#cc!tommy critical

[obtusecock]

I’m normally fine with Tommy’s content but why was that stream so fucking weird I literally had to turn it off half way through because there was so much second hand embarrassment

[petrenocka]

I have a confession to make. You know how cc!Tommy often talks about people finding his content annoying? I am that people. I can't stand it. Hearing his internet-sona, especially his laughter, makes my left hand instinctively reach for alt+f4 on my keyboard.

But at the same time I LOVE Dream SMP. So whenever you see me talk about c!Tommy, know that chances are I got all my info from a Tumblr post or an animatic. And every time I say something like Mr. Tommy "main character" Innit it is derogatory, because I would like that to change.

This definitely makes me biased against c!Tommy and this is why I try to avoid speaking about him. Sometimes I still do, just because of how omnipresent he is, but my posts like that should be taken with all the salt in the world.

If anything is going to make me leave this fandom it would be Tommy-fatigue and it is a horrible way to go imo.

[limelocked]

alrigte so heres my critical take

i dont mind tommy dying and being brought back to life, even him being brought back to life soon after, what i do mind is all the character who were dealing with grief will have that arc of their slammed on the breaks the moment it gets out tommy is dead

and this type of arc isnt something u can just do again once somebody else or even tommy dies for real this time

what i really think would have been better if they wanted dream killing tommy and then brining him back (and i do think it woudlnt make much sense for dream to leave him dead too long the fucker is lonely and would probably be at least bit anxious to find out if he can bring tommy or if he just killed his last attachemt for good) they could have made it so dream killed tommy and then revived him without sam knowing

we would have the confirmation of revivial and tommyTrauma(TM) but the grief arc would still be in the chamber for the rest of the server

it just irritates me how much importantce is placed on tommy

even characters who never intearced with him went ahead and contepladed his death (looking at u foolish)

it feels like the world spins around him and everybody has to addapt and write around him if they wanna get involved in the lore

like i... i really dont wann criticize cc's but it feels lime cc!tommy is just incapable of having his character not be a center of a scene you know?

you know all those bug scenes like the festival/election/16th war there is always a crowd of ppl who are there to witness it but dont get much more than a word in edgewise and thats not bad on its own, big events just kidna be like that there are limited about of spotlights i just wish ppl would rotate in and out of them more you know? but its always tommy and tubbo, dream, and sometimes techno who take center stage in these

yeah i agree to most of this, its really not something that can happen again and my biggest criticism even if it makes sense Narratively for tommy to be revived so soon it was kinda jarring as a viewer to deal between the oh shit hes dead to suddenly no hes not (i also think its really funny that phil and techno just refused to believe that tommy was dead because they’re genre savvy and if you havent seen a corpse then theyre fine)

i really hope they do that tho, have tommy revived without other people in canon knowing for a while just so they can go on with their arcs, i just also hope that they actually continue their arcs earnestly even tho they have that meta knowledge that tommy is alive

and yeah that last bit i do agree a lot with even tho yeah i also dont want to criticize CCs too much, i wish the spotlight would move around to someone else BUT i do wanna make note that i will excuse foolishs reaction because man is a totem of undying and this is the first canon death hes been on the server to experience so i can understand him being effected even if he didnt know tommy, just cuz its like, its a Death Death