Can we talk about—for a sec—the fact that the plot line about the siblings losing their memories of Ben's death makes no sense in regards to previous seasons?
The lines that they were supposedly fed by Reginald, as revealed in season 4, are that "nobody was responsible".
But in S2 E10, in the opening scene of Ben's funeral, Reginald directly blames them and states that they "allowed" Ben to die on the mission.
Them retconning it is so much less interesting than if it actually WAS the UA's fault that he died, to some extent. Ben's death was the final nail in the coffin for the UA, causing them to split up. It's not a stretch to say that the guilt was what did it in the end.
Idk. I won't lie, I literally gasped when Jennifer and Ben got shot and it was shown that it was Reginald—and that shot of their corpses as the title card is fucking GORGEOUS—but I don't think a lot of this season was thought out in regards to the other seasons. This is just one of many problems such as inconsistencies, plot holes, character assassinations, etc.
Dream Smp Roleswap AU, but Dream Team swaps with Bench Trio, and nobody else.
Ranboo swaps with Dream. Tubbo swaps with George. Tommy swaps with Sapnap.
Enderboo, called Enderwalker, swaps with XD, and XD is what Dream calls his version of Enderwalking, as he has access to his Admin powers in that form.
Tommy was the youngest prince of the Antarctic Empire, often feeling trapped in his royal life. Until the day infamous Pvper Ranboo snuck into a castle ball hoping to meet Techno.
The two didn’t get off to a great start, but soon found themselves sympathizing with each other, and became friends. Ranboo offered to help Tommy escape his royal life, and Tommy was quick to accept it.
While on the run, the two ended up meeting weapons smith Tubbo, who’s talent meant he had endless amounts of work to do. They decided to steal him away as well, and so the Bench Trio came to be.
They created the Bench Smp, which came to be filled with others soon enough-among them a creeper hybrid named Sam, who’d become like a father to Tubbo, and a demon hybrid named Bad, who took them all under his wing, and treated them as family.
The server was an amazing place, and everyone there was close. Then, came Dream, along with his best friend George. The two quickly befriended Bad’s son Sapnap, and the newly dubbed Dream Team became a force to be reckoned with.
But they weren’t the true tipping point.
No, the true tipping point was when Wilbur came along searching for his missing brother. Everything spiraled from there, following L’manberg, Pogtopia, the discs. Eventually, Ranboo was locked away, Tommy was trying to move on, and Tubbo was trapped in his dreams in a misguided attempt as kindness by Enderwalker.
No romantic relations for the minors, just platonic and familial. Ranboo and Tubbo still decided to get married for tax evasion, it was just in a different server. They also still have Michael. Tommy regards both Quackity and Karl as older brother figures to him, but is more focused on Karl recently, with his depleting memory, unintentionally leaving Quackity to feel left behind by his fiance and sibling-figure.
I'm loving Dungeon Meshi's mix of quasi-probable magical biological realism and "It's magic fuck you."
Red dragons swallow their prey whole and use the undigestible remains as fuel for their fire breath, which is lit by creating a spark with their tongue. Living armors are colonies of mollusks who expand and contract to mimic muscle movement. Actually "man-eating" plants is a misnomer, they catch small animals with a filament that retracts when touched and they use their decomposing prey as compost.
These mushrooms can turn you into a gnome. It's magic fuck you.
Tubbo also canonically has horns in the Dream SMP, so more differences between the two. Though the reason for the horns is unknown other than not being dadschlatt
When I said "At this point I am just straight up writing fanfiction," this is the post I was talking about.
Welcome to the space age, ladies and gentlemen
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this for the past few days so I figured I’d share it. In some of my favourite renditions of the DreamSMP SBI family unit, Phil can be a pretty bad dad, often leaving on adventures with Technoblade, which means Wilbur is the one to raise Tommy and eventually Tubbo, when they find him on the side of the road.
But I raise you this, Phil and Techno find Tubbo during their travels.
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They’re a month into their travels after leaving a young Wilbur with four year old Tommy when they come across a cardboard box on the side of the road. Curious, they open it up to find a young boy and a note. The note gives the boy’s basic details, his birthday, age, and his name, Tubbo.
Phil longs to take the kid in and despite their plans to continue heading south, they change course to bring the kid back home. As they travel back the boy grows close with Phil and adopts a strange companionship with Techno as he watches over Tubbo as he plays in the forest, gathering random plants on the way.
They’re two weeks into their journey back when they camp near a pillager outpost, Phil and Techno make sure they’re out of sight when setting up camp and make plans to raid it in the morning. Tubbo does the usual as he chirps into the conversation here and there while handing them the necessary equipment to set up the tents.
Techno’s on first watch that night, his eyes scanning the tree line for movement and watching Tubbo from the corner of his eye. The kid pulls out some various plants he’s gathered from a small backpack, something they picked up from a market a week ago. He crushes some of them with rocks and places them all in a pot of water he filled from the stream that afternoon. After he seems satisfied, he places the pot on the low burning fire, occasionally stirring the mixture.
It’s a peculiar sight and he’s pretty sure Tommy’s never played with pretend mixtures before. But the kid seems happy, a large grin on his face and Phil always said that no two children are the same. The voices are scattered, some worrying about the safety of the perimeter, others chattering away about how odd the child is, while some find it endearing. Techno frankly finds the constant chattering annoying so he’s relieved when Tubbo retreats to the tent with his plant concoction right as he switches over with Phil.
That morning he wakes to Phil reprimanding Tubbo for going into the forest without telling anybody. In the two weeks that they’ve he’s been in their care, the kid has managed to wander off a grand total of eight times, so Techno can’t really bring himself to care. Despite his own disinterest, the voices are often discussing how he snuck away, this time they’re concerned about the night patrol.
They pack up their stuff before heading to the outpost. They leave Tubbo by a large oak tree, not wanting him to get caught by the pillagers. They trail around the outside trying to avoid being spotted until they realise that there is no one on watch. The voices are screaming that something is wrong. Cautiously, the two of them enter the building only to see dozens of dead pillagers. There aren’t any wounds but they’ve both had enough experience with death to be able to tell.
There’s food on the table thats partially touched, almost as if they didn’t get to finish dinner. Techno picks up a piece of chicken and brings it up to sniff, only to be stopped by called out warning. “No! don’t eat the chicken Mr. Blade!”
Techno turns to see Tubbo rushing into the room, avoiding the bodies strewn across the room. The kid runs up to him and attempts to bat the chicken out of his hand. It’s a feeble attempt as he barely reaches Techno’s waist and the elder simply holds the chicken further out of his reach. Phil laughs at the display, while the voices in Techno’s head freak out about the kid following him without being noticed.
Techno takes in his surroundings, from the dead army of pillagers, the table filled with an unfinished feast and the kid who’s still trying to jump at the food he’s holding. He thinks of the odd concoction the kid made and how he supposedly left sometime during the night. It takes a moment but soon the voices are screaming once again, all of them delighted with Techno’s discovery.
Techno looks Tubbo in the eyes as he asks, “Did you poison them?” Phil’s laughter freezes, a sudden quiet taking over the room. Tubbo has the nerve to look guilty, looking away now, as he nods his head.
“I heard you both making plans to fight them and I wanted to help since Mr Phil was hurt. I can’t fight so I figured out another way.”
Techno directs his gaze back to Phil, “You’re hurt?”
Phil stares back before nodding, “It’s nothing serious mate, I’m just curious how Tubbo noticed.” They both look over to the kid responsible for the revelation.
“You re-adjusted your wings. There’s more weight on your right side than your left.” Now that’s something that Techno didn’t notice, he wonders how long Phil’s been hurt, though there does seem to be more important things at the moment.
Techno looks Tubbo in the eye before looking back at Phil. “We’re keeping him.”
Phil smiles, “So we’re heading south again?”
Techno nods and turns again to acknowledge Tubbo who has been watching the exchange, “Hey kid, how do you like snow?”
Tubbo’s eyes light up and Phil pretends not to see Techno smile.
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I was gonna write more but now I want re write the beginning and make a whole fic of it? I’m not sure if anyone would want to see it though
memes in sumeru 👌
Going by how I played these, but with the caveat I went back to each because I figured to be bi only at some point between Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring:
- Demon Souls: Yuria the Witch. The Maiden in Black is nice, but she didn't do anything crush-wise on me.
- Dark Souls: Priscilla. Priscilla. Priscilla. Also Beatrice the Witch and Quelana.
- Dark Souls 2: I am not immune to the Emerald Herald. At all. Also: Alsanna.
- Bloodborne: Lady Maria. Vicar Amelia. Ebrietas. Here my monsterfuckery is showing.
- Dark Souls 3: Firekeeper. Both versions of Anri. Sir Vilhelm. Karla, because witches, always.
- Elden Ring: Oh boy. Ranni big time (best witch!). Malenia. Melina. Malenia & Radagon. Fia. Blaidd. Maliketh. Latenna. Millicent.
Ok. This was all important info I had to share.
Hm. Au where Niki and Jack manage to take Tommy’s last life, and Tubbo, in his desperation to bring him back, is made vulnerable to a being he knows quite a bit about-considering it’s most well known follower laid claim to his second life.
The Blood God.
It offers him a deal-reviving Tommy, in exchange for becoming it’s follower.
And Tubbo, Tubbo doesn’t want this. He doesn’t want to serve the bloodthirsty being who lives in most children’s nightmares. But he has tried everything else. He has tried every spell he can get his hands on, no matter how dangerous and painful to him. He has tried every artifact he has track down, every prayer he can utter.
This is the only option he has left. So he agrees, and as it takes his face between it’s hands, the world goes red.
Hours later, his vision clears. Tommy lays to the side, chest rising softly as his eye lids flutter open. Tubbo embraces him and cries.
And later that night, when his best friend is sleeping deep, safely tucked into bed, Tubbo weeps for a different reason. Tossed under his bed, a bloodied blade hums, satisfied with it’s first sacrifice.
Niki’s first life is taken in return for giving Tommy back his last. Her second one…well.
Blood for the Blood God.
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Includes Tubbo getting even more traumatized, in return for Tommy getting a break once in his life…y’know, until he learns about what’s been going on, but that’s not important.
Technoblade and Tubbo going from whatever-they-are-now to clashing-with-wildly-different-views-now-that-they’re-forced-to-interact to reluctant-mentor-and-apprentice-who-still-don’t-agree-with-each-other-but-have-bigger-problems-to-worry-about-including-protecting-their-respective-dear-ones to companions-who’ve-accepted-they-see-things-different-but-share-a-bond-forged-during-their-time-together-and-will-work-together-to-protect-those-they-care-about-and-and-trying-to-make-amends-for-the-past.
Lots of Gods and such.
Tubbo delving more into rituals and spells as he integrates into the Blood God’s following.
Gardening, and spending time with the bees. The Blood God is as much about life as they are about death. If Tubbo’s willing to sacrifice a few jars of honey, and some flowers, well, they can be a little lenient on the bloodshed.
Tension and forced bonding between the Sleepy Bois and Tubbo, more so after Tommy gets involved with it. There’s a lot of unaddressed issues between them all, but circumstances have thrown them together, and now they’re all gonna have to deal with it.
Niki’s on her last life, when she formerly had three. She’s also now terrified of Tubbo, and this might end up with her thinking Tommy’s corrupted him if she doesn’t take a step and look at things-which could end up a lot worse, with her deciding to bring them both down.
Tension everywhere, really. Two of the people he genuinely trusted not to hurt any of them, one of which he invited into his safe haven, just took his best friend’s life. And now Tubbo’s got a craving for blood he doesn’t quite know what to do with.
Tommy having another person to watch his back, and maybe having some side effects of being briefly dead and revived, and not noticing them.
Basically pain and slow-burn found family forming again after a lot of bad things happened. Healing, and such.
never getting over how genuinely distressed tai lung looks when po does his shuffling trick. mid fight this man stops and panics because he cant figure out a childrens magic trick