Rivals Duo

Rivals Duo is the friendship between Dream and Technoblade from the Dream SMP fandom.

Canon
In mid to late 2019, during the days of Minecraft Monday, Dream had wanted to "Trojan horse" his way into the event to team up with Technoblade. He asked his friend Skeppy, a close friend to Technoblade, to ask him of he could join. Dream claiming he was a good player and how a team up between he and Technoblade would "dominate". Technoblade responded to him, however declined the offer, claiming Dream could join "next time". Dream didn't feel that "next time" would happen, but he did end up making the next event. Dream explains how Technoblade "kicked his butt".

In 2020, Dream was proving himself as the latest up and comer in Minecraft. In August of that year, MrBeast hosted the $100,000 Dream vs Technoblade Duel. Dream and Technoblade were both nervous, though Dream to a slightly lesser extent, as he would claim he walked into the event with an ego. Prior to the start, Dream suggested they split the prize money, to which Technoblade agreed. A close duel, but in the end Technoblade claimed victory.

In June 2022, Technoblade sadly passed away from sarcoma, a type of cancer. Following his passing, Dream bought Technoblade's merch and posted it, saying it was "sick" merch. On October 2, 2022, Dream would face reveal, which had a lot of people active on Twitter. Thus, "SUBSCRIBE TO TECHNOBLADE" started trending. On October 18, 2022, Dream and Technoblade's father live streamed for an hour on Dream's channel, raising money for sarcoma research. Dream was in San Diego, California for TwitchCon and Technoblade's father offered his home to Dream during that time. There both men spoke of Techoblade, reminiscing of their gone son and friend. A running joke of Technoblade's is that he always planned on "elbow revealing," to which during the stream, Dream did just that with his own elbow.

Quotes
"Rest in peace Technoblade. I would not be half the person I am without being inspired, challenged, and uplifted by you and your endless positivity. The world will miss you and your impact and positivity will live on and never leave our hearts. Technoblade truly never dies."

- Dream, on his YouTube community tab.

Fanon
is a popular friendship within the Dream SMP fandom. In the early days of Dream and Technoblade's friendship, their respective fandoms were rivals to each other as was Dream and Technoblade's portrayed relationship. This rivalry only grew more following MrBeast's Dream vs Technoblade Duel, after Dream lost. It wasn't until Dream and Technoblade teamed in Minecraft Championship 8, did their fandoms mellow down and Dream himself felt he and Technoblade were more so friendly rivals, if not actually friends.

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Fandom
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