I wonder how the plot of "Misery meat" would have developed if Tommy had not tried to escape at the very beginning. What do you think???
There was never going to be a world where Tommy didn't try to escape the moment that he had half a chance, that's just who he is as a person.
There is though, a world where Techno didn't kill Tommy’s foster parents. There is, though, a world where Techno killed a different couple. They were older, landlords, owned quite a few properties in the area, enough that one might accuse them of rent fixing. He would have killed them and then been quite upset to find that care for their grandchild.
It is still Technoblade though, and he would never kill some teen, so he would pack em up just like Tommy and take em home and he wouldn't hear a peep of complaint from em. Ey would make offers of course, to save eir life, money, valuables, and of course, sir silence, but Techno can't accept any of it.
He would take em home and feed em and ey would ask about the meat in the soup, ey're allergic to red meat you see, and Techno is forced to sit there on the floor of his living room and look up alpha-gal syndrome, the light of his phone and the light of the fire catches on the kid's face and Techno wonders what the hell he's doing and what the fuck his long term plan is.
Alpha-gal syndrome, he finds, is not really a red meat allergy, it's an allergy to non-primate mammal meat. All the meat Techno has will be fine to feed em.
He assures the kid that ey can eat the food.
He has supplies to buy and he sets up the poor kid with a movie to watch and a book to read and he drives to town. He drives to town and he picks out clothes for a freakishly tall kid and a new toothbrush and rope thats going to be softer than what he has now and drives back and all the while he thinks about what that kid is probably getting up to, have ey escaped from the rope? Are ey wandering the property? Are ey hiding out from Steve? Are ey trying to set a hare brained trap to catch Techno?
He pulls back into the driveway and doesn't even bother with the garage, he sprints back to the house and- there the kid is, still on the couch, looking up at Techno with shock and fear and of course, what else was Techno expecting?
He makes dinner for the two of them that night and the kid picks at it and asks if Techno is ever going to let em go.
"Just eat your dinner Ranboo," he tells the kid.
"Yes sir," Ranboo says back.
Techno sits there with a silent table and a kidnapping victim he doesnt need to fight and wonders again, what the fuck is he going to do.