i have so much c!beeduo angst in my heart right now and iām making it everyone elseās problem. so! tubbo knows that the only way to get ranboo back is through dream, the one with the revival book. and he hates the idea of having to crawl back to the person who he once thought was friend, the person who manipulated him and abused his best friend and spread a plague throughout their home that rotted away anything it touched. but what other choice does he have? so tubbo goes to ranbooās vault and gathers a ton of the valuables his husband has collected in the chests. he sends a note to the masked man, requesting that they meet for a trade: dreams revives ranboo and in return tubbo will give him a bunch of totems, golden apples, diamonds, etc. tubbo hates having to beg, but he needs ranboo. he canāt go through life without him. and besides, dream just go out of prison. wouldnāt the extra resources help?
and who knows, maybe dream says yes. maybe he agrees to meet tubbo and they go through with the deal. tubbo gets ranboo back and for awhile things are good again. but then tommy, ranboo, and tubbo fight dream and they get the upper hand, but just before they can take dreamās final life, a totem appears in his hand and heās back again. and dream laughs, a cold and maniacal sound, and looks at tubbo with a grin and says āthat was one of yoursā. ranboo and tommy are confused but tubbo just aches because maybe that could have been their chance to end this and dream explains all too cheerfully what he meant and suddenly tubboās husband and best friend are looking at him in rage, likes they donāt know who he is, and thereās yelling and screaming. dream sneaks away and tubbo canāt breathe, canāt find it in him to try and defend himself, not with the way ranboo looks so disappointed, but he doesnāt understand, how could he, he wasnāt the one to be left behind, why is it always tubbo thatās left behind-
or maybe dream says no and tubbo is left surrounded by riches so great they seem infinite. riches that some people only ever dream of achieving. riches that heād joked about stealing time and time again with ranboo and teased that they were reason why tubbo had agreed to get married. riches that, in the end, ended up being worth absolutely nothing