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If someone had told him what he would have to deal with if he followed his brother to the SMP they were invited to, he wouldn’t have agreed. 

Well maybe he would have but he likes to think that his little 7-year-old self would know better. 

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Is it bad to say that he misses the wars?

Wait no he said that wrong. 

He misses the time during the war, he misses his brother the one who was proud of him but he metaphorically died fully in pogtopia,  when he had his best friend to himself only, when Niki and Jack weren’t trying to kill him. They didn’t think he knew but he did even before jack made it obvious. He misses when he had at least 2 lives. He misses his family, the one back on his home server with his dad and his two brothers, his family was here but were they really? When he wasn’t so broken, beyond repair. 

When all he had to worry about was waiting to show his hybrid traits 

But here he is, One brother is dead and the other hates him as well with his father. His best friend (if he could even call him that) moved on and left him in the dust. He wished they loved him as much as Ranboo. He wishes he can despise Ranboo, hate him completely but he doesn’t. He can’t, the enderman hybrid was a good person so it made sense why they replaced him with Ranboo. He doesn’t blame any of them or anybody on the server for his misfortune well besides dream a little bit. 

He misses it all but he doesn’t have any of it more and everyone was wary since he was revived, he hadn’t moved on but it seemed that the server as a whole did. Without him. Did they even pause to mourn him when he died? He didn’t know. He didn’t have anybody, at all.

Um Excuse you?! 

What are we?? A roach?

Guess we don’t exist :’)

WOW, rude!

You have us Tommy!

We have your back! Trust us!

Yeah!

We’re with you

One of the last voices had brought him back out of his head as it was much louder, not to say chat wasn’t loud since they were but after having chat for so long, he sometimes managed to tune out unless they were bloodthirsty which happened maybe once in a blue moon. They usually resided in his head but they could shift to different animals to “blend in” which they never managed to properly do.

*Gasps* 

Yes we do!

The slander!

I’m wounded!

I mean he is kinda right

^^

We don’t try very hard to blend in since the people you go with aren’t the brightest bulbs

^^

^^

Tommy snorted and rolled his eyes. He wouldn’t agree that the SMP were dumb but nobody really focused on what was going around them unless it affected their faction. Like the one time, he had like 100 raccoons following him from a distance as to collect information while the rest of them stayed in his head or the times there were so many moths he couldn’t count them all and he stayed inside because SMP could notice the increase in flying critters as they didn’t come to the area almost area so they would be more obvious.

Fun times though.

What wasn’t fun was the fact that he doesn’t feel like he belongs anywhere. Heck, even slimecicle called him “tommyinnit from nowhere in particular.”

...What if we change that?

Huh?

How?/

Healinnit arc???

Blood for the blo-

Wrong chat!

Oh Whoops

Pausing, Tommy listened to what the first one said, change it? Healinnit arc and bunch others, and ignoring one of them saying his brother’s catchphrase and listening to them and some squealing. Maybe they were right, leaving this place and going somewhere new would be good.

It would be scary going somewhere new though…

You got this Big man!

Yeah! 

You got this Wife haver

Yeah! They’re right! HE’S the big man! He’s got this. If anybody on the SMP could do this, it would be him. 

And with that, his mind was made up. Tommy Careful Danger Kraken Innit [ Minecraft ] was going to leave this godforsaken place. 

But he’d have to plan, nobody was too observant nowadays on him so it won’t be so hard right?

⟸~⟹ 

So. 

It might have been a little harder.

There might have been a miscalculation, Tommy forgot about Purpled, well he didn’t forget but with him doing his own thing, he didn’t think he’d notice.

Luck was not on his side.

Purpled had come to his dirt hut and had found out Tommy was planning on leaving. And it all spiraled from there. And now it was taking them longer to leave since purpled pointed out many holes in his plans. They had to postpone leaving for some time.

On the bright side, he now had some time to sew them both new items like satchels so they could carry more and just pack some items he was going to leave in his rush.

Platonic(!!!!) husbando :D

Woo! Sewing!

We should get some enchants!

Tommy Partner haver! 

Don't distract him!

Paaayyyy attention to ussssssss D: 

Shush chat, and yeah that. After purpled had found out, Tommy had invited him. He doesn’t know why he did but he did and purpled agreed. But he didn’t quite trust purpled as he believed that he could turn his back on him. After some time of them hanging out and working together though, purpled /platonically/ asked Tommy to marry him and Tommy agreed.

They both had their bad days but they comforted and listened to each other like two best friends from childhood.

Purpled had been collecting things so they could at least travel without too many issues. 

And Tommy was packing for them. Chat had been a bit cryptic though, but he didn’t know about what. 

He asked chat and they just said that it wasn’t bad and he would find out soon.

It comforted him a bit.

They were gonna leave soon though, purpled would leave first as he wouldn’t cause as much suspicion. 

Tommy would leave after, and purpled would wait for him.

People would notice when he left since Wilbur was constantly trying to manipulate him, although not as much since had Ranboo now but they would notice eventually. 

...Was it bad to say he wanted them to also miss him? 

⇼~⇼

Chat has been weird but not in a bad way, they sound excited.

I guess that's good?

Planning is tiring but we’re almost ready to go. I wonder if any of the SMP members will notice me or purpled missing, I know we’re supposed to be undercover and all that but I want them to care. 

I missed Sam Nook a lot. And so did chat so they decided to find some things out. They found where sam nook had been hidden by sam and he looked forgotten. It makes me bitter to know the moment I died, Sam turned nook off but it doesn’t matter. It just made this part easier. 

WOO! Raccoon innit!

Thief Innit!

Take sam nook!

We’ll watch to make sure nobody comes!

Innit go “snatch, mine now”

Grabbyinnit go brrr

RaccoonInnit!!

And that leads to me now in the prison entry at night, sam isn’t on watch as it isn't his shift. So chat managed to lure out whoever was guarding, I dunno how but I don’t really care.

‘I’m not stealing chat! I’m just taking what's rightfully mine now’ I yelled to them but not out loud as it would blow my cover. A chorus of ‘mhm’s, suree, totally’ and similar phrases replied with a teasing tilt. Rude but anways,  

Big man Tommy got this!

‘You see chat? I’m always right, Big man did have it in the bag!’ I stated proudly.

Chat cheered and whooped. And now we, well me technically, had stolen taken back Sam Nook, I was painting Nook as much as possible so people wouldn’t notice the color. I decided on red and white obviously since it’s iconic big man colours. Purpled came over to give information and items with one of the moth forms of chat on his shoulder and looked over in confusion at Nook being there but didn’t ask any questions. Good.

But while I was doing that, chat was talking about how soon we would be free and I can’t lie, I’m excited for that ‘healing arc’ with chat and purp. We are leaving in around a day or two, I feel a mix of emotions and so does chat but they’re mostly distracting me currently with their ramblings so I appreciate that.

I just hope to the gods it will all go well.

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The goddess of death smiled as she heard that, “Don’t worry my son, All the gods are on your side and will protect you.”

The masked god was watching over the server of his currently possessed admin brother. He was curious of the young mortal that had suffered so much at his young age and decided that he too would protect the young one. 

The gods all agreed to protect this young child especially with the great legacy and destiny he had in store for himself and his family.

…

And they may or may not all have gotten attached to the soft yet brave child but that's besides the point.

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Tommy paused. Did he really want to leave? The moment he left his house, he would have to go through with it. He knew what he was doing, but he had been in a sense of denial he supposed? 

He knew that hoping for his family to just burst into his dirt hut and hug him and murmur their apologies was a fruitless endeavor  

But there’s nothing here for him. His father his only currently alive brother hated his guts. All while the second brother both versions weren’t better, the amnestic ghost didn’t care and was oblivious to everything, and when he was alive/revived hated him too. His friendships weren’t much better, the hateful glances from the Eggpire and Jack with Niki, the strained and tense glances from Tubbo and Ranboo. Phil and Technoblade, well it wasn’t gonna go anywhere positive thinking about them. And Wilbur has been ignoring him a lot unless it was needed for his plans.

The plans the syndicate and Wilbur made were to destroy everything they had worked for. Everything HE had worked for. 

If nothing had meaning, then what was everything had sacrificed? Was it all pointless?

Were his lives and everything else lost, pointless?

Tommy just wanted to get far far away from… all of this. 

This server, the nations, the factions, his family and friends, their issues… should’ve stopped mattering to him. With the moment he stopped mattering to any of them, to anybody, they should have been considered as good as dead to him. But his loyalty was something that was part of him. It’s a good quality of his, but during the war, it should have left. 

After all, it was his downfall.

A soldier, a now veteran, an adult he supposed when they wanted him to be of assistance, to be a pawn. When they wanted him to fight.

But a child, a kid, someone who just ‘wouldn’t understand’ someone who didn’t get that ‘the adults were speaking’, when they wanted to be right.

It didn’t matter what Tommy wanted though after all, right?

Everything was packed, it was all ready, Sam Nook was miraculously [totally not with the help of one of the gods] able to turn on and was ready to follow him. 

He listed everything in his mind, going over the list for what felt like the 100th time that hour. It was midnight, the perfect time.

He thought what about if he didn’t leave, 

(maybe in another world, another timeline, purpled hadn’t found him, and in Tommy’s despair, he thought about everyone who hadn’t left him. Leading to dream and him breaking dream out and becoming his loyal apprentice. Somehow worming into dream’s cold dead heart and making the masked man actually care about him. And making Tommy into his protege. 

But this wasn’t that world, Tommy in this world had someone to lean on and soon would have more.)

He didn’t have anything here for him. 

He had everything on him and stood up to leave, but waited for a moment. Staring at his door hopefully with baited breath, he waited as if his family would just come in and pray for forgiveness and he would accept and be complete again with them.

He knew it was childish to hope such a thing.

*You silently call out for help*

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*But… nobody came*

It was. But it had never stopped him before.

He sighed smiled sadly, and chat quietly comforted him, 

Welp at least nobody could say he didn’t try. Purpled had already left and was a good distance away with dogchamp, He looked at Sam Nook and nodded, sending him out and telling him to notify him when he had crossed the mainland, so he could follow as two people leaving would be seen as obvious.

Now to wait.

*-----*

Alright, after what felt like hours it was time. He could stay but… he looked around.

He refused to let this become his legacy.

He slowly walked out, looking around, and continued. He made it to the end of the prime path or well part of it.

It was time for him to take his own life back as he should’ve long ago.

He was FUCKING Tommyinnit, he got this. 

He took in a deep breath, inhaling and exhaling slowly to calm his nerves.

And he ran.

⤂  ⟷  ⤄  ⟷  ⤃

Two pairs of eyes saw the young boy run. 

One pair being pitch black, its name well, unknown to most besides the immortal with the green and white robes and bucket hat. It had seen Nook leave as well with many many items but hadn’t thought much of it. 

Then it saw not too long after, the youngest one of the Minecraft family. It knew it had to notify the man, Philza. He would be worried about his son. 

-Contrary to popular belief, none of the Minecraft family hated the young blonde. 

Technoblade, the oldest brother was upset about his brother’s betrayal but as much as he tried,(oh and he tried) he couldn’t hate his youngest brother. But when he would finally exit the server, he and Philza would be notified by their chat about everything that happened to him in and out of exile as chat had been blocked from mentioning to fully saying certain things. But the block had been removed too late as the blonde was already long gone. And he would be horrified (the tower) and furious ( the abuse ) at what chat had told him and Philza.

Wilbur wouldn’t know until he had searched for Tommy and was notified that he had been missing for some time and rushed to his family’s house only to be told more of everything that he missed with exile leading up to his baby brother running away by his twin and father.

Phil would be the first notified, by one of his crows, chat would panic with him. But some parts of chat would tell him that it was too late as they couldn’t detect him anymore. And as he would soon find, going to find him blind would result fruitless. He prayed to his wife that their youngest child would be safe, She promised he would be okay and one day they would cross paths again and reconcile.

And for the first time for god knows how long the three oldest of the Minecraft family cried and sobbed together and prayed to their goddess/wife/mom that Tommy would be okay.

Maybe if they didn’t live in the freezing tundra then maybe the crow would have been faster instead of significantly slowed down.

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The other pair was watching carefully to make sure to be able to quickly overwrite the signal of blocking the young mortal from being trapped in the server as well as overwriting the message of him leaving the server to not let them know when the time came, but the server was very large so it would take time for that to happen. 

His eyes were blocked by the mask he wore with the emoticon XD like someone laughing for the irony that he was always serious. 

His younger sister by centuries had taken an interest in the blonde as well as all the other gods and magical beings and things. He had no doubt that the nature of this server with the other ones he was going to explore would take care of him. 

But he was going to watch just in case.

He wondered how George was doing as he followed and they passed his measly kingdom. It was fun toying with him but had left him alone for some time as he had a mortal to watch and actually protect. He only acknowledged George for the reason that his brother had fallen for him. He was curious if he had anything interesting about him. 

He didn’t, it was quite disappointing, dream had bad taste.

He was quickly brought out his thoughts when his sister scared the blonde accidentally with her mask as she was unvanished by a misclick. He was about to interfere with magic to calm the blonde down but he managed to calm himself by grabbing onto the robot he had brought along. He was impressed with how quickly he had managed. 

...

He wasn’t getting attached or soft for the one they call Tommyinnit, silence Blood God, either way as if you are better for getting attached to him too. 

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It had been a few days if Tommy correct, and he was making progress with his distance and with his moral support Sam Nook, he had sensed that for some time he was being followed. For a moment he had thought that he had seen dream which made him panic for a moment.

But he noticed that instead of the smiley face that somewhat scarred him, it was a different weird emoticon ‘ >:3 ’

Chat had been surprisingly cooperative which he appreciated. But they were also being unnecessarily parent-like.

We aren’t!

It’s very necessary Tommy

You have been barely sleeping!

Yeah!

You need to eat too :(

We can shift to be able to protect you 

We’ll protect you!

Yeah!

^^

Thanks chat, once we find a place that looks not too bad, I’ll try to sleep. I promise. 

Chat expressed their displeasure but nonetheless agreed to the compromise.

At that moment, Tommy felt someone was watching him but much closer. He was slightly fearful of whatever it could be but chat quickly helped.

Tommy!

Don’t worry!

It’s not a bad aura, you’re safe.

I think it’s drista

Drista!

Drista pog

She's safe, we promise

Mhm!

Tommy had decided to put his trust in them, they never truly wronged him. 

He took a deep breath, he had a feeling that he would meet this ‘drista’ soon. He turned and smiled at Sam Nook who had its head tilted curiously. It was probably wondering why they paused in the forest. 

They walked more, Tommy’s feet were sore probably because they had been walking days straight, but he kept on going. They finally saw the camp that purpled made, thousands upon thousands of blocks away from spawn and L‘man- well, whatever was left of the old L’manburg. The one he helped build. Not whatever the new one was.

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A few days had passed. Purpled made sure Tommy rested. Tommy made a whole show of saying that he didn’t need to be coddled but both boys knew that Tommy appreciated that Purpled did that. 

It was midnight, he walked onto a hill a little away from camp. 

It was misty, as it had been a rainstorm a good while ago but for some reason, the camp was fully dry and the area around it was only drizzling lightly if you stared hard enough. As if avoiding their little shabby camp for some reason.

He sat down on the hill and started to hum, a tune he made up on the spot. 

He had to be going insane, it looked as if the trees on the hill had turned to cover him. 

He swore that they weren’t in that position before.

Chat was spewing some words. And he laughed and stood up and they shifted into shadows to dance with him.

Musicinnit!

Woo music video arc!

Magicinnit!

Cottagecore innit! Natureinnit!

Music arc!

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It was drizzling on the hill, and normally I would have left the moment the rain started but I was just in the moment, if I got sick later well uh that would futureinnit’s problem which currently isn’t me.

I was dancing in the rain, I felt alive and I couldn’t complain. It had been so long since he felt so carefree.

But now take me home. Take me home where I belong. He had made it out of where he had been bound to, but he deep down that this wasn’t where he was meant to spend the rest of his days.

He wondered if he was ready to continue on. With all the wars he had suffered. With everything.

But as the saying goes ‘What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.’ he supposes and with that, it motivated to keep going.

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The way he met drista was anticlimactic by her giving him a chest with some op items and ... spellbooks?

Weird. 

She apologized for scaring him as it wasn’t her intent.

Tommy processed it all and laughed, he accepted the apology with a few curses though.

And after being introduced to everyone, she stayed with Tommy when Purpled would leave to gather them materials with Nook and would follow Tommy when it was his turn to go get materials.

She was chaotic and matched his energy. 

This was the start of a beautiful friendship.

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Drista could feel the jealousy from the other gods for being the only one to get attention from the blonde. 

She couldn’t blame them, the mortal was truly interesting, he was kind and considerate yet brash and rude, it was fun to hang out with him.

He explained friendship to her, and now they were friends! It made her happy. But at that same moment, she saw the sky get grayer and knew that the gods were bitter about it. 

She snickered and sent them the message ‘well sucks to suck, I'm his favorite >:p’.

She could feel the rage the moment they all read the message but since she was always with the blonde, they couldn’t do anything. 

Hah, suck it losers.

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Now, if you were to ask Tommy if meeting XD or otherwise known as Prime on other servers or the all-powerful would make him excited, he would answer no. He would say, he’s a big man and that nothing would shock him.

If you were to ask his platonic fiancé, purpled (haven’t had the wedding :p) he, however, would tell you that’s absolute bullshit. 

Purpled was right.

Just this once though.

 Now when Tommy met XD, he had been terrified for a moment with his mask being to that of his abuser’s. 

XD had quickly removed the mask and calmly explained who he was and that he wanted to be there for him. He promised Tommy that he had no ill-intent whatsoever and chat was quick to agree and spam the word ‘safe’.

Tommy asked questions and XD explains more in-depth and briefly mentions that he would be willing to take care and be a parental figure for Tommy if he wanted.

Tommy paused to consider it and told the god to wait there. 

Now, make no mistake if it had been any other mortal, XD would have smited them for even just trying to demand something of him.

If it had been any other mortal.

But this was Tommy. The one who had somehow managed to make all the gods get attached to him. So… he stayed.

… 

Tommy eventually came back with a piece of paper labeled contract.

XD read it and paused as he read the small print “would be a present parental figure.”

He pointed it out and chuckled when the blonde got red. He grabbed a pen from who knows where and signed it.

Tommy paused as he didn’t think XD would have still signed it after seeing the small print.

He grinned. 

“Well new parental figure, would you join me and drista in strip mining?”

The god laughed, he knew choosing this mortal was a good idea.

“Of course, Tommy.”

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Now if a specific goddess got salty about not being able to do that with her youngest, well only the gods would know why.

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Where are we going?

Are we there yet?

We haven’t even fully left!

oh,  still, are we there yet?

*sigh* no we aren’t

Good morning Tommy!

Where are we going Tommy?

^^

Good morning chat! Today we’re gonna try and cross the border, with XD I think it should be much easier to leave.

Drista is gonna come with us, so we’ll have a god on our side! 

Granted she’s the got of chaos and some other stuff I don’t remember but a Gods a god. And I doubt we’re gonna find I dunno the God of life/ revival or something around here.

Somewhere a totem-shark-looking god sneezed.

Sooo we leavin soon?

I wanna go nowwww

You’re so impatient.

:(

Tommy was about to answer but paused and turned to look at purpled.

“We’re leaving right now right?” Purpled looked up from his comm, ”yep, just waiting on XD right now.”

The mercenary thought about what he said, “that’s a sentence I never thought I’d say, oh don't mind us just waitin on GOD real quick.”

Both the teens stared at each other before bursting out laughing.

‘Yeah, we’re gonna be okay

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“Ughhh, are we there yet purp?”

“Almost, I’m surprised we made it this far without you complaining more.”

Purpled got whacked for that comment.

He didn’t regret it tho

⟲⥀⥉⥁⟳

This was it.

The ending of this chapter for Tommy.

And for once, in a very long time, he could truthfully say that he wasn’t scared for what the future had in store for him.

Because looking around, he had 

XD, his new dad watching from the sky, 

Drista, his new troublemaking best friend

Sam Nook, his robot companion who didn’t need an explanation because he’s just that pog

And purpled, his mercenary fiancé

This was his new family, he trusted them.

He took a deep breath inhaling and exhaling slowly. 

And he ran in, with one thought in his mind.

“Yeah, we’re gonna be okay”

⧭⧬⥉⧬⧭

All the gods sighed in relief as the young one and his companion passed the border.

And true to his word, XD made sure to overwrite the messages everyone was sent before they could read it.

Purpled has left the game.

Tommyinnit has left the game.

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His destiny has begun.

It had been a few weeks. 

He hadn’t really been too focused on the time, more so recovering from the trauma he had and making this place his home. He also made a special entrance of a waterfall to enter.

This place.

It was a new server, he was the admin of.

He made sure not to become power-hungry, he made his alien fiancé promise that if he was even starting to become even slightly like dream, to tell him or bitch slap him, for now, neither was needed, thank god.

 He helped XD and Drista with Purpled to make the house they now resided in.

They didn’t make it whitelisted so it wasn’t limited on who could join. So anybody could come.

He was doing much better from back then on his now old server.

Of course, he was by no means ‘cured’, XD had told him he couldn’t get cured of his PTSD as it was part of him, but he could move on but always have it be part of him. 

Continuing that,  Purpled was definitely helpful but well… in the beginning he wasn’t exactly a comfort pro. He just comforted at the best of his ability which improved very much and he had gotten help for his trauma as well.

The person who comforted the best by far wasn’t even a person, it was dogchamp. By far.

The gods were the same way as they had never been attached to a mortal before they were erm a little out of touch 

“ Scary thing? Scared? Don’t be scared, remove scary thing, problems solved. Simple ”

Things were in fact not simple.

Speaking of which he had somehow managed to upgrade his chat. Which came with the ability to be able to split into two groups. (Thanks to a certain goddess of death.)

He had figured out that his chat was omniscient, more so than his family’s , Phil’s, and Techno’s. They knew things . Things that he couldn’t as well as things nobody should be able to know. It had been a gift, of course, he appreciated it but sometimes it got too much and at those moments he would remember why Technoblade called them a curse. Like a pounding migraine, that made you unable to think. 

They were always commenting and observing everything and coming back and telling him what they had found. 

They could join other chats around places for information and to just scare/ confuse people.

They were helpful though when they knew it was necessary, or when they knew Tommy wanted them to listen.

They could split into two people, a pair of twins. 

One looked like a male dressed in mostly white and gold. His name was yin. 

The other, like a female dressed mostly in black and navy. Her name was Yang

He had asked them why they had chosen the names when they had officially met and Yin responded that mainly for the irony.

He later understood as the yin symbol depicted good with little evil inside, and the yang symbol depicted oppositely.

They mainly did act like the symbols with the difference being that Yin was the more evil and violent one and was masculine,  while Yang was more neutral and gentle and feminine. 

(But don’t get it twisted he thought, she’ll kick your ass with a kind smile if she deemed it necessary to protect Tommy. He had only seen her once in that state and it terrified him. It didn’t scare chat when they went back in his head since they were the twins and the twins were chat, which hurt his head to think about.)

They appeared very rarely, only when he was being clingy when nobody was home and he wanted people to interact with, without thousands of overlapping voices. And with the fact that it took chat a good sum of energy to maintain it, he doubted he would see them like ever.

 Chat could also possess him if in a moment of extreme emotion, he learned. They weren’t very focused on controlling his facial features so whenever they did, he looked usually very empty. 

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The day had started like any other ordinary day (soon to change in the following weeks) with animals that weren’t chat around him outside on the grass accompanying him, the server seemed to like him a lot, sewing and doing other outdoor activities, as he was healing from the new traits he had. Sure having them now was amazing, but the process of getting them?

So not poggers .

It had started as an uncomfortable ache, nothing too serious, just making him restless and antsy. 

Only Drista and Purpled were with him in the house as his new dad and the other gods he had met were out doing god stuff that frankly wasn’t important enough for him to remember.

His chat was concerned but helpful and they recommended he sleep to hopefully calm whatever he was dealing with.

It worked.

Until it hadn’t.

It was midnight when Tommy shot up in excruciating pain, but instead of in front of him like exile had felt like, it was his entire back and head. His back felt like it was on fire, melting and ripping his skin at the same time. His head wasn’t in a better situation although it was less pain, having a headache that not even chat had ever given him before.

His back muscles felt like they were being torn in half, sharp, sudden pain making itself known at random spikes, leaving Tommy gasping in pained confusion. His head felt like something was pushing outwards. He tried moving into a lying position, before immediately stopping once it made the internal anguish worse. 

He didn’t know when he had started racking in loud pain-filled sobs until he heard the door of his room bust open.

And then he felt fingers start to comb through his hair. And soft mumbling was also now present.

“Toms?” he had looked up to see Purpled and the mortal forms of XD and Drista all there with worry written on their faces., and with dogchamp licking at his face also with concern  He giggled at the action even if he wasn’t having a very fun time

Chat had also sensed the presence of other gods in the room who hadn’t made a mortal form.

He wanted whatever was happening to stop and he expressed such. 

He had only felt hands on his head and he felt sleepy.

The room was bathed in a silvery hue as the moon seemingly shined brighter when he felt something on his back rip. 

He felt both pains be replaced with pained relief as he promptly passed out.

He didn’t feel as he was cleaned up.

He also didn’t feel as Drista sped up his hybrid traits.

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Blood for the blood god

E

E

L 

Blood!!

I miss the child…

Whens he coming back? We never got a death message

Techno stilled in the prison when he heard them start to talk about his baby brother.

It… was supposed to be a quick thing but now he was stuck in the damn prison with Dream. 

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When his chat had first started to mention him, he paid them no mind.

He had been talking to Ranboo when it started, it happened often since Ranboo reminded him of his brother when the younger hadn’t hated him but instead admired him.

He still remembered the way his sweet baby brother had switched from small pleads and tugging on their garments and instead he started to cause trouble, stealing Techno’s and Phil’s items just to keep him home longer when he realized it was becoming less effective.

But alas, it was pointless. The father and eldest brother feared what would happen if they stayed with the voices plaguing their minds and in an effort to protect the younger twin and the youngest, they left.

But Technoblade would be lying if he said he didn’t miss the small blonde with such adoration that warmed his cold heart. The small rambunctious ball of pure unfiltered sunshine.

The one the three eldest silently all agreed to protect with their lives.

The one all three had failed.

Ranboo could never replace Tommy. (not that Ranboo tried but some others like Techno had tried to remove the image of the youngest of the server with him.)

He was told the news by his father who wasn’t dealing much better. You could see the tear tracks on his face with red puffy eyes.

It had felt like his whole body had been dunked in freezing water.

His throat had clogged up as he tried to swallow.

“Heh? What- What do you mean Tommy went missing?! Are you sure your chat isn’t messing with you?!”

“Mate, you know they wouldn’t lie about something like this. But I had decided to go confirm it, and they were right. ”

At that moment he had tuned chat back and they were all in their own states of panic.

He had lost his youngest brother but was in his own state of denial.

Nobody had heard anything about him.

Until then,

The Minecraft family had come back together, spilling secrets and eventually they were working themselves out, but they still had plenty of progress to go.

The fact that he was currently behind bars wasn’t helping much either.

At least Chat was better when he was with them.

This is fun

Blood?

Blood!

E

I’m bored

e

...Correction, better in the sense they were less loud.

We aren’t that loud

Yeah!

E

All was well until he heard it.

He finally got his hybrid traits.

And you missed it.

…

Techno shot his head up and quickly turned his head at Dream, who had paid him no mind. Meaning it had to be chat.

‘Who was that?’ Techno asked, directed at chat.

Before he could question it further, however, Sam was lifting the lava to reveal him and Quackity.

He was gonna have to escape soon.

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Tommy had awoken as the sun was spilling through the curtains suddenly the next day feeling much more alleviated compared to the day before. He also felt something on his back. He whipped his head to look at whatever it was, not really knowing what to expect.

He was greeted by a pair of brilliant bright bold red wings. Out of all the things he thought it could be, he had not thought it could be that. Tommy blinked slowly in disbelief and utter confusion, his eyes trailing over the new appendages, taking in everything he could about them. He realized that they weren't a solid red color. He reached out and touched them softly, the soft feathers faded to prominent orange the further they got from his somehow not aching back, eventually becoming a bold gold at the tips. 

They looked like one of those gorgeous breathtaking sunsets you could only ever see once in a lifetime. 

And on further inspection, they were literally glowing like illuminating not a soft glow, and seemed to be on fire at the tips and edges of his wings!

He had panicked for a brief moment and then felt something, and looked down to see 

…

a tail?

He felt the top of his head, and lo and behold, he had ears. 

Oh my god. He was a raccoon.

A raccoon with wings that looked like it had a fire on them and was glowy and shit.

He had just realized he had way better hearing.

He felt his ears flatten against his head, he took in a deep breath inhaling deeply, paused. 

And screamed.

He heard people rush upstairs, huh.

Works like a charm.

It’s been some weeks. (He left the server 3.5 months ago)

A lot has happened.

One, he learned how to fly. It took some time. A lot of patience and left him with stains, cuts, and a few bruises. XD and the other gods as well as Purpled panicked every time he got hurt.

Dogchamp being the one to alert them every time. Traitor.

Two, because of the server being open for the most part, people moved in and made the place around them, a village. And he was wondering if they should expand some.

Yes!

ADD MORE

Build!

Get resources

Build a city! A Kingdom!

Like BIG Q

BIG Q

E

Building arc

Las Nevadas arc!

Woo!

Pog

poggers

I think we should make dogchamp his own house

Yeah!

They did make the small dog house even if it was rarely used and they helped build houses for new villagers.

And holy shit, this was no longer a tiny village now.

Welp, it can’t get crazier than this right? 

Wrong.

Tommy, you just jinxed yourself, 

stupid.

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Tommy went outside to his garden made by him and XD. 

It was gorgeous if he did say so himself. He made it, er well helped plant things they had found when they had first made the world, they hadn’t settled down right away.

It had so many things, things he had never even seen in any of the Smp’s before.

They had things called bananas, golden raspberries that were golden and looked cool (Rubus idaeus), miracle fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum) that threw him in a loop as it made everything sweeter?! It freaked the shit Purpled and Drista so at least he wasn’t the only one. The cocoa beans he had always seen, that could make something called chocolate, a villager showed him, it was really good.

They planted Tayberries a mix of two other fruits he had also planted called raspberries and blackberries, Fuyu persimmon as well because it was nicknamed fruit of the gods so of course. Finger limes which looked funny but cool, oh and everything and anything you could imagine like-

Tommy!

Don’t get distracted dumbass!

You were coming out here for clothes?

Aw, but he sounded so excited!

Yes, but he has to stay on track, or else he’ll later feel guilty

Yeah Nobody likes a sad Tommy :(

Oh! Shit. right, thanks chat. He heard a chorus of agreements and ‘your welcomes’

Tommy had decided to sew, he noticed that many people needed new clothing so he decided to make them clothing.

Not to be cocky , (’ but Tommy you’re always cocky-‘ ‘shut up chat’) but his land was large like very large like seriously, it was endless, having all types of biomes, more than he had ever even heard of. Reason being that the Drista suggested they add a mod, now what was a mod you may ask?

Uh,

Tommy had no clue, (apparently, something that made the world unique but his was special since the gods had added new things to make him a special mod.) but he got it anyways. And oh my g od, there were so many forests, meadows, rainforests, magical biomes like mystic grove (biomes o’ plenty, bioplentia) and so much more.

He couldn’t wait to collect more new items. 

It was a new thing to others as well as when they entered, they looked around in unfiltered astonishment and awe.

But Tommy decided since they were coming from a different place, they might not have the right clothing.

So here he was, having collected silk from the silkworms, collect some silk from really friendly spiders (silk that was apparently, extremely rare so that’s cool), wool from different types of sheep, wool from cashmere goats and pashmina goats who weren’t aggressive at all with him which was ...odd to say the least.

Cotton and other materials from his plants, and just different types of yarn given to him from his mum as other special fabrics like linen would be a long process, and he didn’t want to take so long.

Did he mention he found out his mum was the goddess of death? No?

Oh well, he did. It caused a whirlwind of emotions including crying like a lot of it. It ended well so that’s all good and dandy he supposed.

He had separated all the different types and made them ready into yarn, he made sure all the material was real and organic because it made him feel fancier.

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So now here he was sitting, sewing it all to make clothing.

Purpled stayed, and so did Drista as well. They were writing their suggestions for articles of clothing.

Sewinnit!

Sewinginnit!

This is nice to watch

I wanna see when he starts to knit some more

Knitinnit!

He silently took in the atmosphere around him as he finished the cross-stitches for one of the copious amounts of shirts he had completed. And he decided to now work on the knitting. 

Chat had explained to him the types of stitches for knitting.

Omg knit-innit

He’s doing a purl stitch, and that’s annoying me so much 

Ooh, maybe he can practice doing butterfly row knots!

He’s already made his first knit sweater!

And he made it with a knit stitch

Maybe try a stockinette stitch?

You should make some blankets!

He should! 

He looked around,

He was gonna need a lot more yarn, And probably a sewing machine.

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After many backstitches, cross-stitches, slip-stitches, blanket-stitches, and doing finishing stitches with a sewing machine he eventually got when he requested one.

He was very proud of everything he had manages to make, he used some dyes to dye the yarn directly, but he also made some plain to later dip into the dye after. It was a fun process. As they had big buckets to dunk the items in.

When doing this, he remembered all the good memories of when he first learned how to stitch.

He was much younger, he played outside of course but he saw the old and very talented seamstresses and was mesmerized and asked to learn, which the old ladies were very excited and glad to teach.

Or when he had given purpled his first gift when they got into the new server, it was a mix of very fine and soft materials. It was mostly a gorgeous violet that matched his eyes and with some gold also sewn in. for the golden specks also in his eyes He also added some embroidery into it so he thought it was his best work so far.

Apparently so did Purpled. Tears had appeared and were starting to roll down his cheeks as he thanked Tommy. 

It had made Tommy let out a breath in relief that purpled liked his gift. And Purpled didn’t cry often at all either. And still, whenever either boy reminisce the memory, it brought such a warmth to both of their hearts.

Purpled still wore it often but not on expeditions, he wore other ones Tommy made for him on those trips, he loved all of them but the first one had meaning to them.

Aw golden duo 

Golden duo our beloved

I want that type of relationship besides the dealing with trauma part

They care for each other but are also frenemies

^ Love that

Anyways, you did amazing Tommy! 

Yeah! The material is so soft! Even the wool!

Tommy grinned at that, he was very proud of himself for making so many fabrics, it was a lot of work but it would have been so much harder if he didn’t get help from his friends.

He made velvet, silk, linen, wool, twill, lace, denim, tweed, viscose (which he had used wood pulp, an interesting process), and leather and used them for most common outerwear. He had used some fabric yarns to make other ones, which he hadn’t known about until he read a bunch on it.

He had also made used satin, rayon and organza, and muslin, and of course silk with some other materials he had written down, to drape across mannequins for flowy dresses and robes. 

Any fabric that could be made with items, he had made. And cut out small parts of it to put on his book with how to make it. He was not perfect however so he pricked his finger a lot which was solved by using the sewing machine they had gotten him.

He made dogchamp some sweaters for the fun of it and even though the measurements confused him to all hell, he didn’t regret it.

He had decided to redesign the gods’ dress wear, it was a work in progress. He was still designing it in his sketchbook

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Tommy and his fiancé, and Drista planned on going out to give the clothing.

They did eventually head outside after the three of them were done getting themselves and the clothing ready. The village had grown much bigger than it had looked like before, having split to move to different common biomes that were all close together, so it would take them some time to get around to the whole village, so they decided to start right as the sun started to rise. 

It was a lively and happy place to live in and that's just what the youngest teen had been looking for in L’manburg.

But of course like the saying goes, “if you want it done right then you have to do it yourself.”

And do it himself with his friends, he did. 

Going around the village(s?), they met some older people, adults, teens, kids, and babies as they went around. Houses, water dams, farms, and a bakery, and other stores were also new additions. There weren’t any clothing stores though, so that’s where they came in.

The people were very obviously grateful. And whenever asked Purpled and Drista responded by telling them it was the Admin who had made the clothing and blankets for them. And everyone knew who they were talking about as he had welcomed them when they arrived. 

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Now Tommy knew that eventually the village (could it even be called a village?) would ask for him to introduce himself formally as he never told them his name.

But he didn’t expect it to be so soon. And at that moment, Tommy panicked, he didn’t want to be associated with Tommy, it wasn’t even his birth name either. It was Theseus, it wasn’t a common name so if anybody heard, they’d know it was him.

 Plus the memory of looking up to see his brother yelling “ But If you want to be a hero...? ” 

He shook his head slightly, a nickname he had for a while when he was younger was Theo. 

If he removed a letter, maybe people wouldn’t recognize him?...

He took a deep breath and introduced himself.

“ THEN DIE LIKE ONE! ”

He smiled warmly, “Hello, My name is Teo!” {Te-o} {not Tea-o}

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Teo- Gift of God (Greek)

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After introducing himself properly, he was walking around one of the forests.  It was getting late so he should probably return, but as he was grabbing his lantern to go back, he smelt something.

A metallic copper smell.

He used his better sense of smell to find who or what was bleeding. 

When they finally saw where the smell was coming from, he was mildly shocked.

There, lying a spider-hybrid kid that looked to be the age of three or so, covered with blood.

"What happened?" Tommy, who's now kneeling on the ground, checking the younger's pulse, asked no one in particular.

Chat responded that there had been a large explosion on the nearby server on the edge. And it was probably a horde of mobs with several charged creepers. And the boy was near the attack so he also got hit pretty badly. 

Tommy decided healing the kid's wounds and bandaging them to keep them from swelling and bleeding out was a good option. Drista had lent him some healing, regeneration, and strength potions that were from the young goddess's inventory earlier.

So he pulled them out of his inventory and opened the boy’s mouth to pour some of it in. And poured the rest out on the boy’s wounds. He asked chat about how bad the injuries were.

He has a few lacerations

A broken rib or two

 he also has a few broken bones, 

A few open and closed wounds from the potion

He has a mild concussion 

Poor kid :(

After a minute or two, the child came back into consciousness and Tommy asked if he could bring him to his home. And after very little convincing (in which Tommy just introduced himself as admin of the server and the boy agreed, uh what), the small child agreed

He and the newly acquired child got home, and as he opened the door he remembered that nobody was home and everyone would be back tomorrow.

He walked to the medical room, just because of how common they had injuries that they got a room specifically for it. And he helped the child’s wounds until they were fully healed and now the child needed to rest.

He took the kid to the guest bedroom but the kid wouldn’t let go of him. It was clinging to him. When questioned the little spider whined that he wanted to stay with his new caretaker. 

Tommy died inside in a good way. So he turned around and walked to the biggest room currently, his shared bedroom with his fiancé.

And he tucked the kid on the opposite side of the large bed. And he headed to the shower, got changed, and came back to the room to see the small child asleep. 

He wondered how he was going to explain this. He paused then shrugged, that was a problem for later.

As he drifted slowly into unconsciousness, he listened to what chat was saying but didn’t pay much attention.

We should name him!

Pog kid acquired 

Uh, techno is in prison, you guys-

Lmao

Prison arc L 

Fatherinnit arc!

Uh the dreamsmp isn’t looking too good

^yeah the server is dying

Oh gods- erm oh goodness

Something about the code

And Tommy fell asleep.

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In the morning Tommy awoke to feel someone clinging onto him. Which was odd since he was usually the one clinging, usually onto Purpled.

So he opened his eyes groggily and saw the child and remembered. ‘Right, I'm taking care of an actual child right now.’

So he moved the child, got ready, and headed down to make breakfast.

And when he finished he heard small pitter-patters from the steps and saw the toddler.

“Miser? (mister)” 

“Oh hi- uh do you have a name?”

He looked at him and paused, shaking his head.

“We can think of names?”

The kid giggled and clapped his hands a few times and nodded.

Friendship ended with everyone, he's my new favorite

Tommy if you don’t make him your child i swear-

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“Uh, toms Who's this?”

“Purpled, meet our newest child.”

Purpled made sounds of confusion. 

“Purpled please? ” 

Purpled immediately looked away and closed his eyes. He heard the small sadness in Tommy's voice and almost gave in but he shook his head. It was for the greater good he told himself silently. Since he knew the moment he looked at him, it would be game over. 

He sighed, there was no winning this. He opened his eyes and yep.

His greatest weakness, Tommy’s puppy eyes. He hadn’t met anyone stronger than them, even Drista gave in to them.

“Agh fine but I get to help name him.”

He knew it was worth it when Tommy grinned widely and hugged him. Gods he was whipped.

“Hah simp.” he heard Drista say.

He hugged Tommy back and flipped her off. 

“HEY-”

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They named the child shroud. 

It was a name that just stuck. They also called him shrubs as a nickname on occasion.

The gods were shocked to see they now had a child and accepted the child with open arms. Besides the blood god, he just patted Tommy's head and nodded but it still counted. 

The first time shroud called them papa (Tommy) and dada (purpled) respectively they cried. But they’ll both tell you they didn’t,  if you ask anybody else besides the duo, they’ll tell you that oh yeah they 100% did.

The duo was planning on having a wedding to be (PLATONIC) {I cannot stress this enough} husbands.

Tommy admitted that one of his reasons was that saying ‘hey! That's my husband you're talking to!’ just sounded so fun to say, Purpled agreed.

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The gods took the responsibility to take care of their new kid because the trio(Drista+still not married couple (twas a work in progress) are going around to explore and get stuff for their home. 

Drista being able access creative mode was very necessary cause if not, then it will really take a while to do as much as they did with getting materials and needing health potions. 

An unwanted cobblestone tower was built on the land which was then turned into a watchtower to have some purpose.

They made a working television which was later put in the living room, a working automatic refrigerator which was a huge bonus as they could now store food. And other working inventions were included.

Tommy or otherwise now known as Teo to most was constantly wanting to help the people in any way that he could. And Drista and Purpled went with it mainly to make him happy. They gave some new materials they hadn't ever seen and the same with the new food and medical supplies. 

The three of them also built a few hospitals which were basically just way bigger clinics for the villagers to come when anyone was in medical attention or even just for a basic check-up to keep them healthy.

 Not only that, they made a place for children to learn in and know what was needed to survive with just knowledge in general and they tried to keep it fun for the majority. And they gave jobs for adults to work in like fishing, miners and stuff like that. 

The gods helped too but eh that wasn’t too important.

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Several people who lived near the center of the earth saw the server in the direct center of it and began to notice all the people traveling there from bad servers, and the work of the main trio (or group if you really wanted to count the literal gods)  helping and accepting the newcomers with open arms. So some had decided to visit while they planned on only visiting, the things they had heard about the server were nowhere near able to compare to the sheer brilliance of it, in the village could it even be called that anymore? 

Tommy didn’t really know.

The trio made a hotel for the newcomers to temporarily stay in if they wanted until they could build their own.

 Of course, the one who'll stay at the hotel would pay a certain amount of ore or coins or anything that can be considered as currency. The villagers who wanted to work could choose what they wanted and they could work in the hotel building or a bakery so the options were relatively endless to earn money.

Tommy taught all alike to become seamstresses, seamsters, tailors. Some specialized in dresses and fancy attire while others didn’t.

The whole point is that when people talked about the admin or Teo, everyone appreciated and cared for him. Nobody was tense with him, they treated him with respect of course but he was like any other. 

You could see him with his son, with his father or any of his guardians, or with his fiancé the co-admin at some times. They knew he wasn’t over 18 and nobody treated him as less than, and nobody minded. Instead, they were impressed how a boy so young could achieve so much more than the tyrants or others who were admins or people in power who were adults.

✶✻✺✼❃✽❃✼✺✻✷

Most Saturdays, Tommy or Teo, invites the visitors or villagers just to talk, eat all together, or voice concerns and suggestions. Which was the way they met shroud and adored him.

if they didn’t welll-

They go bye-bye

LMAO 

Bye bye! Haha I agree 100% tho

I would kill everyone and then myself if shroud wanted

Shroud our beloved.

Tommy rolled his eyes at chat’s antics. 

"Good day everyone, I hope everyone is doing well!" Tommy/Teo greeted everyone who was in the very large house. A couple of greetings were thrown around in the room. 

“How's everyone doing?" Tommy asked, and to the newcomers, he said "Don't be afraid to eat as much as you please, there’s s no limit here!”

"Uhh, sir?" A female visitor said "you can call me Teo! No need for formalities and it makes me feel weird." Tommy or Teo laughed.

 "Oh alright Teo, well we were talking about who'd be the leader of this area? And what is the village called?"  "Oh? Uhh, may I ask why we need an official leader and a name for this place? I'm not against your guys' suggestions, I’m just curious. Once Tommy heard what the lady said, he involuntarily thought of the piglin anarchist brother . 

It was true that there was no leader, sure he was the admin but nothing came with the title besides respect but everyone should be respected so it wasn’t much.

"It's because we feel the need to have an official person who'll somewhat guide and lead the people here in this area, as well as represent it in the earth server meetings? And for future possibilities of expanding this growing village?" A man piped up.

 "And for the name of this village or whatever you call this place, we fellow visitors who are looking for a place can identify this city easily? Since you know that in order to find a certain location or server IP, the name area will need to be included in the map?" A visitor included while others were agreeing and/or nodding their heads.

"Hmm... those are all good points. Alright!  Well, have you chosen one amongst yourselves? Or were you guys wanting to make a voting area?" A brief flashback of the election passes through his mind. 

 He quickly shakes it off.

"We have! We’ve decided to make you our official leader for the entirety of the village or well technically our king?" A different woman stated.

"Oh, alright.." Tommy responded and ….

"WAIT HUH?!?"

Then, that was where Tommy realized he jinxed himself.

After that day, T ommy eo tried to convince the villagers and visitors that he was not fit for being the ruler of the whole server! He offered others to lead instead of him but they weren't able to be convinced otherwise. 

Drista tells him that he’s better than them since he literally had gods with him so that had to be worth somethin’.

Hm, where’s purpled, ya’know someone to be on his side

Well, Purpled was here but he just stands there! What the heck!?  And drinking his (Tommy’s) literal tea in front of him! Shroud was outside in the large garden running around on the playset Purpled made for him.

Finally after some time, and Purpled convincing him, he agreed and the people were happy. Now he had to figure out the name of the server.

⚶☆★☆★☆★☆⚶

Tommy was happy! He really was! He learned how to hide both or just one of his hybrid traits whenever he pleased.

He was building everything he could have only ever dreamt of but… something was missing.

He asked his guardians and the blood god suggested he go to the nether and the other gods agreed.

So Tommy decided that he had to go to the nether and he asked Purpled if he wanted to come and he nodded. 

They left shroud in the care of Kristen who was very excited to spend time with her grandson. XD made sure they had good and working phones, oh yeah they made phones using amethyst instead of communicators and there was so much to do on them but anyways that’s off-topic

They made a room to hold the nether portal, they both ruffled shroud’s hair and checked their satchels, they entered the portal and they were off.

Chapter Text

Walking out of the portal, although doing it plenty of times before made him feel odd but in a good way. As they walked, Tommy saw plenty of Zombie Piglins roaming around, they made sure to steer clear of them in order not to get attacked at the moment. They had walked for a few minutes before seeing what he could only really assume to be a village of sorts. Which was strange, Tommy hadn't even known villages would or could appear in the Nether, though it looked more like a campsite than a proper village.

Easy tents and multiple fires with some unidentifiable stew brewing, and the small number of citizens that seemed to be more resting and gathering than actually living there so a pit-stop he could assume.

The duo walked up to them, hesitant and feeling like they were bordering untouched boundaries.

Upon noticing them, the Piglins who were lingering outside of their tents tensed at the sight of them. Few even drew their crossbows and gold swords in case a fight was to occur. Tommy tensed at the sight of the weapons, stopping immediately and preparing to turn around and walk around them safely. He was not only curious, but this was also the only way further away from the portal they had made without needing to use blocks to get over.

“So-," Tommy cleared his throat a bit, the only real times having used it lately was in whispers or screams. Not proper bold speaking volume. "Sorry, We wanted to pass through. But um we’ll look for another way, we’re sorry for bothering."

His apology seemed to have made them less tense, but their weapons were still drawn. As they weren’t fully trusting. Piglins may be more aggressive than Overworlders sure, and no real government or leadership is in place. (As they’re all waiting for destiny’s king who’s supposed to come soon, but they made sure to never attack each other.)

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Because with Overworlders coming and plundering them of their stuff within fortresses, it made it harder for some to live especially with some being trapped in them since the last king which was a century? Centuries? They didn’t know but what they did was that they didn’t attack each other ever since the first portal opened. And instead, they came together.

 From what they heard of other servers, all overworlders were bad in their own way except Destiny’s King.  

Destiny’s king was a person meant to rule over servers entirely from the central server in the middle. That the person would rule over all three worlds. The overworld, nether, and the end.

From what they managed to hear was that he would be from overworld origin partially and come with people. When they had asked for more information on the said king, they were told that they’d just know with a feeling. 

They didn’t really comprehend what that entailed until they saw him.

Two young boys wearing gold boots, and both with satchels on their side. The one in purple was interesting as he seemed to be an alien of sorts.

The one who piqued their interests the most was the other one. He seemed to have hair of literal gold, with eyes the color azure with what almost looked liked enchanting on them with how they shone. He wore a mix of red, black, and white. But the most prominent thing was the wings.

Wings those of a Pheonix.

Or more specifically Destiny’s king. Their King.

So they dropped their weapons and pointed for the two newcomers to go into the largest tent. Who looked at each other and followed.

They were gonna take them to the wall that holds the castle to check if they were correct.

°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°

Tommy was confused. 

Like one moment they had bows and swords pointed at them, and the next, they were invited into a tent with food and potions. And an earring? 

When Tommy asked why they had pierced his helix, he was met with a smile.

 It was lowkey scary. 

They made sure to give them potions in return of course, but it was very unexpected. And now they were going somewhere? 

He didn’t really know, but they hadn’t died yet so that was a plus in Tommy’s book. 

They were pointed in a direction and the duo looked at each other and went in that direction

Eventually, they saw something in the distance. The thing was a fortress that now stood in front of the duo, and he could already hear the mobs in it. War shouldn’t be on a child’s mind but it was, and that gave him PTSD that he was working on but nonetheless it isn’t good. So basically- long story short, he was scared.

But he looked to the side of him and saw Purpled who had said he would guard him for the most part since he had been training with a few of the gods.

So he made up his mind and waltzed on. Walking into the fortress, they were met with a few surprising things.

First was the stairs right at the front, so right off the bat it didn't look like any other fortresses he’d gone through but then again he also didn't have a golden earring in an ear and have his own server.

 Walking through the fortress, with many weird but close calls with Wither Skeletons, Tommy and Purpled managed to get to the other side perfectly fine. He could feel eyes on him for the whole time they were there but he had gotten used to it back in pogtopia so he didn’t mind much. The mobs looked on with certain degrees of wariness but didn't fire any arrows at the boys.

Tommy never got to know much about Piglin culture as Techno left with Phil to go places when Tommy was young and never told him. But if he had, he would have known that gold as jewelry being gifted was a sign of trust. And that the specific design was worn by only kings.

(A funeral was held for Tommy in the Overworld, A funeral in which SBI didn't receive an invitation to, and none knew about the grave until much later during one of Ranboo's many breakdowns. They couldn’t bring themselves to go see it as it would mean admitting he was dead.

A few others didn’t visit for that reason.  Nobody could believe he was dead and refused to believe it)

XD had made time in the nether and end be temporarily much slower than it would be in the overworld, so it kept them comforted and their phones told them the time they’d been there in overworld time.

Tommy saw a bigger fortress and pointed. Purpled looked over and nodded, and off they went again to explore.

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They had found a button made out of wood from the nether. Something they had never seen before.

Earlier, Purpled was gathering trees since the wood still was unique, and replanting them (due to Tommy requesting it). While Tommy was in the fortress with blazes and wither skeletons he had befriended. The skeletons spoke and Tommy understood them which made them excited? He didn’t really know why.

Huh. he felt like he was saying that a lot.

The blazes, on the other hand, didn’t speak, so he had named them and when they liked the name they quickly spun their rods. Tommy vented a little to them, and what he didn’t notice was the blaze’s rods started to spin faster, and they started to heat up more and reported it to the rest. 

(The mobs made sure that nothing would ever hurt Tommy again. And whoever tried would meet a fate worse than death and lava.)

Small piglin children ran up and watched. Purpled looked over his shoulder to see the mobs watching with anticipation? Strange.

So Tommy pressed it because it’s a button and what else can you do? Not press it? You have to press the button. And it started to open, eliciting gasps.

“ ...Do you think we can go in? ” Tommy whispered to Purpled.

The pair looked over at the inhabitants of the fortress behind them, and they nodded as if knowing what they were gonna ask.

 "Yeah, we can," Purpled responded softly.

The group of children with them all walked forward towards the castle mesmerized, which seemed to stretch far into the ceiling compared to other structures.

It’s so tall that Tommy contemplated if even Ghasts would be able to fly into the structure, that would be something to watch. The bridge connecting the castle to what was technically the mainland area didn't display to be old in the slightest, almost as if someone had been preserving it for an important entrance. 

Entering the structure wasn't as hard as Tommy thought it would be honestly. He was expecting traps, but none seemed to be set and nobody had charged at them for entering. He knew that the others had followed them in, all looking on with interest. The piglin children had all run to the nearest gold piece which was gold in the pillars. While they did that, he let himself be guided by his feet. Simply taking in all that he could. 

Tommy had to control himself from snatching any golden, shiny decorations and ornaments he would see and it was a struggle.

Tommy eventually found himself moving in a direction which just felt...right. He landed them in the throne room, the largest one within the castle as of now. 

His feet had stopped moving, but he was still looking at the ceiling and the designs on them that glowed softly. Shimmering blue eyes drifted, no longer the dull grey they had changed into before he left the server to the golden crown sitting on the throne. The throne being the only piece of furniture in the large room. 

The others eventually gathered as they had followed him, but they too were taking it all in.

Everyone watched as Tommy stared at the shimmering crown sitting rather innocent on the throne, they knew the stories, t hey knew. Their rightful king would come and open up the wall and rule over the Nether’s entirety along with the other worlds again.

“Go on.” One spoke. 

“I can’t, I am no king, I don’t know how to rule,” Tommy responded quietly but in the quiet room, it was heard clearly. 

“We will help guide you, you are the rightful one, young one.”

He felt Purpled come up behind him and he looked over as Purpled smiled and nodded.

You call out silently.

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Others respond.

“Alright.” He responded, voice cracking slightly due to the lump forming in his throat. “Thank you for this opportunity.”

“I’ll do my best.”

“We know, we trust you, young one.”

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The duo went to get shroud and the others to let them in on the adventure. 

XD had already made sure that the time was slower in the nether and end for now until everything was sorted, so they were good in that aspect.

As they explored, they saw an end portal and they just kinda jumped in.

As he jumped in, too late to get out, Tommy remembered that end portals don’t spawn in the end. 

Did he realize it was a terrible plan? Yes.

Were they still alive? Also yes. 

So it couldn’t have been that bad.

And so when they teleported into the end, they were directly in another castle. 

But the two walls seemed connected as if meant to be ruled over together, and Tommy was right.

He befriended most, the ones he didn’t were because they were out in the overworld. 

They had so many new things in the end, glow lakes and acid lakes, even more forests! Like the corrupted forest that just looked cool. Fireflies that were of different colours and other types of ores. And it was just gorgeous, though he’d never been to the end so he didn’t know if it had changed as well.

But he could assume it had with all the new blocks that Drista was quickly examining.

This was so cool!

Bro Tommy’s livin the life

Its so pretty!!!

My favorite part is the basically cottagecore biome in the dark

Ooh yeah

Mine is the end cities! 

I like all of tbh 

^^

He agreed with chat. It was amazing and he wasn’t weighted down by anything much anymore.

He felt happy. (he wished to have his old family. But he knew it wouldn’t happen naturally )

The blood god adjusted the nether portal to make it send them to the castle immediately instead of before the castle gates.

All of the new guards they got were very well trained. And one told him he got to choose what to be called. And he just said to call him Teo.

And while exploring he found an egg, and they told him it was going to hatch when he was crowned and be on his side.

And that it wouldn’t be something major, as it probably was going to be a magma cube or a strider, or an endermite. 

Well, Tommy is just that cool so it was none. 

So he was going to be coronated, in the middle of the two worlds.

How was that happening? Tommy didn’t know, ask someone else.

And in front of the crowd, after many years, they saw a boy about to be crowned. He kneeled

And heard the egg start to crack. Everyone’s attention was on him which was nerve-wracking but it was gonna be okay.

“We are gathered here today!” someone started, the egg started to crack more. 

“In honor of the crowing of our new king!” more cracks.

"And by laying on the crown, made long ago by the first king, by magic and golden ores within the Nether n’ End, I present to you, King Teo!"

And they placed the crown on his head, and the egg burst open.

He felt like this was his place. Herewith the people- no, his people, the ones he must now protect.

 And what FLEW out was a Pheonix (he didn’t think they were real, and that they were just in myths). It flew with a dramatic entrance, well as much as it could for a bird 

But instead of the solid fiery red colour in the myths.

It was like its wings with a multitude of colors, Red, orange and yellow in all shades with the wing looking like it was on fire with it swirling around, on one side. 

The other side was what could be considered the opposite. Blue, purple, and silver/grey in all shades. 

The more it went to one side, the more that side took over.  But either way, it went It was glowing, vivid and so so vibrant. 

GASP 

THEY’RE SO PRETTYYYYYYY

OMG 

Bird pog

birb

BIRB

They color-shifting lmao 

Do you think they can shapeshift?

_--_--_--_

The answer was yes. She could. 

He found out it could speak, but not very often, it talked silently to you. It was okay with being called she/her.

Tommy never thought he’d get to the point of knowing ANIMAL’S pronouns yet here he was.

He named her Clementine or clem for short. In honor of the moth, he never got. BUT fear not, clementine could shift into other animals she deemed worthy.

Those being of course her natural form, raccoons(???) and MOTHS.

So. He didn’t understand how in the time he was organizing everything back in the end and nether, he didn’t notice that the gods and Purpled(!) helped the villagers make him a fucking Palace?! And with magic embedded into it? How didn’t he notice?

Also why a palace?!-

He asked Kristen to connect the three worlds for easier travel and she agreed. Thank god- uh erm Thank Death? Uh, he hadn’t figured that part out, It was weird to say that when your guardians were said, gods. Like saying, thank dad, it sounds weird.

Although he was the ruler of like- everything , he was still young and so he didn’t always have to coop up in one of the castle parts, sometimes he could just leave it for his advisors as he made sure to not leave anything too hard.

So whenever he got the chance, he would go to the cherry blossom biome which is next to the kingdom, and just hang out with his fiance and child, gods + Clementine and just be cottagecore.

You couldn’t tell Tommy that waking up early in a comfy bed with your fiance/best friend and then making soft bread isn’t living the life okay?!

But currently, here he was on the balcony of his palace with clementine on his shoulder. She was like his best friend. One that wouldn’t leave him like everyone else.

He felt mostly complete. He was where he belonged, that’s what he knew.  

He also knew that everything was going to be okay.

“ Papa! Lookie! ” He heard a voice call out. He looked down to see the palace garden with his still fiance and child. 

He smiled and went down the stairs and joined them.

He ran around and played, which although it wasn’t proper for a typical king, he was a new king that was a child. 

So Tommy could and should have his moments to be and act like one.

Tommy debated the name of his now growing kingdom.

He had options, he could fool them into thinking it was smaller than it was. And while doing that, he was also making plans for the kingdom and reading letters with Purpled and Drista.

It had grown so much and he was proud, he established connections and was basically as known as the server HermitCraft , and Tommy was shocked. 

They had made so many connections and a strong army!

Tommy knew he’d already mentioned it but he was still so excited, and giggles and cheers from chat just kept that excitement up.

He decided to name his kingdom and server ‘Quillisa Zenise’ for a representation of a server that welcomes people. 

Tranquili(ty)-sia Zenith- sia -> Quillisa Zenise (quill-isa Zen-ise)

And decided to name the capital “Goldstone Valley” to allude to it being a village available to rob then be shocked to find out it wasn’t. (ty to Jun_Mat and Viking_godes for the suggestions <3) Purpled and Drista found the mild chaos still amusing and agreed.

He had also come up with new types of potions such as a gapple but in liquid form, or a water-resistant potion, or an ice potion to name some basic ones he had made.

Also managing to add enchantments to things that wouldn’t have been compatible.

So it was safe to say that Tommy had been really busy tinkering in the labs, and his little (it wasn’t little) workshop.

And it was safe to say that his army was stronger than most, even with it being a very peaceful and young server.

Purpled had taken up training with some of the gods and so had Tommy. 

He had already known how to fight pretty well since he was in a war.

But learning proper and better skills wouldn’t hurt. 

God- uh

Jeez, in all this time spending it for his people, the server, and his family, he had finally noticed something.

He was healing, slowly but healing nonetheless. 

He was finally thinking past tomorrow.

He heard a beep from his device, one that sent him letters from other nations, the hubs, and servers.

It was a plead for help,-

…

He dropped the letter,

…

-From the DreamSMP.

Quackity was in shock. 

Dream and Technoblade had escaped prison, though Technoblade had escaped a bit earlier. 

Dream was looking for Tommy immediately and Quackity managed to toss dream’s grey (grey, grey, wasn’t it white porcelain?)mask off his face and break it in the middle.

And long story short, a dreamon came out of it. 

Dream had been possessed. 

Holy shit.

The DreamSMP was falling apart.

Code was glitching, the parasite that was called the red egg was slowly overpowering the server. They needed to do something about it.

And quick.

So they messaged their fellow SMPS for advice. At this point, it wasn’t to save their SMP but instead to make sure it wouldn’t spread to other servers.

They were told that although they were strong, they would still need significant help. The people on the DreamSMP weren’t very up to date on servers. 

So finding out about an SMP called Quillisa Zenise was quite a shock.

It was apparently very strong and was known for helping other servers in conflict with tyrants.

It was led by an emperor who was incredibly favored by strong servers, giving it incredible connections.

It was a peaceful server and their last hope.

They sent them a letter and hoped for the best.

(It couldn't go that bad right?)