#like the entire point of revivebur was him learning how to live and enjoy living again like i cannot stress enough how important it is that-

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i have decided that my interpretation of c!wilbur’s ominous foreshadowing after the “Bust” stream is that he was suicidal and increasingly planning on committing suicide as his character heavily alludes to (because i believe that negating the suicidal overtones of cwilbur during this portion of his story by saying that he was always only ever planning on going back to utah: # 1 just lessens the impact of everything that happens in this arc, because he wouldve already decided to live thus making all those conversations and apologies forcing him to confront the realities of his own life and death wayyy less meaningful, but most importantly # 2 makes it impossible to provide adequate closure for his character’s deepest struggles because they wouldve never been re-addressed) — BUT that when he finally decided to go through with sending friend to ghostbur thus making the evident conclusion that ghostbur did not deserve to suffer eternally (and by extension and implication, himself, too) he changes his mind and chooses Life :) aka Utah <3

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C! Wilbur: is he a villain?

Disclaimer: Spoilers and when mostly mentioning his name, I’m talking about the character but I will bring up the creator.

This is the character that made me want to analyze other Dream SMP characters. He is really what Wilbur intended him to be and this character is quite interesting.

But I wanted to ask a question, why is c! Wilbur sometimes perceived as a villain? When I first joined this fandom, I would see fanart and animatics of Wilbur being insane and these would often be my only way to see events. I thought “wow this guy must be really crazy, he blew up stuff and listen to him laugh!” Look how quickly I learned that a lot of people on the server have blown up things, so yeah. I know there are plenty, actually most of the fandom who don’t even remotely see him as the bad guy but first to newbie, he seemed pretty bad.

I will do this for every analysis, state my belief. I do not see canon Wilbur as a villain and I hope to explain why.

Wilbur has stated that he wanted the characters to be morally ambiguous and… I think his character is morally ambiguous. Honestly, there are a few characters that are ambiguous but it’s really his that sticks to it. You get a sense of them but not fully if that makes sense. At the beginning of his story, he is a man who makes drugs in a caravan with his friends and it fits him. But he also creates a nation because a certain green bitch won’t let him and his friend do their stuff.

I am just setting the story for Pogtopia since this is where c! Wilbur truly shines as a “deranged” character. L’Manburg is gone and he has been exiled. I would like to add the attachment to L’Manburg that Wilbur has, getting separated from it and watching it get torn down. He is not an insane evil character that he has been portrayed as, to me, he is a man who has been driven to the darker parts of his mind. The environment around him doesn’t help this either, often hostile and threatening. He is paranoid, lashing out at others. There are good moments but they are outweighed by the bad.

When he blows up Manburg, it is not entirely an act of revenge but an act of desperation. He has looked at that button so many times, contemplating on whether or not he should press it. I am not excusing his actions, only seeing from his point of view.

The revival made the fandom hesitant as Ghostbur was killed only for Wilbur (or Revivebur to some) to come back. I will now tell you my theory because it makes sense to me, but Ghostbur and Revivebur are two parts of one soul, one part more blissfully happy and the other bitterly aware of the bad things. Or Revivebur is just ~quirky~, who knows.

Revivebur hasn’t shown any real signs of evil, really he’s just more manipulative and hardened by the world. People have different opinions but I plainly see him as a person who got another opportunity to live and remember, he was in limbo for thirteen and a half years. That changes a person.

C! Wilbur is very intriguing because you can really see what cc! Wilbur wanted him to be. He is probably the least villainous character I have planned to write about. I hope you enjoyed this little essay on Wilbur the character, I saw this headcanon that he is currently living his life and wandering. I loved the idea of this and I have realized how different he is to me now.

He was once a villain in my eyes but now, he’s just neutral, maybe planning things for the future.

-I hope you liked this and I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions. I know there are Wilbur apologists, ethustasits, and haters out there who can have civil conversation with me or else I'm ignoring you. Feel free to follow me and ask questions if you want!

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