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streaming-yn · 3 years

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Hiya there! I really like your writing and was wondering if you could write something where forgetful y/n meets Technoblade- and also- can I be 🏹 anon if its not taken? :D

yeah yeah!! I don't know if you meant c!forgetful!y/n and c!techno or cc!both and I kinda like the heads of both soo ,, I did both !! I hope that's cool w you !!! n ofc, welcome to the crew 🏹 anon :)

part 1 // part 2 // part 3 // part 4 // part 5 // part 6 // part 7

part doesn't look like a real word anymore

pairing (platonic); c!forgetful!y/n x c!techno , forgetful!y/n x (cc!)techno

warnings; dark humor (punting kids, killing, hitman stuff, stuff along those lines!!)

Characters

met bc you're ranboo's sibling !! :)

you were looking for ranboo but couldn't find him (he was hanging out with techno) so you sent him a text on the communicator (whispering) to ask

him, being the protective brother (in lore, the world it's tons more dangerous and he knows) he is, he didn't really think and sent you his coords and said he'll be near there, he's hanging out with someone

he didn't specify who exactly he was with so you were like oh ok be there in a bit

you go the coords and see them through the trees, techno's pink and red colors pallet and ranboo's black half and tux standing out against the snow

immediately you're still, if you move they might hear you – techno might hear you, you look for a bit, going through a back and fourth in your head was what you were going to tell him actually worth what might happen if techno didn't like you? it's not necessarily important information, you just wanted someone to talk to about what you talked with Tommy about today and your brother was your closest friend – tommy tied for first place with him but talking to tommy about what you and tommy spoke about? that's be weird. you really want to talk now, so you don't forget, and your not the best with holding in stuff without snapping at people who don't deserve it

so you decide to go on anyways. he wouldn't hate you, right? you're not really on a side, you're more of a middle ground type of person so you're not connected to the government so he wouldn't hate you, right? and even if he did; your brother would never let him kill you; you reasoned with yourself, happy with the resolve you start forward towards them

thank God for your naturally quiet and agile movements, they would've noticed you before you were ready otherwise, you made it halfway to them and decided to make a little bit of noise so they wouldn't pull weapons as soon as you were right next to them

you threw a snowball at a tree causing both boys to turn and see you wave "hi! just wanted to talk with ranboo"

"well I'm talking to him, about something rather serious too, so leave." "okay so? I want to talk to my brother so why don't you leave?"

talking like this with the blood god was extremely risky, but you're also not the most well known for having smart, thought out decisions. in other words; you don't really think before talking, which can be both good and bad

people admire the honesty and what they believe is guts (it's not, you just don't have cognitive filters), on the other hand, though, it can, and will (and definitely has) land you in a world of hurt

ranboo's looking between you two anxiously, eyes showing obvious worry that this will escalate to a battle

as the piglin hybrid looked down at you like you were dirt under his boot you glared right back up at him, matching the energy he gave, as you grabbed ranboo's hand and started to drag him away

ranboo turned around to look at techno and waved "oh- uh- I guess we can talk some other time!", techno grumbled at that

though later he did let himself laugh about it, someone who looked quiet not being afraid to match his energy was amusing itself, but pair that with you dragging your brother along, not being careful of his foot placement causing him to almost fall many times and it makes it funnier

when he spoke to you again, it was clear neither of you held any grudges or anything but the "oh my god I hate you and we're literally enemies" bit continued, but it was obvious it was just y'all's dynamic

fans were in love with that dynamic and adored making art (comics, drawings, fics, animations, etc) of it :)

and despite everything the friendship and dynamic stayed the same, making fans cry

fans often worried about what would happen to y'all, because nothing in the dsmp stays the same – something bad always has to happen

quite a few ",,, what's gonna happen to c!techno and c!y/n's dynamic... something bad has to happen right? it's been good for way too long" tweets and most of the replies consist of "if something happens I'm blaming you" or "if anything happens I'm coming back with a bat" (both jokes ofc)

haha,, something bad eventually does happen but that's for a different time o/ (dw abt requesting for it! I already have a request where I plan to reveal it, however it will take a bit to get to, until then, enjoy the cliffhanger >:) )

content creators

immediately y'all match up on the same jokes and things!!

yk the thing like "wait, it's not what it looks like" "you kill people for money????" ".... .yeah" "and this whole time I've been doing it for free like a chum!!!"

that's y'all, you're the one who's doing it for free 💀

y'all met through the dsmp and started interacting so the lore won't be awkward and ended up becoming friends

(truth be told you were scared of him not liking you bc you were a fan of his content for some time now)

if you let him rant about Greek stories and such he'll let you rant about what you want to too

if you have any knowledge of old torture machines talk to him about it! like obviously torture is not good or anything but it's interesting to learn what happened in the past yk?

,,although maybe don't do that on stream-

I feel like after talking to techno for the first time and it going well you immediately go back to ranboo like "GUESS WHAT OMG"

"GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT :DD" "Well, hello to you too" "But what's up?" "SCARY MAN THIUGHT I WAS OK 👍👍" "Who? Literally every new guy you meet is "scary man" to you" (/hj /lh) "TECHNOOO!!!!!" "That's awesome, man!! :D"

depending on how you react to jokes about punting kids he would end up making them more often around you bc he finds your reaction funny

if it's normal, you have no reaction, or just laugh in reply, he'll make them a normal amount most likely

if it's something along the lines of "NOOOO !!!!!" he's going to end up making them more, and out of the blue too

"so, you really went far in streaming so far?" "yeah! I think it's neat! I didn't expect to-" "almost as far as the kid I kicked-" "NO !!!!"

there are a lot of times where you have to clear up what is and isn't lore because y'all's dynamic is similar in and out of roleplay

also yk,, people are starved of and wanting c!y/n and c!techno interactions so they're trying to get the crumbs they can – it's actually really funny

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thunderbottle · 3 years

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Thunder's DSMP Disability Headcanons

disclaimer!!! i am sticking to physical disabilities bc honestly delving into the complexity of mental stuff is stressful and physical disabilities easier to apply to characters that like,, already exist yknow

Tubbo

Oh you KNOW this boy has messed up hearing. In my head his right ear is worse (as in he can barely hear anything with it) from the festival execution bc he turned his head away from the fireworks. The various l'manberg explosions also contributed.

I subscribe to the headcanon that being around schlatt sorta 'infected' tubbo with goat traits so bam i'm giving him joint problems in his legs from them changing so fast to be more goat-like. It makes him a bit slower than before and the snowchester cold makes them achey.

Jack

Chronic pain both before and after revival. It's different after he comes back to life, though. It's not any worse or better, just... different. It bothers him more than he lets on. He can't even find comfort in the familiar pain. sadge.

Tommy

same deal as tubbo with being a bit HOH. the repeated explosions during exile would not have treated him kindly.

also related to exile: on the way to techno's house and living in a hole in the middle of the tundra, i feel like he's missing a few fingers and one of his feet from frostbite (y'know how he lost a shoe? yeah.) He makes his own prosthetic while staying with techno but doesn't use it all the time bc it's painful. he's got a fancy crutch that sam made for him which is a lot more comfortable most of the time.

another exile one bc i feel like that whole experience (being hurt often, no real access to first aide, lack of a steady food source, etc etc) would be Not Great for a person's health. Dream dislocated one of his shoulders 'on accident' and it hasn't quite healed correctly, often re-dislocating when he's carrying heavy things or stretching it the wrong way.

Ranboo

my ranboo design has wacky kangaroo rat legs that aren't super suited to,, working correctly so he wears braces on the ankles and knees to keep them bending correctly. he also uses those coon forearm crutches like in that one fanart i did of him forever ago.

okay this isn't a hc but can i just say i'm so happy that c!ranboo is like,, canonically disabled. like ik it's bc he's enderboy but Still i love it sm. thank you mr. beloved

Awesamdude

he was born partially blind and relies a lot on sound. his redstone machine have a lot of essential parts that intentionally make extra noise so he knows they're working correctly and with the right timing.

he wears the gasmask half as a fashion statement and half bc he's got asthma and the redstone dust that typically doesn't bother other people can be dangerous to work with for him and trigger asthma attacks, especially at the quantities he works with.

Philza

caneza!!! he has trouble keeping his balance with his wings out of commission so he weathers the increased old-man-shaming in favor of being able to walk lmao

Wilbur

making this one short bc thinking abt c!wilbur makes me sad

chronic fatigue syndrome!! get some rest tall child!! like i know it doesn't really help but still!!! *wraps alivebur up in blankets like a feral, injured cat* i care you!!!!

Eret

okay i know that the herobrine eyes are bc she's related to herobrine somehow but i'm making her blind anyways. herobrine is blind too. you can't stop me.

guide ferrets... (context: eret's chat is a hoard of ferrets that follows him around it's very good)

he makes all his own buildings so that he has the floorplan memorized before even moving in. how do they turn out so pretty when he can't see them? well, he's more powerful than you could ever know and can do anything he puts his mind to so jot that down

Techno

this pig has ARTHRITIS

technocane!!!!! i love him

If you want me to expand on any of these send me an ask or in the reblogs of this post! Feel free to add on your own hcs within the wheelhouse I'd love to hear them <3

#there are more but i'm gonna stop here #i am disabled but i don't have personal experience with every single one of these so lmk if i've fucked something up #dream smp #headcanons #dsmp headcanon #mcyt #am i gonna tag all the characters? yes.#tubbo #ranboo #philza #eret #tommyinnit #jack manifold #technoblade #awesamdude #wilbur soot #/rp #im disabled and i will make the fave characters disabled. you can't stop me.#also i know most disabilities don't come from trauma but dsmp is a bit of a hellworld so i don't feel like it's out of line

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madmaddyenby · 3 years

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/rp /dsmp

ok so- c!tommy. we are all aware he’s traumatized, and experiences ptsd from being in traumatic experiences, this is basically fact. while i’d like to talk how c!tommy experiences ptsd, i’d like to bring up a thing i haven’t seen mentioned a lot when it comes to c!tommy and his trauma- c-ptsd. also known as complex-ptsd. it occurs when someone experiences something traumatizing for a period of time.

[image description: A screenshot of text with the words “CPTSD stands for Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is a mental health condition in which a person might experience intense PTSD symptoms that coincide with other mental issues. CPTSD occurs in people who have been subjected to on going traumatizing experiences”. end description]

which, as we know, the exile arc fits the description of “ongoing traumatizing experiences” pretty fucking well. the exile was basically just two weeks of trauma. for a lot of reasons too, there was dream abusing tommy, tommy being isolated, tommys own depression/suicidal thoughts/bad mindset in general. this would all be considered a ongoing traumatizing experience(s).

ptsd is very similar to c-ptsd in how it develops, but ptsd occurs after one singular traumatizing event . (by the way, the event doesnt have to be life or death, it could be something like witnessing or hearing about a shocking event!!!)

symptoms of c-ptsd overlap with ptsd a good lot of the time, due to them both being trauma disorders. however, there are a few differences. here r some symptoms of c-ptsd, alot of which are ptsd symptoms that alot ofpeople with c-ptsd experience as well

reliving the traumatic experience

avoiding certain situations

changes in beliefs and feelings about yourself and others

hyperarousal (jitteriness, being on alert, etc)

somatic symptoms (physical symptoms with no underlying cause)

lack of emotional regulation

change in consciousness

negative self-perception

difficulty with relationships

distorted reception of abuser

loss of system of meanings

now, i’ll go over which of these fit our boy c!tommy, and how they fit for some of them atleast. i will only be talking about the things that are a result from c-ptsd, but also c-ptsd works where it coincides with other mental illnesses a person has so. its also important to note that within a person these symptoms might not stay the same over time, and not everyone who has c-ptsd or ptsd is going to experience it the same. (so not talking abt how pain affects him after dying in the prison, though that is a clear sign of ptsd)

reliving the traumatic experience

tommy’s done this with exile a few times, when revisiting logstedshire, when he saw the craters in logstedshire, when visiting dream in prison, when during the disc finale dream dug the hole and told him to put his armour in, etc etc, he’s even described himself as being trembly in the fingers near plain biomes, while visting logsted he mentioned how shaky it made him to be there, and when he visited logsted one time he had an immediate reaction to seeing a hole in the ground that came off as him reliving it. flashbacks come in from sensations during a traumatic event, like sight, feeling, emotion, etc, etc. it seems like with these he’s experiencing more of a reliving the emotions kind of thing.

avoiding certain situations

i was originally not gonna include this one, but thinking about it, he kind of does in a way. this symptom also includes keeping yourself preoccupied to avoid thinking about it, which is something c!tommy seems to do alot. with focusing on building the hotel, and doing tasks, or grinding for supplies instead of actually thinking about it.

changes in beliefs and feelings about yourself and others

c!tommy uh. does this a lot. a lot of it stems from how during exile tommy was isolated and made to believe no one cared for him, and even if that wasn’t true c!tommy never really got much closure on that. hes not really trusting ppl that b4 were really close to him, tubbo n ranboo for example

lack of emotional regulation

this can also be described as uncontrollable feelings. this is the one i’ve wanted to talk about the most i think- because this is really fits c!tommy. he tends to lash out alot, for example burning the flower c!ranboo gave him, there are a bunch more examples of this that include him yelling at others, that one time when he spleefed c!jack

negative self-perception

yeah. theres a few examples of this one, the one that first comes to mind is that time during the green festival where he was talking about how he was worse than everyone he didn’t wanna be (including his abuser, c!dream...) . theres now when he was building his tower by the prison when he was saying he couldn’t use the cobble because it was too him, and people didnt like the cobble. alot of this i think comes from c!dream making him feel basically worthless in exile :(

difficulty with relationships

Yeah. um. Alot for this one!!! The first to come to mind is c!tubbo. c!tommy and c!tubbos relationship is very very wonky, especially considering recent events with tommy feeling like he is being replaced with c!ranboo. (which he isnt by the way! he just feels as though, which is a valid feeling for him to have :]) . another person that comes to mind is c!ranboo. he’s even mentioned how his and ranboos relationship goes back and forth quite alot. its not very surprising to see that he has difficulty with relationships especially considering a lot of the reason that the exile affected him so badly was because he felt so alone and was so isolated from his friends. another thing that comes to mind, is when he made c!sam sign that contract promising hat he’d be his best friend and protect him. theres most likely way more that can be said here, but this is the first stuff that comes to mind.

distorted reception of abuser

um... yeah. this one. this can also be described as , “ becoming preoccupied with the relationship between you and your abuser. It can also include preoccupation with revenge or giving your abuser complete power over your life. “ which is um. yeah. c!tommy. he’s mentioned how whenever he’s around c!dream he feels like hes conditioned to be his friend (which. yea . he was .). right after he left logstedshire this was very very prominent, he was the biggest c!dream apologist around (/j), saying things like “dream didnt do anything wrong” and even explaining how he wasnt sure about things when it comes to c!dream, that his mind became flip floppy whenever he thought about him. right now, hes focused on getting back at c!dream, not fully for revenge, mainly for his friends and how he doesnt want c!dream to go around killing and reviving everyone, but the point still stands. (this all makes me extra sad because he had gone to the prison the second time in the first place to get closure :(( )

loss of system of meanings

Systems of meaning refer to your religion or beliefs about the world. This can also refer to getting a strong sense of hopelessness or despair about the world, which as of late mainly c!tommy seems to have. mainly referencing in his stream where he visited dreams bunker, he was asking what the point was of finding things that made him happy if dream was just going to get out the prison and destroy it. theres also a few things that also go with this, in one stream while he burnt down ponks lemon tree for sam nook he said "thats still decaying, but yknow, arent we all." and that one time when he gave that hotel invitation to c!techno he was like “ahahha we could die tomorrow anyway”

its also important to note that, “Any type of long-term trauma, over several months or years, can lead to CPTSD. However, it seems to appear frequently in people who’ve been abused by someone who was supposed to be their caregiver or protector. “ Which is.. fairly accurate in c!tommy’s situation. c!dream might’ve not been a caregiver or protector necessarily but he was still someone that was looking after him yknow?

there are most likely more things than what i layed out that show that c!tommy most likely also has cptsd, however this is just the stuff that i thought up :] add to the post if you’d like to!

(also this isn’t saying that c!tommy doesnt have ptsd, he had both ptsd and c-ptsd. also i am not an expert about ptsd, cptsd, or mental health in general, if i got any information wrong let me know)

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writingfromthevoid · 2 years

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Your hunger games au sounds so cool! It has so much potential and there's so many ways it can go

I'm curious, do you have any ideas about Ranboo? Would he be related with Dream or Techno in any way? I just think it has a lot of potential, specially with this idea I got of Ranboo being taken in the 100th reaping, same as Tommy. Then Dream, Techno and Wilbur would have something to lose as they work on the rebellion with more urgency than ever. (also sensei techno pog) (maybe the capitol suspected a rebellion and picked their kids on purpose? perhaps? maybe?)

I am actually so glad you asked about Ranboo because you’ve given me the perfect excuse to talk about him more.

Ranboo is from District One!! His mentor is, in fact, Technoblade.

Ranboo, though he has experienced the same training as everyone else in District One, is very anxious about the hunger games (understandably so), and this is heightened by the fact that it’s a quarter quell which means it’s not gonna be like the other games. (I’ll get into the quarter quell at a later date). He’s overall a very anxious boy who was picked on in his training academy, and he’s wondering why the universe decided to hate him.

Then, he finds out The Blade himself will be his mentor, and he gets a bit happier. Because Ranboo is a fan of Technoblade. While most victors mostly have fans in the capitol, there are definitely people in the districts who admire them, and Ranboo really looks up to Techno. Techno always appears so calm and collected, and Ranboo wishes he could be like that. So, when he finds out Techno will be there, he gets the slightest bit less anxious. Yes, he’ll probably die, but he thinks it’s fine since he at least got to meet his idol.

The funny thing, though, is that he gets on the train expecting to just be with the escort, his mentor, the other tribute, and the other tribute’s mentor. (Though, even then, he doubts he’ll see the other tribute and the other mentor because they’ll probably be in different cabins in the train. District One has way more victors than District Twelve, so while Katniss and Peeta were together with one mentor in the books and movies, District One can actually afford to give their tributes space and allow them their own mentors).

So, Ranboo is expecting quality time with The Blade with a couple of appearances from Exdee, but instead he walks in the train and sees Dream just lounging around, eating some food, acting as if he owns the place.And he’s so confused. He’s wondering if there’s been a mix up or if Techno decided to not mentor him for some reason. Keep in mind that Ranboo definitely knows who Dream is—Techno and Dream won back to back and have this whole rivalry thing going on that everyone knows about. Literally everyone. So, Ranboo is convincing himself that it’s okay if Dream’s his mentor instead, and then Techno just appears, takes food out of Dream’s hand, and acts as if nothing is wrong.

Dream is actually just there because he always makes sure to go to the capitol to help with rebellion plans, whether he’s a mentor or not. The capitol allows him to show up because he’s one of the capitol’s favorites, so the citizens would probably riot if he wasn’t allowed in. And the Dream Team is very popular and includes a member from a high standing capitol family, so there’s really nothing they can do. He also tends to do interviews and stuff, so it at least seems like he’s contributing something at that time.

But Dream just tells Ranboo he’s there to see George, and he goes on a big dramatic speech about forbidden love (though I would like to say there is no romance in the story—everything Dream says abt that is in a joking tone)

So, Dream just kinda vibes as well, and though it’s probably not allowed, District One already gets away with more things than other districts and Dream as a person gets away with more bc Charisma + Dteam.

The victors in the rebellion have this entire thing of not getting attached to tributes bc that’s just bad. Statistically, most of those tributes will die, and they can’t allow their emotions to cause them to lash out and ruin the rebellion. They’ve all gotten attached in the past, and it’s great when their tributes survive, but they really try not to (and it’s gotten easier to be detached as the years go on).

But, Techno and Dream end up attached to Ranboo. Maybe it’s because they’re already planning to use the quarter quell as a distraction for the rebellion to properly begin, or maybe it’s just something about how truly kind and nervous but well meaning Ranboo is despite everything. Regardless of why, they end up attached.

Surely this won’t have any negative repercussions for them :)

#victors au #thank you so much for the ask :D #it was really fun to answer #I adore this au sm #ranboo #technoblade #dream #dreamxd #dsmp #dsmp au #dream smp #dream smp au #hunger games au #stella's aus #peer pressure duo #endersmile duo #endersmile

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dr3amofagame · 3 years

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Dream tried to stop Wil from creating L'Manburg, Phil tried to stop him from blowing it up, BOTH value people over items and builds, Phil has said that they're replaceable but people aren't, Dream traded spirit for his best friends fishes (we kno he's not someone to talk abt feelings:[) BOTH were kind and selfless but used by almost if not everyone, BOTH were ready to be THE VILLAINS if it meant everyone else could live better after. ONE of them always had someone there, ONE didn't. Intentional?

aaaa sorry for the really inconsistent posts ,, im gonna try to post a little more in the next few days. i have a few things written up, so look out for them? maybe? for now, have this *gestures vaguely* thing ,, it’s kinda a mess but *shrug*

phil is such a fun character, anon, especially for all the reasons that you mentioned in the ask!! he’s a really fun character with a lot of complexities that go (sadly) overlooked by a large portion of the fandom, but he’s super cool even tho i havent analyzed him too much. hope you enjoy (and i hope my interpretation of c!phil isnt too ooc lmao)

tw: mentioned blood, injury, implied torture/abuse, starvation, trauma, mentioned death, prison arc/pandora’s vault

When Techno first brings Dream back from the prison, Phil doesn’t quite know what to think.

“I don’t trust him either,” Techno assures him, but there’s a flickering anger in the backs of his eyes, one that had emerged ever since he came back from the prison with the other man in his arms, and Phil knows his friend well enough to know that the words are empty in the face of the piglin hybrid’s particular brand of to-the-death loyalty. He shakes his head in reply, refusing to voice his thoughts for Techno’s sake, at least, but the look that the other slants at him suggests that he’s caught onto them all the same.

At first, the work is thankfully mindless; even if Phil has reservations on the man that Techno has more or less dumped into his house, he would hardly wish the clear suffering he’s been through on anyone. The first few days pass in a flurry of brewing potions, wrapping and rewrapping dressings, stitching up cuts and setting broken bones straight. The damage is extensive; Phil has to take more than a few breaks to just leave the house and breathe - he’s far from a stranger to blood and carnage, had received the title of ‘Angel of Death’ for a reason, but even he had never been particularly familiar with this form of cruelty. Torture was a level of violence that extended beyond what even he was willing to bestow - his hands may have caused many deaths, and the weight of each one would continue to haunt him for the rest of his life, but even those had the mercy of being a quick end. The wounds and scars that ripple over Dream’s skin, thin and stretched tightly over his bones with little muscle and fat left to cushion them, speak of horrors that were anything but merciful.

“I didn’t know they were capable of all of this,” Techno says, once, as they huddle of Dream, wringing towels in cold water to wipe his feverish skin. Techno’s hand reaches for the ribboning gold-filled scars that remain from the execution - carefully, Phil raises his hand to let his fingertips brush over them as well. “I mean, I knew he was dangerous and all, but-”

“I know, mate,” Phil looks back at Dream’s face, tight even in unconsciousness, at the darkened, hand-shaped bruises that remain around his throat, at the scar that runs over his left eye, clearly meant to mirror the same one that makes its way down the duck hybrid’s own face. “You said that Quackity and Sam were working together?”

“Yeah,” Techno’s expression darkens, eyes focused somewhere on the wall, seemingly very far away. He said that nothing happened to him in the prison, and he seemed relatively unharmed when Phil activated the stasis chamber, but ever since he came back, sometimes he’ll have moments, and Phil can’t help but - wonder. “Quackity does the dirty work, Sam gives him the way in and out, probably also the tools to do it. It’s-” he huffs a short, self-recriminating laugh. “It’s bad, Phil.”

“Mate-”

Techno shoots him a look, and Phil cringes, knowing already that he’d used the wrong tone. Even with the execution, Techno had been adamant to hide all traces of his own terror and fear away from him, masking it all with fury for Phil’s own sake. He knows, just from the way his old friend looks at the ribboning scars that remain sometimes, that he is far from as over the whole ordeal as he acts, but Techno never wants to talk and Phil never knows the right time to ask and they smooth it all behind plans and explosions and hope that the TNT can blow apart the trauma, too. He’s got a sneaking suspicion that the same thing is going to happen, here.

“As soon as we can,” Techno starts again, pointedly shifting his eyes away from Phil’s face, “we’re calling a Syndicate meeting to figure out what we’re going to do about the prison. Like- come on, man, you couldn’t make a more transparent abuse of institutional power if you tried, really-” he looks over, uncharacteristic uncertainty warring over his features. “If you think that’s good, I mean-“

“Of course, mate.” Phil’s voice softens. “Whenever you’re ready.”

‘Whenever he’s ready,’ as it turns out, is easier said than done, becoming even more evident when their charge wakes up from his days long spell of unconsciousness. The worst of his injuries have, under their careful care and the benefit of many potions, healed enough to no longer directly threaten his life, but the vast majority have quite some time to go before being healed completely. Being as the goal was torture and not death, most of his injuries weren’t made to be life-threatening, but rather to cause as much pain as possible - from the grimace that twists Dream’s face when he struggles to force himself awake, they’re doing their jobs.

“Hey, mate, slow down,” Phil murmurs, pressing the man down by his shoulder when Dream weakly tries to push himself up and off the bed, and his struggling only lasts for a few more minutes before he gives up and slumps against his pillow, eyes cracking open and seeming surprisingly lucid.

“Where-“ his voice is wrecked, and Phil reaches for the glass of water at the bedside as Dream coughs. “Where am I?”

“You’re at Techno’s house,” Dream’s eyes widen and then slip closed as he processes the information, a wrinkle forming between his eyebrows as they knit together. “We broke you out, after Techno escaped with a stasis chamber with your book. Do you remember?”

Dream gnaws on his bottom lip. “Um- yeah. I think.” His head turns as his eyes crack open again- “Techno-“

“He’s out, right now. He’ll be back in a bit.”

“Oh.” Dream falls back into the bed, strength seemingly sapped from the short conversation. His breathing stutters, then steadies. “Okay.”

Recovery is slow. Phil doesn’t actually find himself seeing the man very often; now that he doesn’t need around-the-clock care anymore, he’s moved back into his own house, letting Techno do most of the work when it comes to rehabilitating the escaped convict crashing at his house. As he begins to spend more of his time awake and aware, he brings a whole slew of new problems; Phil catches him screaming one day, blurting harsh, angry words as Techno reads, unbothered from the other side of the room, and he stops in his tracks standing awkwardly in the doorway.

“Um-“ he winces when Dream curses, smashes something against the floor, and then curls into himself at the sound. Techno doesn’t even flinch. “Am I interrupting something?”

Dream stomps away, face flushed, arms wrapped around himself. Techno raises an eyebrow.

“You lookin’ for something, Phil?” he asks, and the unpleasant knot in Phil’s chest refuses to unwind.

The episodes, unfortunately, don’t seem to get much better. Though he’s rarely outright violent, Dream looks constantly murderous, usually muttering underneath his breath about something or another while he stalks the grounds of Techno’s house. It’s not too long before Techno sends him out to work around the house instead of just moping within the cottage, which also means that Phil sees him a lot more - tending to a small farm behind the house, feeding the dogs, hacking away at mobs, and usually complaining the entire time. It’s unnerving, even as injured and unarmored as the man is, to see him walking around like this; despite his rather pathetic appearance, swamped in sweaters that dwarf him thoroughly and thin enough to look like the slightest breeze will knock him over, his eyes are flinty and intelligent and bubble with promises of revenge.

“FUCK!” Phil turns to see him slamming a shovel into the snow, stomping away into the woods, and his hands tighten around his cup of tea. Next to him, Techno shrugs.

“Nerd’s got a few issues,” he drawls, and Phil laughs shortly.

“That seems like an understatement.”

“He’ll ease up in time,” Techno sounds surprisingly confident, completely content despite the muffled curses that come from the woods next to them. He’s probably used to it, with Chat and all, but Phil can’t quite seem to find the same calm.

“I just don’t know, mate,” Phil shakes his head. “You sure having him around is the best idea? He doesn’t seem...stable.”

Techno looks up at him over the rim of his cup of coffee. His head tilts, considering, but there’s a small smile on his face that tells Phil that Techno, inexplicably, doesn’t share the same sentiments. There was always a part of him that was, for the lack of a better word, softer than the rest of the server for his self-proclaimed rival, a sort of understanding that Phil could hardly hope (nor would really want to) understand.

“Don’t worry, Phil, if he tries anything I can always just tie him up in the attic or something,” Phil huffs a small laugh, amused, and nods to concede the point. “And- well, call it intuition. You could really try talkin’ to him, you know. He reminds me of you, sometimes.”

The words stick in his head despite his best efforts, rattling in his skull when he tries to sleep, lingering when he catches glimpses of the green-clothed man stalking around their properties. He can’t imagine what would’ve prompted his old friend to make the comparison, can’t think of a single thing (besides their affinity for the color green) that would mark him as similar to the - from what he’s heard - deranged menace with a particular penchant for destruction (not that his rants and fits of anger are doing anything to correct that impression). Even so, Techno had sounded so sure when he’d made the comparison, the words offhand like he’d thought them a million times before, like it was a simple observation that held no more weight than commenting on the color of the sky. Phil watches as Dream lugs a pile of logs behind him, huffing at one of Techno’s dogs that comes to chase and nip at his feet and grumbling loudly before faceplanting into the snow. He just...can’t see it.

Days later, Wilbur comes to visit, a grin on his lips as he dramatically recounts his newest exploit: a nation by Las Nevadas, a supposed safe haven away from the glitter and glory of Quackity’s city; it sounds brilliant, it sounds lovely, and more than anything it sounds stupid, and Phil tells him as such immediately.

“You’re being reckless,” he rants at his son, wings flaring outwards and only barely noticing Dream watching from the corner of his eye, “What are you doing- picking fights with Quackity? Starting another nation- didn’t you see what happened to the first two you made? You’re going to get yourself killed, Wil!”

“Well, I’ve already seen what’s on the other side of death, and it’s really not that bad-“

“You’re my son!” The words are angrier than Phil would’ve liked, and he knows that he looks ridiculous and overbearing, criticizing the actions of his fully grown son, but all he can see is Wilbur’s face, slack with pain and grief, stained with ash and soot as his eyes flutter to half-mast in the midst of the rubble of a country he loved and destroyed and destroyed him in turn. “I can’t lose you again, Wil!”

Wilbur doesn’t quite storm out, but it’s a near thing, leaving with a clipped goodbye and leaving Phil seething on his doorstep. He spends the rest of the night pacing around the house in a sort of mad frenzy, wings stretching and folding over and over. Not for the first time, he longs for the sky, to feel the air through his wings and let the world fall into pinpricks below him; it’s this that leads him to the roof of his house, staring stubbornly at the clouds as the sun sinks down to the horizon.

“Hey.”

Phil startles; there, down below him, is Dream. He rocks back on his heels, seeming awkward, before clambering up the wall (Phil rolls his eyes at the ease with which he scales it, the feeling in his chest almost fond) and settling himself on the shingles at Phil’s side.

“Hey, mate,” Phil shakes his head. The fondness leaves, and the irritation that had risen at Wilbur’s words, earlier, comes back full-force. “Sorry- Wil came to visit, we talked. I just needed some time to think.”

Dream hums in acknowledgement, and they fall into a comfortable silence, watching as the sun dipping down past the mountains in the distance.

“You know,” Dream starts, sudden, “I told him the same thing.” He looks up at Phil, eyes faraway with old memories. “Wilbur, I mean. When he made L’manburg- I told him he was being reckless.” He shrugs. “I guess he never listened.”

Phil pauses, Techno’s words ringing in his ears. He reminds me of you, sometimes.

Dream looks surprisingly normal up close - face no longer reddened with fever or pale from blood loss, even the scars fail to really take from the boyishness of his face. He bites his lips, eyes falling away at Phil’s scrutiny, golden blond hair flopping over his forehead, newly trimmed to be something a little closer to his old length, at least in the front, the back pulled into a small ponytail. He’s young, and shockingly awkward, teeth worrying his lip, hands fiddling with each other, shifting his weight from one foot to the other several times a minute. He looks like a kid.

“He never does,” Phil lets himself smile, watches as Dream smiles back, almost like they’re sharing a joke. He wonders how well he really knows the man behind the mask. “Want to come in for some tea?”

Dream smiles wider, and something old and worn in Phils chest, knocked loose ever since he felt his son fall limp in his arms with his own sword shoved between his ribs, falls back into place.

“That would be great,” Dream replies, the words almost hopeful, and they go inside.

#tw trauma #tw death #tw blood #tw injury #tw torture #tw abuse #tw starvation #prison arc #pandora's vault #-> my writing #my writing :D #my asks !!#-> my asks

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springatito-moved · 2 years

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MALL AU CHARACTERMASTERPOST... THING. i love masterposts if u cant tell lmao.

this is just basic rundown of whos involved, where they work, and some details abt how they act in the au. stuff might be subject to change ? maybe? idk.

tommy: build-a-bear. legally too young to be working there but he lied and no one really cares. likes to hang around sapnap, q, or eryn during his breaks because he sees enough of wilbur at home. banned from yankee candle for trying to eat one & helping sapnap steal.

tubbo: food court. somehow a manager at all the places except mcdonald’s. everyone thinks hes lying about this. except quackity who knows. he & q are adoptive brothers but he lives with SBI bc q isnt able to care for him rn. hes fine with it and they see movies together a lot anyway.

ranboo: hot topic/vera bradley. works full days but usually part-time at each place. good friends with wilbur at ht and enjoys his discount. super close with techno at vb and is super awesome at selling purses to old ladies.

wilbur: hot topic. manager. not completely qualified but he tries. pretends theres a rivalry between him and q. there is not. has sole custody over tommy. complains abt the amount of anime/disney/marvel stuff being sold all the time. no one listens to him when he does this.

techno: vera bradley. just kinda needed a job and they were the first to call back. actually kind of enjoys it. super close with ranboo.

phil: kiosks. runs basically all of them bc george never does his job. likes to buy anime things at hot topic. wilbur hates him for it. also sort of a fatherly-ish figure to wilbur & tommy.

quackity: spencer’s. manager. srsly the best salesman ever. is also abt 2 seconds away from killing all the customers. likes to trick ppl abt where things are and send them to The Back. steals things from ht to get wilbur in trouble. tubbo’s adoptive brother. has far too many piercings. dating sap n karl.

charlie: spencer’s. quackity’s long-time friend. helps keep him calm. a lot of people like is presence so he sells things pretty well. doesnt dress at all like you’d think a spencer’s worker would dress.

fundy: spencer’s. asstant manager. anxious a lot. originally worked at ht with wilbur but thought spencer’s had better benefits for his needs. likes to watch the fish at the pet store. quackity’s emotional support most of the time. he doesnt mind.

foolish: spencer’s. would rather work at the lego store but his application was denied. likes his co-workers enough to stay. likes to stack things in the store to look fancy. it often gets ruined though. doesnt have the energy to stop gnf’s shenanigans.

sam: build-a-bear. manager. yes he knows tommy is too young. no he doesn’t care. acts like a dad to q. q doesnt mind. intimidating but good with kids.

karl: disney store. manager. exactly who you’d expect to work there. super good with kids. awesome with convincing parents to buy things. sometimes gets distracted watching whatever movie is playing. has some memory issues so he doesn’t often work the register. steals plushies from the george’s kiosks. dating sap n q.

sapnap: disney store. exactly who you WOULDN’T expect to work there. originally worked at vans. chose to work at the disney store when he met karl. actually really likes it. banned from yankee candle for trying to steal. likes to hang out with tommy on his breaks. dating karl n q.

george: kiosks. hes literally never even at his post. he’s either bothering sapnap or quackity at all times. likes to mess up the inventory at their stores so they have to fix it.

dream: she doesnt even go here. literally, he doesnt work anywhere at the mall. why is he always there? who knows. hangs around sap n george a lot. complains about tommy. it never gets him anywhere though.

eret: sephora. the king of sephora. good friends with wilbur before working at the mall. wil pretends eret “betrayed” him by not applying for ht. spends a LOT of money at build-a-bear.

hannah: yankee candle. manager. super efficient with marketing & sales. was the one who banned tommy and sapnap. likes to decorate the store for every holiday. adored by all.

niki: food court. works at a bakery stand at the food court. lets her friends use her employee discount. except wilbur because she thinks its funny. buys a lot of temp hairspray dye at spencer’s.

ant: pet store. manager. mostly works with the mammals like rabbits and cats. knows the store like the back of his hand. literally never anywhere else. knows karl & q’s cat’s foods off the top of his head and often saves them supplies behind the counter.

boomer: pet store. works with the reptiles & aquatic animals. likes chill with punz a lot of the time. almost exclusively wears frog clothing.

callahan: pet store. mostly does stocking & inventory stuff. tina’s favorite person. super close with dteam as well and gives them store discount.

puffy: food court. manager of mcdonald’s. everyone calls it mcpuffy’s atp bc shes always working there up front. dream’s favorite person to complain to. hangs out with skeppy & bbh a lot.

connor: disney store. friends w/ karl since they were kids. doesn’t really like working there but needs the job anyway. mostly does inventory to avoid customers.

tina: disney store. asstant manager. absolutely adored bundle of energy. often themes her outfit after a diff disney character each day. helps with the kids events every two or so hours. adores callahan and claimed him as her bestie from day one. also loves hanging out with hannah.

eryn: lego store. right next door to tommy. helps with some of the show builds around the store. knows basically everything about all the products.

jack: apple store. tech wiz. usually can be found at niki’s bakery stand. complains a lot. tried to get tommy fired once as a prank but is now banned from build-a-bear.

ponk: candy shop. works full time on his own. super efficient anyway and doesn’t need anyone else. has a weird relationship with sam that neither of them know how to name. big fan of sour candies.

punz: gamestop. only works there for the discount tbh. lets sapnap use it as well. hangs around boomer a lot. has dreams of being a beekeeper but isnt quite there.

purpled: spencer’s. super hard working but hates interacting with other people besides punz, hannah, and boomer. would kill q given the opportunity. worked at gamestop with punz until he turned 18 when he transferred to spencer’s. he regrets it every day but is too stubborn to bail out now.

skeppy: swarovski. really uptight tbh. bbh’s best friend. banned sapnap upon personal request so he wouldnt go in and stare at engagement rings for three hours. really knowledgeable about gemstones and can answer basically every question.

aimsey: coffee shop. knows all the gossip. has a rivalry with tubbo after he tried to steal their job. here for a good time, not a long time.

bbh: owns bakery right outside the mall. sapnap’s adoptive dad. really sucessful and wanted sap to work with him but is happy as long and sap’s happy. skeppy’s best friend. often the subject of quackity’s pranks.

cpk: secret shopper. but also friends with everyone so it’s not that much of a secret. gives everyone flying colors all the time. even george.

#mall au #mall masterpost #yayy info <3

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viscoushibiscus · 3 years

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DREAM SMP BEASTARS AU BECAUSE I AM BORED AND WANTED TO

I got the idea for this AU like AGES ago and wanted to finally finish the dream team characters ( just for comparison, this was started back when Niki didn't fully dye her hair pink yet, and it's probably made somewhere during Tommy's exile). I just really like the dichotomy between herbivores and carnivores in Beastars and thought exploiting them for possible fluff and angst is a great idea. Here are a few head cannons I came up with:

-Dream is a coyote, and one of the strongest students at the school (Cherryton academy or maybe another school?). Everyone thinks he's going to be the next Beastar because of his charisma and very accepting nature, though it's a tough pick between him and Techno.

-thing people don't know abt him is dream actually goes to the black market (place for herbivore meat trade, which is illegal) very often.

-He used to sneak out of class with Sapnap, and one time he brought Sapnap to the black market. He and Sapnap ended up making it sort of a monthly to bi-weekly thing

-when the two became friends with George, however, Sapnap started to feel bad for eating herbivore meat and started flaking out. Dream tried to reason with him that it's "completely different" but sapnap still refuses to go because he feels he has at least SOME moral backbone to fight his carnivore instincts. the whole affair kinda puts a stick in their once strong as hell friendship. Sapnap still sticks by his values though, especially when he makes friends with Karl ( a llama) and Quackity (a duck). Dream still thinks of Sapnap as a coward for being such a softie.

-dream acts very protectively over George ( who is a dwarf rabbit), and George is either completely oblivious to his advances or has zero self-preservation instincts being next to a carnivore.

-idk if Sapnap as a panda bear would be 2 meters tall or have to take the government-mandated medication, but just for the angst factor, imagine him having to take that strength-reducing medication, and always gets such a bad head-ache. He's just in his dorm room, writhing in pain, and bbh always comes and brings him soup, or honey, and comforts him, rubbing his back, encouraging him.

-Bbh is the absolute nicest panther ever, he was probably a past beastar or gonna be a candidate for one.

-Tommy has a one-sided rivalry with dream, Tommy doesn't want to be a beastar as much as he wants to just kick Dreams ass at something like Techno does and put him in his place.

-One time though, tommy decides to follow Dream when dream sneaks out late at night. Worst f**king decision ever made. He is lead to the black market, and the moment he steps in, he's IMMEDIATELY overwhelmed by all the scents and smells, it's so so much. He sees all the herbivore meat hanging from hooks and stuff, at first he's pulled to it, but immediately cowers out, thinking of tubbo and techno and starts having a mini panic attack in the alleyway. He runs away as soon as he can.

-The next day, Tommy feels very uncomfortable around everyone. He's just very reactive to the slightest movement. He's an omnivore, so he doesn't have that need for meat as carnivores do, but he's still pulled to it. Nearly biting off Tubbo's hand at some point. At that point, he just decides to hide in a bathroom stall until classes are over. Ranboo finds him there, sobbing in the corner, and sits beside him. They share their problems, Tommy shares his story about the black market, Ranboo empathizes.

-Tommy originally hated Ranboo because he didn't feel that Tubbo was safe hanging around a carnivore( ranboo is a komodo dragon, because ender dragon->dragon->komodo dragon connection), but Tubbo just told him that Tommy himself is an omnivore so he shouldn't hang around him either if that's the case.

-Tubbo actually doesn't fear death, death fears him. He can, will, and does walk into the carnivore dorms to hang around his friends at 2:00 am, thank you very much.

-most, if not all of the dream smp is in the drama club, and some go to different clubs for different interests along with that.

-The dream smp lore is just a big ass multi-part play they're all working on in drama club

-Niki is a golden retriever, she is always very kind, and even herbivores feel safe around her. Don't be fooled by her appearance though, she is still very fierce when she needs to.

-one of the teachers is an ant-eater, and Wilbur absolutely hates that teacher and hates anteaters by extension.

-Wilbur also has a friend in the drama club, who is a blue sheep, but never caught her name, so he just calls them Friend. even when he finds out about their name, he still calls them Friend for the inside joke.

-at some point Wilbur was so sleep-deprived he started looking like a ghost, people start nicknaming him ghostbur. and ghostbur hung around Friend a lot, they took care of him then, mostly.

-wilbur is an otter because orcas and salmon are fish and otters are water mammals( fish->water->otter. idk made sense with his connection to water and all.

-Techno is the strongest herbivore able to wrestle and beat dream, which is very surprising for a hog. He got that scar on his eye from the fight he had with dream. Techno has a hunch he knows exactly what's going on with dream but doesn't say anything. He prefers not tp get involved. You'd think he's feel bad for the herbivores, but he lives by "survival of the fittest" being probably raised in a very harsh environment. (or maybe he had a Louis-esque story, being bought/saved from the black market by Phil)

-Dream knows that Tommy followed him into the black market, he just let it happen, and now he holds that over him like blackmail. (cue the bullying and/or emotional manipulation exile-arc style)

That's it for now, I have a few more ideas but I don't want to make this post too long. Hope you liked it,please don't take this too seriously, this is just for fun and exploring herbivore carnivore dynamics with dream smp characters.

#dream smp #dream team #dreamwastaken #georgenotfound #sapnap #tommyinnit #tubbo #clingy duo #allium duo #badboyhalo #niki nihachu #philza #sleepy bois inc #friend the sheep

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jjkyaoi · 3 years

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hey besties i’m thinking about c!quackity again, so take this post. which is just me rambling abt him for an extended amount of time to the point where it’s almost concerning but that’s not the point just take the post

- quackity’s character, to me at least, is probably one of the most complex? like, it doesn’t seem that way to most ppl, because in the beginning he was the comedic relief character: back in the manberg era he was just joking around, laughing with the ppl of manberg and never taking anything too seriously? he was the life of the party, he was schlatt’s right vice that was basically just there for the fun of it more than anything, you could say. but. quickly, after the festival, he began to realize that things weren’t all fun & games. that the person he’d run with — the person who was in control of the nation, the person who’d he’d laughed and had fun with and bickered with wasn’t safe to run the nation anymore, wasn’t a good president and furthermore, wasn’t a good person. & you could say c!quackity isn’t the most morally set person, you could say that he isnt the best person & that he’s an antagonist, but he saw that c!schlatt wasn’t a good person, and he stood his ground and left him in the dust and went to go fight with the ppl who was actively mocking — who he was enemies of before, and that’s when his arc really started. take this with a grain of salt, because it’s something ppl believe & it’s something ppl don’t believe; but the fight that schlatt and quackity had? their relationship in general? it wasn’t healthy. during the fight c!schlatt was actively berating him for getting upset with him/berating him in general, talking to him in a mocking tone of voice, saying “oh, are you gonna cry?” and yelling at him in chat even when he was already lone gone from manberg — they weren’t friends. their relationship wasn’t healthy, from any way you look at it, especially considering the way you notice how c!quackity was still subtlety shaken up about the interaction when he was interacting with tommy afterwards. quackity, in that arc, also revealed that he hadn’t ever run for president of l’manberg for some sort of power trip: he revealed that it’s because he’s cared about l’manberg, and simply didn’t see wilbur as a fit ruler/wanted the best for l’manberg, & that’s why he went up against him because he thought he could give l’manberg the best; he’s cared about the country since the beginning, whether you like to believe it or not, and it makes it all the more heartbreaking that the man he’d thought was going to make l’manberg better — the man he entrusted to make l’manberg better just turned out to be worse than the ppl who they kicked out in the first place. in that arc i think c!quackity still cared about tommy and wilbur, to some degree, even though he actively mocked them behind their backs in manberg, and i honestly do think he thought manberg was what was best for what l’manberg once was and only left once those rose tinted glasses where taken from him — or, furthermore, once he saw how awful of a person c!schlatt really was.

- c!quackity is a person who cares deeply for his friends. he’s always quick to jump to their defense if & when he believes they’re being wronged in some way —the way he was outwardly outraged at c!tommy being exiled— and he’s willing to stick by their side, but also, what makes him an interesting character is that when he has a goal in mind, that care sort of takes a back seat and what takes the forefront in his mind is accomplishing his goal. he had a friendly relationship with c!tommy before the election arc, but he saw, in his mind that l’manberg wasn’t fit under wilbur’s reign and ran against them; an example of showing care, but also looking more at the grand scheme of things/caring more about his goal if it’s something he really wants to achieve. c!quackity is a incredibly stubborn & determined character, and if he wants something he’s going to get it, and he’s going to get it no matter what, which is both a strength and a weakness. it’s a strength because it makes him strong; it’s a strength because it makes him a worthy opponent, however. it’s a weakness because he gets sort of,,, tunnel vision,,,? whenever he wants to accomplish that goal? he pushes everything to the side when it comes to that goal, and that includes relationships with others. he was willing to have karl lose a canon life in order for their plan against eret to work. it’s something that could be detrimental to the safety of his friends/his relationship with his friends, and it’s detrimental to the safety of himself. another example is him guilt tripping sam in order for him to let him into the prison. another example is him putting an extreme amount of pressure onto c!tubbo’s shoulders/forcing him around during the butcher army to do what he wanted.

- c!quackity is good with his words. he’s funny, he’s charismatic, but also he’s extremely intelligently smart. he was able to go up against c!dream in a debate and even got him frustrated him enough that he felt the need to private message him with a warning. ppl tend to underestimate quackity because he isn’t that physically strong, he doesn’t have much when it comes to armor, but what he does have his words. he’s a cunning little shit (affectionate). in the butcher army he was able to come up with this plan against techno and was able to get the others to bend to his will petty easily, and during el rapids time against eret he was able to come up with a plan that would’ve worked perfectly fine if his friends weren’t all dumb idiots (affectionate). he’s a natural leader, because he’s got the brains to plan ahead and he’s got the charisma to execute that plan to a pretty good degree, and it’s even better because, once again, he’s willing to go to any length — pull out all the stops in order for his plan to work. he’s a mastermind, and he’s dangerous in a way where he’s unpredictable because you don’t know what he’ll do in order to get what he wants. and, glances at everything he’s doing to c!dream in canon to get what he wants, there’s clearly nothing stopping him in canon at this point in time. also considering the fact that he’s stripped everything that would be attachment/that would stop him from achieving his goal from him. glances down at him tearing down el rapids.

- c!quackity would be a very, very good antagonist to have because he’s always been a sort of cunning person that’s been on the morally gray side since the beginning, but now? now that we’ve seen how far he’s willing to go — now that we’ve seen the sort of,,,, dark path he’s fallen down since everything, the plan he has in mind? the fact that he’s going to revive fucking schlatt of all people once he gets what he wants? casino man by beloved; what fucked up shit r u gonna do. i am so ready for it.

- tldr: c!quackity is a super interesting character and he deserves to be fucked up and evil. as a treat <33

#i would’ve made this longer but i’m too tired to continue #vibrates #anyway.#mr Q.#mr Q anyone?#i just think he’s neat :]#and also horrible!#but neat #mcyt #mcytblr #dream smp #mcyters #dream smp spoilers #/roleplay #/rp #quackityhq #quackity #long post

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cowboyx2 · 3 years

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i think we can all agree that c!tubbo’s execution was extremely traumatizing for him. he was lied to by wilbur that he would be safe, techno wasn’t supposed to hurt him. his closest “friends”, his allies lied to him and let him die. if that wasn’t enough schlatt fucking ridiculed and laughed at him infront of the entire nation he helped build, practically infront of everyone he knew.

the execution itself was one of if not the most traumatizing events in tubbo’s life, hd murdered, lied to, ridiculed and in the end it left him feeling like he “failed” his one job for pogtopia. but that’s not where it ended for him, obviously he has scars as permanent reminder of that day but long after the execution he still had to deal with some outcomes

tommy was willing to kill technoblade for tubbo after the festival but tubbo knew if he let him do that they’d lose the war. they needed techno more than tubbo wanted him gone, they couldn’t be fighting eachother this close to the end. but after tommy’s exile... tubbo watched his best friend work side by side with not only the man who wanted their nation gone but his executioner

tubbo could never be sure if tommy was working with techno bc he was mad at him for the exile, if he had to, if he really didn’t care abt tubbo or l’manburg, maybe it was something else. but all he saw was his ex(?) best friend and the man who murdered him bc of a little peer pressure

and the thing is tubbo’s not dumb, he’s fucking smart, he can read people like an open book, he had to be able to. even if he couldn’t, anyone could realize that techno was faced with a really fucking easy decision: murder an ally or not. everyone there on that stage had no armor, techno was in full netherite and not to mention he was a pro fighter. if they really forced him to do it, he could of pulled an axe out and they’d all back away. “peer pressure” was a fucking joke

though at the end of it all he did get tommy back. tubbo never mentioned it, they barely spoke of exile, it wasn’t his place to mention it. tubbo forced tommy out of their home, it’d be selfish of him to be angry abt the short lived techno alliance, right?

and even after all that the other person he’d been getting close to also went with techno. ranboo went and lived with him, parked his little stash of things in the mountain outside of techno’s house. but tubbo can’t be angry, he can’t feel betrayed, ranboo doesn’t even know what happened. sure, he could be angry abt the fact he’s living with the guy who blew up their home but he’s not, tubbo knew from the beginning l’manburg wasn’t going to make it

the thing is tubbo knows if he actually told ranboo how he got his burn scars, ranboo would move out as fast as he could. but tubbo also knows, ranboo’s happy there. he’s happy in his crappy little shack and all the snow, he’s happy living with philza and techno. and who is tubbo to take that away from him?

tubbo has thick skin, he’ll get over it, eventually

#tubbo #ranboo #:))#tommyinnit #dsmp #dream smp #analysis #kinda ??#hcs #but not really #drabble #well maybe #techno critical

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aslitheryprinx · 2 years

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Idea abt the villain paradise thing, when Phil activates his power (which is assumedly very rarely?) the target has a slight hallucination that everyone is looking at them, or if there’s no one around, the feeling that they are being watched, but when they turn, the felt direction of the gaze moves.

I originally was going to say that maybe phil has eyes on his wings that constantly flicker around, and when he does his thing they all lock onto one target. Ya know like that @ shitty cryptids peacock? I realized that phil prolly doesn’t have wings tho lol

Also the techno thing? ❤️❤️❤️ I love it so much, I kinda imagine that his eyes have constant sort of cloudiness to them, and that his head tilts to sounds that we cannot hear at random intervals. Creepy Oracle man my beloved

Ok, so we're pretending I didn't already answer this ask with no idea that this was even my au... In my defense, it was like 4am when I wrote the first outline. It's like it was wiped from my memory lol. I think I was mistaking the "villains paradise" as the name of an au instead of a pretty fitting description lol.

Anyways, I love this, the more creepy vibes the better.

I didn't really have a plan for whether or not Phil has wings. I really like the idea of the eyes on the wings though, it gives me biblically accurate angel vibes.

Phil doesn't normally have wings; however, whenever he activates his power, it's like shadows gather around him. Wings as dark as night appear behind him with glowing eyes that seem to bore into your soul peppering their surface. If someone reached out and touched the wings, they'd find they're not just an illusion, although they aren't completely solid. However, when Philza is using his power, anyone who gets that close would be dead.

As for Techno, a lot of people actually think he's blind. They're not completely wrong; there are moments when Techno's power is overwhelming him to the point that he can't actually see what's happening in the present, but usually it's just how his eyes look.

There is, however another person, a civilian actually, who is blind as a consequence of their powers, which are similar to Techno's. Most people don't know they actually have powers however, and it's a while before they encounter Techno.

Especially since they're a borrower like benchtrio rather than a human :)

#aslitheryanswers #mcyt g/t #vigilant au

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codyjey · 3 years

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for the "give me a dsmp character" thing, sapnap

and not just bc he's on tommy's stream in kinoko rn

why do those two have so many conversations about getting high???

you r abt to open a can of worms my friend

once more, character not the cc. ALSO THIS IS GOING TO BE VERY BIASED. I'M SRS.

I love love love love c! sapnap. everything about him is wonderful and tragic.

the boy who was best friends with the villian, the boy who followed his every lead, the boy who was stronger than ever everytime he fought. he's incredible.

he has trust issues. really bad ones after dream. dream literally broke every piece of his heart by betraying his trust. first dethroning george as king, then stealing things he cared about and keeping it for himself.

he cares about his friends and fiance's so very much. hes constantly trying to protect those around him. and the land around him. in fact, today he said "I'm protective over kinoko" he's seen so many places destroyed, that he wants to keep this one safe. and if you think it's just for the places sake and not the people living it and what it being gone would do to those people, you're wrong.

he's constantly saying he's the tough guy, not hesitating to hurt anyone or anything in his way. he has this idea in his head that if he can protect those around him, that's all that matters. he cared about dream so much. he always would be on dreams side, then that trust is betrayed. he was so upset that dream didn't care about him. so upset he would even think to say that because HE cared so much.

I feel as though his character is constantly putting all his love in care towards those around him and never receiveing that in return. he's antagonized by people because of his past actions, but people don't think maybe he wants to move on and just live peacefully protecting those he loves.

he almost killed techno during doomsday. he was the only person coming close. he's strong. the fact he took Tommy's side for doomsday even though dream was wanting to blow the place up, he was one of the people that did it, he knew dream was beyond saving. I find that interesting. incrediblely interesting.

even if he hasn't said it himself, it's also pretty clear he has abandonment issues. I cannot imagine how he's internally handling quackity being gone. (not to sure if this is canon bc it was mentioned in a roblox stream but) he probably thinks quackity left them. that he just didn't want to destroy kinoko. and imagine him seeing posters for las nevadas or hearing about it and feeling devastated. what if he thinks quackity is acting like dream? doing the same thing dream did to him? having friends / ppl he cares about just leave. abandon him.

everything about his character is beautifully tragic. if you think about it, HE'S the main character. not tommy. not wilbur. not dream. not ranboo. no. he's the main character. he's got all the traits of one. tragic story, strong, charismatic, everything.

it may be because I relate to him and am partial to cc! sapnap, but genuinely I think he's one of the best characters. he has the most potential I've ever seen in a character in all honesty for some really really sad shit. his bit where he visited the prison was perfect. if that was truly improve and out of nowhere like we were lead to believe, that's crazy. seriously crazy. the lines he had in that broke me. him saying HE WILL kill dream if he tries to escape no matter how much he loves him. explaining he still cares for dream, but knows the cons outweigh the pros. knows he needs to get better. the fact he still cares about dream after everything he's done shows how much attachment means to his character. and not to mention his devotness to george, always being on his side no matter what. standing up and saying george is always king in his heart. he cares SO much.

and while I could keep going for hours, overall, I say his character is a solid 9.7/10. I want him to go more into depth on how he feels, his actions, and just more of his story in general. I cannot wait for more lore and to see what he chooses to expand on, srsly. I love him more than anything.

#/rp #dream smp #sapnap #karl jacobs #dreamwastaken #georgenotfound #quackity #karlnapity #character analysis #character study

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the dead don't dream - ch 25 of ?

Tommy does some reading and writing. Quackity and Tubbo don't talk politics.

(CW: blood and horror and mild self harm)

crossposted to ao3

Ch 1

Ch 24

Ch 26

The Good

-I’m eating again. I tried carrots again the other day wasnt sick.

-People want to protect me. They all awnt to try. and the stasis chambers in the basement make me feel better. A lot of people offered to have one set up. Sapnap, Puffy, Sam, Techno, Phil, Tubbo, Ranboo, Bad, Ant, Quackity, Eret. Just about evryone. It’s setup so i can press 1 button they all come. Feels weird cause Dream was gonna keep me using one adn now this keeps me safe.

I think i spend too much time down there though. Im scared he’ll get me before i can get help so i needto stay near htem. Im scared to go outside alone. It’s good i can get help but it also means im stuck here. I cant leave TUbbo’s house if i want help

“That’s not the good, Tommy…” Tommy mutters, staring gloomily at the page. It’s true, though. He’s forced into an awful choice– does he want to be safe, or does he want to be free? Right now even feeling safe is a struggle. Maybe he should try looking at the bad stuff for a bit.

The Bad

-im having nightmares again. Theyr abt Wilbur agian. But not like before. It’s bad ina differnt way.

Wil keeps on beggng me to save him. When it’s just limbo thats bad but osmetimes it’s Dream and thats worse

Tommy doesn’t want to write about that, like pulling those thoughts out of his head will make them more real. He turns back to the good.

-Eret gave me sunglasses again but I was scared I was gonna lose them agian so i said no. But when Sam came to help set up the stais chambers he brought be goggles. Theyre easier to not lose becus I can jst keep them around my neck when I dont need them. Which is most of the time. I don’t really go outside much.

-Ponk also gave me a cane. I don’t like that it helps. It doesnt hurt s much and i can walk further. I havnt fallen yet since i got it but might be because im eating again too. I wanto walk like normal. Ponk thinks im right that my leg won’tg et beter because there’s nothing to heal. The nerves r damaged.

That’s drifting into the bad again. Why is it so jumbled up all the time?

-they let me move wilbur closer. I mean i didnt move him im not strong enugh but tubbo helped. He woudltn let me keep him in the house but he didnt bury him. He’s in the side of the cliff in a bunker tubbo has. Hes in glass so i can see him and know hes still there, hes there becaus

No. No, the why of it is bad. So he should put that on the bad list, right? He wants things to be simple. There’s the good and there’s the bad and if the good list is longer than the bad it means he’s getting better. Why is this so hard?

The whole reason Tommy starting doing this was because he can’t fucking think straight. First it was just the decisions that made him clam up, so he started using a book to weigh his options. Now he’s just trying to piece together whatever his life is now. He doesn’t want to think about it, about the journaling, as something he has in common with Dream, even though he’d have to admit that had something to do with it. It comes from himself first and foremost, not Dream. He’s always liked making plans and lists. Just because it was in the midst of rereading that awful book that he thought of it is irrelevant. Tommy hesitates, before turning back to the bad list.

-we put wilbur here so i can check and make sure hes still there. To make sure Dream didnt get him. I feel more sure because if Dream finds him he’ll have found me too. I have to check thouhg. After the nightmares

-in the nigtmares i dont save wil. Sometines i lose him. Sometimes i go back to dream because of him.

-adn it’s not better when im awake. Im thinking about how bad it would have been if theyd showed up even a few minutes later. I think abou it alot. and I start pulling on my hair if i think about what was gona happen if they haddnt showed up at all. Or i endup scratching the floor. Whatever makes it stop. It scares tubbo. My nails were bleeding one time when he came back.

He tries not to leave me. but he’s helping sSapnap with looking for Dream or Quackity with L’Manberg. When hes not here it’s Ranboo a lot but sometimes he forgets and shows up late. He always shows up thouh.

That’s good. That deserves to go on the good list. Tommy goes back a page.

-Tubbo tries not to leave me. Ranboo always shows up even if he forgets and is late sometimes.

-people keep checking on me. Sam comes by and says he wants to make sure the stasis chamber is right but i know it’s just because hes woried. He brought me pumpkin pie. I havent tried eating it because im worried i won’t be able to. Ponk comes too. But they have a better reason. They check how sick i am still.

Sometimes i say things and it scares people. Last time sam and ponk came over I told Sam I wanted to be like him. I thougt that was a nice thing to say. But he got all worried becus i said it all weird. Which is fair it was weird. Said I wish I could self destruct and take Dream down with me if he comes fucking near me again. Didnt mean to assume anyhting. I dont know if it even works like that. Sam dint get mad though. Just asked if he could hug me. He didnt hug me very tight thugh. Theyre all still scared of breaking me.

-my hair is short agian. It’s much bette.r Tubbo cut it. I got a littl scared becaus of the shears, but Tubbo was really nice about it. I didnt cry just then but i thought i was goign to. Not bad tears though i dont think. It was just different. Gentle stuff doesn’t feel normal. The hugs are a little less scary becuase Wilbur hugged me, but Tubo brushed knots out of my hair. He was so careufl but it wasnt because he felt bad for me. I coud tell it was different. It was kindof like it fixed something. Something i thought broke inme a long time ago. I guess it ddint feel fixed. More like it s still broken but Tubbo took care of me anyway.

Tommy pauses. He looks up at the bubbling pools of water around him. It’s a careful design. If he were to close one trap door, they all would. Tommy had pointed out Dream could use it to summon them one at a time and kill them easily, so Sam made sure it couldn’t be done one by one. It made sense, but sometimes Tommy almost wanted to use it to just bring Tubbo to him. He should talk about the bad more. Tubbo and Ranboo offer to listen.

He doesn’t want to talk about it. They already don’t look at him the same, he doesn’t want it to get worse. It’s not like there’s much worse for it to get. Tommy flips back to the bad page.

-if they hadn’t showed up right then Dream was goign to cut his name into my skin. It probly would have made a scar. I dont want to think about what else he was ginna do to me.

There he goes again. Tommy’s right hand holds a quill, his left drags against the stone floor, the pain shuddering up his arm. He should stop doing that. He doesn’t know why it’s so hard to stop. He’s eating again– why can’t the rest of it get easier too?

“Tommy! I’m back!” Tubbo’s voice echoes from up the ladder. Tubbo always announces himself. Tommy still flinches, holding his hand close to his chest, like he’s scared he’ll get in trouble for dragging his nails across the floor. He knows if anything Tubbo would just look at him, that worried gaze with a bit of rage too, but not rage towards him.

“I’m here too!” Quackity’s voice follows.

Tommy should probably go upstairs and talk to them. Tommy gathers his two books, tucking them both away in his inventory. They’re both equally unassuming. The only difference is one has his blood on the pages.

“You were down there when I left,” Tubbo almost sounds disappointed when Tommy climbs up through the trap door.

“I came back up and got food,” Tommy mutters. “Hey, Big Q.”

“Hey, Tommy! How’s… how’s it going?” Quackity’s cheerfulness seems a bit forced. Same as everyone who’s come by to visit. Their efforts to treat him like normal always ring hollow.

“Oh. You know. Just… working on getting Wilbur,” Tommy isn’t sure if he’s lying or not. He hadn’t opened Dream’s journal all day. It comes and goes. Sometimes he can’t pull himself away from the thing, and other times he almost wants to burn it.

Something in Quackity’s expression changes for a moment, before his usual grin returns too fast for Tommy to try and guess what look Quackity had given him. Quackity just pushes on. “Right. Tubbo over here has been helping me take over! It’s gonna be weird– y’know? A L’Manberg cabinet without either of you.”

“We’ll still be around, Big Q,” Tubbo shrugs. “Just got… bigger things on my mind as of late.”

“Yeah, me, right?” Tommy scoffs.

“It’s not all about you, bossman,” Tubbo teases. “Right now I’ve got important plans.”

“Do you?”

“Yep. Gonna make rabbit stew to go with the pie Sam brought us,” Tubbo nods knowingly.

“Oh, right. Very important,” Tommy rolls his eyes. “Here I am, trying to solve death, but you’ve got some soup.”

Tubbo half nods, and his smile doesn’t fade, but he doesn’t quip back to that one.

“Is that what all that’s about, Tommy?” Quackity can’t stop himself from asking.

“What?” Tommy looks puzzled.

“Like, what you’re looking for, the stuff to get Wilbur back, d’you really think you can figure out something like that?” Quackity sounds skeptical, but he also knows what it’s like to see someone obsessed with a project to get through grief. The only thing that got Tubbo to move on was, well, Tommy. So Quackity continues without reservation. “Like, aren’t you sorta worried you’re looking for something that might not even be there?”

The look Tubbo gives him is murderous.

Tommy doesn’t get angry; somehow that’s worse. He frowns, lost in thought for a moment, staring at the ground. “I know he can be brought back. I’ve seen it. I’ve lived it and shit, so.” Tommy looks up at the two of them, something helpless and certain behind eyes still too grey. He shrugs, but somehow he’s smiling, even if it isn’t a happy smile. “So how can I leave him?”

The silence which follows is painful, almost unbearable. “I’m sorry, Tommy, that wasn’t– that wasn’t fair of me, man. I’m sorry,” Quackity fumbles for a reply.

“Nah, don’t worry about it, Big Q,” Tommy waves him off. “Wil was the only thing keeping me together all those months– besides Dream, of course. And– And Dream was bad,” Tommy says this like somehow despite everything he’s still trying to convince himself.

Tubbo and Quackity have no idea what to say to that.

“I’m back!” Ranboo knocks before he enters, his arrival cutting the tension like a knife.

Tommy still jumps.

Ranboo looks to each of them carefully, thinking. Tommy needs to get out more. Tubbo looks an inch away from snapping. “Shoot. I forgot– you wanted me to bring back firewood,” Ranboo sighs. “Tommy, d’you want to come help me?”

Tommy stares at him. “...Right. I’d be great at that. Lifting heavy logs, want me to swing an axe too?” He says dryly.

“Oh, well, if you don’t think you can do it…” Ranboo shrugs, turning back toward the door.

“Hold on, hold on! I didn’t say that,” Tommy pouts. “Give me a fuckin’ second to get my coat and shit…” Tommy does so, and after a moment’s hesitation, grabs the cane from beside the door. Trekking through snow tends to hurt worse. His body aches now when he gets cold.

Ranboo and Tommy leave and a tense silence follows. Tubbo returns to his kitchen, getting out ingredients loudly. Finally, the tension breaks. “You shouldn’t have said that shit, Big Q,” Tubbo is sharp, slamming a cutting board on his counter with too much ferocity.

“What, like you aren’t thinking it? That he’s gonna obsess over Wilbur instead of getting better?” Quackity shoots back. Tubbo has no reply. There’s a moment of pause. For once Quackity doesn’t want to be right. He sighs. “So, how is he? All things considered,” Quackity nods towards the front door, where Ranboo and Tommy had just disappeared.

Tubbo frowns, focused on the cutting board in front of him. “Better, I think.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah,” a pause, Tubbo chopping vegetables methodically. There’s an edge to his voice; that always seems to happen when he talks about Tommy now. “Not better enough.”

Quackity nods grimly. “Yeah. I mean, that makes sense.”

“Does it?” Tubbo’s voice grows high and sharp. “He doesn’t leave that fucking basement and he doesn’t stop looking at that fucking book. I– I dunno if taking him out here into the snow was a good idea, but I thought at least here he’d be safe, but he’s– He acts like he’s still a fucking prisoner! And I’m supposed to be the one making things better.”

“Come on,” Quackity shifts uncomfortably. “You can’t mean that, he’s just– He’s nervous, understandably, right–?”

Tubbo stops his chopping, his shaky hands too close to drawing blood. He turns to face Quackity sharply, a storm still brewing behind his eyes. There’s always too much stirring under the surface with Tubbo, and it always breaks free with little warning. “You wanna know what he said to me the other day, Big Q?”

Quackity stares, dread growing louder in the back of his head, but how can he not ask? “What?”

“S-So, I come home, and he hasn’t moved from that fucking basement, so I– I ask him!” Tubbo gestures aggressively towards the snowy windows. “I asked him if he’d gone outside that day, or if he’d gotten something to eat– or– or something– and h-he gives me this look, this surprised fucking look, and goes ‘oh, I forgot you’d let me leave.’ Let him?! Fucking let him?!” Tubbo laughs and it sounds almost like a threat. Tubbo wants to hurt something, but his ideal target is currently fucking MIA. “Does that sound like nerves?! Or does that sound like someone who doesn’t– who can’t–” Tubbo takes a shaky breath. He needs to stop shouting before Tommy hears him. “H-He always expects doors to be locked, okay? And that’s–” Tubbo’s voice is shaking from more than anger now. “That’s not better, Big Q.”

Quackity seems to come to some decision, nodding resolutely. “You don’t have to help me with L’Manberg stuff anymore, Tubbo. I’ve got it. Sapnap is still working his ass off trying to find Dream. You should be here, with him. I know you want to be. The rest of us… we’ll cope without you, okay?”

Tubbo scoffs. “Huh. I’m glad you think I can help him, Big Q. But I dunno how Tommy is going to get better when the very man he’s having nightmares about is still out there.”

“We’ll get him,” Quackity sounds utterly sure. “However long it takes, we’re hunting that man down and we’re tearing him apart.”

“Well, don’t be too hasty, Tommy wants him back alive,” Tubbo shivers. “For Wilbur’s sake.” He glances in the direction of the bunker. “The nightmares are still bad. I’m not as worried about him freaking out and getting himself hurt, but it’s not gone away. I know he still has them. I hear him getting up and going to the bunker.”

“Yeah,” Quackity follows his gaze, unable to hide his disgust. “It’s fucking weird how much he visits that body. We should’ve buried it.”

Tubbo, for all his own irritation, gets defensive. “It’s not like he’s hugging it. He’s just checking to make sure it’s there. It comforts him. What were we supposed to do, just say no? ‘Sorry, Tommy, you’ll just have to trust that he’s still there every time you have a nightmare’? He’d probably end up running halfway across the server in the middle of the night, alone, and that’s not an option. Nah, what’s really weird is Wilbur being the one who protected him apparently. Where did that come from? Tommy was learning to live without him before all this bullshit happened, after how he screwed us over, we all were…”

Quackity seems to find this part more reasonable than the corpse in the walls. “Hey, they were foxhole buddies. You remember what that was like, back in Manberg. We had to put up with the same shit, some of the same shit, anyway,” Quackity pauses for a moment. He fleetingly has the thought he should ask Tommy about Schlatt. If he’d seen Wilbur, then… No. Not something worth pursuing. He refuses to let it be. “And I fucked up then, too. But I mean, look at us now. I was an asshole, and now I’m your Vice President!” Quackity grins, nudging him teasingly.

“Not my VP anymore, Quackity,” Tubbo smiles cheekily. “You were a bit of an asshole.”

“Hey! I got better!” Quackity pretends to pout. The moment calms. “But, yeah, you heard him. If Wilbur was all he had to hold onto… It makes sense. Him wanting him back.”

Tubbo hums a noncommittal reply. Wilbur just feels like one more thing Tubbo needs to protect Tommy from.

“Wake up.”

There’s a white mask above him. Tommy can’t move. It’s the familiar pain of being paralyzed.

“It’s time to come home, Tommy. You’ve had your fun. Now it’s time for you to come back,” Dream ruffles his hair and there’s nothing Tommy can do to stop him.

“No– No, fuck you! S-Stay away from me!” Tommy cannot move, but he can scream.

No one comes. Not Tubbo, not Ranboo, not anyone. He doesn’t know where he is. It’s dark. It’s not Limbo, though, because Dream is here.

Dream shakes his head, tutting him. “Would you look at that. You’ve been away for, what, a few weeks and already you’ve lost your manners! I worked so hard to teach you those. I can teach you again, you know.”

Tommy is sitting up. He can’t remember moving. Dream crouches down so they’re eye to eye, or eye to mask, rather.

“I have someone who’s gonna help me with that, you know. Someone I think you really miss,” Dream’s voice rings with mocking pity.

“I’m gonna kill you– I’ll f-fucking kill you again, you bitch, don’t fucking touch him–” Tommy knows he sounds terrified.

“Tommy, please! Tommy– make him stop! P-Please do whatever he says just make him stop!” Wilbur is screaming, screaming like he’s close by. Tommy can’t see him.

“Wil?! Wil– if you can hear me–”

“Tommy, it hurts! Please, Tommy! Don’t leave me alone with him!” Wilbur is crying. Tommy always gets scared when his brother cries.

(This is wrong. It’s all wrong. Wilbur would never tell Tommy to give himself up.)

“Hear that, Tommy?” Dream whispers too close. “He wants you to come home too. You miss him, don’t you?”

(This is a nightmare. This isn’t real. So why does it still hurt?)

“Oh, I see. You don’t care,” Dream continues, scolding and cruel. “You should tell that to his face, you know. You should tell him you don’t care.”

Tommy wants to scream, but he can’t make a sound as his brother’s bloody face is dragged from the darkness. Wilbur is coughing up blood, it’s dripping from his eyes, so much blood pouring out from inside of him, a flood, the blood fresh and hot and its metallic scent far too real. He’s reaching towards him, desperate, clawing hands, and then Wilbur is on the ground. He cannot remain standing as blood pours from his ears, from his mouth, from his eyes, beading up from his very pores until he is nothing but red. Tommy still cannot move. Even as Wilbur writhes on the ground like a man possessed, and despite the blood in his mouth, Tommy can still hear him screaming–

Tommy doesn’t scream when he wakes up. Instead he feels like he’s choking. He’s tangled in the blankets, struggling to get free.

Finally he hits the cold wooden floor, gasping for breath, finally getting his bearings on reality.

He is in Tubbo’s home. He’s safe. Safe-ish.

That one was bad. Not the worst, but as far as nightmares go, far from easy. Ponk has offered potions to help Tommy sleep. He hasn’t accepted them. He’s scared he won’t be able to wake up when he needs to. It doesn’t make his nightmares any more bearable.

It takes a few more minutes for Tommy’s racing heart to slow. He stands, looking towards Tubbo’s bed on the other side of the room. He hasn’t stirred. Good. Tommy treads carefully, an act he is well practiced in, and puts on his boots. He grabs the cane from beside the wall, and after a moment of hesitation, he grabs a book he keeps tucked carefully under his mattress.

The cold air clears his head, and despite having a destination in mind, he stops to just look up. He still hasn’t gotten used to seeing the stars again. He could keep watching them. Just to be sure they were going to stay there.

No, he won’t be able to rest until he sees this through.

Tommy goes to the bunker under the hill. His left hand has his cane, which he leans more heavily on going down the steps. The bunker has two floors, Tommy can see into the lower one through the gaps in the floor. He looks down just to be sure he’s alone. Wilbur is to the right, laid gently in a gap cut into the wall just for him, a sheet of glass keeping him from the rest of the room and rot. He looks like he could be sleeping now. He's covered by the same L'Manberg flag they had buried Tommy with. Except for his face. Tommy had needed to be able to see his face.

Tommy stares at him for a moment, right hand pressed to the already smudged glass. “Hey, Wil,” he says it softly, a familiar greeting. He sighs. “You’re still here…”

He wishes that relief were enough. It’s not. Tommy doubts he’ll be able to sleep again tonight. Tommy slowly leans against the wall beside Wilbur’s tomb, sliding to the ground. He reaches for his book. It’s the one with blood on its pages.

Tommy opens it. He feels sick; not for the gore and violence lovingly described on its pages– although, that kind of horror is no stranger to him– but by just a few lines, a simple side note without flourish or fanaticism, not of any particular note to someone else, but to Tommy they’re so cruel it almost hurts.

“I’ve gotten distracted. I started running out of copies. Had to leave Tommy in lockup for a while to make more. It’s stupid. He got to rest while I did the dirty work. Maybe I’ll teach him. Enough that he can do most of it. Not like he’ll ever have the opportunity to use it.”

Maybe I’ll teach him.

Tommy had never imagined there would be a moment where he regretted the timing of his rescue. And yet, here he is. He can’t help but think: how much longer he would he have had to suffer? How much longer would he have had to put off rescue? How many days, how many deaths, how much pain, had been between Tommy and learning how to save his brother?

#dsmp fanfic #my writing #tddd #horror #as always feedback is cherished #sorry this one is a lil shorter #c!Tubbo #Tubbo #c!tommy #tommyinnit #c!quackity #quackity

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(i dont care to do c! tags bc theres. so many characters. if i dont say cc! then im talking abt the characters) normally i am not one to think much about the syndicate bc outside of ranboo being there to protect tubbo the syndicate Frustrates me a bit but. if phil starts to realize just how fucked over tubbo got by schlatt being erased from the narrative (and especially how shittily techno has treated tubbo) then i really hope they lean into like. the fact that the syndicate may soon turn into phil, niki, ranboo, and possibly the mystery member (im including mystery member mostly because i think tubbo is on good terms with almost everyone except like. dream, possibly wilbur but we'll see, and like the eggpire ppl but none of them are likely options but it is possible that the mystery member could just be neutral) all like. wanting tubbo to be safe and phil is *just* reasonable enough that i think he'd realize how unfair it is for tubbo to have been subjected to so much shit just for techno to introduce even more fear and the need to hide in his life

like phil already keeps the bee duo marriage and michael a secret, he lets tubbo come over and while of course its mostly from the semi lore vibes phil seems vaguely fond of tubbo already (i dont think phil and tubbo have father/son vibes tho, more just like. tubbo is just That Kid that adults cant help but adore even though the kid will rob them of house and home. slightly amused elder watching a tiny fucking gremlin make sex jokes and talk about soviet russia), niki from what i remember still cares about tubbo (probably because she cant redirect any anger towards him without realizing how unjustified it would be kcnsks she can come up with excuses for hating tommy but tubbo didnt do anything that niki has a problem with outside of her maybe having a bad view on butcher army if she knows about it?), ranboo is. ranboo. i dont need to clarify. and then like said theres a very low possibility of the fifth member *disliking* tubbo or being unable to sympathize with him.

people talk a lot about how techno needs to lose in a way that he cant easily come back from without introspection and i think while the rest of the syndicate standing up for tubbo would increase technos grudge against tubbo initially its also like. something that i think would maybe force techno to see tubbo as a person because now theres nothing techno can box (haha gettit. tubbox tubbo in a box tubbo getting boxed into certain roles by people who refuse to let him out techno esp doin this teehoo) tubbo into that wouldnt just. acknowledge that tubbo is a person. hes not apart of the government anymore, not planning any failed revolution, the most negative title to his name is being one of the nuke makers but even then thats out of fear and safety and techno knows that. otherwise tubbos current crimes are nothing thats special to tubbo (like. stealing and searching for evidence in ppls homes and stuff, the latter of which techno doesnr even know about). right now tubbos a husband, a father, a friend, a kid, *ex*-government, a person. and just.

i think that with how much foreshadowing about tubbos execution no longer being a secret amongst the witnesses and tubbo himself and soon being something that people close to techno like phil and ranboo know about as well (in that i want phil to learn that techno did it and for ranboo to learn about it in general bc hes just biased enough for tubbo and just smart enough that i think even if somehow he wasnt told who did it he could figure it out), and with the fact that tubbos lore has been confirmed to now be something thats actively going to be played into? i think (or at least hope) that it might spur phil and techno into finally seeing tubbos side of the story (and probably also get into the possibility of tubbo opening up to tommy and ranboo but i do think realistically either tubbo will try to play it off/not truly open up about how much its effected him or tubbo will at first shut down or go into complete repression mode, especially if phil and ranboo get the story from other people rather than tubbo himself [but god do i hope they confront tubbo himself]. either those two or tubbo talks about his emotions through fucking snapping at something/someone like he did at quackity when reminded of his execution, which as long as its Not tommy or ranboo ill absolutely be cheering on him for)

which is all a very convoluted way of saying uhh. *grabby paws at the ccs currently involved in the arc of clearing up personal misconceptions about l'manberg (and especially tubbos involvement and how easily those around him judged him based off of their versions of the story)* tubbo lore? tubbo healing tubbo talking about his problems? characters learning to see him as a person and recognizing how traumatized he is and that hes not uneffected but actively repressing any effects? please? (also ending note as the cherry on top of this essay that im sorry for dropping into your inbox: im kind of glad that tommys healing arc and tubbos possible healing arc are going to happen at similar times but are still separate. something something its nice to see acknowledgement that tommy and tubbo wont heal in the same way and arent going to know how to help each other but theyre still going through it together. their arcs are intertwining without removing their individuality and as someone w major co-dependency issues its kind of nice idk. you can be there for someone and still acknowledge that you have your own things to go through too and that while you wont be alone you shouldnt force those around you to support you. the bench trio are all helping each other out of free will and genuine love for each other while still realizing they have some problems they arent ready to talk about yet that arent forced to the open because theyre all doing their best to handle each other with care and i just. bench trio my beloveds. the kids are alright.) -🎭🎪 (also as the actual end note if theres ever a need to refer to me as something other than the emojis mask or eyez works fine but the idea of my name being the emojis is also Very Funny to me so do what you will)

im working on my aperture camera college assignment rn and my brain is sort of fried so i dont have an intelligent answer, but i got the happy chemical reading this.

yeah. i think we all know here that my favorite character is tubbo, and i REALLY hope we get him addressing anything that’s happened to him in canon. pretty much all of what you said sounds very good. *grabby hands* spare tubbo lore? please? spare tubbo lore?

perhaps during the three weeks wilburs off in the fucking woods (/lh) we could have a the-others-find-out-what-happened-to-tubbo-(and in DETAIL)-arc. pleaseeeeeeeee and ty

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