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aimsey is absolutely sick and tired of their only friend being dead.
so, after overhearing tales of a blond boy who'd come back from limbo, left with a white streak through his hair and exhaustion in his eyes, they decide to do the one thing they can think to do. pester him until he agrees to help them revive ranboo. only, it turns out to be a much, much easier process of convincing him than they'd expected.
who even is this tommy guy, anyway?
[ or : the fic where aimsey wants to revive ranboo, and asks for tommy's help, not expecting any real response. only, he is much more helpful than they could've imagined, and they can tell there's something being left unsaid. ]
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- Part 6 of october oneshots :]
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after the whispers of dream's escape had spread across the server, there had arisen a discussion on whether or not he deserved to be locked up again. and, lo and behold, a trial date was set, requiring every server member to attend, and attached to the letter was a consent form, one for a truth serum that sam had concocted, just to ensure that there were no lies being told.
tommy didn't want to go, not at all. it was hard enough to hear about dream, to think about the person who had stolen so much of his life from him, let alone having to face him and tell everyone about all that dream had done to him.
but he had no choice, not if he wanted dream to be locked up again, so he had to attend, and he had to be honest.
[ or : a fic in which tommy is put on the stand under the effects of a truth serum, and the horrors of exile and dream's inhumane treatment is revealed to the entire server. ]
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- Part 5 of october oneshots :]
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it's been so long since i saw the light. [maybe i haven't been looking at the sky.] by theseusinflames
Fandoms: Dream SMP
05 Oct 2022
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no one would've known about wilbur's whereabouts had it not been for tommy.
but tommy knows, and it's down to him to break the news to everyone, again. because wilbur didn't sail away to another server, no, wilbur didn't leave to heal, tommy could see through his lies. wilbur's words had no effect on him any longer. tommy knew wilbur had killed himself again.
and now it was his duty to tell phil.
[ or : phil did not expect to answer the gentle knock at the door to tommy stood out the front of his house, shuffling nervously, eyes reddened. he also did not expect to hear that his son had killed himself for the second time. ]
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- Part 4 of october oneshots :]
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not again, second time. [kill a friend, feel alive.] by theseusinflames
Fandoms: Dream SMP, Minecraft (Video Game)
03 Oct 2022
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tommy first met ranboo when he was fourteen.
it was the day, the one no one would forget, one that ranboo had nicknamed 'doomsday'. the name seemed far too fitting not to catch on. and, after that, they had been practically bonded for life. neither of them had ever said it, not outright, but they knew that they would stay together, that they would have each others backs, even as the world went to shit around them, and zombies were flooding city after city.
it was just the two of them, and, for a while, they both thought that was how it would always be.
and then, in the form of a scrawny, terrified boy with a rusted dagger pointed to tommys throat, tubbo showed up, and maybe, just maybe, it wouldn't be just the two of them after all.
[ or : tommy and ranboo get caught in a zombie apocalypse, and thought they were the only ones left. turns out, they couldn't have been more wrong.
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- Part 3 of october oneshots :]
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it's a charming notion [but it's a lie] by theseusinflames
Fandoms: Dream SMP, Origins SMP
02 Oct 2022
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"listen," tommy began, a nervous laugh spilling from his blue-tinted lips, a shiver wracking his body, "it's not my fault, i just...haven't got around to telling anyone yet, okay?" wilbur only stared at him sadly, eyes crinkled with sorrow.
"tommy," his voice was no more than a whisper, "you know you can't hide forever," he sighed softly, frowning, "you need to tell them, alright? i know i can't force you, but please, man, this is hurting you." the worst part was that he wasn't wrong. the pale white horns that had grown in the midst of tommys golden curls were aching, the mushrooms that he would tear out from his skin left bleeding wounds behind, the milky freckles spanning his skin stung after so long of trying to scratch them off with blunt, bitten nails. tommy didn't want to admit it, god, he didn't, but wilbur was right.
and he had no choice.
[ or : osmp! tommy was a mooshroom hybrid, the last living hybrid in a species long-extinct. only, he'd just found out, and the idea of having to tell everyone he knew that he was not, in fact, what they thought he was, was absolutely terrifying. after a snowstorm hits the lands of the smp, he has no choice but to face the very people he'd been hiding from. ]
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- Part 2 of origins smp fics :]]]
- Part 2 of october oneshots :]
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tommy's time in technoblade's cabin was nothing if not brief, but that didn't stop the lingering feeling of being cared for, or the lasting effects of feeling like he belonged somewhere. perhaps it was simply the right place, and just the wrong time.
maybe, in another life, things would've worked out.
[ or : four times that technoblade cared for tommy, and one in which tommy got to return the favour. ]
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- Part 1 of october oneshots :]
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bite the bullet [take you as you are] by theseusinflames
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Dream SMP
26 Sep 2022
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tommy was eighteen, bleeding to death in some shitty alleyway, shivering and alone.
the realisation struck abruptly, just as abrupt as the tears that slid down his face, streaking through smears of blood and dust, leaving him with watery eyes and a reddened nose. he'd accepted death a long time ago, had acknowledged that, one day, he'd be gone, and he'd made peace with that, picturing a heroic death in his forties as he saved some important medical building, or a calm hospital room where he could shut his eyes as an old man and wake up somewhere else.
he just never pictured 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴.
[ or : tommy was a hero, help was unbearably far away, and he knew he wouldn't last long with the gaping stab wound in his stomach. so he did the next best thing, and called his brothers, so, at the very least, his last moments wouldn't be spent alone. ]
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sit next to me [before i go] by theseusinflames
Fandoms: Origins SMP, Minecraft (Video Game)
10 Aug 2022
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"i don't think i ever told you why my wings are so small, did i?"
an absent-minded confession one late autumn afternoon should not have left ranboo's mind reeling as much as it did. the way their mind lingered on the fact that, no, tommy had not always been a boy, was a little worrying, if they were honest.
what was wrong with him?
why did the knowledge that you could be something other than what you were born as cling to his mind the same way they imagined a leech would?
what was wrong with 𝘩𝘦𝘳?
[ or : !ranboo falls into a spiral after discovering something about h̶i̶m̶s̶e̶l̶f̶ 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 that she wanted to keep deep, deep down in her hollow chest. only, after tommy admits that she's not the only one who feels that way, that he also felt like that before he realised he was a boy, something in her mind clicks. ]
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we die alone, we die young. by theseusinflames
Fandoms: Dream SMP, Minecraft (Video Game)
06 Aug 2022
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"𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦."
technoblade's days of blood-slicked hands and sweaty, mud-stained skin were something of the past. nights spent running atop rooftops until his lungs ached and his mouth bled were something sinful, disgusting, something he kept to himself. his calloused pale hands marred by scars hadn't so much as grazed a weapon in months. the skull mask had been burned the same day he quit. that life was behind him now. his door stayed locked, his mind stayed calm, and he stayed safe.
that was until theseus, snow-white skin painted with far too many bruises for someone so young, showed up on his doorstep, hazy and lethargic, with only one sentence falling from his crimson-stained lips.
"𝘪 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰."
[ or : the life of a hero was far too much for technoblade, who found the retired life much more fitting. then, drenched in ruby red blood, the villain he'd spent so long fighting staggered up onto his doorstep, terrified and desperate. and who was techno to turn him away? ]
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i could cross the ocean in a fit of devotion by theseusinflames
Fandoms: Dream SMP, Minecraft (Video Game), Origins SMP
10 May 2022
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"what the fuck."
tommy stared wide-eyed at his outstretched hands, which, on the back of both of them, atop his veiny, bony skin, were mushrooms.
tommy was an avian. he'd always been an avian, and he always would be an avian.
only... what if he wasn't?[ or : osmp! tommy was a mooshroom hybrid, only his hybrid features showed late. of course it was just his luck that he was the last living hybrid in a species long-extinct ]
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- Part 1 of origins smp fics :]]]
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in the sun, i feel as one. by theseusinflames
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Dream SMP
08 May 2022
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technoblade thought he was back on track.
he was out of that daunting prison cell. he'd been doing better. miraculous progress, phil had called it. he could actually see himself becoming okay again.and then that stupid letter arrived, and everything shattered before him.
[ or : part two to ''my sun has set''. ]
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i've been losing the taste for living. by theseusinflames
Fandoms: Dream SMP, Minecraft (Video Game)
07 May 2022
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phil frowned, pausing his search to shuffle closer to ranboo, placing a hand upon their shoulder, "i'm sorry, mate, i didn't mean to scare you. it might not even be real anyway, it's nothing to worry about-"
"it is," ranboo insisted, breathing heavily, frantic, "it is, phil, and it's going to kill me."
the flowers rising in his throat agree with them.
[ or : ranboo finds out they have hanahaki, and that there is a slow, slow death awaiting them if they don't act fast. ]
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dear technoblade,
i'm sorry.
[ or : tommy has enough, and finally writes a suicide note. only, he addresses it to the one person he knows would still read it. techno. ]
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tommy finds out that technoblade was presumed dead, and that he'd been locked in the prison.
only, he wasn't dead, no, in fact, he was very much alive.
but how was tommy to know that?
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you may be in her dm's, but i'm at the lowest point of my life by theseusinflames
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game)
04 May 2022
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ranboozled : in life there are two rules.
ranboozled : whip and nae nae.
wifehaver : what
Crimeboy : You can kill the pee dog but you can't kill the dog pee
wifehaver : i want to go home[ or : an unlikely group of friends meet through group therapy. as a fun, last-minute idea that could definitely only go well, they decide to create a group chat for them all. only, it comes about in the form of a half-assed discord server full of mentally ill people who decide to give friendship a shot. ]
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i am stronger than you give me credit for. by theseusinflames
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game)
03 May 2022
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"aren't you cold?"
tommy jolted, wide-eyes staring across the alley as his heart thundered against his ribs. fuck, fuck, fuck-
"sorry, i didn't scare you, did i?"[ or : drunk wilbur stumbles across a homeless tommy, and they have a brief, albeit pleasant, encounter. ]
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and the friends that i've lost sleep deep down in their graves by theseusinflames
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game)
02 May 2022
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tommy finally snaps, can't take the suffering on the grounds of the essempee any longer. and so he decides to run away.
only... he can't do it without ranboo by his side.
[ or : alliumduo refuse to hurt any longer, and decide to run away together. ]
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we were born with nothing, and we sure as hell have nothing now. by theseusinflames
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game)
01 May 2022
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"i can't fail anyone else. please."
phil can't take it anymore. he's watched far too many people suffer an untimely demise, and he refuses to stand by and watch as tommy drives himself to insanity. so he places the boy under his protection, and takes him somewhere where he can heal without the worry of dream on his mind.
[ or : tommy returns to the tundra to live with techno and phil, not only for his safety from dream, but his safety from himself. ]
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" time is all i have, and time is healing. " by theseusinflames
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game)
09 Jan 2022
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wilbur paused, finally meeting tommys eyes, and the sincerity and gentleness in his gaze almost made tommy choke out another sob again. "how about this? i get a month. a month to show you why life is worth living. only a month, and if you're still convinced by the end, i can do nothing to stop you. just one thing a day, just one thing to show you something good about living. how does that sound?"
"so," tommy swallowed, "until the end of january?"[ or : wilbur sees tommy about to kill himself, and tells him to give him one month to prove to him that life is worth living.]
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" i miss him, don't you blame me. that boy went stone cold crazy. " by theseusinflames
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game)
05 Sep 2021
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what if phil had been just a smidge earlier?
what if he had arrived before having his hand forced in running his son through with a blade?
what if he'd stepped into pogtopia and stared wilbur down? what if?the possibilities were infinite, but tommy was sick of what if's. he decided, hidden from wilbur with a chilling fear in his heart, that phil was the only one who could help him. and so, with bruised hands and a trembling voice, he'd reached out.
phil was due in the next day.