#and the Winter King is SO Simon fantasy coded... ya know except for his morals

[redrobin-detective]

the Monkey's Paw

I've been thinking, Prismo stated that most -if not all- of the multiverse were the result of wishes and many of the worlds we visited were fulfilled wishes. Farmworld was Finn's wish, Deadworld was the Lich's wish, I believe it was stated that Babyworld was BMO's wish. So what about the other two worlds? the Winter Kingdom and Vampireworld?

Prismo stated in his first appearance that his wishes often had a monkey's paw element to them. In which the wisher gets what they wanted but at a cost. Let's break down the two worlds to their essentials to the try and find the wisher and the wish.

At first glance, this guy looks like -and is even almost directly stated to be - Simon's dream come true: to have control of the crown. He's got both his sanity and magic, he's taken the destructive force of the crown and made something wonderful. Here, he gets to be 'himself' while still having place and purpose in this strange future world. And, with Simon magical, it would make things magical again for Fionna and Cake world. He even has a Marcy! Everyone wins, right?

Well as we see in the episode this Simon has all those things but is missing some pretty elements to his personality: his empathy, kindness, responsibility. It was implied that our Simon always had the ability to overcome the Crown's curse, so long as he was willing to hurt others to do it. This Simon is almost unrecognizable to our own because in the process of gaining control, something else was sacrificed.

The Winter Kingdom was a Simon's wish: to have control of the crown while still maintaining his sanity but at the cost of something he also treasured, his humanity.

Now how about Vampireworld?

We see in the story that this world's Simon died fairly early on due to the vampires. Marcy had no recognition of him - had never even met him and, more importantly, there's no crown in sight. In this world, the world ended but Simon had no protection against the predators that came after the dregs of humanity.

This is a world where Simon Petrikov never found the crown and never became cursed but also never found a scared little girl and raised her to protect humans. A scared girl who grew up resenting the crown that stole her father figure away from her. A crown I bet she wished Simon had never seen.

Vampireworld is a Marceline's wish: for Simon to have never found the crown but cursed him but which not only led to his early death but also caused her to become cool and cruel when another father figure found her.

So every single world we saw would have been a wish resulting from the main Adventure Time characters. And while those wishes may have had good intentions, their desires came back to bite them.