I Just Officially Watched The First Three Episodes Of Season Four And I’m Debating Watching The Rest

A Familiar Fondness...

Episode 3 will now be my personality for the next few days (Dad Kinger for the win !!!!!)

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this for the past few days so I figured I’d share it. In some of my favourite renditions of the DreamSMP SBI family unit, Phil can be a pretty bad dad, often leaving on adventures with Technoblade, which means Wilbur is the one to raise Tommy and eventually Tubbo, when they find him on the side of the road.

But I raise you this, Phil and Techno find Tubbo during their travels.

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They’re a month into their travels after leaving a young Wilbur with four year old Tommy when they come across a cardboard box on the side of the road. Curious, they open it up to find a young boy and a note. The note gives the boy’s basic details, his birthday, age, and his name, Tubbo.

Phil longs to take the kid in and despite their plans to continue heading south, they change course to bring the kid back home. As they travel back the boy grows close with Phil and adopts a strange companionship with Techno as he watches over Tubbo as he plays in the forest, gathering random plants on the way.

They’re two weeks into their journey back when they camp near a pillager outpost, Phil and Techno make sure they’re out of sight when setting up camp and make plans to raid it in the morning. Tubbo does the usual as he chirps into the conversation here and there while handing them the necessary equipment to set up the tents. 

Techno’s on first watch that night, his eyes scanning the tree line for movement and watching Tubbo from the corner of his eye. The kid pulls out some various plants he’s gathered from a small backpack, something they picked up from a market a week ago. He crushes some of them with rocks and places them all in a pot of water he filled from the stream that afternoon. After he seems satisfied, he places the pot on the low burning fire, occasionally stirring the mixture.

It’s a peculiar sight and he’s pretty sure Tommy’s never played with pretend mixtures before. But the kid seems happy, a large grin on his face and Phil always said that no two children are the same. The voices are scattered, some worrying about the safety of the perimeter, others chattering away about how odd the child is, while some find it endearing. Techno frankly finds the constant chattering annoying so he’s relieved when Tubbo retreats to the tent with his plant concoction right as he switches over with Phil.

That morning he wakes to Phil reprimanding Tubbo for going into the forest without telling anybody. In the two weeks that they’ve he’s been in their care, the kid has managed to wander off a grand total of eight times, so Techno can’t really bring himself to care. Despite his own disinterest, the voices are often discussing how he snuck away, this time they’re concerned about the night patrol.

They pack up their stuff before heading to the outpost. They leave Tubbo by a large oak tree, not wanting him to get caught by the pillagers. They trail around the outside trying to avoid being spotted until they realise that there is no one on watch. The voices are screaming that something is wrong. Cautiously, the two of them enter the building only to see dozens of dead pillagers. There aren’t any wounds but they’ve both had enough experience with death to be able to tell.

There’s food on the table thats partially touched, almost as if they didn’t get to finish dinner. Techno picks up a piece of chicken and brings it up to sniff, only to be stopped by called out warning. “No! don’t eat the chicken Mr. Blade!” 

Techno turns to see Tubbo rushing into the room, avoiding the bodies strewn across the room. The kid runs up to him and attempts to bat the chicken out of his hand. It’s a feeble attempt as he barely reaches Techno’s waist and the elder simply holds the chicken further out of his reach. Phil laughs at the display, while the voices in Techno’s head freak out about the kid following him without being noticed. 

Techno takes in his surroundings, from the dead army of pillagers, the table filled with an unfinished feast and the kid who’s still trying to jump at the food he’s holding. He thinks of the odd concoction the kid made and how he supposedly left sometime during the night. It takes a moment but soon the voices are screaming once again, all of them delighted with Techno’s discovery.

Techno looks Tubbo in the eyes as he asks, “Did you poison them?” Phil’s laughter freezes, a sudden quiet taking over the room. Tubbo has the nerve to look guilty, looking away now, as he nods his head. 

“I heard you both making plans to fight them and I wanted to help since Mr Phil was hurt. I can’t fight so I figured out another way.”

Techno directs his gaze back to Phil, “You’re hurt?” 

Phil stares back before nodding, “It’s nothing serious mate, I’m just curious how Tubbo noticed.” They both look over to the kid responsible for the revelation.

“You re-adjusted your wings. There’s more weight on your right side than your left.” Now that’s something that Techno didn’t notice, he wonders how long Phil’s been hurt, though there does seem to be more important things at the moment. 

Techno looks Tubbo in the eye before looking back at Phil. “We’re keeping him.”

Phil smiles, “So we’re heading south again?”

Techno nods and turns again to acknowledge Tubbo who has been watching the exchange, “Hey kid, how do you like snow?”

Tubbo’s eyes light up and Phil pretends not to see Techno smile.

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I was gonna write more but now I want re write the beginning and make a whole fic of it? I’m not sure if anyone would want to see it though

Okay

What about a httyd au? Phil is the chief and Tommy is the youngest kid who’s tired of being looked down on compared to his dad and famous brothers who are all legendary dragon slayers, so he tries to capture a dragon himself and ends up with the equal parts friendly and terrifying night fury!Tubbo. Cue friendship! (Bonus if Tubbo can temporarily shapeshift into human form when his bond with Tommy is strong enough.)

How to Train Your Dragon au...

God what if he and Tubbo fight side by side. Holy shit that would be cool. Tubbo shapeshifting back and forth between a human and dragon. Oh god.

Also Techno, we can have him have Carl, the Dragon he has adopted shortly after Tommy made friends with Tubbo.

Hmmmm but we got to figure out the shapeshifting thing part out. Maybe Tubbo is like one of those enchanted dragons or something? Like he definitely won’t let Tommy “capture him”. Maybe he just wanted friends and Tommy was so bad at capturing that he accidentally made friends with this human who is about his age.

Anyways, found family is pog and I like to think that Quackity, Schlatt, are shapeshifter and oh god there is so many god damn possibilities with this au. 

Sally the Salmon being a Dragon Shapeshifter and Wilbur not knowing...

Fundy being one of those Dragon shapeshifters and finding out when he was young and freaking out about it because his dad is a dragon slayer... 

No seriously what was this about then if none of them remembered/recognized Jennifer???

SPECIALLY sparrow Ben, you mean to tell me he obsessively drew the picture of some other random woman who also happened to be named Jennifer????

plotholes in season 4 i really don't understand now i've digested the season please feel free to explain or add your own:

- sparrow academy and especially sloane just being forgotten, luther just seeming to magically get over his wife disappearing and not fighting in any way shape or form to find her or get back to a timeline with her in it - especially as they show discovery of the phoenix academy you think five would mention that a timeline with sloane must exist out there - ben being teased on the subway train at the end of season 3 but just??? never showing up??? was that an alternative timeline? - allison doing everything last season motivated by the idea of being able to get to claire and ray only for ray to apparently leave her with zero elaboration as to why or what happened - making fatphobic jokes towards diego but actually he takes his shirt off and is still ripped as fuck? - upon regaining their powers luther getting his ape body back which??? literally had nothing to do with his marigold related powers it was because of an accident on a previous timeline? - lila getting laser beam eye powers seemingly from nowhere, but it's not as if this was ever addressed because she could still mimic powers (see: her using five's time travel ability) - very limited use of powers, there were a few cool moments in episode 2 but ultimately it felt like there was no need to even get them back as they rarely showcased them (with the exception of five's getting them stuck) - klaus throwing his marigold onto a passing man but this never getting any exploration - never explaining why jennifer was in a giant squid - never explaining why jennifer got locked up in a safe - ben apparently never discussing with klaus how he died??? - ben and jennifer not realising that the entire motel had blown up around them including murdering flocks of birds and staff when they checked out? - entire five/lila plotline but also five figuring out how to leave and not saying anything when he has always been the first to want to get back and protect his family - lila apparently hating bracelets despite the fact that diego making lila a bracelet and it keeping them linked was such a big plotpoint it was used as a teaser in previous seasons (and the bead bracelet just disappearing) - lila being so intent on saving her family and the kids by sending them to the subway and on an alternative timeline but only one 'true' timeline can survive anyway which would erase the subway - the kids existing when the parents that created them don't - the entire show being for nothing in that the umbrellas do not even exist anymore

i think it would also be so cool if parallel canon was jelletonified

I crave BAMF Tubbo and more fics about Tubbo’s bond with the SBI-mostly Techno, because those two have more similarities than most realize.

So, AU.

Technoblade and Tubbo are a bit closer in this AU. This starts a bit after Tubbo is adopted into the family. 

Techno knows his family loves him. Of course he does. But..it’s hard sometimes, being the only one without wings. Being the only one with no resemblance to them. And Tubbo comes, and he’s adopted too. And Techno feels a bit of a bond with him, the two of them being the only none-bird hybrids in the house. 

So those two get close, in their own way. Anyone outside the family probably wouldn’t see it, but Tubbo learns how to do stitches when his big brother comes home hurt and can’t do them himself, and Techno memorizes the storybook his little brother has him read every night, with no complaints. It’s the little things. 

Tommy has Wilbur, and Tubbo has Techno. And they all have each other. 

Eventually the family starts drifting a bit. Phil starts playing favorites a little. They try. They really do. But it’s not enough, and one day, Techno and Phil return to an empty house, and a note that explains that Wilbur is taking the kids and going somewhere else.

Techno finds a worn bee plushie on his bed, with a note of his own.

‘I’ll see you soon!’ 

Fast forward however many years later, and the piglin hybrid finds himself getting a call. From Tommy, who babbles about how he wasn’t supposed to call them, but Pogtopia(?) needs help and so does Wilbur, and Tubbo’s in trouble-

A mess, really.

Techno comes, of course. They’re family. He would never leave them when they needed him.

So he joins the rebellion, does what he can, and then, tragically, the festival happens. 

(Not even an hour ago, he was farming potatoes while Tubbo chattered away from his side, a wide smile on his face, and eyes full of trust and warmth)

Techno has never done well with peer pressure(The voices, the voices, tHE VOICES). He aims his crossbow at his little brother’s chest, from where he stands locked in a cage, with frightened, worried eyes. He stalls, waits for any signal of rescue, any sign that he won’t be the weapon that takes his brother’s life.

Nothing comes. He can see the exact moment Tubbo realizes. His eyes are still trusting, and his smile forgiving, as his hands shake from where they’re wrapped around the cold iron of his cage.

He pulls the trigger. Blood flies, the voices roar, and somewhere in his blood rage, Technoblade realizes that this place was doomed from the start-and if it was not, then it certainly was now, with his gentle-hearted brother’s blood staining the earth.

Tubbo respawns in Pogtopia, and his eyes are glazed and unseeing. Wilbur tries to make his brothers fight in the pit. The hybrid refuses. Enough blood has been spilled tonight.

Here’s where the training starts. Because Tubbo’s blindness will not remain, is not permanent, luckily, but it will still take time for his eyesight to return, and there is a war coming.

It would be a dishonor to himself and to his family if he were to leave Tubbo unable to fight after rendering him so.

It just so happens that, prepared as ever, Techno learned how to fight blind ages ago. Because you never know what will happen, and he needed a challenge. So he teaches Tubbo.

You’ve got heightened hearing, so use it. Pay attention to the sounds, pay attention to the air, pay attention to the people. Give them false weaknesses, use your real ones, press every advantage. Be quick, be clever, be merciless.

Anyway, Tubbo becomes a total badass. Either nobody knows, because Techno figures doing this secretly will give him more of an advantage, or they don’t take it seriously, because, well. They don’t take kids very seriously, often, even in wars, do they? And it’s Tubbo. Tubbo’s never a threat(not).

Fast forward again. Schlatt dies, Pogtopia loses, and Wilbur tries to make Tommy president.

You can see the shared moment of confusion between the two. The slow realization that they’re setting up another government, after what the last one did.

(Tubbo thought they’d make L’manberg a community, or something. No government, no politics, just peace and them, all together again. Techno just didn’t think they’d use him for the very thing he fought against)

Tommy turns it down, and gives the title to Tubbo. In front of everyone.

Tubbo’s never done well with peer pressure. Just another trait he shares with the eldest brother.

L’manbergs explosion happens, the withers, and such. In the chaos, Techno is giving out every subtle warning he can for his apprentice without saying a thing. 

Wilbur dies, and Techno flees, and from here, there are two options.

Option one: He takes Tubbo with him. He grabs his horse, and offers a hand out for the other, and Tubbo takes it, because he has no intention of being president when there’s another option.

They run and make a cozy life in the snow, eventually joined by Philza, Ghostbur, and, much later, a Tommy who held on and got hurt for it.

Option two: Techno doesn’t get the chance. Tubbo is forced to stick around, and bare the weight of a nation he can feel crumbling by the day. The events of canon happen, with much remorse and unhappiness between the brothers.

Dream is defeated, Snowchester forms, and if Techno finds his way over there, and the two trade apologies along with gifts and warm drinks, well. There’s nobody around to see.

Basically, just Tubbo being cool, and epic, as he should be, and Techno and Tubbo being brothers, and bonding. 

Seriously, if anyone has any good fics with BAMF Tubbo, and Techno and Tubbo friendship, please tell me.

I had a random au idea. Some Tales of the SMP and Dream SMP members are siblings. Like Ran, Ranbob, and Ranboo are all siblings. Jackie, Ash, Zack, and Tubbo are brothers. Technoblade, Billiam, and Sheriff Thompson are brothers. Etc

I have no plot ideas expect that the ender-siblings live together and are runaways.

Oooh, this could be interesting. 

It could either be a modern-ish AU, with room to add more elements, or you could insert it into the SMP.

Modern version:

They all possibly live in the same town? Idk, maybe like a Stardew valley feel, with added mystery, for our runaways. Maybe every family’s got their own little secrets?

The Ender-sibs are definitely suspicious and secretive about being runaways, but either nobody notices because they’re the same, or they just don’t mention it, because they see no reason to. 

Maybe get adopted by Niki, or someone, that’d be cool. 

Tubbo gang would absolutely terrorize the local neighborhood, but they’d probably all be somewhat fond of Tommy. Maybe they run a small family shop, or something? 

Techno, Billiam, and Sherman would probably all have vastly different jobs with a lot of hold. What those jobs are, I dunno, but they’d be important, maybe? Or maybe just Billiam and Sherman, and Techno just hides in a cozy cottage in the woods to get away from everyone.

SMP version: 

Ender-sibs could A, royal runaways, fleeing perhaps danger or duties too heavy for their young shoulders. B, simple kids that perhaps lost their family and didn’t want to lose each other, or were targeted by hunters maybe. Either way, they end up on the SMP.

Those are just my immediate thoughts though, they could be otherwise.

Ranbob could perhaps have some special connection to the dragon, being the only one of them with a purple eye. Meanwhile, Ranboo and Ran would have maybe different abilities? Due to being descended from green-eyed Endermen. I dunno.

Jackie, Ash, Zachary, and Tubbo are, well. A chaotic combination honestly. We could have Tubbo and Jackie being twins along with Ash and Zack, or we could have Tubbo as the oldest, twins as the middle, and Jackie as the youngest(going from eras), or maybe even them all as quadruplets. 

Are they all abandoned together? if so, maybe the SBI never finds them, cause the four just decide to move on themselves. Tubbo would probably be less likely to hang out in a box if there were three others to take care of and he’s already been waiting awhile. 

They could just make a lives for themselves, either eventually meeting the SBI, or not until they reach the SMP. 

If they do still get picked up, again, very chaotic combination. 

Maybe they all split up eventually, and end up coming to the SMP later, worried for Tubbo? Cause I honestly think the events of the SMP would have been cut short real quick if they were all together. Dream never would have stood a chance.

And the Technos, honestly, that’s just funny. You have Sherman, an authority, Billiam, a billionare who’s possibly somewhat corrupt and ignores authority, and Techno, a literal anarchist. 

With them all being siblings, I like to think they’d all be a bit more mellowed at-like Billiam wouldn’t be a total jerk to the lower-class. Who would be the oldest here? How would Wilbur fit into it, if you wanna do the whole Techno and Wilbur twins thing? Would they even be part of the SBI?

Would Billiam and Sherman follow Techno’s footsteps in becoming famous? Or would they prefer to lay low? 

When they all get to the SMP, would Billiam end up getting possessed by the egg? Could offer some interesting motivation for Techno to fight it. 

Would Dream have his own siblings? I ask mainly because I think it’d be hilarious if Hubert and Billiam were just chill friends who occasionally did crime together, and then Dream and Techno were like ‘he is the only one who can match me’ sort of rivalry. If so, were would Hubert and the others stand on Dream’s actions, I wonder?

And if Ranboo was joined by his siblings, would they become close with Tubbo too? Would Robin be part of the Tubbo gang? Who else would have Tales siblings? What kind of connection would Dream have to the Ender-siblings? One with all of them? Replacing Ranboo with Ranbob?

Either version has lots of potential, and plenty of opportunity, so like. It’s cool, basically.