eryn taught tommy how to shoot a bow and arrow and tommy taught eryn how to swim and they lived in a tiny house in a village together and went fishing and eryn used to be the one to fend off mobs for them before tommy learned how to properly fight and they’re just Kids. they’re just kids, and they want nothing but a home and a family and to Know that they matter to someone and won’t get left behind. because tommy never had a family, and even though eryn did, they died and neither of them really know who had it better or worse. and eryn left first but surely they must’ve kept in contact somehow because eryn knew that tommy found a family (without him) and at the very least learned the names of them before they dropped contact with each other. and they found each other again, and they’re still kids, but eryn’s seen the destruction of his home and has killed and yes, he’s half demon, fighting is in his blood, but at the end of the day he’s still just a kid and he’s grown up too fast because he can feel death and hears the voices of the past and the voices that crave violence and he’s numb to it all and he shouldn’t be. and he goes from ripping someone’s heart out straight to wandering into dsmp for the first time and he finds tommy again, and he’s excited and they joke around like they’re kids again and despite everything tommy becomes less and less like the kid eryn knew as his best friend the more he remembers. because tommy’s a good fighter now, and eryn’s still better but tommy’s Leagues better than when they were kids and he’s got scars all over him like he’s lost battles and triple checks his door locks and completely freezes up when some topics are brought up and starts hyperventilating if he sees tnt and almost never talks about the family eryn Knows he loved but mentions exile, and the only thing he says is that he misses it and misses dream because he was Good at being exiled, and eryn doesn’t know what to do with this new, broken tommy so he tries to help and it ends up being the absolute worst way he could’ve done it. and nobody trusts him now despite how he was just trying to help with what little information he was given and the only person who doesn’t seem to actively distrust him is coincidentally the only other demon there and eryn latches on and somehow he’s become competitive with tommy about this new family he’s forced his way into with bad without really knowing Why, but maybe it’ll get tommy to open up about his family with sbi so he doesn’t ever really put a stop to it. and everyone keeps telling him conflicting things about whether or not something is good or bad without ever explaining to him why, because he doesn’t Know, he wasn’t there and nobody’s ever told him, so he goes to eret who has a museum so clearly he must know things and eret talks of a revolution and lmanberg and a disc war and tommy’s family either going insane or killing each other and it becomes more and more clear that eret himself barely knows even the surface of what happened for most events but eryn listens anyway because eret’s the only person who’s willing to explain. and by the end of it eryn’s found out that tommy nearly offed himself in exile and that nearly every other piece of evidence that proves it happened has been exploded and he’s left with more questions than he has answers, but nobody trusts him enough to tell him anything and strangely, he feels as if tommy feels the same. all they’ve ever wanted is a home and a family and to matter to someone but they’ve both grown up too fast and now everythings fucked up, in some stupid curse of the universe
