Friend (often stylised as friend) was one of Ghostbur's pets, and allegedly his partner. He is a blue sheep that Ghostbur found while travelling with the Butcher Army on their way to kidnap Technoblade. Ghostbur decided to keep friend as a pet and brought him along back to L'Manberg, much to the chagrin of the rest of the Butcher Army.
History[]
Friend was discovered by Ghostbur on his travels back to L'Manberg with the Butcher Army. It is presumed that Ghostbur either intentionally or accidentally dyed friend, as no sheep can naturally spawn blue as friend is.[1]
While bringing back friend to L'Manberg, the Butcher Army found themselves unable to escort Carl with them as a ransom, so they asked if anyone had a lead. Fortunately, Ghostbur was using a lead to bring friend with him, and decided to give his lead to the Butcher Army in exchange for putting friend in a boat with him along with a nametag so he could name the sheep as well. The Butcher Army complied, and Ghostbur was able to bring friend back to L'Manberg.
During Technoblade's execution, Ghostbur was walking into L'Manberg when he noticed Technoblade in a cage. He called out to Techno, stating, "Technoblade, Technoblade! I've named him—I've named him friend." This to which Techno replied, "That's fantastic, Ghostbur. That's fantastic. I'm about to die, Ghostbur." Directly after this conversation, Quackity pulled the lever on Techno's execution chamber.
Later on, Ghostbur would show Philza friend as well, even giving him friend's first coat. Phil kept the wool and snuck out during his house arrest in order to feed Friend and make him grow a new coat. When friend ate grass for the first time, Ghostbur was elated, and Phil brought him back inside.
Phil mentioned that friend has infinite canon lives, so Ghostbur would have nothing to fear in case he died. Friend was later accidentally killed with an axe by Ghostbur. Ghostbur repressed the memory and went searching for him.
Respawn[]
In order to gain trust with Ghostbur, Dream brought Ghostbur a respawned Friend at Technoblade's Cabin. At first, Ghostbur hid Friend in Techno's Cabin, protecting him, until Tommy built his home with a pen for the blue sheep. Friend would stay at the holiday home for several days until Ghostbur moved him back to L'Manberg, where he let Phil look after Friend for a while, before Phil defected to the Arctic Anarchist Commune.
Second Respawn[]
After the Doomsday War, Friend had resided in Phil's home, but was killed by TNT. A few days later, Ghostbur had tried to be revived by Phil, Eret, TommyInnit, Fundy, and Ranboo, as well as Tubbo being there "on skype". Before Phil and Ghostbur recreated the scene during the Manberg vs Pogtopia War, of Wilbur pressing the button, Ghostbur stated he needed to retreive friend first.
Everyone had scattered and looked around, and Eret found friend trapped in bamboo next to the Hall of Fame, after Wilbur's router went out, Ghostbur dyed Friend blue and they continued the resurrection.
The Unreliable Narrator[]
As Wilbur enjoys breaking the fourth wall as Ghostbur, he raised the issue of the unreliable narrator during the stream. He pondered if Philza actually lied about friend's infinite canon lives, and that he only said it to cheer up Ghostbur. As such, whether all the found 'friends' are actually reincarnated versions of the original sheep, or just random sheep dyed blue, remains a canonical mystery.
This is quickly disputed by Philza as well as the other people on the scene, to which in character, Ghostbur agreed, saying that "no one on this server has ever lied", as a result creating a comedic effect. This is especially humorous because Ghostbur's innocence made it so it is perfectly in-character for Ghostbur to have such a response. However, at the same time, this is obviously Wilbur's poking of the fourth wall, as almost every character has lied in some way within the lore. This led to Philza saying that Wilbur is "living within the fourth wall".
Philza's Hardcore World Sheep Named "enemy"
Nevertheless, friend remains to have infinite canon lives as neither Philza nor Wilbur has confirmed officially the number of canon lives that friend has.
Counter-part[]
As a reference to Friend on Dream SMP, Ph1LzA named a red sheep in his hardcore world "enemy". He resides in the blaze empress castle as a pet.[2] At the same time, he also has a blue sheep named "friend", currently tied to a fence post outside of his home in replacement of the water sheep that was sacrificed to get Pewdiepie back into Minecraft.