#drunz in like vague ways

[drmshope]

It's Okay (It's Alright)

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"It was just a nightmare."

"About what?"

Dream swallows, opens his mouth, closes it.

(warnings; death mention)

(/dsmp rp)

(read on ao3)

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Tommy wasn't sure what woke him up, if it was the strange new environment, or the bed hes never slept in before until he heard a sharp intake of breath to his left and he realized it was Dream, his new friend.

He turns his head to look at the other, asleep in his own bed, trying to figure out if he's having a nightmare or just snoring fucking weirdly, when Dream shoots up, his hand pressed to his heart and green eyes, that almost look radioactive in the dark, blown wide. He startles Tommy badly enough that he jumps in response and then rolls his eyes at his own reaction, taking a deep breath in and out before speaking:

"Are you good big man?" Dream's head snaps up, fast enough that Tommy's surprised he didn't break his neck, like he'd forgotten that there was another person sharing the base which Tommy takes great offense to, because how could he ever be forgettable, before Dream sighs and shakes his head.

"Fine— I'm fine." He replies, voice scratchy and raw and Tommy simply doesn't believe him.

"You didn't look fine."

"It was just a nightmare."

"About what?"

Dream swallows, opens his mouth, closes it, swallows again and Tommy starts to speak, starts to take the question back but he responds before he can.

"It was about... death, I think, or the ability to cheat it? That- that part wasn't clear but, there was a book, or something, papers." Tommy waits for Dream to continue and when he doesn't asks, soft and interested:

"Papers?"

"Of... writing, it- it wasn't understandable, it was like gibberish or something but it made sense to me, in the dream-"

"Ha, dream." Tommy says before he can stop himself and Dream snorts, rolling his eyes.

"-like I was saying, it made sense to me in the dream at least, I can't make heads or tails of it now though."

"Well, that's normal innit? Writing in dreams being all fuckin' wibbly wobbly and shit and then like making perfect sense while you're dreaming but not when you're awake."

"Yeah, I guess..."

"Anything else?"

"Um.. I mean, there was like, a person, and-" Dream chokes on seemingly nothing and coughs so hard and for so long that Tommys afraid he's going to cough up a lung for a moment before he swallows and whispers "Ow."

Tommy bursts out laughing, which makes dream glare at him, "Sorry- I'm sorry-" he says in between chuckles, "Sorry. That was just, funny as hell man, are you sure you don't have like fuckin' asthma or something?"

"I don't know, maybe, thanks for laughing at my misery though."

"You're welcome big D!" And he has no idea where that came from, but it's funny and Dream wheezes at him for the first time since he had his nightmare so he counts it as a win, "Also, you never finished your sentence."

"Oh." Dream says and his tone tells him that he knows that and probably didn't want to, "I was going to say that I felt like I knew them, like really, really knew them, I don't know, it sounds stupid probably, but, yeah.

"I mean... I don't think it sounds stupid Dream, hey! Maybe that persons like your soulmate or something and thats the first time you've ever seen them!!"

"I don't think so, like, we were close, or it felt like it in the dream I guess, but it didn't feel like we were soulmates or something like that, it felt kind of like we had fallen into each other because of something tragic..."

"Like... to fix it? The tragic thing i mean."

"I don't know, maybe." Dream replies, and he's started drawing little shapes into his bed sheet, eyes unfocused.

"Okay, well, did anything else happen or was it just boring as hell." He teases because he's growing very uncomfortable.

"Hey! It wasn't-" Dream cuts himself off, biting his lip.

"It wasn't?" Tommy asks jokingly and frowns when Dream doesn't respond.

"I... died, I think— in the dream I mean."

"Oh."

"It was painful, and they, the blond person whoever they were, did it... but I think I wanted it."

Tommy blinks, "Okay big man i think thats enough of whatever— stuff you're taking." Dream looks at him unimpressed and he sticks out his tongue in response, which somehow manages to make Dream look even more unimpressed.

"You're terrible."

"I'm hilarious actually!"

"Says who?"

"Your mom."

"Really Tommy?"

"What!? That was funny!" Dream shakes his head, "It was!" He shakes his head again but this time Tommy can see him trying to fight a smile.

"It really wasn't."

"Oh fuck off, whatever, just, lets go back to sleep, its still late as hell to be up." Dream nods, but doesn't lay back down, and Tommy realizes belatedly that he never stopped clutching at his chest, "Were you okay in the dream, after you died, I mean?"

"What kind of question is that?! I died!"

"Well yeah but, you said something about cheating death, or whatever."

"I mean... I don't know, I woke up after- after the sword... yeah."

"Oh. well, you're alright, you're still alive."

"You're really bad at this whole comforting people thing aren't you."

"Shut up! I'm amazing at this actually." Dream raises his eyebrow at him and he scoffs before sighing, "Yeah, no I'm not great at this, but I made you laugh so that counts for, something right?"

"Yeah- you're right, thanks Tommy, even if you're annoying."

"Hey! I'm not fucking annoying you green— bitch." It's supposed to be insulting but with how quietly he says the last word it just sounds, sad. Dream to his credit ignores this.

"Yeah, yeah whatever, we need to go to bed, it's almost sunrise."

"How do you even know that?" Dream points at a clock that Tommy does not remember putting up, "When the hell did that get there? Did you do that?"

"Yeah... it felt, right, or something."

"Weirdo."

"Hey!"

"It's true, anyway, why sleep now when we can just get up and do things earlier."

"Tommy theres still mobs outside."

"And?"

Dream sputters, "What do you mean and? They could kill us!"

"Not if we're better than them at everything."

"I- what- ugh fine, fine. But stay close to me, and for the love of god dont run off like yesterday." He says, pulling the covers off of his legs and swinging them over the side of the bed and Tommy sees this as an absolute win.

"There was a spider!"

"Yes, that you ran after, and decided to name Shroud for some reason, and then you started crying when it left."

"I wanted it! And I had thought we had a special bond!" He yells, standing up out of his bed and stretching.

"Tommy you were basically harassing it you're lucky it didn't get annoyed and try to kill you."

"Oh fuck off."

"Plus there's other mobs that aren't hostile that you can have."

"Oh but, none of those ones are interesting."

"Hey! Cats are interesting!"

"Cats? Really big man?"

"Oh shut up!" Dream shouts, and then throws an axe at his feet and in the dark for just a second it looks almost purple, though it's definitely not because it's stone not netherite.

"Whatever, why not choose a cooler animal, like a fucking cow or something."

"A... cow?"

"Yeah!" Dream stares at him for a moment before shaking his head, "What!? Cows are awesome!"

"Uh-huh." He responds absent-mindedly, seemingly paying very little attention to Tommy as he crouches down and starts rummaging through a chest.

"Whats so fuckin' interesting in that chest that you aren't listening to me about how cool and awesome cows are?" Dream doesn't answer him but he does pull out to leads, smiling softly at him.

"We can go get a cat, and a cow." Tommy blinks and then smiles so wide his cheeks hurt, running over to Dream and hugging him before he really registers what he's doing. Dream freezes in his grip and Tommy almost pulls away, but then he relaxes head resting on his shoulder and he smiles, patting the other on the back before pulling back.

"Lets go get those mobs big man."

Dream laughs, "Okay Tommy. Let's go get those mobs." Tommy pulls them both off the floor and toward the door, stopping only for Dream to grab his weird mask.

"What are you going to name your cat?"

"...Hope." Dream whispers softly as he hooks the mask over his face.

"That's a shit name."

"What the hell! Okay fine, what would you name a cat?"

"Pussyboy."

"What?!" Dream shouts as Tommy opens the door, voice echoing off the trees, "You're so weird."

"I'm not weird! I'm fuckin' awesome actually!"

"Uh-huh, please tell me you aren't going to name your cow like, bitch or something."

"I would never insult a cow like that."

"Well then what are you going to name it?"

"I don't know yet... maybe... wait I know! Henry!"

"Henry? Really?"

"What? It's better than Hope."

"How dare you, Hope is a great name."

"If you think so big man."

"Whatever- hey look over there!" Dreams points at the top of a hill and Tommy's eyes widen when he sees what's up there

"Cows!!" He shouts, running off and leaving Dream in the dust and he hears him chuckle behind him.

"Wait for me!"

"Hurry up!" He calls behind him, almost tripping over himself with a laugh.

[the-final-sif]

Thinking about c!Drunz in the convict childcare au again.

Because like, from c!Punz's perspective everything goes terrible. He was waiting for c!Dream to get out of the prison, and they had a plan, and then all of the sudden, c!Ranboo is dead and Dream is gone and he doesn't know what to do anymore.

What's worse is Punz knows that Dream isn't dead. If Dream was dead, this would be easy. Punz could bring him back, and then they'd go get their revenge! Dream being dead would be preferable to this.

The rest of the server (minus the syndicate and Badlands) is convinced that Dream has somehow taken Sam hostage, but Punz knows that can't be true, because Dream would've told him. So Punz is uniquely aware that Dream is absolutely alive and that Sam is keeping him hostage in secret for an unknown reason.

Punz doesn't know what's happened to Dream, and he's worried about the worst. He's searching obsessively but it's really hard given that he's still pretending to not be on Dream's side. So he's also trying to throw Quackity's group off the scent and trying to decide if he can trust the Syndicate or not.

In the end, the Syndicate finds Dream first. They don't tell anyone. Punz finds out after the rest of the server manages to catch up and find where Dream escaped from. And then Punz has to wait again. Because he can't going after the syndicate. He just has to hope that Techno will honor the favor in a meaningful way. He's stuck fearing the worst.

Eventually, Dream's awake and aware enough to get a message across. He's able to sweet talk one of Philza's crows into bringing Punz a short letter,

'alive, with syndicate, can't come meet up yet'

That's all it says, but Punz ends up sobbing in something between relief and exhaustion. The crow sticks around, a bit put off by the reaction to it's letter, but also feeling kinda nosy and wanting a response to carry back (and some peanuts. Dream promised Punz had peanuts and would share >:[ where are the peanuts Punz). Punz needs a hot minute to recover, but eventually manages to scrawl back a quick 'okay' and then find some treats to repay the bird for carrying the message.

It takes time before the two of them can meet up. Messages are dangerous, so they speak in vague terms. Punz knows Dream is injured, but there's something else keeping him with the Syndicate. Punz is wracking his brain trying to figure out what it could be. Is it Ranboo? Does Techno want Ranboo revived before he'll let Dream leave? Punz doesn't like to think that Techno would hold Dream hostage like that, but people change in grief.

When Punz can finally go see Dream, he travels light but he carries an End Chest with full equipment for both of them. His shulker is stacked with potions. He's ready for the worst.

In a sense, he finds it. Even with all the time to heal, Dream has obviously been tortured. Scars litter his body, and his hands shake. He struggles to stand on his own, and he's only just barely started putting on weight. Dream's been getting help, Punz can see that much. It's enough that he doesn't draw a sword against Techno. But it's still hard to see.

On some level, Punz was ready for that. The sight hits him full force, but he was ready for that.

He wasn't ready for the little scarred piglin toddler curled up next to Dream on the couch. Eyeing him with great suspicion.

Punz is cautious as he's introduced to Michael and Dream gives him a simplified explanation of what happened. From how the toddler is staying very firmly pressed up against Dream, one little hand clutched on his shirt, it's pretty obvious what's keeping Dream here. This is a harder problem to resolve.

Still, Punz makes the most of it. Once he's got an understand of the situation he gives Michael a grin and offers to tell him stories about Dream from when they were kids. Dream groans, but he's got a smile under there, and Michael is delighted to learn Caretaker Secrets (Techno won't admit to it, but he was 100% eavesdropping to also get the Dream Secrets).

[dwtisgay]

Mabye it’s just because I don’t like romance in general but romantic ships always take away from the actual relationship of the characters, at least by fan perception. Drunz could be a good romantic ship but I don’t think it would play out correctly or be viewed correctly by fans because lbr most people probably like drunz because it’s just another dude to ship with another dude, whatever good dynamic they had gets overridden, at least for me. Dnf and skephalo I don’t count because they are insane irl, so obviously that’s going to translate in everything they do, regardless if it fits whatever story they are trying to play into. Awesam and ponk was way better than karlnapity I’ll give you that, but I still wasn’t really a fan. Don’t even get me started on quackity and Wilbur, or whatever the hell they had going on 😭

I think it probably just comes down to personal preference, I think that if romantic ships were more fleshed out and people weren’t just doing it because it’s there, then I’d be way more into it, but i don’t see that ever happening 😭 I also physically cringe at the thought of watching romantic ships live

agreed wholeheartedly , I definitely hate how people consume dreamsmp romance ships in this fandom, I think mostly because the relationships themselves aren't super fleshed out they default on what they think is a "blue print romance" disregarding what we DO have and what could be extrapolated from it and that gets annoying if I wanted cookie cutter romance about dude x dude number 340920 medieval au id go read merlin

I think the best way to roleplay romance coded relationships is precisely to keep them vague from the romance aspect - people call that queerbaiting I think its peak story telling give me all the subtext without explicitly shoving it down my throat, I don't want to hear love confession number 40928 without substance because people dont know how to pull them off bbh's latest lore stream for example, because he cant get skeppy to roleplay with him for some reason he wrote an alternate story to his that is supposed to mirror him, with "sam bucket" a character who discovered the egg before him and wrote down what it was like to kill all his loved ones including the person he loved most francis (Who is a dog but we are going to gloss over that haha) and in the sam bucket diaries he wrote and I quote "Dearest Francis.. not a day goes by I do not miss you, I cannot wait to see you again.. when the egg brings you back to me..." "Forgive me Francis, all I ever wanted was to see you one more time.."

""I wanted to believe it so bad. I wanted to believe the egg could bring you back to me but it cant"

which is a PERFECT mirroring of his relationship to skeppy in the dream smp and shows the weight and depth of his feelings to skeppy and what c!bad was going through when he killed skeppy

this isn't an explicit romantic relationship but its so laden with romantic subtext and good writing that I just adore it