#this tommy headcanon is actually going to haunt me in my dream tonight like…. what?!….

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@veyette I’m so glad to see you have some thoughts so I hope it’s ok if I talk about them (because it is apparently my hobby at this point to write lengthy analysis responses to things.) :) <3 <3 After all, I did put it out there for discussion and to spread the brain rot. And don’t get me wrong I’m not even sure I’m fully on board with this headcanon, but I just thought it was interesting to consider.

So, if I may counter, respectfully, and I do mean that because everyone has a right to their own opinion (even if it’s wrong lol jk XD), I want to first talk about your first statement. I will be honest with you this was one of the first things I read this morning - “I don’t think it makes sense since it is actually very cruel and as much as I think c!dream suffered I don’t think the other people on the dsmp would put him through this kind of humiliation” - and it almost made me laugh (probably related to my 4 hrs of sleep lol). I probably shouldn’t find it funny given the context but… we are talking about server members who supported the brutal murder of a defenseless guy twice and a torture box as justice. And like obviously most of them didn’t know about the conditions and certainly most didn’t know about c!Quackity, but they still signed off on solitary confinement (a form of torture)… And to be fair, we can’t really be that surprised because isn’t that kinda what they supported with c!Tommy’s exile? I mean we are talking about a story where murder, blackmail, torture, pranks, destruction, war, robbery, arson are just a typical fun afternoon so I don’t think cruelty is as issue here. Especially, if we are talking about c!Tommy because we are talking about someone who literally used the remains of c!Dream’s dead pet to blackmail him and make fun of him. We are talking about someone who beat his own cat to death just because c!Dream admitted to caring about it. We are talking about someone who spent time starving in prison and still thought it was a justifiable treatment of another person. We are talking about someone who humiliated c!Dream in the Disc Finale after he had already surrendered and dragged out his deaths to a painfully slow degree while the rest of the members cheered him on. We are talking about someone who murdered c!Dream in the beginning when he was armor-less, over and over and then bragged about it. I don’t think humiliation nor cruelty are by any means out of c!Tommy’s wheelhouse. And I don’t find it hard to believe that Wilbur would slight him like this, I mean the L’manberg Declaration of Independence ends with “SUCK IT GREEN BOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!”… In regards, to Tubbo I mean he didn’t wear it around, which to be fair it is a really nice set of armor, and it is a victory so that would make sense. So maybe it does haunt him, which is why he sleeps better at night knowing exactly where it is. Knowing no one else will put on the haunting set. Oof yea that’s an interesting thought…I mean, paper seems like a bit of a jump, could it not just be made out of iron instead of netherite?… I mean I don’t know it’s an interesting point. Like are all of Dream’s helmets masks or just the netherite ones because netherite is a special material?……

(and ummm what?! That’s a thing?! I didn’t even know that was a headcanon for Exile and not gonna lie that’s kinda ridiculous and baseless, like to be fair, the mask headcanon is based in a canonical implication by c!Tommy so while not confirmed that it applies to the rest of the lore, it isn’t the most unreasonable conclusion to make. However, I find it absolutely wild that this Exile headcanon is even a thing, when is it at all referenced or implied Dream controlled what Tommy wore in Exile… like heh? Do I even want to ask about that nonsense (no yea actually I don’t even want to know). Come on y’all, now we are just really stretching to make Exile seem worse…yeesh…)

So, if in the finale c!Dream’s helmet, that he takes off for c!Tommy, represents his mask, does that mean that when c!Sapnap puts on c!Dream’s armor, Nightmare, he is putting on and stealing c!Dream’s mask? - Because I’m not gonna lie that really puts a new perspective on that betrayal… Furthermore, when c!Techno brings c!Dream armor in prison, did he make him a mask and bring it to him… and then take away the mask later? - If so, again that’s kinda screwed up. Though you could argue that perhaps he made c!Dream a mask for the jailbreak so he had one to face the server with and then because they were trying to not seem like allies he took it back, knowing that c!Dream would get another one. Which also begs the question, did c!Punz make c!Dream a mask for after prison or is he simply handing over one of c!Dream’s masks?… When c!Tommy in the minecart skirmish stole c!Dream’s armor, was he taunting him with his own mask? - Because oof that’s some serious violation and disrespect…

In other words, if you think that c!Dream’s helmet in the finale represents the mask (which I’d say is implied by c!Tommy) does that same logic apply across the board or is it just for that moment? And if it does apply to rest of the lore, wow does that have some implications…