dream smp lore
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major events/storylines
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TRIGGER WARNING for:
suicidal thoughts, suicide attempt (tommy)manipulation, gaslighting (tommy, tubbo, dream)panic attacks (niki, ranboo, final control room)character death (wilbur, jschlatt, niki, the village that went mad, the lost city of mizu, the masquerade)mentions of abuse (quackity, jschlatt)cannibalism (awesamdude, eggpire, the wild west)depersonalization/derealization (ranboo)possible depersonalization (karl, the inbetween)
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major character description list
(in alphabetical order)
dream is a god-like character who is described as “chaotic evil” because his only goal is to cause chaos and “stir the pot,” as described by wilbur soot on his reddit.
dream is one of the main antagonists of the story. he does not stream on the smp, meaning lots of mystery surrounds his character's motivation and plans. until recently, it was unclear whether or not dream could even die. (it has since been proven that he can.)
dream was against tommy and tubbo on his own for the disc war; he originally lead the fight against l'manburg in the first war.
during jschlatt's presidency, dream first took the side of pogtopia, but soon switched over to team chaos when he realized he could do more damage helping wilbur and techno destroy l'manburg, and he was given a book by jschlatt. he would not tell anyone what was in the book, or why it was so important
dream lead the argument against tommy when tommy burned george's home, and then followed tommy into exile in order to manipulate and gaslight him, in order to make tommy weak.
dream was openly against the idea of tubbo becoming president, and sided with team chaos once more to blow up l'manburg for the third time.
dream has spent a lot of time manipulating tubbo and tommy. when he threatened tubbo's life for the disc, he was in the lead of the disc war. however, he lost the disc war and ended up in the prison. in the prison, he spends all his time reading and looking at a clock.
while dream is in prison, he sees tommy, badboyhalo, ranboo, and sapnap. he tries to make tommy feel bad for him. we only see ranboo in the prison once, however it is debated whether or not it is a dream. when sapnap visits him, dream is upset because of how long it took sapnap to visit him. he tells sapnap he is on strike from talking and only types in books. he tells sapnap he will try to escape eventually, but sapnap advises against it, threatening to take dream's final life. dream then asks sapnap to give ranboo a message— a simple ":)" just before sapnap leaves.
dream was the adopted son of captain puffy, but she disowned him after she learned what he did to l'manburg. it is unclear whether or not dream recognized his relationship with puffy.
dream has lost two out of his three canon lives, both of which were taken tommy in the hidden room that dream brought him and tubbo to during the disc war finale.
jschlatt was a power hungry ruler who is described as “lawful evil.” his goal was to gain as much power as he can, before the next election.
jschlatt was first introduced to the server as a guest, but was soon banned. then, during the second presidential election, wilbur soot brought jschlatt in to support wilburs presidency. soon after, jschlatt declared he would be running for president himself.
jschlatt did everything he could to take as much possible power, legally. once he was elected, he followed the law all the way to the top. he had tubbo as his right hand man, which seems to be an attempt to hurt tommy and wilbur, because of their closeness to him. when tubbo was found to be a traitor, schlatt had him executed against everyone elses wishes.
jschlatt was known to smell like alcohol and cigarette smoke. in the afterlife, wilbur says that he is still drinking alcohol.
jschlatt is dead, as he lost all three of his canon lives. his first life was lost when he was banned for the first time; the second death was taken by quackity, after an argument due to their policy differences; and the third was lost due to a heart attack or stroke during the second war.
jschlatt was in a relationship with quackity, but due to schlatt’s abusive tendencies and their overall differences, they are no longer together.
wilbur soot is a very complex character who can be described as “on the border of chaotic and neutral evil.”
wilbur started out as the co-founder and first president of l'manburg. when his first term ended, he intended on cheating the election to ensure another win. but then he loses this election and is forced into exile, where his mental health slowly and majorly declines. wilbur develops major trust issues and begins pushing away all of his friends. he soon comes to the realization that he is "the villain in your history," sending him into a downward spiral which leads to him wanting to explode l'manburg— because if he cannot have l'manburg, no one can, as said by wilbur himself.
after many tries, wilbur succeeds in blowing up l'manburg. he yells at philza to kill him because he believes that everyone wants him dead. at first philza is reluctant to to kill him, but ultimately follows through.
after tommy and tubbo won the disc war, they had a moment to speak to wilbur. they told him that they could bring him back, but wilbur did not appear to like the idea. he says bringing him back would also allow schlatt to come back, and he seemed very scared when he said that. he says that even in the afterlife, schlatt is drunk and mean. wilbur then says he hasn't heard from ghostbur in a long time. he then tells tommy that there was a spot in the afterlife growing for him, which led wilbur to believe that tommy was supposed to die.
wilbur tells tommy he was very proud of him, just before disappearing into the afterlife again.
wilbur is dead. he lost his first canon death in the final control room at the hands of punz; he lost his second right after he is exiled by jschlatt and he gets shot by punz; he lost his third life at the hands of philza.
wilbur is the son of philza and a samsung fridge (not shown), and the father of fundy, who he had with sally the salmon (who has since disappeared).
ghostbur is the ghost of wilbur. he is the only dead character who has come back as a ghost.
ghostbur is a rather confusing character, as we have very limited information about him. this is due to the fact that ghostbur only remembers moments that bring him profound happiness, and avoids all other bad memories.
ghostbur gives out “blue” or blue dye, which is said to help repress bad memories. ghostbur says that the blue starts out as transparent, and as people put their sadness into it, it changes to a blue color. afterwards, you can chose to burn or get rid of the blue, and therefore get rid of the sadness.
ghostbur had a book of things he remembers, which has since been destroyed. he remembered things like bullying tommy, sparring with techno, fundy as a child, philza protecting him, philza killing him, niki, the smell of bread, pogtopia, and sally the salmon.
while trying to help techno, ghostbur made friends with a blue sheep, who he called friend. ghostbur brought friend everywhere with him, until one day he decided to leave friend in philza's home. unfortunately, when techno and philza blew up l'manburg, friend is thought to have died. it's been said by phil that friend has infinite canon lives, but this still made ghostbur very angry with philza. unbeknownst to ghostbur and philza, dream had stolen friend and locked him away, in an attempt to control ghostbur through his attachment to friend. it is unclear how or when dream took friend.
there was an attempted resurrection of ghostbur, because when ghostbur lost friend and saw l'manburg blow up the second time, he realized he needed to be strong for l'manburg. both attempts failed, however he did say he was brought to a very dark place where he saw two unidentifiable people.
after tommy and tubbo won the disc war, they were told no one had heard from ghostbur in a long time. he has not been seen since the resurrection attempt on january 10th.
tommy is a complex character who is described as “barely chaotic good.”
tommy originally fought with tubbo against dream in the disc war.
tommy fought with l'manburg during the first war, and he was the one who secured l'manburg's independence by trading his discs for safety. tommy served as wilbur's vice president, and was exiled alongside him when jschlatt came to power.
after pogtopia won the second war, tommy was given presidency by wilbur, however he could not accept due to his unfinished business with dream and the discs. he hands the presidency back to wilbur.
in an attempt to get ranboo to join his side, tommy convinces ranboo to help him grief george's house. due to dream's manipulation, tubbo exiles tommy, and tommy is sent to the middle of nowhere to live out his days. accompanied by ghostbur, he creates logstedshire.
tommy goes through a very deep depression due to being exiled. between losing all of his friends, losing his home, and dreams persistent gaslighting and manipulation, tommy attempts suicide. but at the last second he stops himself.
tommy then finds technoblade's home, and promptly hides in a little hole he made under it. once he is discovered, he teams with techno in an attempt to get his discs back from tubbo and dream, becoming very close with techno in the process. however, tommy and techno did not agree on their goal; when the time came, tommy sides with tubbo. tommy says he has become the person he hates, and that this is the right way to fix that. in the third war, tommy fights very hard against techno and dream, and attempts to get the discs back, but he fails to accomplish either.
soon after, tommy finds his house burned and griefed, with a letter telling him to go to a specific location on a specific day. he goes, finds dream's vault, and fights against dream alongside tubbo. once inside the vault, tommy is ready to give himself up for tubbo. after punz and the other members save them, tommy leads the argument against dream. he forces dream to give all of his items, then kills dream once. dream refuses to back down, so tommy threatens to kill himself. dream falls for it, and tommy kills him another time. tommy would've killed him for good if dream had not revealed that he had a book that can bring people back. the only reason tommy did not kill dream was so he could bring wilbur back.
when tommy visits dream in prison, dream attempts to make tommy feel bad for putting him there. tommy is angry and taunts dream repeatedly by asking him to put everything he has in a hole. he then makes fun of dream, and notices his chest of books. tommy asks dream to write five essays, most of which are jokes, but one is just simply "why." we later learn that dream burns these books before he writes them.
tommy makes friends with sam nook, and asks him to build a hotel for him. sam nook agrees, but has tommy gather the materials needed. tommy has sam nook agree to give tommy all credit for the build. sam nook quickly agrees, and tommy says he is excited to show philza the hotel for his approval.
tommy realized that the only way he could heal from dreams abuse was to get closure. he decided he would visit dream in prison for the last time. however, while he is with dream, there was a security breech. explosions were heard around the prison cell and sam ran off to see what was going on. tommy was locked in the prison for a week, when sam came back to see him. tommy begged sam to let him out, because he is severely claustrophobic and scared of dream. sam said he couldn't because the security breach had not been fixed yet. tommy is upset, and sam leaves. tommy and dream continue to argue, and it is obvious that tommy has spent the week annoying dream. while arguing, tommy admits to not believing that the necromancy book that dreams claims to have is fake. dream gets very angry, and begins punching tommy. tommy tells him he is low, but dream continues to kill him. dreams says "go see [schlatt] then." and kills tommy
tommy is dead. the first was lost to dream in the final control room, and then again to dream in a 1v1 bow duel during the first war. tommy lost his last life after being beat to death by dream in the prison. this means dream took all 3 of tommys canon lives
quackity is a character who has made various mistakes.
quackity started out running against wilbur in the second election, because he was kicked out of l'manburg and did not think wilbur was a good ruler.
after jschlatt announced his presidency, quackity and jschlatt came to the agreement they would combine their votes no matter the outcome. this is how they win the election.
however, jschlatt immediately takes control and pushes quackity out. quackity spends his entire presidency playing catch up with schlatt. this creates lots of tension between them and ends with quackity killing jschlatt. he then joins pogtopia and works to take down jschlatt.
quackity is put into the cabinet under tubbo's presidency, and he supported tommy when tubbo exiled him. quackity did not visit tommy, however, leading that friendship to fall apart.
quackity is very openly against dream. he and tommy are pretty much the only ones who take action against dream, however all quackity can do is call him out and hope people join him.
quackity only has one canon life left, and both his canon deaths were at technoblade’s hand. his first life was taken by at the festival, when he died next to tubbo at tubbo’s execution. his second life was taken after techno’s failed execution.
quackity used to be in an abusive relationship with jschlatt, but is now engaged to sapnap and karl jacobs.
tubbo is described as "lawful good."
tubbo started off in a disc war alongside tommy, against dream. tommy definitely led the group, and tubbo was basically his right hand man. he supported tommy through the entire fight, which eventually led to them winning the disc war.
tubbo then signed loyalty to l'manburg, and remained loyal to the end. he fought alongside wilbur and the rest of l'manburg in the first war, and is known as one of the country's founders.
by the time the second election came around, tubbo was the secretary of state for lmanburg. when jschlatt became president, he forced tubbo to stay in l'manburg, and even commissioned him to kill tommy. tubbo was forced to take down the walls of l'manburg and go against his best friends, tommy and wilbur. however, against schlatts knowledge, tubbo was acting as a spy for pogtopia. he would report his findings to tommy and wilbur and even helped wilbur attempt to blow up l'manburg by giving him a queue of "let the festival begin!"
tubbo was commissioned by schlatt to decorate and organize a festival in order to celebrate democracy. tubbo delivered, and also gave the festival's opening speech. however, schlatt somehow knew that tubbo was a traitor, and had technoblade execute him by rocket launcher on the spot.
after his execution, tubbo ran away to pogtopia and didn't come back until it was time for the second war. tubbo fought alongside pogtopia against schlatt. when pogtopia won the battle, and tommy and wilbur turned down the presidency, tubbo became president of l'manburg with tommy as his vice.
when tommy burned down george's house, tubbo fought his hardest to defend him. however, tubbo realized that the right decision for the nation would be to ultimately exile tommy, a decision that went against the word of his cabinet.
after tommy is gone in exile, tubbo soon starts to regret his decision, even attempting to apologize to tommy. at this point, tubbo has been manipulated and lied to by dream for weeks, and is convinced that dream is his friend and tommy hates him. tubbo never goes to see tommy in exile because of this.
after tommy and tubbo get into a large argument at the second festival and tommy ends up alongside tubbo, they work hard to stop technoblade and dream from blowing up the nation. when they fail, tubbo escapes and creates a new home called snowchester.
on the surface, snowchester appears to be a nice little cottage town where tubbo, jack manifold, and tommy can live. however, it is soon revealed that it is a cover for nukes.
tubbo is on his last life. he lost his first life in the final control room and his second to techno at the festival.
tubbo is platonically and non platonically married to ranboo, with an adopted piglin child. tommy was the flower person at their four weddings (as they’ve been divorced three times).
ranboo is a fairly new yet very complex character.
ranboo's character is a half enderman, half unspecified mob with extreme memory problems. it is said that he remembers events that were impactful emotionally, however his memory is completely unreliable and there does not seem to be any reason for the things he remembers.
on ranboo's first day on the server, tommy convinced him to help burn down george's home. ranboo was convicted alongside tommy in court, however due to his memory loss he couldn't remember if he did burn the house, and therefore was left off the hook.
ranboo was the only person, outside of ghostbur and dream, who visited tommy. ranboo would send letters to tommy, but dream caught on and started intercepting the messages.
a core trait of ranboo's is that he helps anyone who helps him, regardless of their affiliations. this is why ranboo has never aligned himself with a 'side' in any of the wars; his character is adamant about siding with people above anything else.
ranboo realized very quickly that dream was the bad guy, and that everyone should be working against dream instead of one another. ranboo helped techno and philza, and even started living with them in the aftermath of l'manburg's destruction, yet still puts a lot of effort into not hurting tubbo.
ranboo has a book that he writes his memories in. his original memory book was stolen by dream, which exposed him and his actions in helping techno. dream also edited his memory book, deleting all his memories and replacing them with ":)" which sent ranboo into an emotional spiral.
ranboo struggles with what seems to be anxiety and panic attacks. he made himself a panic room, but would hear a voice that sounded like dream whenever he went there. this voice would tell him about evil things that he did not remember doing. this voice convinces him that he blew up the community house, gave techno tnt, and even had the disc. it was later proven that ranboo did not have the real disc, but it has not been clarified if ranboo actually helped with the other things this voice says he did.
after dream was put into prison, ranboo went to visit him. however, things were very weird when he went. first, warden sam wasn’t serious like we have seen him during other visits. secondly, when ranboo went through the nether portal to get into the actual prison, instead of going to the prison room in the nether, he went to the blue nether biome. (some have pointed out that endermen spawn naturally in this biome).
once he actually saw dream, dream said that he hates his clock. if we look at tommy AND badboyhalo’s point of view from visiting the prison, we know that dream loves his clock as it is his only sense of entertainment.
in tommy’s stream, he asks dream to write 5 books. (most of which were jokes, but one of them was asking why he did everything he did to everyone else.) in badboyhalo’s stream, we see that dream burned all of those books. when we see dream in ranboos stream, he has a full chest of books. however, every book is an exact copy of ranboos memory book that he started around the time of techno’s attack. ranboo starts to panic, and then dream tells him that he isnt real. dream disappears, and ranboo gets dizzy (through the nausea effect). the ceiling starts to collapse, and then ranboo dies.
because ponk was live at the time, we know that ranboo, dream, and sam were not on the actual server. the plugin that allows images to be put onto item frames, was also not on this new server. when ranboo dies, it says he fell from a high place instead of getting the death message that he suffocated. when he dies, his score is 206810, which is insanely high, considering this wasn’t on the actual dream smp. it is widely debated whether or not this visit was a hallucination or if it was real.
soon after, ranboo speaks to awesamdude. it turns out that ranboo has actually been to the prison multiple times, even though he only remembers going once. sam gives him the contract from one of his forgotten visits. in the book, every part of the contract had been deleted, and the only thing that was in the book was
"⟟ ⊑⟒⍀⟒⏚⊬ ⏃⌇⌇⎍⋔⟒
SIGNED:
⍀⏃⋏⏚⍜⍜"
which translates to "i hereby assume, SIGNED: ranboo" in enderman language. this is the same language that ranboo has been seen using in chat while he enderwalks.
ranboo has been seen sleepwalking around the server. when he is in this state, he walks around aimlessly while placing blocks. this is also known as "enderwalking," and has been seen typing in ender language in the chat. he usually does not say anything important while enderwalking. philza was able to wake ranboo once, but he was very confused and did not remember how he got there or what he was doing. when dream sends ranboo a message through sapnap, it triggers the enderwalking state. the message was a simple ":)" which has been used to taunt ranboo for weeks. it is unclear how long ranboo has been enderwalking, why he enderwalks, or if dream is aware it would trigger this state.
ranboo still has all three of his canon lives. he is platonically and non platonically married to tubbo, with an adopted piglin child.
ranboo had joined the arctic anarchist syndicate in order to protect his family. his code name is lethe.
important: ranboo has made clear that his character is NOT supposed to represent DID or any other personality disorder. that is not his intention, nor is it a headcanon he would like supported.
philza was added to the smp fairly recently, but has already had a massive part in it.
philza first joined the server when he tried to stop wilbur from blowing up l'manburg. he failed, and then stabbed wilbur, per wilburs request, taking wilbur's final life. after that, philza appeared to live peacefully in l'manburg, and had attempted to help fundy come to peace with his father's passing, even taking him fishing.
philza and techno are best friends, so when the butcher army attempted to execute techno, philza was unhappy. the butcher army put philza on house arrest, which he escaped. soon after, philza helped techno blow up l'manburg.
philza says that his motivation for helping techno is his opposition to government because it forced him to kill his son. he believes that government takes good people and turns them unrecognizable.
philza is the father of wilbur and the grandfather to fundy, but has recently disowned fundy. he has also recently taken ranboo under his wing, giving him a place to live after ranboo’s home was destroyed alongside l'manburg.
philza is the only player on the server to play on hardcore mode. this means that philza has only one canon life, that he has yet to lose.
philza is a member of the arctic anarchist syndicate. his code name is zephyrus.
technoblade is a character described as "lawful neutral" due to his dedication to his own moral law.
techno is, and has been since the beginning, a very outspoken violent anarchist. he is known for grinding for hours on end to get good loot for whoever he is working with.
techno joined the server to help tommy and wilbur in pogtopia, though his allegiance quickly shifted to team chaos (which consisted of dream and wilbur at the time) when he found out what their plan was. after wilbur blew up l'manburg, techno spawned withers to help the destruction further. when wilbur died, he said that he and techno won, instead of l'manburg or pogtopia.
after that, techno went into retirement. he decided that he was done with violence and decided to make a home in an isolated location. however, he did not stop grinding for materials while he was there.
when techno was attacked by the butcher army, he almost killed all of them until quackity threatened to attack carl, his beloved horse. the only way techno survived the execution attempt was that he had a totem of undying, and dream helped him escape. in response, dream said that techno owes him a favor. the favor has since been brought up multiple times, but dream has yet to cash it in.
after exile, techno took in tommy and supported him. techno has continuously compared tommy to theseus, a figure in greek mythology.
techno and dream teamed up to destroy l'manburg during tubbo's presidency, and philza soon joined them. tommy and techno had a passionate argument during the attack, because they both felt they'd been betrayed by one another.
is it unconfirmed whether the usage of the totem of undying qualifies as a canon death or not.
techno's only consistent friend and ally is philza. wilbur soot says that techno is okay with losing friends to do what he needs to do, however philza is the only person who he hasn't turned on him for his goals.
recently, technoblade has held the first meeting of the arctic anarchist syndicate, which is devoted to fighting tyranny. his code name is protesilaus.
eret is an original member of l'manburg who had the biggest impact on the first war.
eret sided with wilbur, tommy, and tubbo to make l'manburg. however, unbeknownst to the rest of the founding members, dream had promised kingship to eret if he betrayed his friends. this betrayal was the biggest event of the first season of dream smp (see important symbols page for elaboration of the betrayal).
however, eret soon started to regret his actions, especially when pogtopia was formed. he realized that friendship is more important to him than power and attempted to help pogtopia in a time of war. pogtopia was not welcoming to his help, and dream caught on and soon took away his kingship. eret was seen as a traitor by both sides, and had nowhere to go.
eret also played a large part in ghostbur's attempted resurrection. wilbur never forgave eret before he died, so it is implied that eret's involvement in his resurrection is an attempt to win back wilbur.
eret has all three of his canon lives left.
fundy is described as "true neutral."
fundy was born into l'manburg, and spent his entire life fighting. wilbur was never a good father, which led fundy to search for a good parental figure wherever he could. he is more motivated by his search for love and validations from an authority figure than his own morals or views, which is why it was so easy for him to switch sides.
fundy ends up running for president against wilbur, and when he loses he sides with schlatt. in the process, he disowns wilbur as his father, destroying their relationship forever. he takes schlatt as a fatherly figure, which falls apart quickly. when schlatt dies, fundy says that they had something special, but schlatt threw it away. schlatt uses his dying words to insult fundy, saying that he is not a man.
after wilbur dies and returns as ghostbur, fundy struggles a lot to cope with his father's death. fundy tried to speak with ghostbur to get closure and a better understanding, however ghostbur completely deflected the conversation and didn't allow fundy to speak. this causes fundy to become very upset, of course.
eret suggests that he can adopt fundy. fundy was very excited, but it fell apart when eret slept through fundy's adoption. fundy then goes to philza for guidance, who takes him fishing. however, when fundy and the butcher army attacked techno and put philza on house arrest, philza disowns fundy as his grandson. as they are leaving, fundy says "i still love you grandpa," to which philza replies "you're f*cking dead to me."
after techno blew up l'manburg, fundy realized that everyone who has loved l'manburg has become corrupted. this causes fundy to get very angry, and decided that instead of trying to make people happy, he would make them cry.
fundy is the biological son of wilbur and sally the salmon, and the grandson of philza.
sapnap has been a relatively minor character, but he has been there since the beginning. sapnap fought blindly by dream's side until tommy was getting exiled. in dream's speech, he says that he doesn't care about anything, or anyone. sapnap is very upset by this, which causes him to turn on dream.
when the community house is blown up, sapnap is very sad as he helped build it. sapnap ends up helping tommy and tubbo escape from dream, and when he learns that dream wanted to take his fish, mars and beckerson, he feels betrayed.
when sapnap visits dream in prison, he is visibly nervous. he goes in hoping to make peace with dream, but dream refuses to talk to him, claiming he's on "strike." dream keeps implying that he will escape, and sapnap begins briefly yelling at him, telling him he needs to stay in prison. sapnap then tells dream that if he tries to escape, he will personally take his last life. sapnap believes that dream deserves to stay in the prison.
sapnap is engaged to karl and quackity, however there is not a canon storyline for this relationship. he is also the son of badboyhalo.
george is another relatively minor character in the story.
george started out following dream. when quackity asked, george ran as his vice president in the election against wilbur. however, george slept through the election, which played a part in quackity's choice to run with schlatt.
when dream took eret's kingship, he gave it to george. however, techno non-canonically assassinated george, and george was a very inactive king, so dream took the kingship and gave it back to eret. this was at the time of tommy's exile, so when george lost his kingship and heard that dream, his best friend, didn't care about him, he was very upset and refused to give the kingship back. he eventually lost it anyways.
niki was a rather passive character at first, but is now starting to get a much bigger role.
niki joined l'manburg fairly early, and even quoted the declaration of independance when joining. she supported and loved l'manburg until the end.
when schlatt came to power, niki was very openly against him. she was actually supposed to go to pogtopia with wilbur, but he was spotted and had to run. niki never got to be with them until the war. one of schlatt's first actions as president was to tax her extra, leading her to be poor for the rest of her story.
when schlatt had techno kill tubbo, niki was very upset. she yelled at schlatt and told him that she doesn't even want to be there, in l'manburg.
despite that, niki lived in l'manburg for a long time. she was not aware of wilbur's death or ghostbur's existence. when she found out, she spiraled and had what appeared to be a violent panic attack, which lead her to destroying her bakery and burning the l'mantree. as tommy rallied the troops to defend l'manburg against dream and techno, niki refused to help him or the rest of l'manburg because she doesn't like liars.
before techno's attack, niki built a hidden city. she built it with the intention of housing anyone who needed it. however, when she burned the l'mantree, she cut all ties she had. she turned her underground city into a home for herself.
niki and jack manifold come to the realization that tommy is the source of all of their problems, so they make a plan to kill him. they intend on using tubbo's nukes to do it. jack manifold befriends tubbo with the intention of getting to his nukes; when they test the nukes, tommy would unknowingly be in the test zone and die instantly. however, when niki was tasked with leading tommy to the test site, she was overly nice to him which made him suspicious. tommy spent a lot of time looking at trees and wandering, so they completely missed the nuke tests. they were unable to kill him, and they decided they would try again on a later date.
we soon learn that niki has severe night terrors and thrashes in fear while she sleeps. because of this, she makes a minimalist cell that only has a bed and a place to write. she locks her cell and chains herself to the bed every night.
eventually, niki comes to the realization that she does not want to kill tommy, and wants to take the first steps in healing. so niki joins technoblade and philza’s anarchist syndicate, as she sees it as a chance to heal. her syndicate code name is nemesis.
niki is in a relationship with captain puffy.