#BUT i want bedrock bros to be real again :((

[whataboutsimple]

Wanted to put some coins into whole Romeo conversation,

Bassicaly I saw some people speaking of how in the world Romeo could lost his powers and in my personal opinion.. he didn't. He simply tricked us, Jesse and the player.

Let's put some logic here: there's no way someone as powerful as Admin would've just let a human, Jesse, wander around the Sunshine Institute without watching them. No way he wouldn't hear or see Jesse flying around with elytra. NO WAY he wouldn't put Xara in the freaking Bedrock cage.

So what? Imma about to tell you: he played it. All of it. Fred never created the gauntlet, Xara never left the institute, they never took his power away. From the very begginig and till the very end he was playing with us.

Let's say, for example, admins don't need a gauntlet to took each others powers. Then why would Fred create one? Well, maybe in case Romeo would took Xara's powers as well (which he did). But did he really expected Xara to go all the way through all the puzzles without Romeo noticing she's doing something strange? Nah, bro, I ain't belivieng it.

Plus, if Xara knew about gauntlet, why didn't she just teleported there to took it just in case Romeo would took her powers away, so she can use it the moment he'll do it?

And if Admins do need the gauntlet as well, it raises two questions:

How did they found out about this?

Why Romeo didn't destroy the gauntlet the moment he put Xara in Sunshine Institute?

Either way this whole "gauntlet" thing is too suspicious to be truth.

Sure we didn't forget Romeo didn't kill Jesse the moment he felt they are too dangerous for him. He IS the Admin. He can do whatever the heck he wants to. Unless.. it's all part of the plan.

You see, he surely got bored. From Xara's anger, from Institute, from just watching. So he decided to put up a little play. How could he throw away his past life in a beautiful way? Of course he needs a strong Hero to defeat him! That way it won't be embarassing! But.. no one can truly do this. He is the only Admin left and it's too risky to give Xara her powers back. So let's create a little story about the gauntlet and took World's most famous Hero: Jesse!

It's all simple, trully. Make Jesse angry, make them break the rules. Send them into Sunshine Instutite and let Xara activate alarm system, so they would knew about her. Put a bit more anger in them and their friends and leave to have a bit of fun pretending to be Jesse, while he learns the "story of the mystic gauntlet that Fred left".

Let them do all the funny puzzles, put a little show with glitching and stuff. Okay, now you are "defeated". Will they save you? Doesn't matter, you can teleport. Either way he gets out of there and what now? He can start all over agian. Maybe he'll go to portal Network to visit other worlds he had no access to. Maybe he'll find some new people to manipulate, it's always fun, right? Maybe Xara will stop being a bitch and will finally accept his friendship again!

Doesn't matter. He may seem deafeted, but in the very end he's always the winner. Admins can't loose. Real Admins can't loose.

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

thinking about c!tommy and the fawn response again like… he pretends his first thought is to fight because he’s terrified of seeming weak but his natural instinct when it comes to conflict is to mould himself into the version of himself he thinks others wants to survive. around wilbur, he grew to try and be a stable presence, trying to become his brothers keeper despite being far too young and unable to do anything. he tried so fucking hard in so many ways to ground wilbur because that was the role he took upon to survive. with dream, he grew quieter, learnt to suppress his free will. he mimicked his actions and learnt to present as either a helpless innocent friend or the same angry sadistic violent monster he sees dream as. with techno, he grew deeply violent and tried his best to cut down his beliefs to cater to what he thought techno wanted (even though techno obviously wouldn’t want tommy to follow him solely to survive, but tommy was in a life or fate worse than death scenario throughout bedrock bros and he knew it bc dream sure wouldn’t let him forget). he’s a follower because if he follows and makes sure to try real hard to mimic those around him he won’t be hurt as bad. he’s learnt emotional intelligence to mould himself into what he thinks people want from him. and i think that’s really interesting for a character that in scenarios that he doesn’t feel are life and death is deliberately annoying and offputting.

[somebean81]

A Better Minecraft Movie Plot

Hey guys, i got bored and mad, so i wrote my own concept for a Minecraft movie that feels better then whatever Warner Bros are working on.

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Steven is a young adult still living with his parents, and he doesn't have any career goals or plans for the future. His parents want him to do something with his life and move out. Steven gets upset and sleeps on it.

He wakes up in Minecraft. He’s so fucking confused and calls for help. But nobody came. He panics and tries exploring until it turns night and monsters are out. He runs into a village and spends the night inside a villager’s home. He can’t understand them, and the villagers can't understand Steven either. He starts learning the way of the villagers– because there is no fucking way he’s going back out to the wilderness– communicating with them and how to craft and stuff.

Steven learns that the reason why there are monsters attacking every night is because of Herobrine, a being from another world with immense power. Steven takes this as someone who was from HIS world and can help him home. He asks where to find Herobrine and is told that he lives in The Nether. So…montage time! Steven works towards getting to The Nether, he goes caving, he kills some monsters, he gets materials, he even gets a dog! Sweet! He builds the portal, and the villagers give him one last "be safe" before he enters The Nether.

Steven enters, and BOY IS IT HOT. The Overworld was weird looking, but at least it was familiar. THIS IS LITERAL HELL. Steven starts traversing the land, before happening upon this bastion nether fortress fusion of a castle. But before he enters, he gets surprise-attacked by some piglin guards, and captured and led to Herobrine’s throne room. Herobrine asks why Steven has trespassed into his kingdom. Steven says that he came looking for Herobrine, to help him get home.

Now that Herobrine knows that Steven isn't here to attack him, he becomes more laid back, telling him that he knows and has the power to return to Earth but then inquiring Steven why he would ever want to leave. “I mean, immense FUCKING power Steven, look at everything that you can build and create and DO! Magic is real here Steven and you can stay forever!” He tells Steven that you can't even die here. Steven is confused, because like, “of course you can die here, I've killed so many zombies and shit,” but Herobrine clarifies that humans can’t die here, and he demonstrates this. Herobrine first kills his dog, and before he has a second of grief, he kills Steven.

Steven has a moment where he is just drifting in literal space, hearing a voice telling him to wake up. He wakes up in his bed at the village. We’re at the rise of climax moment now, Steven doesn't know what to do next. He just experienced dying, Herobrine killed him, and he survived. His dog died. He has no way of going home, let alone convincing Herobrine to help him get home.

Something happens that motivates Steven, and he starts using the materials he previously gathered and starts making armor, and weapons and junk. He gets them enchanted and everything. The villagers help him get things, like arrows and potions and stuff, before he goes through the portal again and head’s to Herobrine’s castle.

He attacks the nether mob’s fortifications, before reaching to Herobrine. Steven demands that Herobrine shows him the way home, or else he’ll blow up the castle. Herobrine toys with this idea, approaching Steven and saying, “do you really want to know?” Then he grabs Steven and teleports him to the End dimension. Steven takes in his surroundings, before apprehensively following where Herobrine is walking. They stop at this empty fountain made of bedrock, surrounded by many large obsidian pillars that have crystals atop them. Herobrine explains that you open the portal by destroying all of the crystals and then using ancient magic to activate the portal. Herobrine states that Steven clearly doesn't know ancient magic, and that it would take millennia to learn it by scratch, and that it is hopeless to try, but during his monologue Steven uses his bow and shoots down a crystal.

Herobrine gets enraged at the interruption, his eyes glowing brightly, and he says smth taunting like “You wanna go? Lets go.” before a puff of purple smoke overtakes him and Herobrine pulls a Maleficent and turns into the Ender Dragon. Giant battle action sequence commences. When Steven gets to the final stretch, Herobrine roars out, “why? Why do you want to go back to that miserable world.” and Steven gives his reasoning on how he can still be something on Earth. Steven goes for the final hit and kills Herobrine. In the last moments before Herobrine dies, he says, “You really are determined. Fine, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.” Herobrine dies and the portal is activated by the XP.

Steven is exhausted but happy that he can finally go home. He jumps in, and is now floating throughout space. He hears a voice all around him, and it talks with him, but Steven doesn’t need to respond. Cue the end poem. Steven wakes back up in the real world. He opens the curtain. Its the dawn of a new day. Steven smiles. The End.

[thembosupreme]

arcane act 2 blubbering

spoilers ahead

pAINT THE TOWN BLUE

slay forever i hope caitlyn is losing so much sleep

ew more lesbian cops

jinx playing monsters with isha 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 SHES THE BIG SISTER NOW

omg its the rift herald and the scuttle bug

THEYRE PLAYING BUGS!!!

ISHA NONVERBAL JINX HYPERVERBAL

no seriously she’s adorable as a big sister and isha wanting to be just like her i’m gonna cry

THEY HAVE A HANDSHAKE?!?!?!! S t O P

Sevika mom™️

“Jinx is dead.” mhm i’ve said that too lmao

Nooooo goat man! rip dude u looked dope as hell

lmao suffer ambessa idk girl

times like these i miss silco a lot ya know.

blue hair cult blue hair cult blue hair cult

bLUE HAIR BLUE HAIR (we should deffo look closer at that. make the blue hair pronouns thing go crazy.)

YA JINX (ISHA OH MY GOD!)

“I’d know it anywhere” bitch get a grip.

she’s a fascist but she’s not completely stupid (i hate caitlyn) not her now being like “uwu violence bad” bitch u committed WAR CRIMES AND ALMOST MURDERED BUT CERTAINLY ENDANGERED A CHILD

suffer pilties *patooie*

lmao viktor jesus rumors real

SEVIKAAAAAAA and her butch fuck ass bob ✨✨✨

HAHA FINGER JOKE HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA Im CACKLING

isha powder lemmie fix it eyes oh nooooo

not her talking to his chair i’m actually gonna throw up. “maybe that’s what i was like for you” stop sobbing crying im so sorry jinxie id did have to happen tho ur the best thing to happen to Zaun and him 💖😭 i need to hug her.

mohawk you better not i stg. shut up. SHUT UP.

Isha!

MOHAWK NO!

omg hi doc.

Jinxers!!

let’s go!!!!!!! Sevika one handing!!!oh- oh shit NO!

Doc….. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

awe the fort JINX U GOTTA RUN!

“they got her.” EXACTLY

it’s on.

AH- hi silco mwah kisses- NOT NOW!

go gettem Jinx.

awe signed weird smelly uncle :3

WARWICK TIME BABEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YESSS!!!!!!

Every time sevika and jinx duo i get so excited lmao

LMAO GIRL JINX BITCH ME TOO THE FUCK it’s okay they don’t understand fashion. ur clown pants are slay

AH- Shes so slay

JINX IN DISGUISE! ITS THE LORE!! THE LORE!!!! she’s an actor

Oh. OH oh shit that’s CRAZY!

ZAPPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HERE WE GOOOOOOO!!!!!

how tf are the braids in the helmet as someone who has that wig there is no way in hell it’s all fitting under there.

jinx and her own lil gang she got by doing what had to be done i hope this helps her feel a lil better

NICE TOUCH!!! THEYRE NOT MAD!! THEY SEE U BABY GIRL!! THE WAY SILCO DID TOO!!!! wether he knew it or not at the time. you’re the blue flare! a wrench in the works and - ah- oh we’re fighting ambessa

YES WARWICK V AMBESSA LETS GO!

and i’m crying again

lmao singed going “i’m good. yall have fun tho. my dogs gonna come pick me up.”

AH-

AH!! JINX NO!

AAHHHHHH JINX MODE!!!!

silco would be so fucking proud of u jinx im so serious holy fucking shit.

yAY THE BIG GUARD DIED!! by ah- unstoppable killing machine

JINX NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO GET SLIPNSLIDAL AGAIN!

oh- oh shit he knows…. he can see powder holy fuck! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

Blisters and Bedrock

wow cait u look like garbage. i hope that keeps up and you keep suffering 🖤✨

walk em around uncle doctor singed

oh hi! mel! things have gone crazy! ur moms nuts balls. she’s manipulating the narrative girl u gotta get o u t!!

mmm the mirroring marcus and silco makes me not trust this man.

OH! It’s ur brother! Yay! Still don’t know if i trust him.

great now let’s “what the fuck is mom into????”

oh my god the mural 🥺

get a grip vi.

seriously stop. do u need a shot or a bottle or something stop.

JINX DO NOT. Girl! this is NOT HOW SILCO RAISED YOU. DO NOT LICK CAVE WALLS

oh yes! this is good! fight! yes! talk it out!

BITCH MITTENS! Get her ass! Yay!!!! smack her!!

lmao me and my siblings fr lmaooooooooo- oh oh no.

“still got all your insides?” i can see silco saying it bro STOP!

i still think jinx should get to break vi’s nose again. but i’m glad we got that out of our systems in a safer environment without an audience (isha doesn’t count she’s the baby sibling)

WOAH YOUNG SILCO HOLY SHIT JUMPSCARW I WILL Cry

holy FUCK AAAAAA those gifs are gonna be great. vander knew silco was alive the whole time. how else would he have that image im just sayin.

mel u have a touch of the arcane baby. we been done knew but still

oh did she give u up kino? lol

ah still don’t trust him. i think this might be an interrogation. mel u and him have different dads look at yourself. you’re magic and probably the next chosen of the wolf.

CAITLYN EAT SHIT! I’m sorry. i hate her so much.

he tried to bring back his daughter huh…

Dr. Reveik!!! I’m still sayin Jinx and Sico called him “doc” and “the doctor” respectively

oriana????!?!? ORIANNA!!!???????!! ooo almost Orianna 👀

MEL WILD RUNES READER!

he isn’t real! knew it.

WOAH-

LE BLANC

SISTER!!!! SHES A LE BLANC!? AAAAAAAA

THE OLD HIDEOUT HOLY SHIt! Silco’s first coat 🥺🖤 and it’s stupid buttons 🥹 i miss my wife tails.

“when she died”? sir?????

BLISTERS AND BEDROCK IM GONNA THROW UP.

silco never looked back…. vander knew he was alive somewhere and didn’t look. oh yeah. they broke up for sure. and over a girl. lmao the throuple that killed the lanes

vi learning not to punch is gonna save them

- *gay thoughts*

the gif makers are gonna have a FIELD DAY!! AND I CANT WAIT

he has a MAN BUN!??!????!? I hate him (i’d die for him)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ajsnxkwkdjd

ITS THEIR MOM

hOLY SH I T! im gonna kms he’s so cute stop. THEYRE NOT A THROUPLE? Are we sure????

oh my GOD! I’m GONNA CRY!!!! THEY RAISED HER BABIES AND THEY’RE THE HOPE OF ZAUN!

VANDER NAMED HER??!! AAAAAAAAAA

zaun would always be their inheritance 🖤

i’m actually sobbing oh my god

oh shit lmao and now the gays and their divorce.

it isn’t gay divorce unless there’s a body count once again.

holy shit this show is a roller coaster

viktor is literally magic now??? tbh he deserves it

caitlyn getting noxus 101 and facism 102 at the same time

cult 101: “we’re a family here.” (multi appplicable )

The Herald™️

oh lord this won’t end well.

awe it’s a nice lookin cult at least.

lmao his peekaboo bleach job aight count fagula

VICTOR AND JINX INTERACTION

Metal Fortune Cookie is his name now.

naur destroying is fun ✨🦋

The Machine Herald™️ is nonbinary fact.

i just kept crying for a while

i love therapy ✨✨

i hope sevika uniting zaun or starting glasctech industries is going well i miss her.

this is all alot

did vi get top surgery???

slay is so.

isha no isha be careful isha no no no no baby no no oo baby please

n o

no no no

im sobbing 😭😭

that is so fucked up holy shit.

[returnsnull7404]

Gonna be real, this is not a curated collection that I would think anyone in particular would like and more just a collection of the fics that I think of when someone asks me "what are your favorite fics in this fandom". As a result it's leaning pretty Tommy heavy. I have no solution to this. I am very sorry. He's my blorbo and I like to watch him be squished.

My fics

Starting with my own fics

Misery Meat:

Fic or series: Fic

Status: complete

Word count: 160k

Chapters: 26

Characters: Tommy & Techno

You like bedrock bros? Like kidnapping? Serial killers? Like longfic? Angst? Slowboiling Stockholm syndrome? Cows and chickens? Sassy Tommy and funny, eat the rich believing Techno? You might like this one. Mind the tags though, it is dead dove.

It also has a sequel, People Eater, that's a WIP

The Godson:

Fic or series: series

Status: work in progress

Word count: 39k

Characters: Tubbo, Tommy, and Ranboo

There isn't enough dark Tubbo in this fandom. This is a series all about dark tubbo, it's a modern with hybrids AU focused on organized crime, murder, and manipulation. If you want to watch Tubbo gaslight everyone he interacts with then this might be the fic for you. Again, mind the tags.

Other authors

Now onto the good part, other people's works.

The Dreamwalker by hydre:

Fic or series: Fic

Status: complete

Word count: 135k

Chapters: 22

Characters: Tommy centric, with heavy Dream, Tubbo, and Wilbur inclusion

I'm gonna be real, I only just started this one, so I can't get too in depth, but imagine a foster care au intertwined with day to day dsmp drama. That's what this is. In Tommy's waking life he has to deal with his shattered family, his trauma, and the dangers of the dsmp, while in his dreams he goes to another, softer, gentler world where he has to navigate being cared for by a strange, caring, other worldly version of his abuser, Dream.

I love the style of this so far, the author really nails Tommy's sass and irritability, along with his softer moments without making him too soft. If you like my Tommy you'll probably like theirs too.

Belonging by boonsbeans:

Fic or series: fic

Status: complete

Word count: 41k

Chapters: 9

Characters: Tommy & Wilbur

Classic kidnapping fic, Wilbur kidnaps his friend Tommy and Tommy tries to resist social isolation, abandonment and Stockholm syndrome while he learns how truly possessive his friend is.

This fic again manages to nail the Tommy sass and how he speaks, along with giving Wilbur shockingly understandable motivations, methods, and a backstory that makes sense. There are some great twists in here and it's overall a very fun read.

AITA For Kidnapping A Sixteen Year Old?

Fic or series: fic

Status: in progress

Word count: 36k

Chapters: 54/60

Characters: Tommy, Dream, Tubbo, Ranboo, George, but really a lot of the cast members are roped in

Modern kidnapping discduo au told through Dream trying to get validation on Reddit mostly. You have an angsty teen, a weirdo Reddit user, a chronically online teen, and a mentally ill young adult. What could go wrong?

Very unique and funny presentation style, but honestly the story within a story that comes from the author only updating when they have a funny story for the authors notes is also great.

And I Thirst for What Holds Me Back by Aimandfire:

Fic or series: fic

Status: complete

Word count: 2,800

Characters: Tubbo, Quackity, and Schlatt

Finally a tubbo centric vampire kidnapping fic. It's short, but a neat little snack for vampire fic lovers.

Throughout The Seasons by Poker

Fic or series: series

Status: in progress, multiple fics finished

Word count: 172k

Characters: Tubbo centric, SBI, Schlatt, Dream etc all make appearances

Fae au! Honestly one of the best fae stories I've ever read. Poker weaves elements of Canon and folklore together really well and creates a story with ever-present tension that never gets old, plus their characterization of Tubbo is spot on. The first three fics are dsmp but the fourth one is looking like it's gonna be hermitcarft.

The Case of the Fire Inside by trying_to_spell_both_our_names_at_once:

Fic or series: fic

Status: abandoned

Word count: 198k

Chapters: 24/27

Characters: Tommy centric, but also heavily focused on the rest of SBI and Dream

Techno, Phil, and Wilbur volunteer as lighthouse keepers on a remote island in an attempt to save their fractured family after the death of Kristin. Things are difficult, and boring, and tense, but at least they have the company of a strange, friendly seal off the coast and the weird neighbor boy.

Honestly an amazing fic, some of the best writing I have ever seen, I feel transported to the sea every time I read it. I know the lack of an ending is sad, but I promise, it's still worth the experience of reading.

Coming Down Blue by electibunny

Fic or series: fic

Status: incomplete, likely abandoned

Word count: 65k

Chapters: 26

Characters: Tommy centric, with a lot of Phil, Techno, tubbo, ranboo, Niki, Karl, Wilbur, just a lot of cast activity

Slice of life of what it's like to recover from a kidnapping. I really like this because it's just thr day to day journies of a whole friend group of deeply traumatized and problematic but well meaning people. Again, the lack of an ending is sad, but it's not about the end, it's about the journey, and this is a story worth experiencing.

Stranded on an Island With a Ghost Inside Your Head by MolluskSauce

Fic or series: fic

Status: complete

Word count: 9,800

Characters: Tommy and Dream

Funny enough this is probably my favorite fic in the whole fandom. This fic details a modern Tommy's long and boring captivity at the hands of Dream. It's more of an experience than anything else and it's a very evocative and powerful experience, plus it only has like 10 comments??? Mollusk needs more love for this

Inspired by @theminecraftbee -- you know what I haven’t seen going around in a while, and could use some of myself? How about some fic recs??

Consider this both a rec and a self-promo post: recommend some fics to me in the reblogs and I’ll reblog your recs! In general, try to include both a summary and why you’re reccing it (whether it’s a self-promo or someone else’s), and let’s get some eyes on fics!

[sparxwrites]

Hi! Another ex-Yog current-mcyt fan here, and one who participated in WOTF! I have a lot of fond memories of that and am very happy to see you in yet another blockman hell. Could I get a Techno for the headcanon prompt thingy? Hope you're doing well!

sparx has received [ 29 ] asks from ex-yogs fans welcoming her back to hell

g o d wotf brings back memories... i'd say dsmp probably needs one of those, too, but i think i'd be genuinely torn limb from limb and eaten alive and im too old to be dealing with that shit now.

Headcanon A:  realistic

He doesn't really know what the Voices are, or where they're from, or what they want. He knows they're in his head, and that they're often incomprehensible, and that when they are comprehensible they often demand blood or say E - and that's about it. Are they some kind of ghost or spirit possessing him? Some religious thing? A sign of a protracted mental breakdown and detachment from reality? Who knows! Certainly not Technoblade.

He tries not to think about it too much because it freaks him out, and he doesn't like feeling freaked out. The best he can do is learn to live with them, which he has, mostly, and learn how to manage them, which is a work in progress on the basis they seem fundamentally ungovernable. And to try very, very hard to really not think about it. Especially when the voices know stuff he doesn't.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

He took up knitting during his retirement. He's shit at it. He has knitted several scarfs, two hats, and something that could generously be called a sweater, and he is still shit at it. He does not enjoy it. He is not getting better at it. However, on principle, he refuses to admit defeat, and therefore continues to knit with the same kind of grim ferocity most people bring to waging war. (Yes, Philza thinks this is the funniest shit he's ever see.)

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

Uhh, I guess a double-up with the one below, a bit, but also- big fan of chronic pain headcanons for "old warrior" types. Techno with scars that itch, old injuries that ache, joints that go stiff in the cold. Keeping up with his training helps it, and he's got teas and potions and salves and such to manage it, but it never really goes exactly. Technoblade never dies, sure - but he can hurt, and he does. Pretty often, in fact. He tries not to think about the fact that, one day, it's going to get too bad for him to keep fighting the way he's so renowned for. That, one day, it's going to make him slow enough to get him killed.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

Despite appearances, Techno does actually have a number of regrets about how he handled a lot of stuff: Tubbo's execution, the subsequent fight with Tommy, and then his reaction to Tommy's "betrayal" and Doomsday.

He's an impulsive kind of guy with a lot of anger/aggression issues, and has difficulty backing down from a challenge and a very "you're with me or against me" mentality - all of which interacts poorly with his extremely powerful sense of loyalty, but also the fact that the slightest betrayal of that loyalty once given counts as a complete obliteration of it.

He's got this vague sense, though, that if he apologises for anything, or allows himself to really feel regret, or actually processes/confront some of the stuff he's done... he'll just sort of crumble. Like it'd very literally nearly kill him. And so he just... refuses to process it, or to acknowledge he's done anything wrong ever, or made any bad choices or ever, and just forges on ahead blindly with a growing ball and chain of definitely-not-regrets around his ankle dragging him down

[halorocks1214]

would you mind elaborating a bit more on the c!phil and c!techno post? not saying you’re wrong in the least, it’s just an interesting opinion I haven’t seen before! I was curious about the reasons?

*waddles in* okay im finally back from class and have a real keyboard to use for this yeehaw

to keep my feelings brief cuz im aware im biased- inniter both proud and shameful ✊😔- there's a trend i've noticed about certain types of content recently that has some symmetry to what was going on at the beginning of the year. but unlike those few months ago, most people seem to be reacting positively to today's stuff

the bedrock bros arc in particular had a lot of discourse surrounding it, especially after the mutual betrayal. many c!tommy fans would rightfully point out how it was a lil eff'ed up that c!techno kind of sort of lied to c!tommy about his real intentions and was dodgy when c!tommy tried pointing out how that's not what he wanted to do ("we'll smooth out the finer details later" or w/e the quote was)

in response, it felt like a cacophony of people claimed how techno was his own character, that he didn't need to be some random kid's caretaker, to the point that the whole "characters shouldn't be judged by how they treat c!tommy" take was created

nowadays i'm seeing c!rivals duo material come out of the woodwork like a flood. a lot of people want c!dream to join the syndicate, have him heal out in the tundra with c!techno after the piglin breaks him out of pandora's vault and away from his torture

now, there are quite a few reasons why i and many others aren't a fan of this idea, but this post is about how c!techno shouldn't be reduced down to any character's therapist! he has his own plotlines with his own motivations, certainly, those same people will at least point out that c!dream fans want a similar story that c!tommy fans did back in december and january, right?

😐

then there's the man the myth the legend c!philza himself, coining the title schrodinger's father for a good few months. with the canonicity of the sbi family dynamic being somewhat wonky (not deconfirmed however), people split harshly into two categories: those who liked the idea of c!phil still being c!tommy's father, and those who very very very much did not

regardless of people's true opinions on the matter, c!tommy fans (fairly) pointed out that c!phil destroying the kid's home right in front of him was a little messed up. c!phil was canonically aware that c!dream was up to something funky, yet he still went through the idea of teaming up with him to raze l'manberg into the ground, which stung c!tommy enthusiasts a little. who wouldn't be just a smidge butthurt about something like that happening to their fave?

like clockwork, lots of people criticized and even outright bemoaned this train of thought. c!phil isn't even c!tommy's father who cares! he certainly doesn't need to, stop making everything about the kid! y'all just have daddy issues and are projecting tbh 🤪

now back to the prison arc, we yet again return to the potential plot of syndicate!dream, where he'll be best buddies with c!emerald duo and c!niki will spoonfeed him while he recovers (yes this is a /srs headcanon i saw) and c!ranboo will just have to "get over" his fear of c!dream to see they're actually best buds (another /srs comment someone made yes that is word-for-word what it said)

essentially, someone in discord shared a tweet that was basically talking about the idea of c!techno shoving c!dream into c!phil's lap saying "here, be a father whether you like it or not" and, well, i got somewhat peeved if that untagged post i made is anything to go by

it's starting to feel more and more like people didn't actually care that others were writing c!techno and c!phil in caretaker roles, they only cared that c!tommy was the one being taken care of. because c!tommy is apparently the literal spawn of satan and is the worst thing to happen to the dsmp and is super annoying and blah blah

but instead of, idk, admitting that c!tommy just wasn't their fave and moving on from content they didn't like, they needed to create these excuses about how it was actually super awful that these fans were doing things like this, that you should feel bad if you support this kind of content because you are ruining these characters and everything they stand for

nevermind that this kind of stuff has been a normal occurrence in fandoms since fandoms have been a definable thing, that while yes it gets annoying how certain characters are favored above all others literally all you're achieving by tearing down someone else's work is that same person either A.) making more of that stuff out of spite or B.) potentially quit making stuff for the fandom altogether

it's just... it sucks, that it feels like you can't want anything nice for c!tommy without it getting called "ooc" or being accused that you only watch his POV and make everything about him. maybe i'm sensitive, maybe im extrapolating, but i wouldn't be the only one who is, considering i've seen multiple others voice similar feelings regarding this situation

so there we have it i guess. my brief words that ended up not being brief at all (so sorry dear anon, i really did try to keep this down to one page at most :headinhands:) and i hope they make at least some partial sense, now i gotta go read even more random shit for my hw fsndkfjndf save me /lh

[oceanqueenmusical]

No don’t apologize! I love reading analysis because I’m a little nerd. You’re right on pretty much all accounts here, lol. Another thing I wanted to add is that for how cool he seems to think he is, Romeo seems to HATE actually trying to do something once he’s been disappointed by it. This is shown when, upon being rejected by ONE PERSON AND TOWN, he decides that the only sane way to go is to bedrock the ENTIRE. WORLD. Like bro, you made this world, you know how big it is, just LEAVE.

He even admits that he could give the world another chance, but he doesn’t want to! Bedrocking is easier, safer. It’s a way for him to try and get what he wants without putting any real work in or reflecting on himself. He himself admits that bedrocking the whole world is easier for him. That’s why he’s not swayed even if you offer to be his friend, something he’s wanted basically the entire game. Because even if he accepted your offer, he would still be around all the people he hurt and they would, understandably, not be chill with the guy who made their lives hell and stole someone’s identity. He’s smart enough to realize that the people won’t like him now that he knows their adoration is just a facade, but he’s not emotionally intelligent enough to face that and accept that as a consequence of his own actions, because that would mean looking at himself and accepting that he messed up and he’s not perfect.

Honestly, that’s why I think it would be very hard to redeem him if he still had his powers, because so much of his ego comes from there. He has to lose them, or at least lose most of them, because he won’t fully realize the weight of his actions until he’s just like all the people he’s hurt. He’s basically one big child throwing a tantrum whenever he sends someone below the bedrock, or he tries bedrocking over the whole world. He’s what you get if you give a child godly powers and then have him be completely alone with no one else like him (though that part is, again, his fault).

He just cannot accept that he messes up, and whenever faced with that truth, he tries to make it go away, either by killing it, sending it somewhere else, or bedrocking over it. But he can’t escape that, because the people he continuously hurts will always remind him of that. Even if he’d made a new world, he would’ve hurt those people too, because despite what he says, he hasn’t REALLY learned anything. He basically learned to not try to be Jesse. That’s it. He didn’t learn a single thing, not until his powers were stripped away, and he finally realized how his actions hurt other people.

Hey! Just wanna say that I love your Romesse art, you get their dynamic down great and we need more silly content of them, there’s too much dark stuff in the Ao3 tag. Guess I’ll have to get to work at some point 🫡

Thank you! They're really funny to draw and I really think that their dynamic is interesting.

I know that Romeo is a parallel of what Petra can become but I see him as a counterpart of jesse??? Like (sorry for the infodumping)

Jesse's (at least as how I see her in the game) is really a heroe and a good friend. She's selfless, kind and brave. When Gabriel ask her to find the other members she accepts because is her duty. She puts others first even herself. She really listens her friends and their advice and she can say sorry for her mistakes and take accountability for them.

But Romeo, well, Romeo no. He's selfish and unpleasant even if he "tries" no to be. To him, if he treats you "well" you should be his friend and be thankfull with him because he's literally god so you should fell lucky to be able to be with him (no), so, of course he goes mad when someone says "hey, you are wrong", because he's above all so he cannot be wrong, it's in someway always others fault. He's a coward because he just can't take responsability of his mistakes so he just denay it.

Both are leader kind in someway and they're stronge and that's why Romeo thinks Jesse will be the perfect friend because she is a heroe, the heroe, but he just doesn't understand that Jesse is a heroe not because she's stronge or brave but because she does the things because she cares about her friends and the people. He just thinks that, well, she's cool enough. That's way when I like to draw Jesse just not able to stand Romeo bullshit hahaha.

(End of the infodumping, character analysis is my passion)

If you write something let me know, i will glad to read it!

[daggryet]

yes i agree!! the conversation with dream on the obsidian is so creepy but it gets overshadowed by all the techno vs tommy discourse!

very /lh but i’ll never forgive them for centering doomsday around c!tommy and c!technoblade’s conflict

1) it doesn’t make sense, as @/shrugofgod pointed out after transcribing the community house scene, c!technoblade felt betrayed by c!tommy but he also said that anarchy was about freedom to choose - and c!tommy had chosen, and c!technoblade respects him for it.

and now that lyssie has been so nice as to transcribe here’s that quote: “i had my plan to destroy the government, i explained my reasons, i’ve been like i’m destroying it because of a, b, c, they executed me, they betrayed me, you betrayed me— you know what, tommy? you’ve made a decision today that can’t be undone. and you know what? i respect you, tommy. you know, you’re free to make your own choices, wrong as they are. that’s what anarchy is about. It’s about freedom. to do what you want.”

and then he leaves. there’s nothing in this closing statement that should lead to more conflict between the two based on this “betrayal” - because c!tommy has already apologised earlier, several times - and this is the last of them “…technoblade, i know what i’ve done, and i hate me for it… i’m sorry.”

the conflict is over there! yes, they’re not best friends and c!technoblade feels betrayed, as he should - c!tommy switched sides and left c!technoblade alone in front of 30 people. but c!tommy had always said he’d never destroy l’manberg or hurt c!tubbo - and he sticks to this. and c!technoblade has acknowledged that he is allowed to make that decision, as that is what anarchy is about.

and c!technoblade’s definition of anarchy is the reason he’s doing this - making it about the conflict between c!tommy and c!technoblade undermines c!technoblade’s speeches about ideology and corruption because by focusing on c!tommy - it becomes not about anarchy, but revenge and punishment. narratively speaking, it only works against c!technoblade to focus on c!tommy, and not c!quackity and c!tubbo - the people in charge of his execution and c!phil’s house arrest.

there's also the matter of the quote "i'm a person!" where it's meant to show that c!tommy doesn't think of c!technoblade as a person, despite there never ever being a hint towards that in the previous streams. c!tommy was the one in the bedrock bros team up who actually asserted their friendship, while c!technoblade was the one who only acknowledged c!tommy's worth after he'd given into violence and tortured c!connor for information. c!technoblade describes seeing him as a tool but now that c!tommy is useful - he sees him as something close to a friend. even after c!tommy turns to c!tubbo, as i said above, c!tommy does his best to show his friendly and well meaning intentions to c!technoblade; and again, c!technoblade acknowledges c!tommy's right to do what he did.

making c!tommy c!technoblade's bad guy on doomsday does not make sense when the people who executed c!technoblade sans trial are right there

2.) it’d have continued from c!quackity and c!technoblade’s battle after the execution where c!technoblade took one of c!quackity's canon lives after he'd failed to take one of c!technoblade's. and - with absolutely no disrespect - cc!quackity is one of the best people on the server to improv speeches. just look at his conversation with c!dream after the bombing of mexican l’manberg: he’s so good. a lot of the reason why c!tommy’s lines during doomsday gets ignored is because they’re not the kind of iconic quotes that c!technoblade uses in his speeches; had the focus been on c!quackity instead, then there’d actually be an interesting conversation about power, about anarchy.

c!technoblade would have been challenged, instead of just shouting quote worthy one liners over the crater that in the context doesn't make sense with who he's shouting it at (c!tommy)

as i said, it also derails the entire premise of doomsday on c!technoblade’s behalf because if it’s not focused at the group that came to his house, threatened him, held him to justice for his actions but without a trial, and then executed him - but is instead focused on the person he took in, who he knew was running from c!dream, and had multiple panic attacks in front of him, and then chose his home, a decision c!technoblade respected? it’s suddenly not anywhere near about anarchy anymore - and that may be intentional, but i doubt it as no one has ever acknowledged that.

3.) the fact that c!tommy facing off with his abuser, face to face, begging him to explain why he couldn’t just have punished c!tommy - is not the primary conflict for c!tommy’s character that day, is so icky to me.

yes, a lot of the pain that day came from seeing his home being destroyed, seeing “what’s left of wilbur, the Real wilbur” getting destroyed; but the pain for c!tommy is especially rooted in the fact that home, and returning home, was something he held onto throughout exile. it was somewhere he was forbidden from ever returning to; and that was because of c!dream.

doomsday being remembered for c!technoblade and c!tommy yelling at each other across the crater that once was l’manberg over a conflict that had already been...resolved; and not the fact that c!dream admitted to seeing c!tommy as his toy, that he destroyed l’manberg because he found it fun, and that c!tommy’s first statement to c!dream had been “you did this, not just to me, but to everyone. why couldn’t you just have done it to me?” - it doesn’t sit right with me.

it was also c!tommy giving c!dream the disc that even set off doomsday because c!dream had been waiting for that before he went after l’manberg. having the disc meant that there were only two things left that c!tommy was genuinely attached to: l'manberg and c!tubbo. he was the one to rope c!technoblade in with him, he was the one to declare the attack and the time, and he was the one to make the tnt cannons. and he did all that because c!tommy showed him that l’manberg was more important than the discs at that moment - and c!dream goes after what c!tommy values the most. to keep their game going, to make sure c!tommy is focused on their game as he says on the obsidian grid.

"our story isn't over, l'manberg's story is over, but our story isn't. i don't think it'll ever be over."

so yes, this was an entire rant you didn’t ask for - and i’m sorry for that hahah - but it’s been building. i think that’s where my frustration with doomsday comes from; the central conflict was centered on the wrong people, and because of that it had the message of doomsday fall flat. and c!tommy facing his abuser was pretty much forgotten in the sea of discourse that arose after the event

[areus-in-a-little-cave]

shhhh we can pretend this is c!tommy lore by simply saying that the last time he was sick was right after the exile arc when he went to steal from Techno so he is repeating that by getting rich people things again. he is simply reverting to racoon for comfort. everything can be lore if we want it to. he doesn’t want the gapples though since that reminds him too much of Techno. Bedrock bros is real. In this essay I will

[violets-r-purple]

Ok so we all agree that The Fall is c!wilbur, so welcome to my short essay on how another just released song-- Adele's Easy On Me-- is entirely written by and for c!tommy

L'manburg. Specifically during and after exile arc. Tommy has always held onto the hope of freedom and unity tha l'manburg originally stood for even after it getting blown up and had stood by its side even when he was initially exiled. However, as the days went by he began to lose that hope and literally became drowned out as his communication with basically everyone but Dream was cut off and left to himself. He begins to lose hope in l'manburg as a people since they essentially left him behind in his mind.

So I see this as refrencing two different people: c!techno during the bedrock bros arc and c!tubbo during exile arc. Before exile, Tommy was already beginning to take notice of how the pressures of the presidency and Dream was changing Tubbo from who Tommy used to know (and you can't blame him but Tommy is a simple man and likes his few close constants one of which is Tubbo especially during this time after the 16th). Tubbo wanted one thing and Tommy wanted another when it came to dealing with Dream and it caused their friendship to crumble no matter how much effort Tommy put in (creating and explaining like three different plans to deal with dream the day of exile). And then u have the more obvious bedrock bros fallout. Again, Techno and Tommy right from the bat had their goals said and never changed (Techno to get rid of l'manburg and Tommy to get the discs back). They did communicate this of course and even tho they both grew from the experience together (especially with Tommy starting to heal from exile) they were just too set in their ways to come together when the time came. And from c!Tommy's perspective of both of these instances, these lyrics fit pretty damn well

Two main thoughts:

- A major point as to a good chunk of the plot in general is the general consensus of other characters seeing c!tommy as this loud, impulsive kid who values two discs over people. They look at the exterior without seeing his selfless, honorable intentions to take care of and protect those he loves. I don't remember the exact quote from him but it was like "I never wanted to be a hero" and it goes completely over the others' heads that this annoying kid could be anything more than just that.

- His hope and resilience is one of the exact reasons c!dream went after him so much. Went out of his way to break him and strip him of these because c!tommys morals and sheer strength of hope would persist throughout anything dream could've thrown at him.

And finally

The real tragedy to his character: a child soldier thrust into too many wars that left him scarred and traumatized and still somehow managed to manitain some of his youthful outlook on life even through all the hell he's gone through. Yes, he chose to fight for l'manburg in the revolutionary war and lose his life twice in it, and yes, he chose to follow Wilbur to pogtopia and back. But he didn't choose to be exiled not once but twice. He didn't choose to be torn, broken, and worn down miles away from his friends and family, who he had no contact with at all. He didn't choose to be forced to protect his country-- his home only for it to be destroyed beyond repair.

He didn't choose what others did to him.

And he didn't choose to be a hero.

So go easy on him. He's a child, and he's been through too much.

[rhaenyraisadyke]

A Year Later Transcript: 8/3/21

Here it all is on a google doc if that is easier to read!

W: “I heard there was a special place.. Where men could go and emancipate.. The brutality and the tyranny of their rulers…” Do you know that one Ranboo?

R: I have I have I have, I’ve heard that one a few times, I had a friend that sings that one quite a lot.

W: Yeah it's great, I- I personally, I am a big big fan of the song and not just because I wrote it, I know, I know they saw aww yeah they say you are your own worst critic, but I mean, I think it's good. Do you know what it's based on?

R: Mhm mhm

W: Obviously it's based on hallelujah, but the thing is Ranboo, right is the reason we did it is because Tommy used to sing hallelujah to the plants around the thing... the caravan! Do you remember the caravan? You have heard of the caravan right?

R: Yeah, yeah I’ve heard of it and seen the re-creation of it at the museum, but that's really it.

W: Actually can we go see it? Let's go see it quickly!

R: Yeah, sure.

W: So, so, he used to plant the stuff around the caravan, and it made it grow better, he hehe used to ha, my man Tommy, what is this? This is new.. I won’t ask questions…

R: I- Someone planted a lot of beats here and I don’t know why

W: OH, okay I quite like it, it looks really nice, it looks nicer than the target that used to be here. Um

R: Yeah

W: So my man Tommy used to sing to the plants to make them grow better um and that was the song he used to sing so I thought what a better way to honor tommy, one of the most loyal members of our fair nation then to name the song after him and base the song after his little muse. Tommy is all of our muse really, I'd say. So here's the museum.

R: Yeah, Yeah

W: I haven't been to the museum, wait las- that's where I met you Ranboo right?

R: Oh yeah yeah, that's where you saw me next to the um poster of myself… I don't know why that's still up, I kinda put that there and it preceded to stay there, is it still set up? Oh, oh no.

W: It’s not still up anymore it was here, it was right here on this wall. I quite liked it, but I guess not enough for it to be history though.

R: I’m not historical yet apparently.

W: So yeah in here, in here where the declaration of independence would sit on the wall here, it was actually quite, quite a nice van, not quite as nice as yours, I quite liked what you were doing with yours. Have you been working on it since I’ve been gone?

R: Yeah I’ve been working on it. I added a nice little table outside and did some pathways and appropriately themed flowers.

W: Thats nice

R: Yeah!

W: Let's go to Lmanburg or what was lmanburg, last time I saw it was a big glass thing.

R: Yeah I think it goes by Lmanhole now apparently.

W: Ahh ehh, that's kind of rude, it's kind of rude to Lmanburgs history you know?

R: mhm

W: It’s called Lmanburg, it's called Lmanburg. NOT Manberg NOT Lcrater or whatever, Lmanhole I don’t care it's now Lmanburg it's always Lmanburg. It’s just how it goes.

R: Okay

W: Yeah so that's why the song exists as it is. Oh there's no glass.

R: Yeah! Yeah I mean it seems to have changed a little bit.

W: YOOOO I actually didn’t know this was here

R: Yeah! It’s even got the flag down there at the bottom

W: It’s got the flag man! Can we go down and see the flag? Cmon Cmon lets go

R: Yeah yeah wait you alright?

W: I’m like a lemming I don’t care I’m just gonna jump

R: Oh well okay… careful!

W: Look at this dude!

R: Yeahh

W: Oh wow I really went down to bedrock didn't I? Holy Shit.. I did a number on this place. This is amazing!! Ahhh This is what it deserved, not the glass bullshit, this is what it needed, this like beautiful overgrowing, it feels like it happened, it doesn't feel like a monument, it feels like nature has claimed it back,

R: The book has kind of closed in that sense

W: Yeah.. we’ve got, look they have got they rebuilt the lake man! And this used to be a real river about here into Lmanburg- wait, Ranboo do you see that is that Tubbo?

R: Yeah… that's Tubbo

W: Aye Tubbo!

T: “I heard there was a special place where men could go and emancipate…”

W: Tubbo?

T: “ the tyranny” - oh?

W: Tubbo!

T: Hello?

W: Haha! You’ve came, I- I havent seen you dude in FUCKING ages! Tubbo, are you singing the song?

T: Yeah… Yeahhh?

W: Are you? Are you singing the thing?

T: Yeah hello?

W: Hold on I’m coming im coming im coming man

T: Where are you?

W: Hold on, I'm coming around, here I come, Tubbo man! I haven't seen you in ages!

T: H-H..Hello.. Wilbur..

W: I’m coming around man!

T: Yeah aha…

W: Bro! Its-

T: Weird seeing you here.

W: What in Lmanburg? That seems like the most normal place to see me.

T: Uhh yeah I suppose so

W: Well I- dude I don’t even know what to say to you man, it's like looking in a little mirror, you are even still wearing my suit still?

T: Yeahh

W: How long have you been wearing that?

T: Oh I just put it on for today, I just for it's been a year now…

W: Well you look good in it! Ranboo have you met Tubbo?

R: Yeah! Well I’ve I’ve met him, I mean we’ve um… been around yeah

W: Well Tubbo I’m really happy to see you man, dude

T: Ah, well thank you.

W: Do you even know what happened? Since,

T: What do you mean what's happened?

W: I saw you briefly man when I was resurrected, I remember you SUPER SUPER briefly but this is the first time we have actually gotten to speak, I- I will admit I was a little overwhelmed during that whole thing. I was running across the glass, thank god it's gone, this is far more adpt, but I was running across the glass, I’m sorry I wasn't you know, entirely on the same page, but I promise you I’ve calmed down I’m all settled in, I understand what's changed, what's happened whos new, whos old whos still about who uh…. Who trusts me and stuff

T: Did they fill you in on the story? Like what happened here after you died?

W: Yeah, they did, I’m gonna be honest with you it's not a pretty one, I kind of left a bit of a ripple. If I was a rock, dropped in a lake, I’m a pretty big rock

T: You- yeah’

W: And I can’t say I’m not- I’m not flattered. I mean I am flattered, I’m not TOO upset about it, I like being the big ripple, but more than anything, I want to say super simple man. I want to say. I want to say I’m sorry

T: Awe

W: For one thing mainly, I’ve been thinking about this for years, LITERAL years. I’m sorry for making you president specifically before blowing it up and I’m sorry for when I did this and blew all this up and making this hole,

T: Well I mean-

W: and making you president of a crater and i'm sorry. I’m really really sorry. I really am

T: I mean this wasnt all you Wilbur….

W: We’ll get to that, do you? Do you forgive me?

T: Yeah, I do forgive you

W: Man, ahhh my little treasury, secretary treasury, do you remember that?

T: Yeah yeah I remember that. Secretary to treasury

W: Ranboo he was the secretary to treasury and then he was president

R: Yeah

W: And then he was president

T: Yeah I’m pretty sure the treasury was like somewhere there.

W: So what were you saying about me not being the one there who blew it up?

T: Well I mean you definitely blew it up. I feel like you’re missing some vital information.

W: Wait, so you rebuilt it? How long -how long did it stand before this happened?

T: Yeah so, me, and mainly ghostbur honestly like

W: ….ghostbur….

T: He- put so much effort into making it right again.

W: Is he this obsidian crap I take it and these uh? Fucking lanterns

T: You know dream?

W: Yeah I know Dream- I love him. Dream’s Dreams

T: Oh..

W: Dreams probably my favorite person, sorry Ranboo i mean uh no contest here, Dreams probably my favorite person he saved me

T: Oh.. Oh..

W: He saved me he brought me back to life

T: Well um yeah I mean he was powerful I guess but um Techno and Philza yeah um

W: Techno and Phil blew this up?

T: They built this big obsidian contraption overnight… I couldn’t even see it coming. And they rained TNT for days.

W: nhh

R: Yeah…

W: And that's.. Wait hold on, why would Techno and Phil do this? Why would Techno and Phil blow up Lmanburg? Didn’t they live here? I mean I don’t know about Techno…

T: Techno and Phil, they hated the government, it was partially my fault as well…

W: But you didn’t blow it up

T: No, I didn't. I never wished for anything to happen like this.

W: So it was just Techno and Phil?

T: Y-y yes..

W: Sorry that's kind of just hit my not the blowing up part- You know I’ve done that,

T: Yeah

W: I’m not shaken up about that. I’m shaken up about man, is that, you rebuilt this! After I was gone

T: I can’t take all the credit obviously but there was a big effort

W: That fucking ghost- who cares man YOU rebuilt this! Bro, you

T: Yeah I suppose

W: MY fucking grave! I was so pressed about not having a grave, screw a grave I built something that you loved that YOU wanted to preserve… thats,

T: Yeah, I really honestly…

W: Tubbo that's worth more to me than a grave. That's worth more to me than this shrine. That's worth more to me then- Tubbo this is probably the best gift I have ever been given, this knowledge that people actually cared enough, that you cared enough to rebuild this community after it fell.

T: Ahh, I’m glad you’re happy.

W: You… haha, sorry, aww man, Tubbo thank you.

T: It’s alright, I just feel lost without Lmanburg. All my core beliefs.. Everything died with it.

W: You feel lost without Lmanburg

T: I have no purpose.. Anymore.

W: I guess that's where anarchy fails… Tubbo, I have a little, a little thing coming. Not big, nothing much yet, ehh, it's not a big deal you know, it's a little burger van at the moment but I got plans, big plans. Tubbo it's called paradise

T: Paradise.

W: Yeah, yeah will, would you like to come join me in paradise? Literally?

T: Hmmmm, Id, I’m not sure Wilbur, I’m not sure I trust you man. In order to follow someone I need to trust them.

W: Wait… wait- but I thought you forgave me!

T: Yeah Wilbur I forgive you because I like to hang onto the hope that people change but, I don’t trust you yet Wilbur.

W: Okay… Taboo. I literally was dead for thirteen years. I know it wasn't long for you, I know it was only a couple months for you but thirteen years Tubbo… Thirteen years of my life. I am old! Look at me! I’m not the same young man you knew. I-I’ve been through it and in those years, I’ve learned Tubbo, i wasn't just sat twiddling my thumbs just going “oooh this is nice ohhh i'm in darkness right now” you know I was thinking. I relived that explosion in my head so many times man, and I get that you don’t trust me, I do but like man! Look at me bro, I’m not gonna do it again, I’m not gonna hurt you again. I’m not gonna you know… I know you, you had the festival with Technoblade, I never spoke properly to you about this.

T: mm

W: I could have saved you…

T: But you didn’t

W: I- Tubbo… I’m reaching out to you man, I’m on my knees.. I, I’m sorry. I’m really really sorry and I literally, your forgiveness means so much to me but it doesnt give up what I did to you and it doesnt give up how I failed you as a friend, you know eh, fuck being as a coworker but just you know anything… Ranboo you might know or have known all of this and I’m really sorry if this was your first of hearing I can explain later on but like..

R: Alright………

W: Tubbo, man, I’m, I want to make it up to you. And you know what? I appreciate you don’t trust me. I do.

T: Wilbur in order for you to gain my trust back you have to prove it first. I can’t just give it out anymore. I used to be able to, but I just, I just can’t.

W: Tubbo… I really appreciate it, and I mean that genuinely. I appreciate it and I am gonna go out and prove to you I’m worth being trusted again. I promise.

T: Okay…

W: I’ll do it. I’ll do it. I’ll redeem myself and you'll.. Youll

T: Do you know I still have dreams right? Of the explosion… And, and of the fireworks. And all of it. I vividly see all of it every day. It HURTS. It hurts Wilbur a lot.

W: I- Tubbo, Tubbo, I know, I know, Tubbo, Tubbo, Tubbo Tubbo, please, I know…. I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I- arhh It feels like sorry is such a weak word. I feel like there's nothing stronger that I can say, and I understand what you mean about how my actions need to reflect it and they will. Give me time. I’m gonna make something. I'm gonna make something of this and I’m gonna…

Uhhhh

Tubbo do you know how fucking strong you are? And I’m not trying to say - I’ve got your forgiveness, but I know I need to earn your trust but man… you're so strong man, genuinely. Just the fact you proved to me that just there that you have these memories and these nightmares, you still found it in your heart to forgive me, that's... You’re a fucking champion man. You’re a hero.

Look I get you don’t want to join me in paradise. We won’t talk about that anymore but, cmon, at least come and see, come and at least see what me and Ranboo have been doing! Look I don’t know- Ranboo are you? Are you and Tubbo friends? Are you and Tubbo like good friends?

R: Yeah, yeah I’d say so.

W: Then why don't you and him come and see what I’ve made! Come and see what I’ve got going on! Lets go lets go!

T: I think.. I think I’m gonna stay here, Wilbur. I think I’m fine, just to stay here.

W: No, no man, no worries. Look at me bro look at me bro! Chin up! Look, lucky rabbit's foot!

T: Okay…

W: Tommy gave it to me

T: Lucky Rabbit's foot…

W: Lucky Rabbit's foot man, chin up. Ranboo, I’ll, you can come, it's cool.

R: I will, I will. Do you need me to stay here?

T: No.. *sniffles* I’d like to be left alone please

R: Oh… you sure? I mean.. I can stay…

T: Yes. I’m fine

R:You sure? Okay...

W: Ranboo! Let's go man.

R: Yep! Lets- lets go

W: Cya tubbo! I’ll send a letter!

T: Uhuh

W: Comeon Ranboo

R: Alright

W: Ah man! It’s its I mean I I was gonna say this is hard, but obviously it's hard, I’ve -

R: It is, it is

W: It's difficult man and I’ve been you know it's gonna get better and it's gonna be worth it when I see them smiling.

R: Yeah, yeah

W: Tubbo, Jack, Niki, Tommy, anyone… Do you know who the original Lmanburg group were? Do you know who we were?

R: Ah, uhh I think most of them yeah, I think it was you, Jack, Niki, Fundy I believe as well

W: Fundy was after, Fundy was a bit after we got independence

R: mhm yeah I don’t really. I don’t really know much of lmanburg history

W: That’s alright you’ve got it down, it's correct. It’s that group and we um yeah we fought against Dream and we managed to succeed and we created a life process. Ranboo I’m gonna tell you something I’ve never really told anyone, I try and keep this on the low because I don’t want uh people to use it against me is the main problem. I didn’t even tell Tommy. I- I lied to Tommy I’m gonna be honest. I’ll tell him soon

R: Yeah

W: I’ll tell him I lied to him because I feel- it kind of eats away at me. I kind of- I told Tommy that I didn’t actually care about Lmanburg and that it was actually a tool for me to get and gain power and stuff but it's not true. Lmanburg was really important to me and it is still to this day. I want it, I want its history to live on, not as a stain caused by me because I basically took a bit shit on the history books. I wanna, I wanna make it feel like it was you know something that happened and it was a great thing. Think of the good times, the years and years well not years but you know the time of safety the time of fun, prosperity! We built parks, we built you know, no taxes, big walls, we had democracy! All be a slightly disjointed version of it but you know, that's how people should remember Lmanburg, that's what people think of when they think of our nation you know? And that's, and Tubbos the last connection we really have, I mean he, he said it himself, he's kind of you know… he's got nothing without it. I’ve heard of what Tommy, Tommys you know moved on and Jacks moved on and Niki’s moved on and everyones moved on at least partially… but Tubbo man, he's still……

R: Yeah he's still very strung up about it even though it's been awhile… He, he distracts himself with projects and everything which is nice but, you

W: Heh, projects

R: I mean yeah fortifications as well

W: I think he's gonna be alright

R: I hope so

W: I’m looking out for him. Anyway I want to say thank you Ranboo for you know trusting me this quick, I mean you barely know me

R: I mean, yeah

W: You barely have known me very long and you just know you’ve done all this with me and you’ve worked with me and I- I- you know I don’t I don’t know where I’d be without you here right now, man. T-Tommy’s great and all he's here and all but I don't wanna string him along too much because hes- I, when I look at him, when I look at him and he's helping me out and building things with me, I - I see the same eyes that looked at me when… when… there weren't some fun times in the ravine of Pogtopia I wasn't a very well man, and I can just see Tommy from that day…

oH!! Ranboo! This looks great man!

R: Yeah yea, I’ve made a couple of um changes to it. Added some stuff to it

W: Like I was saying though, I appreciate it, I really appreciate it.

R: Yeahh, yeah of course! Of course

W: May I ask, I know I’ve already asked this before but why do you trust me so fast? What's the…?

R: I mean I like to normally see the good in people and everything.

W: I know we’ve gone through that and you’ve made me cry just

R: Yeahhh, sorry about that, but I- I think the reason I think I know what it's like to have no one hurt or at least feel like no one trusts you.

W: Mhm

R: Um, and I- I’ve realised that if no one is with you, then how can anyone really know when you’ve redeemed yourself. So that's why I’m here

W: You wanna see the fireworks?

R: Well maybe not the fireworks but, I mean at least

W: Ceremonial

R: At least when you change er redeem yourself I think it- it's good to have someone there and it's not nice to be alone all the time so…

W: My boy! Ranboo, I knew

R: Yeah!

W: I knew I could trust you. We got the exact same mindset I’m thinking of ahh Ranboo I love what you have done with the burger van

R: Thank you, I’m glad you like it

W: I think this is going to be a beginning of a beautiful partnership,

R: Yeah!

W:beautiful friendship, and maybe when Tubbo comes we can you know have a big party and all get to know each other a bit better.

R: Yeah I can, I can talk with him I think and maybe get him to uh join hopefully

W: Yeah, don’t pressure him. He doesn't have to join, he just needs to come. I just want him to come and see our patented burgers!

R: Yeah!

W: Our burgers, our burger NFTS he needs to come and try them! Ranboo. Thank you man

R: You’re welcome, I’m glad that I could help out a little bit at least.

W: You’re a brilliant man and I'm going to go now a happy man.

R: That's good, I’m glad you’re happy.

W: Thank you Ranboo. Buh Bye. Ah, I love that guy bro!

[hope-vs-disbear]

I am once again pointing out that c!Tommy hasn't done shit to c!Techno and for c!Techno to seemingly "forgive" him in his will rather then apologize just kinda proves he hasn't grown at all (for me personally anyways) not to mention the complete and utter lack of c!Tubbo like this is his will to be read when he's dead those are things he wanted people to know after he Died and he has nothing to say to c!Tubbo absolutely nothing at all?

And again real growth would have been realizing he's the reason c!Tommy is searching for something in the first place and wanting to say sorry not just "Oh I hope he finds what he's looking for" like as a bedrock bros enjoyer my tear ducts are bone fucking dry

Also he has to actually have any real connection to c!Niki for me to give a shit in that regard like

No go on dude tell her you're besties and then talk about wanting to break out c!Dream see how long your one conversation long friendship lasts

[antimony-medusa]

Crimeboys is INCREDIBLY risky for this, a huge number of bedrock bros fics in the past year and a half, twinsduo fics went there like half the time if not more, with emduo there was a stronger trend that if people wanted to write intense intimacy they would just do qpr so I didn't have the "they're talking about how they're related while they cuddle and kiss" problem but bless the baby writers in the last six months there's been a real wave of fuck it they're all in bed together as a family and maybe they're holding each other down also tee hee, and like. Again. I do not blame anyone for being afraid of twitter. I do not even blame anyone for not wanting to cross that line internally and admit that they're writing romance/kink/etc. But anyone walking into this fandom from outside would be looking around and going wow it's getting really toasty in here— you all live like this? At some point you do need to consider if you're tagging appropriately.

Okay so.

Look. At this point I am old and I am tired and I am pretty firmly coming down on write what you want just archive lock it or something and tag it please. If I am hitting tropes or trends or ships that don't do it for me, I can simply click away and my day is not ruined. Cancellation is not on my radar at all. Okay. So. With that out of the way.

Look. Sometimes, when you are pushing the boundary of platonic possessive and platonic kink-adjacent stuff, if you lead special emphasis on the fact that everybody involved is related, it doesn't necessarily make it magically more platonic. It just gives it extra vibes. Specifically you are like STRONGLY invoking incest as a kink right now, my guys. This is getting dire. Like I'm sorry but if someone is lying down half asleep listening to the "sounds of kissing" and one of the people doing the kissing keeps saying how good of a brother the other person is, like, you can smack a "platonic kissing" tag on that one all you like, and I can even follow you on a faith journey and believe that you intended that to be platonic, but uh, the first reading of that one is distinctly like— man, please. I'm dying here.

In the same way that if you have an interaction— say, you did a cuddle-potion fic, and you say to yourself "man these guys are getting handsy, if they're both dating age this would look kinda sketchy'' so your solve is to make one of them twelve and then suddenly you have made your slightly off-colour fic take on a whole new tone— in the same way that making one of the characters underage isn't a magic button you can press to make something fully platonic no matter what, making your characters related isn't going to make it magically platonic if they are say, all in the same bed and one of the characters is feeling the mattress move as his brother and father cuddle each other and say how much they love each other.

This isn't even an isolated incident. Please.

If you are looking at your interaction and going "man this kinda looks like ship" and you want to make sure people don't think it's ship, aging down the character isn't a magic solve, and making them related isn't a magic solve, not when the rest of the tropes you are pulling from are pulled directly from romance and porn. You just invoked a DIFFERENT kink on top of the first one you had. Like you might not know that that's where the tropes come from but guys. Please. The solve for this scene is either changing it substantially until it no longer looks like ship, accepting that it looks off but you don't mean it that way and go "if people misunderstand this it's not my problem" or maybe considering the option that what you want to write is ship. I keep hitting this stuff and going "are you SERIOUS" and then it gets worse.

Or maybe, idk, you're specifically into all the people being related like that. You do you, the contents of your Ao3 account is not hurting anyone. But in that case please for the love of GOD can you please consider tagging it?

[sapphire-innit]

DRISTAAAAA TIMEEE

VOD: TommyInnit Speaks To Dream’s Sister AGAIN

(rp): Drista!! I love this chaotic child and am looking forward to seeing the children bully each other lmao. I especially love the mythos around Creative mode, and that the most benevolent god on the Dream SMP is just as likely to ban you as hand you a shulker box lol.

I do wonder how in character cc!Tommy is going to be able to stay during this stream: on one hand he’s a master at staying in character even during lh moments, and on the other Exile arc is some Dark Shit and Dristas like what, 14?? Overall I expect this to be one of the lighter streams, with a smattering of moments where we remember that, oh right, Tommy’s pretty actively suicidal at this point and he sees this as one of his last hurrahs.

Speaking of our boy Tommy: it's very clear we are getting closer and closer to the infamous pillar. He switches rapidly between Fight and Fawn reflexes and has mostly internalized Dream’s treatment and conditions at this point. The one stand out moment being him calling out Dream killing Mexican Dream last stream, and pointing out he was changing his story even when Dream tried to lie and say he died of “a drug overdose [...] or natural causes”. I’m curious if Tommy is going to bring it up again, and even more curious if he eventually believes Dream about it; something to watch out for, for sure. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this moment of rebellion happened right after he had someone both stand up for him and spend time with him that wasn’t actively hostile or going to end (supposedly, at least by intention)

Hey we didn’t start off drowning for once!! cc!Tommy was also singing, though that could have been mostly out of character as well. Still, remarkably in a better mood, he even mentions having an appetite! You love to see it, and it's clearly because he’s looking forward to Drista’s visit

He’s building a log tower and on one hand, Tommy building Towers is a natural state of being, and on the other…. I know the pillar is coming and I am scared

A mention of the Anti-Dream hole… I still worry about when exactly and how Dream is going to find it. Still, I’m glad it exists, both for Tommy having a space for things important to him, as well as what it represents about his mental state re:not giving over completely to Dream

DRISTA!!!! LOL she was already online we didn't even see her join LOL. CHAOS GREMLIN she just flew over in creative mode and started wrecking shit, as is her right lmaoooo

“You massive jer--, (quieter) whats a nicer way…, YOU MASSIVE DICKHEAD” oh, Tommy..

I like how he tries to punch her even when shes CLEARLY IN CREATIVE MODE ADSADASD

The violence inherent in fourteen year olds,,,, adsfsadfsdfds

I hate this conversation why is this the conversation asdffdsfsd TEENAGERS

DREAM YOUR NOT EVEN A TEENAGER WHY ARE YOU FOLLOWING THE SAME LOGIC

Well SHE can destroy the obsidian asdfsdfds She just Spleefs

“What would Dream do” Probably worse lets be honest

Is he actually gonna go back to L’manburg?? I don’t believe it but I also want :(

Again with the stabbing

AND DOWN HE GOEEEESSSS

“I have the fork, but I'm also killing you” afsafsdfdsf Tommy why are you wearing your good shit omg

Lol cc!Dream trying to defend his character for mocking Tommy’s accent adsfsdfds “I would NEVER” in the totally not believable tone lmaoooo

DID SHE REALLY GO AT HIM WITH A FORK I'M FUCKING DYING DSAFDADSFDS

“I will take it from you and I’ll kill him”... I have so many thoughts about how this works in lore. Is Drista possessing Dream? He can kick her out clearly, but she still has God Powers…

Lol and now SHES mocking his accent lmaoooo (... is it bad she sounded pretty close to me? lol)

Adsfdsfswd casual chaos Drista just broke the Nether Portal

Asking Drista to stop destroying things is a big ask to be honest lmaoo. Also she seems to be at least somewhat informed that ‘Dream is not supposed to be nice to Tommy’ or at least seemed hesitant to do /weather clear

GOD THE LAVA BUCKETS AND THE POTION OF HARMING adsfsdfsdf

“Tommy [beheaded him] actually… and killed Mexican Dream” Dream you motherfucker

“How to Sex 3” THE PANIK!!!!!! From Both cc!Dream and Tommy!!! This server is Not Child Friendly lol (Doesn’t…. That not even include sex things…. afasfsd)

Honestly I can’t stop smiling this is so wholesome somehow even with all the cursing and violence

Pigstep IS a bop, Tommy is right

“Just let him, just let him this one time” :(

“Tommy I still have the Fork” Drista totally willing to stab her brother to visit L’manburg

HE TOOK THE FORK ASDASDAS

Yes, closing your eyes will totally protect you from Forks lol

“I don’t need school, I dropped out” Is this Lore Crumbs, is this Lore

HEYYYY ITS THE BEDROCK, the one piece of bedrock he has lol, I think he still has that in current day right?

Drista is writing her name in BEDROCK adsfsdfds “I’m not going to be able to get rid of that actually” “That's the Point”

LOL SHe also recognized the burrito as from Mos lmaooo

Somehow “I really want to go to the other place.. I don’t know why he won’t let you” hit hard… it was def ooc, and she doesn’t have the full context, but still… its just someone else wanting and asking for Tommy to be able see L’manburg…

Afsdfsd the Small Gasp when she spleefs herself omgg

HES THERE!!! HES THERE!!!!!! L’MANBURG!!!!!!

Punz!!! WHY!!!! Were you there bc Drista might let Tommy through, was this a safeguard for the LORE. Also he’s currently working for Dream directly right, as a merc?

Drista trying to save Tommy!!!! Punz why are you winning a fight with someone in creative adfsadfsd He’s too good lol

They have negotiated a visit… I’m so emotional I wasn’t expecting this…. No one told me we got a real L’manburg visit !

BIG Q SHES FOURTEEN!!! Omg they didn’t tell him it was Drista. BIG Q!!! BIG Q DON’T SELL HER DRUGS

“He was Naked” good for you Drista, good for you. There’s something so hilarious about Drista just stabbing Quackity over and over again cause she’s uncomfortable lol (as is her right)

LOL THE FINAL KILL WITH MAGIC WHEN HE’S ALREADY DROWNING IM

Wha --- what video was it????? What is this Tommy picture on the Technoganda???

….”are you sure I’m allowed here” Dream’s conditioning is strong :(

“At many minute I could get mugged” To be Fair Tommy, that was true before

Did Tommy just suggest spawning in a Wither asdfsdfds

DRISTA DOG ARMY!!!! Aww and Tommy has one too~

THE BENCH!! THE HOUSE!!! Aaaaaaaaa He’s sitting on the bench nature is HEALING

AAAAAAAA A BLAZE!!!! Pfffft

…. Who destroyed the front of Tommys house?

,,,,Drista what are you doing with that soULSAND

“OK we'll turn on him” adsfsdfsd

OH HEY TECHNO!!! Lol “Oh god he meant me” fucking mood big man

……. Tubbo hallucination……… fuck

LOL HE COMBAT LOGGED “YOU CALL THAT COMBAT” I'M

To be fair, logging against a /kill is probably the only way to get away lmao

…...F

“Getting thrown off a cliff is literally how Theseus died!!” lol its also hilarious to me that Tommy def does not remember being called that. Personally I don't think it fits him super well anyway, but I do like it as something Techno calls Tommy, that shows how much he misjudges Tommy's character and intentions. No heroes here, just a kid trying to do good by their friends and what they care about

Techno actually looking up how to kill someone in creative mode

…. :( I just want my actual clingyduo content this is meeeeannn

OH HEY TECHNO …. You fucker he would and it would be HILARIOUS (get mad if Drista opped Techno that is lol)

….

….

IS THIS WHY THEY’RE BEDROCK BROS????? BECAUSE THEY BOTH HAVE DRISTA BEDROCK??????????????????????????

HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS ???

LOL TRUE DUO SUPREMACY TUBBO’S GOT TECHNO'S BEDROCK

Oh F Techno got him with the Obliterator lmaoooo

“I have 114 levels PLEASE” asdfdasfsdf

LOL Tubbo with the TNT there's our nuke boy, I'll take my crumbs where I can get them

THE SHULKER HOLY SHIT

“Don't let someone get it!!”” ADSFDSAFSDFDS they all tuRN CC REAL QUICK WHEN THE SHULKER BOXES COME OUT

Awesamdudes like: MORE PLEASE AFDASFDSF

Techno immediately snitching about Elytra and dRISTA GETTING THE ACHIEVEMENT

EVERYONE SNITCHING IN CHAT I'M!!!! DREAMS REACTION ASDFSDFDSF

Drista being the chaotic giver of illegal gifts is so fucking good I'M THRIVING

THE RUN ON PUNZ !!!! omg

Also can we just take a minute to appreciate Tommy being allowed around people <3 <3 This is so wholesome and good and chaotic as all hell

“I thought I was Tom Cruz for like a whole week” ...TOMMY??

LOL SHE BANNED TECHNO OMG

Dristas on a banning Rampage afsdfsdf

BAN GOGGY OMGGG

Omg shes actually making a wITHER DASDASDFAS

Oh no poor Tubbo I didn’t know he was liVE

319k viewers jeezus

Awwwww Techno hyping up Wilbur's song :) that's so sweet actually

…………….Fuck you Dream :( saw the chance to Twist the Knife in c! And TOOK IT

LOL THE FUCKING FORK IS THE BEST BIT LOLLLL

Lol ironically the Bedrock bros song is the oNE COPYRIGHTED ONE, god why did Minecraft ever copyright Pigstep what a shit move honestlyyy

Pigstep fucking goING TO TECHNO LOLLLLLL “this is the most powerful item on the server since it DMCA’s people”

LOL PUNZ TRYING TO STEAL ANOTHER SHULKER

Poor Sam he actually has to BUILD give this man a SHULKER

Lol Everyone wants a shulker so much

….aww he tried to toss the pigstep disc lmaooo DRISTAS LITERALLY HOLDING IT Scaaaaaammmmed

Drista “I NEED IT ON HAND” So committed to violence !!!

The fucking creepers on the way out omg fuckign PERFECT

LOL TOMMY WASN’T READY FOR THE TURN AROUND ON CURSING LMAO You can tell he's always been the youngest who people aren't sure how much they can curse around lmao He's so soft honestly he talks such a big game and then CRUMBLES when called on it lol

Asfdsfs she fell through the same hole again afsdfsdfsd

Drista has been introduced to a Weapon and she’s gotten ATTACHED lmaooo

Wait HOLD THE PHONE Dream has multiple sisters??? Lol

“Yeah I like Shit” Dream: “whAT???”

Bye Drista it’s been nice!!! I hope she had a good time, she seems like a good kid (who is definitely not a content creator lol though she keeps up admirably)

Drista’s one of the few people who can make Tommy speechless lmaooo he looks actually shocked lol

Also first mention of GhostInnit…. cc!Tommy…..

Keep preparing…. Was his original plan to rush Dream even if (maybe especially if…) he died? Fuck man

Also holy shit was this stream right before Quackitys? ? amazing

This was honestly such a BLAST and a really good time, and I can see why its viewed as one of the few breaks we get during Exile :) I feel so refreshed and it was so so nice to have Tommy hanging out in L’manburg having fun with his friends (even if Tubbo was stuck being a Hallucination and Also Banned lol) No deeper insight, I just haven’t stopped smiling for an hour and a half <3

[businessbois]

hello blue :D i would like to know everything you would like to tell me about your favourite fic you've written

lyssie shrugofgod weirdly-enough this is the kindest thing ever i hope you're ready for vaguely comprehensible ranting.

okay so i couldn't choose between two fics "once i called you brother" and "the art and (mine)craft of war" because i could talk forever about both, but im gonna talk about "once i called you brother" because its the less popular one

heres the link :)

so i basically wrote this fic because i thought that the song "the plagues" from prince of egypt (or at least the opening lines) were incredibly perfect for c!tommy and c!techno and it was a shame that no one did an animatic for it yet. i cannot draw so i just wrote a fic for it.

once i called you brother once i thought the chance to make you laugh was all i ever wanted

is that literally not tommy with techno though?

and then the rest of the song can read as like doomsday or november 16th, you know, them arguing about selfishness and betrayal and all that. the song fucking slaps.

but anyways the fic itself? the opening is inspired by how like, if you didn't know who technoblade was during the beginning of the smp, he would just be this mysterious figure of legend that tommy, wilbur, or dream occasionally talked about. it hit me during the dream v technoblade duel stuff that since techno had never been on the smp before, he was just this invisible dude with a huge reputation and that was so cool to me.

"Alrighty, I've been here before, right?"

"Listen, Techn—Dream..."

these are quotes from tommy that i quoted in the fic. i used to do this a lot, just stick quotes with no context into fics because i assumed everyone had the same precise memory of everything that went on the smp that i did. the first one is referring to tommy being surrounded by people outside the community house and "i've been here before" is him remembering a similar scenario on smpearth and therefore technoblade. the second is when he accidentally calls dream techno (about 30 seconds into this comp) again adding to techno's thing of being just this widely alluded to figure.

"Who do you think will win? My bets on our boy, Dream, but feel free to be wrong."

Niki stays quiet, a small frown on her face.

i feel bad for cutting niki absolutely owning dream with "well, techno's my friend" but it simply couldnt stay in for fic purposes

waking up to a frantic Bitzel muttering about hypothermia and something heavy and red covering his shivering frame.

smpearth is canon because i Want it to be canon and in my canon there's a moment where tommy passes out in the middle of a fight and techno brings him back to business bay wrapped up in his cape because he's technosoft and all their fighting is more like play fighting anyways

Tommy knows that love is earned. That if he does well in some Championships, then his place in the family is secured.

this is inspired by the bet that wilbur and tommy had in like mcc8 that if they placed fifth or higher tommy could be in sbi. in tommy's pov it becomes, "you have to earn your place in this family."

“Because I’m not the vice president.”

this is from one of his exile streams where he's talking to dream about why people won't visit him anymore

Tommy is 10 and too big for his boots.

this section is inspired by tommy's story of how he met techno as told in this storytime.

there is something that flickers at the back of his mind when the ratty zombie child calls him The Blade.

i think it's so incredibly special that everybody calls techno The Blade but like,, that's tommy's nickname for him. theres this moment where tommy's talking about giving techno a nickname and techno's like "you call me The Blade!' again, everybody calls techno The Blade, but he tells tommy "you call me The Blade." like i don't know how to articulate this but, that's tommy's nickname for him. they're brothers.

Tommy's been to war with soft, pale blues.

ae reference because again, smpearth is canon cuz i said

Tommy is 13 and standing over the remains of Business Bay's storage area.

this is an smpearth thing. wisp and vop did a whole grief of business bay, it was very dramatic very tragic. the thing with techno coming to business bay to talk to tommy is from this comic and i hold this headcanon close to my heart.

"Tommy, if anyone gives you trouble—and I mean serious trouble, not the kind we have—you tell me.”

Tommy hears an echo of similar words from the man who just burnt down everything he’s worked for.

"Tommy, anyone that touches you fucks with me... I will kill Techno if it takes me all of my life to prepare for it, you understand me?"

im so proud of this parallel between wisp and techno man you have no clue. okay, so like i said before, the ae versus bb thing in my head is very much like play fighting. sometimes it gets serious like the scenario which is happening in the fic where things actually get destroyed. that's because they're stubborn teenaged boys and conflicts can go from fun to actual trouble real quick. these "similar words" and the following quote are references to one of my favorite wisp moments ever. wisp, for anyone unclear on smpearth backstory, was a part of business bay before he betrayed them for the antarctic empire. he was also the one who burnt down the storage area which is why tommy's remembering this quote so bitterly.

Tommy rolls his eyes. "I pinky promise, Technoblade." He sticks out his little finger like a challenge.

the pinky promising is Canon from like the post-exile streams i think and i headcanon it as something tommy just does with people

and so this is to put context to the "using techno" thing. because i've always kinda viewed as like calling in a friend (or a big brot—[gunshot]) in for help so this part of the fic gives it the background to be like that

But then, Tommy is 16 and standing in a cataclysm, once again watching everything he’s worked for get destroyed by a man who swore to protect him.

this line solidifies that parallel to wisp where techno made a similar promise to protect tommy and now he's destroying everything tommy's worked for (business bay in wisp's case, lmanburg in techno's case) im very proud of this parallel.

His tall brown-haired friend from competitions past

wilbur of course, the competitions past being mcm

He collects titles like music discs

i asked my friend for things that people collect and they said "records" and i said "wait—"

Technoblade is 17 and he has no family. He has a friend who makes sure he sleeps. He has a friend who creates bridges and mischief. He has a bug that he still hasn't squashed.

i've always loved the idea of sbi becoming this little found family on smpearth. like they're not super lovely dovey "we're like brothers" but they're so fond of each other and they hang out when they're not pretending to be at war. and so theres still that room to say that they're not family, but like they totally are

Bright blue eyes beg him for some entertainment, so Techno sighs and grabs The Complete Works of William Shakespeare off the shelf.

this headcanon that techno used to read them shakespeare comes from wilbur's offhand comment asking techno to recite king lear to them

Wilbur's planted himself at Techno's side for the duration of the finale, something that he's grateful for. Wilbur's always been his person to lean on for things like this.

inspired by i think wilbur saying that he was techno's like designated extrovert during mcc's and i really love that aspect of their relationship. because techno is looked at as "the older brother" in so many ways, but like in this way, when wilbur's guiding him through social situations and supporting him, he gets to be wilbur soot's little brother.

Technoblade never says I love you, but he reads his baby brother The Twelfth Night instead of Hamlet and ends Theseus' tale after the Minotaur.

this was one of the first things i had written for this fic. so obviously hamlet is a tragedy while the twelfth night is a rocking good time. so like going back to that shakespeare headcanon but techno protecting tommy in the little ways. the theseus part is inspired by me not knowing the rest of theseus' story after he gets home and his dad jumps into the ocean. like the exile and death stuff i didn't hear about until the dsmp so that's where that came from. techno, even though it kind of goes against who he is, leaving theseus' story as a victory where the hero slays the monster, just to give his little brother something with a happy ending

"Do you want to be a hero, Tommy? THEN DIE LIKE ONE!"

i did always think this could be seen as like "well if you want to be a hero, then you can die like one" and leaving off the unspoken "but if you don't want to be--if you choose not to be, then you get to live. so don't be a hero. please don't be a hero." and theres like that little tragedy there that i really love in techno and tommy's relationship. like, i love you, you love me, all i ever wanted was to make you laugh, but we don't speak the same language. we don't understand each other. everything you are is against everything i stand for. so yeah bedrock bros feels. i wrote this long before exile and all that so its even more complicated now gosh.