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"The hurricane continues to spiral. Somewhere, in a ground floor apartment building, seventeen years of sunlight fights to resurface."

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please check the end notes for updates on where this fic will go. thank you to Holly re-bi-vebur for beta-ing this chapter, and for everything else they've done for me.

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Category: Multi

Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Dream SMP

Relationship: Ranboo & Tubbo, Tubbo & Tommyinnit, Ranboo & Tubbo & TommyInnit, Wilbur Soot & Technoblade & TommyInnit & Phil Watson, Sleepy Boys Inc. & Tubbo, Nihachu & Ranboo, Tubbo & Quackity, Other Relationship Tags to Be Added, Quackity/Schlatt

Characters: Ranboo, Tubbo, TommyInnit, Wilbur Soot, Jack Manifold, Nihachu, Quackity, Philza, Schlatt, Dream

Chapters: 31/45

Chapter Title: XXXI - and i could see myself never fully recovering

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Tubbo gets a ride from a half-friend, half-brother, half-parent, half-stranger. Similarly, their conversation is left half-finished as Tubbo is finally forced to face the past seventeen years of his life.

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much like Tubbo, Ranboo, Tom Simons, and c!Quackity on this fine September 10th: 

cough syrup is BACK, baby!

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@girlbossjackie @frogs-in3-hills @oaklies-side @reviveboos @areus-in-a-little-cave @re-bi-vebur @deminjackets @mayz1er @spider-shoes @the-pigeon-cat @jazforthesoul @jaymesdoodles @oh-no-i-watch-dsmp @yeah-this-is-my-username @cupsmp @the-ender-system @girltestosterone @avianavii @nicheoverhere @arosforlasnevadas @acesforlasnevadas @fagsforlasnevadas

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Category: Multi

Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Dream SMP

Relationship: Ranboo & Tubbo, Tubbo & Tommyinnit, Ranboo & Tubbo & TommyInnit, Wilbur Soot & Technoblade & TommyInnit & Phil Watson, Sleepy Boys Inc. & Tubbo, Nihachu & Ranboo, Tubbo & Quackity, Other Relationship Tags to Be Added, Quackity/Schlatt

Characters: Ranboo, Tubbo, TommyInnit, Wilbur Soot, Jack Manifold, Nihachu, Quackity, Philza, Schlatt, Dream

Chapters: 30/45

Chapter Title: XXX - like a sinner, hold me under, and i’ll never come up again

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Ranboo begins the end of the universe the first time. The second time, he watches. It's his third attempt when he tries to stop it. And in the very last instance of the universe ending, Ranboo becomes it.

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PLEASE READ THE STARTING NOTES BEFORE READING THE CHAPTER

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@girlbossjackie @frogs-in3-hills @oaklies-side @recoveredrecordings @aiilov-c @areus-in-a-little-cave @re-bi-vebur @deminjackets @mayz1er @spider-shoes @the-pigeon-cat @jazforthesoul @jaymesdoodles @oh-no-i-watch-dsmp @yeah-this-is-my-username @cupsmp @the-ender-system @girltestosterone @woop-woop-wooper @avianavii @nicheoverhere @gaycsbeeduo

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Category: Multi

Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Dream SMP

Relationship: Ranboo & Tubbo, Tubbo & Tommyinnit, Ranboo & Tubbo & TommyInnit, Wilbur Soot & Technoblade & TommyInnit & Phil Watson, Sleepy Boys Inc. & Tubbo, Nihachu & Ranboo, Tubbo & Quackity, Other Relationship Tags to Be Added, Quackity/Schlatt

Characters: Ranboo, Tubbo, TommyInnit, Wilbur Soot, Jack Manifold, Nihachu, Quackity, Philza, Schlatt, Dream

Chapters: 28/45

Chapter Title: XXVIII - i think i might be falling for the boy who swallowed the sun

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Ranboo, in the midst of a hurricane, spends time with Tubbo. They have several conversations, some light-hearted and some intense, and Ranboo finds the bravery to confront certain parts of himself for the first time.

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this is the unofficially titled gay chapter I have been waiting to post since the start of this fic. i hope you all enjoy it. <3

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@girlbossjackie @frogs-in3-hills @oaklies-side @recoveredrecordings @aiilov-c @areus-in-a-little-cave @re-bi-vebur @deminjackets @mayz1er @spider-shoes @the-pigeon-cat @jazforthesoul @jaymesdoodles @oh-no-i-watch-dsmp @yeah-this-is-my-username @cupsmp @the-ender-system @girltestosterone @woop-woop-wooper @avianavii @nicheoverhere

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Category: Multi

Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Dream SMP

Relationship: Ranboo & Tubbo, Tubbo & Tommyinnit, Ranboo & Tubbo & TommyInnit, Wilbur Soot & Technoblade & TommyInnit & Phil Watson, Sleepy Boys Inc. & Tubbo, Nihachu & Ranboo, Tubbo & Quackity, Other Relationship Tags to Be Added, Quackity/Schlatt

Characters: Ranboo, Tubbo, TommyInnit, Wilbur Soot, Jack Manifold, Nihachu, Quackity, Philza, Schlatt, Dream

Chapters: 29/45

Chapter Title: XXIX - i’m sorry but i’d rather be getting high than watching my family die

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Ten minutes after the new year starts, Tubbo recollects the events of his life up to this point and tries to determine what's next on the road ahead. Two people refuse to let him carry on alone.

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please reference beginning notes for context on the pacing of the next three chapters + upload schedule!

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@girlbossjackie @frogs-in3-hills @oaklies-side @recoveredrecordings @aiilov-c @areus-in-a-little-cave @re-bi-vebur @deminjackets @mayz1er @spider-shoes @the-pigeon-cat @jazforthesoul @jaymesdoodles @oh-no-i-watch-dsmp @yeah-this-is-my-username @cupsmp @the-ender-system @girltestosterone @woop-woop-wooper @avianavii @nicheoverhere @gaycsbeeduo

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Category: Multi

Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Dream SMP

Relationship: Ranboo & Tubbo, Tubbo & Tommyinnit, Ranboo & Tubbo & TommyInnit, Wilbur Soot & Technoblade & TommyInnit & Phil Watson, Sleepy Boys Inc. & Tubbo, Nihachu & Ranboo, Tubbo & Quackity, Other Relationship Tags to Be Added, Quackity/Schlatt

Characters: Ranboo, Tubbo, TommyInnit, Wilbur Soot, Jack Manifold, Nihachu, Quackity, Philza, Schlatt, Dream

Chapters: 27/45

Chapter Title: XXVII - they’re gonna rip up your heads, your aspirations to shreds

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Tubbo thinks there's something deeply wrong with him. To cope, he decides to skip out on the holidays to hang out with a friend, but not before having some tense conversations that make him feel somehow better and worse at the same time.

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special note for my tumblr followers that I am enjoying the final slice of tiramisu right now

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@girlbossjackie @frogs-in3-hills @oaklies-side @recoveredrecordings @aiilov-c @areus-in-a-little-cave @re-bi-vebur @deminjackets @mayz1er @spider-shoes @the-pigeon-cat @jazforthesoul @jaymesdoodles @oh-no-i-watch-dsmp @yeah-this-is-my-username @cupsmp @the-ender-system @girltestosterone

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(Interlude: love isn’t important. love is all he ever learned to be. one night, then he’ll try to find his best friend again try to fix this country try to bury his dead kind of brother try to kill an anarchist try to find the cure to satisfaction try to do all the things every man before him failed to do– but one night, now, before his shoulders break beyond loving, beyond repair,

a hand rested against them, let him rest.)

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When Ranboo wakes up, drowsy and slightly aching, the sunlight comes to say hello through thin curtains, warmth pressed against his cheek. Rays of light fall onto him, brighter in Snowchester than anywhere else due to the iridescent reflections of the ample snow, and though he loves the constellations that paint the night, his infatuation for Overworld days never tires him. 

Snowchester is small, but it is loved. From the bedroom, he can hear the soft sounds of a piglin snorting in the kitchen, as well as the bright rings of mugs clinking together. The faucet turns on and off intermittently, and laughter intersperses the spaces between the crackling of the fireplace. 

The scent of spruce wood fills the house, too, as usual. Far better than the sting of crying obsidian and the sound of a crackling music disc, his home is vacant of haunted waltzes. Snowchester is alive, and even its eternal wintertime is no match for the warmth. A commune once built in tense circumstances, unfolding to a place of love. 

Ranboo doesn’t always understand his own emotions, nor can he recall the behavior of those he came from before he lived in the Overworld. What he does know is the feeling of love is all-consuming, an aurora of soft hums, pink tulips, and snowy boots-- the tune of his senses, the well-worn path that guides him, the airiness of laughing, the softness of sunsets, the fondness of sunrises. He can feel it in his fingertips, fractaling in his irises, flooding his chest with overflowing warmth. To Ranboo, love is everything, and perhaps he feels too much, but he has a husband and a son who will allow him this. So he loves. 

The intensity of his love is matched with the intensity of his anxiety. The fear that leaves him paralyzed or frantic, spiralling into denial. The constant insecurity of not being a good enough husband, or secretly being a bad person, or being forgotten, or, worst of all, forgetting. 

The fear of forgetting everyone he knew started long before he married Tubbo and adopted Michael, when he was still the minuteman, keeping the tipsy president company and wondering who would forget more in the morning. Now, his fear has shifted into the fear of forgetting Tubbo and Michael, the fear of forgetting himself. 

But, he has an anchor now. Where the debris of war was a firestorm of mayhem and dislodged truths, peacetime is a place of planting his roots in something he trusts. Even the days his memory is vague, he knows to trust this. To trust the woods, and the lake, and the buildings, and the man who married him here. 

He yawns, stiff from hours of mining the previous day, but pushes himself out of bed regardless. There’s coffee waiting for him in the kitchen, and a son who adores him, and a husband who crinkles his nose when he smiles. The ache of his body aside, the missing memories of the previous day aside, he has himself; alive in a commune that he made his home, and he loves in turn.