#and that was tommy analysis with relaxx! ty for reading! and rbs are encouraged B)

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Opinions on c!Tommy keeping the Axe of Peace? I always find people's opinions on this topic interesting :D

i think it really showed his personal growth. tommy for the entirety of his exile (and possibly even before it) had been relying on other people to determine his self worth. first wilbur, then dream, then techno.

the axe of peace was given to tommy when techno told him he was “finally worthy of it” (read: complacent in the destruction of his home, lol).

in the community house scene, tommy realizes he can’t stand by and let l’manberg be destroyed just for the chance of getting his discs back. in the heat of the moment, he says to tubbo— “the discs are worth more than you ever were!” and the second these words leave his mouth, he falls silent, he stops fighting. he realizes what he’s been doing is unhealthy. prioritizing the discs over l’manberg? over his friends, the people that love him?

he says right after this; “i’m worse than everyone i didn’t want to be.” he understands what has happened. he’s been blindly following techno for just a sliver of happiness or approval; and in that he has done horrible things without regard for others the way techno does (torture, hold hostages, terrorism, etc). he knows what he did was wrong. this is tommy “waking up” so to speak, to reality.

instantly he knows he can’t even pretend go against tubbo or destroy his home. he apologizes to techno before he can even fully articulate why— because he likes techno, genuinely, and feels bad that he has to switch sides. (he’s not even mad that techno is destroying l’manberg— he just recognizes he can’t stand for it).

anyway, long story short, tommy decides to stop pursuing the discs and instead side with his family and friends.

techno, feeling betrayed, asks tommy to give him the axe of peace back because “[he] was wrong, [tommy’s] not worthy.”

and tommy, who has just realized he doesn’t need others approval, who now knows that he can be confident in himself as long as he knows that he’s doing the right thing, responds: “no. i am worthy.”

it’s no secret i love this line. people don’t pay attention to it a lot, but i think it’s incredible because it proves just how far tommy has come. he doesn’t need techno’s approval to be worthy, he doesn’t have to do what anyone tells him to do— he just has to follow his heart and do what he knows is morally right.

in this action tommy chooses his family over the discs (which is why i cannot fucking understand the people who claim this scene is him choosing the discs over tubbo when he literally tells tubbo to give dream the disc). he proves himself worthy not only to himself, but it’s also his way of starting his atonement to tubbo for the hurt he’d caused with techno (because tubbo has a right to be angry about that and tommy is sorry).

all of this and more is why i love the fact that tommy kept that axe!

also, i’m kinda sad he buried it, but. hey. it was cool while it lasted