#ctommy will always possess him

[icebear4president]

"I was sitting there thinking I wish it could have ended differently, and then I realized holy shit, I can. I always had that ending in my head, it meant so much to me, [ctommy] was the most important thing to me in that moment."

Why is this so special, actually? Just someone loving something they created and being proud of it. It's nice to see Tommy still so attached to that little minecraft character, and finally having the ending he wanted.

It's nice closure for DSMP and c!Tommy fans because we didn't get a happy ending, but we got something close to it. And when you think about, "Getting there" is something more people can relate to. Not everything is perfect in c!Tommy's life, but he's making the best of it like a lot of us.

Give a big thank you to Mr. Innit who's just as attached, or literally even more, than us.

[one-chaotic-neautral]

Im officially asking to be crowned as "sbi!atla au's #1 fan" because im ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED, YOU HAVE NO IDEA IM SO HYPED!!!

!DISCLAIMER IM ABOUT TO WORD-VOMIT!↓

Okok at first i thought that Techno would 100% be a fire bender but after reading ur explanation it makes so much sense for his character to be a water bender

And (just an idea! You don't have to include it or anything) i would love to see people assuming he's a non bender bc he fights without using water and then he just STARTS CONTROLLING THEIR BODY!! BECAUSE THATS THE ONLY(?) FORM OF WATER BENDING HE KNOWS!!

Like- that could be a huge character arc for him; learning to use water bending in other forms

Anywayy, im just brain storming here lol

Also, i love niki as a firebender! It matches her dsmp character so much and it gives so much potential for her

For me, I definitely see Tommy as a firebender, he's got a personality that could only be described as 'fiery', hes THE personification of fire;

Persistent, ambitious, never giving up, fiercely protective, and even, consistent and unchanging

Because if we take a look at his dsmp character, he's all of the above! And please let me explain the last two

Ctommy went through a lot of changes and situations but at his core level, he kept those same characteristics that defined him from the start of the story, till the very end.

Yes, he matured and grew up, yes he went through trauma that definitely influenced him heavily

But he (and if you'd allow me this comparison here>) never became a whole different person like i believe cwillbur did. Cwillbur went from an ambitious leader fighting against corruption and false-power to --not only siding with said self-proclaimed figures of power -- but also becoming so corrupt himself, that he got lost inside the chaos around him, and the chaos inside his mind

CTommy never did. Even if it became borderline obsessive at some point, he knew what he wanted/what the goal was;

The discs and L'manburg

The discs; a symbol of friendship to his best friend tubbo (reminding him of who was beside him at those early dsmp moments), and also a symbol of capability for himself. He alone acquired those discs. Not by stealing them, without any help. His first time having something entirely his. It's a symbol of strength, of confidence. A way of showing that he can do anything himself, if he wished.

And L'manburg; a symbol of revolution, of resistance against the ones hungry for power. A symbol of equality, togetherness, brotherhood, family even!

C tommy always stayed true to those two, whether it was the physical embodiment of those or the things they symbolised.

And i just realised I've been rambling about ctommy for around 10 paragraphs, the spirit of ctommy possessed me. I genuinely don't know what took over me, but im definitely not getting saved if im analyzing dsmp in our year of our lord and saviour Twich Prime, 2024

(IM SORRY, I HAD TO)

Anywayyyyy

Anything you decide to do with ranboo, i think would be a great choice. I'd love them as the avatar, but I'd love anything you do with them either way

THANK YOU FOR DOING MY BOYS TUBBO AND SAM JUSTICE!! THEY'RE DEFINITELY EARTHBENDERS, NO ONE CAN CHANGE MY MIND!

Thank you for reading all that, and for making the au! It's honestly amazing :D

(also you don't have to post this ask if you don't want to!)

(ill be waiting for permission to put "#1 'whatever name you decide it should be' au fan" on my blog)

Have a great day/night ^-^

You have absolutely permission for the crown, and I Love hearing your thoughts on this!!

I like the idea of Techno only being able to bloodbend at first, and I think I may incorporate that more into his narrative more now.

What I was thinking for his backstory was that he was ostracised and cast out from his village as a young child, being born albino with red eyes instead of blue he was considered cursed (or at best the child of an affair), but when his bending talent manifested he could only bloodbend which scared his people thinking he was a demon or something, so they left him in the tundra to die.

He survived ofc, but the isolation and trauma of living alone for so long manifested the voices (like schizophrenia but I think maybe it's instead a sign of the blood god worsened by schizophrenic symptoms). He always had them, urging him to bloodbend, but they were worsened to become noticable during that time. The bloodbending and albinism being the blessing / incarnation of the blood god, kinda like Yue was of the moon spirit when she was a baby.

He later learns to control water too, but I think he's quite a skilled swordsman, so for his fighting technique that doesn't involve bloodbending he uses weapons he's waterbended into shape and turned to ice. I'm working on some designs for this I'll post later, but in his updated ref you can see a hilt on his belt which he'll make the blade out of ice with (he could do the whole thing, but it'd be cold and uncomfortable, as well as less structurally secure).

The pole on his back works to make his axe and stuff. Then I think he makes a trident out of plain ice. This also gives them the appearance of being blue like diamond gear which I think is neat.

Tommy is also such a great character to work with, even if Techno's my fav Tommy's probably going to be the main protagonist if I get round to making a narrative. You're so right that he embodies all the firebender traits, I think I will end up going with firebending for him now.

I'm not sure if I'll include c!dream in this au or not considering I'm not really into him, but he does have a lot of involvement in Tommy's dsmp lore and development. If I do bring him in then he'd probably do the classic manipulation, probably try to 'train' tommy or smth and isolates and controls him.

I imagine Tommy's bending is actually pretty weak, or starts out that way cause he never had a proper teacher (methinks the other help him later), which makes him a bit insecure and leads to him learning how to be resourceful in other ways cause he can't rely on it.

I really like the discs being something he didn't steal but earned. I think one of the reasons that they'll be so important to him now in the au is because he's a poor thief who's had to steal everything in life to survive, so to have something he wholly earned himself, along with the symbolism of them, is something that means a lot and he takes pride in it. Thanks for bringing that up cause it'll be very useful for his development.

Just gonna leave it with those two for now, I should head to bed haha, good morning/night!

There's so many things I wanna do with this au, Thank you for showing an interest in it, it makes me want to finish more of my drawings lol :)

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i feel like no one ever talked about inconsolable differences vod ending and the terrifying silence from ctommy it closes on bc it lives in my head. how the beginning of the end start with tommy being upset over the fact he trusted wilbur with his most prized possessions his disk which in the lore it is used symbolically of his own life and a bargaining chip in the smp, being destroyed by dream under wilbur's demand. where as tommy starts ranting about how every time that he trusted wilbur it practically always backfired on him, and once wilbur brings out the unscathed original disks a wave of silence and realization falls onto him, that dream no longer has the disks over his head as wilbur promised him, but he isnt free, dream had made it clear to him multiple times that he could revive him and kill him again, he made it clear that he would go after the people he cares about as well, who is not to say that dream would hold their lives over tommy's head instead?

wilbur created himself to be bigger than dream, to be smarter than him to tommy at the cost of tommy's destress, just to leave the next time we see them together after stating he apologized to everyone he wanted to, he never apologizing to tommy, he never stayed to face the consequences of his actions, just like what he did to lmanburg, it doesn't matter where he goes he always leaves tommy picking up the pieces.

[plaguethewaters]

dash got me thinking about the cwillbur finale and like. I didnt like it entirely, but it really does show how much of a perfect foil cwil is to ctommy.

The dsmp is at its core a story about selfishness, right. And Tommy is selfish, so wholly sefish it consumes him: his selfishness brings him to care, deeply, to affection and possessiveness and, ultimately, to sacrifice. That's his nation, his friends, his discs his pet his house, and hell be damned if he doesnt do anything in his power to keep them safe and to keep them his.

Wilbur's selfishness makes him scared. Yes that's his nation, but what if he loses it? What if he loses the election, that cant be must rig it, what if he loses his following cant be gotta be the best leader - he is constantly afraid of losing everything so much that he forgets to enjoy it. And when it comes to standing up to his own worst fear, his reaction is always to flee. Where tommy kills himself for that which he loves, Wilbur is so scared that he runs away before anyone can leave him.

So obviously he doesnt apologize to tommy. obviously he runs away to Utah. What would he do if tommy wasn't his anymore, if he finally saw through wilburs stupid facade and decided he wasn't enough?

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

Yeah sorry i meant grief but i put down blow up cuz i was typing too fas tbut yk what an interesting thing is about that trial before ctommy got exiled is that cgeorge actually didnt want ctommy exiled and he should of had the say in what happened because it was his house. He was fine with ctommy going on probation and even says he was fine with that. But its no surprise that cdream didnt listen

Well yeah bc c!Dream doesn’t actually give a shit about anyone’s wants or feelings except his own. He's a character defined by love, but it’s a selfish love. c!George's wishes were and always are irrelevant to c!Dream, even though he does see him as a friend. To c!Dream, friendship only counts if you orient your life 100% around him and never do anything he doesn’t like and give up all sense of control. Otherwise, that’s a betrayal, and therefore he needs to distance himself from you, which isn’t his fault and it’s you isolating him.

He cares deeply and easily, in a way that’s toxic and possessive and cruel. I focus on c!Tommy when I discuss this element of c!Dream's personality, because it’s most apparent and most extreme there (mostly because c!Dream responds to any perceived defiance from c!Tommy with amusement instead of instantly cutting him off from his life) but it’s apparent everywhere. He turns cold when anyone he sees as a friend or an ally expresses any sort of interest in life or people outside of him. Essentially, to him, friends are like dolls he gets to play happy family with when he likes and treasure as a possession, and not living breathing people of their own.

It’s a very childish viewpoint, but c!Dream IS childish- more so than c!Tommy in many ways, and far more in denial about it. He plays the cool mature villain, but it’s a mask- both literally and figuratively.