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I have a love hate relationship with the name pandoras vault.

On the one hand it’s so cool! My first thought when hearing it was that it’s so clever, and I love mythology references (plus the continuation with ‘Theseus’ is rly nice)

But it also does the exact same thing that the fandom does to c!dream. The metaphor of the name directly compares him to the embodiment of all evil; and suggests that anyone who lets him out would be a fool, who is putting everyone else in grave danger. The contents of the original pandoras box weren’t people capable of change, they were instead concepts.

touch starved c!dream really do be making me feel things

c!dream was proven right about attachments; over and over again

A thing with posting is that I’m generally pretty confident in my ideas and the concepts I have! The thing that always stumps me is my execution...

I have a lot of drafts and ideas that I haven’t posted? I guess I’m here looking for validation that a poorly constructed paragraph and some run on sentences won’t matter!

c!Dream burns his clock not only because it means he’ll see c!sam; but because he has to rid himself of his attachments.

Many people are of the opinion that some of the abuses that C!Dream faces are in some way justified or excusable. Which, no! Abuse is never okay! But lets put that aside for one moment. Lets pretend that yes, c!dream being subject to solitary confinement is defensable due to the moral boundaries that he’d crossed. That he posed such a threat to other people, that he was bad enough of a person, that his rights are now null and void.

Where do we draw the line? I’m genuinely curious, at what point in the storyline did people no longer think he deserved adequate living conditions? What action did he take that then made it perfectly okay for him to be cut off from any form of support network? What moment meant that his canonical self harm could then be dismissed as attention seeking?

And if we’ve now established that there is some point when abuse is justified, surely that logic must be applied universally? What action would c!tommy have to take where exile was okay? Where is that line in the sand?

The logic behind excusing the conditions of pandoras vault is the same behind justifying the exile arc.

should i add citations from medical journals to the essay im writing abt c!dream or is that too much

If c!dreams imprisonment and subsequent torture wasn’t done in the name of authority, would people have a bigger issue with it?

By that I mean, if c!sam had held c!dream captive in his basement, and never used any terms such as ‘warden’.

Institutionalised abuse is so normalised as a foundation of the prison system, and I think many viewers haven’t done any critical thinking on where their thoughts on pandoras vault truly come from.

Burning hot take:

I’m not usually one for pain olympics, but since people keep saying that c!dream’s actions towards others are justification for his torture I gotta say it.

The prison is worse that exile

I somewhat disagree, as trauma is subjective- however I absolutely agree that the prison is a clear escalation. And even if exile was ‘worse’ that doesn’t make any further mistreatment okay!

Fun fact- raw potatoes have high amounts of vitamin c. At least c!dream won’t get scurvy?