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peninkwrites · 1 year

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Bok 📓

AH! hello! It has been days!

I have so many ideas I haven't done anything with yet lmao, but here's one I haven't shared yet!!

An au that takes place in the dsmp canon titled Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil.

Basically I wanted to write a fic with a deaf Tubbo, blind Ranboo, and mute Tommy. Tubbo would be deaf from the Red Festival onward, Ranboo has slowly been going blind his whole life from his tears. Tommy only goes mute after exile.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about the logistics and what that type of thing would change (I'm partially blind and love projecting <3)

Post Red Festival Tommy learns sign language along with Tubbo, and he would translate for him when other people didn't sign or if Tubbo couldn't keep up reading lips. One of the things Tubbo misses the most is the sound of Tommy's laugh, but it helps that he can see the way Tommy cackles. When Ranboo joins the server, Tommy briefly serves as the main translator for the two of them, because Ranboo has a really hard time learning signs when he can't really see them, and he can't write very well. (in this, instead of a memory book, he has a tape recorder!)

When Tommy is exiled, his absence is felt as a friend and as their translator. Ranboo works hard to write better, sometimes the lines trail off or overlap, but he practices working as Tubbo's minutes man, which is even more important in this au because even though Quackity is okay at signing, when things get heated people forget and Tubbo has an even harder time keeping control as president, so he needs those notes for reference, but there's also an extra dose of tenderness between Ranboo and Tubbo, as even though there's this slight disconnect they try so hard to understand one another.

When Tommy returns, when there's the community house fight, immediately everyone knows there's something seriously wrong. Before, at their first meeting, Tommy could sign his irritation and Tubbo didn't question it, but once it gets to the community house, everyone knows there's something wrong with Tommy, because even when he signed, he was ALWAYS loud. But even as he's told he has to defend himself, to plead his case with all these people watching him, he doesn't say a word. He signs, but only so many people can understand him.

AND! Tubbo and Tommy's fight. They would be incapable of fighting and talking at the same time, they'd need to have their hands free to sign, so what do they choose? Violence or communication? Maybe in the end they want to tell the other that they were hurt more than they wanted to hurt each other, y'know?

In the aftermath, after doomsday, the three of them end up sort of joined together by this need to help each other talk. Like. Tubbo always voices Tommy’s signs aloud for Ranboo, and Tommy will sign what Ranboo says in case Tubbo can't read his lips (which, sometimes he feels nervous about reading Ranboo's lips because he doesn't want to stray too close to eye contact and make Ranboo uncomfortable) The three of them communicate best when they're all together. When it's just Ranboo and Tubbo, Ranboo tries to write stuff down best he can. When it's just Ranboo and Tommy, Tommy will trace letters onto Ranboo's palm. Eventually, Ranboo gets a text-to-speech function on his comm, so Tommy can type out things and then Ranboo can hear them. Tommy and Tubbo do pretty well talking just the two of them, they sign. But Tubbo notices Tommy doesn't laugh like he used to, and sometimes before when they were sitting beside one another, Tommy would talk loud enough Tubbo could feel the vibrations in his chest, but that doesn't happen anymore.

If the three of them have some trouble communicating with each other, the rest of the server is worse. Even if it's not a literal communication problem, Bench Trio understand each other in a way others just can't.

Just, following the path of canon, there are so many other things this could bleed into. Beeduo divorce, Wilbur's revival, doomsday was so much Techno and Tommy shouting back and forth at each other, so what happens instead? Does Ranboo feel safe moving out to the arctic, where the blinding white snow makes what little vision he has left absolutely useless? Tubbo's presidency is a hundred times more isolating because without Tommy, he realizes how much he relied on him to translate.

So, yeah. :') been thinking about this one for literal years lmao.

#ask games #thank you for the ask!!#lixaisa #my writing #clingyduo #benchtrio #beeduo

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peninkwrites · 2 years

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Uh idk if ur still doing the ask game but 🎉?

🎉 - Did Tommy betray Technoblade at the Green Festival?

It's been a while since I watched that stuff, so forgive the details, but Tommy had no intention of destroying L'Manberg until maybe like, the day of the Green Festival he told Techno he would Allow him to continue with that plan? Bc Techno had been withholding information from Tommy, had been very vague with his intentions toward L'Manberg, "minor terrorism" is certainly not what he really had in mind.

Tommy choosing Tubbo that day, technically it broke the partnership he and Techno had, but Techno had never been fully honest in their arrangement until near the end. I think that probably factors into Tommy changing his mind. What Techno told him recontextualized their alliance, and when given the chance to think about it and himself, Tommy decided he didn't want to be a part of this version of their deal. That makes sense to me. If someone points out to you a little sub-clause snuck into a contract after you've signed it, I think it's only fair to go, this isn't what I wanted.

Now, Techno being hurt by this, fair enough. The guy did lose an ally he had just began to trust, but I don't know if it can be called a betrayal any more than Techno revealing the extent of his intentions so last minute. Techno treating Tommy responding to Techno's own plans changing as a betrayal is unfair. if he had been transparent with Tommy from the get go, I can see his hurt being more justified? Like, his hurt is valid, but justified? I dunno. They were two people with different goals who were always destined to fall apart because of that. Their alliance was one of necessity and/or opportunity, not mutual understanding. Techno changed the deal, Tommy ended it. There's not so much blame on either of them as just, the inconvenience of something held together with tape finally falling apart.

tl:dr

No, Tommy did not betray Techno at the Green Festival.

#this one might be more controversial actually #and this doesn't even touch on my thoughts on doomsday. I have many.#this i hope is fair and not critical of either character so #ask to tag #if need be #ask games #lixaisa

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