD isn’t giving up so quickly this time around, and decides to learn from his mistakes. He takes on a new mentee: the young prince of the End, Ranboo.
He uses a new method this time around, creating pocket dimensions to assist Ranboo in his travels. They’re… a bit uncanny, and produce an effect a bit opposite from intended, but it’s fine.
It is not fine. This time around is even more catastrophic than the last, and XD leaves Ranboo disfigured, stranded far from home, and with chronic memory loss.
Third time’s a charm. XD enlists Karl Jacobs as his third traveler. He takes a new new approach by starting Karl off small, giving him meaningless little missions here and there to get him used to traveling, before introducing himself or his greater objective.
He also indirectly tours Karl through the In Between, unaware that Ranboo had left warnings for successor in his panicked final days.
Around the same time, XD finds himself absorbed in something else entirely, a project that has him uncharacteristically unproductive: George. He just looks so similar, and he’s got the same damned name, XD just… he can’t help himself.
In some divinely fucked up way, XD feels as though this is a way of making it up to HD for not being able to save him.
Now it’s just a matter of seeing where Karl goes from here. Whether he succumbs to mental deterioration like the last two travelers, he finally completes DreamXD’s mission, or he does something entirely different… who knows!
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meteor752 · 2 years
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The god hierarchy of the Dream SMP
So yeah I got thinking again.
The canon gods of the SMP are XD, god of quote unquote “Everything”, and Kristin the goddess of death. But, there’s also foolish, and other deities like the egg, so what is going on here? Well, here’s my little theory.
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So just like in many other mythologies, there’s a large pantheon of gods in the DSMP universe. Some minor ones include The Blood god, Drista goddess of chaos, and Philza, The Angel of death. These are all sub-species of the great quartet, or the big four if you will, and don’t really have any greater power over the world as a whole.
The big four consists of XD, god of creation, The Lady, goddess of death, Foolish, god of life, and [Redacted], god of destruction.
As you see, these four all exist in harmony, creating a circle. XD creates, Foolish gives life, [Redacted] destroys and The Lady takes care of their souls after their demise. They’re all one happy family.
Until Foolish leaves the great pantheon to become mortal, throwing everything into turmoil. It is unclear why Foolish gave up on his godhood, some ancient historians theories that he wanted peace, some say he wanted war, and some say he just wanted to build.
With a piece of their family missing, the system is in chaos. XD is forced to take on Foolish’ old duties of giving creatures and beings life, something that greatly upsets [Redacted]. Why should XD be gives more power than them and The Lady? The Lady has no qualms about this fact, she’s too busy breaking every rule possible to keep Foolish from entering her realm, just to give him eternal peace. Plus, this was when The Angel of Death was created and she’s a bit busy with that if ya know what I mean.
So [Redacted] is left to their own devices, to scheme and think to their hearts fullest content. They know that they’re not as powerful as the other two, with XD taking up two of the roles and The Lady having her own realm and billions of souls under her belt. But [Redacted] isn’t stupid, they’re the fucking god of destruction, and they know that they can take control if needed to.
So, they gain a new sort of power. The power to manipulate, and the power to control. Everyone who looks upon them immediately falls to their knees in awe, a willingness to devote and die for their god fining a place in their heart. The only people immune to their thrall is the creatures of there other gods, like XD’s Dreamons, The Lady’s undead, and Foolish’ villagers. Also yea I headcanon that they’re people of his creation, because come on. Dudes with big noses being obsessed with emeralds and peace?
And so [Redacted] spreads their destruction across the server, slowly taking soul after soul, block after block, until nothing remains but a barren blood red wasteland filled with brainwashed cultists. The Lady and XD are forced to act, but they can’t find themselves to kill [Redacted]. They’re like a sibling, a part of their holy quartet, and after loosing Foolish it would be too much to loose another.
So they encase [Redacted] in a vessel to conceal their destruction. A cocoon of sorts, or an egg if you will. [Redacted] is hidden deep underground, and they’re forever forgotten in history.
The Lady and XD can’t remove the destruction that The Egg caused, so they create a new realm to keep it all from spreading more. The mortals call it The Nether. All of the brainwashed people are sent there as well, as they can’t find a way to cure them. Overtime they evolve to adjust to the environment more, becoming creatures like Piglins, and Blazes, and Ghasts and Wither Skeletons. Some more powerful individuals evolve into Demons, terrifying creatures that are almost impossible to kill.
And life goes on. More people join the SMP. War is started, some are won and some are lost. The Lady’s Angel creates a family that all die off one by one. Some creature start to leave The Nether, such as a certain young and positive demon.
Foolish finds a place to live, permanently. XD checks in on him as often as he can, talking to him and entertaining him. Foolish has started to remember who he was, fragments and pieces only, and he demands of XD to be given his powers and godhood back. XD refuses, per Foolish own wishes from a long time ago, but after a while it becomes too hard to resist. He’s always been soft when it comes to Foolish sparkling green eyes and toothy shark grin.
And then a Demon finds The Egg. A descendant of one it their most loyal followers, taking up the role his ancestor played perfectly. Some other creatures, like a cat or a human get perused just as easily thanks to the Destruction blood flowing through their veins, while some take their time like a flower nymph, a creature of life.
And Foolish is killed. No one understands why, he’s supposed to be a god right? Why can some cat influenced by an egg take one of his lives?
Because the Egg is a god. Not just a god, it’s one of The Gods. The Big four are unkillable, to everyone but each other.
But because of his decision on mortality, Foolish is given a second chance. In fact, he’s gives a third chance as well, something to save for the future. Every god and deity are gives only one life, but Foolish is no longer a god, now is he?
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Yeah that ending sucked lol
Anyways, to summarize some things that didn’t fit here, in the beginning there were four sets of people, people of life, death, creation, and destruction. Over time the people have bred amongst each other, so most people of the SMP are mixes and hybrids, but there are some Purebloods. Dream is pure creation for example, as is George which is why XD is drawn to him. Every Nether person, such as Techno, Tina, Sapnap and Bad are pure destruction. Hannah and Purpled are pure life, giving them incredible survival skills, and Eret and Wilbur are both pure death. Sally was also pure life, giving Fundy and even 50/50 between life and death. Ranboo is similar, but with 50/50 of Creation and Destruction. Every revived person also become pure death, so while Tommy used to be mostly creation and Jack mostly destruction, they’re now 100% creatures of death.
Drista is a deity of XD, Philza a deity of The Lady, The Blood God a deity of [Redacted] and Prime a deity of Foolish.
Also I have no answer for The End, so after The Nether was created I guess XD just wanted his own realm to fuck around with. The Lady’s realm is Limbo, if that wasn’t obvious.
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nijacobs · 1 year
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what if they didn't really die and this is dreamxd showing them how different everyone's lives would be if c!dream and c!tommy got along and became friends?
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atthebell-moved · 1 year
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no but fr i detest how people treat ghostbur like a completely different person from wilbur like. imo the whole point is 1. ccwilbur wanted to keep playing minecraft with his friends lol 2. ghostbur is not the redeemable bits of wilbur, the point is that he already is capable of compassionate and care and regret and assuming that one has to be traumatized a way that makes you soft and gentle instead of being angry and at times unkind is so fucking annoying
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belanova · 2 years
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WAIT IT HAS OCCURED TO ME THAT'S EXACTLY HOW TO STOP KARL'S MIND FROM WORSENING!
Somebody needs to kill dreamXD
The reason Karl is like that is because DreamXD needed a time traveler, Killing a virus is one way to stop it from ending you, So hypothetically killing DreamXD would stop Karl from time travelling for a bit which would then stop the mind deterioration that happens whenever he does
Also prevents DreamXD killing Karl when he gets to that state of amnesia and no longer "Useful"
BTW the last we heard of DreamXD was that he was being weakened.. implies some level of mortality...
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alchemicaladarna · 9 days
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So I'm like at least one hour late to the discussion, but I just realized Bad explaining his headcanons about the DSMP. Like the timeloops and DreamXD pulling people from different timelines and universes to basically be his "playthings"/puppets makes so much sense for so many characters. Including kind of an explanation to Q!Bad's lore on QSMP.
Because months ago, he mentioned that Q!Bad was stuck in a timeloop for a while, and that could be referring to his time on the DSMP. I'm not exactly sure when this timeloop happened, but I saw people saying this took place sometime after the Hunger Games. But tbh this could take place before that...
So, to me, this is confirmation that he existed as this very ancient demon that got yoinked from his universe by DreamXD, and then all the events of the timeloop (DSMP) took place, and then somehow, the timeloop broke and Q!Bad made his way to Quesadilla Island where he is now trapped there. And depending on your theories for what the Island/Fed experiments are, you can say q!Bad might be stuck in another loop.
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I love the implication from today’s stream that Dream XD isn’t actually an all-powerful god. After all, Phil’s met REAL gods; he can recognize one when he sees it. I like the idea that Dream XD isn’t just less-powerful in comparison to Kristin, the Goddess of Death — he’s not a god period.
Yes, Dream XD is the powerful guardian of the SMP and he’s an ancient entity that’s been around longer than anyone else on the server — but does that necessarily make him a god?
This would also explain why Dream XD was so adamant about Foolish building that statue for him, and recruiting people for his “fanclub”. After all, what’s a god without worshipers?
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bc-jpeg · 1 year
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so uh- I didn't see if this theory already exists in the fandom, or no one really touched on it, but after a long time in both fandoms, one funny pattern is noticeable. I’m so obsessed with watchers lore so much, which is why I started to go beyond only one universe, and this gave the result. so the theory is that dreamxd is a watcher. after digging into the dsmp lore, I found several points that may indicate this. dxd’s nature may differ from the canonical nature of the watchers that we see in evo smp and in the life-seasons in martyn’s lore, but we also already have a watcher!grian, whose watcher's nature also differs in its own way from that very canon, he has his own lore, so this will also work here.
now this will be only my personal version of watcher!dxd lore, there may still be holes in it, but this is only as a possible base:
presumably dreamxd is an ex-manhunt!dream, who could not get out of the world and stuck in the spectator mode of the game, becoming a watcher. in the initial attempts to escape from such a fate and get out (I don't think dream would just accept such a fate), he was crippled either by other watchers or by himself, having lost his "eye". this explains the basic visual interpretation of the dxd, where the place where the eyes should have been is now a familiar cross pattern.
isolating himself from other watchers, dxd created a time loop from the existing world, from which he initially could not get out, closing access to the end dimension for players, preventing both the players themselves from escaping, and the possibility of capturing these players to other watchers for their own time loops. the world with the manhunt seed was restarted, defaulting almost everything to zero, which eventually became the dsmp server. all interactions between players and server events began to give dxd so much energy and power that eventually the essence of the watcher completely absorbed him, dxd himself began to provoke events, interact directly with players, and all for the sake of energy, emotions, deaths that made him only stronger. dsmp became an excellent loop-feeder for him only, in which he completely lost his original humanity, becoming a monster, creating only chaos.
one of the risky but effective dxd’s moves of was giving the revival book and the book of death to players inside the time loop, which in a peculiar way gave them access to part of dxd’s powers. he realized how unpredictable players can be in their decisions and actions, which gave a ton of events possibilities. he wouldn't have to provoke events himself, when players can do everything for him, giving the same amount of energy.
so in the final of the dsmp, after that nuclear explosion, dxd simply restarted the entire time loop, as it was shown. the players don't remember anything that happened, they don't remember each other, the whole world was defaulted to zero, where they started all over again.
it’s also interesting that the concepts of limbo and dreams/illusions exist both in the dsmp lore and in watchers lore in life-seasons. limbo is the space where players end up with the loss of all their canonical lives, and there is no return from there, only at the whim of mystical powers (dsmp — the revival book, as part of the dxd’s powers, life-seasons — the watchers, more specifically watcher!grian).
both concepts somehow intersect with each other:
> in the dsmp, they intersected in the c!george’s lore, he had partial access to limbo through his own dreams, where dxd himself was also often present. someone also had the opportunity to watch server events from limbo.
> in life-seasons, according to cc!martyn, limbo is the space where all players get to after the final death and are there between seasons in a state of sleep, in which they see their own smps/universes.
again, this is just a possible version of how exactly this theory/head-cannon can work, there are a lot of things that I could not explain yet, because there is too much information from different dsmp povs. some things I remember, some not at all, but I left a hint of their possible intersection visually in the diagram. the theory of the smps-multiverse is here simply by default, all the other main points are indicated in this diagram. all of this will be easily editable at any future time, my job is just to throw in the base for this theory :D
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covenofwives · 8 months
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Interrogations
Dream knew DreamXD would come for him eventually after his stunt in the End. He didn't expect that XD would be so serious about demanding answers. Or expect for far XD would go to get them.
WOOOOOOO!!! Next part of the AU baby lets go! And perfect timing for this :D since people are making theories. Sadly this fic won't answer any but it has a lot of ticklings. And it takes place right after Dandelion Kisses.
Warnings for this fic: Intense tickling. Like it's called interrogations, it is very heavily a tickle torture fic. Dream is fine and safe but be careful when reading. Also warning for feet nibbles in this fic. It's not a lot or in great detail but feet nibbles do happen and I know that can make people uncomfortable. Again pls be careful when reading, don't push yourself to read something if it makes you uncomfortable.
Thank you and pls enjoy!
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Dream was still pulling dandelions and grass out of his hair by the time he and George had finished lunch. He’d left them in, as some sort of whimsy reminder of the day, but a few too many started tickling at his ears and he was pulling them out now.
George had left to meet with Sapnap. He didn’t know when he’d be back, but he promised not to mention anything about Dream. It wasn’t the right time and while George didn’t agree, Dream knew he wouldn’t break his trust.
Now all that was left was to figure out what to do for the rest of the day. Dream taunted with the idea of going out. He could cover himself up and walk around the SMP, not interact with anyone even though his whole being burned to. He wanted to know what was happening, to catch up with everyone. He had to visit Techno sometime and see where the piglin stood exactly. He had to get to the next part in his plans with Punz.
Punz…huh.
Dream hadn’t thought of Punz since their last meeting. Everything had been crazy and it felt like he never got time to think and sort everything out. Now Dream thought of Punz and a million questions popped in his head.
Where was the blonde bounty hunter now? They had a meeting plan in the snow and then that was it. It was supposed to be planned out from there but then Punz had vanished. He handed Dream those weird Ender Pearls and then he’d left. Dream was too excited with the new plan to really think properly. He should have sought Punz out, or at least planned a better way to contact him.
Maybe that could be the next plan. And George could help. A small list formed in Dream’s head while he walked from the kitchen to the main room then a sudden familiar pop sound filled the air, and Dream stood looking at DreamXD.
The God looked better than the last Dream had seen him. The torn up bloodied imagine of his brother was replaced with this. His cloak was completely fixed and the blood was gone. Dream glanced down at XD’s arms, only seeing the top set hang over his cloak. He couldn’t see the damaged one, and worried if it was still torn, bloody and limp. But he forced himself to look up, get his thoughts away from it.
If XD was here, there’s only one conclusion Dream’s mind leapt to.
He’s going to put me back in the prison!
Adrenaline coursed through Dream’s veins for survival. His legs screamed at him to run and he nearly did when XD rose up his arm. He thought it was coming to grab at him, but XD held up his palm like he was trying to sooth a wild animal and he spoke.
“I’m not taking you back to the prison. I’m not here for that.” XD’s voice rumbled behind the mask. That mask was once comforting to look at and now it filled Dream with anxiety. When the mask was on it wasn’t his brother speaking to him. It was the God of the server.
XD lowered his hand slowly and spoke again. “You are not going back there. But I need to talk to you.”
Dream’s heart thumped uncomfortably in his chest. He had practiced what he’d say to XD over and over again in his head but now given the chance his memory failed him. He opened his mouth and was cut off.
“How did you get to the End?”
Any hope Dream let himself had fell. So it wasn’t to talk, it was to get answers. Not a conversation Dream wanted but it was something.
“W-We…” Dream cleared his throat when he realised how hoarse his voice sounded. “I found a stronghold where the portal frames weren’t destroyed.”
“How?” XD asked suddenly.
A bead of sweat rolled down Dream’s neck. He wished he had his mask on to hide. It seemed unfair XD got to hide while he was forced to face this head on. “I just...searched for it. Went to stronghold after stronghold until I found it.”
“You? Not you and George?”
“No!” Dream quickly shook his head. “No. It was me. All me.”
“You…” XD repeated the word slowly. “So you went out and searched for the stronghold yourself, found it and then went back and got George?”
Dream realised his fuck up before XD finished his sentence. That wouldn’t make any sense time wise considering Dream and George travelled for a month.
“No I… I knew the area where to search. I got George and brought him with me while we went to the stronghold.”
XD hummed and Dream realised he didn’t make a whole lot of sense. His mind cursed himself. How could he be so calm and cool speaking to everyone else, but as soon as he had to talk to his brother it felt like his mind was mush and his mouth was full of cotton.
XD was silent for a long while before he spoke again. “How did you open the portal?”
A thousand lies ran through Dream’s head but before he could say anything XD cut in. “Do not lie to me about this Dream.”
Dream wanted to act in offence, but it wasn’t like XD was wrong. “I… I used those ender pearls. The ones in the portal frames.”
XD nodded slowly. “And where did you get them?”
Dream controlled his breathing. “I… I found them.”
“No you didn’t.” XD voice was harsher. “Where did you get them?”
“I made them.” It was partly a panicked response, but XD’s head tilted and Dream couldn’t tell if it was in consideration or not.
“Really?” The voice was dripping in sarcasm. He did not believe it. “How do you make them?”
Dream pursed his lips. Caught.
“Right. So. How did you get them?”
“I… I just found them. I swear-”
“Did someone give them to you?”
Dream thought he controlled his face enough to not let it slip away, but without his mask he didn’t have that assurance. Seems like his expression wasn’t controlled enough as XD quickly asked. “Who gave them to you?”
There was no point lying again, but if Dream told then Punz was in trouble. Probably worse than trouble. Punz would  be dead. “N-No-one! I found them. I knew you needed something for the portals and they fit.”
“Did this person also tell you where the stronghold was?”
His face clearly made a tell again because XD nodded. “Okay. So they’re the same person. Who is it?”
“I… It - N-No-one. It was all me.”
XD sighed. A sigh that was holding back frustration. “Dream, this is serious.” His voice was almost growling. “Whoever gave you those Eyes is dangerous. You could have been killed, or someone else might have followed you through. Or Dragon could have gotten out to the Overworld. So you need to tell me right now who gave them to you.”
Dream’s neck felt wet with sweat and his heart raced. He couldn’t sell out Punz no matter what. If XD was that mad at his own brother he couldn’t imagine the rage he’d have for someone unrelated to him. “No-one did…”
Dream’s voice wasn’t very believable, but he already knew XD didn’t believe him. He just had to outlast the God and show that he wasn’t budging.
Of course it was easier thinking that than actually doing it. Despite them being brothers, XD was terrifying and while Dream was sure XD would never hurt him, the aura from the God was…unsettling.
XD moved suddenly and if Dream wasn’t so used to XD’s tells he would have been caught instantly. The God leapt from his position, arms out stretched to grab hold but Dream quickly ducked under them. He pushed himself off the floor and ran for the door but he didn’t even make it half way before he was caught.
XD’s upper arms caught around Dream’s waist. The blonde didn’t even have a chance to struggle before his wrists were captured and Dream was pulled up off the ground, his arms held up high above his head. He kicked out his legs, but even as his foot hit into XD’s shins, the God was unmoved.
Undetered by Dream’s actions, XD brought forward his lower set of arms. His hands poised on either side of Dream’s ribs before digging in. His claws scribbling through the tunic over the ticklish bones.
“Pffftt! W-Wait! Wahahahait!” Dream laughed instantly with no chance to steel himself from the tickling. Honestly this wasn’t what he was expecting at all.
The tickling hands crawled up to Dream’s armpits, drilling into the hollows before skittering their way down and kneading at Dream’s hips. The trapped mortal threw his head back in a boisterous laugh that caught him off guard. XD usually teased his tickly victims into a frenzy but there was none of that softness. XD went straight in for the kill. His fingers crawled around to Dream’s stomach and vibrated over the quivering belly, drawing the laugh up to near hysterics.
XD lessened his tickling only slightly to whisper into Dream’s ear. “This doesn’t stop until you tell me who gave them to you.”
Dream gasped between his helpless laughter. He’s going to tickle torture me to find out!
The realisation kicked Dream’s body into survival. He tried to wiggle, kick and worm his way out of XD’s hands but it was no use. XD didn’t budge and hands tickling didn’t falter in their attack. They moved down, switching between scribbling over Dream’s tummy and kneading over his hips. He never stayed in each spot for a set time, moving rapidly between them or sometimes he’d give one more attention than the other. It kept Dream’s nerves constantly on edge and crying out for mercy when he thought it should be over.
Tears prickled in the corner of Dream’s eyes when XD finally stopped. Their hands pulled back but the hands around Dream’s wrists still didn’t move while Dream took in gulp after gulp of air.
“Pl…Plehease… Stop…” Dream gasped.
“Who gave you the Eyes, Dream?” XD voice was cold as they asked.
“No-No-one! Please XD just listen to me-!”
Dream was moved. From being hoisted in the air he was then laying on the floor of the cottage. By the time he realised it he was still trapped. XD sat over his legs, facing away from Dream and down to his feet. Dream immediately knew what was coming. He tried to jump up and make a grab for the back of XD’s cloak but his hands were tied. Literally. He looked up above his head to see his wrists bound together with rope that grew from the floor. Like tan snakes they weaved around Dream’s wrists and tied into a tight knot.
He tried his hardest to pull on the ropes, but it was worthless. His attention was drawn back to XD as the God began to slowly pull off his brother’s socks.
“XD! Wait wait wait! WAHAIT! Plehease!”
His brother paid no attention, throwing off the socks without hesitation. Dream curled his toes and tired to cover one foot with the other, but XD simply grabbed his toes. His foot was stretched out and his sole attacked. XD’s terrible tickly claws scratched up and down his foot, not focusing on one spot but just making sure the whole area was tickled.
Dream threw his head back into a laugh, which became a scream when his other foot was grabbed in the same way. Stretched out and tickled beyond reason.
“PLEHEHEHEASE! PLEHEHEHEASE! MERCY! MERCIHIHIHIY!”
It was only a matter of time before those claws would hone in on his worst spot. His laugh came out in high pitched squeaks whenever those claws brushed along his arch. It was like they were sending warning shocks through his body, alighting his nerves while taunting him: this is what’s coming. This is what you’ll be dealing with.
“Tell me who gave you the Eyes. And this stops.” XD slowed his fingers, softly scratching over the balls of Dream’s feet and just under his toes. It still tickled madly, but his laughter was soft enough to hear XD’s words and speak.
“EHEHEX DEHEHEHE! Ple-ehehe-eHEAHAHASE! PLEASE! I-I cahahan’t breheheheathe!”
“You can speak just fine. Talk.” XD replied coldly, and his fingers went down, just ever so slightly, closer to Dream arch.
“NOHOHO! PLEHEHEHASE!” Dream screeched. He tried to arch his back as much as he could but couldn’t do much with XD on his legs. “I CAHAHAN’T! EheheHEHEehehex Deheheheheh! Plehehehease!”
“That’s not an answer.”
With that XD’s nails went down, directly over the arches of Dream’s sensitive feet and scribbled.
Dream’s laughs came out in mix of silent screams and sudden bouts of hysterics. He wiggled, turned and kicked out any part of his body he could move. He couldn’t speak or form words, or at least not consciously anyway. His mind was overtaken by the shocks of ticklish energy. Numbing his thoughts and overriding every sense in his body to just feel the tickling.
He barely even noticed when two more arms sprouted from XD’s back. They pushed aside XD’s cloak, flexed their fingers before suddenly launching down and tickling into Dream’s tummy.
Dream didn’t think he could physically be tickled anymore than he already was, but it seems his nerves still had a ways to go. He could feel his mind slipping to the depths of insanity, forever feeling this endless tickling. It seeped into every thought of his mind, electrifying all of his nerves with no sign of rest.
The tickling must have stopped for a while but Dream was still laughing. Eventually his laughter died down to giggles and he noticed XD had moved off his legs. Not that it helped him in any way. His whole body felt like jelly, unmoving except for the few twitches he made. He could feel the tear streaks down his cheeks only because XD wiped them away. He was by Dream’s side now, wiping away the fallen tears with the back of his hand. The extra arms he sprouted were gone, but his mask remained on and his voice still cold when he spoke.
“Tell me who gave you the Eyes Dream and it’s over.”
Dream whined. “Pl…please XD…. I… I can’t….”
“Did they threaten you, Dream? Did they say something would happen to you if you told me? Or threaten George?”
It was the first time XD’s voice had gone soft through their whole conversation and Dream hated how much he leaned into it. He hated how his heart fluttered and yearned for that voice again, to hear XD be his brother.
“N-No…” Dream hesitated to say, and felt a cold sting when all softness from XD’s voice was gone.
“Then tell me who.”
Dream shut his eyes and shook his head. It was becoming unbearable to see that cold mask looking down at him. He heard XD sigh and then he moved. Dream’s nerves tingled with unknowing until he felt his tunic being pulled up over his tummy.
“N-NO!” Dream yelped, eyes shot open and he tried to curl up again.
XD was having none of it, easily stretching Dream out again and sitting on his legs. Now facing his stomach.
“PLEASE! XD!”
“I’m not playing games with you Dream. When you’re ready to tell me, this stops.”
He came down upon Dream’s stomach, who tensed up expecting raspberries blown across his skin. But it was not XD’s lips that touched his skin, it was XD’s fangs. The End God immediately began nibbling along the soft sensitive flesh and Dream lost it.
He screamed louder than he ever had. If he had any sense left to think he’d be thankful George’s cottage was in the middle of a forest. It must have sounded like he was being murdered.
Dream vision was overtaken with flashing colours, blinding white lights and spouts of darkness. His nerves felt alight with fire and electricity at the same time.
It felt like hours the tickling lasted for, but it was truly only a few seconds. Dream took in air like he had been drowning. His cheeks were wet with tears again and his hair clung to his sweat slicked skin.
The starry mask of XD was pushed up, revealing his lips set in a straight emotionless expression. Dream tried to plead again, but it came out in whimpers and XD spoke over him. “You cannot handle my fangs on your stomach. And that’s not even your worst spot.”
Dream cocked his eyebrow up in question. Or he tried to but he honestly wasn’t sure if it moved. His whole body felt like it wasn’t in his control.
“How are you going to last with those fangs on your worst spot?”
It look longer for Dream to connect the dots, and even then it didn’t fully click until XD moved himself off Dream’s legs and grabbed one of his ankles.
Dream wanted to jump away and fight with his full strength, but he was weak and his voice hoarse from all the laughing. He barely got his other leg up to kick before XD’s hand snapped on and held it down. His shouts for XD to stop came out more in a whimper.
“Plehehease! Plehehease plehehease dohohon’t! E-Ehehex Dehehe!”
“You know how to make it stop.” Was all XD said before the foot was raised up, and he opened his mouth for his terrifying fangs to grow long and sharper. They grazed across Dream’s arches, nibbling so softly and Dream screamed for as much as his lungs would allow.
His laughter came out in a mix of silence and screams. When his lungs could laugh no more his face was still an expression of hysterical laughter but no sound came out. When he got the smallest puff of air it wailed out his throat in pleading laugh-filled words.
“GREHEHEHEHEHEN! GREHEHEHEHEHEHEN!!! FUHUHUHUCKING STOHOHOHOP!”
The tickling did stop, but foot was held up to XD’s fangs. The God hesitated, having a silent debate with themselves and even if the tickling had stopped, Dream still felt no safer when he could feel the God’s breath over his foot.
He’s not going to stop!
Dream felt his chest tightening when XD slowly lowered his foot, calming him for a moment.
“You get a break, then this continues.”
Words had never felt so cold and terrifying. “Nohoho! Plehehease! You-You cahan’t!”
“I can, and I will. Until you’ve told me who gave you the Eyes, this doesn’t stop.”
“I-I can’t…” Dream blinked away tears in his eyes, unsure if they were from his tickling, or frustration. “I can’t tell you.”
“You have to, Dream.”
“You’ll… You’ll hurt them if I do…”
It was easier to read XD’s emotions with their lips shown. They pulled back, lips slightly parted in a silent gasp as they paused over the words. “I… I wouldn’t.” XD spoke after a moment to collect his thoughts.
“You will! You…” Dream rapidly blinked the tears from his eyes and looked up to XD. It probably wasn’t as impressive or serious as he wanted it to look. “You nearly threw me back in the prison, and I’m your own brother! You’d kill a stranger if they did the same thing!”
XD’s mouth fell open as though in shock, and Dream could only imagine it was a look of pain on their face. “I-I…” XD started then silently mouthed something. They looked down for a moment before bringing their face back up. “I would have… I would have never put you back in that prison. I… I misspoke.”
“You misspoke?! You said you’d have thrown me in the prison if you had the chance!”
“I wouldn’t have! I was…I was angry! I was terrified! Terrified I’d lost you. That I’d lose you!”
Despite how much his heart wanted to hold onto the pain and spitefulness, he could hear truth in his brother’s words. They had spent years together, learning one another's tells and XD wasn’t lying.
“That’s why I need you to tell me who gave them to you. If they know how to make them, or have some way to get them, they’re dangerous Dream. They nearly killed you.”
Dream’s head fell back in defeat. Of course, of course it wasn’t for Dream’s concern. It was to keep those stupid Eyes safe and out of everyone else’s hands. It was all to protect the End. Dream’s care was a second thought.
“I won’t hurt them, Dream. If it was one of your friends who gave them to you. I just want to speak with them.”
Part of Dream didn’t want to believe it, but he knew XD too well. The God wasn’t lying but doubt still prickled along Dream’s skin. It was hard to trust what he knew right now. His mind was still foggy from the tickles, and it was hard to think of XD showing mercy to anyone when it came to the End.
“You…you won’t hurt them?”
XD shook his head. “No.”
“Promise?”
“I promise you. I just want to talk to them.”
It was hard to believe, but the tickling of XD’s fangs along his feet were still coursing through him, lightly strumming his nerves with the memory. And he had a feeling XD wouldn’t show him mercy for his safeword again.
“P… Punz… It was Punz.”
XD’s reaction was a lot…less reactionary than Dream thought. The God seemed paused, like he hadn’t heard Dream and then he tilted his head. “Punz?”
“Y-Yes…?”
XD’s head tilted again, this time the other way. “Punz? Mercenary Punz? White hoodie wearing Punz?”
“Yes! How many Punz are there? That Punz, yes!”
XD leaned back ever so slightly, tilting his head up to the ceiling. He was still for a moment before looking back down to Dream. “You’re sure it was Punz who gave them to you?”
“Yes!” Dream huffed, frustrated.
“He didn’t give them to you from someone else? Did he make them?”
“He…well…” Dream pushed through the fog in his mind to think and remember. Punz had given him the Eyes but he hadn’t elaborated on how. When Dream went to ask, Punz had vanished. “I don’t know…” He admitted. “He gave them to me but I don’t know how he got them.”
XD paused again to think but after a moment his shoulders relaxed and his words came out softer, carried on a sigh. “Alright…”
Worry, dread and guilt pooled in Dream’s stomach. He’s sold out his friend over threats of tickling. “You won’t hurt him, right? You’re just talking.”
“I won’t hurt him, I promised.”
The ropes uncoiled from Dream’s wrists and disappeared. Dream hissed from the burn. His wrists were red and the skin was sensitive. He pulled his arms down, wincing slightly at the pain in his shoulder. XD must have let go of his ankles because he found his body curled up and then he was suddenly lifted into XD’s arms.
He didn’t fight the move, no matter how much Dream wanted to. This thoughts and feelings were still swirling around and confusing him. In his mind he wanted to still be angry at XD and scream at him for not listening, but his body just wanted to be coddled and wrapped up in XD’s cloak like he was a child again.
XD moved into George’s room and carefully placed his brother over the bed. Dream winced, when his wrists touched onto the sheets, but as he went to held them up they were gathered in XD’s hands. A tingling, ticklish feeling washed over Dream’s skin, and then the injury was healed and XD drew his hands away.
“You should sleep.” XD spoke. “Maybe get some water…”
Dream was tired, and his throat did feel scratchy from all the screaming. His body still felt weird, like the ghostly tickles were lingering on the edge, waiting to pounce him. Ghostly anticipation.
“Are you going to see Punz now?” Dream had to ask.
“Yes but…not to speak to him. Not yet. I’m going to try and find him and then decide what to do from there.”
Dream gave a silent sorry to Punz, wherever they were. XD promised not to harm them but he couldn’t help but feel he’d just gotten Punz locked into a future tickle torture session with his brother.
“Sleep.” XD said again and when Dream looked up he saw the God placing down a glass of water by the bedside table.
His throat cried out for water, but Dream ignored it and instead looked up to XD. “Will you be going then?”
“Soon…” XD nodded.
“Will you come back, or will you keep avoiding me?”
XD was taken aback by the question and even Dream was himself. He knew it was frustration but he couldn’t care less. He deserved to act a little petty.
“I’m not avoiding you…” XD sounded genuinely hurt which almost wavered Dream’s heart.
Almost.
“You haven’t spoken to me for a week, and the first time you do it’s to torture me to give up my friend.”
“This is serious Dream. If there are more Eyes out there or someone who can make them, it’s dangerous!”
“Then why didn’t you talk to me about it? Why didn’t you come sooner? Why did you make me wait and worry that each day would be the day you’d come back and drag me back to that prison?”
“I-I didn’t…” XD’s voice sounded hurt. “I needed to figure out what to say to you. I needed a plan for how to deal with everything.”
“Why do you need a plan for me?! Why can’t you just talk with me first?!  You’re my brother! We’re siblings, but you look for every excuse, every other way apart from just speaking to me! I’m your last resort to come to when you should have just spoken to me first!”
Tears flowed down Dream’s cheeks again and this time he didn’t have the tickling to blame. He never sobbed or cried though it welled up in his throat wanting to. Dream wouldn’t give XD that. He swallowed back his cries and shut his eyes.
He couldn’t hear XD move, but Dream just willed himself to believe the God had left. He kept telling himself that until he felt the hand run through his hair. It stopped at the base of his skull and scratched softly at his scalp. Dream couldn’t hold back the whine or gentle sigh that left him. He hated how easily he could relax in XD’s arms.
“I’m sorry, Dream.” XD’s voice sounded hoarse as well, like holding back a cry of their own. “I truly am. I don’t… I still don’t know what to do sometimes. I fear if I do one thing it’s not what you want, but then I end up doing the other and it hurts you still.”
Dream wanted to speak, but the scratching on his scalp made him too tired to think properly or form any words. He just felt the comfort of the mattress underneath him, the pillows under his head, and the warm blanket that suddenly covered him. Dream didn’t have to open his eyes to know it was green.
“I want to speak with you. Properly. I’ll speak with you soon. I promise. Sometime in the coming days…”
The words faded as did the rest of the world. The comforts and warmth all rolled into Dream as one, cradling him down into a soft gentle sleep.
His waking was not so soft. It was hand on his shoulder, rousing Dream from his slumber suddenly and George’s voice ringing in his ears. “Wake up! Dream!”
It took him a while to shake the sleep from his mind and blink himself awake. He felt groggy and unbearably thirsty. It was now night time. Candles were lit in the cottage to give it light and George was sat on the edge of their bed.
“Was XD here?” George asked frantically. “There’s a note left on the table from him. Was he here?”
Dream drank the water as George carried on. He was holding a note which he handed over when Dream asked for it. It was written in XD’s hand, though rather messily.
Dream. I meant what I said about speaking with you. I need to prepare things but in a couple of days I’d like to meet with you and we can discuss talking on fairer terms. If you ever need me before then, you can always find a way to the Glade and I’ll come to you.
Don’t worry about the prison. I’m taking care of that.
The last line cause Dream off guard. What did that mean? How was he taking care of the prison? XD never showed interest to the building, even when it had been Dream planning and organising it. He had waved it off as keeping neutrality then and even when it was Dream in it he sill refused to act.
What has changed his mind? Dream wondered. And what does he plan to do? What counts as ‘taking care of it’ to him.
“Dream!” George snapped, pulling Dream from his thoughts and reminded him he wasn’t alone. “What happened?”
It wasn’t an easily answered question, but it reminded Dream that George wasn’t here because of his meeting with Sapnap, and sparked a question.
“George! Did you go to the meeting? Was Punz there?”
“Punz?” George pulled and and raised one eyebrow. “Why you asking about him?”
“Was he?”
“No…well… That’s funny you should mention that, because Punz was supposed to be there but he never showed up. Sapnap seemed worried. Apparently Punz was helping with defences for the Kingdom a few days ago but he was acting off.”
Acting off? Dream thought. He wondered what would be considered acting off for Punz. The mercenary was a master manipulator, so it’s not like they’d be acting suspicious. But then Dream hadn’t given any plans out for dealing with Kinoko. He taunted about it to Sapnap of course but he had no plans at the moment for it. Especially not when George was so closely tied to it.
“Why are you asking about him?” George asked.
 “I… Well XD was here.”
“I knew it!” George climbed onto the bed. “It was so obvious! What did they say? They’re not…thinking of taking you to prison right?”
“No. I don’t… I don’t think so. But something did happen.”
“What?”
A blush flushed over Dream’s cheeks, but he cleared his throat and readied himself to explain. If Dream was going to go through with his plans, then he wanted George there by his side. And that meant telling him everything.
Dream sat up on the bed, faced George and began to explain.
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curoopeez · 3 months
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cDream as a shapeshifter like the princess from slay the princess. He is always himself, but his behaviour, appearance, personality all change drastically depending on how he's treated. cGeorge treated him like he was awesome and the love of his life, so cDream gave him a kingdom. cWilbur treated him like a tyrant, so he imposed his will against cWilbur. cTommy treated him like the villain, do he was mean to cTommy. cFoolish treated him like some guy he heard rumors about, so cDream was slightly omnious but not threatening.
Also this connects to DreamXD. Just like the princess and the hero in the game, cDream and XD were a single divine entity broken in two by a mortal. Which mortal? My theory is cSchlatt. He somehow broke cDream in two, let most of the divine powers trapped and the more human portion wandering, until he needed cDream's help, so he returned cDream some of his own power in the form of the revival book. After cSchlatt's death, he couldn't contain DreamXD anymore, so he started showing up in the overworld.
Also, this means DreamXD didn't steal cDream's face, they are the same person broken in two
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honey-sunsets · 2 years
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Do you think Karl has actually been time traveling? Or do you think he was destined to do something, and DreamXD is keeping him busy and corrupting his mind until he can’t do anything? Do you think Ranboo is the completed product of corruption, because he too was destined to create a change DreamXD didn’t favor?
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