One Of The Great Things About The Dream SMP Is That There Are Multiple Characters Who Fit Into Common

One of the great things about the Dream SMP is that there are multiple characters who fit into common character tropes/character genres for example C!Captain Puffy is a paragon. But we get to see them from other perspectives. From most character perspectives Dream’s solely a villain but from Phil’s he’s the (more) morally dubious ally you really shouldn’t trust.

Most interestingly in my opinion is how Badboyhalo plays an archetypical tragic hero to a T. The most important factor of a tragic hero is a fatal flaw that is fatal because of the story they’re in. Take the classic example of if Hamlet and Othello switched stories neither would be tragedies as Hamlet would overthink everything Iago said and do through elaborate hoops to see if Desdemona was truly guilty while if the ghost of his father told him to kill Othello would simply do it. Bad’s fatal flaw is his undying all consuming love for Skeppy but it wouldn’t be a fatal flaw if he was in any other situation. Bad wouldn’t have given in if anyone but Skeppy had been corrupted. If Skeppy hadn’t been corrupted Bad would’ve had no real interest to experiment with the Egg or try to find a cure that would lead him down the dark path of freeing it.

Another aspect of tragic heroes (though not required) is for their actions to be misunderstood by others due to their own flaws. Romeo’s good cheer was misunderstood by Tybalt which resulted in Mercutio’s death or how Romeo thought Juliet was actually dead when she was simply under the last few minutes of a poison. Similar to everyone around Bad assuming he gave himself up for the promise of power out of their own flaws, Puffy taking things a little too at face value and not applying other information or Quackity’s projecting of his own trauma and reasonings onto Bad.

Tragic heroes are also often warned against going down the past that leads to their doom that they ignore due to their flaw. Oedipus was warned against seeking out a cause of the plague ailing Thebes even after the oracle warned him it wouldn’t change anything but his stubbornness wouldn’t let him leave it alone. Caesar was warned against going to the Senate on the Ides of March by his wife but his pride wouldn’t let him listen. Puffy tried to sway Bad away from attempting to heal Skeppy, something that she thought was a hopeless endeavor, but Bad’s undying love for Skeppy refused to let him leave his best friend alone in pain.

Interestingly Bad, and the egg plot at large, fall into another common trope of Shakespearian tragedy specifically collateral damage. Ophelia was collateral of Hamlet’s overthinking. Porcia was an unseen victim of specifically Brutus’s hand in Caesar’s assassination. Mercutio didn’t half to die. Antfrost and Punz didn’t half to be corrupted. They’re collateral of Bad’s grief filled choice to give himself over and free the egg. He manipulates them into helping him free it leading to their possession.

The girls are fighting.

god i dont even care about the new dream drama all i care about is badboy fucken halo just publicly eviscerating some guy on his main account and everybody going rabid abt it. like idc why he did it i just think badboyhalo should be allowed to kill

I just remembered that scene where Tommy received a pigstep disc for Christmas(?) then BBH came up and also gave him pigstep and he had to pretend to be super excited about it. Gold.

Streamers who voices do not match their appearance:

-BadBoyHalo (I don’t know what I thought he looked like in real life but it was not that)

-Technoblade (I don’t even remember what he looks like but I can not imagine a human talking and sounding like that)

-Ranboo (similar to technoblade, the two just got those kinda voices)