#the lost city of mizu. changes my entire perspective on the SMP for good

[kucherovv]

I feel like the Lost City of Mizu had a lot more thematic significance than I initially thought. It shows Karl the future, and gives him a peek into what he needs to stop from happening.

The thing is, we don’t know who Karl is sided with at the moment. He’s been with the DreamSMP side for a while, but he could’ve changed sides; however, I don’t think this is the case. I think he’s working to make a better future for Dream, and the Lost City just built that up further.

Dream’s influence is not shown as the reason for the biased, broken, and completely changed history. It’s Ranboo. The change is said by Ranbob to be Ranboo’s fault, because he was the historian of the country. I think we can assume from Ranboo’s lore and Dream’s.. um.. antics that it was actually Dream who messed with the lore like this, but Karl doesn’t know that.

So, Karl is going to assume that the state of the future is Ranboo’s fault, and work on making things worse for Ranboo, thus affecting the AAC, L’Manberg, AND DreamSMP. He is going to make everything worse because he’ll try to make it worse for Ranboo, thus helping Dream in the process. 

This also brings up something really interesting about Dreamons and Ranbob- that being that Dream might’ve set up Mizu and killed all the fishermen that Karl was with in order to set off the modern lore of the DreamSMP by making Karl go back to stop Ranboo. This also explains why the fishermen had never seen the city before: Dream put it there when he knew Karl would be there, and not a second before. 

The conclusion I’m getting from this is that Karl’s entire goal, his character motivation, at this point, will end up failing, and will boil down to another one of Dream’s long-term, manipulative plans.