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Characters: Dream, Technoblade

Words: 7k so far (1 of 2 chapters)

Warnings: Referenced Torture, Abuse

Summary — The highs and lows of Dream and Technoblade's time together in prison.

(I've finally done it! This is the c!rivals fic I've been working on for months! It's my take on their time together during the prison arc, so expect the usual prison arc themes. The good(?) and the bad. This one has taken me a While, so I hope you enjoy it like I did!)

Technoblade’s arrival was bad. It was really, really bad. Somehow, in all Dream’s life, he didn't think he had ever been quite this fucked. He refused to look at him. He had his head between his knees, crouched tightly in his usual back corner. He didn't know how long he had been sitting like this. But he couldn't look up now, because then he would see Techno, and that would make it real. And it couldn’t be real. It couldn’t. His hands fisted in his hair.

Read on AO3.

#c!dream and c!techno #fic rec #THEMB

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The post-prison arc has some crazy moments, but honestly the craziest part for me is that c!Dream is still like. Functioning. How well he's functioning is debatable, but just think about it—just think about how insane his living conditions had been for an insane amount of time. Think about every single thing he must have survived. How the fuck do you bounce back from that? How are you still able to walk, to hold a conversation, let alone pick up a weapon again? How do you find the strength to shove it all far enough aside to keep going?

#I’m sad

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Do you have any headcanons that are true for most/all of your fanworks even if it’s not always noticeable?

c!Dream has food issues

c!Dream had never known stability prior to the dsmp

c!Sam grew up chronically lonely

c!Quackity is a middle child

Scrapped lore REAL

#idk I’m bad at answering things so broad

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Did you ever finish that Q strangling fruit chapter?

Soon tm

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Hey so do you guys ever think about how c!Dream bowed to c!Sam

#c!dream and c!sam #dreblr

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post prison dream watching rain/snow?

literally chillin

#him! #art

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✨INTRODUCING THE ABRIDGED NECROMANCER COLLECTION✨

it’s not the tiered list i promised whoops

#the necromancers!!! #they did nothing wrong I think

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read here

#scream eureka the beloved!!!! #art #fic rec

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Guess what I found! For those that liked my canon c!Dream - I got him repaying c!Sam.

#the boy! #art

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everybody is being so mean to my cat. i mean he deserves it but also stop being mean to my cat he’s trying his best

#everyone be nice to my cat!!!!

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Ok, I recently wrote an essay [here] talking about the definition and duties of civil engineering as well as the ethics because of the brain rot @swordfright gave me with calling Dream Sam’s ultimate engineering project. So, because I actually am a civil engineer I took it upon myself to design the title and summary of quantities sheets just like I do at work for roads but with Dream as the project instead. And in honor of angst day sponsor by @sixteenth-day-event, I figured I’d share it because I feel like it kinda works for the prison of the mind prompt.

“Sam’s “ultimate engineering project” he deemed too damaged like a bumpy road or crumbling building that wasn’t worthy of patching and filling in the cracks or reinforcing, that’s too eroded to be fixed and preserved. So, Sam strived to tear him down to the bedrock so he could remake, remold, and reengineer Dream according to his design for the common safety, public health and well-fair.”

{These are very similar to the actual sheets I make day to day, which I shall not share for the sake of doxing my location, but yea pretty much everything has a significance. Some of it doesn’t necessarily make sense but that was because I was more so taking inventory of what we see in lore (so you know I counted ;) lol)}

#sick #art #pandora’s vault

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They match now :]

#them :) #art #c!sam and c!quackity

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"c!tommy is annoying" well yes, he is. we do realize that's not why c!dream like, saw him as a foremost threat, abused him, and ruined his life right. like

#i weep #c!dream and c!tommy

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c!Dream apologist has become just a loose term but you’re a valued member of Dreblr. The fact that people are still calling us freaks is kinda crazy

aww thanks 💚 in fairness i’m sure there are real freaks here, like statistically, but i have yet to encounter them

#dr3 honorary freak :)

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Can we hear more about that theory?

it's less of a theory and more just derangement, and a specific angle of viewing the story. but smth i think that is crucial to how i see the story and something that i think is too-often deemphasized in the fandom, regardless of how much you buy into the derangement lmao, is that c!discduo is not...really a standalone relationship. i mean it is, but in just as many ways it isn't...and the reason why the finale and you know, an actual conversation between the two of them takes so long to get to is precisely because it was overshadowed by the third component of their whole deal. are you following? does this make sense? i dont know.

c!dream + c!tommy are one side of a triangle that supports quite literally everything abt their whole central conflict and narrative, with the third part being, well, c!wilbur. and the c!wilbur-c!tommy-c!dream of it all is quite understandably easy to miss, but it's also what i think leads to some of the most striking differences in c!dream and c!tommy interpretations, not to mention the story as a whole. c!wilbur's relationship with c!dream and c!tommy separately AND together is critical to the ways that the two characters develop and how their conflict evolves--i'd say that that's more just. canon, than a theory. but how far you extend that is where it kinda delves into different interpretations of canon, you know?

but it's just like ... when the whole fucking point of that last stream, the whole damn crux of it is when tommy says "i thought you were just a villain" and dream replies with "i am and i always have been" and the whole damn POINT is that these viewpoints were never true to begin with, when what dream throws to tommyinnit is a picture of lmanburg, when the shit that they have to dismantle to reach out at the end of the fucking world is the hero/villainisms that have DEFINED THEIR STORY independently AND together, it's like. look . when the story is like dismantling the literal source of their conflict and c!wilbur's fingerprints are all over the damn thing, it feels a Little reductive to see the conversation so consistently happen without even invoking his name, you know?

#!!! #insert cat meme for c!wilbur: YOU!!!

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c!wilbur was the reason why c!tommy wanted to kill c!dream in the first place [rattles the bars of my cage]