#The eggpire

[10piecechickenmcnugget]

presenting the dsmp country flag quiz!!

inspired by this ask, I made a little google form to see if you know some of the flags of the different dsmp countries/factions!

the quiz is NOT multiple choice so you will need to type the answers yourself! please type in all lowercase or it will get marked as incorrect

[dreamsmp-polls]

Which flag of the dsmp nation is the best? And by the best I mean memorable, looks nice, iconic, represents the nation well and could realistically be a flag irl.

Contestants: L'manberg, Manberg, Las Nevadas, Snowchester, Kinoko kingdom, etc (you can add any if you wanna)

okay these were all the flags i could find, didn't really want to use fan made ones bc i was worried they'd be inconsistent/not canon

if you want you can argue the case for redesigns/fanmade ones too

also unsure if the logstedshire one is official

really not very knowledgeable on the flags ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

answers are in the same order as the flags read from left to right and top to bottom!!

anyway without further ado:

[calamari-minecraft-corner]

Thinking about the horror aspect of the DSMP is so awesome because like— yeah we have the prison, and it’s fucking terrifying. But also there’s the fucking Egg. Like the Masquerade episode of Tales from the SMP really showed how terrifying it was all the way back then. And then the whole Sam Bucket stuff too!!! It’s like— ugh I love it so much. I can go on for hours how I love when the DSMP can get terrifying.

We need more terrifying vibes from the DSMP tbh.

[l3m-ntwo]

" I need love you "

[kaijuparfait]

I was reminded of these Eggpire!Dapper concept doodles and I realized I keep bringing up my Eggpire/QSMP au and like none of you even know what I’m referring to- This! This is what I’m referring to! The Egg controls the egg :]

[milktearosethorn]

the body: slowing the spread

The first thing that I thought of when I saw this prompt for @sixteenth-day-event was the scene where Hannah culled her pets to slow the spread of the Egg. I thought a video game inspired scene fit the small canvas that I'm practicing pixel art on :D

[justapitcherofwater]

EGGPIRE 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY WOOHOO

in honour of the occasion take this thing that I did a little while ago and forgor to post :D

[sharpjay217]

If I had a nickel for every time BadBoyHalo went insane over an egg…I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[koreanbibliophilegirl]

Personifications of Dream SMP Factions

Okay so I came up with this idea during my exams. (Exams always do something to my brain lol) I was thinking about Pandora's Vault as a hot butch, then I remembered this fic about L'Manberg personified, plus this fic about personified countries, and it somehow spiraled into this.

(This is all based on personal interpretation & recollection of DSMP lore, please don't come at me for getting things wrong!)

The rest of the post is under the cut:

I gave all the factions it/its pronouns, since they're manifestations of, well, factions. I think they would have other preferred pronouns though, mostly related to the faction's characteristics.

(For instance, Snowchester uses he/him pronouns because Tubbo and Ranboo are so close & act almost like one entity.(I know, I know, c!Ranboo uses they/them pronouns too, but idk I thought this fit...) On the other hand, Manberg uses he/him pronouns because it's a dictatorship and Schlatt operates the country as the sole mastermind behind it all. Pandora's Vault uses she/her pronouns because Pandora deserves to be a butch because while Sam is its warden, Pandora is, at it's core, different from what Sam himself strives to achieve.)

Plus, all factions have an inherent love for its' members/citizens, since any faction is a collective of its people. Except Pandora, bc y'know, she's a literal prison.

Also!!! every name mentioned is c!, not cc!.

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L'Manberg- (it/they/he/she) Dressed in L'Manberg soldier attire. Looks like a mix of all the L'Manbergians. Hair is auburn, kinda curly, and wears red-and-blue tinted sunglasses. Has fox ears(?), braces, is boisterous and kinda overdramatic. Enjoys growing flowers, beekeeping, and baking. Follows the L'Manbergians around, Wilbur and Tommy the most. Pretty young, but gets older and more serious as the war drags on. Manifested in the drug van.

Pogtopia- (it/he/they/she) L'Manberg's other form. Hair is darker now(more like Wilbur's than a mix of everyone's), has eyebags, sunglasses are gone, and dresses darker. Looks like Wilbur mostly now, but near-exclusively follows Tommy around like he's a lifeline. Is not manic like Wilbur, despite looking a lot like him now, and recognizes how far-gone Wilbur is. It tries very hard to cheer up the rest of the Pogtopia people.

L'Manberg(new)- (it/they/he/she) Dresses in red, blue, yellow, black and white again(not the soldier attire, but the flag design is incorporated into its clothes), is scarred all over and sadder. Hair is blond now. Tried to follow Tommy to exile but Tubbo stopped it. Cries every day & grows weaker.

L'Manberg(post-doomsday)- (it/they/he/she) A ghost. Invisible to most now, new members of the SMP can't see it unless they're told about L'Manberg. And even then, it's very hard to see or recognize them. Tommy sees him clearly though, and she still follows Tommy everywhere. Even more scarred and wounded now. Sad and quiet.

Manberg- (it/he) Wears a suit, has ram horns, and face is completely featureless, no eyes or nose or mouth. Has dark, slicked back hair. Follows Schlatt around silently. Usually follows Schlatt's orders without complaint, but absolutely refuses to hurt anyone, even at the expense of being hurt itself by Schlatt. Tried to stop Tubbo's execution and ended up being blown up as well. Didn't die(since Manberg was still intact) but his featureless face gained a huge scar like Tubbo's. This scar stayed even after Tubbo went to Pogtopia. Exact age is difficult to determine, but is physically quite small.

the Butcher Army- (it/they) Dresses in black clothes with the Butcher Army standard bloody apron. Face is shaded and unremarkable, just one face in a crowd. Doesn't speak much, and when they do, it's just general Butcher Army stuff like how they're trying to bring Technoblade to justice, or whatever. Doesn't seem to have much personality.

Snowchester- (it/he) Young, younger than L'Manberg was. Looks a little like it too. Has snowy gray hair(a mix of Ranboo's black and white), goat horns like Tubbo, and is missing an eye like Michael. The other eye is wintery green. Dresses in snow clothes, a black-and-white bomber jacket and a pale green-blue dress shirt with a tie underneath. Is quiet, has a shy smile like Ranboo, and is generally quite innocent like Michael. He likes pranks and chaos too though, like Tubbo. It's a peaceful little thing, but if you somehow get him angry its eye will turn purple and his body will start giving off a pale, eery green glow like radioactivity.

Kinoko Kingdom- (it/she) Looks like her namesake, Komori Kinoko from My Hero Academia. (Specifically, Komori's powered-up version with the chubbier cheeks and visible eyes, not her normal, emo version.) Wears light flowy clothes in earthy colors, soft purples and blues and ruddy browns and greens. Loves taking naps in the sunshine, reading old books, and exploring the Kingdom. Tiny mushrooms sprout wherever it walks, which is usually just inside the borders of the Kingdom. She never really goes far beyond that. Also likes training & sparring, though it tends to be relaxed about it, treating it more as a sport than anything else. She's usually sweet and kind, but also a tad chaotic. Bit forgetful. Looks somewhere in its twenties.

Las Nevadas- (it/he) Also looks somewhere in its twenties, though it looks a bit younger than Kinoko. Gelled-back jet-black hair, classy dark green beanie(beanie like Q, green like Slime, dark bc Classy™️). Dress shirt, tie, suspenders. Lots of gold accessories. Has a few purple freckles on its face, and orange highlights in his hair. Maybe green creeper markings? Give the boi some neon splashes. Acts slick and confident(and kinda manipulative) like a businessman with outsiders, but is super nice and sorta anxious when he's only with his members. Cares way too much about its citizens, even though it knows Purpled doesn't like him. Low self-esteem. Usually follows Quackity. Q flaunts its existence to people & is genuinely very proud of his country, but is also slightly unnerved by his knowledge of Nevadas's real personality. He knows personified factions reflect its people and the ideals it stands for, but he isn't entirely sure what Nevadas's nervous, slightly obsessive disposition is implying. Also, Nevadas has a crush on Kinoko. Kinoko is a bit confused, but thinks Nevadas is cute, so she might as well go along with it. Nevadas puts on a suave & slick act with Kinoko, though Kinoko can see right through it. She thinks he's sweet and silly, and also maybe a little lonely. Q doesn't approve of them flirting so much, and tells Nevadas to stop visiting Kinoko all the time. Not that Nevadas listens.

the Eggpire- (it/they/he/w̴͚̮͒̇̓e̴̺̬͉̅̋) Demon with red skin, white glowing eyes, two huge horns of red diamond sprouting from its head, and flowing robes. Has a missing arm, torn-up fairy wings, a red gold medallion, and a cat tail. Looks like a child, but you can tell it only looks like one. Unnerving smile with sharp predatory teeth(also red), sweet & melodious voice, silver-tongued and manipulative. Upon closer inspection, you can see that their entire body, clothes and all, is made of writhing, pulsing red vines.

the Syndicate- (it/she/they) Nicknamed Syndi by her members. Electric pink hair with a black-and-white half-and-half streak, tied in a short, tiny braid down one shoulder. Large black angel wings and enderman horns(one black, one white). Wears fingerless gloves, the opposite color of the horn on that side. Blood-red eyes. Anarchist, obviously. Snarky and deadpan, but smiles a lot too, and is generally quite a warm and kind person. Is nimble & fast on their feet, and is a quick thinker. A wise scholar and fearsome warrior, a sharp-eyed strategist. Enjoys reading, baking, and dancing with its members. Looks like a young adult. +Also, I haven't decided whether the faction personification thing is a general occurrence or strictly a DSMP thing, but if it's a general thing, Syndi is best friends(and possibly in a QPR) with the Antarctic Empire(it/he, fully-grown adult, nicknamed Antares, AE emperor attire, blue-and-white bucket hat with a wider brim than Phil's, thin and pointy white gold crown, snowy-white longish hair with ice-blue eyes, one emerald earring, giant white wings and piglin hooves, loves the thrill of battle, enjoys reading & woodcarving, makes lots of deadpan jokes, would like to just retire already please and thank you).

Pandora's Vault- (it/she) Ah yes, the one who started this whole ordeal. Despite me imagining Pandora as a hot butch at the start, I changed Pandora to be a teenager! Albeit a butch & pretty teenager. Looks like a creeper mostly, like Awesamdude, but her torso is made of crisscrossing obsidian bars that resemble a prison or a really messed up ribcage. Usually wears enchanted golden armor on top of it though. Has long hair that looks like dark curling smoke with lava-like streaks running through it, and a gold head guard that kinda looks like a tiara. Has a gold gas mask too. Stickler for the rules, as expected of it, and scarily efficient with weaponry. She seems stoic and fierce on the outside, all rigid ideals and indifferent cruelty, but it's actually really desperate for peace and order. Would go to extreme lengths to enforce order. Dislikes Dream and Technoblade. Also doesn't like Ponk. While Sam feels guilty about what he did to Ponk, Pandora is quite vocal about her opinion that Ponk had it coming to them. Is uncomfortable with opening the prison cell for Quackity, but thinks it's for the greater good that he gets the Revive Book away from Dream. Not many hobbies, it spends most of its free time patrolling/guarding the Vault. She does like inventing though, usually things to improve the efficiency of the prison. Sam was surprised when she appeared, since he didn't think Pandora counted as a faction. He still treats it like a daughter though. She's daddy's little girl.

Greater Dream SMP- (it/they/he) A child. Really. It looked like Dream at first(at least, people assumed that was what Dream looked like behind the mask), with straw-blond hair, bright green eyes, and pale freckles. It gained new features every time a new person joined the server. When they grew up, they grew up suddenly, aging in shocking speed during the L'Manberg War. He settled as a sad, serious adult with a haunted look in his eyes. It stopped following Dream after he went further and further off the deep end, choosing to wander the land instead- keeping well away from L'Manberg(and later, other countries) of course. Slowly loses the features they got from people who abandoned the Greater Dream SMP to create their own country/faction. Eventually people stop seeing him and think he's disappeared, but he's still there, just lurking. It looks unremarkable now, with next to no distinctive features. They hang out with Eret in her palace and museum(they love the museum), visits multiple factionless members of the SMP, and greets/sends off Aimsey on their little pit stop in the server. When the server loops & resets, he resets alongside with it, and returns to his original form. It kept all it's memories, but it never says anything, choosing instead to give its people a fresh start, with a blank slate.

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I probably missed a few factions, but this is all I could think of haha.

Also I accidentally posted this as a draft a few days ago, panicked, and privated the post in record time. This is a repost😅

[petrichormore]

The fact that q!BBH references Egglore I just-

I do think it’s super interesting to think about q!bbh’s character with the knowledge that his past life/past history with the eggpire is affecting his political stance and decision making. He’s terrified of having someone put into a powerful position where they have the potential of being puppeted in part because that’s what happened to him.

He’s willing to potentially kill candidates to prevent that type of corruption from even having a chance to occur because… well, maybe that’s what he had wanted someone to do to him. Maybe he’s looking at this situation and seeing something else. Maybe his anarchist stance, and his fear of a figurehead government is actually a fear of something else. Maybe he sees it as kindness, to kill the puppet and cut its strings before its master can force it to dance - can force it to suffer.

Maybe he wishes someone had been kind to him, once upon a time.

[incorrect-dream-smp-quotes]

Punz: I always sleep with a knife under my pillow.

Ant: Psh. I sleep with two.

Skeppy: You're both weak.

Ponk: Oh yeah? What murder weapon do you sleep with, Mr Hardcore?

Skeppy, smug: Bad.

Bad, horrified: SKEPPY-

[lampinnit]

made these designs for perler beads a bit ago and finally made them! they turned out rly nice ^^

[calamari-minecraft-corner]

Con!Spooky with Eggpire!Cala: I support women's rights AND wrongs...Amen 🙏 🩷💜💙

She appreciates the sentiment but she is an absolute angel! She hasn’t done anything wrong in her life!

Look at how happy she is and certainly doesn’t have a comically large axe behind her back

[vpofcookies]

78 and bbh?

Look how beautiful it is, I am not in charge of this And when I come down, I know that I'll be pissed

[kisuminight]

So let's get into the knock-on effects of the Staged Finale and how it is effecting other things on the server (mainly the Egg, since that is the closest thing to a main antagonist this story has). Previously, I mentioned that the Red Banquet doesn't happen until 6mo post-Staged Finale. This is very different from canon, where it happened a little less than 3mo out (it was early April, I think?).

Part of this is because the Egg is trying to be more subtle. Part of this is because manpower issues.

To start off with that second bit--c!Sam has not yet managed to completely tank his relationship! I mean, it's getting there. c!Ponk is not thrilled with Sam's general conspiracy-nonsense about what's going on with c!Dream, and he's super not thrilled about how invested Sam is into figuring out why Dream had him build the prision. ...But, even though the key card prank does happen, it just leads to a very large argument that starts the downward spiral of the relationship instead of a maiming. Ponk is not missing his arm, and he is dissatisfied with Sam but they're still trying, so he does not fall in with the Egg yet.

The other issue is c!Punz. Now, Punz did publicly join the Eggpire pre-Staged Finale with the "official" reason that he wanted to see some chaos. Mostly, this was a bid to get access to the new government and keep an eye on it. As a Blade, he is immune to the effects of the Egg. And in this AU, he and Dream have the experiments ongoing now, instead of Punz getting stuck waiting for the prison escape. So while he does still check up on them and make the appearance of involvement (so no one questions what he's really doing with his time), Punz is outside the main Eggpire group and not really trying to get deeper.

The Egg wants him deeper, though! Outside of Skeppy, who the Egg already has, Punz is the most active Blade on the server. He seems to be somewhat estranged from his Driver, but that just means that c!Purpled won't have Punz to help him stop the Egg. Moreover, because of the chain Resonance, if the Egg can corrupt Purpled, it can get both Dream and Punz.

Puffy still left the Eggpire, so that means that the current Eggpire group is c!Bad, c!Skeppy, and c!Ant. Three people are not enough to pick a fight with most of the server, especially when one of them is c!Techno and his Resonance with an Aegis. Also the actual Aegis, c!Philza.

So the Egg contains it's growth, slows it down. It still has the Eggpire reach out to c!Quackity, but the reason it backs off when c!Karl intervenes is more to do with the lingering feel of DreamXD around him. The Egg does not need to repeat the mistakes of the Entity by picking a fight with gods too early. For now, it chooses to stay away from Kinoko.

c!Hannah, however, is vulnerable. She's not particularly close to anyone, and her roses leave her with a weakness to the bloodvines. Hannah becomes the fourth member, and the Egg uses her penchant to give roses to other server members as a method of corruption. The roses are dipped in spores from the Egg so that it spread to unexpected places when the time is right for it to grow.

The attempts to trap Sam never happened, and the Eggpire is much less under the focus of the server because of it. Puffy's Pro-Omlette faction takes much longer to gain ground, especially since the Egg is actively avoiding the notice of Techno.

Ranboo is still a target. The Egg has noticed that sometimes Dream is in Resonance with Ranboo instead. Unfortunately for the Eggpire, this is the mistake that makes the Syndicate get curious. Techno makes his visit to the Egg around 5mo after Staged Finale.

The Egg tries to get Purpled through the contract in Puffy's life. However, just because Purpled heard the job offered and accepted it doesn't mean he's willing to stick around. The experiments are finally done, so Punz has more time to be involved, even if the Egg hasn't managed to corrupt him through Purpled yet. There's no way around it now. The Red Banquet is getting scheduled.

The Egg is very firm with both Bad and Skeppy. Normally it doesn't try to actively interfere, but it does not let the confrontation continue once it starts. It forces a blackout on them both instead. When they wake up, neither can remember why they first started arguing.

The Red Banquet invitees are Niki, Foolish, Sam, Puffy, Eret, George, Sapnap, Ponk, Ranboo, and Purpled. Purpled rejects it, saying that that type of party "isn't his scene" (he's already been blackmailed by Quackity into doing an attack).

Bad wins a few moments of sanity from the Egg changes his mind about having Sapnap come, and sends Punz to hand-deliver the rejection notice. The Egg does not want Punz there because it doesn't know how Punz will react when it comes to a fight. It wants all the Blades on its side.

The Pro-Omlette faction still plan the safeguard for if the Banquet is a trap. Sam tries to dissuade Ponk from going. Unfortunately, Ponk and Sam's relationship has gotten rocky enough that Ponk rejects Sam's warning and they have another argument. Ponk leaves in a huff.

The rest of the Red Banquet goes mostly canon, with some flipped roles. Ranboo does not go to the banquet as himself, but EW!Ranboo watches from out of sight. Ponk is the spy, having succumbed to the Egg after that latest argument with Sam. Quackity shows up with Techno and Purpled, the tables are turned, and Purpled chases the Eggpire into the tunnels.

Skeppy's abilities as very powerful, but he is an air Blade. Facing an earth Blade. And also they're underground.

Unfortunately, Hannah is very good with traps. Purpled is killed as part of the chase, losing his first canon life. The chain Resonance dissolves, and Punz and Dream both revert to core crystals. Punz reverts right in front of Sapnap, because he'd offered to spend the day with him while George went to the Banquet. Dream reverts in a secret base, known only to himself, Punz, and EW!Ranboo.

EW!Ranboo sees the notification of Purpled and Punz's deaths (Dream is still muted), and leaves to go retrieve Dream's core crystal.

Pro-Omlette discuss what to do with the Egg, and end up causing a mini-crisis when the figure out that, in this AU, Pandora's Vault was built for the purpose of containing the Egg and rehabilitating it's cult, even though Pandora's Vault's construction started months before the Eggpire was even a thing.

Quackity suggests maybe asking Punz (who worked with Dream the most before Staged Finale) if he knew anything. Techno mentions that it won't do any good to ask Punz, and reads the message <Punz faded away> aloud. Punz was a Blade, and he just died, so now he's not going to remember anything.

More conspiracies about what the heck was up with Dream and Techno leaves. Quackity decides that Purpled didn't do a good enough job of assisting, and detonates the TNT in the UFO.

Purpled is having the worst day. His friend Ponk betrayed everyone by siding with the Egg. He died. He died and now Punz is dead, Punz who has raised him for forever. Purpled doesn't even know where he was to search for his core crystal. And then, after he respawns in the UFO, the TNT detonates and it burns down around him. That one doesn't count as a canon death, but it does kick Purpled all the way back to world spawn.

Techno comes back home to find Dream's core crystal sitting on his dining room table. There is a note underneath it that reads ":)"

[l3m-ntwo]

You guys don't know how I'm still so crazy about D!Skephalo. They are so damn tragic together, it's painful to see, D!Skeppy dependant to The Egg, Acting as if this thing is some otherworldly god that gave him everything. Everything he does is related to The Egg in some form of way. He is apathetic and does not care about the wellbeing of others unless it had to do something with The Egg. The Egg hurts him but he does not care nor will he realize it and stops, he has made his life revolve around It in the hallucination that the world is against him and The Egg is truly the only one there for him. He trusts no one. The Egg is the only one he can trust. He follows it blindly, not caring about his wellbeing or the immoral choices The Egg will make.

While D!Bad is also dependant on D!Skeppy, actively trying to pursue the other and ignoring all the abuse he's causing to himself, trying to make use of what he has ( or barely any. ) He'd recognized that what they used to have together cannot be fixed but still chooses to walk blind folded, living in the fake reality he had created in his mind.

And the only reason they are still together is because they have to be, D!Bad ( literally ) cannot live without D!Skeppy and still holds and clings to him even if it hurts him. D!Skeppy follows under the shadow of The Egg and who is the acting leader for The Egg? Badboyhalo. ( This is where I give an example of their dynamic but I don't have any ideas sorry 😞 )

They are so fucking tragic I love it. D!Bad is gripping on vines to get to D!Skeppy, vines that have protruding thorns that are digging onto his body and making him bleed red. D!Skeppy keeps taking a mind numbing drug that has destroyed his life and his slowly destroying himself.