Ponk/SMP


 * This page is about the character on the Dream SMP. For the streamer who plays this character, see Ponk.

"Sam... after everything I've done for you?"

Ponk is one of the eight original members of the Dream SMP, of which he is seventh to join, and joined on May 9, 2020. He is the mayor of Lemon City and serves as the doctor of Dream SMP. Previously, he served the role of Manberg's doctor and architect and was once a member of the Eggpire. He was also Schlatt's ally via the Lemon City Trade Deal.

Physiology
Ponk is a human with dark skin, black eyes, and blonde hair. He wears a red, yellow and black mask covering his whole face with the exception of his eyes. He also wears a black hoodie, white pants and black shoes. He sometimes wears a lab coat over his clothes, to match his doctor persona. After being trapped in an obsidian box over the crimson, Ponk briefly wore red contacts as a way to make the Eggpire think he had been corrupted. However after having his heart broken by Sam, he fully gave in to the Egg, and his natural eyes turned red. They have since returned to normal after the Eggpire disbanded. His left arm is missing, having been cut off by Sam. He also has bionic legs after Technoblade's massacre at the Manberg Festival.

Personality
Ponk is generally a friendly and kind individual, though he is also known for his occasional trickery. He is usually a neutral party in conflict, typically keeping to himself. However, after Schlatt became president, Ponk's city prospered, causing him to support Schlatt. He switched to Pogtopia’s side afterward, however, and aided Tommy. Many members of the SMP consider Ponk as an odd character, as he performs many questionable sacrifices and experiments within his city.

Pre-Disc Saga
Ponk was one of the eight original SMP members, along with Dream, George, Sapnap, Callahan, Alyssa, Awesamdude, and BadBoyHalo.

During this period of time, Ponk built his first Lemon Tree as his base of operations. After that tree was burned down by George, he constructed a second one. After Tommy built a base near the second tree, they had a dispute over land, leading them to build a fence separating them and Ponk, and trapping Tommy's house.

The Disc Saga
After Sapnap burned down the second tree, Ponk and Alyssa retaliated by burning down Sapnap's house, leading to them getting killed by Sapnap and Tommy. This conflict would eventually cause The Disc Saga.

Post-Disc Saga
After the Disc Saga, Ponk left a small monument for the second lemon tree and decided to relocate underground by building a secret base below the remains of the tree. However, he ultimately decided to abandon the base and move out of the area.

During this time, Purpled rescued Ponk from the Nether, forming a positive relationship and alliance between them.

Ponk and Punz both built tall towers that reach the build limit of the server. Ponk's tower resembles the fictional Barad-dûr (Sauron's tower from Lord of the Rings).

Post-war
After the war, Ponk decided to become a doctor. He took The Socializing Club and turned it into a weapons shop and used The Therapy Office as his office for a while. Later, he established Lemon City, a nether-themed base that cannot be burned down after his third tree was burned by Big Crime. Ponk also griefed Tubbo's jungle base in retaliation. Ponk began to tame and sacrifice cats within the walls of the city.

Manberg partnership
After the election, Lemon City prospered due to a new trade deal made with Manberg. As a result, he became a strong supporter of Schlatt, and eventually the only loyal supporter. Ponk helped with building attractions for the Manberg Festival. After the festival, Ponk became Schlatt's doctor and ended up being the only builder for Manberg, building the Manberg Hotel. Some time later, tension grew between Ponk and Schlatt, due to Schlatt refusing to get treatment for his ever increasing decline in health. This leads to Ponk leaving Schlatt and joining Pogtopia as their doctor. When Quackity tried to get Schlatt to sign his presidency away, Ponk gifted Wilbur an invisibility arrow and bow, Wilbur later used this to save Quackity. After that Ponk guarded Tommy during his time in the SMP area, he was ready to fight to protect him, even hitting Dream a few times when he came. During the Manberg vs Pogtopia War, Ponk remained neutral, not fighting in battle.

Ponk also built a laboratory in Eret's stone pyramid to experiment on cats during this time. He also went to Niki's birthday party.

Ponk's possession
While Eret was building his Catfe, Ponk harassed Eret. After killing Ponk multiple times, Ponk respawned, floating meters off the ground in front of Eret. Ponk then stated that he sold his soul for science. This event may not have occurred in canon, since it has been several months since it was last mentioned.

Ponk’s experiment
In Ponk’s experiment, Ponk changed his dog to be identical to Sam’s Fran. He then hid Fran and had a creeper kill the fake one, leading Sam to kill him a few times, blow up Thiccatron (killed Ponk’s cat that was inside) "kill" Bebbles, and threaten his lemon tree. HBomb came along to watch, but Ponk Egging Sam to blow up the lemon tree led HBomb to do so himself. Ponk then revealed that the real Fran was alive, Sam revealed Bebbles was alive, and Ponk blamed HBomb for the entire ordeal, causing the two to have a negative relationship.

Estate Conflict
In the Estate Conflict, Purpled made a real estate business on the prime path after realizing nobody had paid for property on the server. His first customer was Antfrost, who seemed a bit confused. While trying to evict Ant’s house, Ponk came. The two charged him 48 iron blocks for his gingerbread house. Jack Manifold then joined, and he and Ant challenged the ruling. Ant and Jack then hinted at claiming Thiccatron, leading everyone to rush towards the community portal. With the disadvantage of the faulty breakout room exit and being unknowledgeable of the server's geography, Jack was able to get to the portal first with Antfrost breaking it behind him. Purpled then tricked Jack to come back with a business proposition. When he returned, Purpled and Ponk rushed to Thiccatron. Purpled and Antfrost ended up getting to Thiccatron first, Purpled and Ant then argued over who claimed Thiccatron. Jack then came later, being outnumbered Purpled was then killed by the two, and his items were taken.

When Ponk came back, Purpled felt more confident and challenged Ant to a 1 v 1 duel. Jack however, convinced Ponk and Purpled to fight a 2 v 2 instead. Purpled agreed. Everyone had an iron chestplate and a wooden sword. Purpled and Ponk won the first round, Antfrost used a potion, allowing him to win the second round. And the third one ended in a draw, as Ponk cheated. Later, parts of the thiccatron were set on fire by Purpled. Ant and Jack went to stop the fire. Seeing his tree on fire, Ponk yelled that it was his tree. Purpled, realizing so, began stopping the fire. He likely didn't know that Thiccatron was Ponk's but never admitted to it. He claimed that he set the tree on fire to show his power.

Ponk's dark backstory - Tales from the SMP
"For more info, visit this page"On 12th January, 2021, Ponk revealed that he was a descendant of Jack (although he varied on the exact relation). He had also found out about Helga from Jack, saying that she was very respected, rich and had many connections (although he again varied on how he found this information). He then built a grave for Helga.

According to Ponk, Jack and 'Shrimpdick' were the only survivors of the village, implying that Bob's real name/nickname was Shrimpdick. Ponk also said that Helga had a very strong relationship with Shrimpdick, but didn't clarify further. Sam remarked that the picture of Helga looked like Quackity and Ponk said that Quackity could have been related to her. Ponk also said that he read about a man named Cornelius in the diary, who was apparently very green.

On February 1st, the viewers are shown what seemed to be snippets of different conversations between Jimmy the mayor and Jack the farmer with a background of Jimmy and Jack staring at each other. In these snippets, Jimmy said the following things:


 * Jimmy told Jack that he was a potato farmer and shouldn't be growing lemon trees.
 * Jimmy said that Cornelius was a strange person and that the crops had been doing well since they "burned that witch"- killed him.
 * He warned Jack to stay away from his wife Helga.
 * Staring at Cornelius wouldn't put hair on Jack's chest.
 * Ever since they burned Miles Memington for being a witch, that orphan boy (Robin) had never been the same.
 * The town needed potatoes, so Jack should stop wasting his time and tend to the fields. He should also stop stealing *inaudible* from people. Jimmy said that he was sure Jack's father would disapprove of what Jack was doing.

After the last line, the Jimmy in the background turned to face the camera, before the background faded away.

The lines including the death of Cornelius and Miles may indicate that unlike what the viewers saw in the episode, the death of the villagers was not just the work of the killers, but the entire village coming together to kill who they thought were 'witches'.

A few minutes after the scene, Ponk said that he just had the weirdest dream. He said that he might be related to Jack the potato farmer, seemingly having forgotten that he called Jack his ancestor multiple times. He also said that he learnt about the village from Helga's diary, contradicting his initial story that he read about it from Jack's diary. Ponk then spotted a house on the horizon and felt a connection to it, feeling that it was Jack's house. The house was in horrible condition, with many parts of the walls missing and the entire thing being covered in cobwebs. Ponk saw a sign next to the front door, which read, "JACK'S YE OLD FARM HOUSE". There was also a lemon tree with a sign reading "JACK'S LEMON TREE INSURED BY BANK OF COR*" and a grave with a sign reading "RIP JACK THE POTATO FARMER".

He entered the house and explored it. He managed to find a bookshelf that turned to be a fake painting. He went behind a painting and climbed down a secret set of ladders until he reached an underground room with many villagers kept in boats in order. There were also one skeleton and two cave spider farms, each with a spawner. He also heard cats inside the walls for some reason. Ponk said that he would be rich but didn't touch the chests, fearing that there may have been someone else there recently. He also said something about a person called Karl, saying that he didn't think that that person was involved in this. He said that Shrimpy/Bob had survived as well and he may have been involved in the house. This may mean that Karl was mentioned in the diary as well, meaning that the diary would contain an actual first-hand experience of one of Karl's time-travel adventures.

The next day, he checked out the chests in the basement and found an assortment of items, including a Cat music disc and ender pearls. He also found a book and quill in the chest from Jack, which he started reading. Jack wrote of a strange man made of straw with eyes made of emerald (a description which matches Foolish Gamers' appearance and color scheme). The book also included something about a new land that used sand as stone and had gold everywhere (a description matching Foolish's summer house perfectly). It said that the strange man was fascinated by lemons and brought him a caravan of good and 21 'statues' in boats which were possibly the villagers. Two weeks after this encounter, Jack's writings seemed to become more and more incoherent. He wrote about cats in the walls and said that the cats murdered people. He also disliked Shrimpy's interest in his 'statues'. Then, one day, he wrote that he had a sudden urge to murder. He said that Helga was tempting but her husband needed to die, highlighting the tense relationship between Jack, Helga and Jimmy. Jack stopped writing in the journal for the next 135 days, during which most of 'The Village That Went Mad' likely took place. His last journal entry was after 'The Village That Went Mad', babbling about how only him, Shrimpy and the statues were left and that life was good.

Ponk frequently came back in the coming days to trade with the villagers.

Stealing Fran
Awesamdude ordered Tommy, Jack and Tubbo to destroy his Lemon Tree. Ponk was horrified but Sam stopped him from hurting Tommy. Angry that this happened, Ponk kidnapped the only thing Sam cared about - his pet dog Fran. [TO BE EXPANDED]

Woo Station
For Valentine's Day, Ponk planned to ask Awesamdude to be his valentine. To do this, Ponk spent several days building the "Woo Station", a minecart ride underground for Sam that was designed to be pleasant if he said "yes" and frightening if he said "no". To gather information on what Sam likes, Ponk hung out with him regularly. During one of these visits, Ponk requested a tour of Pandora's Vault. Sam reluctantly agreed, but would not take him to the main cell. Ponk tried to gather information on how the prison works during this time, and Sam informed Ponk that he would kill him if Ponk ever took his prison access card. Once the Woo Station was complete, Sam rode it and agreed to be Ponk's valentine. The two then had a picnic date, with Ponk building the venue and Sam providing the food.

The Egg
Ponk was trapped above the Egg by the Eggpire in order to get him corrupted. He was almost saved by Foolish, but Antfrost interrupted so all he got was some bread. Eventually, he was let go from the Egg, and had red eyes as well as different clothing. They thought it was because he had been corrupted by the Egg, however in reality he had just pretending by wearing colored contacts.

When Tommy tried to visit the Egg one more time and grab a little piece of the Egg, a sound of a trident was then heard in the Egg room. Ponk suddenly showed up, throwing a trident at Tommy to try and protect the Egg. Ponk was seen with actual red eyes meaning he had been possibly corrupted, chasing Tommy until he exited the room.

Later, when Ponk was told that Sam had been flirting with Andrea, he allowed himself to get fully corrupted. He may have been corrupted earlier, as he had done other actions for the Egg, but this was when he broke all ties, believing that Sam had broken his heart.

Ponk, appearing corrupted, placed TNT in Foolish's summer house. He said the Egg was the reason he did this, and that Foolish needed to surrender. He blew up the Statue of Ra with the Eggpire and killed Foolish's cat, Nefferkitty.

Keycard incident
Ponk discovered twelve key cards in a chest near the prison, but stole only one. He met with Niki, HBomb, and Foolish where he attempted to convince them to break into the prison with them. The three seemed to joke around with him, not taking it seriously until they saw the key card. Niki seemed interested, but the other two disagreed and soon all three wanted nothing to do with it. As Ponk tried to convince them, Sam logged on and chased him down for the key card, which he got. Ponk convinced HBomb and Foolish to distract Sam whilst he stole the remaining eleven keycards, and he succeeded in doing so until Sam tracked and chased him down - taking a canon life in the process.

The next day, Ponk woke up in a small room and was told by Sam to give him back the access books, utilizing torture to try and convince him. Ponk only gave him back ten of the eleven known cards, telling Sam that he was being corrupted by running the prison. He told Sam that he would prefer losing all of his canon lives rather than see Sam acting how he did. Sam simply told him that he could take something worse than his canon lives before cutting off Ponk's left arm, making him drop the last access key before leaving. Ponk then rented out a room in Niki's underground city where she looked after him and healed his arm.

Red Banquet
Ponk was one of the organizers of the Banquet, being in charge of the food. Ponk said he didn't know about the sacrifice plot, and thought the event would be peaceful, however, this did not seem to stop Ponk from helping the Eggpire during the Banquet, and if it was due to Peer Pressure, the Egg's influence, or if he lied altogether, remains unknown. Ponk would flee to Foolish's summer home after the event, saying he was no longer under the Egg's influence and sought forgiveness. Foolish still held distrust towards Ponk, saying he would only be able to fully trust him once the Egg and Eggpire was gone.

Desert days and Supreme Fridge
Ponk moved out of Niki's underground city after the events of the Red Banquet, and made a temporary shack near Foolish's summer home. Then, in an effort to win back Foolish's friendship and as a show of good-faith, Ponk built Foolish a giant "Supreme Fridge" out of red concrete to be an addition to his summer home. Foolish was pleased with the gift, and the two grew close again.

During this time, Ponk showed his appreciation for Foolish in unconventional ways that typically involved explosions. First, he repurposed a grass mound trap he had originally made for Sam into a TNT trap for Foolish. Then, he built Foolish a "training course" that included mazes, parkour over lava, and a TNT trap.

When L'Sandberg encroached on Foolish's summer home, Foolish asked Ponk to join L'Sandberg as a spy, to which Ponk agreed. Ponk also kidnapped BadBoyHalo's turtle Shelly to an island off-shore and made an elaborate machine to kill/torture the turtle, in an effort to punish his chat for leaking his actions to other streamers.

After Captain Puffy built L'llamaburg too close to Ponk's Supreme Fridge, Ponk destroyed a portion of the castle to make the Fridge more visible. Puffy responded by taking down the Supreme Fridge with Bad's reluctant help. When Ponk found out his gift to Foolish was destroyed, he proclaimed that he would sue Bad and Puffy. Shortly after, he wrote a book called 'LORE SUIT 07.06' that challenged them to a legal battle of wits. He received a response a day later with the book 'U IS SERVED!', accepting the challenge.

A new home
Ponk decided to move out of Foolish's summer home and create a place of his own in a flower forest near Niki's secret city. Ponk then approached Awesamdude for advice on how to build a good-looking bridge, as well as legal advice for his upcoming law suit. Sam recommended that Drista be the judge and Tubbo (Big Law) be Ponk's lawyer, though it is currently unknown whether the law suit will be followed up on. During this time, Ponk confronted Sam about taking his life and cutting off his arm during the Keycard Incident. Sam revealed that he holds no regrets for it, and feels that Ponk brought it on himself by refusing to give Sam the keycards. Ponk responded by stating that karma would catch up to Sam eventually, and that Ponk would offer his support to Sam after it does.

Some time later, Ponk and Foolish messed with Sam by dressing up as Robin and Batman respectively and accusing him of committing an unknown crime. The two were eventually chased off the premises by Sam Nook.

Stealing the Warden's Will
A few days later, Ponk found Sam standing AFK by his Bank. Ponk then pushed Sam down to the server's spider spawner and released the spiders to kill him (non-canonically) for both revenge and future leverage. Once the spiders killed Sam, Ponk sorted through his dropped items. He kept Sam's sword named "Warden's Will", as well as Sam's armor and trident.

On the one-year anniversary of Ponk's lemon tree being burnt down, Ponk brought Foolish to the original site of the lemon tree and told him the story. Then, he confided in Foolish a plan to use Sam's stolen gear as well as their newfound hobby of dressing up as alter-egos to become Sherlock and Watson to "take back" Ponk's missing arm from Sam using "social engineering". Ponk requested Foolish's help to break Sam's will. Foolish agreed to help once it was confirmed that the plan did not involve killing Sam.

Ending his friendship with Foolish
On Sam's insistence, Foolish and Sam went on a secret date, unknown to Ponk. Ponk heard about this down the 'great vine' (his chat) and confronted him about it. Foolish tried to act as if this wasn't true, before saying that it wasn't a big deal. Ponk was furious at Foolish and blew up a bridge between them to symbolize the death of their friendship. They then parted ways, with Ponk hoping that he would never have to cross paths with Foolish again. This incident would lead to Ponk cutting off all ties to the world and retreating to a cave to live as a hermit.

Rebuilding his friendship with Foolish
While living in a cave as a hermit, Ponk began to miss Foolish and decided to rebuild their friendship together. In doing so they had to redestroy the bridge they had previously destroyed because Foolish rebuilt and then rebuild it symbolling their friendship being back together. After rebuilding their friendship the 2 of them would continue to walk through the SMP talking to each other.

Quotes

 * "I CHOSE VIOLENCE TODAY! YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT!"
 * "despicable..."
 * "What is this, huh? Cat got your tongue?"
 * "You think you can fool me? You think you can fool my brothers? No. Foolish, The Egg wants blood. The Egg will get blood, okay?-"
 * "Sam... after everything I've done for you? After everything... Sam, please..."
 * "Can I have some food?" before the explosion of L’Manberg during the Manberg vs Pogtopia War
 * "GET OUT"- Ponk to Tommy after Tommy entered the Egg's room
 * "A year ago today... L'manburg... did not know it's fate. Did not know... What side of history it'd be on. But now, as we sit and reminisce, We realize, It wasn't meant to be. It never was. From the day Eret uttered those words, L'Manburg was doomed to fall. Burnt down to ashes, Nothing more but rubble, Cobblestone and dirt. This one place, This one place... Used to be great. But now, as faded into time, Faded away... Into extinction." - Ponk while touring the ruins of L'Manburg on the one year anniversary of it's destruction

Trivia

 * Ponk has the most abandoned/griefed bases on the server by far.
 * Despite the irony of killing a multitude of animals, Ponk has stated his character is allergic to cats.
 * Ponk's chat are canonically little lemons with arms and legs.