The Plot Twist Of How Ben Died Was Shocking And All, Theoretically A Good Plot Twist. But. It's Lazy

I'd assume he either bathes wearing armor or he bathes in lava.

Since Ranboo can’t touch water does he bath in milk?

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I crave BAMF Tubbo and more fics about Tubbo’s bond with the SBI-mostly Techno, because those two have more similarities than most realize.

So, AU.

Technoblade and Tubbo are a bit closer in this AU. This starts a bit after Tubbo is adopted into the family. 

Techno knows his family loves him. Of course he does. But..it’s hard sometimes, being the only one without wings. Being the only one with no resemblance to them. And Tubbo comes, and he’s adopted too. And Techno feels a bit of a bond with him, the two of them being the only none-bird hybrids in the house. 

So those two get close, in their own way. Anyone outside the family probably wouldn’t see it, but Tubbo learns how to do stitches when his big brother comes home hurt and can’t do them himself, and Techno memorizes the storybook his little brother has him read every night, with no complaints. It’s the little things. 

Tommy has Wilbur, and Tubbo has Techno. And they all have each other. 

Eventually the family starts drifting a bit. Phil starts playing favorites a little. They try. They really do. But it’s not enough, and one day, Techno and Phil return to an empty house, and a note that explains that Wilbur is taking the kids and going somewhere else.

Techno finds a worn bee plushie on his bed, with a note of his own.

‘I’ll see you soon!’ 

Fast forward however many years later, and the piglin hybrid finds himself getting a call. From Tommy, who babbles about how he wasn’t supposed to call them, but Pogtopia(?) needs help and so does Wilbur, and Tubbo’s in trouble-

A mess, really.

Techno comes, of course. They’re family. He would never leave them when they needed him.

So he joins the rebellion, does what he can, and then, tragically, the festival happens. 

(Not even an hour ago, he was farming potatoes while Tubbo chattered away from his side, a wide smile on his face, and eyes full of trust and warmth)

Techno has never done well with peer pressure(The voices, the voices, tHE VOICES). He aims his crossbow at his little brother’s chest, from where he stands locked in a cage, with frightened, worried eyes. He stalls, waits for any signal of rescue, any sign that he won’t be the weapon that takes his brother’s life.

Nothing comes. He can see the exact moment Tubbo realizes. His eyes are still trusting, and his smile forgiving, as his hands shake from where they’re wrapped around the cold iron of his cage.

He pulls the trigger. Blood flies, the voices roar, and somewhere in his blood rage, Technoblade realizes that this place was doomed from the start-and if it was not, then it certainly was now, with his gentle-hearted brother’s blood staining the earth.

Tubbo respawns in Pogtopia, and his eyes are glazed and unseeing. Wilbur tries to make his brothers fight in the pit. The hybrid refuses. Enough blood has been spilled tonight.

Here’s where the training starts. Because Tubbo’s blindness will not remain, is not permanent, luckily, but it will still take time for his eyesight to return, and there is a war coming.

It would be a dishonor to himself and to his family if he were to leave Tubbo unable to fight after rendering him so.

It just so happens that, prepared as ever, Techno learned how to fight blind ages ago. Because you never know what will happen, and he needed a challenge. So he teaches Tubbo.

You’ve got heightened hearing, so use it. Pay attention to the sounds, pay attention to the air, pay attention to the people. Give them false weaknesses, use your real ones, press every advantage. Be quick, be clever, be merciless.

Anyway, Tubbo becomes a total badass. Either nobody knows, because Techno figures doing this secretly will give him more of an advantage, or they don’t take it seriously, because, well. They don’t take kids very seriously, often, even in wars, do they? And it’s Tubbo. Tubbo’s never a threat(not).

Fast forward again. Schlatt dies, Pogtopia loses, and Wilbur tries to make Tommy president.

You can see the shared moment of confusion between the two. The slow realization that they’re setting up another government, after what the last one did.

(Tubbo thought they’d make L’manberg a community, or something. No government, no politics, just peace and them, all together again. Techno just didn’t think they’d use him for the very thing he fought against)

Tommy turns it down, and gives the title to Tubbo. In front of everyone.

Tubbo’s never done well with peer pressure. Just another trait he shares with the eldest brother.

L’manbergs explosion happens, the withers, and such. In the chaos, Techno is giving out every subtle warning he can for his apprentice without saying a thing. 

Wilbur dies, and Techno flees, and from here, there are two options.

Option one: He takes Tubbo with him. He grabs his horse, and offers a hand out for the other, and Tubbo takes it, because he has no intention of being president when there’s another option.

They run and make a cozy life in the snow, eventually joined by Philza, Ghostbur, and, much later, a Tommy who held on and got hurt for it.

Option two: Techno doesn’t get the chance. Tubbo is forced to stick around, and bare the weight of a nation he can feel crumbling by the day. The events of canon happen, with much remorse and unhappiness between the brothers.

Dream is defeated, Snowchester forms, and if Techno finds his way over there, and the two trade apologies along with gifts and warm drinks, well. There’s nobody around to see.

Basically, just Tubbo being cool, and epic, as he should be, and Techno and Tubbo being brothers, and bonding. 

Seriously, if anyone has any good fics with BAMF Tubbo, and Techno and Tubbo friendship, please tell me.

Here we go

Can I propose an au idea? An au where Tubbo dies in the vault at the hands of Dream, and finds himself in the past, when the sbi are all together, before entering the Dream SMP. He’s not the only one - Wilbur has also found himself in the past, although he only remembers up until the moment of his death.

The catch is that, sort of like Ghostbur, when they get to the past, they’re primarily driven by the opposite emotions that they had around the time of their death.

Wilbur, who had gone off the deep end, ends up much more like Ghostbur in the past. It’s not entirely the same, he hasn’t forgotten anything and doesn’t forget things, but he’s primarily driven by a want to keep his family happy and safe. And since he’s a living person, not a ghost, he’s still capable of feeling other emotions, changing and evolving.

Tubbo on the other hand, who stayed himself until the end, who spent his last moments comforting Tommy with a smile on his face, wakes up bitter and angry. He feels used, is furious that his own death was because no one thought of him as his own person, just as an extension of Tommy, and wants revenge on the people who killed him and made him suffer. And if people see him as a bad guy for it, well, at least they’ll be seeing him as a individual with agency at all.

Either they don’t realize that the other is in the past and are working around each other, or more interestingly, they realize that they’re both in the past, and Wilbur has to try and convince Tubbo not to ruin Phil and Techno (among others), since they haven’t done anything yet.

Healing shenanigans ensue?

Oh, this is interesting. Time travel AUs are always fun to work with, and this could go down several paths. 

So both Wilbur and Tubbo end up in the past. Are they in a private home world? Smp Earth?

The others seeing the changes would be interesting too. Tommy is such a source of conflict, for both of them, but Tubbo especially. Wilbur can think back on his actions with a much clearer mind, and he regrets them, deeply. 

Tubbo...well, Tommy’s his best friend. But like you said, everyone only saw him as an extension of Tommy. And in his last moments, as a way to hurt Tommy. The equal anger and guilt about being used like that...

God, all the SBI are going to get whiplash when dealing with the new Wilbur and Tubbo, but Tommy’s probably going to get the brunt of it, all things considered. 

If they don’t realize they’re both in the past? Wilbur tries to pull his family together before they have the chance to fall apart. Does he succeed? Does he not? We could have SBI sticking together and maybe even joining the Dream Smp as a group, or coming sooner in the pogtopia arc, or maybe not even joining at all.

Tubbo could stay and plot, or he could just straight up run away, and the SBI could see him years later, as an entirely different person. In what way? Who knows. Maybe he healed in those years away, got a better life, set himself free. Maybe he grew more bitter, more angrier, more desperate to prove he was a person, and not just something to be tossed aside or used against others.

They realize they’re both in the past? Prime bonding material between Tubbo and Wilbur. Maybe Wilbur convinces Tubbo to hold off on making Phil and Techno’s lives hard on the condition that they actually change for the better, and it’s a visible change. Maybe Tubbo still ups and leaves, and Wilbur and the SBi chase after him.

We could have late night conversations between Tubbo and Wilbur, about their presidencies, and regrets, and Tommy. About how they could change things for the better, or just never get involved at all. Wilbur’s all for the former, and Tubbo preferring the latter.

Moral dilemmas between both parties, heartbreaking conversations, and their friends and family trying to piece together these people they’ve known all their lives, but who now seem so broken and different.

i'm not the only one who thought the new firefly trailer is a /whole/ lot like evangelion right-

artwork-minus-poster under the cut! and some other things. anyway yeah hope someone likes this! actually kinda proud of this but also they all look so similar how do i distinguish these four-

look guys come on it's evangelion- ooohhh i should have added fireflies- no i took like 5 hours plus to do this. nooo. artwork here:

AU where Dream and Tubbo are siblings, and Dream convinces Tubbo he’s doing all that bad stuff for the sake of the SMP, and gets Tubbo to help him out.

By the time Tubbo is aware of what his brother’s really doing, which is not the much nicer version he’s been told, he’s too scared to leave, having long since been convinced that everybody else would kill him in a heartbeat. 

Once his brother is put in jail, Tubbo, who’d been watching from a hidey hole, and really didn’t want any part of this, was teleported out by XD. Why the deity did so, he’s uncertain, but he did. Teleported way out to some distant snowy biome with a few spruce trees, where Tubbo was, essentially, stranded.

He thinks it might be for the best, honestly. He’s not exactly on great terms with everybody. 

Purpled kind of has the role of Tommy’s best friend here, because Dream was lowkey an overprotective brother before he decided to be evil instead, and insisted Tubbo wear a protective mask, and keep away from everybody. So, they definitely all think he’s a lot older than he actually is. 

The only ones who have any idea are Bad, George, and Sapnap. Bad’s possessed by the Egg, Dream convinced Sapnap Tubbo was all for it, and George…George has been a bit occupied in Dreamland. 

Purpled being Tommy’s friend changed quite a bit, actually. He was never part of L’manberg, but he fought with them, and helped out. And when Tommy was exiled by Fundy, after he managed to find the place(it took him awhile, with Dream throwing him off and distracting him), he got Tommy out of there.

The two eventually ran across Techno while hiding from Dream, and both he and Phil were not happy to hear what Dream had been doing to their youngest. 

So they take Tommy in, and he ends up sticking with them, along with Purpled, and eventually Ranboo, who they invite to join them on Doomsday, and he agrees, because he’s been having a hard time in L’manberg, not having too many allies. 

The Syndicate helps imprison Dream. They’re aware of Ranboo’s enderwalking problems, and trying to help.

What they don’t know is that when Enderboo isn’t forced under Dream’s command, he’s actually very chill, and also, very, very fond of Tubbo, who’s always nice to him, and, occasionally, when his brother wasn’t around, would goof off with him. 

Enderboo leaves a lot of semi-cryptic messages for Ranboo that basically amount to ‘please go check on Tubbo, I’m very worried, and I don’t think he’s eating’ or something similar. Unfortunately, Ranboo never figures out what they mean, and just gets really freaked out instead. 

Tubbo has accidentally adopted a piglin child with Enderboo-I mean, he assumes that’s what’s going on, he’s not entirely sure. Enderboo kind of just dropped the child off, and now they’re raising him?? Very confusing, but Tubbo kind of enjoys the company.

Basically Tubbo just being sad in his cozy spruce cottage, Enderboo being that one stray cat that keeps adopting things, and everyone else having no idea what’s going on, but misunderstanding just about everything.

This is great.

Elf on the shelf where everything is the same except the elf is a 9-foot tall illidan stormrage