#this is a ctommy ramble i love him

[goosewizard]

chat i would like to propose in universe ctommy tattoo artist

(also on ao3)

tommy doesn't remember when he started tattooing.

he has a small stick and poke from l'manberg, something stupid he and tubbo did one night with sewing needles and ink. a lopsided 'T' still rests on his ankle, and he knows tubbo has a matching one. they're small and faded and dumb to look at but they face the other when the two stand side by side, and that's enough for them both.

(he remembers tubbo had looked at it in awe after it was done, asking if he could do a bee next, and tommy figured he may have to get more serious about blood-borne diseases)

he practices on himself, writes out POGCHAMP on his knuckles (and then thanks Prime that hand tattoos fade fast). he sports two uneven black circles above his right knee, with small blobs of green and purple in their centers. wilbur had commented on how they looked like a particularly nasty bruise, but tommy found fresh needles, gloves, and rotten flesh on his bed later, so he'd like to call it even.

(besides, he likes how it looks)

he had garnered a bit of a reputation after that, working on whoever would let him. tubbo gets his bee, a whole swarm of them really, niki gets flame dancing up her arm, fundy asks for something or other, but they could never really figure out the logistics of it. it was good for a while.

and then open wounds are too much of a risk to take.

and then they're free.

and then there's schlatt.

in the quiet of pogtopia, wilbur asks him for a flag, the flag, right over his heart. tommy scoffs but takes extra time making sure the ink he's using is just the right color. it had been some of his finest work. wilbur had loved it.

(he tries not to think about how there's a scar running through it now. he guesses some things were never meant to last after all.)

tommy would say that he doesn't do touch-ups, that all his work is perfect the first time and you can suck it.

that rule doesn't quite apply when his best friend has been burned to shit, taking tommy's craftsmanship with it. the skin is obliterated, raw and open, and the bees are gone. tommy offers to do them again, right then and there while tubbo's still hopped up on painkillers, but tubbo just shakes his head and says maybe later.

later doesn't come for a very long time.

when he comes to tommy, back still raw and bandaged, quackity asks for his wings back. he says fuck no but changes his answer to not now when quackity crumples. a few months later, when he all but sobs at his reflection, tommy pretends not to notice.

tommy doesn't tattoo dream.

(he wishes he didn't tattoo himself then, but the smile on his wrist stares up at him, taunting)

(it had been the only thing dream allowed to heal)

he's worse at it when he gets revived back. his hands shake. he's out of practice. his lines are sloppy. he puts a lily of the valley on his calf. it looks like shit.

he does it just to know he's alive sometime, tells people he's 'practicing' when he stabs lines into his skin. it doesn't hurt him, not really, it's just-

tommy doesn't really know. he's so tired nowadays.

it's tubbo that brings him out of it in the end (it's always tubbo isn't it?). he gifts tommy a machine he made himself with new needle adapters, says it should be a lot faster now and you could do the bees again, if you want, and that's it really.

they start on tubbos sleeve that night, laughing like they're 16 again and talking, really talking. it's been so long since they've been together like this. tommy tries out his new machine on rotten flesh, gets a feel for it before he works on his best friend, his brother. as they sketch the design, the sun rises and tubbo has to run home to take care of his son (when did he get a kid?), promising to be back before long.

(tommy thinks of all the promises tubbo has broken)

(he doesn't break this one)

when he comes back, tommy pours the ink with shaking hands and tells his brother you don't have to trust me again. you can live your new life and i'll make do. i never wanted to hurt you. i didn't mean it. if this sucks it's all your fault. tubbo smiles at him, easy and understanding and says yeah, alright.

i still love you enough to stay.

the lines wobble a bit and tubbo has to take deep breaths on the tender parts because he actually does have pain receptors on that side you asshole, but he smiles as he says it. he leaves with his arm wrapped and a promise to care for his new ink, and there's a weight off tommy's chest.

to his surprise, ranboo comes to see him next, hands twisting and looking like a deer set to bolt. they ask for a crown on their left wrist. small. simple. and something that would have taken 15 minutes if they would stop teleporting away every time the needle fucking touched them.

(ranboo ends up calling tubbo to keep them still. the hand-holding and flirting is gross)

(tommy's happy for them)

tommy finishes tubbo's sleeve, and ranboo honest-to-god swoons when they see it and they're all laughing their asses off and before he knows it he's meeting their kid who's so little and looks up at tommy with his big eye and touches his tattoos gently and with so much wonder that it hurts to look at and it's too much and he bolts.

the next time tommy sees the kid (michael, his name is michael), he has marker scribbles all over himself, says like you! in toddler babble, and tommy thinks he may be able to swing an apprenticeship someday.

he sees more people after that. he thinks there's less fighting now, or maybe just less fighting directed at him. he appreciates it, either way. connor gets a sonic tramp stamp, go figure. niki comes back, asks for a lemon branch, and tommy pretends he doesn't know the meaning behind it. quackity comes in, disheveled, and quietly asks for the name Charlie over his heart. tommy does it at no charge. his eternal nuisance ranboo gets alliums and tulips winding up their arms in black and white ink, their husband holding them down all the while.

no, tommy does not cry, he is a professional.

with enough time and some very generous "anonymous" donations, tommy builds a tattoo shop, a real one with clean quartz interior and shiny new chairs and work stations. he offers his tom-toos to whoever passes by, and his portfolio grows bigger by the day. the shop is safe (tubbo's fucking nukes ensure that) and on special days, michael helps him stencil his clients.

wilbur comes in once, and tommy has the strength to say no. wil doesn't come back after that.

tommy doesn't remember when he started tattooing, but now, as he looks across the SMP and sees little pieces of him across boundary and faction lines, on friends and enemies, he thinks he'd be a fool to ever stop again.

[celestesparlour]

EEE YES i would like to think their feelings towards one another would be different in this au. because it would be SUCH a very long time until if ever pandora decides to set out on the overworld. it would be extremely awkward between each other, as they no longer can recognize who they are anymore

[briarborealisart]

of course! because ultimately dream's dynamic with tommy was never really about anything other than having power over him. i mean, sort of it is, but the main point is that it's an abuse narrative. dream just wants power, therefore so much of dream's character is about him trying to justify his actions to others, not because he wants to be seen as justifiable, but because he needs to be seen as "the good guy" in order for him to maintain power. look, guys, he's not evil, people just drove him to this. look, guys, tommy deserved it, he got what he had coming, and honestly, who likes that guy anyway? look, guys, look at what quackity did to me, everyone else is cruel to me, why shouldn't i fight back?

dream isn't exactly a one note villain, but much of the contradiction in his apparent motivations can be summed up by the fact that he just wants to fuck shit up. he wants things to go his way and he wants to hurt the people who oppose him so that there'll be no chance of things not going his way. any reasoning he can grasp at that lets him do these things effectively is going to be good for him.

he calls tommy annoying because he knows it'll wear him down. if he can make tommy really, truly believe that all of this is his fault, that his actions and behavior and personality are the single root cause of everything bad that happens to him, then tommy won't fight back. hell, he might even be grateful if dream offers him his presence, so kindly, when tommy knows he's annoying to be around.

tommy IS annoying sometimes. and he's irresponsible and crass and doesn't think before he acts almost ever. but that's not the point. the point is that dream wants tommy to take the blame for everything, because if he can scapegoat tommy, if tommy can scapegoat himself, then nobody will think that dream is in the wrong when he tries to "fix" him.

not that it's about fixing him, either. i believe there's a line somewhere— it's not about fixing him. its about the fact that dream finds him fun.

second thought of the night. there’s this line in an exile vod that really debunks cdream’s whole “people drove me to this” monologue. he’s hanging out w tommy i think tommy’s mining and he’s acting really pissy about everything and dream goes “can’t you at least admit that you’re annoying? can’t you say im tommy and im annoying and I kind of deserve it.”

which is like. firstly thats fucking crazy and such a highschool bully thing to say to someone. secondly, it totally destroys cdream’s assertation that he did the shit he did because he was hurt, he was slighted, that the victims had wronged him. cause he doesn’t say ‘you deserve it because you were destructive,’ ‘because you disturb the peace’ ‘because you start wars,’ what he says is ‘annoying.’ that’s tommy’s big crime that gets him exiled. cdream doesn’t have a leg to stand on. BUT the unreliable narrator thing is very cool in its own right and i do love him as a villain. 

[bugflies00]

at the end of the day when people strip ctommy of his follower role it will never hit in the same way. it would be possible for him to grow and to learn to stick around with people in a way that doesn't keep him strung along and hurting, but you can't just remove that aspect entirely. ctommy being physically unable to give up on people is one of (if not THE) core part of his character. that's who he is. he doesn't know when to give up, on a joke that's gone old, on a country, on his brother he just CAN'T he's too ATTACHED . obviously it's codependent and it hurts him but i just. sometimes it feels like in fics where he detaches himself from cwil for example it feels cold and surgical . It would never ever be that easy for him it wouldn't just be "protecting my peace cutting toxic people off😘" that's not who he is and that's not who c!wilbur is either. they're both so messy and complicated and emotionally stunted that flattening them to a "guy who should drop off his toxic brother immediately" doesn't work. There's real love and care in there and i also think that it does a disservice to ctommy after a certain point in the story, when he's more jaded and mature and has a more accurate read on his life and situation and relationships, to assume that he's always just sticking around for people by default. of course sometimes it feels like the only thing he CAN do, but part of it is a choice. ctommy's fatal flaw is not giving up but he also makes the CHOICE of loyalty. he chooses to stay with people even when it hurts him sometimes. that's his personal choice and he knows firsthand the consequences. i'm not saying it's the right one or whatever i'm just saying we should acknowledge that as he grows up, i'm really talking towards the very very end of the story here, he has more autonomy than what we give him credit for. and i think it's more complicated than just "its hurting them both so they need to cut off contact forever". They are both very complicated. Ok ramble over

[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 :)

[metfell]

Whats your favourite design quirk for each of cbench? I always love hearing how these things came to be !!

allow me to pull up some of my art for you and i will ramble- oh my god it has been literally so long since ive done colored artwork i am so sorry everyone wow the depression is visible i see. ANYWAYS.

so its funny trying to talk about designs when so much of how i draw them is just "this is ctommy but in a different outfit" so ill go into stuff that is always visible on them

i think my favorite consistency is ctubbos mismatched horns, its something that i think signifies it as My Tubbo Design. i saw a picture of a highland cow back in 2021 and i thought it fit him perfectly and ive never gone back ever since then. i started drawing tubbo as more butchy recently mainly because of boss and his source stuff to be perfectly honest, he has a lot going on in there. but its fun to take a character who is very often like... twink-ified? and make him into a stone dyke butch. well, idk if hes twink-ified these days, but back in 2021-2022 he sure was. i think giving tubbo a wider build- something these two images dont rlly do but whatever we'll work with it- is really great as a visual signifier for being guarded. hes a square hes got his massive snowchester coat on with its big furry coat and his hair covers his eyes and hes got a laurel wreath to signify coming home from war/being victorious in battle/etc. and he wasnt always a moobloom much like my little fic talked about, he used to be a human but the firework explosion fucked him up so bad the server had to stitch him back together with code from mobs. so the server grows a laurel on him and the server hardens him and tries to make him more resilient for the next fight.

i got insane abt tubbo let me move on to ranboo. i have so much fun drawing ranboo i really enjoy playing around with hair length and horn shape and leg anatomy etc. i used to be a fan of the straight split down the middle of their halves but i just love the mottled look so much i have to do that, mainly because i think it makes an artwork look a bit more polished for my own standards for myself. a lot of my ranboo design is an exercise in balance. his halves are black on the left white on the right, so his hair is flipped to make it more interesting, i give them the classic metfell hair flip because a)ranboolives hair moves like that already, and b)it lets me play around with giving them a little crown on the opposite sides horn. also i give them a bolo tie because i dont think cranboo can actually tie a regular tie if im being so forreal. and they have puffy sleeves because i think it adds to the fact that theyre not really a fighter like the others. though cranboo can hold their own and are a literal blacksmith constantly mining and smelting ores and making people armor sets, theyre not KNOWN for fighting, and so giving them an outfit that is not suited for fighting can reflect that.

when it comes to tommy i am always changing up how i draw him. im really attached to the long braid though, and im a classic butterfly clip ctommy enjoyer i think its fun and ppl who hated it were annoying as fuck. i think my favorite thing about drawing ctommy is that i give him gauges- very small ones but gauges nonetheless because cwilbur got them and he wanted to match early on. he never actually went through the process of stretching but he does have them in. and when i draw older ctommy i like to draw him like hes early on estrogen i think its really fun. same with tubbo i like to draw him like hes early on T. theyre transing together :]

[arctasy]

what tma fear do you think c!wilbur would serve?

the strongest fear that comes to mind is the desolation, and not just because he blew up a bunch of shit (though that has something to do with it). i'd say his biggest fear was losing ctommy, whether literally or metaphorically by tommy refusing to forgive him. he literally made lmanberg for tommy, so his loss of lmanberg was something he simply could properly handle, and he reacted by pointlessly destroying all of it. very desolation-coded. also i think it's meaningful that he tried to get a reaction out of cq by blowing up his horse for no reason, but he was absolutely terrified at the thought of killing tubbo or ranboo, and more broadly, of permanently losing his relationship to cq. he would def serve the desolation methinks

HOWEVER i do have some honorable mentions:

the spiral: specifically thinking about pogtopia here. he had a lout of trouble with trust and lies and deceit while also deceiving everyone else (i am starting to notice a common pattern of him perpetuating his own fears. very avatar-coded)

the vast: he cares a lot about meaning something greater than himself, which i go into (or actually just ramble about) here, and thus he struggles with the potential insignificance of himself. there's also his association with vast spaces, such as the sky (the sunrise he loves), the ocean (the finale stream where he went back to utah), the desert (also utah), and most importantly the vast cavern that is the pit of lmanberg's remains. i just cant get out of my head the image of him standing on the precipice of that cave looking into a vast wasteland of destruction, both in the moment before death and in the moment of revival.

[box-architecture]

I just wanted to Say i really like your concept of the Prince ctommy au. Like if i have to describe cdream and ctommy dynamic in that au with chess pieces would like "a king who wants to claim the Queen(knight) who protects him" and it's really interesting. I love when people play more with their dynamic in different ways

I needed to download this emoji and give it to you because its the first thing I think mentally when trying to respond to this.

I'm really struggling to respond to things (and write in general) right now but!!! thank you thank you. I think bowspam has weird silly potential when its not That One Singular Dynamic. I've made friends who are into the ship and honestly they are really lovely people who's rambles about it are highly enjoyable.

I know a lot of the stuff I write for it are likely going to be more Horny Silly Crack than substance, but it doesn't change how interesting I find bowspam as like. A concept in general? Especially when Tommy is the one pushing for it. Tommy tunnel-visions incredibly hard on Dream even when Dream is completely focused on something else or otherwise unable to actually do anything. Its wild, its insane, its fun and interesting.

Lets gets stupid with it! Lets see what weird AU concepts we can bring to the table. Lets make Dream have the absolute worst time possible as he tries to comprehend how the fuck things got here. If people are going to make Tommy and Dream fuck then goddammit at least let Tommy be problematic as fuck and also top.

Also, Knights and Royalty AUs are just fun. listen. I can be normal about the lines crossing and the boundaries and the power dynamics. I very much can. I think people should be normal at all times. I am normal.

Unrelated I think Prince Tommy absolutely clings to His Knight and tries very hard to steal his all his attention and gets upset when Dream briefly disappears from the palace to go back home to see his village (a vacation and well earned reward for saving the prince's life). He is not pouting. Shut up. He is frowning, very manly frowning. Don't talk to him until Dream gets back.

[tubburevil]

thinking nonstop about doublebench man. especially qtub800 but also the rest of them.

i think ctommy and qtommy would be bros more than anything. they ramble about birds together and whenever ctommy goes on a rant about something he likes, qtommy looks at him with this indescribable fondness and nostalgia in his eyes. qtommy and ctubbo make up the Aggressive Defenders of Ctommy duo.

qtubbo and ctubbo have this weird soulmate shit going on. they cuddle all the time. qtubbo is the only one ctubbo trusts to talk to about rams problems. he's also desperately trying to get qtubbo to acknowledge he's Not Fine.

cranboo and qr800 are like the awkward loser and their extroverted partner. r800 is always trying to convince cranboo to do crazy ass shit, and sometimes cranboo is reminded of griefing george's house with ctommy. at the same time, r800 also helps cranboo recover from their time in limbo and learn to loosen up and be more confident. cranboo knits r800 all sorts of cool clothes.

qtubbo and r800 i don't think would even get along at first. there's a little passive aggressiveness because r800 makes a few jokes that kinda cross a line for qtubbo, but then after some time they become chill and it turns into like teasing rivalry flirting type shit where you KNOW they're making out behind the factory.

qtommy is like Vaguely Scared of r800 at first because r800 finds it fun to like pull out their limbs (since they're a robot) but they also joke around. number one candidate for the lamest pranks ever. they'll spray paint dicks onto qtubbo's factories while ctommy laughs in the background.

qtubbo and qtommy fight like a married old couple because qtommy REFUSES to sign the divorce papers and always talks about how it was love at first sight how qtubbo wants to kiss with tongue but qtommy says no. meanwhile qtubbo is plotting his murder. qtommy also tries these horrible pick up lines on qtubbo and cogs always rolling their eyes.

cclingy are like. idk how to describe it the closest thing i can get is like queerplatonic. they're literally cclingyduo man idk what to tell you. despite everything it's still them. best friends to the end, tubbo will fight for tommy when he can't fight for himself and vice versa, they're everything man.

cbeeduo are like constantly soaking in each other's presence, there's some separation anxiety at first due to all the time cranboo had been in limbo, but they hang out together and it's so soft and sweet and aaaaaaa

i think ctommy and qtubbo constantly enable each others shitty coping mechanisms and they stay up all night. when ctommy sees cucurucho he panics because the smile triggers ctommy a bit but then qtubbo calms him down and they both dance to abba. they both infodump at each other with no clue what the other is talking about.

ctubbo and qtommy always cherr qtubbo on whenever he's going on dates with fred or writing letters meanwhile r800 and ctommy keep trying to gatecrash. ctommy always overexaggerates things like "WOW big t thank you for paying all my medical bills and curing cancer also btw it was so cool when you won a nobel prize for hottest man ever" meanwhile r800 goes in the complete opposite direction like "hey aren't you the guy that burned down 50 orphanages and also unplugged my grandmas life support and told me to die?" fred finds them all very endearing

[greaterspawnislands]

im just like. at the end of everything, im so glad i trusted phil.

like i know it had been a running joke for a long time that oh, c!phil “will” die someday, ghostza will be real, it’s not if i die it’s when but like. after techno’s passing and when phil started talking about writing an ending i knew like...that couldn’t be the ending. on a lighter note, what’s the point of ghostza in a server that’s already dead and empty. and on a more serious note, it just... wouldn’t have made sense for c!phil to die after all that. so i trusted phil and i tried not to stress out too much about it. and when the ctommy ending happened i got a little scared, but when phil said he was still planning an ending i felt okay again because like. i don’t know im rambling but

bc like, all the jokes about shitting on annoying loreheads aside, phil knows how much his community cares for his character. he knows how much we all love c!phil and how we’ve stuck with him through all of the ups and downs of the lore and droughts and appearances in others’ streams and he knows how much we love his character, and it’s clear he cared about his character too, from the time he put in to make sure he was playing a good supporting role in other’s streams, to the lore tie-in for the kristin possession stream, to just...everything. he loves c!phil and we love c!phil and i trusted him to give us an ending that reflected that.

and he did it absolutely perfectly. thank you phil. thank you

[possuminnit]

What’re your hybrid headcanons? :o

Scott my friend I have So many... Ramble time ^_^

ctommy's is Obvious.. opossum!! If you want specifics then Virginia opossum:3

cdream is a rattlesnake. <- heavily affected by tommy HC... Possums are immune snake venom + can Eat them and cdream Is like oh boy I don't have power over him this sucks and boom exile. SHORT EXPLAINATIOM... I have longer posts about it ^_^.. actually idk if I Ever mentioned this in posts But part of my HC for him is that he slips in a Tiny bit of his poison either in food or drinks to people, helps fuck them up so dream can be like Hayyy U should be Really self destructive Btw! (See; pogtopia)

dxd is a king cobra.See Above

CTINA.. Betta fish. Why? Because they're pretty and it makes sense to me... She's just a fishie girl with her plant gf....

cwilbur is a bat-eared fox... His hybrid process is Weird because in my head he fits so many animals. Fruit bat, foxes, cats OBV. but I hate going with the obvious choice so I said hmm ok bat-eared fox!!! Also like look at them. That's cwilbur alright... ALSO works well with ctommy. With possums camping out in other animals dens and bat-eared foxes making really elaborate dens and stuff.. :3

cPhil is a vulture! Specifically a black vulture. Because of his whole angel of death thing, I thought him being a vulture would be cool. Also I wanted him to eat cwilbur when he died because cannibalism and the whole thing with when a loved one dies you eat them to have them with you forever (something like that, probably a little off ..) also just look at them they're cool

ctechno... Pallas cat... Please look at them. Like that's him. He is a big grumpy looking cat that stands on his tail when his paws get cold. HES A SWEETHEART

cquackity SORTA I'm iffy on. I like him as a tiger bc cool but gods him as a roadrunner makes my head spin. The whole thing with them also being predator to rattlesnakes and the whole prison arc... Like Hello. It makes sense to me ....

cslimecicle. DUMBO OCTOPUS. WHY? look them up. I'm realizing a lot of these are "look at them" but.. trust me. I'm right I prommy. He's still slimey though Btw!!!

ckarl is a bunny because it's cute and his lore reminds me of the bunny thing where they start turning their head and cannot stop it til they die. Normal thought process I have

ctubbo black widow because the ideas behind it make me CRAZY. also cranboo dead He's a Widow. C'mon. Btw he's trans so he has the red marking and his looks slightly like a nuke symbol<3 he makes rings out of STRING CAN U HEAR ME..

speed round of some I don't have explanations for but are a thing!!! cfoolish - armadillo lizard. cgeorge - jellyfish. cponk - red panda. Apparently I had a hc where channah is a butterfly so boom yeah that too

[sunlitmcgee]

seeing that old ctubbo crit post being rb'd makes me wanna go on a ramble about how no matter how much i try, I can't fully believe with confidence that ctubbo truly loved ctommy up until the finale due to just how long it took for him to even acknowledge that tommy existed/was a person after the prison and exile, but if i do I know i'll cry so i'm just....not gonna

[tommyinnit-fanblog]

What’s your favorite headcanon for Tommy? -@slimecicle-fanblog

(Goo Goobie)

OMG I LOVE THIS QUESTION!!!

I have a lot so I will only saw a few of them!

The fake horns hc (a little- well very basic answer but it works really well with his character I think!)

That he has a gap in his teeth. Very fun hc.

I like to think that after his death and being revive he has a little fear of the dark si he has a little nightlight

And last but not least my favorite hc that could very much be cannon if we look at it realistically: half of his face is all droopy after he gets revived due to being hit in the head so hard making the nerves of that side stop working. Absolutely love that hc. Otp cTommy headcannon. More people should draw him like that.

thank you for letting me ramble about the silly guy. Goo goobie!

[localsharkcryptid]

The only thing I care about at this point for the back to back Tommy finale streams is the reveal of Punz working with Dream this whole fucking time- I'm sorry but the "We owe everything to Punz" just confirmed that it'll be max damage when they find out that shit was staged

And I am living for it

[bugflies00]

alex im really bad at reading because of my learning disabilities and its really hard for me to sit down and read stories because of it, however ive been really interested in the fostering au for awhile and really want to read it and know more. this post is an invitation to provide a synopsis and/or infodump to my ass about it so i finally get off my ass and read your fic so i can go clinically insane about it

RAHRHG okay so first off i have to warn you there's no actual fic i wrote like 1 oneshot about a single scene but the main core of the au is just. text posts of me rambling. to uhh varying degrees of coherency so i hope its still understandable

-> this is the masterpost that has everything of note ive ever posted about it

anyway so the very basic idea is it's just a cwil-centric modern au where, for later revealed reasons, he's put in the foster system with his younger brother tommy and then he deals with a bunch of shit. he straight up does not have a good time. and then he has a better time. So far this is nothing groundbreaking i know its not a very original concept But its ok because ive just thought of their versions in this au so much that they've grown into my own little plants in a way

its definitely mainly crimeboys but it started out as sbi centric and shifted to being custodytrio centric because ctntduo are also central to the plot and i ended up fridging cemeraldduo a bit. Im really sorry cemeraldduo . They are still important they just have a remarkably normal life compared to the custodytrio household so they have less of a character arc. theyre the only normal pilled ones whilst still being remarkably abnormal (its still cemeraldduo yknow) . Also they are related in this au thought i should mention that phil is techno's dad but they have more of a friends/equals relationship than a parental one. Like i said theyre Not normal but theyre mostly chilling. Meanwhile those 3 guys + fundy go through some shit

this timeline is kindof old and also a mess but i think its a pretty good general idea of how things are spaced out. The thing about this au is that the reason its not and will never be a long form fic (barring the fact that i don't have the writing ability to sustain that long of a writing period) is that the timeline doesn't have a start and end date in a way that a coherent story would. it's literally just their lives and i just make up scenes and bits of it and there's definitely evolutions and lots of changes but i wouldn't be able to find like. A single coherent thread that would direct A Single Story yknow. i guess since it's wilbur centric you could argue for it to be something about his own journey in terms of mental health and whatnot But i think that would exclude a number of other things i love about it (like ctommy's character arcs or stuff with cq and cbeeduo etc etc) . TLDR : it's a MESS

a lot of it is centred around cwil's character development because he essentially goes through an identity crisis for .The first few decades of his life. and a lot of that happens through him shifting between — and i hate to sound like taylor swift here but its the only word i can think of — """eras""" and flip flopping and progressing and then retreating back on progress. a lot of it reflects how his character developed in canon, although i completely removed the "death" and "literally different characters" (up for debate but thats another post) aspects, and it's just. him changing as a person. this is completely word vomit i know

but basically it starts out in his childhood home, which he's forced to leave when he's 8 and tommy's 2. their dad (not anyone, its just an unnamed character) is often verbally and occasionally physically abusive, mostly to their mum but cwil takes the brunt of it sometimes. his mum, who also deals with a lot of mental health issues that cwil later realises are very similar to his own, is completely overwhelmed and barely hanging on, and teaches him to "protect" his little brother, with the best intentions, but not realising that cwil is going to take that to heart for twenty five years like "yes it is my sacred mission to literally put my body between tommy and harm's way otherwise i have no reason to exist" BUT TO BE FAIR she really could've guessed. And then [redacted situation that i have been trying to make a post about for ages but that involves such lovely themes as suicide and more abuse] occurs and they move into the foster system

the reason it's mostly cwil centric is the fact that like. during a lot of his formative years when shit really starts to get rough in his head, tommy's either a kid or a preteen. he's dealing with his own stuff, but for him it only really starts to get hard around after high school. he's a bit of a paradox of a character because he's been through the system, he's been rejected from homes alongside wil, he's had to deal with wil during his worst years (and he was NOT fun to be around. he had lots of issues and nowhere to put them and tommy was the only person who was there for all of it) (what do you mean this reminds you of a certain arc in a ravine i would never do that ), and yet he's always. idk. i think a good way to put it is that, despite this, fostering tommy is less jaded than canon dsmp ctommy because, through all that, he's always had the constant of wilbur in his life. like sure he's been unstable and mean and a complete mess but at the end of the day he managed to scrape together enough of himself to stick around for him when it mattered and protect him. so (apart from that aforementioned period after high school in college where he has a depressive episode Thats its own post) fostering tommy, despite his certainly non negligible amount of trauma and abandonment issues, has a sense of security and stability that canon dsmp ctommy never had. i think thats why in some ways the AU is more lighthearted than canon, even when its like really sad or during their worst years, because it doesn't have that empty feeling of loss of community that dsmp s3 and s4 were imbued with. its what makes it my comfort AU in a way yknow the domesticity of it all despite everything compared to. the desolate wasteland that became canon

anywayy that is a lot of ramble and if i keep going ill just repeat stuff i already said in previous text posts so . ENJOY THIS I SUPPOSE ^__^

[gayboober]

the way that c!tommy has been lectured and beat down time and time again by the people around him for loving things but still loves so fiercely anyways makes his character so fascinating. he’s been through so much. he’s basically never won. not once. but that doesn’t stop him from loving his friends and his home and his discs and his items so so much.