#the tummy kiss game is so flusteryyyyy what the heeecckkkk /pos

[fluffallamaful]

Llama! Hello, how are you? Hope you're doing well! :D

-long ask incoming-

Your last 3 sentence ficlet (lee Dream ler XD) was sooooo cute🥺. And it also kindaa reminded me of something I could absolutely see XD doing to Dream, espc when he was younger/a little kid still.

There's this game/deal kind of thing I know that older siblings propose to their baby siblings when they want something they're not really allowed to. (Irl I know it w stuff like watching wayy more TV or sth, but this is ingame mc so probably... climbing too high trees or exploring cave entrances?? Whatever kids in rl minecraft would get up to I suppose).

The thing with this "game" is.. it's setting the younger sibling up to fail. It's more like a tool for older siblings so they don't have to deny them outright yk?

The "game" itself is pretty simple. If the younger sibling comes to the older one and begs them to allow them to do otherwise "forbidden" stuff the older sibling proposes a deal:

If the younger sibling manages to lay down and keep from laughing/making a sound while their older sibling pushes up their shirt and plants a ticklish kiss (or raspberry, if they're feeling extra mean) on their tummy, then they're free to do whatever they want. But... since kids are terrible with anticipation that's almost never the case. (The most fitting translation I can manage for the name would probably be "tummy-kiss without laughing" or sth similar btw)

Now... we're probably in agreement that Dream doesn't handle anticipation very well, even as an adult. And as a kid he probably was way worse. So I'd imagine this "game" was a favorite of XD's to keep Dream from doing whatever dangerous shit he was about to get up to as a small child (/future-parkour-and-pvp-expert).

Your ficlet, especially the dialogue with the "its part of a deal" implication fit this so perfectly for me idk.... like XD dusted the game off when Dream was about to do something stupidly dangerous even for his current skills, bc he was being too cocky. And Dream thinking he'd be able to manage beating the game easily bc he's older now, he can hold in his laughter right? Wrong.

He'd forgotten to take into consideration that the flustering 'nostalgia' from these games you played as kids (i.e. like the tickle monster or this tummy-kiss game) always makes everything soo much harder, and so he finds himself already choking back his giggles as he goes to lay down on the ground. And with XD now looming over him and seeing their claws move for the bottom of his hoodie to push it up he's... not quite so sure that he's able to handle this anymore.

(Meanwhile XD is watching in amusement as their brother, who was soo confident just a few seconds before, lies on the ground, body tensed in anticipation, hands pulling at the grass, head turned to the side, face completely red and eyes tightly closed. They quirk a grin at the choked whine Dream let's out when they let one of their claws lightly graze his tummy, by accident of course, while pulling up his hoodie. He already lost. (That doesn't mean XD's going to stop though. There's no way he's wasting this opportunity... also leaving Dream so wound up would just be mean now, wouldn't it? :)

AHHHHHHHH juno this is so cute i was smiling the entire tiimmmeee eeeeeeee!!!!!

first off, im a sucker for childhood games suddenly coming up in adulthood, ESPECIALLY from older siblings 😭

second, the whole idea of dream having to stay still while XD places a single, harmless kiss on his tummy is absolutely too adorable for my brain to handle. and dream still not being able to do it even in adulthood is even more adorable

third, this ficlets are so much fun because they open up so much room for interpretation??? because you’ve taken it as XD has promised dream something in the future, but i wrote imagining that dream had already received the thing. and both of them work so perfectly.

because the first scenario (a future promise), involved dream having to agree to play XD’s games, to get the thing. which is just the whole admitting thing that makes anticipation so much more awful (“Ok fine, you can tickle me then…” and then having to actually lie down and lift arms up and everything)

but then in the second scenario (XD shows him something or brings him somewhere or allows him to do something first), then there’s several stages of, “well maybe they’re not serious.” or “ok they’re serious, but hopefully they’ll forget?” and agreeing to it. and then being so excited about the ‘something’, that they forget about the second half of the deal themselves. but of course XD does not.