For the rejected and the monsters. Obligatory MCYT SCP story for Sleepy Bois Inc + Tubbo. A special interest that's consumed my brain utterly for over 4 years now. CookieNomNomCrunch on AO3. They/them 🐝
This is an au that has consumed me. This blog will just be a terrible mess of whatever I’m stuck on for the week, likely with little explanation and heavy spoilers. Anyway, the general vibe + anomalous properties are below cut:
Philza: The Zilant. Is the immortal concept of fire and fury, which pretends to be a dragon, which pretends to be a human. Maintains his personhood by attaching himself to mortals he calls his ‘Collected’. Currently: Tommy, Wilbur, The Blade, and Tubbo. Additionally, Philza is very intent on keeping any promise he makes and was kept in the Foundation exclusively because they’d captured his Collected and made a deal. Gives great dad advice, except when the advice is ‘let me murder them for you <3’
Tommy: The Instigator. Has a blood red liquid on his hands that grows when he’s scared. When people touch it, they become aggressive to anyone but Tommy. At low TI-Red levels this leads to things like bickering, but it escalates to physical violence and brutality. When TI-Red levels consume him and he thinks he’s going to die, he summons The Blade. Lived as a normal human and met Wil, Phil, and The Blade after a summoning at 15; visited the homeless guys occasionally till the Foundation captured at 16. Abandonment issues, highly touch starved, used as a Thaumiel. Collected Tubbo.
The Blade: The Blood God. Is a massive boar behemoth with voices in his head. When attacked (or if there’s an orphan), becomes The Blood God, who will bend the universe to ensure he wins. The Blade only comes back when the challenge has been completed. Grew up as a monster in the woods, but pulled himself up out of the voices, figured out what was him and what was The Blood God, and established his own personhood. Somehow has a college degree, met Phil and Wil during a gap year. Loves gardening and murdering people for Tommy. Also managed to come out of the Foundation the least traumatized, iconic.
Wilbur: Soot. [tags are noms Wilbur or scp Wilbur if you want to block] His legs magically rearrange so he is the tallest humanoid in the room. Oh also the void in the side of his face that eldritch abominations claw their way out of. Was basically a feral starving child till ~14 when Philza forcefully adopted him. A chronic insomniac with a heart of gold and a tongue of silver, held together despite the inherent contradictions between being a supreme survivalist and a drama hoe. Memory issues because he represses basically everything.
Tubbo: The Pollinator. Is a honeycomb skin suit for approximately 400,000 bees. Uses they/them we/us pronouns, because they are a Hive mind/system containing at least three humans: a Little, a Foundation employee, and a lawyer/farmer. Tubbo grew up mostly normal, albeit in secret. The most recently captured by the Foundation, and a staunch pacifist. This causes them to be at odds with Philza, who did a few murderous rampages too many, and The Blade, for the reason above and also because he destroyed their legs. But they stick around because they’re attached to Tommy.
Basic vibes are found family, hurt/comfort, questions of morality, and trauma at the hands of the Foundation and each other. Things get messy, but it’s all bound together with love at the end of the day.
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Project Guide
The tag 'crumbs to tide you over' is how I organize ficlets, wip sippets, and fic announcements. Personal tag is something to nom on. Wilbur tags are noms Wilbur or scp Wilbur if you want to block tags, and my PR response to that is here.
Ao3 fics:
Fault. The titular SBI SCP AU. SBI trapped in the Foundation. Lots of angst, large exploration of trauma, dehumanization, moral philosophies, and messed up found family. Tags are fault au, fault memes pog, sbi scp au, fault analysis, etc. This is a whole series and has many associated works. Long Fic.
>Also Where, then, do your loyalties lie? for AU where human Phil works for the Foundation and tries to free kid SCP Tommy. Complete.
Mandatory Family Reunion. Techno kidnapped by criminal dark SBI and handles it very poorly AU. Heavy dark em duo. Explores different types of abuse, motivations, delusions, and how love causes harm. Tag is Mandatory Family Reunion, sometimes mfr. Long Fic.
The Lambs Wolves Wear (Ficlet is here; starts at the Reveal and currently goes further than the ao3) Fully dark SBI where Philza's children were replaced by monsters. Demon "Tommy", changeling "Wilbur", and ghost army "Technoblade" are violent and traumatized, their tensely conflicting infiltration motives jeopardizing the lives of everyone in a twenty mile radius. As they experience love for the first time, will the wolves in sheeps clothing be tamed? Tw for abuse and horror. Long Fic.
Way more below, those are just my main projects ^-^
Where Hearts Roost. Fairy tale AU, Tommy and Wilbur break into witch Philza's cottage and get adopted. Sweet, hurt/comfort, themes of learning to trust. Complete.
The Altars We Sacrifice Our Futures On. Wherein Tommy is sacrificed to The Blood God, except he isn't an orphan so Techno awkwardly adopts him and is awful at parenting. Very funny and fluffy with some dark humor mixed in. Complete.
To Return the Favor of Raising Me. Zombie apocalypse where kid Techno struggles to lead Tommy, Niki, Tubbo, and Ranboo in killing survivors to feed their brains to zombie Philza. Techno develops insane beef with Kristin, who tries to rescue the kids to her survivor compound. Heavy angst, MCD (duh Phil is a zombie), lots of traumatized children. Complete, Fandom Trumps Hate prompt.
Shred Your Wings to Make You Ours. Wing fic! Predator bird Philza shreds prey!Techno’s wings and shoves him in a hole to eat later. Only problem? Philza is a sleep deprived new dad, and accidentally brings Techno back to the nest. Now the only way Techno can survive is to pretend to be a predator, too. A literal Dead Bird Do Not Eat fic- as the whole premise is cannibalism birds.
Always at His Side, Never in His Sight. OSMP + Philza’s FlowerFall. Queer royalty AU with lots of bedrock bros angst. Tommy is struggling with insecurities, aromanticism, and growing gender dysphoria, and elects to cope with invisibility potions even as side effects grow worse. Adopted crown prince Techno dodges assassins, wrangles structural inaccessibility, and accepts his role as a martyr for Tommy. Angst/comfort with fun Origin social world building. Complete. Fandom Trumps Hate prompt.
Of Feathers and Fawning. (or ficlet here) Where Tommy is an avian and during exile his abuser takes advantage of his instincts to manipulate him. Angst heavy, deals with suffering and recovering from abuse. Complete.
Rise up and make this city glow. Young mage Niki gets conscripted invited to learn magic! Her mentor, Technoblade, had far more reservations. Hard not to, after being broken down through endless crushed rebellions. Is Niki the spark that can finally fan the flames of revolution? Complete. Fandom Trumps Hate prompt.
Lord, what fools these mortals be! Fantasy AU, Winter Court Fae Queen Kristin and King Philza try to kidnap SBI. Wacky hijinks with dark portions. Some themes of bodily autonomy, subtle manipulations, absurdity of the fae. One chapter left.
Lighting Lanterns to Bring You Home. Mythology AU where Techno is a Harvest/Revolt god that is killed every Winter Persephone style, Wilbur a Festival/Dissent god. Heavy tragedy. Themes of self change, coping with grief. Abandoned with outline.
One shots:
Where do Babies Come From? Modern AU where Philza picks up homeless kids. My first fic everyone say awww.
Worth far more than your weight in gold. Monster Hunter Techno goes after Philza, who is a raven-dragon-kenku, for taking Tommy. Phil can only talk through redacting others sentences. Monster/culture worldbuilding. Hurt/comfort, distrustful bonding. Themes of learning to value yourself, discrimination, communication.
116 East Normal Street. Human Techno bonding with his neighborhood, who are all not-so-secretly from very different genres such as 'magical girl' or 'noir detective' or 'invading alien'. Most light-hearted thing I've ever written tbh. Themes about suburban isolation but it's buried in there.
A ghost is a tragedy reliving itself. Fault AU where they are abstracted into short horror stories.
Pigmalian.exe. Technoblade is a war robot and Philza is the scientist who made him. As Philza nurtures Techno to sentience, the robot struggles with the meaning of agency and friendship. Angst and Bonding.
Vlogger and the Vampire. Parasocial? Paranormal? Why not both? Vampire emerald duo when Philza nabs a new angry fledgeling. Fandom Trumps Hate prompt.
Ficlets:
Reverse ‘The Lambs Wolves Wear’. Lambs!AU where Philza is the one replaced by a monster (angel) and his children have to navigate it.
Sandduo makes ‘The Lambs Wolves Wear’ even more tragic. “Wilbur” shows up after Philza already killed “Techno” and “Tommy”. Pure angst ensues. Complete.
Waxing and Waning. Goddess of Death Kristin tricks Philza into becoming an icarus figure, only, sun god Tommy has never been embraced before. Complete.
Civilian. Philza finds a team of child superheroes and begins to get worried about their safety. Time to take it into his own hands! Complete.
Reverse Mafia Kidnapping? Tommy kidnaps Crime Boss!Philza. Chaos ensues. Complete.
Paragon of Justice (or whatever). Superhero Techno takes the fall for Ranboo to get tossed in jail the same week villain Wilbur gets caught, too. When breaking out of jail, villain sbi decide to take a plus one! Complete.
A Study in Brood Parasites. Dark!Kristin is a brood parasite bird that plants her chick, Techno, into Philza’s family. Only, she becomes enraptured watching Philza care for his family. Surely he won’t mind if another brood parasite infiltrates his family…. Complete.
Under-The-Bed. Tommy has a brand new monster under his bed. And maybe, if he’s nice enough, Techno will protect him from the monsters over-the-bed. Complete.
Murky Depths. Tiny Merman Techno gets rescued from polluted waters by a giant Kristin and put into a fish tank to recover. He is very Andy about this. Complete.
Do you need help drowning, darling? Vampire Hunter!Techno gets only partially turned, and is in deep denial about it as his health gets worse and worse. Luckily (?) for him, vampire Philza just decided to infiltrate the hunter compound.
Your Heart in My Hands. Fledgeling Tommy isn’t integrating with the coven well :( he keeps trying to escape. But now that Philza has found the reason he was running, all he has to do is lock Tommy in a room with Tubbo until he’s turned…or consumed. Almost complete.
The Blood God and His Fledgeling. Hyper Depressed ancient vampire!Techno finds the reincarnation of Theseus, the man who refused to turn thousands of years ago. While he won’t turn Tommy without consent….he’s not above forcing the issue. Honestly kinda abandoned.
Beast and Boy. Techno is a giant monster that’s been terrorizing the town for years, but when gravely wounded limps off to die. Tommy, however, just got a new puppy!!! And is very determined his parents won’t find out about the puppy under the house. Complete.
Bunnyblade’s 5-step Plan to World Dominance. Lab bunny Techno escapes, only to fall in the TOTALLY NEFARIOUS clutches of Philza. BUT WORRY NOT! The feeble might of a random civilian is not enough to Bunnyblade’s terrible schemes! …but might postpone them for a carrot break. And some petting. Comedy.
Shoot to Kill (I know you will). Cyber punk. Death lottery reaper!Phil tries to chase down Techno, but is thwarted by the principles of anarchy. Complete.
Hibernation. au where techno doesn’t really hibernate for weeks at a time; he just thinks he does because his ‘friends’ drug him for long periods of time to help him learn how to 'lower his guard'. Complete.
The Hero of Their Dreams. Abused!Tommy finds escapism through his dreams, where he is the beloved hero of a fantasy world. And the people in his dreams will do anything to ensure Tommy never wakes up to the horrors of their reality. 5/6.
In Case of Malunion, Carve Through Bone. Collab with Sohr and Apple. Archeologist!Philza is a modern reincarnation of an ancient trio deity who unwittingly revives Technoblade and Kristin. Through a road trip of museum heists, Techno and Kristin start gathering up the shattered pieces of Phil's deitihood. Piece by piece they replace the mortal. Complete.
I've Heard It Both Ways (from The Voices) Psyche Au where Techno claims he has visions from The Blood God which helps him solve murder cases. Uh huh. That's what he's going with. Tommy (Lassiter) is having none of it. But after Skeppy (Mr Yang) captures them both, Tommy might not like the truth he finds. Complete.
The Evertrue Pull of Home. Birds use magnetic fields to navigate. Dark Kristin decides to blast his head with magnets so Philza has no compass home. Bedrock bros try to rescue him.
Can you love me, if I pretend? Human Techno finds refuge in an origins community by pretending to be a bunnyborn. It goes. Badly.
AMESMP
Context, I'm on an origins server playing a scientist phantom named Cessation.
Failure Analysis Log 3 is a fic told through a series of scientific contents regarding Wickburn Asper working on the Ancient City portal, trying to get into the afterlife. Tragedy, yuri (?!), horror.
Ame Smp intro, Seft (Cessation's phantom kid), Pod-cast posts 1, 2, battles, i'm like super behind explaining anything man gooood luck.
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I wrote some contrapuntal poetry for TLWW. Its, well, definitely not the best especially given I have little to no experience writing even regular poetry, much less 3 poems in one (and this was written in the ungodly hours when I was desperate for excuses to continue procrastinating on my physics homework and very sleep deprived), but I had a lot of fun writing it so I thought I might as well share it!
BROOOOOOOO WHAT AHHHHHH?!
this captures so well the duplicity of Philza in The Lambs Wolves Wear. I particularly love that it's the third, entirity, reading that adds his underlying layer of hopelessness. I think it really mirrors the way Phil's layers get peeled back in the story; first wholesome and loving, then vengeful, then when fully laid out, shattering beneath the pressure.
I just particularly endlessly enjoy the use of the final lambs tag in it. It feels like the last warning sign before getting into deadly territory. Really does permeate the piece. The little twist to 'our empathy will kill you, us, in the end'. the empathy phil taught them as per the first line. ouuuugh it makes me sick. Amazing work
The contrast against Philza, who is deeply aware that emotions do not determine reality. Who in fact does his best to consciously decouple emotions from actions. Who can see emotions as an excellent tool or resolve without condemnation for ‘negative’ emotions, yet is insistent on controlling them instead of them controlling him.
Like. Are his morals a roulette wheel spun by whoever is his Collected at the time? Yes. But Philza doesn’t make this particular mistake at least. So it’s extra funny when he tries to point out the flaw in Tubbos’ ideology and they’re just like ‘excuse us??? Mr Mass Murder would like to have a talk to us about ethics? Go muffin yourself’
but ALSO also: Philza having taken a lot of effort to decouple his emotion (wrath, he has one emotion the rest are outliers) from his actions. Resulting in him frequently devaluing his own feelings and wellbeing. Philza says this with his whole chest:
“Repression of your emotions is deeply harmful. It leads to resentment and potentially damaging outbursts like the one you just had. I think you’ve been shoving down your emotions about, eh, several things, and it’s not healthy. Burying negative emotions won’t actually help you in the long run.”
And then turns around and is like lmao that’s for you mortals, not me, it’s totally different when I suppress my emotions. And like on one level…….yeah, would be pretty bad if he went around acting upon the entirety of his anger. But past a certain point of ‘my pain doesn’t matter only theirs’ it’s like come ON bro.
Mr. ‘I need chains to be free’ certainly has his own psychological hang ups. But he’s also deeply self aware, and doesn’t conflate any of it with ‘right’ or ‘wrong’.
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so like. as someone with a special interest in bees. the implications of fault!tubbo are. um. not good. i do not like the implications. the implications are,, i do not like them.
Which implications? The most recent one I've been tumbling in my head is the multiple queens, but since wasps do polygyny (in the eusocial definition) I don't think that one is too far outside the realm of plausibly altered by magic. Potentially some level of segregation of sub unit colonies to limit queen substance pheromones getting to larvae? Or I suppose could just have certain eggs separated and tended by quarantined attendants when they need more queens. Stockpile royal jelly. The instances of pleiometrosis -> monogomy hives could suggest that if the usual trend is either poly queens fighting to the death/their children executing, that because of the hive mind that doesn't happen, causing that to all work out.
other implications- well they are traveling right now, I did have a deleted dialogue fragment discussing Tubbos' impact on local bee populations. Something like:
X: hey aren't you an invasive species right now?
Tubbo: humans are an invasive species too
Wilbur: Cheers mate I'll drink to that
Tubbo does have high energy requirements, which does involve a lot of flower foraging. Helped a lot by the fact they can straight up magically speed up plant growth to the flowering stage and it's already spring rn. Also the fact Tubbo eats human food as a supplement.
As for the actual function of having a mech hive suit they pilot everywhere, I've done way too much math about how that works to put in this particular ramble. It is absolutely asinine from an evolutionary stand point- ah well, actually I can see a benefit to central place foragers that can move their central place. And by all rights Tubbo is molded in the shape of a human for the express of luring in humans and subsuming their souls and bodies for energy/food. Just, tubbo refuses to acknowledge that particular part. The changeling portion of bee fairy do have quite the implications. Technically the mech suit body does work if you squint in the way most physics problems do.
if the implications are in the directions of bee contaminants or pathogens- yeah a colony that size would have big problems. But cause they're hyper intelligent by bee standards, quarantine is a lot easier because Tubbo knows what pathogens are. And the sentience would prevent colony collapse disorder. If it's pesticides...
:) I do have a chapter about that in the nearish future.
ummm. Yeah I'm by no means a bee expert, despite doing a bit of research. Ignore the fact I'm actively working on a paper on bees post behavior experiments, that was long after inventing fault tubbo. But like yeah I'm curious about what in particular you are thinking of! I love implications, and theres many to be had with this abeemination.
Nom are you aware of how honeybee reproduction works. if tubbo is 21 and a queen bee lives for 2-3 years they've killed approximately 315 drone bees by now, possibly more. He also assumedly Makes drones? Not even gonna get into that one.
OOOOOOOOOO thank youuuuu that is something to consider!!
*They’ve killed a looot more than 315 I reckon, given multiple queens and used to have a population of over a million before the Foundation. But like, that’s how the life cycle goes, the deaths would be shared but no more than any other death. There's been far more workers dead in that same time span so it's a real drop in the bucket.
I spent an awful lot of math about how many queens they had at different points in the full timeline and how that would affect the population rate recovey. Post capture, the surviving queens would’ve been storing sperm so that wouldn’t have been a problem. Now, yeah the newly hatched queens in that window of about two months would be using Tubbo drones, since incest would be a really really low priority when trying to survive the Foundation. Kinda more important to be able to move the hive body away from scary predators (Foundation workers). And it can take a few generations of interbreeding before that becomes a problem, so I don't think that'd be too problematic. Also- I don't know if it's a thing in honeybees, but naked mole rats are also eusocial and through genetic muffinery have made incest not really a problem. idk how off the top of my head, and I don't think bees are the same since they do have drones leaving colonies but?? anyway fun facts because eusociality is cool.
However! I don't think there was necessarily much incest when Tubbo is outside of the Foundation. Of course, the other major fact of Tubbo is the hivemind. Tubbo can assimilate other bees for genetic diversity. Drones from other colonies seeking new queens, any new eggs would be in the Tubbo hivemind. Is. well I'm assuming a hivemind is genetic..? Whatever sure it's genetic, i'm too genetics-pilled right now. Wait...if drones are haploidy do they have less hivemind- ah there's probably some sex dosage compensation right? I'd guess it's like drosophila cause insects but- speculation, i don't want to get too deep in a research rabbit hole!
Anyway. Bees have exceptionally high rates of recombination in prophase 1 + Tubbo being intelligent + add other bees to the hivemind = I do think it wouldn’t be too high of an effort to minimize incest.
Honestly? Whatever drones Tubbo sends out would have eggs that then at least a portion of the newly founded colony is Tubbo. They’d have a clear compass to the new colony, just ask if the non Tubbo bees want to join a massive colony that’s clearly doing well. Great incentives of food and protection.
great question. I think the way that makes the most sense is if Tubbo added some African bees to the hive which then crossed genetically. Some general characteristics of Africanized honey bees is that they’re far more defensive near the hive, swarm in larger groups. Character study wise, this aligns with their broad character arc of accepting the necessity of violence. Interesting stuff! Particularly because Tubbo starts to identify as a bristling muffinhole towards the rest of the group as a protective measure.
anyway when initially researching for this question I saw something claiming they could sting humans multiple times, which isn’t true, however. Tubbos’ morality is actually deeply influenced by the fact that honey bees die when they sting! Because the death experience is shared they don’t benefit much from the murder suicide evolutionary strategy. Which isn’t to say that this is the only thing determining their moral principles (hello Rhodes!) but it was an early direction. So, increase capacity for violence would be very interesting for Tubbo. Alas, that was misinformation. Venom is the same, they just manage to sting more in one attack due to behavior and quantity.
Tubbo crucially already flies in massive populations. Buuut compared to their own base line has very low reserves so that aspect of Africanized honey bees wouldn’t transfer.
There would be some arising problems too! Africanized honey bees are made for the tropics. Which the spring of Indiana ISNT. So Tubbos not doing so hot, which is the problem. Lastly, they can’t tolerate long periods of foraging deprivation. Which, considering they’re already on the run struggling? Uh. No bueno
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hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.
“when MY poor little meow meow commits atrocities it’s just because All Of The Pain He Has Wrongfully Suffered, the things he does are not great but it’s 100% totes understandable and the fans who are standing up for him are So Compassionate And Just for being able to see past his wrongs to his True Good Nature. but when YOUR irredeemable monster of a blorbo does wrong things it is only because they are Inherently Bad, and fans who defend THEM are only doing so because they are dumb, deluded or maybe secretly abusers” is one of my least favorite flavors of discourse
villain character who has a last minute change of heart and sacrifices their life to defeat an even bigger bad but it entirely does not land as a redemption with the heroes. the heroes are just like "oh hell yeah two birds with one stone. thank fucking god i really didnt wanna have to deal with that guy anymore. good riddance."
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