An Ode to L'Manburg [Dream SMP War Animatic] 

INSANE ANIMATIC!!! LOVED IT!!!!

“And we swore that we keep an unwavering faith” *shows Eret*

POG CHAMP!!!!!!!!!!!

Alright, funny story: I was watching this video because I just can't get enough of it when my mom called for me. So I paused the video at 1:03 and went downstairs. My mom smiled and reached out her hand, "Happy birthday sweetie." And she pulled me into a hug, wishing me the best for my 16th birthday. She did what she always did for the past 16 years but this year is special, and not because I can't throw a party or whatever, we never had one ever since I was 8. It was funny because just recently I have been feeling stressed out that maybe I'm not enough, that what I'm doing right now isn't enough to make anybody happy. I was just feeling like shit, and just overthinking things. So to hear my mom as she hugged me, wishing me all the best, hoping that I'll become a better person than I was from yesterday, and asking what I'd like to eat just hits.. different. To her, it doesn't really matter what I do, as long as I'm doing the right thing and tried my best. She would only ever be disappointed in me if I ever quit before trying because she knows the most compared to any person, how much potential I hold. It really was nothing special, but when she hugged me I can feel my eyes starting to get hot, I didn't cry in her arms, but my nose definitely got redder. I walked into the bathroom, locked the door, and chuckled as I wiped the tears away. I was being silly. I focused too much on my troubles and completely forgot to feel grateful for what I have. Not everyone can have such a caring mother. So I kept wiping away while laughing softly, washed my face, and left the bathroom. I sat back here in front of my laptop, where the video is still paused on 1:03 and the subtitles read "And I swear on my life that I'll stay by your side." And.... started to waste a little more tissue than what I'd like to admit. Funny story, right? I swear I wrote this on a whim because I needed to pour it out, and holy shit I did NOT realize I got 1.5k likes (and rising) on this little story. In any case, thank you for reading this long-ass story of mine, and also thank you for the birthday wishes even if it is late, really appreciate it. update 6/10/2021: It's been a year since this happened and it feels wild, I honestly can't believe it has been a year since it still feels like yesterday. Well, I'm in my final year of high school, I've been working on changing my mindset to fix up my grades, it's definitely doing better now. My mom also gave me a hug for my birthday this year, and this Friday there'll be a mockup test for offline school and I'm one of the first batches to start studying offline again so wish me luck on that lmao. This community can be both a blessing and a curse but honestly, for the past year, it's been a blessing for me and I hope it continues being that. Well, I hope everyone can enjoy the final moments of 2021 because I am so ready to kick this bitch of a year in the shins.

"My son by my side" *Fundy disowns Wilbur* "We'll build these walls with our own fair hands" *L'manburg walls getting torn down* "To a past as we started anew" *Wilbur and Tommy getting exiled and creating Pogtopia* "The dawn of the day set our country aflame" *Wilbur nuking Manburg* "Torn to pieces and left in the blue" *Wilbur goes co-co for coconuts* This aged like a fine wine :')

This hits different after the election

Seeing Eret as Wilbur's Friends is history...

"My son is tearing down the walls" made this song that much sadder. EDIT: SINCE EVERYONE HAS BEEN ASKING, I was referring to a quote that was in the dream SMP multiple months ago, where Wilbur, having been outcast by Schlatt, sadly looked on over his L'Manberg and, seeing Fundy breaking the walls at Schlatt's decree, said "My son is tearing down the walls!" Because this song is generally centered around Fundy and the walls of L'Manberg, I restated that quote here as it is relevant to this song.

This song makes me patriotic about a country that doesn’t even exist Edit:oh my thank you for 1000 likes

I know the bit they have on isn’t real, and they don’t hate each other. it’s just for fun and games, but this made me cry-

"I still had my son by my side" ...not anymore Wilbur

I JUST REALISED THAT THE SALMON THAT SWAM AWAY AND TOOK HIS HEART IS FUNDY'S MOTHER!

This animatic actually shows that despite the fact that Tommy's the protagonist everything was much tougher on Wilbur. His wife left him, one of his earliest friends betrayed him, he was banished from the smp, overthrown and banished from his own country and betrayed by his son (well that's what he possibly thinks as a character). Wouldn't be surprised if this eventualy makes him snap and turn into the third main antagonist of the smp after Schlatt's taken care off.

This Dream SMP thing is better then the whole Netflix

*...Then everything changed when the schlatt nation attacked.*

How has a Minecraft server covered up half of the entire Internet because a bunch of revolutionaries had an Election and Lost...?!?

“We’re not a democracy, I’ve elected myself.” -Wilbur Soot, The Decree of Independance *aged well.*

*"I still had my son by my side"* Really hits hard after the elections. Edit:OH wow thank u for the likes 👁️👄👁️

The song literally fits the story so well, why am I crying dude-

Just so everyone knows, the song in this video is an original song written and sung by BeetleBug about L’Manburg. This animatic was made using that song with permission of the creator. The original video is linked in the description as the audio, you should go and check it out to support the songwriter because they deserve so much credit, the video also has some cute original art!

"It was never meant to be." - Wilbur Soot

“And we swore that we’d keep an unwavering faith” Shows Eret. “To the land that we’d called our home.”

Nobody: Schlatt: "it's even funnier the second time!"

the nostalgia, the peaceful days, when dsmp was like a whole new world to explore in a minecraft community, when i waited until 3 am to watch wilbur stream, when wilbur streamed consistently and just chilled out on smp. That time when wiki wasnt popular, when i scrolled through timeline page everyday to see what happened. this song reminds me of these times, more than sadist, late august animations. it has something special to it, that peace of masterpiece is more than enough to make a grown man cry. o7. we miss you, lmanberg

watching this after l'manburg is ACTUALLY gone hurts dude

It’s funny how this all started because Wilbur wanted to sell drugs

"It started as a meth lab and ended as a political debate" - Wilbur Soot, 27/9/2020

This hits way harder when L'manburg's gone

“All the salmon swam to the sea” Cries in Milo the cod

The beginning fits so perfectly seeing as Wilbur's love and Fundy's mother was a Salmon.

*...This was old good memory, everyone happy...not until the betrayal of Jschlatt....*

"I can't draw Fundy" Shhh he looks cute, shut up

I'm here again after 2 years. Holy cow. And i'm still in shock bc it hits really hard. Thank to all of you. Tommy, Wilbur, Dream, Technoblade❤️‍🩹, Badboyhalo, Skeppy, George, Sapnap, Philza, Eret, Tubbo, Fundy, Niki, Jack, Hannah, Sam, Foolish, Callahan, Ranboo, Ponk, Punz, CaptainPuffy, Quackity, Slimecicle, Purpled, Shlatt, Karl, HBomb, Antfrost, Connor, Michael, Eryn, Tina, Boomer, Seapeekay, Aimsey, Alissa. And for sure thanks to everyone who made all of those animations. Y'all are such a huge part of this story

imagine an AU where Tommy really did die at that duel and they lost the war. FREE DEPRESSION GUYS :D

this makes it seem like l'manberg was a small community and not a drug cartel.

HOW CAN SOMETHING ABOUT MINECRAFT RP MAKE ME FEEL TEARY WHAT THE FICK EMOTIONS NOW I WANNA CRY DAMMIT. PLEASE PUT THIS ON SPOTIFY,EVERYWHERE Also I smashed that sub button cause this channel stole my heart with this video.

"My son is tearing down the walls infrot of my eyes!" "niki..your flag"

Schlatt: You cant beat me! Wilbur: I know! But he can. *TECHNOBLADE JOINED THE GAME*

I can’t wait to feel this nostalgia is a few years Also good job animator with no name

MY L'MANBERG o7 Im crying. Rest In Peace, unfinished symphony.

the farther away we get from the first lmanburg arc the sadder this is i-

I’m in pain watching this shit hits different after the election but it’s so good

I can’t believe I just got emotional over a Minecraft series, great job 🍻

What's kinda nice is that this animatic doesn't end with the happy ending of L'Manburg's independence. It ends with Tommy being shot. It's weirdly refreshing to see an animatic where the "villain" appears to have won, if you understand what I'm tryna say

This hits even harder after Tommy’s death Edit: i- he’s aliveeee qwq

This song came out at the right time... after the election this hits even harder ;-; All the sacrifices made for L'manberg's freedom L'manberg's history, all "ruined" by Schlatt Fundy, _Wilbur's s o n_ I'm sorry I'm crying

im in public trying not to cry ITS GETTING HARD I FEEL THE TEARS FALLING

Lyrics It all started on a day like any other. All the salmon had swum to the sea When my lover, she darted away down the stream, with the heart that she'd taken from me. {Music} And my chest, though it ached, there was hope. A little beacon of light. Though my sunniest days were now stolen away, I still had our son by my side. And as he looked up at me with those wondering eyes, I just knew that I must protect him with my life, and make a land that is good and a land that is free for the the better of you and of me. We'll build these walls with our own fair hands, through the wind and the rain and the snow. And I swear on my life that I'll stay by your side, through whatever the world has to throw. {Music} So I summoned my men to my side, and we sung a familiar tune. As a final goodbye with our fists to the sky, to our past as we started anew. We build these walls with our own fair hands, through the wind and the rain and the snow. And we swore that we'd keep an unwavering faith, to the land that we craved for a home... {Music} Oh the God of the day set our country aflame, as the sun rose bloody and true. Arrows burned through the sky as we swallowed our pride, and we ran with our backs to the moon, to our demise... from a friend full of lies... Oh the break of the day shed its light, on our hearts left battered and bruised. All the hopes that we'd laid on the homes that we made, torn to pieces and left to the blue. But my friend with and angry cry. Held the weight of our world at his side. Took a trembling stand with an arrow in hand, as he muttered his final goodbye.

A year later and even though I no longer keep up with the dream smp, I still come back to this for nostalgia.

Then Fundy betrayed wilbur His own son!!! And called lmansburg just a place of birth! Damn ive been emotional because of a minecraft server

When Wilbur dies and the trade for L'Manburg's freedom never came:

I can't believe it's been a year. L'manburg I will not forget you

this hits different after dream blowing up the entire place

Now lets look how everyone is doing now... Eret: Tried kill everyone with a suicide bomb Fundy: Betrayed L'Manburg and helped Schlatt tear down the walls Tubbo: Is the president Tommy: Is banished Wilbur: Is a ghost Hotel: Trivago

The end makes it so realistic. In reality Tommy would have sacrificed himself for the nation, had it not been Minecraft he would have died for L’manberg. Now look at it. He gave up everything for it and he’s now banished-

And now Wilburs symphony will be forever unfinished

thinking abt how on the line "we promised to keep an unwavering faith" you decided to show eret

I always see L’manberg as a rogue nation, trying to get its freedom from a all mighty empire, but now I see otherwise...

watching this again after 9 months,,,,,, just hits so different man

The melodica melody changing at 1:50 is so sad and the chords are so good omg.

I saw this and thought “wow the song fits the dream war so well” AND I DIDNT EVEN REALIZE THE SONG WAS ACTUALLY MADE FOR IT btw: THIS IS SO GOOD

Little did they know, this sad story would end soon, and shall a revenge story arise with the help of the pig nation's king, Technoblade.

watching this as lmanburg might be gone for good today, a beautiful animatic to show an amazing story. thank you !

Watching this now hits hard

It's odd to think, right after wilbur was fighting for l'manburg, he's fighting against it

the fact fundy burned down the flag hurts ,_ ,

cant believe this came out over a year ago, the first time i watched this animatic was just two days after it's release ! this was actually the first dsmp animatic i had ever watched

Man this hits different after todays stream

You and SAD-ist need to collab to turn this into a movie.

Who’s crying? Definitely not me. No sir no sobbing here. Couldn’t be me. Nope.

oof hits DIFFERENT after the festival

That awkward moment when you’re more invested in a country in a video game then your own

tommy: *dies* me:oh no!!!!!! tommy;*respawns* me:phew *lost L'manburg* me: Oh noo tommy: saves l'manburg me:oh yes wilbur:starts an election me; oh noo wilbur: winning election me:oh phew.... jschlat:jschlatt joins dream smp me:oh no quacity;plans on helping wilbur me;oh that was close quackity moves to jschlatt team me:oh crap will the story continue??

Notcryingnotcryingnotcryingnotcrying-

Damn, the smp has come so far, that I look back at stuff like this and it reminds me of those super long tv shows, where you look back at the first season and remember the good old days.

I'm being honset this legit made me cry bc of what Schlatt has done to L'manberg at the moment

THIS HURTS MORE AFTER THE ELECTION

Me: I am not crying Mom: Then what is on your face Me: TEARS

I am feeling a mixture of emotions that dosen't even exist.

Watching this after January 6th hits different

Man i feel bad jschlatt took the walls down

I'm sorry- Is no one going to talk about how this was done in literally a week or less???? WHAT??? The original video was streamed a week ago @.@?? You draw so fast and it looks so good!!! 💕

Ur artstyle really reminds me of szin's

This hit different after the second war....

For any Netflix staff watching: " *We need a Dream SMP series* "

Dont assume villains as bad guys, knowing their history would change your point of view of them.

Who knew a song could make a person cry

I just had to watch this again after today's developments in the war for L'Manburg.

Democracy has failed us. Long live King Wilbur, first of his name, long may he reign.

This song always makes be cry because l'manburg been put to ruins

Just finished the stream of the 16th of november... this song hits a little different

Rest in peace L'Manburg, we will remember you forever o7

but my friend with an angry cry held the weight of our world at his side, and with a trembling stand and an arrow in had as he muttered a final goodbye. Tommy no!!! :(

i never thought id get so emotionally invested in a Minecraft roleplay

You can actually see ALOT of improvement from this animatics to the ones of now wow

mom: ”why are you crying?” me seeing this after The Election: you wouldn't get it Spoilers from The Election: f L'Manburg :'(

THE WAY IT FLASHED TO ERET ON THE LINE “UNWAVERING FAITH”-

You and sad-ist are literally the king and queen of animatics

Imagine an alternate universe where tommy DID aim for the sky instead of dueling dream and how cool that could’ve been

When you know about Wilbur's pet fish milo the opening scene hits different.