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• surprisingly, he’s always been good at doing hair / styling hair? he’s been good at braids, ponytails, buns; he’s always been good at it because he used to practice it in techno’s hair. it was something that used to just be a habit that he did when he was bored, but back in pogtopia he used to mess around w/ techno’s hair more for comfort than anything else. he always use to put little braids in techno’s hair, and when he wasn’t messing around with it he’d always lecture techno about how Awful he was at taking care of it, because he was. he’d always give him tips on how to take care of it better, and even though techno didn’t know what it meant he’d always listen; eventually he’d start to seek out tommy himself just to mess around w/ his hair—it was soothing for both of them.

TOMMY: don’t you know how to take care of your fuckin’ hair? it’s all knotted and gross!

TECHNO, whos spent most of his life being a potato farmer; :)

• in addition to this, he’s surprisingly good at things like hygiene & he gives good advice on things like fashion (note; i know cc!tommy wears like the same shirt every day but shh let me have this), so back in the earlier days of l’manberg he’d always hang out w/ niki and they’d always speak about things like hair and clothes and stuff, and she’d sometimes even let niki do his hair, even if it was too short to really do anything special. it was their little sessions where they’d gossip about everyone else in l’manberg, & they wouldn’t ever let anyone else in there. wilbur constantly tried to follow them but he’d always have to be forcably pushed out.

NIKI; did you hear what fundy did yesterday?

TOMMY, doing her nails, nodding; yeah. he’s such a dumbass

NIKI; he just doesn’t understand

TOMMY; mhm 🙄

• when he was younger he always used to have a shit ton of stuffed animals. he’ll deny this for hours & hours on end, but his bed used to make up of stuffed animals. he’d name every single one of them, he’d use to make little clothes for them to wear, he’d always carry them around and whenever he was separated from them he’d always cry and throw a fit. his favorite stuffed animal was a plush cow named henry, and he was shit at taking care of it; henry went through hell and back, and in the end he ended up losing it. he hid in his room for weeks and refused to come out of pure grief.

• also when he was younger, he always used to put on plays for wilbur, techno, and phil. he’d always craft his own little tools, like a fake sword, a fake cape, a fake shield, and he’d put on a little show with his stuffed animals as his characters. he’d used to have notes written in crayon about the plot and the characters backstories that was practically unintelligible, and he’d always be the hero saving the day. he’d sometimes even pull techno into it, and he’d make him be the villain with a cartoon mask held by string that barley fit his face.

TECHNO, walking out into the living room: i don’t want to be here.

TOMMY, holding his sword triumphantly; you fiend! i’ve cornered you! there’s nowhere to run!

PHIL; you’ve been concerned techno. you better back down

TECHNO; he’s a 6 year old, phil. whats he gonna do—

TOMMY, immediately wacking him directly in the stomach with his sword;

• when tommy started living with techno, the first gift he ever gave him was the fake red cape tommy used to play pretend in. it wasn’t big enough for him, and it was ripped and covered in scribbles of crayon, but tommy was too touched by the fact that he even kept it to care about the quality.

TOMMY: you—you kept my cape?

TECHNO: yeah. it’s—it’s the first thing that inspired my cape,,..

TOMMY, on the verge of tears; my stupid stories are the reason behind your cape? that’s so—

TECHNO, immediately wacking him on the head with the fake sword: shut up.

• techno didn’t ever tell anyone, but the reason he’d made his cape almost identical to the one tommy had was because he wanted to be the hero that tommy created that he loved so much.

• tommy’s always been frustrated whenever he couldn’t get something right on the first try; he’s always been sort of,,.. hard on himself? and whenever he messes up he always ends up getting angry and refusing to do any more work. it’s something that’s in his mind that tells him he won’t ever succeed, so he just doesn’t want to try. the only person who’s ever been able to get him to continue trying his techno. anyone else, when they’d try to rally his spirits it would just end up in an argument, but techno’s the only person who’s been able to successfully get through to him.

TOMMY; this—this is stupid. i don’t even want to try anymore, it’s—i can’t do anything-

TECHNO; you know that’s not true, tommy.

TOMMY; it’s not?! i fucking failed, techno, what else am i supposed to do—

TECHNO: try again.

TOMMY: but-

TECHNO: i’ll help you. just try again. you won’t ever succeed if you don’t try.

TOMMY, grumbling: like you’re all wise...

TECHNO: i am :]

• tommy and techno’s favorite thing to do together is train. when tommy was younger techno didn’t go as hard; he’d always use to let his little brother win in fear of actually hurt him, and he couldn’t always erase the satisfied feeling he got when tommy beamed whenever he’d “won”. even if he’d purposely tripped over his feet.

TOMMY, standing over techno’s body, sword in hand: i beat you!!! :DDD

TECHNO, gently picking him up and putting him on his chest: you beat me. whatever will i do. you’re just too strong.

TOMMY, bonking him on the head with the sword; that’s right >:D

• though, when tommy started living with techno again he didn’t let himself go as easy on him. he’d seen the way that tommy wanted to be stronger— didn’t want to be as easy to control, so he’d figured that training him would be the right way to go. he’d frequently knock tommy on his ass and he’d have to hold back his laughter when tommy got up with a scowl cause he just couldn’t win.

TOMMY: what the fuck! this isn’t fair! i always used to beat you when i was younger??

I was so sure that the kids were going to die, or one of them was going to die and the cycle would continue. I almost didn’t even want to watch the stream today because I was so anxious and so scared that it was going to end in tragedy.

But seeing everyone coming through the portal and standing in between Dream and the two traumatized kids, and standing back to let Tommy have his moment?

I don’t care how people felt about Tommy in that moment, I don’t care if they go back to fighting tomorrow. In that moment, Tommy needed an adult to stand behind him and lift him up. In that moment, Tommy and Tubbo needed to be kids and have people protect them.

And they all came through. They actually pulled through. The kids won not because of their own skills and talents (though they did great on their own), but they won because everyone banded together, and that’s exactly what all of us needed and wanted to see.

It was the best and most relieving moment in the entire stream. Just. Tommy and Tubbo finally getting the support they’ve needed for months.

BRUH I was gonna respond to the most but got distracted like a nerd but now I have a whole two excuses to talk about phil and honestly fucking crab rave it's my favourite activity.

Ok so in my reblog to that I mostly spoke about canon phil without adding much of my own spice but you asked for my headcanons and that means I get to go crazy.

SO!

Okay so my personal idea of translating how stupidly powerful the 5 year hardcore man is to something like the dream smp canon gets kinda fantastical. I like to see phil as a terraformer, like he can quite literally bend the land to his will. When I think of feral phil, this is the phil I tend to focus in on because the idea of phil throwing a fucking mountain in anger is something I enjoy greatly. The man literally destroyed a 275x275 space in his nether and made it into something so unrecognizable he regularly gets asked of he's in the end by new viewers.

I see feral phil as less of a destructive person and more of an absolute force of nature, something that just tears the world apart in wake of its wrath. I see him as just tearing the world to shreds in the blink of an eye, and putting it back together with just as much ease. The crater in l'manburg is nothing compared to what phil could do.

To be fair, it would take a lot to properly drive him to his absolute edge, and I imagine his boys have only ever seen glimpses of how absolutely cataclysmic he can be. Techno has probably seen the most of it, given their time together in the Antarctic empire, but I doubt even he would be able to fully grasp how absolutely destructive phil could be.

I like to think that dream knows something is up with phil. That he knows phil has something hidden, but he underestimates what he's up against so badly. I can imagine him trying to truly take everything from phil, and phil finally snapping and literally just killing dream, over and over and over and over. New ways each time, creative and cruel, because Phil is a fickle god with mercy to match the title. When phil wants to be, he can be pretty damn sadistic honestly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auQggEPsVR4

TOMMY:

TUBBO;

PHIL:

RANBOO:

TECHNO:

GHOSTBUR:

he will cry.

for @mirinda03

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Ever since today's stream I've been thinking "man I thought c!Techno would die there i thought dream was going to kill him for protecting Tommy" and Techno has all his lives left but imagine how neat itd be if c!Dream killed c!Techno then c!Tommy got to do Multiple revenges at the same time

I just think it would be neat

  —in the first ever war with dream, after tommy sacrificed a life in the duel with him, wilbur spent days not leaving tommy’s side. even after the war was over— even after they’d secured their independence, wilbur didn’t ever really want to be too far away from the boy; he was constantly worried that it was a dream— that seeing tommy every day was some sort of dream, and if he wasn’t with the boy he’d wake up and—and tommy wouldn’t be there. he would constantly hover, & if tommy got injured somehow, it didn’t matter if the wound was insignificant, he would freak out and insist that he needed medical attention. tommy would have to constantly remind him that; “yes, i’m fine wil. no, i’m not going to die, it’s just a fucking papercut, calm down’”.

—wilbur’s a mother hen, through and through. it doesn’t matter what , if something garners his concern about tommy he will not  leave him alone for days until he gets answers / he’s sure that tommy’s okay. tommy makes fun of him for this, since he freaks out more than their actual dad does whenever he gets in trouble, but wilbur can’t help it, because tommy’s a fucking idiot and he somehow always  puts himself into some sort of danger. wilbur’s surprised he doesn’t have grey hairs.

——they’re both extremely clingy. both of them won’t admit it, but they really can’t go too long w/o each other, constantly wondering where the other is or what they’re doing if they’ve been w/o each other for too long. whenever wilbur sees tommy after not interacting w/ him for like….,,… even a couple hours he forces himself next to him and follows him around for the entire day. tommy just deadass clings to him like a fucking leech, too, holding onto his arm. there was a lot of times back in the old l'manberg days where wilbur would be discussing something important w/ fundy and niki and tommy would just,.. be there. hanging off his elbow. or, tommy would be hanging out w/ tubbo and wilbur would suddenly barge through, into their conversation and shove his way in the middle and loudly go ‘HEY TOMMY". 

—back in the old l'manberg days, after the OG war w/ dream, the two of them would always comfort each other after a bad nightmare, or w/ their general anxieties. tommy would wake up in a middle of nightmare, with what felt like an arrow in his chest and water in his lungs and the sound of wilbur’s countdown, not knowing where he was, and wilbur would be there. wilbur would wake up w/ a dream about a button room, about the images of the dreamteam tearing through the walls, of 'it was never meant to be’ and tommy would be there. they were the only people who felt comfortable enough w/ each other to actually express how the first war effected them. (wilbur was the only person tommy confided in about how scared he’d been during the duel, and in turn wilbur told tommy about how paranoid he’d been feeling since eret’s betrayal.)

—back then, wilbur was in support of the dumbass adventures and mishaps tommy would get himself in w/ dream. it was the most entertaining thing he’d seen in awhile, watching tommy and dream chase each other around—plus, he felt a little guilty for letting tommy be apart of the war’s, so he would let him have this—you’d think the man who made the nation would be against his right hand man putting it in possible jeopardy, but no. he would just sit back and watch and dream and tommy wrestled over their disks in the distance, sipping his tea.

FUNDY; you—aren’t you gonna stop them?

WILBUR, sitting on a pull-out chair with shades on; no, no, it’s fine.

TOMMY, in the distance: I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU BITCH

FUNDY:

FUNDY: …are you sure

WILBUR: just don’t give tommy an actual weapon and it’ll be fine

FUNDY, watching dream body slam tommy in the distance: i don’t…think that’s the problem

—in the beginning of the pogtopia arc, tommy had been noticing how stressed and closed-off wilbur and seemed, so he’d tried to do something about it— tried to help in the ways he could. he didn’t ever really address that he noticed how exhausted wilbur looked, but he went out of his way to get him little gifts; like, going hunting to make food for him that wasn’t potatoes, making stupid little jokes to brighten his day, spending more time with him, constantly talking about how good of a president he was— it was the little things that he tried to help with, sticking to wilbur’s side like a leech and constantly filling pogtopia with meaningless chatter. (wilbur knew he was doing this— knew he was trying to help in the ways he could, and even if he knew his attempts were futile, he didn’t stop him. he couldn’t stop him, really, because he was still so endeared by the stupid puns and jokes tommy littered throughout the days, just for him.)

—tommy has always been, and always will be, extremely protective of wilbur. in the OG days of l'manberg it was more prominent, like whenever somebody would talk slightly negatively about wilbur, tommy would always somehow…,,,,.. appear. like, when jack first joined l'manberg he made a snide little comment—that was more so a joke than anything else—about the way wilbur soot ran the place, and tommy whipped around and looked at him like he’d just stabbed his fucking mother. anybody, regardless if they were apart of l'manberg or not, didn’t ever talk bad about wilbur because tommy would somehow almost always be standing behind him w/ a giant fucking chain saw

QUACKITY: yeah, i just think it’s kinda fuckin’ weird how wilbur’s running the place —

TOMMY, pulling out a crossbow from his pocket; oh, yeah, continue.

QUACKITY: ..i—

TOMMY, putting on a bunch of netherite armor; no, no, continue what you’re saying, i wanna fucking hear it.

QUACKITY:

TOMMY, placing TNT around quackity; I WANNA HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY. PLEASE CONTINUE

—after wilbur snapped in the pogtopia arc, tommy still…,,,. tried to cheer him up. he didn’t really understand why wilbur was behaving the way he was—nor did he really forget about wilbur’s speech—but he still was so determined to make everything better— to make wilbur better, at least, so he continued trying to make little jokes; he continued trying to start up banter, or get wilbur some gifts, or talk about the members of l'manberg that missed him, but it didn’t ever work like it used to. …,,,actually, whenever tommy was speaking too much— whenever he accidentally crossed a boundary or spoke too much, wilbur would snap at him; would yell at him for being annoying, for wasting his time, that; 'i actually have things i have to do, tommy! i can’t stand around and listen to you yammer on about fucking…nonsense!’ tommy eventually stopped trying to speak in pogtopia at all.

—a few days after the aftermath of the pit scene, wilbur followed tommy around in pogtopia. he didn’t ever really say much, but he would constantly be at tommy’s side no matter what he was doing— tommy didn’t ever really indulge him. when wilbur did speak, it was snide little comments about what happened at the festival and the things he had planned for the future, or just berating him for even getting upset about tubbo’s execution. for awhile it continued like this; wilbur just following him around with silence or with taunts, until tommy snapped at him one day, saying; 'i get it, alright? i get that i failed— i get that i couldn’t save him! what do you want?! from me? can’t you leave me alone?? haven’t you done enough?!“ wilbur recoiled. he looked…,,, hurt. for a second. he didn’t talk to him for days after that, and the only time he did it was about his plans. tommy didn’t know if he was grateful.