Coffee_Addict

Phil: ?

Tommy: It's me, I'm the fuck up.

adventures in babysitting?

-run his hotel

-have a fun rivalry with BeeNBoo

-be able to talk to and maybe eventually forgive Sam for leaving him in the prison too long

-apologize to and work on fixing his relationship with Jack (and maybe Niki as well??)

-commit tax fraud

-work on fixing his relationship with Techno

-scam a couple people in the hotel

-bond with puffy

-bond with (and maybe annoy) foolish

-work on fixing his relationship with Ranboo

-upgrade the hotel with Sam nook

-agree to fight against the eggpire with his friends (flower power, perhaps?)

-listen to his discs in his bench with his friends without fear of them being stolen

-heal

jack’s current arc is him realizing that revenge wasn’t the answer. he regrets his anger and he regrets that his life was dedicated was killing an old friend. he wasn’t happy when dream killed tommy, and he doesn’t think he would have been happy if he had been the one to kill him.

he’s still angry at tommy (and he has every reason to be), but the point is that he doesn’t think revenge was the answer. revenge wouldn’t have made him happy, no matter how it had played out.

now. niki. she hasn’t found out about tommy’s death yet, so we’re shifting into ✨combined analysis and theory time✨

i think niki’s reaction will be a foil to jack’s. i think niki will be overjoyed that tommy’s dead, no matter how it happened. it will be wonderful, it will be interesting, it will be great story telling.

let me elaborate on that. jack mourned the fact that the only thing he cared about was tommy, and he mourned the fact that he lost him. jack mourned losing his attachments. emotionally, he’s sort of lost now, but he realizes that. he values attachments and he values the attachment he had, now matter how toxic he realized it had been.

niki, on the other hand? the last thing she expressed attachment to was l’manburg. she may not have been the one to blow it up, but she still destroyed it. she burned down the l’mantree, the last remaining symbol of the original l’manburg, and she did it all without a hint of regret. niki, unlike jack, does not value attachments.

really, the only thing niki still has attachment to is the memory of wilbur, but even that’s not really an attachment in the same way everyone else on the server has attachments. she misses the memory of him, but the fact that he just,, left her makes her angry. that anger is her driving force and the only attachment she has left. no one else cares more about the memory of a person and the feelings they cause than physical people and physical things. there isn’t any other attachment that’s even comparable.

except…

except.

dream doesn’t care about anything but the idea of tommy. he only cares about the attachments tommy brings to the server and the fun tommy brings him. tommy’s nothing more than a puppet to him. this doesn’t line up perfectly with niki’s situation, but the the parallels are undeniably.

dream just wants revenge against those who have wronged him. he isn’t driven by attachment (though he is still attached to that idea of tommy), he’s driven by revenge.

niki just wants revenge against those who have wronged her. she isn’t driven by attachment (though she is still attached to the memory of wilbur), she’s driven by revenge.

so. in the end, niki should be happy that tommy’s dead, no matter that she wasn’t the one to do it.

and it's even more worrying after last night. that their first reaction to someone being beaten to death by their abuser was "well he killed a cat!", try to blame c!dream murdering c!tommy on c!sam, and are consistently in denial of what we're repeatedly shown: c!dream never tried to change

it's worrying how their first reaction was to think about how this affects c!dream. the furthest thing from your mind after witnessing what happened last night should be "oh i wonder how the abuser and murderer is doing?"

it's a scary phenomenon we've seen in many other media (american horror story, star wars, etc), but it's especially scary in the dream smp fandom because the fanbase is so young.

wilbur & schlatt’s deaths, right? they had these deaths where everyone was there, and they got to say their peace; wilbur’s death was satisfying to him because he got everything he needed, in his eyes, & schlatt got a moment to confront/curse out everyone who wronged him, but tommy literally only had him & dream in that fucking cell, and he was beat to death. this kid didn’t get his peace, didn’t get his last fucking words— his last “words” were begging dream to stop. he came to dream for closure and he ended up getting killed, and isn’t that just,,,, the most fitting end for him? he’s never gotten anything good; c!tommyinnit’s life has been a route of neverending tragedy and the moment he tries to close the lid, the moment he tries to get closure & live his life— be happy, he’s fucking killed. he won’t ever get to finish his hotel, he won’t ever get to heal fully, he won’t ever get to be a kids because he’s just fucking dead. and at the hands of dream, no less; the man who abused him in exile— the man who took two of his life’s already. he’s dead at the hands of him, in a cell, where his body is probably left to fucking rot & he probably won’t even get a proper burial until the fucking security issue is fixed.