#dsmp false hydra theory

[annikathewitch]

I just realized... so, I’ve seen a lot of posts about the possible implications of c!Eret having amnesia, if it is that and not one of the other possible explanations for this whole situation.

Oh... all names refer to the c!s not the cc!s from here on out.

Basically, this could kinda be a tipping point, a wake up call of sorts. Eret didn’t seem to realize that there were things that they couldn’t remember. Who else could have huge memory gaps, huge things they don’t know about themselves, and not even know it?

I’ve seen a ton of posts listing other things, weird inconsistencies and stuff, that are kinda sus. There could be something terribly, terribly wrong with the smp that no one knows about, and that got me thinking; we all know that there are quite a lot of mental health issues on dsmp. It makes sense, given everything that everyone’s been through. But... there are also some big things. I haven’t watched much pre-Manberg v. Pogtopia dsmp, and I joined this fandom relatively recently, so correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve heard that Dream used to be a bit more... chill? I guess? Basically, he didn’t always have a god complex. He wasn’t always someone you would think would EVER end up doing the many, many terrible things he’s ended up doing. As far as I’m aware, and again, this could just be me being new to the fandom, there’s little to no clear explanation for why Dream ended up changing this... drastically.

There are some other similar examples, such as Wilbur’s spiral, or Niki’s, or maybe even Ranboo’s problems with enderwalking, which seem to be getting worse over time, and maybe some other examples that I don’t know as much about. Most of those things did have in canon character reasons, but still...

Okay, this may seem a bit off topic. There’s this thing in D&D called a false hydra. I’m not gonna explain it in depth here, but basically it hides itself by making people forget about it, and for those people, in and around the area where it lives, it can cause some serious mental health issues. Paranoia. Delusions. Mental breakdowns. Not that those things don’t happen otherwise, but they’re SIGNIFICANTLY more likely with a false hydra around. The powers that the false hydra uses to make people forget, to prevent them from noticing its existence... they’re seriously damaging to the mind.

I don’t know about you, but that all sounds awfully familiar. Now, I’m not saying that it’s necessarily a false hydra causing this. It’s probably not actually a false hydra; there are some other things false hydras do that definitely don’t match up, but it could be something similar. It could be the server itself, some sort of area-of-effect thing, or maybe something tied to Karl’s time travel. It could also be connected to the egg, but I don’t think the egg itself is the cause, it’s more likely that it drew the egg here or that it and the egg both come from the same source, whatever that may be. I just think it’s an interesting possibility.