#rivals duo

[simplepotatofarmer]

c!rivals duo au that i've been spinning in my head.

techno moves into a new home. the previous owners said it was a bit strange, especially the old shed that's flush against the house, looking out of place. it's locked, has been for years, but it's never felt right to them. when techno cleans it out, he notices a loose board. behind the board, a missing brick, and inside the hole: a stack of papers.

reading them, they seem to be pages of someone's journal. some pages carry multiple entries. they mostly talk about how many days have passed, the sound of birds or rain outside, how the person writing wishes they could go outside, just for a bit. techno assumes they must've come from some shut-in, maybe someone bedridden. he doesn't throw them away for some reason but weeks go by before he remembers to replace the brick and fix the board.

when he goes to do so, there's more pieces of paper.

something strange is going on. how did they get there? no one's been on his property, he's certain. the dogs would've known. and the entries.... they read less like someone shut-in because of illness or disability but like someone who is being held against their will. it's not the kind of weird techno signed up for.

he buys a couple cameras to put up around the yard and he checks the footage in the morning. nothing. a rabbit that dug in under the fence but hurried away when it smelled the dogs but nothing more. except there's more pages. he pulls everything out of the shed. he checks the crawlspace under the house.

part of him feels bad for filling in the hole because if it's not a prank, then whoever is writing these entries is going through a heck of a time. but he fills it in. he doesn't check the next day despite wanting to. he reads the news. a body was found about thirty miles away. john doe. it happens.

the next morning, curiosity finally gets the best of him and he goes to check the shed. it's locked, just like it was when he first moved in. he never had the key so he had to cut it off but it's the same lock. when he cuts it off again (the bolt cutters slip just like the first time and leave a mark in the door just like the first time), the pages are there in the hole. the same ones.

he thinks he has to be going crazy, right? he goes to compare these pages to the ones he saved but they're gone. checks the date. that can't be right. did he just hallucinate an entire month? the next day, he checks the hole first thing in the morning. another piece of paper.

on a wild whim, techno takes a piece of paper, writes a short message, and puts it in the hole.

he doesn't expect a reply. but he gets one: 'sam? is this a trap?'

techno begins communicating with the person writing the letters. he asks them what their name is. what's happening. dream explains he's being held captive. he doesn't know where. he makes jokes sometimes and draws smiley faces and once the only response techno got to his message was the word 'idiot' in caps. underlined.

he pours over everything dream tells him, looking for clues. missing persons turns up nothing. it's like dream never existed. then one day, there's a news article. a body found. john doe. dumped around thirty miles away from where techno lives.

the next morning, techno wakes up and goes to the shed. it's locked, just like it was when he first moved in. he never had the key so he had to cut it off but it's the same lock. when he cuts it off again (the bolt cutters slip just like the second time and leave a mark in the door just like the second time), the pages are there in the hole. the same ones.

[glazsirok]

bandage him up

[takomakiii]

optimized horse riding

[icara-mack]

happy @sixteenth-day-event everyone! hi doomsday enjoyers accept me please Went with: the past repeated. L’manburg’s about to go boom (sorry)

[nekioe]

Towards new Beginnings

(and healing, hopefully)

Happy new year @ooh-dream 🎆❤️ this is my @rivalsduogiftexchange gift for you :3 I tried to draw something that could be the part of one of those rivals duo healing au's where Techno saves Dream from prison and help him heal <3

[robinthinkstoomuch]

Gift for @justcallme-ange for the @rivalsduogiftexchange !!

I hope you like it <3!!

[caviar-of-course]

You see them on your doorstep. Your actions?

[justcallme-ange]

"Techno also fell to his knees, fighting a sob. It was the kind of guilt that manifested as rage in his chest. A grief that led him to violence.

Channeling it, he ripped the bars from the ground with his hands. They twisted and contorted under his strength, snapping away with a clang.

Phil watched with his jaw hanging open. Dream, hand still tight over his mouth, could only blink in surprise."

Of Threadbare Birdcages

Hope you don't mind that I took a little bit of artistic liberty with the scene. ^^; @lookinghalfacorpse

[clover-paatch]

the alt version says "that prison break was shit"

based off this

[theftshrubbery]

To Victory! 🎏🛡️

[simplepotatofarmer]

so Technos stuck in a time loop and at the end of it, im assuming Dream dies and gets found thirty miles away from Techno before it resets with the night

im going out on a limb and guess the timeloop stops when Techno finds Dream and prevents his death 👀

how many loops does it roughly take? is Dream aware of the timeloop? im guessing not since the first letters Techno finds are the exact same

yes, your hunch is correct! it always resets when c!dream dies (or right around then) and the 'win condition' is saving dream.

i haven't decided exactly how many loops they go through but there's probably about a dozen. some that are almost the same and at least one or two c!techno almost finds dream in time. one where he manages to find c!sam but not the location and the loop resets sooner than usual. so he has to be careful.

dream isn't aware but techno does usually explain it to him through the letters and in later loops, dream is quicker to believe him which kind of implies there's some memory that he's holding onto.

i haven't worked the entire thing out completely, honestly. the setting is the hardest bit because i like the visual of things like the news paper and techno checking the grainy camera footage but i'm also a sucker for, y'know, big pig techno and weird mechanics.

so i gotta work that out. i just really wanted an au like this.

[maruteru]

they help him after the prison<33

(i just love this trio so much so i draw another one)

[glazsirok]

im dead..........mentally

[ketchupmonster52]

I don’t care is he’s a villain, he’s a villain with CURLS

[sugarnies]

Rivalsduo Blob Au doodles

Ajdhhsaj I had this idea hours ago and i had to draw it ajsjsj

Imagine that dream cannot return to its original form, however he still has some magic in himself being a demigod, it's just that neither he nor techno had any idea until they noticed that they manifested in different ways

Also imagine the sneeze of a cat or a hamster ajdhsjsj