#with each other. bc theyre both paranoid as hell characters trying their best inside pandora's vault T-T

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The prison podcast is probably our best look into how c!dream and c!techno view each other and it deserves much more attention and also praise. They really say down for an hour and just talked and it's amazing.

strongly agree / agree / ambivalent / disagree / strongly disagree / don’t care whatsoever

im so sorry for being such a hater AKSDLFJS

don't get me wrong, prison podcast is great! it's just the situation in itself is also...unideal. c!dream is fresh off of a few months of serious torture and scared as hell and c!techno is the first person to treat him as a human person in a long while, and none of that should be discounted like. obviously, obviously that means a lot and obviously c!dream cares about c!techno and even defends c!techno for the whole imprisonment thing to c!sam! like, their relationship is very important to me for sure and i adore prison podcast to bits

all that being said, well, it's still the prison. the situation isn't ideal, and neither of them are in their best form--c!dream has been tortured A Lot, both of them are trapped and being underfed deliberately by c!Sam, c!techno is waiting for c!phil to read that goddamn book, they're both kinda desperate to get the hell out of this place, etc. maybe i'm being pedantic, but it's kinda hard to see this as being the most indicative of c!rivals and how they see each other when a significant part of their relationship (c!dream re: c!techno especially, but also the other way around) is a mutual respect and caution bc of the knowledge that they don't want the other as their enemy. sure, that hasn't exactly disappeared, but you're also seeing a lot less of it when they're lacking in any kind of gear and such.

i think that prison podcast is absolutely an important puzzle piece in c!rivals and should never be disregarded...but at the same time, this is a c!dream that has been put through the wringer. this is a c!techno who kiiiinda needs a second way out if c!phil hasn't read the whole thing in his will yet and doesn't seem like he's planning to any time soon. it makes sense for these things to affect the ways that they act, and so personally i do hesitate to say that prison podcast is the best representation of the dynamic at play here and that both characters were as honest as sometimes people are inclined to think that they were, you know?

#dsmp hot takes asks #my asks !! #like. to be clear. this isn't hating on either character #i think it makes perfect sense for c!dream to be a little more inclined to fawn after the last few months #and i don't think c!techno was like . say. being intentionally manipulative for the sake of getting intel #but while i love c!rivals to bits. there's a degree of caution that's at play there yaknow? #and the prison tends to distort characters anyway as any extreme stressors do #so while i think prison podcast under no circumstances should be dismissed #i love that stream and it's obviously true that there's a level of mutual care and respect at play #i also think that it's true that these characters can be a little cautious with what they let show and how they act #with each other. bc theyre both paranoid as hell characters trying their best inside pandora's vault T-T #and yeah