Im Just Happy That Some Of The Things I Said Were Actually Correct! Now! Onto More Theorization Of Ranboos

i’m just happy that some of the things i said were actually correct! now! onto more theorization of ranboo’s new allegiance and just general discussion because i still have to watch tubbo’s vod

/dsmp /roleplay

so.

ranboo’s with techno and philza now.

not gonna lie, this is the outcome i wanted the most, despite how much i loved ranboo and tubbo’s friendship in rp.

to start us off, ranboo seems a lot happier already, and i’m going to attribute this to the lack of control dream has over these specific two members of the smp. like, let’s be real, there’s no fucking way phil or techno would ever bow to dream. the closest they’ll ever get is a partnership based on mutual agreement, which is what happened today!

now, what happened with ranboo?

why is he so panicked and confused, why is he so scared and fearful of what will happen to him, why does he not understand what he’s done, or could have done?

ranboo was manipulated and hurt, plain and simple, but he wasn’t manipulated by anyone in specific.

he was manipulated by himself.

when the voice of dream said he wasn’t real, that was true. dream i believe is essentially the embodiment of everything ranboo believes is bad, so it manifested in that voice, manifested in his anxiety and fear, manifested in his mind and hurt him because to him? he was bad. there was no explanation for what happened with the community house except for that he was the one who did it. he couldn’t trust himself, he couldn’t trust his memories, so he must’ve done it.

his new allegiance with techno and philza (we all know it’s primarily with phil) i think will be good for him. watching the interactions that ranboo had with the people of l’manburg honestly disappointed me.

tubbo treated him as a friend, but constantly made fun of him and generally ignored his input when others decided to speak

tommy (with techno, but techno pulled tommy back a bit so idk if his involvement is nearly as bad) stressed ranboo out, and interrogated both ranboo and fundy for information without caring for their mental states

quackity wanted ranboo dead ever since he found out about the book, but just in general their interactions seemed very stiff and fake in the beginning. it also doesn’t help that quackity has been different ever since schlatt had died

the side argument that ranboo brings up is true, but it’s also not. sides exist no matter what, because the people are those sides. there will always be sides because there will always be differing opinions. and no matter what, some people with those differing opinions will clash. sides cause a lot of hurt, but there’s nothing else to do but choose.

like fake voice dream said, by not choosing a side, ranboo unintentionally did. the side of neutrality, and the side that abandoned his friends.

ranboo taking this step to choose what he wants rather than what he thought needed to happen is such an important moment. choosing philza is probably ranboo’s best bet right now because he’s going to treat him the kindest out of everyone in ranboo’s options.

tubbo doesn’t trust him

tommy doesn’t trust him

fundy wants him to join his side

quackity wants him to use the sides, and in turn, use him

we don’t know phil’s motivations, but we do know that out of the pure goodness of his heart, he saved ranboo from lava and a canon (maybe) death.

ranboo’s best shot and choice right now is phil because phil pulled him out of that shit state of mind, pulled him away from his panic and fear and offered him a place to go, something that while others offered, also wished for him to fight and use him. phil, at this point in time, doesn’t want to force ranboo to do anything, and that’s the difference between ranboo picking phil, and ranboo picking either fundy or quackity.

ranboo doesn’t have anyone else.

phil is the light at the end of the tunnel, and ranboo choosing to follow it is his first step to the peace he’s been longing for since the beginning.

he’s not being forced to do things, not being dragged into situations that he had no part in, not being hurt and abused by the ideologies that are supposed to be good for him.

with phil?

ranboo can be free

ranboo, trying to confront his inner self and struggling to bring up memories:

fake dream: just ✨remember✨

SKEPPY LMAOOOO HES GONNA GET CAGED

l’manburg stopped being l’manburg the day they viewed the place more important than its people.

schlatt didn’t understand that, and that’s why it fell in his hands.

tubbo doesn’t understand that, and that’s why it continues to crumble in his fingers.

IM CALLING IT NOW QUACKITY MIGHT’VE BEEN THE ONE TO FIND THE BOOK

/dsmp /roleplay

with the whole confirmation that the festival will be happening tomorrow, it’s important to realize some key similarities and differences with the event and the people involved in said event.

similarities:

the event is staged to hurt someone. the festival that schlatt planned was all about hurting tubbo, revealing tubbo. this winter festival has some minor differences, but the essence of violence and revenge, the main point of hurting someone for what they did is still there no matter how deserved it might be viewed in the eyes of the cabinet.

differences:

everyone says tubbo is acting like schlatt, that tubbo’s the next schlatt, but we don’t actually see much of the same mannerisms shared between those characters. you know who we do see it in though? quackity.

tubbo is a child, a traumatized one who, when he finally decides to grow some sort of backbone and make decisions for a country he leads, is compared to what we would equate to his abuser. he is no schlatt, his trauma has shaped him away from that mentality, but quackity on the other hand...

quackity is the one we see claiming that l’manburg needs revenge on techno, the person who orchestrated the entire butcher army before he had any “government” approval. he wants revenge in the same ways schlatt wanted, encouraged tubbo when he put forth the idea for the festival, and has just been altogether violent and reckless towards the things he feels has betrayed him. this is what compares quackity to schlatt. schlatt wanted revenge on tubbo for his spying habits, so he orchestrated an entire festival to become the end of one of his lives in a purely spiteful manner, nevermind the fact that the people he was so angry against were very vocal about their standings before he was inaugurated. that anger is similar with quackity and techno’s relationship (boutta become a bit of a techno apologist): techno was upfront with all of his beliefs in the beginning, and yet the people of l’manburg were surprised when he felt betrayed at their formation of government.

quackity is acting like a mentor to tubbo, which is why we see these comparisons of tubbo to schlatt. tubbo is being encouraged into that kind of behavior by quackity despite his attempts to stay away from it. however, his morals remain very much intact, which is a key difference between him and schlatt that i feel will be revealed when he is forced to make a big decision. will he choose a violent path and become a more hardened and cruel version of himself, or will he fall back to his past self and reactions? quackity is holding the reigns here, and it’ll be tubbo’s decision on whether or not he wants to stay in his seat.

this is more of a personal tidbit, but though i believe ranboo will be found out likely at the festival or sometime very soon, i doubt tubbo would actively wish for someone to go through what he did at his own self-decorated funeral. dream is a bit of an outlier here when it comes to these canon death possibilities, as because he is considered the server admin, he probably has an unlimited amount (or at least vastly higher amount) of lives due to his ownership of the smp. kinda like a god freebie, if you will.

tubbo will either let quackity make the decision when (not if) they find out about ranboo’s book (which 9 times out of 10 will end in ranboo losing a canon life), or he will make it himself, hopefully without any of quackity’s input.