#forest of asphodel

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first time wilbur ever saw dream kill a crow for fun he full out jumped him. it did NOT go well for him but still. tommy got his love for animals from somewhere, wilbur just has different favorites.

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New to the party- whats foa?

foa stands for 'forest of asphodel' its the name of the dsmp au fic ive been workin on for some time now. the story deals with a lot of serious shit but i think the funniest way to describe it is "what if uk skins bUT...there was a fucked up forest?" i have a foa tag for the few unedited snippets ive posted and other posts relating to the au.

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foa tommy: *literally asking dream if he murdered his sister in law*

me writing: this is the perfect time for a twilight reference

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trying so hard to resist the urge to make a twilight reference in the middle of a very serious scene w tommy and dream in my fic

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dream teams trees have been decided w much help from @chekhxvsgun

-dreams tree is an evergreen yew and is the tallest of the three trees. it’s representative of death and is most often planted in graveyards.

-sapnap’s tree is a giant sequoia and is the tallest but youngest of the three trees. it’s representative of both his natural fire resistance as well as his survival abilities.

-george’s tree is a japanese cherry blossom, it’s the smallest but oldest and most beautiful of the three trees. it represents life and death, the dichotomy of beauty and violence.

their treehouse home is made from interconnected buildings built across the three trees

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no literally these are my notes about significant trees in foa from a week ago

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in my fic the last name “soot” only came about because wilbur is a petty little shit and decided to spite philza for abandoning them by getting rid of his last name and making his own

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meeting a monster (tommy’s memory of the first time he met dream)

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i’m already having so much fun writing foa dream. shouts out to puffy for helping raise him cause he was a fucking nightmare of a child. he kept a collection of dead birds in his and sapnap’s room and the whole trailer smelled like death for weeks. puffy said he couldn’t keep dead shit in the house anymore so he settled for collecting wings he pulled off of bugs.

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i’ve written the beginning of ‘dig up the dead’ (the chapter where tommy finds out wilbur is still alive/runs away from dream) in my head today while at work (including the specifics of how tommy escapes through a window by picking the lock with the arrow from his broken compass as well as the dramatic reveal that wilbur has been alive this whole time and is living in a fucking crypt under an old abandoned church)

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well i finally have a specific chapter named and partially planned for foa. that’s usually a good sign for me progressing on a story. anyways it’s called ‘dig up the dead’ and it’s the chapter where tommy runs away from dream and finds out that wilbur is still alive.

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Your Wilbur is a mood and that worries me

i mean, my wilbur tries to blow himself up in a drug lab and accidentally starts a forest fire so…it probably should

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if it wasn’t obvious crime boys are the center of my fic

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me: i should use long periods of solitude at work to think about my fic

me: *thinks about foa tommy and dream’s absolutely fucked up relationship*

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unrelated but i’ve decided that in my story there will either be a scene or it will be referenced that when wil was 14 and first starting his emo phase he wanted to get piercings but couldn’t afford it (also no adult around to sign for it) so 11 yo niki ends up piercings his ears on the floor of their trailer with a sewing needle and an ice cube. he does cry, and she does make fun of him.

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niki having to drag wilbur out of bed because he refuses to get up in the morning is a universal constant. i can see it in canon but also on regards to my story. i mean in the story they do share a room in the trailer for the first three years until sally moves in and fundy is born. and she has to wake him up in the morning because he always stays up too late and then can’t get up. she does this either by dragging him out of bed or if she doesn’t feel like it she’ll just call tommy tubbo and jack from the other room to dog pile him and jab him with their boney ass kid elbows until he gives in and gets up.