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Was this how it ends? On a tower, in an exile of his own creation. Being abandoned byeveryone, especially his “best friend.” After weeks of planning, they had finally come up with a plan to have them be free from the rule of the tyrant Dream, but he was betrayed. Exiled by his “best friend” simply due to some prank that he committed with the new guy, Ranboo.
It was only supposed to be some light stealing from one of the admins' friends, Georgenotfound. However that prank then evolved into some light arson. They had only wanted to start some fires around the outside of the house. What they didn’t expect was for the fire to spread. They had tried to put out the fire and fix any damages, but their fates were already sealed.
The admin, Dream, had seen them putting out the fire. With that he had all of the evidence that he needed to convict them of the crime. It didn’t help Tommy’s case that he was known for going around the server and starting fires, fights, and problems with other members of the server. Thus when they were taken to court, Tommy took all of the blame. Ranboo was just a new guy and hadn’t yet been able to experience the server in all of its glory.
Then his best friend had to make an incredibly hard decision. It was either Tommy is exiled from the country that he started, or the country would go into a full scale war with Dream’s country. To be completely honest, Tommy doesn’t blame Tubbo at all for choosing to exile him. He knows that he can be a handful and isn’t easily tamed. Besides the fact about Tommy, their country had just come out of a civil war. They had finally won and it was now time for them to heal, but of course Tommy messed that up.
The most recent event leading up to Tommy’s situation is entirely because of Dream. He had dropped Tommy off at the area where his exile would take place, and he took everything away from him. All of Tommy’s tools, building materials, food, and extra clothing was gone in the blink of an eye. It was all blown to smithereens right in front of his face. This would repeat every single day. Dream would come to “visit” him and then take everything that he had been working so hard for, simply to destroy it. Along with him doing this he would also beat him half to death to prevent him from escaping exile.
No one else ever came to visit him. Sure there were one or two people who came by
once, but they had never come back to visit him again. Never did anyone check up on him and see if he was doing better, if he was coping with his situation. However there was an exception to this list of people. That exception being Ranboo. He had come to see Tommy at least once a week. He will never admit it but Tommy did really enjoy these visits. They helped him from losing hope.
All good things must come to an end sadly. Ranboo stopped visiting the closer it got to Christmas time. After Christmas had passed Tommy never did see Ranboo again. At this point Tommy had started to hallucinate that he was seeing Tubbo everywhere. He could be on the beach (there was tubbo hiding in the sand), in his tent (Tubbo would peek in occasionally), or hell even while he was chopping down wood (Tubbo was right by the portal to leave this hellhole.) To try and prevent his hallucinations from continuing he had planned an entire beach party. He hand wrote invitations for everyone on the server and gave them to Ghostbur to deliver.
Sadly, no one ended up coming. Hours upon hours, Tommy waited for someone to show up. The only person that did show up was the one person he didn’t invite, Dream. Immediately Dream started to berate him about how he knew no one would show up. Why would they show up? To see that Tommy hadn’t changed his ways, just his actions momentarily to get back into their good graces. After hearing that Tommy was so upset he only wanted to lock himself away in Ghostburs van for forever. Due to his carelessness while stuck in his own emotions, Dream had found where he was keeping all of his secret OP-ish stuff.
As you can imagine that was all destroyed. That stuff didn’t matter to him though. He could always grind and work hard to get it all back. No, the one thing that truly mattered to him was his connection to his old life. The portal to his home, the country he had created with his brother, had been destroyed. Now that he would never be able to grind and get the materials for it Dream had made sure that anything that could help him escape his exile, including portal materials, was completely barren from his area.
Now here we are, on the top of a tower looking down at the ground below. Looking back on his life Tommy realized that he was the cause of all the bad things that happened to himself and others. He convinced his ‘brother’ Wilbur to create a nation. He was the one who sacrificed his most prized possessions and two of his lifes for a nation that was doomed to fall. He wasn’t able to help Wilbur after they had been exiled from their country. He wasn’t able to stop Wilbur from blowing up their country and dying by the hands of his father. He was the one who set the fires and stole from George. Everything bad that has ever happened was due to him. He was the ultimate unlucky charm. Anyone that had ever spent more than a few hours with him had horrible shit happen to them. It would be better if he died. He wouldn’t be able to fuck up anyone else’s lives if he was dead afterall. With that thought in mind, Tommy jumped. He jumped to his death.
You know how they say that all of your memories flash before your eyes before you die. Well Tommy found out that statement was very true. He saw
everything, the good and the monstrous amounts of bad. In his flight down he realized something, his friends still needed him. He noticed all of the things he didn’t before.
When he was exiled Tubbo was crying because he didn’t want to exile his best friend. Ranboo tried to clean up and cheer up Tommy when he came to visit. His ‘brother’ Wilbur looked at him in the rubble of their nation, mouthing for him to live. He never noticed how much these people did for him and how much he owes them. He wanted to live. He wants to live, if not for himself but for his friends and family.
The ground was getting really close now, but there was a body of water that he could get. to if he really tried hard enough. If he fell in the water he would survive. Sure he would be covered in wounds, but at least he would live. He redirected himself towards the water and pushed off the side of the tower as he fell to help him reach the water. Engulfed by the cold of the water was like a breath of fresh air for Tommy. He got up and out of the cold water and walked towards his new bright future.
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If only he had made it to the water, then his best friend wouldn’t have found his body. His best friend, who finally had time to visit, was on his knees next to Tommy’s body knowing that he could have helped him. Tubbo could have helped him if he had made the time to come visit before this happened.