#living crypt!tubbo

[sunlitmcgee]

living crypt!tubbo. by the by

[sunlitmcgee]

they're like. weird fucking babysitters.

if i have to suffer, so do you /silly

Hi sunny have you considered im not normal about them

[rozugold]

*knocks on doorframe* Hii Rozu

would. would you like.

would you like to hear about living crypt!tubbo...and the cannibalism. and the. the grief and teh. the c!allium ghosts. would you?

Oooo, yes I would 👀 🤲

[tjodity]

oh yeah some other misc details about living crypt while I'm remembering it all

>Michael is perfectly fine all throughout the living crypt body horror, and in fact does learn about it and is. just chill. kid's fine. he's told that dada and mimi are inside of papa and can hear him and see him and just takes it as a chance to jump onto Tubbo's lap whenever he came to hug and cuddle the three of them and ask them how they're doing. He is a real little troop about it honestly

>Wilbur has severe guilt induced nightmares about Tubbo eating him. He thinks this is all his fault somehow (as per always)

>Tubbo realizes the effects of cAllium inside of his body are very similar to pregnancy symptoms and jokes about it. constantly. when they're revived and time moves on and they're all a bit more Healed from the whole thing, he will casually refer to this period of their lives as "when I was pregnant with you two" much to Ranboo and Tommy's dismay.

>Tubbo feels Ranboo's fear of water! it doesn't burn him but he needs help with showers and gets startled when washing his hands or doing dishes sometimes. Ranboo feels bad for this

>Tubbo also experiences phantom soreness from Ranboo's unhinging jaw.

>Tubbo can chirp like an enderman and purrs when holding michael,

>Tubbo will sometimes refer to Wilbur as Wilby, fully without meaning to. Tommy gets very very quiet whenever this happens

GOD. I'm glad Michael does fine throughout. And I can fully see Wilbur blaming himself for the whole thing despite. not being there. The thing with Tubbo adopting some of Allium's mannerisms and fears and little day to day things is soo good

[sunlitmcgee]

I think that living crypt tubbo would learn about gl!tubbo's issues with eating grass when tommy's merged with the smp and would call her a fucking pussy

[sunlitmcgee]

OH THAT'S RIGHT it was someone else( I forgorted)

i should mention that since Ranboo and Tommy are both haunting Tubbo's body, it's Ranboo himself who has to tell Tubbo not to eat it. Which is both sad and funny, because he does it like he's pulling a little animal away from a house plant. like no. honey no. don't eat that. you'll get sick

crunch i vaguely remember someone, maybe u, mentioningin tags on that ask i sent about ctubbo cannibalism about him eating cRan's ender pearl and just wanna let you know that he doesn't do that in my fic ONLY! because the ender pearl has fluid inside that would make him very very sick. he does carve it out to keep as a comfort object tho!

OH THAT WASNT ME that was @terezicaptor !!! I do think the idea of it is SUPER interesting tho

[sunlitmcgee]

If I had a nickle for every time I made an au where cTubbo has a deeply sensual relationship to his body through a lens of it being a direct connection to hs loved ones, all through the lens of grotesque body horror, I would have 2 nickles. not much but I'm noticing a theme in what I do with this guy

[sunlitmcgee]

on grief, hunger, death, and providing sanctuary for departed souls.

[sunlitmcgee]

these kids deserve better men than you. and knowing that makes you sometimes wish you were the ones with teeth sinking into your hearts.

[rozugold]

@sunlitmcgee

[sunlitmcgee]

living crypt!Tubbo has his period at some point and cTntduo have to help with that while the poor boy has a meltdown because now he's experiencing two body horror situations at once

[sunlitmcgee]

Can I ask, is there like. a synopsis for the living crypt au you've put anywhere? It sounds very interesting and I intend to read the fics you've put out abt it but I'm curious

I can just give a quick rundown of the major plotpoints right here!

>AU follows canon up until the prison break, where c!Ranboo is still killed by c!Sam, but c!Tommy is also killed by c!Dream while he's tending his garden at his hobbit home. Dream leaves his body there to revive later and sneaks off to nurse his wounds and recover after the prison.

>Tubbo finds c!Allium's bodies and brings them back to the mansion. He is very much dissociated during much of what follows. In his grief-sick state of mind, he sees himself of having three choices: leave them out to where Dream can use revival to torture them, bury them and let them rot into flowers, or bring them both into his body where they'll be safe and with him always.

>He goes with the third option. Graphic, sick, very sad cannibalism follows. He eats a good portion of their bodies before he can't fit anymore and goes to take a shower, where he briefly wakes up to find himself covered in blood, sore, and Heavy from the physical weight inside of his stomach.

>When Tubbo wakes back up and looks in the mirror, he starts to hear Tommy and Ranboo's voices in his head. He shrugs these off as hallucinations and goes to take care of Michael.

>They aren't hallucinations.

>Tubbo realizes this when he gets hungry again and goes back into the master bedroom. The mansion is so cold that the bodies are preserved and aren't gonna rot for a very, very long while. c!Allium aren't bothered by what Tubbo did, because they can feel how sad and heartbroken he is, since their souls are now apparently bound within Tubbo's body. They feel what he feels (physically and mentally), see what he sees, etc etc. Hence the title "Living Crypt."

>Tubbo eats more of Alliumduo's remains as the days go on, with him doing that when he's not taking care of Michael, violently dissociating, or otherwise just Not having the greatest of time, meanwhile their spirits are there trying to hard to comfort him from within.

(small pause to mention that they can control Tubbo's body to an extent. The shared sensations go both ways. Tubbo feels their concern and tenderness towards him, and can feel their souls move around underneath his skin whenever they touch certain parts of his body. It's tender, loving, affectionate homoplatonic parasitism as a form of grief and comfort towards a loved one in mourning.)

>After maybe a week(?) cTNTduo finally realize they have no clue where those kids they care about are and get worried. Serial killer on the loose and all. They go to the mansion to find Tubbo there playing with Michael. He gets Very Quiet when they show up, and wordlessly leads them to the bedroom, all the while Wilbur is asking questions, mostly about Tommy.

>He shows them the bodies. What's left of them, anyway.

>Yeah

>yeaaaaahhhhh

>Quackity ofc doesn't judge Tubbo in the slightest, being that he also has done a cannibalism. He doesn't quite relate to Tubbo doing it out of love and grief but like. he gets it. He agrees to help Tubbo try to get them back and drags Wilbur along with it, with the two taking on the much needed role of "Mature Adult Caregivers" while they try to get a hold of Dream or another revival book to undo this whole mess.

>plot stuff happens that I haven't quite figured out.

>but in the end of it all, cAllium DO get revived in restored bodies. and yeah it's messy and painful when Tubbo feels them being torn out of him and basically has to vomit their souls back up. but in the end they're gonna get better and talk shit through and recover. and cDream will explode. happy ending is happy if messy.

[sunlitmcgee]

Literally so excited for when the time comes I'm able to write out the utter Bonkers Excuses living crypt au!Quackity comes up with to excuse Tubbo cannibalizing alliumduo's bodies. Like...he ate schlatt's heart! he isn't bothered by it! granted he did it for very different reasons based around Hate and Revenge towards an abuser, rather than out of love and grief, but really wilbur, REALLY WILBUR, are you REALLY THAT GROSSED OUT BY IT. really?!!

[sunlitmcgee]

sometimes Papa acts like he's done something wrong. If he did, then it's alright.

[sunlitmcgee]

obligatory tag for @possuminnit, more long formed and wordy so it's gonna be its own post instead of an ask.

I think there's something unintentionally powerful about the fact that in the Living Crypt AU, c!Allium don't go to Limbo when Tubbo eats them, nor are the ghosty remains of them in Tubbo's body separate people like with Ghostboo and to an extent with Ghostbur.

c!Allium are themselves when their inside of Tubbo. They are their whole complete personalities with their memories, for the most part, intact. And I think there's something THERE. Something about how it takes the total consumption of a dead person's flesh to preserve their soul without any Limbo Fuckery Fracturing. Something how tearing the body and breaking it down through digestion doesn't damage the soul but rather keeps it wholly complete, aware, and awake inside of the body that absorbs it. The flesh is not the soul, but the soul is never wholly separated from the flesh. Ranboo is his whole self inside of Tubbo, while Ghostboo was a slowly rotten husk growing more putrid and scattered by the day. We never saw Ghostinnit, but at the very least can assume that inhabiting a loved ones body would be a much more comfortable afterlife than the sensory deprived void of Limbo.

there's just something to it. about flesh and soul and holding on and making a loved one part of you, giving them a home inside of you where they can exist safely.

[sunlitmcgee]

hey I wrote a chapter 2 thing

@possuminnit has influenced me to write a part 2 to the primary living crypt!tubbo fic by talking with me about this AU's silly angsty nonsense!!!! woe to you all!!! or joy? idk I'm just the author

Have at ye!

@prophecy-anon @oranboo @vivyainou