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After a satisfying showdown, Pandora's Vault now houses the server's greatest enemy within its black walls, under the purview of the prison's appointed Warden to ensure the threat is contained. The server's days of strife have come to a decisive end, victory snatched through banding together against Dream's evils. Things will finally be able to turn peaceful again, no longer haunted by an unwanted shadow looming over them all.
Punz waits a lonely vigil outside the foreboding black blight on the landscape. His thoughts wander over the day's events and a little more besides, left to brood on his own as the server celebrates. Alone. At least, until he isn't.
Ch 2 || bees (and other love languages)
As his erstwhile partner has so solemnly bidden him to, Punz buries his impatience and obediently does his utmost best to ensure he takes his sweet time meandering home.
To his house, at least.
These days, his house is no longer what he considers his true home but a mere shell he calls home for the sake of prying ears and eyes. His house is missing the Dream that would make it home.
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George has managed to achieve the impossible: with a king’s conviction and a tender heart, he brought Dream home and then, the morning after, convinced Dream to stay.
In the days that follow, as he can begin to believe in the permanence of his rewritten future, he basks in Dream’s presence and lazes in a warm, content bubble where the world is narrowed down to the intimacy of trust given and returned.
Even while he greedily hoards Dream’s love, he cannot forget that there is a world outside, too. One which would try to take Dream from him again. And it will come calling sooner than he wants.
But George does not need a crown or a throne to be a king. In pursuit of keeping Dream at his side, he is willing to do whatever he must and remind the server that he is the true threat.
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Dream is slain by Warden's Willbreaker (
on purpose, on accident?) during one of Quackity's early torture sessions. A canon death, a final curtain.This should be the end for him—it's his last life, after all, and at most he'd come back as a ghost but that's not guaranteed and he's certainly not that lucky—and yet, and yet...
And yet he's alive. Somehow, someway, he's alive. Not in limbo, not respawned in Pandora's Vault, not anywhere he recognizes. He's alive and now he has to figure out what happened, why, and where he goes from here with his unexpected second chance.
Ch 11 || his hopeful future, slowly crafted
I want windows I can open, Dream decides, abrupt but resolute.
Surprised by his own candor, he squints an eye and rolls the idea over in his mind despite the knee jerk reaction to bury it beneath an avalanche of refusals. Something melancholy, something curiously hopeful twines its way into the yawning chasm in his chest near his heart.
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- Part 1 of panacea and the prelogue
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A normal day's clock-out routine at scenic Pandora's Vault (mind the bloodstains!) gets interrupted by creeping red vines that besiege and consume the building, causing enough mayhem that the very fabric of the server destabilizes.
Unfortunately for the current residents, this happens to send them through the void to crash into another server altogether. And more unfortunately for the current residents who are now looking to get home, this new server has a rather dark history. Getting out in one piece and returning home may, horror of horrors, require buckling down and learning to work together.
Aka the self-indulgent prison trio road trip au no one wanted but me!
Ch 2 || sam i
“…Owe you?” Dream repeats, the words soft, well-honed knives cleaving through the tense atmosphere with nary a whisper, a thread of dangerdangerdanger coiling its way around Sam’s ribs and hooking there, a strangling weight like an anvil incrementally pressing against his heart.
Quiet, the anvil whispers. Tread carefully.
Sam obeys the warning.
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The server and its illustrious prison warden may believe that Dream has been well and truly defeated, locked away in a sweltering obsidian cage and left to serve a sentence that may as well be eternal. As it stands, he only isn't dead because he'd waved the revive book in their face before his third life could be stolen as swiftly as his first, and his second (and almost three times back-to-back as people he once called friends stood by in silence and watched).
Bitter he may be, Dream has an ace up his sleeve and all the more reason to use it once he's left alone in his scenic new home.
How very interesting that the revive book held more secrets within its pages. Secrets that guarantee him freedom from Pandora's Vault right under Sam's too-serious nose. It's such a shame no one but Punz and Ranboo will know what he's done until it's time for the curtain to rise.
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maybe that's how books get written, maybe that's why songs get sung, maybe we are the unlucky ones by Ainlux
Fandom Dream SMP
14 Feb 2023
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In the uncertainty of a post-dethronement server, with bruised pride and an instinct for pettiness, George is tempted to let things lie. He finds himself instead hunting Dream down for answers, for explanations, and is faced with a choice.
Does he let Dream go or does he try to reach Dream one final time?
And then, in the aftermath of his choice, where does he (where do they) go from here?
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Dream has been slain one final time while in Pandora's Vault, dying at Quackity's hands during one early torture session. He lives, somehow, and tries to make a life for himself and heal with the second chance he's been given.
Elsewhere, there are those who are not pleased at Dream's death and who take it upon themselves to demand answers.
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