#his talk with techno afterwards was great though
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𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗚𝗼𝗱𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘀
𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙤𝙗𝙡𝙖𝙙𝙚
Pairing(s): Technoblade x Reader
Pronouns: she/ her
About:You meet Technoblade and he finds you interesting.
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You stood in front of the new girl of L'manburg,a crowd surrounding us.An argument happening between us.
"Whatever"I say,dismissively.
"I don't care what you think"She retaliated.I smirk at her
"At least I can think 4.0 bitch,honour role,suck on that when your trying to sleep your way into a job"I reply,satisfied by my answer.I found out she tried to get with Dream on his side but failed so she joined L'manburg.
"Oh shit"Tommy exclaims,shocked by your response.Your usually quiet and don't really talk to anyone but she was getting on my nerves.
"Money is on Y/n"Fundy says through the crowd
"No need Fundy,she's not worth my energy"I say,walking away back to my house.Little did she know there stood Technoblade in the crowd,she interested him.
This continued on for the entire week until you finally hit her which made her shut up for a minute
"I'm calling the cops"She tells me
"Good you should be arrested for showing yourself in that ratty old house dress.Now piss off wonderbread and take that scarecrow with you,this ain't the yellow brick road,bitch"I say,refering to her and her now boyfriend,who is probably cheating on her.
"Aren't you a little ray of sunshine this morning"Wilbur commented
"I thought you were the sun cause it suddenly got hot in here"I tease,making Wilbur go red.
"Did you just call my brother hot?"A tall man with a pig mask and crown says
"I guess it just wasn't meant to be"Wilbur smirked
"But your hotter"I say referring to him now,who I realised was quite hot even though he was wearing a mask.
"I guess it just wasn't meant to be"The man with the crown teased.I like him,he's funny.
"Y/n"I say,sticking my hand out to introduce myself.
"Technoblade"He says,shaking my hand.We let go then start a conversation with each other and actually got along,we became pretty close.Closer then you may think,especially over the past years we got to know each other.
He told me quite a few stories from his past,we really trusted each other.Turns out with both have voices too.Our voices seems to like the other which made us get along so much better,I was visiting him everyday.On my way one day coming back from the markets,I ran into Dream someone who I had no seen in ages,months maybe years.
"Dream"I say,smirking.We have a very complicated story,we hate each other but for no unknown reason.He looks like he wants me dead already.
"Ha barely two words in,and you look like you already want me dead"I say,I can see the visible anger from his body language.
"Your getting all worked up over nothing"I laugh afterwards,looking straight through his mask
"You've changed,your getting weak"I say above a whisper,he looks like he's going through Deja Vu.I walk off,I know he won't attack me,he leant his lesson years ago.
I was upstairs in my bedroom when I heard two voices downstairs.Wilbur and Techno.I walk down the stairs a bit so I could hear them more and see them too.
"Are you and Y/n dating?"He asks,I look shocked at what Wilbur was asking
"Not anymore"Techno responds,I look at him in wonder,wondering where he was going with this.I see Wilbur give a certain look but I don't know what that look means but when I look at Techno's murderous one,I know exactly what the look means.I walk down the stairs fully.
"Y/n?"Wilbur questions,I smile at him and stand by Techno
"My blood goddess"Techno says,kissing my temple.
"Wait I thought you and Y/n weren't dating"Wilbur says,confused.
"We aren't"I respond
"Were married"He tells Wilbur,the look on Wilbur's face was priceless.
"When did this whole thing happen?"Wilbur asks
"Well about 3 years ago,after our first encounter,we got along really well,flirted for a bit and here we are"I explain in short to Wilbur.Techno nods.
"Wow that's great to hear"Wilbur smiles,I know that the news will reach the rest of L'manburg at some point.Phil already knows,he was a witness.We wanted something low key,so we eloped.
After a short while Wilbur left,leaving it just Techno and I.We chill in our room,watching a few movies.He's not big on physical touch but from me,he loves cuddles so that's what we did for the rest of the day,being in each other company in the snowy hills.
#Technoblade#technoblade fanfic#techno#dsmp x you#dsmpfanfic#dsmp x reader#dsmp#dream smp#justdsmp1 works#mcyt fanfiction#mcyt#mcyt x you#mcyt x reader#blood god#technoblade x reader
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Hey guys. So in MCC you might have noticed that Dream got a little salty. This was a shame for me as it’s so much nicer to watch Dream whilst he’s in a good mood. For better or worse though, he’s super competitive.
Here’s a breakdown of how the event went badly for Dream and his team. It’s pretty long...
The event starts well; Skyblockle is an interesting, if stressful game, and they do pretty well for their first time. Not perfectly though and they recognise they could do better too - Dream’s already pretty hard on himself for any mistakes he makes. But it’s purely directed at himself and how he can improve - I think it’s pretty evident he holds himself to a high standard.
Bingo is next and he kinda doesn’t know what he’d doing and wastes some time. I feel like he notes it down too much to not knowing the game but it is pretty luck-based anyway. Also this was a really quick game as so many of the items were very easy to obtain in a very short time. Anyway, they didn’t expect to do well really and Dream’s in good spirits, looking forward to the other games.
Then Battle box comes... and it’s extremely laggy and even glitchy. The weapon choices of Wooden axes and tnt seem honestly pretty bad just in terms of gameplay and the tnt is outright gamebreaking with the lag. Despite this, Dream’s team is doing well, having won their first 4 games and they’re keen to win more. Dream’s even instructing Sylveey to wait on the wool in order to maximise kill points (you can see he’s taking this really seriously as he could sound a little nicer as she’s certainly trying to win too).
Anyway, the game needs to be restarted - some players killed themselves outside the rounds and that’s not exactly fair. For whatever reason, reviving them is not possible. The chosen solution is to restart the entire round which regretfully seriously inconveniences Dream’s team. He’s incensed at the perceived injustices. He feels that it would be better to push on without restarting.
The proceeding rounds don’t go nearly as well for them as the first play through. Many teams have now realised how effective rushing strats are for this map - the axe is too slow in pvp to meaningfully stop players from quickly placing down wool and the tnt is dangerous enough to scare people from the centre. It’s a legitimate strategy but feels rather unlike the traditional battle box which is usually the closest minigame to a straightforward pvp battle. While the lag is universal, it rather this strategy which goes against purple’s playstyle which includes maximised kills. Additionally, restarting gave a lot of teams the change to realise the potential of this rather cheap strategy which they may not have with only a single round of battle box as it would have been without the lag.
It’s not really anyone’s fault that the game messed up but Dream’s ire is now directed towards the organisers and he’s lost his good spirits.
Buildmart comes next and it’s not exactly one of Dream’s favourite games to say the least. Still, it’s long and a nice distraction from the mess that was battle box and Dream has developed some strategy with his team, even if it didn’t really work amazingly.
But then comes the audience takeover. Dream was really looking for parkour warrior - which he’s been really keen to play. He’s extremely fond of parkour and wanted to try out the new course - he and his whole team had practiced the old course a lot and were ready to crush the game. But it wasn’t one of the the options in the poll at all. Up to this point Parkour warrior hasn’t been an option at all and it is one the team has every reason to want to play.
Regardless, they soon settle on Hole in the wall - a gamemode they’ve played before and enjoyed. And yeah, the system messes up. Rocket spleef, which was Technoblade’s choice, narrowly lost the poll but gets selected anyway due to faultiness from the twitter poll. Needless to say, Dream is pretty annoyed. Given how the resetted Battle box earlier, he is of the opinion that they should switch in to Hole in the Wall to accurately reflect the audience vote. What he doesn’t realise is that this isn’t possible and the situation is less similar to battle box which only reset itself, not the game choice.
This is where Dream gets outright angry, even going as far to say he feels like quitting entirely. He feels like the tournament is working against him, which it kinda is, though it’s not in fact due to human design - just errors outside anyone’s control. That said, compounded with the mess that was Battle box earlier, Dream’s in a terrible mood, especially with his competitive nature, feeling like he’s losing due to circumstances outside his control rather than his own abilities. (When fans are saying rigged, I feel like many of them simply mean that the game’s working against him rather than that someone is actively sabotaging them (an incorrect definition...). It’s a minority that kicked up a large fuss as well, not that this excuses them or anything, or Dream for not realising the effect he’s having on his audience.)
His heart is simply not in Rocket Spleef, which seems to be a pretty tough game for newcomers to pick up anyway, while the other top teams, Orange and Green, both excel at this game mode. (And Krimson too maybe? I think I missed how they were doing in this game.) It’s a shame as he can’t allow himself to enjoy the game mode at all. It is an interesting one that he’s not amazing at but isn’t terrible at either, managing to survive longer than the rest of his team, who are all also doing lacklustre. Their performance has not been helped by everything that’s going on.
Then there’s ace race. It’s a new game and pretty different from the standard minecraft experience. It’s the first time for everyone so there’s probably a few kinks to be worked out etc. and Dream and his team find it interesting but they don’t exactly love it. It’s very different from the standard minecraft experience. Their strongpoints are definitely vanilla minecraft and they’re not too confident with elytras. I feel like if they weren’t in a dour mood they would have enjoyed it tons more. Two elytra heavy games in a row is unfortunate. Still, this game acts as a breather. The one issue is that parkour warrior is finally on the board and so they’re very keen to play it.
As the next decision dome comes up, Parkour warrior, Hole in the Wall, TGTTOS, Survival Games and Sands of time are all available. These are all probably Dream’s favourite games aside from Battle box (which obviously didn’t work out this tournament). Dream notes beforehand that the one game he’d really like to play is Parkour Warrior and the one he’d prefer to avoid at this stage is Sands of Time.
So naturally, Sands of Time is chosen. He’s a bit irritated. Fortunately, Sands of Time is awesome and his team is great at it. Single player survival stuff is what they excel at after all and they all perform. They take risks, make a lot of coins, get far and are among the longest teams to stay in, coming in second overall with both Dream and Sapnap doing really well. This game proves to be what finally cures Dream and his team’s mood. The game is also worth a ton of points for some reason, putting them in with a (still small but possible) chance of making the finals.
Last game and they really want Parkour warrior of course. Yeah, it’s not chosen. Instead we get hole in the wall. Some may joke that its good that the game finally got chosen but it’s obviously not the favoured choice for this team when Parkour warrior’s an option. Oh well though! They’re disappointed to miss out on it but they do like hole in the wall and they all have fun playing it, doing decently though not nearly well enough to do better than their rivals.
By this time they’ve regained their spirits and eagerly support Green Guardians in dodgebolt. It’s an intense match and they all thoroughly enjoy watching it, especially seeing Pete team clutch out the win after being down.
At the end, Dream finds that despite everything he’s still somehow managed to obtain 3rd overall on the individual boards, the same as last time, and he’s really happy about it. His team are pretty happy too with Sapnap also managing to get 8th place in his very first event.
Dream closes off the stream with an apology. You can see as it goes on how the frustration slowly melts away as he begins talking. At first still obviously still annoyed but soon confessing that he seriously overreacted and that he still loves the event and the team behind it and holds them to a very high standard. He offers kind words towards Technoblade and Pete too, noting that the rivalry is for show and he greatly respects both of them and encourages all his watchers to go and subscribe to them, helping Technoblade to hit 2mil. He notes that he’s really competitive and he really wanted it to go well - especially as its the only time he’ll be allowed to play with George and Sapnap and really wanted to win it with them. His sentiments feel real and he expresses interest in playing again while noting that he could see them also not inviting him back after his behaviour during this even and understands that.
Overall, game choices and unfortunate circumstances worked against Dream and his team and left him in a bad mood but once it ended, he did bounce back. It’s easy to see the contrast from the last event where he was annoyed he didn’t win but blamed his own performance - not the event and not his teammates - reflecting on how he can improve and do better. (He got temporarily a little annoyed at buildmart admittedly but it was purely his fans who blew that out of proportion, he quickly reassured George that it was okay and that it wasn’t his fault.) Dream is always very determined to improve and succeed or fail due to his own skills.
This turned into a long analysis of the event, wow. Dream’s perspective wasn’t that much fun to watch and it pains me to see how it all devolved. Let’s calm down and try not to blame the event, the other competitors or Dream too hard for any of this, okay? Things went wrong and it’s mostly outside of anyone’s control. I hope he’s in better spirits if he joins next tournament.
#dreamwastaken#sorry this was so long!#i guess I had to analyse the whole event#a summary of it from dream's perspective i guess#apparently techno's viewpoint was far more entertaining#this one left me feeling bitter at least until sands of time#his talk with techno afterwards was great though#best part of the event for me#post-end i know#i look forward to the upcoming manhunt and collabs#the dangers of tryharding#and the issues with having a large fanbase#i think he forgot he wasn't just talking to his friends#analysis
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Headcanons for SBI Sibling!Parrot Hybrid!Reader
(A/N): ope, went a little overboard with this one (also it’s not proofread, so sorry about any mistakes)
You have wings on your back (the feather pattern depends on what parrot floats your boat)
If you’re a Scarlet Macaw, Blue-and-Yellow Macaw, or Chestnut-Fronted Macaw, then you have black lines on your cheeks and heavy black lines around your eyes (think Hawks from bnha but less pointy)
If you are a Hyacinth Macaw, you have yellow markings around your eyes and mouth
If you’re a cockatiel, you have a killer mohawk/hair that is always very pointy and orange circles on your cheeks (how cute!)
I have a feeling that your hair is incredibly soft
Very sensitive wings
I feel like your teeth would be sharp and your nails would normally be fast-growing, long, and sharp
You tilt your head like impossibly far when you’re confused or trying to hear something better
Like your ear would almost be touching your shoulder
The head movements are very jerky and kinda just happen on their own when you hear something so you would have a lot of neck pain : (
You’re allergic to chocolate : (
I feel like people would underestimate you greatly and think you’re nothing except the ditzy comedic relief
Parrots are actually very intelligent
It bums you out to hear people say things like that behind your back when they think you can’t hear, but you try to not let them get to you
You give the best cuddles and are very affectionate with the people you’re close to (you’re also very cautious of strangers)
You’re also very in tune with the emotions of the people around you
You see someone sad? Head nuzzles and wing hugs
You see someone angry? You deescalate the situation the best you can and make sure they’re ok afterwards
You can dilate and contract your pupils rapidly at will
You may or may not stare at people doing it until they notice you staring or until they get creeped out
You fuck hard with any type of seed, nut, or fruit
When you get excited, it’s literally so cute??
Like you do everything parrots do
Little happy pitter patters with your feet, flutter your wings, your pupils contract and dilate rapidly, you make a ton of mob sounds
You’re easily excitable, hyper, and happy most of the time
It makes everyone happy to see you so excited so they would often go out of their way to get you things that make you happy
“Hey (y/n) I have some extra melon seeds if you want em!”
*Pupils contract and dilate rapidly*
You are loud
Like very loud
And very talkative
Like everyone knows where you are at all times
If you’re quiet and they know you’re around, either something is very wrong or they’re about to get pranked
God forbid you start to scream, your scream is loud enough to deafen someone for a brief amount of time and would leave everyone’s ears ringing for days on end
The mere mention of yours and Tommy's names together in one sentence is enough to give Philza a headache (someone give this poor man a couple of advils and a long vacation)
You two are literal demons when you’re together
Very chaotic relationship
You both like to fuck with people by sneaking up behind them
You would make mob sounds and Tommy would jump them before you two made a break for it
You and Tommy almost got killed by Techno a few times, but in your opinion the look on his face was 100% worth it every time
I feel like you would cart him up and down from the towers he builds
He could relate to being stereotyped as the stupid loud one, so he recognizes right away when you’re sad about it and will try to cheer you up
His main go to is the jukebox
Oh my god if he plays his jukebox around you, you go full send with your dancing
*AGGRESSIVE HEADBANGING*
He would laugh at your awful dancing, but he would join you eventually
Cat and Mellohi go hard
Speaking of music, Wilbur uses you as a walking soundboard
He needs a sound sample? You better prepare for spending most of your day recreating the sound
He needs back up vocals? You spend most of your day listening to his voice and other singers so you could replicate it
You don’t want to disappoint him so you try extra hard to appease his picky music composition
You kinda stress yourself out over it sometimes
When he notices (which he will, he’s very perceptive), he immediately calls it a day and has some sibling bonding time
You both bond over liking to eat strange things
Amazon macaws like to lick clay deposits on riverbanks so you like to have some on you at all times to lick when you get stressed
Wilbur carries some in a bag in his pocket and you carry a bag of sand
Whenever one of you notices the other has a rough day, you give each other your respective stuff
You have to be sneaky with it though, Philza always takes away nonedible stuff from his children if he sees them trying to eat it (he has good intentions tho)
It always looks like a drug deal
With Techno, I feel like he would find you incredibly annoying at first with how loud you are
He would actually start to hate you when you started to sneak up behind him
It got to the point to whenever he would hear your voice he would get irrationally mad and have to leave the house for a few hours
He, like everyone outside your family, would think you were useless and incredibly stupid
That was until he passed Tommy’s room one day and overheard you crying and telling Tommy about your insecurities
He would spend the next few days ignoring you bc he felt bad
He would spend those days contemplating on why he treated you like he did
Coming to the realization that you were likely trying to get closer to him and you were just being yourself, making him feel like the biggest piece of shit
He totally had no idea how to confront you about this, so naturally he went to Philza (that man was literally so happy that his children were gonna start to get along)
He would spend the day gathering golden melons because he found out that you’d never tried golden melons before from Philza
When he approached you one day with an apology and some golden melons, you were suspicious at first
He hated you, so why would he get you these things if he didn’t need anything from you?
Quickly finding that his apology is genuine and he felt incredibly bad for treating you like that over the years
You picked up on his guilt pretty quickly and made quick work to reassure him
He would take you on short trips and would soon find that you’re very useful in detecting mobs and deterring creepers with cat noises
He would never admit it, but he loves it when you would scare Tommy or Wilbur, thinking it’s hilarious
You also found out that carrying a seven and a half foot tall piglin hybrid was incredibly difficult to do, especially when flying
You two managed to get only about ten feet above the ground before your wings gave out under the strain and you fell on him
“(Y/n) has earned the achievement ‘When Pigs Fly’” flashed on everyone’s comm tablets that day
That wasn’t fun trying to explain to Philza
Philza would be ecstatic to have someone to fly with that he didn’t have to carry
He would take you on flights when you had too much energy
Sometimes racing each other and competing to do tricks midair (which sometimes you both rope your brothers into judging)
Late night flights when you need to get your mind off from something
Watching the sunrise together in silence for once
Bonding over being able to see ultraviolet light when everyone else couldn’t
You always give him the shiny things you come across and he gives you your favorite snacks
He always fusses over your wings, sometimes preening them for you
Helping each other through molts
Matches your excitement sometimes when you’re really happy
You feel bad whenever you hear stories of how difficult you were as a baby
He’s quick to reassure you that raising you was worth it and you turned out to be a great person
But he wouldn’t be lying when he said you were a difficult infant
Your terrible twos stage? His literal hell
Philza swears he can still hear ringing from whenever you would throw tantrums as a toddler, even years after you left your toddler age
He also still has some scars from when you went through your biting phase (teething was awful for you, his poor baby)
But he’s happy he was the one that raised you, he genuinely enjoys your presence
If you’re in a really affectionate mood he is more than willing to let you cuddle up to him while he reads a book or something
WING HUGS WING HUGS WING HUGS WIN-
When he’s had a long day and is stressed out, you immediately pick up on that and do everything in your power to make sure your brothers are quiet and behaved, try to find out what made him so stressed, and sometimes go out of your way to take care of it for him
You try to be the one taking care of him for once as much because he’s taken care of you so well throughout the years
He can tell if you’re overwhelmed or upset just with one glance at your ruffled feathers and your rapidly dilating and contracting pupils
Immediately pulling you out of the situation and letting you talk it out
Whenever he finds you sad about your insecurities, he points out every part of your personality that he loves
That’s before he hunts down the person that made you feel like this (he really lives up to his title of ‘The Angel of Death’)
Overall, you wouldn’t trade your family for the world
#sbi x reader#sleepy bois x reader#sleepy bois inc x reader#philza x reader#technoblade x reader#wilbur soot x reader#tommyinnit x reader#mcyt x reader#headcanons
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So.
Tommy isn’t Theseus. Every time I see Techno’s analogy about Tommy being Theseus brought up I’m filled with endless rage and I’ve DECIDED!
That it’s about time I explained just why it’s so objectively incorrect.
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First: a bit of backstory on Theseus, because I doubt many of you actually know much about him beyond what Techno said in his “so you want to be a hero” speech, which left out a lot of relevant details.
Theseus was a demigod with two fathers and one mother. His fathers were king Aegeus of Athens and the sea god Poseidon, and his mother was Aethra, Aegeus’ wife. Aethra raised Theseus on her own, far from Athens to avoid him being assassinated.
Aegeus left him nothing but a sword with the Athenian crest and a pair of sandals, buried under a rock so no one else could get them.
When Theseus came of age, he took the sword and sandals and headed up to Athens, slaying various monsters along the way. (It pains me to abbreviate it that much, but Techno left out everything before the Minotaur so it won’t help me much in debunking his analogy.)
Once he got to Athens, he met up with his dad, chased out his stepmom Medea, (yes, that Medea) and killed some people. Then comes the relevant part.
Crete had won a war against Athens a while back, and because of this, every seven years Athens was forced to send 14 tributes to be killed by the Minotaur. (Yes, this inspired the Hunger Games)
Theseus decided he’d volunteer and kill the Minotaur, thus ending the tribute system for good and getting one over on Athens. He promised his dad that if he won, he’d come back in a ship with white sails, as opposed to the standard mourning black that signified the death of the tributes.
So he went to Crete, met king Minos and his daughters Ariadne and Phaedra, and got sent into the labyrinth. Ariadne gave him a magic ball of string that kept him from getting lost, allowing him to find the Minotaur and then safely get out afterwards, providing he could kill it.
He killed it, led his other 13 tributes out, and sailed back home. On the way, Athena told him to leave Ariadne stranded on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean, so he immediately did so, because Theseus was an asshole.
He got home, his dad committed suicide because Theseus forgot the white sails and his dad assumed he’d died, Theseus became king and married Phaedra, and then the fun began, because again, Theseus was an asshole.
First, he cheated on Phaedra with Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, so she left and took the kids. Next, he and his other asshole friend Pirithous decided to kidnap themselves some new wives. Theseus decided on Helen of Troy, who was a child at the time, and Pirithous decided on Persephone, which resulted in both him and Theseus getting stuck in the Underworld for a while due to pissing off Hades.
Once he got back up, he killed his son for fucking his wife, which is messed up on many levels, and then left Athens because his people were rightfully not super okay with that.
Then he goes and meets Lycomedes, who throws him off a cliff.
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Next, let’s talk about Techno’s speech a bit.
He starts off by accusing Tommy of being a power hungry dictator (paraphrased), before asking him if he wants to be a hero.
Then, he provides what is apparently the archetypal example of heroism, something often associated with selflessness, kindness, and generally giving at least one singular solitary fuck about other people.
Theseus! Heroic hero who does heroic things, like, uhhh *checks notes* cheating on his wife, kidnapping children with plans to forcefully marry them, leaving people alone on tiny islands with no supplies, killing his kid, etc. etc...
So we’re off to a great start.
Then, he gives a short summary of Theseus’ life and times! He skips the first part of his life completely, which is hilarious to me because it’s the only time Theseus ever did anything actually heroic or selfless, and gets straight to the meat!
“Let me tell you a story, Tommy. A story of a man called Theseus. His country was in danger, he sent himself forward! Into enemy lines. He slayed the Minotaur! And saved his city. You know what they did to him, Tommy? They exiled him. He died in disgrace, despised by his people. That’s what happens to heroes, Tommy.”
-Technoblade
So first off, he doesn’t mention... really anything other than the Minotaur and the exile, which is leaving out a lot of relevant details, like why Theseus was exiled. (You know, killing his son in cold blood?)
Second, he doesn’t give details in general. Not that he should’ve given a full telling, or anything, but I’m always surprised by the shortness of this speech when I go back and listen to it. He pretty much just gives the barest bones of an argument and expects his audience to take it at face value. (Which they do, but it’s still bad practice)
From the more accurate (if still brief) summary if Theseus’ life I’ve just given, I’m sure you can see why this might be more than a bit dubious, as an analogy. Given cc!Technoblade is literally an English major, and doubtless knows significantly more about the myth than I do, I’d imagine this was never intended to be taken at face value.
Over and over again, c!Techno proves himself to be an unreliable narrator, and over and over again, the fandom at large takes his word as gospel.
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Now, as far as a more in depth argument for Tommy as Theseus goes, I will attempt to debunk that as well, because there are some genuinely good points to be made.
First of all, most people make Dream out to be the Minotaur. Given the time this speech was made, I imagine Schlatt was the intended target of that, but with latter events in mind, Dream does make much more sense.
I’d say this is honestly pretty fair, but I don’t think Tommy takes the role of Theseus in that narrative. I’d argue he’s much more analogous to the role of Ariadne, giving the tools required to defeat Dream but ultimately not doing so through his own power, but because someone chose to take those tools and make use of them. This also provides the very interesting characterization of Punz as Theseus, which is an incredibly unique take that I hope some a Punz enthusiast does something with, because I don’t know enough about his lore to make a good analysis on that.
The idea of Schlatt as the Minotaur, as was probably intended by Techno at the time, makes much more sense, though I still think other characters fit the role better. Firstly, Schlatt wasn’t killed, he died of a heart attack, and if someone had killed him I think it’s more likely to have been Wilbur or Techno who did it than Tommy, as Tommy was still very hopeful and idealistic at the time, at least compared to his character now. You could posit Tommy as Ariadne again in this situation, given he was the one to mastermind the final charge, and though I think Tommy as Ariadne is an idea that’s worth further exploration, I’d say Fundy futs the Ariadne role here much better, with him giving the spy’s diary before being effectively shunned and left out in the cold by both Pogtopia and Manburg, much like Ariadne was abandoned in the original myth.
I’d posit the Theseus in this scenario as Techno, Wilbur, or possibly Philza, as they were the ones to actually kill things in the 16th, though Techno and Wilbur’s killings were more in the metaphorical sense, taking the second life of L’manburg.
As for the exile, Tommy exile was alike to that of Theseus only in concept. Both were sent from their kingdoms for a crime, resulting in a falling out with someone close to them, and had a precarious relationship with heights while they were gone, but that’s about where the similarities end and even then they’re superficial.
First of all, Tommy’s exile was far more because Dream was looking for an excuse to do it than because briefing actually means anything on the SMP, given how Dream had been griefing bases and blaming Tommy for it for a while before it went down. (Fun fact, Bad and Skeppy were going to burn one of his discs over this, but one of them got sick so they had to cancel the stream.)
Theseus’ exile, on the other hand, was entirely deserved, especially when you consider how serious a crime killing family was in Ancient Greek culture. It was pretty much the biggest no-no in existence, and I’m almost surprised he wasn’t just straight up executed for it.
Second, Tommy’s falling out with Tubbo was almost entirely due to outside forces, (Dream) rather than because anything Tommy had done. Though Tommy’s cavalierness towards the trial and attempts to threaten Dream with Spirit doubtless didn’t help things, Dream surrounding L’manburg in obsidian walls and threatening them to exile Tommy was entirely his own choice, and not something that can be pinned on Tommy, no matter what the apologists may say.
Meanwhile, Theseus’ falling out with Phaedra had begun long before his exile with him cheating on her. Him killing his son was merely the last in a long line of dominos to completely destroy their relationship.
Last, Tommy nearly killing himself is very different from Theseus being pushed off a cliff. Tommy’s near suicide was the direct result of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of c!Dream for what was canonically, I believe, several months? (Correct me if I’m wrong on that one.) Tommy almost jumping off a pillar because he was deliberately isolated from his support systems is nothing like Theseus being killed because he was a cocky asshole who thought he was god.
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So that’s why I don’t think Tommy is anything like Theseus, and why I’m filled with endless rage by the completely uncritical acceptance of this parallel, but it’s not the whole reason it pisses me off.
It also pisses me off because, as stated earlier, cc!Techno is an English major. He knew what he was doing with this. The fandom’s insistence on refusing to acknowledge his character as an unreliable narrator is, in my opinion, acting as a massive kneecap to what could be a great analysis of how he thinks.
Specifically: why does c!Technoblade think Tommy is like Theseus?
Of all the Greek heroes to pick, why that one? Was it just the tantalizing opportunity to parallel Schlatt with a horned monster, or was it because c!Techno has some genuine in-character reason to think this myth specifically applies to Tommy.
Now, we all know people in the SMP have a habit of analogizing Wilbur and Tommy. The assumption Tommy wanted to be president, the belief that Tommy nominated Tubbo directly, the belief that he was intentionally deceiving Techno about Pogtopia’s intentions regarding Manburg... all of these stem from Wilbur. There are more cases of this, of course, but several analyses have been done in the subject already, and this is long enough without more padding.
So why does Techno think Tommy is Theseus? Well, it’s simple, isn’t it?
Wilbur is Theseus.
To be continued, because this is already too long and my brain hurts.
#original post#dream smp#dream smp analysis#technoblade#tommyinnit#technoblade critical#(i guess. honestly I didn’t say much about techno himself in this but just to be safe)#dsmp#dsmp analysis#dream smp meta#dsmp meta#my writing#can you tell i don’t like Theseus much#hated to leave out his early life stuff because it’s genuinely super interesting but it wasn’t really relevant so I had to cut it :(#if you want a more detailed description of Theseus I’d recommend the rick riordan book on Greek heroes#it’s not the most scholarly work but it gives the bare bones of the myths in an accessible way that doesn’t take an English degree to read#call me a fake nerd if you want but I like the humor and digestibility#there are typos in this post and I Do Not Care
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Welcomed with open arms part 3
Sibling!Half phantom!GN!Reader x Sbi family (+ Tubbo)
Summary: Y/N is now learning to fly, but gets hurt while doing so, so the bois help you :3
For context: Wilbur and Techno are twins, the reader is the youngest of the family with Tubbo being a little older than Tommy, and Tommy is 2-3 years older than the reader. This chapter takes place 2 years after the first chapter.
TW: slightly graphic description of bones breaking, so look out for that
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“Alright, mate. It’s time for you to learn how to fly.”
As your father said those words, you jumped up with excitement. You’d always wanted to fly on your own, and now the day has come.
“Though, before we start the actual flying, you need to learn the basic techniques and cautions; the first being never fly too close to the ground, less you could accidentally hit it and go tumbling. It would lead to several bruises and possibly a broken bone or more. Trust me. It isn’t fun.” He reminisced on his first time flying, expressing a face of cringe and pain.
“Anyway,” He started by showing you proper take off stances, with you following in his steps. “a good way to take off is to jump off a high place, but the height depends on experience. Since you are inexperienced, we will start with a small hill.”
The hill your father took you to was relatively small; right next to your house. He held you as you flapped your wings, “now, you don’t just want to flap them. Think of a bird. You need to sometimes glide, less you go too high or tire your wings out which is never fun.”
He then sets you down in front of him, with him flapping his big wings in a similar, yet more graceful manner than you. Of course, this action took him a few feet off the ground but as he stopped, he landed on the ground with a thump.
“Now, the actual take off. When you take off something like a hill like this, you first want to do like a running start, but sometimes you can just jump off the edge if it was a cliff. But in our case, it’s a hill.”
He demonstrated a position where his left leg was in front, his back leg behind him, and his arms in front of him touching the ground, like he was about to start running. You quickly copied his movements. “Once you are here, you pull yourself forward like you're running close to the ground, and quickly spread your wings to their fullest extent and glide,” he did as he said, gliding across and landed at the bottom of the small hill, “you think you can do that? I’ll catch you, don’t worry.”
You decided to trust your father, and replicated him. You did the stance, and took off, spreading your wings to their full length, and glided towards him, with him catching you in his arms. “That was great, Y/N!” He yelled with a smile. You smiled back at him, your wings fluttering happily behind you. “You did amazing! I bet that when you grow up, you’ll be able to fly like me!”
You giggled and flapped your wings, your father also flapping in a similar fashion. “Now, let’s do a few more times and then we’ll have some lunch. That sound good to you?” You giggled and nodded your head, agreeing with him.
As the day went on, you and your father flew together. Him teaching you various landing and flying positions, maybe a few tricks, and you following along with him. And eventually, but begrudgingly and a lot of pleading, he allowed you to fly without his supervision. Great idea that was.
So, you flew. Of course, your flying wasn’t perfect. It was your first day, so of course it wasn’t gonna go exactly as planned. And, despite your father’s wishes, you decided it was an ‘amazing idea’ to jump off the highest fucking cliff you could find. But, before your father’s various crows could go and alert him, you had already jumped off and started to glide.
But, because of your speed, you weren’t able to control your direction and you lost control, and slammed right into a tree. It was a tall tree too, unluckily, you also dropped about 30 feet onto the cold hard ground. You're just happy you survived any of that.
Of course, your father came flying at the fastest you’ve ever seen him fly, with the crows cawing beside him. “HOLY SHIT Y/N! I TOLD YOU YOU TO NOT GO OFF ANY CLIFFS. ESPECIALLY THAT ONE!” Your father carried you back to the house very worried and, frankly, very scared.
He scolded you as he and Techno bandaged and healed you up with healing potions. “I am at a loss for words Y/N. Why did you think that idea was going to work?”
Despite your father being at a ‘loss for words’, he continued to lecture you the entire night. At some point, Wilbur and Tubbo had gone behind him and started to copy all of his moves and lip-sync his words, which prompted you to start giggling a little.
Your father looked behind himself, and started to laugh a little too as Wilbur and Tubbo started to mock him now, reciting his words and his movements. “Boys, boys, I’m trying to be stern. It’s not gonna work if you keep making everyone laugh.” Your father says, while giggling.
“Be careful Wil, you might make the old man fall over. You know the years haven’t been kind to him.” Tommy then began to mock father, pretending to be an old man. “Oh I’m Phil. My brittle bones can’t handle all of the funny talk you kids spit out.” Your father laughed more at all the mocking of him.
“Is that really how you see me?” Father asks, looking at Tommy specifically. “Yeah. Pretty much. It’s like looking in a mirror, right?” Responding to your father, Tommy shrugged while smiling. lol.
“Techno, what do you think?” Next to you, Techno promptly looked up from his book, looked your father up and down, “Dad looks like he could be put in an ancient artifacts store.” “Techno why do you betray me like this” “it’s fun, what can I say?”
Through all of the laughing, you still got a lecture from dad. Your punishment was no flying out of his, Techno’s, or Wilbur’s vision. Of course, you literally couldn’t for the time being since they were broken, but that was the rule now.
As the night went on, you, your father, and your siblings played cards. The twins always were head to head throughout the duration of the games, trying their best to outwit the other. Sadly, the night had to be cut short by Father, for if they went longer one of them would end up with a broken limb. Though, it was very entertaining, to watch them bicker and stare at each other with pure rage and perseverance.
Then afterwards, you all went to sleep in the living room, sweet dreams following in tow.
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#sbi x reader#sbi x y/n#technoblade#tubbo#tommyinnit#philza#philzaminecraft#dadza x reader#gender neutral y/n#y/n#techno and wilbur twins
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Hidden Book, Hidden Giggles
word count: 2,448
summary: tommy has a plan, and gets his brother involved. things are going very well, and wilbur is very proud of himself...until the plan fails.
it’s currently 3:30 in the morning when i’m typing this, so i’m not typing a proper intro OR spellchecking this until later. no beta we die like wilbur does in this fic /j anyway buckle up because i was VERY mean to wilbur in this one
warning: this is a sfw tickle fic! don’t read if that makes you uncomfortable :]
Tommy had a great idea.
Well, in his opinion, it was great.
And that idea...was to fuck with Techno all day.
Of course, Tommy fucked with people all the time. He was Tommy, that’s what he would do. However, tonight, Tommy felt like being a little bit more of an annoying little shit than he normally was.
Naturally, he went to Wilbur for help. His plan that he had come up with relied on the power of teamwork. Wilbur agreed to help out, reluctant at first. However, nothing was wrong with a little extra amusement that was provided by Techno slowly losing his cool. Both of them had also convinced Phil to help with the plan, which Wilbur had no idea how he managed to get him on bored.
The plan was very simple, but very effective. The three of them would each steal something from Techno that night, and then continuously hide it from him around the house all day. While Techno had gone outside to practice his swordsmanship, they each snagged an item from his room. Wilbur grabbed the book that Techno was currently reading, Tommy took his crown, and Phil stole his reading glasses. When Techno came back inside after hours of practice, he was too worn out to suspect a thing.
The next morning, the first thing Wilbur did when he woke up was to check and make sure that Techno hadn’t already foiled his plans. He let out a happy sigh of relief to see that the book was still where he had hidden it: in a small cabinet drawer inside his closet. He had opened it to a random page to take up less vertical space, and it was the perfect size to be stowed away.
Things continued like normal. Wilbur got dressed, headed downstairs, said hello to Phil and Tommy, and started prepping breakfast for himself. Not much was happening in their household today. He had planned to stay home, and as far as he was aware, Phil and Techno planned to do the same. Tommy had plans to spend the night at Tubbo’s place, but it wasn’t until the evening that he had to leave. As he cracked an egg over the frying pan on the stove, Techno came shuffling into the room.
“Morning, Techno!” Phil greeted as he took a sip from his mug of coffee. Techno nodded in response, heading straight for the cabinet and pulling out a box of wheat cereal. He flipped the box over, squinting and reading through the words on the back, before walking over to Tommy, who was sitting at the table and eating a sugary cereal of some sort.
The young teen looked up, an eyebrow raising. “...What?” He asked with a mouthful of cereal and milk.
“Tommy, I need you to read the contents of this box of cereal for me.” Techno told him.
“Can’t you just...do it yourself?” Tommy questioned.
“Normally, I would, but I can’t find my reading glasses anywhere.” Techno sighed with annoyance. “I can barely make out anything on this box.”
“Do you know where you last left them?” Phil asked Techno.
“I swore I left them in their case on my nightstand, but when I woke up this morning, they weren’t inside.” He explained.
“That’s...weird. Very, very strange.” Tommy said, pretending not to know the truth. Wilbur could feel his heart beating fast as he caught Techno staring at him out of the corner of his eye, but huffed out a quick sigh of relief when Techno only said good morning to him, and nothing more. As Tommy read out the statistics labeled on the cereal box, he silently hoped to himself that he and the other two would be able to keep their acts up all day.
After breakfast, Wilbur headed into his room, both to relax and to keep guard. He grabbed his guitar, closed the door, and sat cross legged on the his bed, starting to play. He had a couple of ideas for songs, and would play around with the notes that he strummed. His family would peek open the door and visit, chatting briefly. Techno even walked by and chatted with him, still not suspecting anything.
After a few hours of playing and relaxing, he opened the door, leaving the room to get a snack. As he made his way down the stairs and to the kitchen, he found Tommy hunched over one of the counters.
“Hey, Tommy! What’s up?” Wilbur asked, stepping closer and opening the door to the fridge.
Tommy looked up, smiling as he saw his older brother. It looked like he was...out of breath? A bit strange, but Wilbur didn’t question. “Ah, Wilbur! Hey. How’s your part of the plan going?”
“Great.” Wilbur smirked as he pulled an apple out from the drawer in the refrigerator. “Technoblade came by, we had a nice little chat about swordfighting, and he hasn’t questioned anything from me since.” He said to Tommy, closing the refrigerator door now.
“What about you? How are things going?” He turned away to pick at the sticker on the apple and awaited Tommy’s response, but didn’t get one. He looked up, curious. “...Tommy?”
“Yeah...about that...Techno, um, got the crown back.”
“What? How?”
“I...he walked in on me trying it on in the mirror.” Tommy huffed, embarrassed.
“...Oh my god.” Wilbur couldn’t help but chuckle a bit at the silliness of this situation.
“I- I didn’t let him take it away from me so easily, though!” Tommy reassured, a pink tint on his face. “I ran around the room to get it away from him, but he managed to nag it. Not without me putting up a fight, I would never hand it over to him. Did you not hear me yelling at him and telling him how he would never get it back? We were pretty fuckin’ loud!”
“Mm, no.” Wilbur shrugged. “I had my door closed and was playing guitar, so I didn’t hear you guys.”
“Wow, okay.” Tommy blinked in surprise. “Well, he’s onto you next, so good luck. You’ll need it.”
“...Alright, thanks.” Wilbur shrugged as the two of them headed out of the kitchen.
Wilbur went back upstairs, apple in hand as he closed the door behind him. Instead of playing the guitar this time, he went ahead and put a music disc into the jukebox. The beats of pigstep played throughout the room as Wilbur sat on his bed, opening up a spare notebook, which had sporadic notes about possible song lyrics. He jotted down his ideas, nodding his head to the beat of the music. Probably about fifteen minutes had passed when he heard a knock on his door.
“Come in!” He called out. Opening the door was Phil, who, like Tommy earlier, looked like he was out of breath. It was quite strange, Wilbur thought.
“Wilbur, hey mate.” His father greeted him. “So, would it be okay if you were the one to drop Tommy off at Tubbo’s later?”
“What? Yeah, that’s fine.” Wilbur nodded. “What, did something happen?”
“Yeah, I’m just...” Phil paused, looking left and right, as if he was being secretive. “I’m just a little worn out.” He said, putting his hand on the doorknob, about to close the door shut with no further explanation.
However, before Phil could close the door, he was stopped by a hand wrapping around his own. Looking up, he saw Techno intensely glaring at him.
“Keep the door open, Phil. I’d like to talk to my brother.” Techno said politely. Phil chuckled softly (and, by the sound of it, a bit nervously), nodding as he walked away, leaving the two alone. Wilbur looked up as Techno entered the room and closed the door behind him. What made Wilbur feel especially uneasy, however, was that he was wearing his reading glasses.
“...Techno.”
“Wilbur.”
“You...I see you found your glasses.” Wilbur said, feeling nervous already.
“Indeed I did.” Techno nodded, walking over and turning off the jukebox. “And you won’t believe where I found them.”
“Oh, really? Where?”
“They were in Phil’s nightstand cabinet. Turns out, he had stolen them from me. Just like Tommy had stolen my crown.” He said, making direct eye contact with Wilbur. “Now, the one last thing I’m missing is my book, and I was wondering if you had any clue where it was.”
“...Nope.” Wilbur looked down at his notebook.
“Oh, don’t play dumb with me, Wilbur.” Techno rolled his eyes. “I know you took it.”
“I didn’t! Seriously!” Wilbur said, the nervousness setting in and becoming evident in his voice. “You can check my entire bookshelf, man. It’s not gonna be there.”
And that’s exactly what Techno did. He made a beeline for Wilbur’s bookshelf, scanning through each and every book. Pulling a few off of the shelf to investigate further, he went through the full thing as Wilbur simply hummed to himself and wrote down more lyrics.
“See? Exactly what I told you, it’s not there.” Wilbur said a bit smugly, proud that he was currently in the right. Techno huffed, starting to dig through other various things in Wilbur’s room, but not anywhere near the closet. At one point, Wilbur felt his heart fill with fear as Techno opened the closet door, but he only looked in there briefly, and didn’t do a full fledged look through, simply closing the closet door afterwards.
“...This is taking too long.” Techno grumbled.
“I’m telling you, I don’t have your book.” Wilbur lied. “You’re not going to find it in here.”
“You know what? Alright. It didn’t have to come to this, but you’re being stubborn.” In a swift movement, he grabbed Wilbur’s notebook and pen, tossing them to the side, then quickly grabbed Wilbur by the shoulders, lightly pushing him down and then grabbing his wrists, holding them above his head. Wilbur gasped in surprise, snapping his head up and looking at his brother.
“Now, Wilbur. Tommy refused to give me my crown, and Phil wouldn’t tell me where my glasses were. So, now, I’m going to use a strategy that I used on both of them, and it worked on both of them.” Techno explained calmly.
With that, Wilbur simply scoffed, a smirk on his face. “Oh yeah? And what would that be?” He asked, acting confident.
“Hmm...acting cocky now, are we? I’m not sure if you want to act that way right now, Wilbur.” Techno moved so that he was now sitting next to Wilbur on the bed as he laid down, and held his two hands above him with only one of his own. Wilbur did his best to relax, but the feeling of not knowing what his brother had planned was making him nervous. He stayed calm though...until he suddenly felt a hand squeezing at his right hip.
Wilbur inhaled sharply, giggling lightly and attempting to shift away from the hand. “T-TeHECHno! Whahat are you dohohoihing?!”
“Well, what does it look like I’m doing?” The piglin asked.
“Y-You’re squhuehehezing my hihihip.”
“Squeezing? That’s weird. The answer is that I’m tickling you, that’s supposed to tickle.” Techno muttered. “But, apparently, that’s not what you think, so I need to change that.” As he started clawing at Wilbur’s stomach, his eyes widened, and giggling turned into laughter.
“WA-WAHAIT- Wahahaihit! TehehechnOHOHO!” Wilbur started to squirm around, bringing his knees towards himself as an attempt to protect himself.
“Yes?” He asked, eyeing his brother.
“Yohohou’re- aHA- TeHEHechnoHO-!”
“Unable to form coherent sentences, are we? Well, I need you to speak if you’re going to tell me where the book is.”
“I dohon’t hAHAve ihihit!”
“Hmm...I don’t believe you.” Techno pushed up the bottom of Wilbur’s sweater so that his stomach was now exposed, and gripped at Wilbur’s wrists once again, holding them above his head. He shook his head so that his braid fell over his shoulder, then lowered his head slightly and put his plan into motion. Wilbur squeaked, laughing softly as he felt the tips of Techno’s hair lightly brush over his bare skin.
“This is your last chance, Wilbur. Tell me where my book is, and I won’t be nice anymore.” He said, the smallest of smirks on his face.
“Ihi’m tehelling yohou...I dohon’t hahave ihit.” Wilbur giggled, taking a moment to catch his breath.
“Heh...it’s your funeral.” Techno shrugged. He let go off Wilbur’s wrists, and immediately shot his hands down into the armpits. Wilbur’s eyes shot open, his arms flew down to his sides, and he quickly burst into loud, boisterous cackles.
“NAHAHAHAHA- TEHEHECHNOHOHO!! YOHOHOU DIHIHIHICK- AHAHAHAAA!!”
“Maybe if you had told me where my book was, we wouldn’t be in this situation.” Techno said, speeding up the speed of his scribbling. Wilbur kicked his legs, laughing hysterically.
“IHIHI DOHO- NOHOHOHAHAHA!!”
“Don’t what? I can’t understand what you’re saying.” He said, acting oblivious. He continued for as long as he chose too, until Wilbur quickly screamed out his name, tears in the corners of his eyes.
“TEHEHEHE- TEHEHECHNOHOHO- AHAHALRIHIHIGHT! IHIHIHIT’S IHIHIN THE CAHABNIHIEHET!!” He yelled through his laughter.
“Which cabinet? You have plenty of cabinets,
Wilbur.” Techno asked, leaning down and taking a breath before blowing a raspberry on his stomach. Wilbur let out a scream louder tan be ever had before, hysterical cackling spewing out of his mouth.
“IHIHIN THE CLOHOHOHOSEHEHET!!! NOHOHOW PLEHEHEHEHEAHAHASE, STOHOHOP IHIHIHIT- EHEHEHEHAHAHAHA-!”
At Wilbur’s request, Techno pulled his hands away, standing up and opening the closet door, shuffling through the cabinet drawers until he found what he was looking for. He grabbed the book, sat back down on the bed, looking at it for a moment, then groaned.
“...Wilbur.”
“Yehehes?”
“This wasn’t the page I left my book on, Wilbur.”
“Oh. Wehehell, how the fuhuhuhuck wahahas I suhuppohohossed tohoho knohohohow thAHAHAHA- TEHEHEHECHNOHOHO- WAHAHAHAHAIT, IHIHI’M SOHOHOHOREEHEHEEY-!” Wilbur shrieked as he felt a raspberry to his side, throwing his head back onto the bed.
“PLEHEHEAHAHASE TEHEHECHNOHOHO!! MEHEHEHRCY, HAHAHAVE MEHEHEHERCEHEHEY!!!” He pleased, tears streaming down his face.
“You’re asking for mercy? Well, now I know what to do when I need you to shut up.” Techno chuckled softly, standing up and heading out of the bedroom. “Oh, and I’ll see if Phil can drive Tommy to Tubbo’s for you. You’re way too tired and giggly to be able to focus on the road.”
Wilbur stared at the ceiling once Techno left, using the wool of his sweater to wipe away some of his tears. He needed time to catch his breath, and to plot how he would get revenge on his twin.
And how he would enjoy getting that revenge as much as he enjoyed this experience just now. However, he would never say that out loud.
#dawn writes#lee!wilbur#ler!techno#c!wilbur#c!techno#dsmp tickle#i am so tired gn#also this was partially a gift for river. river if ur reading this ily /p#🧨 wilbur: the bad guy#🗡 technoblade: the blood god
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a love post to the green festival real quick
i just really want to say, with the anniversary of the green festival and “the discs were worth more than you ever were,”
that tommy and tubbo are such good actors!!
i specifically remember how last year following tommy’s perspective how he snuck around l’manburg with techno and his face when (along with everyone else in the call) when they came across the broken down community house. i remember my jaw dropping with everyone else’s when that came up (which really goes to show how good the lore was for those streams--credit to dream (i assume it was his idea to blow up the community house)). the way c!tubbo was trying to coordinate everything under control--i feel like you could really tell how tired he sounded with cc!tubbo’s voice and actions (tubbo really needs more credit for all the effort he puts into his streams and lore--he does so well and i feel like more people need to appreciate how great he is (especially with acting. i don’t care what anyone says, i genuinely think tubbo is one of the greatest actors on dream smp))
under the cut cause this post was getting really long lol
tubbo and tommy’s argument! man!!! i was so enraptured in that moment; i think everyone else in the stream (streamers and chat members alike) were also very caught up. the voice acting!! you can really hear the emotion in both of their voices as they both share their perspectives during exile. there’s a frustration there that i feel is understandable for both characters and both tubbo and tommy represent it so well. their entire dialogue from when tommy enters the community house to when everybody leaves is so captivating. man. the green festival was executed so well. i feel like it all came together so nicely.
(even the little details are so nice, like the party games. ranboo constantly watching tubbo and quackity when they go to talk privately. some of the original 8 members being present and being the most despondent about the community house (i can’t remember exactly but i think i remember ponk and/or sam typing smth in chat that really made me :(( yknow). even the coincidences: like tommy’s invisibility wearing off right after he drops that line)
i know a lot of people don’t like the way the discs are constantly brought up again in canon but i’m honestly a huge fan of it. there’s a lot of symbolism behind them and while i think an entire new post to talk about only the discs, i think one of the most important things it symbolises is c!clingyduo’s friendship/loyalty with each other. in this stream in particular: tommy feels betrayed by the thought that tubbo would give his discs to dream which is why he reveals himself. this shows a lot of c!tommy’s sort of tunnel vision in this season (with him tunneling in on the discs believing that “...once [he] gets the discs, the server will go back to normal” (paraphrased)). clingy duo begin to fight and tommy drops the line, “the discs were worth more than you ever were” to tubbo.
^i think you can literally hear a pin drop at that moment. i think remember someone else in the call gasping. (i think i remember that both tommy and tubbo’s chats were completely filled with BibleThumps even though they weren’t on emote-only.) tommy’s expression as well, as those words, come out of his mouth--it’s indescribable. you can immediately sense the regret on his face and in his voice as he tells tubbo to give mellohi (? i think it was that one) to dream. even tubbo is shocked at that moment, not just by what tommy has just shouted at him, but the fact that tommy is even telling him to give the discs away (because that is unfathomable for tommy. the discs have been the things he’s valued since the beginning but honestly it shouldn’t be that surprising because when it comes down to the wire, no matter what, tommy will put his friends (tubbo) before the discs).
dream’s speech to tubbo and his cabinet directly afterwards. the way he puts down tubbo and exposes ranboo. it’s horrible to listen to but i think that’s what makes it so great. i think thats one of the first times, in canon, that (almost) everyone gets to see how despicable dream is as a character. it becomes clear, then, even when everyone still thinks that tommy blew up the community house, that dream is completely willing to use and manipulate people to get what he wants. at first, we really only saw it with tommy in exile and occasionally ranboo, but now we very see it with tubbo, with the rest of his cabinet, with the discs, with the entire server (by blowing up the community house), with techno and using his desire to destroy l’manburg as a way to get what he wants. i love it. c!dream is horrible in the best way.
(i know i was supposed to be talking about clingyduo’s acting (this kind of fits) but i just... these lines: “i’m worse than everyone I hated... I’m worse than everyone I didn’t want to be.” oh my GOD. absolutely incredible. i don’t even have words. c!tommy...)
it’s just so great man. even after all that, when everyone exits the community house and gives that great speech and rallies everyone (i honestly think it might’ve worked if ranboo didn’t lay down his counter-argument speech right after). he’s go this certain charisma that’s hard to explain. not in the way that quackity and wilbur where they can talk themselves out of any situation but more like in the way where his conviction is so strong (you can really tell he believes what he’s saying) that people want to trust him anyway.
(also sidenote: but i love the fact that tommy technically named doomsday but i can’t get over the fact that prior to that he had a video titled ‘Doomsday.’ and i’m pretty sure it was an og disc war vid about clingyduo finally confronting dream iirc)
also i think a thing that a lot of people look over when talking about the green festival is c!tubbo directly going against what was expected of him. (tommy had already done that in the stream before this one, i think, by refusing to blow up l’manburg (even with the whole “l’manburg is my unfinished symphony” line). quackity goes up to tubbo at the end of the stream and tells him that they need to execute ranboo for betraying them. tubbo refutes this immediately. (i can’t remember his exact lines, but i assume this decision was made not only because he cares a lot about ranboo but also i think i recall him specifically saying that they will be no better than their enemies if they do that). it really shows how much tubbo has grown and actually how strong he is. dream puts him down as a weak and as a doormat but tubbo stands his ground in this decision. he knows that if he continues down the path he’s going, he’ll be no better than schlatt (and honestly look at where trying to execute techno got them). tommy rose above his expectations of being just like wilbur and tubbo rose above his expectations of being just like schlatt (such a solid conclusion to that plotline; i love it so much). tommy was wrong; he and tubbo are ten times better than everyone they didn’t want to be.
(side sidenote: quackity tells tubbo, i think maybe for the first time--but definitely not the last time--not to trust anyone. i think it’s interesting how quackity repeatedly parrots that line to both tommy and tubbo. i don’t know who else he’s said that to, but i think it says a lot about his character that he finds that advice to be the most important thing to tell two of the youngest members of the server (...his little brothers)
i got completely sidetracked in this post. the green festival is one of my favourite dsmp lore streams. i really loved everyone’s part in it--but specifically clingyduos parts. they did so well!! i always feel weird saying i’m proud of them (especially when i’m so close to their ages) but their performances were so incredible that stream. both of them have crafted such consistent, understandable, and captivating characters. it’s honestly inspired me so much in my own writing and i’m so grateful to both of them (also side side sidenote cause i can’t stop: the different ways in which they act really compliment each other and their own respective characters).
idk man i just really really think clingyduo blew the acting out of the park for the green festival event and with the anniversary of it today, i wanted to show my appreciation.
hope tubbo and tommy continue to show everyone around them how amazing and talented they are :) good night gamers
#dream smp#dsmp#mcyt#tommyinnit#tubbo#the green festival#can you tell who my favourite characters are lol#i wish i could write essays for school like i just wrote this#yay my first official post :'))#anyway tl;dr tubbo and tommy are great actors and#the green festival was a masterpiece#also sorry if i get anything wrong i wrote this all from memory#this is so rambly#i feel like i went on 10 million tangents#this is my magnum opus tbh#hello yes i major in dsmp lore 🤓
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any cc!techbur hcs?
Wilbur sometimes gets nonverbal but he still wants to be with Techno so they just sit in call alone together doing their own thing
Wilbur is taller than Techno by a full four inches, and when they hug for the first time Techno almost tears up
Wilbur is really insecure in the relationship about himself, thinking himself a toxic partner. Techno notices it and layers him with compliments constantly, even though he’s not great at them
Wilbur fixes Techno’s sleep schedule, but he sometimes has episodes himself when he has trouble getting out of bed. Techno doesn’t mind, he makes him breakfast in bed and Wil complains about crumbs but it’s just to stop himself from crying
They both help each other become more social, both of them encouraging each other to make plans with friends
Wilbur gets Techno to go to the gym, Techno hates it but Wil is always flushed and happy afterwards and Techno loves him like that
Techno teaches Wilbur to enjoy basic things like his favorite pillow or the store being in stock of a snack they rarely have
Tommy teases them like crazy. His first instinct is to film a vlog about it and he needs to be talked down by Wilbur
Tommy tells Tubbo before Wil or Techno can, but he doesn’t let them know and acts surprised anyways when they tell him
Wilbur likes to take photos of Techno, Techno doesn’t like being in pictures but Wil promises him they won’t be posted or printed, just kept on his phone for memories. Techno begrudgingly accepts
Wilbur likes to hold hands, Techno likes hugs
Techno’s an absolute dog mom and Wilbur loves Floof, they both dote on him and he soaks it up
They both listen to each other infodump about each other’s hyperfixations/focuses and even share some because of it
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Hello! Not sure if you’ve had any asks about this but you’re really good at explaining anarchist theory and such. I was wondering what your response is for Jack’s criticism to Niki in his stream? (He visited about 20 min in) Basically it boiled down to “if there is no government or law here, what’s to stop someone from just taking everything?” This is a criticism a lot of people seem to share, that without structure the only people with power are the ones with pvp skill. What’s the solution in that case?
Thanks for the ask! (and thanks for the compliments haha)
Okay, first off I wanna link an earlier post I made kind of relating to this subject because otherwise I’d have to get a bit repetitive. But I’m gonna elaborate on this a bit here:
Oh yeah also disclaimer: I’m obviously not an authority (hah!) on anarchism, I’m just one random anarchist. I haven’t even read that much theory tbh, I get bored really easily. Point is, other anarchists might disagree what I have to say, these are just my thoughts and ideas.
1: So to me it kinda seems like Jack is confusing “no rulers“ with “no rules“. He’s thinking of 2b2t when he could be thinking of Hermitcraft (well, Hermitcraft is kinda mixed, sometimes they have a police and a penal system, sometimes they have a mayor, idk, but like... thinking of season 6 for example, which I still keep saying was effectively a mutualist society). Yes, anarchy CAN be “no rules“, but it doesn’t HAVE to be, and as a societal system it usually isn’t. The important part is that if there are rules they must be decided by the consensus of the community. That is, everybody has to agree to them mutually.
2: “No police“ doesn’t mean “no community self-defence allowed“. The difference is that the role doesn’t come with authority; the idea is to intervene to stop an immediate threat, that’s all. The conflict resolution is handled between the people involved and possibly some mediators and with input from the community as a whole if it’s a bigger issue. Honestly, the details aren’t even that important, the point is just that you don’t have a specific group enforcing rules on others
Living alone in her city Niki is definitely vulnerable, there’s no denying that. The best protection would be to have other people there to outnumber possible troublemakers. (Okay I know some people on the server can fight even massively outnumbered, but I mean even someone like Techno tends to think twice before fighting more than three people unless he’s prepared.) If the other people aren’t available, they can go visit the offender afterwards to make it clear that such behaviour is not appreciated and amends must be made.
(I realise that while Niki can’t tell Jack, she actually has some VERY powerful allies now. But yeah, having more people there in general would help to prevent problems in the first place.)
3: This is less about Dream SMP (which actually is probably doomed to be kind of a chaotic mess due to the fact that conflict creates content) and more about the general trope because I can’t help responding to it every time:
The media in general tends to overestimate how prone to violence and destruction people would be without leadership. The example I like to give is natural disasters: in a major natural disaster, law and order tends to break down, often it takes a while for authorities to show up, there’s limited resources, there are immediate threats everywhere.... and usually what happens is that people help each other. Including complete strangers. Usually the first and most important rescue efforts are organised by the people who are right there, being hit by the disaster. The official rescue personnel would otherwise be too late for a LOT of people.
But people’s concept of what a world without laws and authority would look like is more like what happens as a reaction to authoritarian rule. For example the drug wars in Central America are directly linked to the War on Drugs in the USA. Extreme anti-drug policing enables organised crime. The Syrian Civil War was a response to Assad, made even worse by US intervention in Iraq which had already created ISIS which in turn was able to expand to Syria. And we’d be here all day if I tried to list all the wars and breakdowns of society caused by colonialism and its legacy.
4: Governments on the server really don’t have a great track record of stopping the kind of problems Jack brought up from happening. And in fact a lot of the time it’s the governments that do the stealing and griefing themselves. This tends to happen in real life too. Police brutality is a huge problem, because as it turns out, sometimes the asshole who comes and steals your stuff and kills your chicken decides to go into law enforcement first. And then you definitely can’t do anything about it, because who are you gonna call then? The police? (Sidenote: who do you call if the president is stealing your shit and calling it “taxes” lmao (Yes I’m talking about Tubbo in case it wasn’t clear))
Governments also start wars for resources, for territory, for straight up just reinforcing their own power. They usually allow some level of dissent, just to seem reasonable, but if the dissent gets loud and strong enough, they’re very quick to start persecuting activists, even if they have to come up with lies and excuses to do so.
Governments also prop up capitalism, which itself is exploitative and harmful in a systemic way. It might not reward physical power, but it rewards financial power. (I won’t go into it here because it’s a whole other tangent but capitalism pretty much requires some form of government and law enforcement to function, which is why “anarcho-capitalists” aren’t valid. Mutualists are though, mutualists are alright.)
And speaking of systemic power, it creates situations where even otherwise good people end up doing horrible things, because they’re just going along with the existing system. For example, denying disability benefits because someone doesn’t quite fit the requirements, deporting asylum seekers because they weren’t able to prove their lives were in danger, foreclosing on someone’s home because they weren’t able to make their payments...
Or more relevant to the Dream SMP: locking up a visitor in a max security cell for over a week, WITH the prisoner, because it’s what the prison protocol demands (Sam). (Not to even mention everyone who’s been drafted to carry out state violence against their will, like Tubbo, Ranboo and Techno at least, probably more.)
... Okay I’m kinda veering off topic here. But you get the idea. Governments and authority figures regularly fail to protect their people, in fact they’re often the CAUSE of the harm in the first place.
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DID YOU READ THE NEW CHAPTER OF NO CAUSE FOR CONCERN BECAUSE I JUST HAVE AND I AM FREAKING OUT HDKDJDK
@hopefully-not-the-ghostbusters MHM YES I DID (spoilers for chapter 23 of no cause for concern ahead)
Mhm much to discuss here let’s start with my obligatory photo dump
yiKES. How are the found family enthusiasts with crippling low self esteem and severe guilt feeling tonight!
Very good chapter, I loved the first sleepover chapter so a second one was great. The more domestic things like mariokart, and all of the drama too. Let’s break it down shall we.
Tommy and Ranboo have my whole heart. They care about each other so much and they bounce off each other so well. It’s clear how much ranboo is trying to protect tommy. Their dynamic is so good it’s one of my favourite things.
Crimeboys my BELOVED. The edition of the tension with ghostbur has been wonderful, especially with ghostbur knowing Tommy’s secret now and keeping it from Wilbur. Watching tommys guilt skyrocket when he realizes Wilbur is in pain because ghostbur is protecting him. Wilbur cares so much for him and he’s such a consistent positive support. He doesn’t push too hard but is always there. Very excited to see how Wilbur will react when he eventually figures out tommys identity.
I swear techno already knows. He should. It would make sense. He’s protective over tommy but In a different way. He lets things slide and doesn’t ask nearly as many questions as everyone else. And with the amount of time he spent with Theseus, how could he not know?
Ok ok theory time. So popular theory brought to you by one of my friends is that Ranboo is the man in the alley that threatened to kill Tommy. Now I’m not personally a huge fan of this one but the ogic is the emphasis on the figure being tall, and the fact that Ranboo texted saying he was going to be late right afterwards. Now I see multiple flaws in this like I feel like tommy would recognize Ranboo’s voice, Ranboo would supposedly be at the police station like. Many plot holes. That being said with the end of this chapter Ranboo lying about the interviews is a possibility. Is it egg related? Is it enderwalk related? Good questions I do not have the answer too. There’s multiple different directions this could go and be interesting so I’ll leave it untouched for now.
But talking about my egg theories!!! So anyone who all is at schlatts right now (I don’t remember who all is there) but I KNOW Dream and Puffy stayed. I stand firmly by the fact both of them are infected by now. We haven’t heard from puffy in ages, Phil even commented on it. She used to check in regularly and then she just. Stopped. Now specifically that scene with dream and tommy in the hallway seemed very out of character for what we know of dream. He didn’t seem to have problems with Tommy before.
From what we have seen of egg infected people they get much more aggressive, agitated quickly, angry and upset. Both Skeppy and Bad are full of anger and snap at Tommy incredibly quickly. Dreams behaviour in that scene lines up with this. He gets unnecessarily angry, and is aggressive and violent with tommy when he doesn’t need to be. This is a big shift from whenever we’ve seen his character before this. And if I remember correctly at some point the dream team joins him. So George and Sapnap are likely infected by now too.
I’m also a firm believer in this theory because I think it would be fun to have Tommy fight an egg infected Tubbo. Tubbo who has the enhancement of being able to grow things. Tubbo with the power hungry father. Suddenly Tubbo isn’t looking so “useless” anymore. It’s unclear how the egg works in this story, but if it’s anything like canon it’s some kind of plant. It grows and spreads and infects. Sounds like something Tubbo could control, for better or for worse. Also I just miss Tubbo he was cool.
Now with everything I just said about the egg let’s go back to ranboo. He doesn’t display any of these signs, at least not around tommy. Now there’s two possibilities here
Ranboo genuinley doesn’t remember. Like that kid at the hospital, he just kinda blacked out and when he snapped out of it he didn’t know what was going on. Ranboo could just be affected when he isn’t around Tommy. The incident at work that caused him to get fired? Might not have been the enderwalk. It could be the increased aggravation and violent tendencies infected people have
Now the other thing to consider is that Ranboo is not aggressive with Tommy in the slightest. He has still been kind and gentle to him, despite the story trying to steer us in a direction of suspicion and mistrust for him. Although something is up with Ranboo, I think we might be being purposefully misled as to what it is. This isn’t the first pattern of odd behaviour with Ranboo, it could just be a coincidence it happened after the egg incident.
Many thoughts. Head full. As you can tell. Very good chapter though I enjoyed it and I’m excited to see where the next update will go!!
#no cause for concern#sbi fic#sbi fic recs#sbi superhero au#tommyinnit#Wilbur soot#technoblade#Philza#ncfc spoilers#ncfc update#ncfc theory#dsmp#dsmp fics#dsmp hero au#ncfc ranboo#ranboo#no cause for concern sbi#sbi#sleepy boys#sleepy bois fanfic
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Zeta can you ramble about c!tommy?
OR
You could talk about another character of your choosing
Have a good day!
(Askin cause you are very cool)
You know I can always ramble about Tommy's character. Cheers for the ask!
I feel like Tommy's story is already pretty much complete and so it's cool to look back and reflect on the themes and how it was handled and everything. I like Tommy's story as its a satisfying one. There's a nice long-running arc that, more than just a series of events, features Tommy's colourful, distinctive, consistent character and his lovely development.
It's essentially a coming of age story. A story of our young, innocent protagonist growing up. Tommy at the start of the story is passionate, mischievous, troublesome but not in a malicious way. He's full of confidence and is sure of himself, confident he's right and thinks of the world in pretty simple terms. He's naïve and often obnoxious and understandably gets himself in a lot of trouble but its all alright because he has people looking out for him who see his potential.
And so we see the story go into great detail about his loss of innocence. He's on his own, forced to be more independent and start making tougher choices. Wilbur, whom he always looked up to is no longer the man he can rely on and he confronts Tommy with difficult challenges he's not able to deal with. He's asked if their bad guys and yet Tommy had been living with moral certainty all this time that of course he was the good guy and they would always do what was right and therefore they'd always prevail.
But that didn't happen. L'Manburg is blown up, he failed. His simple beliefs are shaken even as he tries to hold onto his simple ideals of good and bad.
The start of season 2 shows Tommy having essentially split Wilbur into two in his mind. There was the good president Wilbur and the evil Pogtopia Wilbur. Techno is also a villain. He and Tubbo are still good. Tommy's not at his best though, he's lost and confused and is desperate for a sense of normalcy again. He wants to go back to his old ways where the world was easy gain.
And then he's exiled. We see how uncertain Tommy really is now as Dream exploits and takes advantage of him. How quickly Dream convinces him no one cares, that he's unloved. As Dream isolates and hurts him, we see some of Tommy at his worst. He's more emotional and self-centred as he's suffering and he lashes out and tries clinging to the discs as some sort of stability, equating in his mind getting them back with the world going back to what it was where he was happy and belonged.
Eventually though, Tommy comes to realise he's not actually in the right. He starts to understand that Tubbo hurting him was not because he disliked Tommy or didn't care , that things didn't always having simple black and white answers. He stops seeing Techno as simply a villain but a person with his own motives and ideals, even if Tommy disagrees with them. And he cares about others in a way that's no longer going to be broken if they act against him. Without abandoning his own ideals and sense of self because he is someone willing to make a stand for what he believes in.
And afterwards, Tommy tried to be more proactive about living a healthier life. He still misses when things were easier, when he just followed someone else's lead but the world was never actually that simple, and he was no longer a naïve troublemaker. He works through his trauma, tries to be more proactive about seeking peace and appreciating the simple beauty of the world and holding onto his friends. He's more willing to reconcile and help, more aware of other's having their own feelings. And of course he's still full of self-doubt and issues, his storyline has not been an easy one but he is nevertheless healing. He's older and wiser now.
Overall I think Tommy's storyline is a really charming coming-of-age story and Tommy is very likeable in his role. His character feels consistent while still being dynamic and I just really appreciate the arc as a whole.
#replies#tommyinnit#dream smp#meta#analysis#ha this got long#yes its another one of my analysing the entirety of tommys arc#this time from the lens of a coming of age story#while this is long is obviously based on a large span of content so its honestly still fairly brief so i hope it all makes sense#cheers for the ask!#yes i love talking about tommy#i miss him
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the techno series is amazing!!!! maybe a little drabble of techno protecting the reader and phillipa? like maybe a rival from another village hears about techno and wants to get leverage so he attempts to kidnap the reader and phillipa? but the reader knows self defense and afterwards they run to techno with phillipa and techno is just pissed? and somehow phil finds out and gets even madder? ty!
Yo, this is such a good concept!!!
So I picture that there is a village nearby your guys’ home. You three visit there often to make trades and such, and all of the villagers love you three because Techno gives them a lot of money and you and Philippa are extremely kind to everyone while Techno is ‘shopping’. So a few of these villagers travel to another village a bit more aways from their home to either restock some things or just to trade even more. And while they’re there they somehow get on the topic of your family. They talk about how nice you are but also how rich you seem to be. As well as, how strong and god-like Techno is and how protective over you two he is. They don’t think anything of it, but there are some pillagers nearby that were scouting the place that overhears this and decides that instead of raiding this village, they would follow the villagers home and raid your house and kidnap you and your daughter to get the pigman to had over all of their riches… Great plan.
So it’s a few days later and you and Philippa are home alone. Philza had come by and Techno wanted to show him the village and get some of those things that the villagers who left had brought back. Normally you and Pip would have gone with them but you and Pip didn’t get to bed until late and so by the time it was time to go, you two had only just begun to wake up. That’s okay though, you and Pip could have a fun day together, even without her Daddy and Papa!
The day was pretty normal. You made the two of your breakfast, cleaned her up, read her a few stories, played a few games. It was fun… But then you heard something break from a room neither of you were in. You instantly would grab Pip and whisper tell her that you two were going to play the quiet game and that she needed to be as quiet as she possibly can be. Not understanding, she beamed and nodded at you, putting a finger to her lips. In the same room you heard the break, you heard someone cursing to either themselves or another person. So you slowly make your way to the front door and put Philippa down near a chest. The chest is one block away from the wall so you had her sit behind there and whispered that you were now going to play a version of hide and seek. “Don’t come out of there until Baba comes back to get you okay? Even if someone else calls your name, you wait for Baba, understand?” You questioned softly, staring into her eyes that looked just like yours. She bit her lip and nodded. You gave her a soft smile and a kiss on the head before you slowly made your way to the room where the noises were coming from. You peer into the room and find two Pillagers there, looking through your chests. You’re not scared anymore, more annoyed than anything because why the hell are these annoying guys in your home???
So you silently draw your sword from your inventory, step into the room and clear your throat, making your presence known. The two instantly snap the chests shut and turn to you. They begin smirking because it’s perfect. “Just who we wanted to see” one of them sneers and you simply roll your eyes, “What do you want and why are you here?” The other begins the long story of how they come from afar and heard that you’re rich and that your husband will do anything for you and they’ve come to kidnap you and blah blah blah. You’re just scoffing and rolling your eyes the whole time, because honestly? Did they really think this plan was going to work? While you’re in your thoughts, one of them steps forward and attempts to grab your wrist and sword and you immediately jump into action. You swing your sword forward and smash the one who tried to grab you across the head. They stumble back, really surprised at what you’ve done. Once he regains balance they both attack you and you easily dodge. You three fight for a little bit before you finally have had enough and you knock both of the unconscious. You’re about to kill them but then you decide that maybe you should go get your husband so he can interrogate them. So you tie the two up in an empty room, making sure they would not be able to escape. Then you run back to where you left Pip. She’s just sitting there playing with her stuffed pig. When she sees you, a huge smile crosses her face, “Baba!” She cheers, getting out of the small hole. You pick her up and place a kiss on her cheek. You quickly get your and her coat on and you’re out the door.
You only get about halfway to the village before you run into your husband and his father. Technoblade is very confused as to why you two have come out. He takes Pip, kisses her head and passes her to Philza who accepts her immediately, pressing tons of kisses to her face. Techno gives you a kiss before asking you what you’re doing out here. So you explain about how you heard a noise and put Philippa in a safe place before going and checking it out. You told him about how you knocked the intruders out and you tied them up and they are now waiting for interrogation. To say that Techno is pissed is an understatement. He’s not pissed at you, never at you, but the fact someone thinks that they can just waltz in and try to take you and Pip, his spouse and daughter? Hell nah. Techno gives you another kiss and tells you he’s going on ahead and before you can respond, he’s storming away toward the house. You turn to Phil to explain what was going on, but by the look on his face you can tell that he already heard everything. Philza gives Pip another kiss on the cheek before handing her back to you. “Maybe it’s best if you two don’t come home for a few minutes… Let us handle the intruders…” He leans over and presses a sweet kiss against your cheek before he chases after Techno calling for him to wait up. “Where are Daddy and Papa going?” Philippa asks, wiggling in your arms. “Umm.. They’re taking care of some things back at home… How about we go on a shopping trip? Go and see the villagers, how’s that sound?” Pip lets out a squeal of excitement and bobs her pink head ‘yes’.
Afterwards when you two go home, Techno and Phil are sitting by the fire laughing. “Everything okay?” You ask, setting Pip down and letting her run to her father. Techno shoots you a grin and a wink, “Yep. Everything’s all taken care of. Nothing like that is ever going to happen again.” And no matter how much you beg or ask, neither Techno or Philza will ever tell you what happened to those pilligars.
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“Techno and Wilbur make Cave Better” Key Conversations
Hi, so I’m doing a big Pogtopida Wilbur analysis rn, mainly of this stream, and I basically decided to transcribe all major events, conversations, and quotes for the masses, to reference during said analysis.
This was such a good stream to look at, and there’s some really interesting stuff to analyze, as Wilbur interacts with almost every portion of the story and develops his character in a really interesting way. I definitely recommend watching the stream if you want to understand Wilbur’s character, or at least read this. If you like to write meta, have fun with this oh boy.
Major quotes and full conversations are bolded for clarity, timestamps are added, and names are shortened when writing dialogue. If the character is not tagged Wilbur is the one speaking (W = Wilbur, TU = Tubbo, F = Fundy, S = Schlatt, and TO = Tommy).
“Hey Techno. I’m in a better mood today. I’m in a better- do you know I’m- I’m over fucking losing Manburg y’know.” 11.08
“The revolution is coming. the only difference is I’m not gonna be sad while doing it. I’m gonna be happy, while revolting.” 11.20
“Hey Techno, do you wanna see how over Manburg I am, dude? How over L’Manburg I am? You ready for this? *reveals Pogtopia skin*” 11.25
“That filthy, dirty, coat. I didn’t wash it once, I’ll be honest with you, Technoblade.” 11.40
*Techno shows him the farm, Wilbur is concerned but a little frightened by the amount of time he’s spent on this lol*
“First, I think, I wanna make this place look nicer, cause I won’t be able to work in this cavern if it’s just like, if it’s natural generation, y’know?” 14.33
*they join vc with tubbo*
“Tubbo’s one of the few people I trust, Technoblade. Like, I’m still figuring you out right now, but, at the moment, Tubbo seems to be pretty on the ball. He seems pretty keen on the whole spying thing.” 16.13
“See the thing is, Tubster, can I call you Tubster? Cool, cool. See the thing is Tubbony, I need help, today. Tubbo, do you know anything about super smelters.” 16.53
*they meet up in Manburg to go to Pogtopia, Wilbur doesn’t feel safe coming too close*
“Tubbo. You’ve lost the revolutionary gear. I’m so proud of you man, I’m so proud of you. We’ve finally moved on. It’s the next part!” 19.32
*Wilbur is visibly upset by Tubbo wearing the suit, despite it being a “disguise” and him saying Schlatt’s name, however*
“I was sleeping last night, before I changed my clothes, and I thought to myself, I thought to myself Tubbo you’ve done so much for our great nation.”20.17
“Have you heard of the Sunk Cost Fallacy?” *Wilbur explains the fallacy* “So, in that logic, I think you are physically incapable of giving up. I think you’re physcially incapable of giving up L’manburg. Because you’ve put in so much effort! You’ve put in so much work, y’know. So that’s why...” 22.12
*Wilbur shows Tubbo Pogtopia*
“Pogtopia isn’t a nation, as much as Tommy seems to think it is. We’re a commune, now. Don’t call me Mr President anymore, Tubbo, you’ve gotta call me, uh, Wilbs... In the commune, we’re all equal, we’re all comrades. We’re all equal” 24.24
*Wilbur compares them to Russian revolutionaries*
“Except with this Russian revolution, we’re not all gonna die. And also the nation we’re gonna make afterwards will not fail.” (oh god I’m sad) 25.15
*they talk about the super smelter, wilbur and tubbo are wholesome :(*
W: “Welcome to the commune, welcome to Pogtopia. Now, I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking Wilbur- Wilbur-”
TU: “I think it looks lovely”
W: “oh, see I thought you were gonna say ‘Wilbur Wilbur this looks like shit’, and I was gonna say ‘yes Tubbo, yes it does look shit’”
TU: “I mean, you obviously- I don’t think you’ve seem Manburg lately.”
Wilbur’s tone becomes serious, maybe angry “I haven’t seen Manburg lately. Why do you rub this in.”
TU: “What- no- I didn’t mean it like that-”
W: “No- I heard you man-”
TU: “No, it’s really gone quite in the opposite direction-”
Wilbur’s tone cheers up a bit. “Oh- it’s bad? It looks bad?
TU: “Yeah”
W: “Oh, that’s brilliant, that’s great news, Tubbo, thank you, I-, that means that when we go and fix it- let me show you...” 27.40
*Wilbur wants to add more people to Pogtopia, tells Techno to get more food*
*Wilbur talks about possibly exporting “Pogtopia Potatoes” to L’manburg, and poisoning them. This is never brought up again though and isn’t treated seriously*
“I wanna make sure it looks nice for when the gang gets on.” 31.35
*Schlatt joins the game, and joins vc. Wilbur is immediately panicked, telling him to make an alibi*
“How’s running L’man-Manburg going for you?” “It’s going great.” “Yeah, it’s a lovely place isn’t it, nice situation.” 34.30
*this continues a bit, Wilbur is very obviously not a big fan of this conversation. Schlatt talks about demolishing things. Wilbur’s tone is soft and somber*
W: “Oh- What are you demolishing.”
S: “The Elton John house.”
W: “Oh- that was-”
S: “I reckon we’ll take the rocket down as well, and maybe uh-”
W: “oh- ok”
S:“what is this thing, whad’you call this thing, Tubbo?”
T: “This is that cAHmrvan van”
W: *quietly* “the camARvan”
S: “The cAHmarvan?”
W: *quietly* “The camARvan”
S: “That’s a stupid name, I reckon we put a big apartment building right over it.”
*Wilbur moves away from his desk in shock, the conversation continues, Wilbur is shocked by the dress code being suits as Schlatt insults the revolutionary uniforms, leaves vc*
“Techno- I fucking hate him, Technoblade. He’s the fucking worst, you get it, you get it don’t you? He’s everything- he’s everything I cannot stand.” 37.32
*Wilbur talks about dismantling the oppressive government, and quotes Spongebob. They chat for bit, both misunderstanding anarchy dear god*
“One thing I really want to make sure of, cause as much as I’m still not entirely trustful of Tubbo, because he said it was a disguise... Tubbo said that he was wearing the suit as a disguise, right. Turns out that’s true. Turns out it’s the dresscode. So, Tubbo lied to me, which is not the best start for our political relationship, but y’know it’s cool, at least he’s actually online today, unlike- unlike one of my right hand men.”40.26
“Whilst I’m not entirely trustful of Tubbo, I would- still don’t wanna see him get hurt by Schlatt” 41.19
*Wilbur rejoins Schlatt’s vc. He’s still really bitter about being removed from Manburg. The whole Schlatt has diamonds in his furnace conversation happens. Schlatt asks where Niki lives, and Wilbur immediately leaves vc*
“Techno we need to get to the docks, this is your first mission under us, please comrade, please. armor. armor. We need to get to Manburg quickly, this isn’t a drill, this is first thing. We’re not gonna attack we’re just gonna watch, and then see what happens.”45.06
*Techno is mining, and Wilbur says he’ll get there on his own time before leaving. Wilbur arrives in Manburg and is disgusted by the apartment buildings, venturing in while Techno has no clue where Manburg is*
*Wilbur goes into Niki’s bakery* “I think Schlatt’s just mugged Niki” 49.14
“Which is why I need you here, Technoblade. You’re kinda my last resort.” 50.00
*Wilbur looks over Manburg and watches Niki, Fundy, Schlatt, and Tubbo interact. They join Niki’s vc, Techno isn’t keeping hidden well and Wilbur is stressed. Wilbur is trying to balance both of them and making all the calls.*
W: “Niki I’ve gotta go, Niki I’ve gotta go, I promise- I- look- if- we’re in too much of a hot position right now to take in everyone from every sort of like person we need into our new cave. So you’re gonna have to hold out in Manburg a bit longer. Is that ok?”
N: “Of course. I will.”
W: “Mm k.”
N: “Take care, Wil.”
W: “Thank you.”
W is obviously distraught at leaving her behind, but leaves vc. 55.05
Techno isn’t in vc, and Wilbur just softly goes “Comrade Technoblade? Is he- I’m on my own. I’m on my own.” 55.38
*Tommy joins the game and Techno joins vc* “I thought he was gone, no it’s Tommy. I didn’t think he’d be coming on, I didn’t think he’d- oh thank god!”
*they join vc with Tubbo Punz and Schlatt. Techno offers to “initiate order Kennedy” and Wilbur freaks out*
*Fundy joins vc*
S: “Fundy- Fundy- I y’know I wasn’t gonna do this so early into my reign, but I think you should have a promotion. I mean this is just such a good idea, this is just such a good idea.”
F: “You’re being very generous here Schlatt.”
W panics. “Don’t give him promotions, he’s too young, he doesn’t understand, he’s- he needs to learn more. No- he needs to learn more, I should know he’s my son.”
S: “I’m promoting him.”
F: “Wilbur, Imma need you to shut up for a second.”
W: “Don’t you speak like that to me, Fundy. Don’t forget where you came from, Fundy.”
S: “What’s the relationship between you and Wilbur, Fundy?”
F: *sigh* “Wilbur, he’s just a founder, and I was born here, and nothing else. It’s literally everything there is to is to it.”
W, softly and sadly: “You know that’s not-”
Schlatt interrupts: “See, it’s so great to have natural-born citizens of Manburg, taking the country direction into their own hands. I mean, I really over this purple stripe, instead of that ugly blue one.”
*Wilbur has hand over his mouth in disbelief and sadness
F: “I must agree.”
*F and S continue to talk*
W, seemingly on the verge of tears: “I don’t know who you are anymore, Fundy, I don’t know who you are anymore.” he leaves the vc and joins Tommy.
“I couldn’t be there anymore.” 1.01.36
*Immediately, Tommy tries to talk to him, while Wilbur is obviously angry and upset. Tommy is waiting for his command to burn down the flag.”
TO:“I’m stood here, by the flag with a flint and steel, Wilbur.”
W, panicked. “Tommy control yourself, control yourself, it’s not worth it.”
TO: “Do I take my shot?”
W: “Tommy do not take your shot.”
TO: “Wilbur he disrespected you!”
W, even more panicked: “He disrespected me, yes but we’ve talked about this Tommy. Tommy, if we cast the first stone-”
TO: “Wilbur, I wanna do it Wilbur.”
*now Tubbo shows up, holding a book*
W: “Tubbo, what is that book?”
TO: “I wanna do it!”
TU: “It’s, um, it’s nothing much, it’s not really anything worth worrying about.”
W, softly: “What is it. Why are you holding it.”
TU: “It’s- Schlatt has given me- It’s the papers Schlatt made me. Yeah, it’s what he, yeah.”
W: “Give it to me.”
TU: “Are you sure?”
TO at the same time: “Wilbur tell me now Fundy’s coming up. Do I light the fires of victory, of independence?”
*W is reading the book MANBURG TO-DO*
TU: “Uh- I’m gonna need that back”
TO at the same time: I could do with a clear yes or no, this isn’t a- as much as silence is-
W interrupts, suddenly angry: “Tommy burn that place to the ground. Burn that place to the ground and try to as many people trapped in it as possible.”
TO laughs
TU: “I’m gonna need that book back- oh- oo.”
*W throws the book back*
TO: “Wilbur do I kill your son?”
W, no longer distracted: “Keep him alive, Tommy.”
TO: “Again- I could do, I’m actually-”
W: “Tommy, we’re comrades here.”
TO: “Wilbur, take one look at Manburg, cause it ain’t no more!”
W: “Tubbo, take me to Manburg.”
TU: “Ok.”
TO: “I could kill Schlatt and Big Q right now.”
W: “Keep them alive, we need them alive Tommy.”
TO: “Can I just shoot em once?”
W, exasperated: “If you want.”
TO: “Yeah, I did. It’s more of my own self fulfillment.”
W: *sighs* “We’ve cast the first stone. Our little ravine is now, it’s now in a difficult spot.” 1.03.30
*Wilbur meets Tubbo at Manburg and they head back to Pogtopia*
TO: “The flags gone, and your son is corrupt.”
W: “I know he is, and I don’t need reminding of that, Tommy.” 1.06.30
*Schlatt joins vc and tells Tommy to leave Manburg, and leaves again. Wilbur tells Tommy again not to burn down the forest, and is legitimately upset at the idea. He says it’s the thing they’re fighting against. Techno rejoins vc*
“Tommy, if you don’t fix the mistake you’ve made here, I don’t know if you’re the best fit for Pogtopia.” 1.10.46
*Wilbur asks Tubbo and Techno if they’ve checked the forest, but they’re both busy*
W: “Alright well I’ll go and looking for the fucking forest, I guess. I have to do everything around here.”
*Tubbo and Techno protest.*
W: “No no no, it’s fine you two are doing much harder work than I am.” 1.12.37
*Tubbo and Wilbur talk about how Quackity isn’t happy under Schlatt, how he’s protesting a lot of Schlatt’s measures.*
“He’s a man who I thought, really cared about his nation, but, hey y’know, I’ve been wrong before.” 1.13.55
*the conversation shifts to Fundy, and Wilbur recounts what Fundy said, clearly upset. Tubbo is shocked by this*
“It’s ok, it’s ok, y’know, cause, it’s fine! I- y’know, bonds are formed in blood, not family blood, the other blood, the blood where you stab shit. Yeah, that’s where bonds are formed.”1.14.55
*Tubbo, Techno, and Wilbur chat more, Schlatt joins vc for a bit. Tubbo and Wilbur keep up the bit that Tubbo is loyal to Schlatt until he leaves. Tubbo says explained his absence to Schlatt*
“Tubbo, you’re- see with Technoblade, right, I have no doubt that Technoblade is on my side, right. Cause with Technoblade, with Technoblade, right, I know that he wants blood, and he wants war. Cause that’s how Technoblade works y’know. He just wants to fight and he wants to kill bad guys, right. Yeah, look at him, he a little libertarian- little anarchist, right. So here’s what I’m saying, right: you however- little, I can’t tell if you’re cozying up to Schlatt to help spy, or if you’re cozying up to Schlatt because you quite like how he treats you. I mean look, Tubbo, I’ll be the first one to say it, I didn’t always treat you the best, on L’Manburg, and I know I didn’t, I- I- I was somewhat of a distant ruler- I pretty much only- don’t agree that fucking excitedly, man- look I wasn’t the best ruler I know I wasn’t. Well I think I was a good ruler, but I, I- Tubbo I don’t know if you are just prefering his rule over mine, and I feel like I gotta win you over.”
TU seems to disagree, but says ok.
TU: “Well I’m making this farm, I wouldn’t be putting in this much time if I wasn’t.”
W: No I know, I know, but that’s probably what’d you be saying to Schlatt as well if you were doing work for him.”
TU: “That is- that is very- yeah that is very true, actually.” 1.25.07
*Tubbo says his excuse is that he was pregnant in the name of being transparent. They discuss plans for the farm, and the stream ends*
Wilbur, raiding Niki: “Now, Niki is currently probably the last person who I know is on our side,, who I know is definitely on our side right now. And she, basically, is just sort of trapped in Manburg, cause I can’t get her out, cause we’ve got Tubbo out that’s fine, but I can’t get Niki out for a while. She’s being taxed and she’s being watched very closely by Schlatt. More closely than Tubbo, weirdly, and Schlatt is just being a horrible person to her as you know. So I’m gonna need you to go over there and I’m gonna need you to give her some love. “ <3 1.31.52
#wilbur soot#dream smp#dsmp#dsmp analysis#technoblade#tubbo#tommyinnit#meta#long post#transcripts#this took so long my hands hurt
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Technoblade, the big, intimidating piglin hybrid, whose known for killing orphans and never dying, who also goes by the Blood God, likes to bake. Gets his mind off killin people and stuff. Despite how he acts, he loves to see his family enjoy the things he makes. Although he never lets anyone bake with him cuz all the rest of them are horrible at it. He usually bakes cakes for the rest of sbi’s birthdays, but one time they wanted to bake him one for his. The house was almost burned down and the cake was simultaneously undercooked and over cooked. Techno appreciated it, but never lets them go near the oven when he’s baking again
i’m picturing. techno in an apron. w/ a bun in his hair. and his apron covered in flour & he just looks so domestic,,... i can imagine him brandishing a knife threateningly at tommy whenever he gets too close to the kitchen whenever he’s cooking because he Knows it’ll just turn into a disaster if he’s near. i’m imagining him only allowing phil into the kitchen,,,... i’m imagining phil giving him a back hug and just absentmindedly talking while techno works away, and techno doesn’t get distracted because it’s phil. i can imagine wilbur complimenting him earnestly on his baking and techno blushing furiously but denying that his heart was warmed vehemently afterwards,,.. but later he bakes wilburs favorite cookies for him as a thank you. i’m imagining him trying to teach tommy to bake, and even though tommy’s sort of a mess and he keeps spilling things & messing up techno’s patient w/ him, and whenever he gets frustrated he’s like “no no, you got it” in a soft voice. he tried what tommy made after he finished and it tasted God Awful, but he said it was great anyways because tommy looked so excited and he just,,. couldn’t let him down. i’m imagining—
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L’Manberg falls headcanons for Wilbur, pre Dream, post Dream, and post apocalypse?
Oh boy there is so many headcnons for Wilbur, apologies for the long post ahead. And angst. I’m sorry for the angst. I’m so sorry.
Pre-Dream
-Wilbur was one of the people who worked on the portal project
-He goes and plays the guitar and often would sing songs to his siblings and coworkers
-Schlatt and Wilbur’s relationship was more of playful bantering and teasing at that time
-Would go and hang out with his brothers often. You know, making “drugs” with Tommy, sparring with Techno, playing with mods Fundy made. All the good stuff
-Sam and Wilbur were more of good coworkers more than anything. Yeah they get concerned with each other when the other starts to look bad but they probably just consider each other as work friends and nothing more
-Wilbur, Phil, and Sam would often bounce ideas off each other regarding the portal
-Wilbur notices how Phil would look more and more tired as they make the portal. He often is the one who forces Phil to actually take a break for once.
-When Sam left the project, Wilbur asked Phil why exactly he was building the portal. The question was deflected and Wilbur soon dropped it
-Wilbur and Schlatt’s friendship took a huge hit when Phil got sucked into the portal. Wilbur said that they should open it while Schlatt said that they should disassemble it. This lead to their great rivalry.
-Techno, Fundy, and Tommy all found out that their dad went missing by Wilbur. Granted he never said anything about the portal but he did say that Wilbur can’t find Phil anywhere.
-Wilbur worked endlessly on trying to fix the portal for months, several times to exhaustion, leading him to pass out often on his own research
-One day, after he passed out again, he encountered Dream. Some convincing later and Wilbur and Dream makes a deal
(Anyways putting the rest below because there is some things such as manipulation when Wilbur and Dream made the deal. So tw manipulation and Dream being a bitch. The Post-Apocalypse is there too and in bold so if you want to just read that, then you should find it in there.)
Post-Dream
-Wilbur went and had an arm-distance relationship with his siblings. Like he’s there but it is noticeably more strained than before
-Wilbur often gets nightmares regarding the portal
-Dream causes almost all the nightmares Wilbur has. Both to wear him down so that Wilbur won’t be thinking as clearly to see Dream’s bs and to go and just torment him for fun.
-Wilbur calling the police on Schlatt is 100% out of pure spite
-Fundy working at the Mystery Hack pissed Wilbur off a lot. Course that’s what Fundy wants, so he goes and acts like he doesn’t mind
-When Tommy introduced him to Tubbo, the first thing he felt about him was suspicion. His brother is friends with his rival’s nephew. He eventually does warm up to Tubbo though.
-He does not like the Tent of Telepathy
-After helping Sally back into the ocean, they became good pen pals. Fundy goes and teases him for this
-As I said on a previous post, he still plays the guitar, it helps relax him and helps take his mind off of the nightmares and his deal with Dream
-Friend was a sheep that followed him one day and he kept it because it also relaxed him. Therapy sheep
-Wilbur soon realizes how deep he is with the deal. He can’t back out of it now because he needs to get Phil back. There is just so much on the line. He’s fucked. He looked at it on all sides and he is 100% fucked
-Dream, during this phase, would make himself visible only to Wilbur. He said it’s to keep a close eye on him
-Wilbur soon gets more nightmares and starts to avoid sleep. Leading to worse eye bags
-Everyone got concerned for Wilbur during this time and even Schlatt got concerned
-When Wilbur fixed the portal and Phil and Eret came back, he was just filled with so much relief and happiness. Relief that Phil is back, relief that his family is back together again, relief that his deal with Dream is done.
-That relief was ripped away from him when Dream came to him in his dreams and told him that he has one more favor he needs to fulfill
(I need you to do one last favor okay? Only one. And then I’ll let you go and be with your family and you’ll be happy with them forever, okay? I helped you didn’t I?)
-During that time everything felt muted. Staticky, so he just went through with the motions
-There is some times where it felt brighter, like when he was running for mayor, or when he was hanging out with his family. Then Dream reminded him of what he needed to do and everything dulled again
-One day, everyone went out thinking they have a way to stop Dream once and for all. Wilbur slipped away and went for the rift
-Phil found him
-They talked
-The rift is broken
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(ANyway onto recovery and fluffy things now!)
Post-Apocalypse
-Wilbur is going to therapy because god he needs it
-When Wilbur had a nightmare, the SBI family just goes and makes a little fort and did a little cuddle pile to help him. It helped a lot actually.
-Friend helps a lot with Wilbur’s stress and more
-Schlatt and Wilbur fixed up their friendship after the apocalypse
-Wilbur started to make songs again and played the guitar ore frequently
-He is now being incorporated in the found family. Wilbur no this isn’t a choice, you’re in the found family now. I mean you’re already calling Tubbo kid and thinking him as your younger brother.
-Eret and Wilbur would talk often about how Dream manipulated them. They can relate to each other and would comfort each other as well
-Tommy and him start to make “drugs” again
-Phil and Wilbur had a talk regarding their deals with Dream and talked about Wilbur’s issues and more. Afterwards, there is many hugs
-Like in canon of Gravity Falls and according to Journal 3, everyone burned any Dream memorabilia in the fire
-Sally and Wilbur met up again to talk :]
-This is honestly the happiest Wilbur has been in a long time. Yeah he still has nightmares from time to time but he’s healing. They’re all healing. They’re all healing and are happier and becoming a family
#ask to tag#mcyt#dream smp#l'manberg falls au#wilbur soot#jschlatt#philza#ph1lza#dream#dreamwastaken#tw manipulation#manipulation tw#tw dissociation#dissociation tw#ask#long post
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“I’m a person!”
The intimidation technique didn’t seem to phase the cocky teen. He smirked. “Techno, you gotta show me what’s wrong,” he goaded.
Break his leg, the AI suggested, but he blocked that out. He refused to play charades with the pint-sized terror.
In a post-apocalyptic world where the remaining survivors live in secure underground bases, Techno is a metal heart among dozens of warm, beating ones. That doesn't stop him from embracing his humanity, but it also means he has a few weaknesses others don't.
Warnings: Mild dehumanization (resolved)
Relationships: Technoblade & Tommy, Techno & Tommy & Wilbur
Word Count: 1,849
Ao3 Link: Here
Here’s a Wingdings translator if anyone wants to follow what Techno’s saying, but don’t feel like you need to, it’s not really plot relevant. Almost all of it is him threatening Tommy. :)
https://lingojam.com/WingdingsTranslator
Technoblade stormed down the hallway, mechanical limbs pounding against the floor of the bunker with resounding clangs as he stopped bothering to lighten his footsteps. Stealth was not a priority right now. He cranked up the volume on his voicebox, uncaring that no one could currently understand him. He was sick and tired of his Tommy’s ridiculous pranks, and changing his language settings while he was recharging was the last straw.
“❄︎□︎❍︎❍︎⍓︎!” he roared in his default android language, slamming doors open and shut as he searched. Other personnel quickly caught on to his current temper and promptly got out of his way, retreating to the parts of the base he’d already searched.
Yeah, faster, the broken AI jeered in the back of his head, spurring him on. He growled and tried to ignore it, but picked up the pace anyway. He was done.
He finally found Tommy and Wilbur in the latter’s bedroom, playing a video game together and bickering happily. He flung open the door with a bang and grabbed the remote, turning the TV off as they both yelled indignantly.
“✡︎□︎◆︎🕯︎♎︎ ♌︎♏︎⧫︎⧫︎♏︎❒︎ ♐︎♓︎⌧︎ ⧫︎♒︎♓︎⬧︎ ❒︎♓︎♑︎♒︎⧫︎ ■︎□︎⬥︎,” he snapped at Tommy, positively radiating anger.
The intimidation technique didn’t seem to phase the cocky teen. He smirked. “Aww, Techno, I can’t understand you. What exactly is the matter?”
“👍︎◆︎⧫︎ ⧫︎♒︎♏︎ ♍︎❒︎♋︎◻︎📪︎ ♓︎⧫︎🕯︎⬧︎ ■︎□︎⧫︎ ♐︎◆︎■︎■︎⍓︎📬︎ ✋︎🕯︎❍︎ ♎︎□︎■︎♏︎.” he replied, his face darkening. He wasn’t going to negotiate.
“Techno, you gotta show me what’s wrong,” Tommy goaded.
Break his leg, the AI suggested, but he blocked it out.
“✋︎ ❒︎♏︎♐︎◆︎⬧︎♏︎📬︎ 🕈︎♏︎ ♌︎□︎⧫︎♒︎ 🙵■︎□︎⬥︎ ⬥︎♒︎♋︎⧫︎🕯︎⬧︎ ⬥︎❒︎□︎■︎♑︎ ♋︎■︎♎︎ ⍓︎□︎◆︎ ♋︎❒︎♏︎ ♑︎□︎♓︎■︎♑︎ ⧫︎□︎ ⬧︎⬥︎♓︎⧫︎♍︎♒︎ ♓︎⧫︎ ♌︎♋︎♍︎🙵 □︎❒︎ ⬧︎□︎ ♒︎♏︎●︎◻︎ ❍︎♏︎-” he broke off, gritting his teeth and distractedly registering the AI trying to convince him to commit a war crime. He crossed his arms, resentment and fury pooling in his stomach. He was not playing charades with the pint-sized terror.
Wilbur was looking back and forth between the two of them, observant enough to piece together the situation. He was also partially fluent in the android tongue, enough to probably pick up one or two keywords in Techno’s rapid-fire speech.
“⬧︎ ◻︎ ♏︎ ♏︎ ♍︎ ♒︎ ⬧︎ ⧫︎ ◆︎ ♍︎ 🙵,” Techno enunciated clearly in his direction, slow enough that he could pick it up, then switched back into his regular talking speed. “❄︎□︎❍︎❍︎⍓︎ ✋︎ ♋︎❍︎ ♎︎♏︎♋︎♎︎ ⬧︎♏︎❒︎♓︎□︎◆︎⬧︎📬︎ ❄︎♒︎♓︎⬧︎ ♓︎⬧︎ ■︎□︎⧫︎ ♐︎◆︎■︎■︎⍓︎.”
“Voice… trapped? Stuck?” Wilbur translated. “And something about death? I heard the word Tommy…” He rounded on his brother. “What did you do to him?”
Tommy was trying hard not to laugh, which only made Techno feel worse. “It was just a prank,” he defended. “Isn’t it hilarious? Go on, try and say something else,” he prodded.
Techno didn’t move, mouth stubbornly shut. Some of his anger was eating away into humiliation, which he was sure was the worst emotion in existence. He quashed the feeling and tried to get back to being infuriated.
Oooh, someone’s embarrassed, the AI mocked. Scared, even? Ah, and there’s the helplessness.
Sometimes the voice cut deeper than it had any right to. Techno growled again, the sound rumbling menacingly through his entire body as he determinedly refused to dwell on those statements. He fixed Tommy with a glare that would have most people in the base quivering in fear, but he had the audacity to grin back at him.
“Techno, you’ve gotta ask me for help if you want it fixed,” he taunted, standing up with a hand on his hip as Wilbur looked torn. “The great Blade’s gotta admit he needs help.”
That was the tipping point for Techno.
“G̵͙͊ẽ̷̮t̵̜̽ ̶̬̆r̵͉͐i̸ḑ̴͂ ̶̧̂ō̷̜f̷ ̵̼͘t̷̑h̶̽is ̵͎̾n̸̠͑o̷̦͘w̸̠̃,” he snarled, brute forcing his way through the sloppily installed language blockers in sheer rage. His eyes flashed red and the claws stored in his finger joints slid out against his will, the voice in his head cackling as oily tears started leaking from his eye sockets.
Wilbur’s eyes widened and he jumped up, grabbing a screwdriver off of the desk and cautiously approaching the crying android. Tommy looked taken aback, his expression dissolving into something more sheepish.
“⚐︎ ■︎ ❍︎ ⍓︎ ♌︎ ♋︎ ♍︎ 🙵,” Techno instructed Wilbur carefully, directing him to the detachable panel on his lower back. He closed his eyes and tried to get a grip on his emotions, retracting his claws and silencing his snickering commentator.
“I didn’t mean anything by it,” Tommy sputtered, backpedaling.
“Then get over here and fix it,” Wilbur told him severely. The teen hung his head and came over to help Wilbur get the panel off, revealing the computer screen embedded into the metal there that Tommy had used to hack into Techno.
Techno shivered as he felt the two of them start going through the code looking for Tommy’s software, exceptionally conscious that they literally had his entire being at their fingertips. A few malicious clicks, and he could be altered in any number of ways.
Phil had tried to help him update the security on his data so things like that wouldn’t be possible, but his system seemed to vehemently reject any permanent alterations to his code and always did a system reboot afterwards to purge the new protections. He suspected the busted AI he shared a headspace with was behind it. Unfortunately, it didn’t seem to care about short-term add-ons like the one Tommy had undoubtedly used.
He trusted both of them. He did, and no amount of pranks would change that. If he didn’t they wouldn’t be behind him right now, painstakingly removing the last traces of the language blocker. But sometimes they went too far. He felt used and taken advantage of. And that was not okay with him.
As soon as they got his back panel reattached, he left, ignoring their worried questions about if he was okay or not. He needed some time alone, and there was only one place no one would want to follow him.
He made his way to the airlock and grabbed a pack, slinging it over his shoulders and grabbing a blaster off the rack on the wall. Pulling a shield down over his face, he punched his code into the computer by the exit and signed himself out, then allowed the airlock to seal behind him.
The huge door slid open with a hiss in front of him, letting him out into the wasteland. The face shield protected him from the dust particles the inexhaustible wind dragged across every surface, and his metal body meant he didn’t have to deal with an oxygen tank or protective suit like the rest of the residents in the base. He scanned the area around the base with a keen eye, clipped his blaster to his hip, and set off into the desert.
He didn’t go far, barely beyond the next hill, but it was enough to make him feel like he was the only one in the world, which was what he wanted.
Lonely, lonely, lonely, the AI chanted in his head, and he pushed it away. Solitude helped him think.
But his peace didn’t last very long. The sound of clumsy footsteps stumbling through the dirt reached his ears, and he bowed his head and internally groaned. Someone had come after him, and it sure didn’t sound like Phil. A few more seconds of waiting would tell him which of the two less tolerable options he’d gotten. He considered running farther away, certain he could outdistance whichever it was, but if it was Tommy he’d just doggedly follow. And Wilbur would feel hurt. So he stayed put.
Leave him behind, the voice commanded. Shut up, he told it.
Sure enough, a moment later Tommy all but tripped over the crest of the hill and joined him at the bottom with a little help from gravity, breathing hard through the oxygen mask and making a vain attempt to brush the sheen of sweat off a brow covered by his helmet.
“These suits are so awkward to walk in,” he started, voice coming through the speakers in the aforementioned suit with a slightly tinny distortion. It was obviously an attempt to break the ice, though a pretty terrible one since Techno had no need for the bulky garments. He took the bait anyway, might as well get this over with.
“You were still pigheaded enough to come after me in one,” he replied.
“Well, uh, Wilbur put me up to it, y’know, and Big Man TommyInnit’s never one to back down from a challenge, eh?”
“Did you at least sign out a firearm before you left?”
“Nah. Who’s gonna mess with these guns?” he cracked, flexing non-existent arm muscles. Not that you could tell through the suit. The thick fabric made even someone like Phil, one of their best scouts, look like they’d rolled in marshmallows. The corner of Techno’s lip twitched in spite of himself.
Heh, Lonely Man thinks the Stupid Child is funny- He shoved it back again. Get some more creative insults, he thought.
“If you get jumped by a monster I will laugh at your corpse,” he warned.
“You wouldn’t, you love me too much,” Tommy sniggered, punching his shoulder.
“You’re right, I do,” he responded, unexpectedly serious.
The change in mood was not lost on Tommy, and his laugh quieted. “I love you too, man,” he returned. “I’m, um, really sorry about earlier. That was too far.”
“It was,” Techno agreed noncommittally.
“I shouldn’t mess with your code.”
“You shouldn’t.”
“I’m not going to stop playing pranks on you.”
He sighed. “I knew my expectations were too high.”
“But I won’t hack you again.”
“Thank you,” he said, accepting the apology. “Messin' with living code is a serious invasion of privacy.”
“Yeah,” Tommy whispered, guilt heavy on his tone. “But I wouldn’t hurt you, you know that right?”
“Of course I do,” he reassured him. He was rarely the one to initiate physical contact, but this time he made an exception, leaning over for a one-armed hug. Tommy leaned into him, but his personality wouldn’t let the silence continue for long.
“So whaddya say we go back and make Wilbur wish he’d never sent me out to reunite the dream duo?” he blurted, grin wide and looking like it had never left.
Techno didn’t bother hiding the upward quirk of his lip this time. “Let’s go beat up a nerd.”
#mcyt#dsmp#fanfic#technoblade#tommyinnit#wilbur soot#hurt/comfort#family dynamics#mobpocalypse au#first of two fics in this au#also on ao3
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