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an analysis/easter eggs/things that i've noticed on Tommyinnit's Unbeatable Method of Avoiding Sudden Death

spoilers, be aware psa: most of this was said by the creator themself on the final chapter, also this is a pretty long post

Easter Eggs:

the angel reaching tommy (the fic starts with angel approaching tommy and it end with the angel and tommy)

mention of how tommy is young (in his limbo he is 16 but in real life he is 12)

someone saying "tommy is not a hero"

mentions of how clementine is a blessing from the gods/his guardian/his saviour

a gun that cannot kill people

everytime that tommy is close to "dying" some miracle happens and he's saved (most, if not all, the times it happens with clementine present or because of clementine)

tommy avoiding the news

a lot of religious symbolism (tommy mentioning jesus, affirming that clementine is a gift from gods, calling michael a demon, etc)

clementine being "rebellious" (on my notes this started around chapter 5, starts to disagree more with tommy around chapter 14 and then this becomes prominent towards the end)

tommy subconsciously believing that he set fire to the building/city (mentioned in multiple chapters, first in chapter 6 and so on and on)

ranboo liking spaghetti

tommy childish behavior that can only be comprehended in the end of the fic

tommy playing with techno's sword (alluding to the real world were techno was into fencing)

tommy mentioning the five stages of grief

mentions of how the fic is supposed to follow the same ideas as cartoon shows about heroes (tubbo talking about how the characters don't have "plot armour" because they aren't the "main characters", tommy talking about a beach episode and bloopers, etc)

tommy always trying to be the one to save the others (how he reasures tubbo that hes the one supposed to save the others, saving techno on a mission, wilbur telling him that he saved them, etc)

the reality changing in a way that fits tommy the best (in my notes i said that the first time that we see this happening is when tommy goes to buy fast food and somehow got an order that they didn't have at first)

tommy missing the jump but wilbur catches him before he falls (it happens in chapter 9 and in chapter 28)

techno being defenestrated the most alluding to his death

techno not wanting to babysit tommy (chapter 10, chapter 14 and chapter 27)

tommy calling wilbur bald

chapters were is just a conversation between clementine and tommy

multiple mentions of how tommy is "not ready"

mentions of how tommy misses his family (chapter 18 with wilbur saying that "its okay" if tommy missed him, chapter 23 with tommy mentioning that he "missed this")

mentions of the world falling apart

tommy's mom loving clementines tea

the news on tv

tommy being a fan of vigilantes

wilbur singing

Paragraphs that are worth mentioning:

Tommy in chapter 6 about Tubbo:

“Shhh,” Tommy soothes calmly, “I’m reminiscing about our relationship. I’m grieving.” Tubbo stares at him in exasperation. “Grieving what?” “The end.”

Tommy about himself also in chapter 6:

Maybe he did die.

Now that he’s aware, he can feel the wind blowing through his hair, feels his soaked suit sticking to his body uncomfortably. He shivers."

Tubbo and Tommy in chapter 7:

"Tommy pouts, “Why are you leaving me?” Tubbo sighs, “Tommy you know I have to go at some point.”

also in chapter 7:

“No Ranboo slander in this household,” Tubbo says sternly, “I’ll be back soon Tom.” “You won’t,” Tommy sniffs, “You’re leaving forever.”

the world around Tommy while he's sick (foreshadowing):

"The world blurs for a second and he stabilizes himself against the wall."

Clementine in chapter 7:

“ Tommy ,” A voice croons for him. “ Wake up. Wake up Tommy,” It says, “ You need to wake up. This isn’t re-“

Tommy and Clementine in chapter 9, Tommy showing that he is on denial:

"Clementine does a flip. “No, no. We don’t talk about what happened. Nothing happened. I don’t even know what you are talking about, like I honestly have no idea what you are about. I don’t even know what heroes are. Who are heroes? That’s crazy, never heard of them. Do they even exist? That’s crazy. Clementine shut the fuck up,” He groans, shuddering as he relives the embarrassment of a lifetime. Clementine stares."

foreshadowing in chapter 11:

"Tommy glares at them. How do they not understand the severity of the situation? Children, the lot of them. “You will all understand soon enough,” Tommy sighs, shaking his head, “And then, you will feel deep, deep regret.”

foreshadowing again on chapter 23:

“Mhm,” He cries into the man’s chest, “Okay,” He believes. He chooses to believe Wilbur. “I’ve- I’ve missed this,” He confesses. I’ve missed you, he doesn’t say. “I know,” Wilbur hums. “It’s okay. Merry Christmas, Tommy.”

the narrative changing and the people around tommy realizing where they are/tommy and the people around him acting weird:

Wilbur in chapter 25:

“You can stop, if you want,” Wilbur looks him in the eye. Tommy’s grin freezes. “What?” “You can stop, Tommy. We don’t have to pretend anymore.”

Phil and Tommy on chapter 25:

"Phil frowns, offended, “You don’t like heroes.” “They don’t exist.” Phil laughs this time, slightly bewildered, “Mate, I’m a hero.” Tommy turns to him, eyes dulled, “Are you?”

Tommy and Jack on chapter 26:

“I mean, really, when have you actually helped someone? Other than yourself, that is,” Manifold scoffs. “You think you’re so above everyone here, above the world-“ “That’s because I am, ” Tommy stares, eyes hard."

my actual thoughts/analysis (this is very disorganized because it's literally just the notes the I made when i was re-reading):

Tommy's limbo is a world made by him, he aged himself up (he was 12 but 16 in the limbo) and i think thats one of the reasons of why swears a lot (in chapter 27 philza says that tommy could only swear in his adolescence)

Through the fic we can see how much Tommy resents and feels guilty about everything that happened, the multiple mentions of how he didn't know who "burned the building" are an example

i genuinely believe that the hoodie that he wears in the fic is wilbur's hoodie (in chapter 27 they are fighting because of a hoodie) and i think that is an indirect way of tommy saying "i love you" and "i miss you"

i also believe that the reason of why he lives in an apartment with tubbo is because he feels guilty for not being able to save him

In the beginning of the fic tommy deflects what happened and projects in a much lighter, much happier, way. He has a gun that cannot kill, he thinks that fire is "pogchamp", he jokes about defenestration, etc

At some point the world building start to get "weird", tommy being hired wouldn't make sense in the actual world but since it's a world made by a child with childish ideas he ends up getting hired anyways, a lot of times Tommy acts like a kid and not a teenager, later is explained that hes actually 12

Tommy also don't want to leave but he wants to be saved, this is shown when he begs for Clementine to save him in chapter 12, he wants his life back but he also wants Clementine to be part of it

Eneli starts to refer to the boys as brothers in cahpter 19, before this tommy was just an orphan (this fact is refuted in chapter 23, when tommy says that he "wasn't always a orphan")

Tommy struggles to say what Clementine is to him, probably because he realized that she is not his daughter but his mother, my best bet is that Tommy made Clementine to be his daughter because he couldn't bare the thought of having a mother, he mentions that "parents do the abandoning" and i feel like that its how he felt when his mother died, before he also mentioned how she already abandoned him once, he is also super protective of her, and in chapter 26 he almost lost her entirely. In some ways Clementine is death, and thats something that he cannot and does not want to deal with, but shes also his mother and he loves her (this can be see through the fic but especially in chapter 26)

I feel like Phil having wings is a red herring to fool the reader, this makes the reader believe that he is the one who saved Tommy in the beginning

[caramelisedhoney]

hey did anyone else read the final chapters of tommyinnit’s unbeatable method of avoiding sudden death

[caramelisedhoney]

Thcscus aka the writer of passerine just ended a space on twt! I joined a bit late but here are some points i loved i think is worth to share for people that missed that!

one of Tommy's reincarnations described in chapter 7 is theseus!

Techno catching dream by the heel is a reference to Achilles heel!

Ranboo was supposed to be in passerine and was supposed to be in the green army and face off tubbo but Thcscus didnt know how to reference him without being too obvious

Possible continuation of passerine story about passerine! Dream team

Fun fact: the wife of niki's neighbor that took care of her flower shop died because she fought in the blue vally

Phil's wife in passerine is actually supposed to be the Samsung smart fridge and not trixtin

The weird smell that tommy mentioned smelling in the camp before the war in chapter 4 was the sulfur!!

The ending is up to interpretation!! People that thought wilbur came into techno's room in the end to tell him phil is back are as valid as people thinking phil wasnt back until they were all dead

Fun fact! If u go through the lyrics in the chapter titles (that are from "Passerine" by Oh Hellos) you'll see the lyrics in the last chapters comes before the first one to showcase the loop!

Thcscus listened to megalomania, pigstep and trap music while writing the fight scenes

Not a fact about the fic but Thcscus just found out george and sapnap has a ao3 account, she is currently losing it

Also not a fic fact but Thcscus and her friends narrowed it down to 3 ccs that will probably read the fics and those are: Sapnap, Jack manifold and Ranboo

Bee duo enthusiasts expect a fic in about a month!!

Thcscus killed tommy because she couldn't bring herself to kill Wilbur because hes her favorite in sbi

Thcscus has been exposed as a Passerine!dream kin

'Did phil ever think about techno after leaving him in the arctic?' "Yeah ofc he did" EMERALD DUO STAY WINNING

The things techno did with phil in the arctic are the same things he and Wilbur did in the end ( making tea, playing chess, ex.)

"Passerine niki my beloved, you deserved better"

Update: they are singing the filipino anthem and are hating over the filipino government (they are filipino)

Sapnap has been with his lover's corpse at least up until the corpse became bones

Thcscus is currently re writing parts of passerine after learning some aspects of it can be harmful and is going to dm people from the effected communitys right after ending the space to help her with it!!

The person that burries sapnap in the end is Passerine!George !!

Passerine!Purpled is one of the mercenaries passerine!Wilbur hired!

Thcscus's cousin is her inspiration for how she wrote techno's sister

Same cousin was the same one that got Thcscus into the dsmp so yall owe passerine to a 6 y/o

Passerine!Tommy canonically wears crocs

All fanfics are canon in passerine bc of the multiverse, therefore heatwaves is canon in it as well

Expanding upon the last point made: Passerine!Dream, the all powerful god just makes himself be a minecraft youtuber bc hes bored

Thcscus is freaking out and losing her shit live bc sapnap tweeted this on his priv:

Apparently Thcscus is old and drinking water is an old people thing now

Space ended bc Thcscus needs to get some sleep before quackity lore L

[caramelisedhoney]

no because i would just like to point out that sad-ist has done something incredible with the passerine animatic.

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR PASSERINE AHEAD YOU’VE BEEN WARNED LIKE LITERALLY THE WORST SPOILERS POSSIBLE

Okumaya devam et

[caramelisedhoney]

something that haunts me in passerine is the yellow flowers (spoiler warning btw)

tommy putting that one yellow rose in techno's hair on their last good day. techno going to nikis flower shop to get tommy some yellow roses, the ones he likes. tommy finding the yellow glories near his camp, beautiful while they last, dying too soon. techno leaving the yellow flower in tommy's hair when he too dies too soon, for tubbo to find. his grave being surrounded by a garden of rosebushes.

blujamas you genius I despise you /pos

[caramelisedhoney]

thinking about the (sort of) little things in sunsprite’s eulogy. thinking about how it was entirely in gray except for tommy’s yellow roses. thinking about how there were petals in techno’s hair in the scene where tommy dies in compliance to the fic. thinking about the bit with mumza before she dies that is ALSO in compliance to the fic. thinking about how realistically and well sad-ist drew both wilbur’s guitar and techno’s violin (from someone who used to play violin and stared at one of those motherfuckers like it held the secrets to the universe almost every day for a solid two school years and three summers). thinking about the movement of the shadows against the light from the windows when tech and wilbur are running down the hallway toward mumza’s bedroom. thinking about how young wilbur looks when he gets crowned. thinking about how techno’s ears go from pointed to round when he looses his immortality. thinking about sad-ist’s entire passerine techno design, actually. thinking about the doodles of tubbo and lani and niki and techno’s little sister and capn puffy and sapnap and his lover(s?) in the credits. thinking. god. sunsprite’s eulogy 

[caramelisedhoney]

"He felt, inexplicably, down to his bones, that if he met that boy, they would've been brothers."

[caramelisedhoney]

“You saw patterns in the sky and then blame the stars for your own wrong interpretation” is such a raw and powerful line and it came from a fanfiction about a Minecraft role play

[caramelisedhoney]

i don’t know why, but for some reason the one line that still gets me every time is “You’d make good friends, she’d said, but that wasn’t right. Tommy felt, inexplicably, down in his bones, that if he’d met that boy, they would be brothers”

[caramelisedhoney]

Imma share some of my passerine quotes that hit far too hard, to deal with the fact that I'm sobbing:

Tomorrow, he promised himself. I’ll write our song tomorrow.

“This one’s my favorite,” he added as he gently tucked the flower behind Technoblade’s ear, the one that had the emerald earring that Wilbur had found so familiar, “because it means friendship.”

“I would feel too much like a traitor if I abandoned it now, after all these years with it. It is my one constant companion, more loyal than most.”

Tell the boys I’m sorry.

At fifteen years old, Tommy was the oldest he’d ever been, but he never felt so young.

“I want to help you. But I don’t know how. Nobody ever taught me how.”

At 17 years old, Tubbo was the oldest he'd ever been, but he had never felt so young.

“For my kingdom,” she whispered to the empty cave, and let the fire fall.

Nikki hoped, at the very least, that they would plant the prettiest flowers flowers over her grave.

His Tommy, lying so still in his brother’s arms. His Tommy, who braided his hair with sweet-smelling flowers. His Tommy, who was quick to anger but quicker to laugh. His Tommy.

“Your lullaby,” Wilbur sobbed, his tears hitting Tommy’s cheeks. “It’s the lullaby I used to play for you on my guitar, when you were younger.” And just like that, everything that came before was forgiven and forgotten and —gone. But was that such a bad thing? Rest would be nice. If it meant his lungs would stop hurting. If it meant his chest would stop aching. Sleep. Sleep was good. Sleep was—“I miss your music, Wilbur.”

Death. Such a small word for such a big thing.

And then, eventually, Wilbur spoke. “It really was meant to be."

Forgiveness came easily with brothers, after all.

A single strand of hibiscus-pink hair. A wrinkled hand still clutching a bloodstained broadsword.

Tubbo could almost see himself shaking the prince awake. And the prince would blink drowsiness from his eyes, ask Tubbo who he was, and Tubbo would say, “A friend,” and maybe in another life that wouldn’t be a lie.

“Once penned,” Wilbur said shakily, “an ending cannot be restored,” and he plunged a dagger straight into Techno’s back.

Immortal life. That should be an oxymoron.

Half-sobbing, half-laughing, he fell against his chair and closed his eyes against the sudden sting of tears. He could see, in his mind, a field of flowers under an open sky—a place made for waiting, where all the finished stories went, where he would go someday, too.

[caramelisedhoney]

Me: Although I was a wreck after Passerine, I can finally move on and feel fulfilled knowing the whole story.

My brain, every two days ever since reading that fic: “Without requisite or deadline, I will love you” “I’m the god of freedom and I’m flying the fuck out of here” “I want to bury my brother” “So this was heartbreak” “Techno what’s my name” “His mother’s laughter never sounded clearer” Just the whole song Passerine playing on loop-

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its enough to make a mentally unstable teenager cry

[caramelisedhoney]

The chapter that breaks me when it comes to Passerine is not chapter four, I made it through that one with no tears in sight, even when Tommy dies. It was chapter seven that made me cry my eyes out. 

It’s Techno not knowing the name of his sister, of not remembering a love felt long ago, the unfairness of his life before this taken so soon and not getting the chance to know it fully, but also accepting the life he has now.

It’s Phil seeing Tommy one last time and saying he wishes ‘a universe’s worth of wishes’, knowing he would never see his son grow taller than himself, and never got to see what person he became and was becoming. 

it’s Wilbur seeing his mother again and knowing it will be the last time as it was with Tommy. Asking if he can live without her, if that would deem him unforgivable. Asking her to come with him, knowing she cannot in the way he wants her too.

It’s people getting one last chance to see those they loved and having so much to say but not being able to say it all, but knowing that’s okay, and what they said is enough. It’s wishing you could have more time with them and knowing that’s impossible.

[caramelisedhoney]

art cred (SAD-ist)

[caramelisedhoney]

im reading passerine and logically i know i should be sad about tommy; but the parts that are actually getting me to tear up are the tubbo ones

(i literally didn’t even know tubbo was in this au because no one talked about it but he’s by far my favorite and most painful part my god. he’s hurting me more than sbi combined)

[caramelisedhoney]

You know what I want to talk about? Clingy duo in Passerine.

They did not have a single interaction, yet were connected to each other.

It’s shown in Tommy’s silence when Niki says there’s a boy he would be friends with if they had met.

It’s shown when Tubbo looks at Tommy’s corpse, feeling something for a friendship he never had with the boy.

It’s show when Tommy starts to cry as he walks back to Techno and Wilbur, thinking about a boy who he doesn’t know the name of. It’s shown when Tubbo looks at Tommy, thinking of a boy who’s name he only knew because he was royalty.

Strangers to each other in this life, but not in the others.

Tommy mourned Tubbo while Tubbo mourned Tommy.

They mourned a friendship from another life.

[caramelisedhoney]

Fuck this gay earth