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“Hey, Will,” she says, and hears the silence leer back.
It is pointless, she knows. Visiting here. There is no body under the neatly-tended daises in this pretty little clearing (not cornflowers, never blue), and Niki has been disillusioned as to the truth of ghosts. But she is always kind, has built herself around it. She owes nothing to Wilbur’s ghost - walking or not - but she owes this visit to herself.Or: Niki visits Wilbur, just after Tommy has gotten his discs back, and receives a visit in return.
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- Part 2 of make a home on the blade of your knife
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02 Aug 2025
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Niki stands, torn between the fear freezing her in place and the urge to dart forwards and be kind and loving and help, as her best friend paces in front of a button in a cave littered with words carved in Wilbur’s own hand. He’s muttering to himself.
She says, gently horrified, “Will.”Or: November 16th, and the button room. But instead of Phil, it's Niki. This changes some things, but not others.
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02 Aug 2025
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When the door to Wilbur’s flat hisses open, releasing more smoke and grit than usual, he’s got great big circles under his eyes. Tommy blinks at him once, twice. “You look like shit,” he says, and ducks his way inside.
“Gee, thanks,” Wilbur says, no heat to his voice. He lingers a moment at the door, head turning this way and that, before letting it shutter closed. “Bad week for the ol’ asthma. You been good?”
“Coping,” Tommy sighs. “I’m still alive, Wil - y’know how it is.”
“A hard knock life, up in those towers,” Wilbur agrees. He’s smiling. “Want anything to eat?”Or: Tommy's a pure-blooded, unmodified human from up in the skyscrapers. Wilbur insists he's unmodified, but has been acting cagey lately. Phil's got great big metal wings, Tubbo runs a pub for the modified and Ranboo's part of the hidden network to get them to safety, Techno doesn't bother hiding his cybernetic eyes or prosthetic leg, Tommy's got some bias to work through - and amongst all of this, Wilbur has vanished, and Tommy's willing to do anything to see him again.
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01 Aug 2025
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“Where’s your suit,” Tommy demands.
“Deal with it yourself,” Wilbur grumbles. “Fetch your - your Young Avengers if you really need the help, I’m not going out today.”
“I brought you coffee,” Tommy says. “Quintuple shot espresso. The guy at the counter must’ve thought I was nutty.”
Wilbur looks up. “Are you bribing me?”
“Yes. Absolutely. Get your bow.”Or: Hawkeye & Hawkeye AU.
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11 Jul 2025
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"So why’re you here?" Tommy says, studiously not looking at Wilbur. "You too maimed to go do big man shit?"
Wilbur, sprawled against one of Tommy's chests - it's fine, he's not got much important in there anyway - with a roll of fresh bandages in hand like he was planning on doing something with them, gives a laugh that's half a wheeze, like he's too tired to muster up much else. "That's not," he says, "what maiming is, y'know. I'll be fine." Tommy can hear him shifting his weight, the rustling of fabric on fabric, the faint hiss he sucks in through his teeth when he's in more pain than he wants to make a mockery of. Tommy doesn't want to look, he said he wasn't going to look, he doesn't care - and yet he finds himself glancing over his shoulder.Wilbur needs somewhere safe to change the bandages on his arm. For some reason, he comes to Tommy's house.
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11 Jul 2025
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"Don't you dare tempt me into putting this off for another second," Wilbur says, around half a mouthful of laughter and a stack of paperwork he does his best to shove to the side with an elbow. "I have a lot to do -"
"Don't you dare let me put this off for another second," Schlatt grumbles, but the way he looks up, the gleam to his eyes that's something between excitement and relief and interest, speaks volumes to the contrary.
"Don't you dare," Tubbo insists, huffing as he struggles to bodily push Ranboo out of the door, "let me put this off another second."
Three presidents of L'Manberg, and the way even the smallest parts of history repeat themselves.
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11 Jul 2025
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Quackity finds Wilbur Soot on a windy day in the forest, slumped over the border, bleeding profusely. Well, that’s a polite way of putting it. A crueller way to put it would be this: Quackity finds Wilbur Soot crumpled in on himself at the border between their claims, hand clutched to a shoulder, bloodsoaked, pale with sweat, eyes knit tightly closed and a tiny, furious furrow to his brow. Quackity finds Wilbur Soot at the border, and doesn’t really give a damn.
“Let me help,” he blurts, nonsensical, sudden, honest.Wilbur isn't being as careful as he should with that arm injury. There's really no reason it should be Quackity's problem, but here they are.
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11 Jul 2025
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and i was a great sun of light that was breathing (harpocrates!wilbur) by fensandmarshes
Fandom: Dream SMP
06 Jun 2021
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10 Jul 2025
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02 Jul 2025
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It’s a new thing, being aware. Being able to notice the difference. Suppose it comes with his promise of truthfulness, sharp contrast to that vow he made an eternity ago. Dream’s mask, open and empty; fingers twisted into unspoken, unanswered questions.
But that’s the paradox of it, isn’t it? And so the liar says, “I always tell the truth.”
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Wilbur is trying to make a new start. Quackity’s not helping.
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02 Jul 2025
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said the rabbit to the badger by Anonymous for volstruckerz, hivemindscape
Fandoms: Dream SMP
08 Jun 2022
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Tommy turns back to face Wilbur, and as he stands in the shadow cast by an impossibly tall tower, painted in hues of the day’s last dying light, Wilbur feels the pieces begin to fall into place.
“Tommy,” he says, despairing and desperate, “what was this tower for, Tommy?”
(or, a kinder universe where crimeboys stay and talk and breathe.)
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02 Jul 2025
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Wilbur Soot walks back into Las Nevadas like he owns the place—like he has a plan, a purpose, a reason to be here. Quackity isn’t buying it. Tommy isn’t either.
But Wilbur’s convinced if he just keeps moving, keeps talking, keeps pushing forward, he can make himself useful, he can make it all mean something. He’s fine. He’s thriving.
Right up until he isn’t.
A story about momentum, crashes, and the people stuck in the fallout.
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02 Jul 2025
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Wilbur looked at Tommy, scared and looking just a bit smaller than moments before, and realized he missed him so fucking much.
He grabbed the carton beside him and flipped it open. There was one last cigarette inside. Before he could think, he held it out towards Tommy. “Do you want to try?”
Objectively, this wasn’t that bad. He’d gotten Tommy to produce and sell drugs with him before. They were far past the tacit laws of what a minor could or couldn’t do that existed in a world that was now out of touch.
That said, Tommy had boundaries. Wilbur should’ve anticipated how bad of a look this was for him, yet still found himself startled when Tommy recoiled with a, “What the fuck!? Eugh, no!”
Wilbur wants to smoke with Tommy, just once, for the sake of bonding or proving a point or something or other. Tommy, unfortunately, is very reluctant to the idea.
Or, how Wilbur Soot started smoking again.
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02 Jul 2025
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All In On Red by birdfeet
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF, Dream SMP
02 May 2022
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“You have a bleeding heart, Soot.” Niki hissed. “And a stubborn curiosity that would kill even the luckiest of men. So, figure it out now. You want to help Red, right?”
Wilbur nodded.“Then help him or leave him.”
OR Wilbur Soot is a mechanic in a dystopian city, trying to fix what is broken. Tommy fights giant robots for a living.
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26 Jun 2025
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His eyes flicker over all of the boy’s features—his round, blue eyes, lashes fluttering, eyes shifting. His strong chin and nose, not…completely dissimilar to Wilbur’s. Golden curls, curving and waving down Tommy’s forehead, twisting around his ears.
Wilbur can feel his own curls do just the same.
A sort of airy insanity fills Wilbur’s chest as he brings a shaky hand towards Tommy’s hair. So similar to his own.
The barked laugh comes out so quick Wilbur almost chokes on it.
Holy shit.
This is his son.
He’s a fucking father.
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Wilbur awakes in a hospital bed with no memory of the past few years. The only thing he knows is that Tommy—passionate, stubborn, worried—has got to be his son.
Right?
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29 May 2025
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blurring the facts and the fictions by The Willow Tree (BookDragonNotBookWorm)
Fandoms: Dream SMP
18 Sep 2022
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Wilbur is a volleyball player. He has been since he was born, basically.
That's all he needs. Volleyball will always be there.
Right?Series
- Part 2 of Volleyball!!
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29 May 2025
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collateral collision by youreyeslookliketheocean
Fandoms: Dream SMP, Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF
20 Nov 2022
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When Wilbur first discovers Tommy Innes, he’s got his arse halfway on his suitcase, head between his knees, and is desperately tugging at a zipper that just will not budge.
“Jesus Prime, mother of NASCAR,” he grumbles, then jumps up and down as best he can, trying to shove the top half of the suitcase down to meet the bottom. It isn’t going very well.Series
- Part 2 of NASCAR!au
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28 May 2025
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Full Throttle by youreyeslookliketheocean
Fandoms: Dream SMP, Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF
23 Oct 2022
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The first thing that happens when Tommy Innes crashes during his 159th lap around Auto Club Speedway, is his wheel loses traction with the ground, and he goes careening to the right...
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Tommy Innes has dreamed of being a race car driver since he was four years old. Now, at eighteen, he's the youngest rookie on the NASCAR tracks, and about to participate in his very first Cup Series. When a bad wreck leaves him with a butchered sense of hearing, though, he and his new team must navigate the challenges that come along with it. Including, but not limited to: new tech; Tommy's own self-doubt; and one utterly irritating, legendary racer, Wilbur Soot.Series
- Part 1 of NASCAR!au
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28 May 2025
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There’s something wrong with Tommy. Dream will help him figure out what.
Or: Dream starts testing the revive book on Tommy in exile.
Apparently Apollo has cursed me.
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- Part 1 of The Dead Don't Dream Universe
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27 May 2025
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(Song title is taken from Blood by Hozier)
Set in the universe of my series Face the Music, Wilbur runs into an unexpected trauma trigger, and ends up having a hard and fast panic attack minutes later. Phil and Q are there to bring him back and make him feel whole again.
You don't have to know my series to read this, this was just a brief vent fic I wrote and polished for my own enjoyment. No trigger is specified, so this is for my fellow character projectors to do what they wish with it.
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30 Mar 2025