#clingy duo and tubbo apologists come get this meal

[jjkyaoi]

i’m tired and i’m pissy so i’m gonna go on a quirky tumblr rant 😳 /j, before i go to bed.

i think it’s really fucking stupid how the majority of this fandom treats c!tubbo. i don’t speak about him often but i’m just as much of an apologist for him as i am tommy, and i think it’s weird how this fandom has decided to treat him. most of the “hot takes” about his character have either been 1. saying he’s a bad friend to c!tommy, saying that he didn’t care about him since the beginning/he’s replaced him & that he’s done nothing to hurt him. or 2. saying that c!tommy has been a bad friend to him, he deserves to leave tommy behind and/or that he’s been through a lot more than tommy and he deserves better than him, and it’s just ,,, holds head. god i’m sick and fucking tired of it.

i’m just gonna say it here and now; the reason most people don’t like c!tubbo — the reason most c!tommy apologists don’t like tubbo is because he “exiled tommy”, and yea, from an outside view you’d think that that wasn’t fair and you’d hate him for it, but if you were to watch his pov you would see that he was being manipulated by dream into exiling tommy: it isn’t something that he did — it isn’t a conscious decision he made with the intent/purpose to hurt c!tommy because he fucking hates him, because that’s something people like to throw around, because after he’d exiled tommy, he outwardly showed regret and said he’d missed c!tommy multiple times; that doesn’t sound like something somebody would do if they hated somebody. my memory isn’t the best but he had a scene with ghostbur, iirc, where they were speaking about guilt in the nether and c!tubbo spoke about exiling tommy once again, and they were using the blue as a metaphor for guilt and were throwing it into the lava, and tubbo threw,, so much blue into the lava, man, and if that doesn’t tell you how awful he’d probably felt about exiling c!tommy, i don’t know what was. people in this fandom tend to portray c!tubbo a lot worse in the exile arc for tommy angst purposes, but he wasn’t a cruel fucking dictator — he wasn’t “just like schlatt”, he didn’t fucking exile tommy because he hates him, man’s was literally just a child who was shoved under copious amounts of stress and a position of power when he was a fucking minor and was manipulated into exiling his best friend because he was told it was for the best for his country. and, another thing i see people hating on c!tubbo for is for “replacing tommy with ranboo”, and i’m just shevwjwbjwh,,, sigh. he didn’t replace tommy with ranboo in canon, he was grieving his best friend when tommy was canonically fucking dead, and ranboo was one of the only people that was there for him when he basically didn’t have anyone else — when his best friend was gone, you’re gonna look at me and tell me you wouldn’t get close to someone under those circumstances as well? and, even before tommy died in the prison he’d still been stuck in there with dream for awhile — he’d still been away from c!tubbo, so no!! fucking!! shit!! he would get close to someone else when his best friend wasn’t around, ranboo was the only person he’d probably had at that time!! that doesn’t mean he doesn’t care about c!tommy anymore, it’s the complete opposite, and god damn it he’s full in his rights to not know how to behave around c!tommy, to be standoffish around him; this is the second fucking time he’s thought his best was dead only for him to pop up like nothing happened, it’d be surprising if he was completely normal with him after that.

how people treat c!tubbo in this fandom is bullshit, because it’s either 1. saying that he’s the awful one in clingy duos friendship, or. 2. saying tommy’s the awful one in their friendship, and it’s like ,,, god damn it guys, can’t we have the fucking middle ground. c!tubbo and tommy aren’t awful to each other. sure, they’re codependent on each other, but it’s natural for them to be regarding everything they’ve been through — everything they’ve been through that’s left each other being the only one the other can rely on, but that doesn’t mean either of them are fucking awful to each other — are cruel to each other. people putting clingy duo against each other was prominent in the exile arc the most and it’s been something that’s continued on ever since and,,, can we just fucking acknowledge that c!clingy duo are traumatized kids, and they’re going to have arguments, they’re going to hurt each other, but that doesn’t mean one is the victim and the other one is the tormentor — that doesn’t mean one of them is awful to each other, it just means they’re kids and they’re going to make mistakes and putting them against each other when, in canon they’d probably punch you for doing shit like that isn’t gonna get you anywhere, man /hj.

this rant was mostly about people painting c!tubbo as the evil one in their relationship because he’s the one i’ve seen people do this shit most frequently, but it’s both of them as well, and it’s just . i just. bonks you all on the head. clingy duo canonically love each other /p, and you’re gonna be an apologist for one of ‘em and not the other? doesn’t add up, chief.

tldr: c!tubbo isn’t the evil one in clingy duos relationship — there isn’t an evil one in their relationship in general, you’re just an asshole /nm

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