The Dreamverse AU Continues! This Time, They’re In A Bit Of A Pinch

Protege!AU my beloved. ♥️ (Yes, I still actively write for this AU three years later.)

Fic added below. 👇

Lara Dorren×Avallac'h

Art by Max Suleimanov

We as a society (fandom) do not talk enough about wilbur's first introduction to dream because it's actually hilarious, and we do not talk about the Minecraft dream cult enough

For context, this is from, like, April of 2020 (a solid few months before the whole pizza hut date fiasco). You can watch the video here, and the time stamp for this particular realm is around 19:25

If you don't know, essentially, wilbur did a video where he stole from his subscriber's Minecraft realms, and one of said realms ended up being a """cult""" (in heavy quotations bc it wasn't actually... it's Minecraft) for dream. wilbur goes in, he's on edge, and he has no idea what's going on—he just wants to steal and move on to the next realm.

Anyway, watch the video if you want. What's really funny is that wilbur had no idea who dream was at the time, so it was just some eerie Minecraft realm to him.

A few months later, tommy & tubbo join the dsmp, and wilbur via tommy asks dream on a pizza hut date, and you know the rest. I wonder if wilbur ever connected the dots between dream and the realm.

If you think about it, the idea of wilbur interacting with a creepy cult then meeting the figure of said cult, only to have his first reaction be to ask said person out on a date, is kinda funny.

Some bonus screenshots from the video:

Forgive me.

Halo by Artem Chebokha

never look your doppelganger in the eyes

(manhunt!dream and c!dream meet; gnf ver; sap ver)

A list of some bits of Dream SMP character perspective lore that I remember sometimes, and they hit me like a train:

-Both Tommy and Tubbo (as well as possibly a lot of the Pogtopia members) still believe that Wilbur placed the buttons all over the base in an act of insanity, instead of it being Fundy’s prank.

-Everyone believes that Dream blew up the community house, not Ranboo, with some of the people that weren’t in the Season 2 finale probably still thinking it was Tommy (like Fundy).

-Tommy never found out that the disc he and Tubbo nearly died fighting for was, for a while, in the possession of Ranboo, somebody he trusted.

-Schlatt died believing that Quackity placed the TNT under Manberg, and probably still thinks he did.

-Almost nobody knows the full extent of what happened to Tommy in exile

-Niki doesn’t know Ghostbur exists (she thinks he was a hallucination, or just a figment of Fundy’s imagination), and might never find out about him.

-A lot of the members that joined post-original L’manberg, like HBomb and Ranboo, have a relatively negative opinion about it because all they know about the original era was that it started from a drug van, and they don’t know about the police brutality, the independence stuff, or really any of the true reasoning for founding L’manberg.

-Judging from the fact that both Quackity and Karl were extremely surprised to find out about it and didn’t know previously, a lot of people don’t know that Tommy gave up his discs for L’manberg and therefore falsely believe that he has only ever sacrificed things FOR the discs.

-Wilbur never found out that Eret was truly sorry for betraying L’manberg and actually wanted redemption, and he also never found out that people like Fundy or Tubbo, never actually were against him or wanted to betray him.

Some of the character perspectives are really interesting. A lot of characters have completely different ideas of events that happened due to lack of information, with some of them still holding these beliefs. It’s a really interesting form of storytelling, because it makes everyone an unreliable narrator in at least some way.

Pixel art by Romain Courtois

Betray by 糖糖Will