#pandora's vault

[polinamory]

Pandora's Vault, but all the visitors except Quackity are Dream's hallucinations. Pandora's vault, but Dream talks to Sapnap and George for hours, and then finds himself in an empty cell. Pandora's Vault, but Dream throws buttons torn from his shirt at Quackity every time he comes to him to make sure that he is real. Pandora's Vault, but Sam hears Dream arguing with himself for hours, sometimes loudly shouting Tommy's name. Pandora's Vault, but Dream is petting a nonexistent cat, not understanding why Sam is looking at him so worriedly. Pandora's Vault, but hallucination faces are getting more and more blurred because he can't remember exactly what his friends looked like. Pandora's Vault, but Punz's voice is the only reason he continues to survive in this hell 💥💥💥💥💥

#dsmp #dream smp #cdream #dsmp dream #dreblr #c! dream #c!dream #pandora's vault

[bleue-flora]

“There are some snakes that just bite. Pure evil. But they weren’t always that way. You made them that way by treating them like that’s what they always were.” — Dream —

After, I don’t know how many hours, I would like to present what post-prison c!Dream basically looks like in my mind.

things you may not have noticed:

- His hair is cc!Dream’s color with grey roots from malnutrition, white streaks from the revive book testing, and a red tinge because the blood from months of torture dyed his hair due to only having hot water to clean it and the malnutrition making his hair more porous.

- The mask is literally the smile from his profile and the green is the same shade as his Minecraft skin.

- His armor and weapon colors are also actually taken from Minecraft enchanted netherite.

- His armor is a bit mismatched and ragged because this is not his nice shiny Nightmare gear, but the no doubt less OP and more hastily thrown together set after prison.

- You may notice he has a more almost feminine frame. This is because given his frequent twerking I imagine he was rather curvy before being starved in prison.

{things you can’t see but in my mind are there: his eyes are of course green behind the mask and I was going to put one of his dead parrot’s feathers in his hair but it didn’t look right, so just imagine it’s there.}

#Yo digital art round two! #I am so bad at doing people but I tried #I’m pretty happy with how it turned out so ​I hope y’all like it #c!dream #dsmp #dreblr #dream smp #pandora's vault #dsmp dream #dsmp fanart #cdream #c!dream fanart #no one does it like c!dream #digital art #headcanon #dsmp headcanon #blue does art apparently

[iced-sweet-dt]

The MCYT build contest discourse currently.

#homemade dtea #pandora's vault #mcyt base contest

[elmhat]

cloak

Characters: Dream, Technoblade

Words: 7k so far (1 of 2 chapters)

Warnings: Referenced Torture, Abuse

Summary — The highs and lows of Dream and Technoblade's time together in prison.

(I've finally done it! This is the c!rivals fic I've been working on for months! It's my take on their time together during the prison arc, so expect the usual prison arc themes. The good(?) and the bad. This one has taken me a While, so I hope you enjoy it like I did!)

Technoblade’s arrival was bad. It was really, really bad. Somehow, in all Dream’s life, he didn't think he had ever been quite this fucked. He refused to look at him. He had his head between his knees, crouched tightly in his usual back corner. He didn't know how long he had been sitting like this. But he couldn't look up now, because then he would see Techno, and that would make it real. And it couldn’t be real. It couldn’t. His hands fisted in his hair.

Read on AO3.

#c!dream #c!techno #c!rivals #dreblr #dream smp #dsmp #pandora's vault #elm fics #my writing

[ph0bianf]

Sad prison guy :(

#dreblr #c!dream #my art #dsmp fanart #dsmp #dream smp #dream smp fanart #dreamwastaken #dream fanart #pandora's vault

[pandoras-vault-archive]

Welcome to the Pandora's Vault Archive!

Reblogging art and writing related to the one and only block game prison.

Submissions

If you would like to submit a piece of art or writing, be it your own or someone else's, just send in an ask with a link. I won't respond to the ask directly, but I'll give it a look over. Please be aware that not all submissions might be accepted. To increase your chances, please check the guidelines below before submitting.

Guidelines

For now, this blog is specifically for art and writing (mostly fic). Due to the sheer volume of prison analysis posted on tumblr, I probably won't be reblogging many analysis posts at this time.

Submissions should be directly related to Pandora's Vault. While I might branch out to other dreblr topics at some point, I'd like to maintain this focus for now.

Submissions should be c!Dream-sympathetic or at least not outright c!Dream-negative. This is primarily a space for c!Dream enjoyers.

IMPORTANT - Warnings

Due to the large number of posts reblogged here, I might not be able to appropriately tag content warnings for each one. Before you choose to follow, please be aware that this blog is likely to feature media involving torture, violence, blood, abuse, self-harm, food issues, and other themes relating to Pandora's Vault.

The more graphically violent art will likely be tagged with "#cw blood". If you're looking for a tag to block, it's that one. Writing is harder for me to tag, so please pay attention to each writer's own warnings.

Tags

#art archive

#fic archive

#c!dream

#c!sam

#c!quackity

#c!techno

#c!tommy

#mod posts

You can also check out my @las-nevadas-archive!

#dreblr #pandora's vault #mod posts #pinned

[theminecraftbox]

Obviously a lot of focus is put (reasonably!) on the brutality of c!Quackity’s torture as the major focus of the interrogation. But there's something more frightening to me about thinking about the ways in which c!Sam, unlike Quackity, never gave up.

Torture isn’t a very effective way to get information. But relentless interrogation, asking the same questions over and over, pressuring someone, making them believe that there’s no way other than to tell you, very much is. Even before we had confirmation from Daedalus that Sam asked Dream for the book after every visit from Quackity, the way that Sam asked for the book after Techno's escape, after Quackity had left, hit in a way totally different. Absolutely brutal, especially because I don't think it was a particularly thought-through move from Sam.

#c!prison trio #dreblr #c!dream and c!sam #c!dream and c!quackity #c!sam #pandora's vault

[simplepotatofarmer]

c!sam canonically starved c!dream in the prison. every single day i and the rest of dreblr continue to be proven right.

#i mean it didn't take a genius to know this the subtext was basically just text #but media literacy!!! #loyal talks about stuff and things #awesamdude #dreamwastaken #pandora's vault #dsmp

[lucaden]

Artist!

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Uncensored version + sketch under the cut

#I'm sorry I have no idea how to censor blood #c!dream #c!quackity #prison arc #torture #tw blood #tw injury #tw violent imagery #pandora's vault #my art #dsmp #dream smp #dreblr #he's having nightmares #fun times #tw gore #tw body horror #just in case? #dsmp art

[color-fulness]

Hi.

#quackity #dream smp #dsmp #quackity dsmp #dream smp fanart #quackity fanart #fanart #dsmp fanart #pandora's vault #c!quackity

[bleue-flora]

Wait... Dream was born on August 12, 1999 and Dream was arrested in the Disc Finale on January 20, 2021 soo... wait, wait, wait, that means he was only 21 when he was imprisoned for life in a small lava covered box!... Did I do that math right? 21?! Man was barely able to drink legally in the United States and they gave him a life sentence in a boiling cell with nothing but lava, raw potatoes, a clock, and some books?!... oh my god...

#sorry.... I just... give me a minute to process... I mean I knew we were close in age but I guess I never really thought about it #sometimes I forget it happened all the way back in 2021 and just... wow. #and Tommy would have been 16 so getting his driver's license in most states... The age gap is like that of my siblings and huh... #my brother can be a real prick... its a weird thought to imagine him getting through in prison just for messing with us... damn... #dreblr #c!dream #this is fine #don't mind me researching for my lastest maddening project..... i can't stop thinking about Dream being Sam's project....... #I'd blame my job but... let's be honest the prison arc lives rent free in my brain lol XD #dsmp #dsmp dream #dream smp #dreamwastaken #no one does it like c!dream #prison arc #pandora's vault #dishing up lore #kinda? I guess... #lore thoughts #ouch... I'm older than c!dream was in prison now... poor baby... :'(

[monsterritory]

Things I didn’t finish drawing this year part 1 of many 

#Dream SMP #Awesamdude #Dreamwastaken #Technoblade #Pandora's Vault

[elmhat]

// dsmp rp

How to make a hell into a home:

Secure the perimeter. Seal off old exits and conceal the new ones. No one should see you enter or leave, but that's not a problem if you never leave.

Evict the current resident. It's a transaction: an eye for an eye, an eye for a year. A year for a fortress. You've won the trade. He won't talk.

Don't go back to your old room. It's empty now, but sometimes it doesn't feel that way.

Ignore the mining fatigue. It's easy to get used to it again, given time. To encourage this endurance, never travel more than ten minutes outside the bounds of its effects. Endurance builds strength.

Look elsewhere for food. Potatoes are inefficient; try golden apples instead. Magic is a valuable substitute for nutrition.

Dispose of the gifts that get left by the front door. They seem to be coming from the mansion nearby, little baskets of breads and cheeses and bandages. It could be poisoned. Throw it into the sea, and make sure he sees you doing it.

Don't go back to your old room.

Decorate. A bed, some chests, armor. Weapons. No need to remove the stalactites; most of the building is redundant. Plants look nice.

Did you ever leave your old room?

Quackity, Las Nevadas, Purpled, Quackity. George. Quackity, Quackity, Quackity.

Get out. (Quackity.)

Fail.

Run.

Don't leave. Quackity will see if you leave. Quackity will come. Everything you need is in here; it will become your world. The outside isn't dangerous if there is no outside.

Go back to your old room. You think you've always known that it's where you have to die.

#this Totally isn't inspired by my current fic or anything #dreblr #c!dream #pandora's vault #dream smp #lore thoughts #drabbles #my writing #elm fics

[ameiniateria]

Very unfinished, but I like my composition here (for once haha)

#dreblr #awesamdream #c!dream #pandora's vault #fighting artblock one bloody chained-up man at a time :)

[percy-ils]

thinking about how hopeless c!dream must have felt in Pandora when Sam stopped letting visitors in, when Sam stopped replacing the clock, when his food supply started being cut short, when he started burning himself for some kind of stimulation, when Quackity started coming in, when Techno entered the cell, when Quackity was about to kill Techno, when Techno disappeared, when Sam found him in the toilet hole, when the glass got installed like woah. just a whole cruel circle of hopelessness

#dreblr #pandora's vault #c!dream #yes im insane again whats new #guuyysss

[theminecraftbox]

Tw// noncon

Hypothetically, if c!Quackity were to noncon c!dream in prison (which i honestly dont think he'd do), what do you think c!dreams reaction would be? What would c!sam do? Do you think he'll allow it?

/dsmp rp

I'm answering this from a hypothetical canon-compliant perspective, ie, that everything onscreen happens as in canon, but that there's offscreen sexual violence.

So I'll answer your last question first, which is something I've explored a bit in Strangling Fruit. Sam wouldn't "allow" it, in that I think he'd be categorically unable and unwilling to acknowledge any sexual violence happening in the prison (under his supervision, with his cooperation). But would he do anything to stop it?

Sam wants Dream dead and he doesn't; he wants Dream in prison above anything else; he wants to subdue Dream; he wants Dream to obey him and he's willing to sell his soul to make that happen. He's basically willing to acknowledge all of that.

What Sam is not ready or willing to acknowledge is how Dream, and his relationship with Dream, has been so deeply integrated into his identity. That kind of closeness, that emotional reliance, and yes, intimacy, isn't something Sam can think about with a clear head. It's one of the reasons that the violence Quackity commits, sexual or not, is something he's so strange about: both taking ownership of it and distancing himself from it.

Making some of that violence specifically sexual hammers on basically all of Sam's buttons at once. 1) It's morally repugnant in a way that's unrepentant: it's nakedly sadistic in a way Sam can't maintain apologetics for. 2) It's intimate, it acknowledges intimacy, and it basically forces Sam to confront the idea that his own desires to subdue Dream are also intimate. I don't mean this in a sexual sense, but in an emotional sense: Sam wants to know everything Dream knows, have Dream obey him, break Dream's will. 3) It threatens Sam's power over Dream: it's a closeness to and knowledge of Dream that Sam doesn't have, and cannot get without feeling yucky. It threatens his ownership and his responsibility and his morality.

How would Sam react? I think he'd try to ignore it. I think he'd pretend he saw and heard nothing, and he'd try to surgically remove the knowledge from his brain. I think he'd twist himself into knots. I don't think he'd confront Quackity directly and tell him to knock it off, but it's possible he'd do so indirectly. I don't think he'd bar Quackity from visiting. I think he'd write seven hundred lines of "I'm the not the bad guy."

How would Dream react? ... it's torture, isn't it. I think sexual violence and sexual humiliation are both things Dream considers as, well, on the table, so to speak--from his perspective, it sure seems possible when a guy who's called you a bitch forces you to call him sir, etc. Doesn't seem that far a leap to him when what Quackity's already doing results in blood dripping down the prime path. Not to mention the complications of Dream's closeness with Sam, and what thoughts, true or false, he might have about Sam's obsession with him. I think Dream would cope in his usual fashion, by minimizing and clinging to autonomy. More trauma on the pile.

(Not to make this about Sam and Dream but absolutely to make this about Sam and Dream, because everything that happens in the prison has to do with Sam and Dream. )

#tw noncon #c!dreamity #c!awesamdream #<- though this doesn't have to be the case #all of this is exactly as applicable to c!dream & c!sam #pandora's vault #torture. #c!dream and c!sam