Punz/SMP


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

"I'm sorry, Dream – but you should have paid me more."

Punz is the twelveth member of the Dream SMP, joining on July 7, 2020 and is a mercenary. He formerly served as a knight to King Eret of the Dream SMP. Currently, he is the acting leader of the Greater Dream SMP after Dream decided to go into hiding after the destruction of L'Manberg, and Dream being imprisoned indefinitely in Pandora's Vault. Punz secretly remains aligned with Dream, and re-equipped him following his escape, deceiving the rest of the server as to his true views and allegiances.

Physiology
Punz is a human with light skin, blue eyes, and blond hair. He wears a white hoodie, black ripped jeans, white shoes, and a gold chain around his neck.

Corrupted
After Punz was influenced by the Crimson, his chain became a blood vine chain (though the medallion stays the same) and his eyes became red. Recently, Punz's corrupted apperance has changed from his winter version to his casual version. The black stripes on his jacket have now changed to a blood vine red and the medallion on his chain is no longer a normal gold color. His jacket and the tear marks on his jeans appear to be tinted grey.

Personality
Punz's personality has evolved with time, like all others on the SMP. In the beginning, he rarely involved himself with conflicts. Occasionally, he would help people; like giving Tubbo a bee, and helping Tommy. However, this shifted once the major conflicts began. During the First L'Manberg War, he joined Dream's side along with Sapnap and George. His motives shifted, and even though he continued to help people on the server, he could be easily bought off with money during conflicts. Punz remained neutral in most conflicts, but still enjoyed a good fight. As he rarely got into conflict, he began collecting riches and became one of the richest people on the server with one of the largest bases and a shulker box, courtesy of Drista.

Like others on the SMP, Punz is motivated by money and desire of chaos. During most conflicts he fought with allies, friends, or for whoever paid him the most (this is most likely why he sided with Dream until the Disc Confrontation). He claimed to side with whoever he felt like at the time, as he was a mercenary independent of other factions (prior to joining the Eggpire). He fought for justice initially, but slowly became more supportive of chaos. Punz believes chaos is the best state for the server to be in (for his own profit). Punz would then support the Eggpire, being one of its key founders, as the the Egg promised him chaos in the SMP, it’s unknown if he supported Dream or not while being corrupted.

Currently (following the Red Banquet and containing of the Egg), Punz is the only true ally of Dream, supporting him during his escape and helping out with his plans, Punz is also acting leader of the Greater Dream SMP, and is currently and secretly acting on Dream’s behalf, as Dream himself is in hiding at Pandora’s Vault.

Flaws
Punz's main flaw is within his job as an "mercenary/yes-man" in the SMP. He is easily paid off with money during conflicts like the Battle of the Lake, and will follow any orders, such as killing Wilbur after the L'Manberg Election. Unlike other characters, his morals have not been specified: he rarely states his own ideology and usually just joins conflicts for friends, allies, or money.

Early Dream SMP Arc
Punz joined the server along with Tubbo, Purpled, and Fundy. Upon joining, he started construction on his house, including a beekeeping complex because he enjoyed beekeeping. He befriended Tubbo, even gifting him a pet bee after Tommy killed Spinz.

Dream Team SMP vs L'Manberg War
During the Dream SMP vs L'Manberg War, Punz joined Dream in fighting against L'Manberg. He took part in the bombing of the L'Manberg Embassy. He knew about Eret being a traitor, and his house was used as the home base of the Dream SMP Team. He participated in the skirmish of the Final Control Room and killed Wilbur, taking his first canon life.

Post-War
Post-war, Punz was involved in Dream's $5000 Deal or No Deal event on the server.

The Pet War
During The Pet War, Punz lost Beenus. Fundy was upset at the killing of his enderman and Fungi, and while Punz wasn’t directly involved, he was an ally of Sapnap. When Punz came on, Fundy forced Punz play a bee game that would either kill or return Beenus. During the event, Punz lost all his items to Tommy and Tubbo, and a small portion of his tower was destroyed after Fundy painted him as the villain. Beenus likely died in this event, though Punz denied it for a time. However, he was able to get Fundy's drip but brown during the bee game which he gave to Sapnap to use as leverage. After Punz informed Sapnap of the events, Sapnap confronted Fundy while Punz stood by.

Post-Pet War
After the pet war, Punz helped Karl and Sapnap build The Eiffel Tower for their honeymoon.

Plotting rebellion
During the Manberg Rebellion, Punz stated that he only supports his own side and does what's good for him. However, Punz initially acted as a "yes man" to Quackity and Schlatt when they exiled Tommy and Wilbur and with Punz even killed Wilbur, taking his second canon life.

Punz expressed his dislike for the new government in a call with Niki, HBomb, and Eret. He didn't deny it when Eret called the people in the call the "rebellion," as he was likely considering rebelling himself. Punz eventually sided with Dream and Pogtopia during The Battle of the Lake and gave Tubbo items of importance to aid him in his quest against Manberg.

Items Conflict
During the Items Conflict, Punz refused to play Hide and Seek with Sapnap and Karl, causing Sapnap to burn down his house and hunt some of his pets. During this time, his house suffered damage in an unrelated incident. Punz patched the damage, but with different blocks to preserve the history. He and Sapnap were able to come to an agreement and everyone's items were returned.

Manberg Festival
Punz attended the Manberg Festival as a citizen. Since he was outnumbered by other Manberg citizens, he followed the orders of the leaders when they commanded them to attack Tommy and Wilbur.

After the festival, Punz helped Tubbo and Sam in draining the section of the ocean used for the Guardian XP farm.

Second Pet War
Punz and Sapnap fought together against the Badlands in the Second Pet War. After finding a panda and bringing it back with Sapnap's help, Antfrost stole it. Punz negotiated for the return of his panda, threatening BadBoyHalo. Ant agreed to return the panda, but while transporting the panda back, Punz accidentally killed it with thorns armor. Initially, Punz blamed himself for the death, but Sapnap persuaded him to blame Ant. In the end, Punz and Sapnap made amends with the Badlands, agreeing to return items and accepting a replacement panda.

Manberg vs Pogtopia War
In the Manberg vs Pogtopia War, Punz fought with Dream against Pogtopia. After Tommy was named as the new president, Punz stood with Dream, stating that he would never bow to TommyInnit. He didn't seem to have as many complaints when the position was then given to Tubbo. When chaos broke out once again, Punz sided with Technoblade as Techno gave a speech and created the withers.

Reconstruction Era
After the war, Punz spent a lot of time revamping and decorating his house and yard. He built a stable for his new horse, Bumpkin, in the yard. He was one of the many victims of Dream's griefing disguised as Tommy's doing, leading him to state that he would get revenge. Before Christmas, he redecorated his house, building a Christmas tree, a candy cane path, and a snowy area for his new polar bear, Comet, to live in.

Lani's restaurant
During Lani's visit, Punz was friendly to her, similar to his relationship with Tubbo. While running their restaurant, Tommy attempted to scam Punz but Lani gave out the boots for free. Tommy got sick of Lani and killed her, and in turn, Punz killed him for "killing a woman." After Quackity took all of their items, Punz killed him so Lani could get her items back.

Knights of Eret
On December 6, 2020, Punz was recruited as a knight of Dream SMP. He was the third citizen to be officially knighted in the Dream SMP after Captain Puffy and HBomb. Eret, the King of Dream SMP, knighted Punz at the entrance of Punz's House, witnessed by the other two knights.

The Knights of Eret began their first mission the same day. Eret, rallying his knights, began an assault on Mexican L'Manberg's territory due to its citizens exploding a small part of Eret's Castle, stealing Eret's throne, and framing Eret for killing Karl. The mission succeeded and the mountain was destroyed, with the Mexican L'Manbergians fleeing to the Holy Land to negotiate for their official recognition.

When Eret questioned which side Dream was on, Punz said Dream was 'on his own side', like himself. He also mentioned that he joined the knight mission for 'chaos that he can't afford to miss." Once the issue was resolved, Punz almost immediately asked to resign from his newly appointed role as knight, and Eret agreed, despite being a little confused. After Punz left, Dream stated that Punz was more of a mercenary than a knight.

Squeeks Conflict
Throughout time, Punz has maintained a cordial relationship with Tubbo. After Mushroom died and upset Tubbo, Punz gifted him a new fox. Tubbo asked Punz for help spelling the new name, "Squeaks," which Punz did not know how to spell and suggested "Sqeeks." During the conflict, Punz and Dream defended Sqeeks and Tubbo against Sapnap.

During the conflict, Tubbo mentioned that he was poor, and that he was going to offer to work for Punz for items. Punz interrupted him and gave him valuable resources such as netherite ingots and iron blocks.

Technoblade's Execution
During Technoblade's Execution, Punz assisted Dream in saving Technoblade. Punz interrupted Tubbo's speech, throwing snowballs at Tubbo before swooping in. He attacked the Butcher Army and placed TNT around the site as a distraction while Dream took Carl from the Butcher Army. After Technoblade survived the execution, Punz distracted the army long enough for Techno to escape before making a swift exit with his riptide trident.

Leader
After discovering Tommy's escape from Logstedshire, Dream wanted to leave Dream SMP and go looking for Tommy. Dream feared his faction would crumble without his leadership, so he met with Punz at the community house to discuss his plans. Dream showed Punz Pandora's Vault and informed Punz that during his absence, Punz would assume leadership. Punz complied, saying he would take care of the land while Dream went to find Tommy. Dream also mentioned that everyone but Punz had fought against him before, concluding that Punz would be a target to take him down. Because of this, Dream gave Punz the responsibility of being a spy to gain L'Manberg's trust to ensure the server wouldn't go after Punz due to Dream's actions. They planned a public, staged falling-out over the death of Punz's horse, Bumpkin. Punz planned on replacing Bumpkin with a fake horse in order to keep the real one safe.

Sex-Ed
Shortly after KSI joined the server on December 20, 2020, KSI built a school and taught Sex-Ed with Quackity's help. Punz was one of nine students in the class. During class, Punz was instructed by KSI to get a chicken to become the "teacher's pet." For Punz's homework assignment, he drew two stickmen: a larger one labeled "Punz" and a shorter one labeled "KSI." When KSI questioned his assignment, Punz joked about KSI's height, leading to KSI asking Dream to turn him into a chicken as a punishment. As a chicken, George bred Punz with the "teacher's pet" as his class project, resulting in Punz having a chickling. The chick was later killed by KSI, and Punz failed to graduate.

Doomsday War
After Dream announced he would destroy L'Manberg alongside Technoblade, Punz declared that Dream had gone too far and sided with L'Manberg for the upcoming battle. However, this was a ploy to gain L'Manberg's trust, as he and Dream had plotted to install Punz as a spy within L'Manberg prior to the conflict. Punz assisted the people of L'Manberg in fighting off the Hound Army and withers spawned by Philza and Technoblade. Later, when speaking with Tubbo at Snowchester, Tommy remarked how surprising it was to see Punz fighting on their side for once rather than on Dream's. The information Punz had obtained has been "useful." L'Manberg had been destroyed, so it is rather apparent that Punz wouldn't be fighting for L'Manberg or those who were part of L'Manberg's doomsday defense force. However, Punz has obtained information on the people's separate ways, which would allow Dream to start a campaign after his hiding to kill those who have "wronged" him.

Pure Corruption
While expanding his underground statue room, BadBoyHalo discovered the Egg, a red egg that mysteriously appeared in the room. Over time, the vines spread their spores across the server, with some appearing on Punz's property – although Punz was quick to destroy them when they appeared. Along with Sam, Punz initially expressed distaste for the vines, calling them creepy and being concerned for Antfrost and Bad, who were under the Egg's influence.

Eventually, Bad and Ant snapped out of their trances, realizing the negative influence of the Egg. However, Skeppy accidentally trapped himself inside the obsidian Bad and CaptainPuffy used to cover the Egg to stifle its negative effects, and Skeppy became corrupted by the Egg. Bad then began experimenting on the Egg to figure out how the Egg worked and cure Skeppy. Punz helped him at times with these experiments, donning a hazmat suit from Church Prime when entering the Egg room.

On January 14, 2021, Bad gathered Punz, Puffy and Ant for a meeting, showing them the growth of the Egg in the statue room and the spread of the vines. Bad then pitched his plan to the three – as the Egg was going to breach containment anyways, they would let it spread around the server, and take advantage of the ensuing chaos to gain power. While initially hesitant, Punz agreed to the plan because he was bored and interested in the power and land they had to offer. He decided to ally with (but not join) the Badlands along with Puffy and formed the Eggpire. In the beginning, Punz only felt the Egg's influence a little, but as time went on and the vines grew down his tower, he started feeling the Egg's influence more and more, and currently only cares for the success of the Eggpire.

Disc Confrontation
The day before the Disc Confrontation, Punz wanted to replace the Punzo Blade of Justice, which was destroyed by a wither blast on Doomsday. He found a sign Tommy left outside his base, asking him to check the seventh floor of his tower, where Tommy left a chest with gold, TNT, diamonds, and netherite ingots. In the room, Tommy left signs describing his distrust of Punz and asking if the payment was enough for his loyalty. Punz was torn on whether to help Tommy, musing to himself that the payment was "more than Dream had ever given" him and reflecting that Dream might be going insane. He also questioned himself as a mercenary, wondering why he felt so conflicted. He then seemed to put aside his thoughts and returned to make a new sword.

On the day of the conflict, while Sam and others lined up along the Prime Path to say their goodbyes to Tommy and Tubbo, Punz was nowhere to be found. However, as Tommy and Tubbo wished each other goodbye in the Disc Vault, Punz came through the portal, stating that Dream should have paid him more, and led other members of the SMP to Tommy and Tubbo's aid. After the confrontation and Dream's imprisonment in Pandora's Vault, Tommy thanked Punz for coming to help. Tommy later admitted to Tubbo in private that he hadn't thought Punz would actually come, to which Tubbo concurred, saying that he thought Punz hated them.

Eggpire
Bad held a meeting with Antfrost, Captian Puffy, and Punz at a roundtable that he created. The Egg was getting too hard to contain, so Bad suggests to let the vines spread and chaos be created. He reasons that it would benefit the Badlands, who needed chaos to rise up in power. After the Badlands getting a lot of power, Bad promises to find a way to destroy the Egg as soon as the Badlands have power. Bad invites Punz and Puffy to join the Badlands, Punz agrees and suggests the name Eggpire for the group. After breaking the obsideon that surrounds the Egg, his blue eyes turned red and states he loves the power that the Egg brought.

Quackity confrontation
When Quackity went to blow up the Egg, he was spotted by Bad and Punz forcing Quackity to return to the secret hallways, and starts threatening to light the TNT. He continues placing TNT as he backtracks. Bad and Punz follow him into the hallway.Bad tells Quackity that he can't get in the way of the Egg, as it gets in the way of his mission; without the Egg, he has nothing.

Bad commands Punz to go after Quackity, and the two corner him the hallway. Quackity still threatens to light the TNT (with a redstone torch in hand and TNT in reach), and orders Punz to leave him and Bad alone. The pair negotiate. Quackity tells Bad they have to get rid of the Egg, but Bad tells Quackity that Quackity doesn't know what will be brought down to him. Quackity thinks for a second, but lights the TNT, destroying the area.

Missing Nuke
*This event will most likely, take place in the future

After Punz was freed from the Egg's influcence, Foolish hired him to find Snowchester's missing nuke, that Punz possibly misinterpreted as "bukes".

Aftermath of the breakout
TBA

Quotes

 * "Fundy, what the hell, what've you started Fundy?"
 * "Tommy, you've made a lot of enemies...How dare you kill Spins."
 * "Sapnap's actions were justified!"
 * "I'm sorry, Dream, but you should've paid me more." — Punz during the Disc Confrontation.

Trivia

 * Punz occupies the most territory out of everyone on the server.
 * Punz has been on Dream’s side almost every time both of them were involved in a conflict, with the exception of the Doomsday War and the Disc Confrontation. In addition, he has fought alongside Sapnap the most.
 * He caused two of Wilbur's three canon deaths: he killed him in the Final Control Room and shot him during Tommy and Wilbur's escape from L'Manberg following Schlatt's election.
 * He temporarily became a knight to Eret when he was being attacked by El Rapids. After the event, he decided to resign.
 * He has fought against his friends and allies (Tubbo, Sapnap, and what was formerly Mexican L'Manberg) multiple times due to his loyalty with Dream.
 * Punz plans to visit Dream in Pandora's Vault.
 * Before Punz was leaving to save Tommy, he originally had the idea to say, "Sorry Dream, but money talks." before Awesamdude recommended the quote we know currently.
 * Punz plays video games in his tower.