#ashcon

Now this isn't me just using the quote everything I love burns to imply other things. This is just straight up fact. His first house burned down twice, his jungle base burned down, L'manburg blew up 3 times, Squeeks ran into a creeper, the compass blew up in creeper explosion, his second death, Ranboo's second death. Like so many things either burn or explode.

And if they don't burn or explode, bad things still happen. His fucking child was kidnapped. He has been collateral damage for so many people, anyway here is a list of things that happened to him that I made on December 28, 2020

Fought in multiple wars for Tommy

Died cause if someone he trusted

Watched his best friend die

Had to sit and watch his friends get run out (one of them dying in the process) the country they fought for

Forced to hunt down his best friend, to kill

Forced to tear down the walls he helped build

Slightly emotional abused and manipulated by Schaltt

The moral dilemma he went through when asked to be a spy

Decorated, Planned, Signed and Sent out the invites, and gave a speech at his own public execution

Executed by someone he trusted (that is fact no more matter if Techno was forced, it still happened and it still hurt)

Fought in another war

Was given power he never wanted

Mentioned he has PTSD over the festival

Killed again by Techno, this time for no reason, other than the power he didn't even want

Saw the destruction of his country minutes later

Immediately having to step into that leadership rule to stare someone much stronger them in the eyes, and point out the flaws in his logic

Was forced back into that leadership role to choose between his country or his best friend

Did everything in his power to not choose and save both, not once but twice

Was called selfish for trying to save everyone

When he finally has to choose between the two, he was told he would have final say. He was yelled at cause he didn't choose the one they wanted.

Stated multiple times that he didn't want to be president anymore

Was also manipulated by Dream as well

Left in a box on the side of the road as a child

was told he like one of his abusers

going to visit his best friend, only to find a blown up area and a tower to the sky

Everyone leaving him (expect Ranboo)

Not even being able to process the fact his best friend wasn't dead before being forced once more into the presidency role

Gets called a monster by his best friend, and is not allowed to explain what actually happened

Never processes his emotions, instead throwing himself into projects (Thank you CC!Wilbur and CC!Ranboo for bringing that up almost a year after i wrote this)

Also a thing I wrote as well, and can still be considered canon, cause of the whole Michael the piglin being his grandson? so I'm adding this.

Philza is his adopted father

a father who never sides with him

who has only checked om Ghostbur, Tommy, Techno, and Fundy a bit

who constantly mentions what Tubbo is doing wrong

a father who isn't supportive

a father who won't even mention him

I wrote this BEFORE the Green Festival, shall I add on?

"The discs were worth more than you ever were."

Can I also add "You're a worthless idiot." -Dream and how no one defended him, not even himself (cause he believed it)

Ranboo being outed as a traitor, you know the only person he trusted left (who he still defended an hour later)

His country getting a death warrant as well

Doomsday, I could list everything about that, but you know what happened.

Squeeks dying (as I stated)

The finale Disc War Confrontation, he was prepared to die that day

The Egg shows Tubbo "dead families" (which honestly is great foreshadowing albeit unintentional)

I could mention the Jake Manifold thing, but honestly he never found out about it so

Tommy died, "I think I'll stay in denial a little longer" (also fuck all of you who said he couldn't act)

Honestly the investigation is sadden to watch, especially in retrospect, cause he refuses to blame Ranboo

The missing nuke

The Cookie Outpost (that was built as a spy post, not a nuclear launch site that some of y'all believe) (I'm also going to add Quackity was the first person to escalate by griefing and leaving a threatening note)

The fact he was the only person who mourned L'Manburg

Once again stating he has PTSD and nightmares about the explosions and the execution

Hitting on 16, he literally talks about what will happened, and is right, and then has to relive a traumatic moment of his life, only for his husband to take his spot instead

and I already mentioned Ranboo's last life and Michael the Piglin

ok, I'm only keep reading this as a promise to my rants, but I honestly don't have a lot. Just he only knows he has one life, the whole where I come from thing. Everyone in Tales has one life, with the expectation of the maze.

Techno has stated he is old, but not as old as Phil, even though they are life long friends.

It has been implied that Phil's character is the same one in the Coliseum episode

This is something I've seen being talked about in the Sanders Sides fandom for about a week now. And I honestly think it applies to more than just that series. There are many reasons creators shouldn't engage with fandom spaces. As much as I want to going into them all is not important right now.

I will however go into a slight tangent on fanon in generally. Fanon has this problem, where if it becomes popular enough people say "it's canon" when it is in fact not. No in some cases that's fine, it's something small. Like C!Tubbo having a false eye. Nothing about that is canon, but it's popular enough that it comes up in fanart a lot. It also takes nothing away from the storyline. Sometimes it's a little bigger, but just fills in gaps we already know. Like C!Beeduo, we get very little canon facts about their relationship. So people fill it in, using the canon information. Like the picnic that they went on, the flowers that C!Ranboo gives C!Tubbo, and the mutual trust they have for each other. So, knowing these things people fill in with stories and headcanons that fit things we've already seen. It adds to their story, but doesn't take away anything. And then there's the fanon that isn't canon, and takes away from the story. And I could rant about F!SBI or DadSchaltt, but I'm not going to. Just know neither of those are canon to the DSMP, and you shouldn't force them onto people who aren't fans of them.

But this isn't about how fanon effects a fanbase, this is about how fanon effects the storytelling of the creators. One of the consequences that come with Content Creators being more active in fandom spaces, is a lack of creativity. CCs want to please their fan base so much, that they'll adopt popular fanon as canon, even if it doesn't make sense. Again in some cases it makes perfect sense, it's small and doesn't take away from the storyline, C!Tubbo scars. However, sometimes, it's something big. And the examples of this are going to be the Eggpire and the first Time Traveler, one a good example the other a bad example.

The Eggpire is the good example, because I truly believe that Velvet is the Egg, is one of the original plans. I say one of them, cause in case Velvet couldn't get whitelisted. But then it is also the most popular theory/headcanon. And what happened, they figured out our twist what will we do. Nothing, if anything they played it up even more. (Another great example is Alex Hirsch "leaking" the photo.

First Time Traveler, it feels like the fans made 1 to 1 connections, and people felt the need to make it canon. The Otherside and the Inbetween, feels like the original story. The adding of a past time traveler, is what feels weird to me. Especially since it's been popular theory for so long. So, the want to make fans watch and be happy, has started to outweigh the need to tell a story.