#maybe i will write about how cwilbur was selfish during this stream bc i kept mentioning that while writing this

[miceeonvenus]

Wilbur believing that the last thing Dream could hold over Tommy was the discs kept bothering me during the stream. I think it makes sense that Wilbur thinks this yet he's objectively wrong. While the discs are something Dream could use to keep power over Tommy, he can also use Tommy's other attachments and his plain obsession with Tommy.

Tommy is attached to his discs, though he is attached to the people he cares for, such as Wilbur and Tubbo, moreso. Wilbur having Dream burn the decoy discs takes away one attachment, but Tommy has always chose people above those discs. These people are still alive and Dream can always get to them.

Dream is also just plain obsessed with Tommy. I don't have the exact quote, but I know he's said Tommy is too fun to not mess with. To Dream, Tommy is just a plaything, and he's the best plaything on the server to be exact. As long as Dream is alive he can find away to hurt Tommy because of this, even when Tommy is dead.

I think the only time we've properly seen Dream without most of this power is at the end of the Disc Confrontation when Tommy was killing him with the Axe of Peace. Tommy and Tubbo have secured the discs in an enderchest, there was a multitude of people there to witness what was happening and protect them, and Dream has been stripped of all weapons, armour, and other items. Tommy has put himself above a plaything for Dream because he can protect all of his attachments and he can now fight and *win* against Dream. Though we see that Dream still holds some power because he has the revive book. He still holds one attachment above Tommy, and that attachment is Wilbur. Dream continues to secure some sort of power because in the prison, he still has the revive book, Wilbur is still dead, and Tommy has nothing to fight against Dream but his bare fists while he's in there.

Wilbur is so caught up in this inherently selfish mission of rescuing Tommy from Dream that he can't see that he really hasn't. Tommy can't truely be safe from Dream unless Dream is dead. But Wilbur doesn't see that and he only holds himself and the discs above Dream. He threatens to kill himself to keep some power above Dream and has Dream burn the decoy discs to trick him into believing he's lost that power. This works in the moment because no matter how strategic Dream is, he's still human and he's blinded by emotion here. Dream decides it is better to lose a bit of ego and say L'manberg was a sovereign nation than it is to lose the power he holds above and through Wilbur, but then he must choose between holding power through Wilbur or the discs and he ultimately chooses to keep Wilbur alive. Wilbur thinks that Dream can only use the discs against Tommy and Wilbur against, well, Wilbur, but he fails to see that he can still be used against Tommy. In the moment Dream can't because Wilbur is threatening to kill himself, but I don't doubt that Dream will manage to find away around that later in time, with a clear part of the solution being the revive book.

To put this all simply, Wilbur has created a temporary solution. In the moment he has taken Dream down a peg by having him destroy "the discs", but he has failed to completely eliminate the problem because Dream still has supplies, armour, and weapons to fight. He can still reach the people Tommy cares about, and he he still has the revive book. Dream is still alive and therefore can still get to Tommy. Wilbur did this to "save" Tommy, but he really hasn't solved anything and hasn't properly made Tommy feel better.

I apologize if this makes no sense because as I wrote this I kept having to pause to write down other thoughts before I forgot. And I think this is the first proper analysis I’m posting so 👍