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Tommy ignored the shocked stare the hotel receptionist gave as he stumbled in. After all, he probably looked horribly out of place, with his dirty, tattered clothes, greasy hair, and singular shoe.
“Do you have any spare shampoo?” Tommy asked once he approached the desk.
“Hey, I recognize you. You’re that kid from the Dream Case. I’ve been following it on the news.”
“Awesome, I’ve got fans. That doesn’t answer my question. Do you have any spare shampoo?”
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After a particularly traumatizing incident with Dream, Tommy is left disoriented and has to rebuild his life from scratch. He meets countless new people on his journey to recovery and realizes that the people around him are more connected to each other than they think.
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20 Jan 2022
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All the stories warn against going into the woods, warn about creatures hiding there. They say there are lilting voices singing from the shadows, promising glittering daydreams with sharp teeth. They say the creatures there will take you far away to never be seen again.
There was a boy, the village whisperers, safely in the circle of light, glancing over their shoulders at the trees beyond it. There was a boy who strayed too far.
They say you can still hear his laughter as it’s carried on a breeze, bright and wild, like youth frozen in amber, like ghosts falling delicate from the branches.
(Strange things happen to boys who linger too long beyond the veil. Magic infects like a disease, like rot, eating away everything human that lingers, until his eyes are an unbroken summer sky blue and there are flowers in his hair and he sings with a voice that haunts the shadows.)
(Here is our story: A boy goes home.)
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17 Jan 2022
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Things are almost good for a little while. There is something like safety, like healing settling over the little cabin in the snow.
It feels a little bit like coming home, Tommy thinks, but he doesn’t say it out loud. It scares him sometimes, this vulnerability, this stability that could be torn out from under his feet at any moment. Trust is something he has felt like a knife in his back over and over. Trust is falling again and again even though there’s never anyone there to catch him before he hits the ground. Trust is broken bones and split lips, trust is spitting out blood and using his tongue to check for loose teeth.
And yet, and yet, when the same hands that curled into fists once before extend as open palmed offerings, he still takes them. Dream called him stupid, helpless, naive. Dream was right, Tommy knows, but Dream smelled like gunpowder and a bitter kind of smoke.
The smoke here is sweet and Tommy has never been one to learn from his mistakes.
Tommy had been Theseus for a little while. Tommy had been Icarus, Atlas, Prometheus.
But before all of that, he had been Tommy. Maybe there was a place for him to be again, now, in the after.
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17 Jan 2022
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and we'll paint the front door any color we want by sailingthenightsea
Fandoms: Dream SMP
21 Sep 2021
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The day their father turned his gaze away from Wilbur, the day Tommy got sick and tired of cleaning the blood off his big brother’s face, the day Tommy dodged Wilbur’s attempt to keep him behind him and took the place of human shield, the day their father hit Tommy when it was supposed to always, always be Wilbur, was the day Wilbur snapped.
He’d cleaned Tommy up, cleaned the blood off his baby brother’s face, and then he’d sung quiet lullabies until Tommy had finally fallen asleep.
And then Wilbur, all of fourteen years old, had made sure their father could never ever hurt Tommy again.
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17 Jan 2022
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hurt and grieve (but don't suffer alone) by Deductor_Demigod
Fandoms: Video Blogging RPF, Dream SMP, Minecraft (Video Game)
13 Jul 2021
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Tommy wasn't Theseus, disgraced and forever banished to exile. He wasn't Icarus with melting wings, doomed to die. He wasn't Atlas trapped under the heavy burden of his actions. Nor was he Achilles, doomed to die to avenge the ones he loved. Tommy was Tommy, a child soldier who was forced to grow up far too fast.
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Tommy has always been somewhat of a liar, even to himself. Maybe with the help of his family he can learn to admit the truth to himself.
story and chapter titles from "Achilles Come Down" by Gang of Youths
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17 Jan 2022