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joel sees martyn standing frozen at the edge of the battlefield. a wither and a warden have rampaged the land and the threat is very much still alive, but it’s so much. too much to process all at once. the sounds and screams and blood and wither rose petals scattered across the rubble— it’s a cacophony, and martyn is trapped Watching.

but joel sees him. joel cries out.

“Martyn— stay away, Martyn! We can’t lose another person!”

martyn can’t listen. joel maneuvers himself between martyn and the wither until the death blow is dealt and the danger passes.

grian and etho recount the tale. they laugh. they laugh. all of them, while martyn stands numb with shock and thinks of a chest with three bones inside and nothing more. nothing ever again.

all that remains of his fellow reds are grayed out names on a tab list.

martyn closes his eyes and makes a silent promise.

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joel is no fool. he loves lizzy but her decision to ostracize herself and make enemies spelled doom long ago. meanwhile, joel has done what he rarely ever succeeds in: making allies that last longer than a few days in this wretched place. scar turned on him the moment he fell from grace in last life. etho’s attachment was artificial from the beginning in double life. the bad boys were a true bond, though he knew better, even then, than to ever trust grian completely. and jimmy—

—he can’t think about jimmy.

now, he has the mounders. pearl, and bdubs, and… mumbo. right. someone should go back to his base, collect his things before the scavengers come sniffing about. make a memorial, maybe. sideways. he’d like that.

but that just leaves pearl and bdubs, and joel can feel their eyes prickling the back of his neck. waiting. watching. an opportunity is all it will take for them to turn; pearl made her preferences clear, and joel can’t grudge her for it. he was a late addition to the mounders, after all. but that still leaves him cast out and alone in a server full of paranoid lunatics armed to the teeth.

he couldn’t let martyn join the ranks of the dead. it was too much. one more roll of thunder may have split joel’s mind like overripe watermelon and left him dripping and scattered all over the server.

maybe— maybe there’s room, up in that doghouse, for an ally. maybe martyn will take him in and let him rest somewhere he won’t have to keep one eye open. martyn could surely use the extra protection as he adjusts to being the only red for the first time in his existence.

joel has felt that sting before.

and stray dogs stick together.

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at least someone on this fucking server gets what they want

DREAM: I don't know if you know this, but I've been constructing a prison and it's ginormous. LAZAR: I like that idea. DREAM: Maybe we can throw Karl in there. (laughing) No, I'm just kidding. CONNOR: I would love to go to prison.

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vagueposting at the us embassy is not enough anymore. im gonna start robbing convenience stores

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my cishet dude friend (who near exclusively watches minecraft manhunt and no other DT content) upon being told gnf got his visa: cool, when’s the wedding?

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ok but imagine george’s first mcc in florida his team wins and he gets power hug tackled out of his webcam frame by a blur of green screaming congratulations

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wilbur needed XD to fly to prove definitively that he was Not Dream which adds further fuel to the “dream and XD look The Same” fire

normally people interpret this to mean XD has a rather mundane appearance. HOWEVER. we have 0 in-canon information about dream’s appearance.

you know whose appearance we do have canon information about?

if they look exactly alike, i don’t think it’s because XD looks like a normal human. it’s the other way around.

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oh my god he's like. halfway between matpat and adam scott, with like 30% extra sunshine thrown in.

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does anyone happen to know of anything george has publicly said he is afraid of

(like how dream is afraid of roller coasters and scary games)

(also this is for research purposes. i do not intend to frighten georgenotfound)

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change my clothes hits wicked different now btw. if anyone cares

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making myself emotional thinking about how a year from now we’re gonna be celebrating the anniversary of the dreamteam meetup and face reveal :’)

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i think c!george is a wonderful and fascinating character and i love watching his lore streams for their unpredictability and chaotic vibes. i also appreciate how they have subtle ties to more narratively-driven characters and they're loose enough that there's lots of room for interpretation and depth <3

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dreamoth :)

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A Midnight Caller

“You could’ve visited,” Dream says. “Even- even just once, and I- it would have meant… It would have been good.” “I didn’t think you wanted me here.” “What? Of course I did! I even told Sapnap to ask you-” “Then why did you abandon me?” Dream blinks hard and drops his arms to his sides. “What… Are you talking about?”

Dream cut his friends out of his life a long time ago. It wasn't personal- just another calculated move, setting pieces in motion that would eventually bear fruit. But when George finds his way into Pandora's Vault on a night when Dream is haunted by his own mind, he can't bring himself to turn away a familiar face.

c!dnf flavored c!dream analysis. 6,826 words, rated Teen

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