Hi I wrote a quick fix-it ficlet to make me feel better. Enjoy <3
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"And then, I turn to him and I say, 'Do you want to be friends?' Fade to black."
Tubbo and Ranboo share a glance.
"...That sucked."
"Yeah. That might have been your worst story so far."
Tubbo disagrees, really - He thinks Tommy's worst story tonight has been the one about Skeppy being named the server's new king - but this story has put an equal damper on their sleepover.
The blanket fort they've haphazardly arranged in the mansion's living room seems to agree. It leans pecariously to one side, threatening to collapse and bury them in linens and sheets.
Tubbo cradles his pillow close to his chest, legs crossed. To his right, Ranboo lies on his back, staring up at the ceiling. Tommy sits in front of them, lying on his stomach with his head in his fists, pouting.
"It did not suck," Tommy protests with a whine. "Tubbo, you- You got to use a nuke, man, I made you so badass."
"Yeah, but like, why? And why did we lose all our memories?"
"And why did you forgive Dream?" Ranboo chimes in. "He was- I mean, he was pretty awful to you."
"Yeah, but this- In this story, he's a good guy deep down. He's just- He was really lonely, and so he-"
"Bullshit," Tubbo interrupts. "Dream is a fucking maniac, and you know that, Tommy."
Tommy looks away, chewing his lip.
Tubbo's brow furrows. "Tommy."
"No, no, I- I know. Dream was... Dream was bad."
"Mhm," Ranboo agrees encouragingly.
Tommy swallows roughly. "And... And he wasn't my friend. He was not my friend."
Tommy sounds like he's convincing himself more with each repetition, but Tubbo steps in regardless, leaning forwards to meet Tommy's eyes.
"He wasn't," Tubbo quietly insists. "And you don't have to forgive him if you don't want to. Ever."
Tommy opens his mouth to say something, but shuts it quickly. He takes a shakey breath, burying his face in the pillows beneath him.
Tubbo leans backwards on his hands to give Tommy space. "Besides, he's fucking dead now, dude. Nobody to even forgive."
"Mm. I'm glad that guy's dead," Ranboo murmurs.
Tubbo smiles, flopping down on his back to lie next to them. "Yeah?"
"Yep."
"Well, I'm glad this guy's alive," Tubbo pokes at Ranboo's side teasingly.
Ranboo giggles, turning to look at him. "Aw, you don't mean that, come on now."
Tubbo grins. "I do, actually. Nice to hear you breathing and shit."
Tommy groans, so loudly and abruptly that it makes Ranboo jump.
"Stop fuckin' flirting right in front of- I'm having a moment of reflection! I'm- I'm coming to terms with all of my fuckin'- And you two are just, 'Mimimimi, ohh, we're married!'"
"Do we really sound like that?" Ranboo quirks a brow.
"Yes," Tommy and Tubbo respond in unison.
Ranboo sighs. "Well, do you have any idea when you're gonna be done reflecting? I either want to keep flirting or go to sleep."
"Sleep," Tubbo agrees, climbing underneath their designated sleeping blankets. "Fuck flirting. Not worth it."
Ranboo lets out a sad trill, speaking with an audible pout. "No flirting?"
"No, now go to sleep," Tubbo murmurs. "You too, Tommy."
"I wasn't done telling stories, though."
"Then I'll tell a new one. 'Once upon a time, Dream was dead, and me and Tommy and Ranboo all went to sleep. The next morning Michael came and woke us all up and our fort fell down. But we rebuilt it later. The end.'"
"Hooray," Ranboo cheers half-heartedly.
Tommy scoffs, though he moves to climb into their pile of pillows and blankets anyway. "That story was shit."
"You're shit."
"Shut up, man."
"I hate it when you guys fight like this," Ranboo sarcastically murmurs, already half asleep. "Tearing this family apart."
Tubbo yawns. "Yeah, Tommy, stop fighting. Think of the families."
"Fuck you." Tommy throws an arm around Tubbo's waist, thrashing until he's comfortable.
Tubbo smiles. After a few moments of struggling he's able to locate Ranboo's hand under the mountain of blankets on top of them, and he tangles their fingers together. Ranboo reaches to turn off the singular redstone lamp they'd had lighting the fort.
"Love you too, prick," Tubbo slurs. "And you too, honeysuckle."
"Eugh. Now you two are really just doing it to piss me off."
Ranboo snuggles back into bed, tossing and arm across Tubbo's shoulders.
"You should piss him off more often," he whispers into Tubbo's hair.
Tubbo chuckles quietly.
"Don't worry, I plan to. I've got time."
He means to say something else, to keep antagonizing Tommy or snarking to Ranboo or both, but Tubbo quickly drifts off before he's able to form any more coherent thoughts, fading slowly away into overwhelming warmth.
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the dsmp as a stage play would be like- tommy looking tiny standing alone at center stage, but when wilbur is there his words and gestures and pacing takes up so much space. the blocking is always overlapping, especially when a lot of characters are in a scene, but techno always faces the audience, and he grins at us and smiles, holding his fingers to his lips. as wilbur’s monologues turn to soliloquies, and eventually everything he says is in some way begging the audience for help, tommy asks who he’s talking to. he has no answer. it’s tommy gasping for breath, littering the stage with his blood as he teeters around, wilbur rushing to his side, dream demanding mellohi while wilbur’s pulls the arrow from tommy’s chest. the stage lights go up, the stage lights go down, the microphone schlatt uses for speeches is too loud and full of feedback, tubbos shrieks from inside the box, niki and jack disappearing into the audience. an empty stage save for wilbur’s body surrounded by rubble.
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okay SO we're talking dsmp as a play and I have literally been thinking about this for the best part of two years here's a thing. characters breaking the 4th wall, there are only four (during s1):
1. Dream. puppeteer-style popping in and out to change the story/make it more exciting for the audience because he's in control, he's the one who brought them here, say. doesn't directly interact with them but acknowledges them, a nod here, a wink there.
2. Techno. outright asides in the middle of dialogues scenes, never looks to the audience on the punchline but you know it's a joke for them. LOTS of soliloquies - his speech in the bunker post-manberg festival where he talks about the rocket launcher springs to mind.
3. Tommy. isn't actually aware there's an audience, mostly doing it for the bit (picked it up from Wilbur + Techno), but makes a disproportionate amount of 4th wall breaking jokes.
4. Wilbur. at the beginning of the play he is completely unaware of the audience, but as he starts to spiral he begins to see them more and more, performing to them in a way that makes sense to us but seems unnatural to the other characters. the whole 'chekhov's gun' thing is him aware that we are waiting for that outcome, in button rooms scenes he's constantly looking back for our approval. (also during his spiral you'd start to hear train sounds in his worse scenes but that's part of another post.)
anyway it is so cool we're talking about this I finally get to share my nerdery
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