I can't stop thinking about how will and niki have an interesting parallel. They both have the same goal, to blow up manberg. But they're doing it for VERY different reasons. Niki still believes in l'manberg and thinks it has hope to come back, and she believes in Wilbur whole-

heartedly, and blowing up manberg will give them all the ability to revive l'manberg. While wilbur has lost all hope for a l'manberg and believes it to be no more, something that isn't an obtainable possibility anymore. Blowing manberg up for him is so he can regain power over+

schlatt and quackity etc, he refuses to not be the leader. He wants the power back and doesn't care who gets hurt in the process. There's no l'manberg to get back, so all he wants is to tear down manberg as well.

I keep thinking about niki finding out about will's plan and+

getting excited, "finally he's gonna take action with us!" But the moment she sees the way he talks about it all, she begins to realise they have different outcomes in mind, and different reasonings. She's been so loyal to him so far in the smp and this is the first moment where+

she's had that sense of doubt in him. She reminds him "what about l'manberg?" and he blows up in her face and starts yelling about how there is no more l'manberg, there hasn't been for a long time. Niki is shocked bc the leader she respected and admired is now someone very new.+

Wilbur's been extremely paranoid about everyone potentially betraying him ((as a result of eret, and one could argue even schlatt)) so even tho tubbo's very obviously on his side he no longer believes that. Niki's like "but what about tubbo? He'll get blown up too!" and wilbur+

will have a monologue about how everyone's betraying him, how no one's on his side, not even tommy. That he's alone in this war and that he has no one. He realises that she's hesitant, and starts accusing her of being a traitor as well, which results in her running away after he+

starts yelling at her and threatening to blow her up too.

AND THATS WHAT IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT ALL DAY LMAOO SORRY FOR THE LONG RAMBLE BUT I HAD TO GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD

Also want to add that Niki has always up till this point seen wilbur as a great leader. She always said that she believed in l'manberg and believed in wilbur as their leader. Never once doubting him. Yet he can't see this, he's so desperate to be seen as a leader and thinks+

that no one sees him as a leader or respects him as one. Even tho Niki has literally always been right there believing in his leadership, he continues to think everyone is against him and thinks little of him.

This thought was inspired by this thread! https://twitter.com/alyssanottaken/status/1314901871211864066?s=19