Looking into a parallel canon
This is how the golden age of piracy ended.
Cannot believe Floyd promised his infant brother that he'd come back for him, after watching all of his other brothers leave. And then years later a brother did return to the tree and it wasn't fucking Floyd. I'd be on the goddamn news.
The plot twist of how Ben died was shocking and all, Theoretically a good plot twist. But. It's lazy and boring and I refuse canon and accept fanon. Ben died because of his powers, period.
a headcannon ive had for a while:
What if mcyt members with limited lives bleed and ones who can die endlessly dont
Take tubbo on the qsmp for example, he made a silly joke and now has 2 lives, like an egg. So when he lost his first life, he bled while being attacked in that dungeon. Like he gets hit and sees blood and is immediately like “thats not good”
And when richas kills him, he bleeds and richas is like “hes just being silly” and the other eggs are like “wtf”. Tubbo swipes at richas and he gets cut a lil and bleeds, all eggs do. Because they only have 2 lives, players dont bleed because they have unlimited lives.
Fit starts getting concerned when tubbo screams to stop, it wasnt a normal “noooo plz” its like a “PLEASE NO I DONT WANNA DIE” typa scream. Fit is more concerned and a little scared now because he can see blood.
And then tubbo is dead.
He doesn’t respawn.
And the pieces fall into place;
When tilin died, there was blood.
When juanaflippa died, there was blood.
When trump died, there was blood.
When bobby died, there was blood.
When tubbo died,
There was blood.
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.
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.
Come to think of it, Childe can transform into water and fly, as he did to leave the Golden House in the Liyue quest
Well, he has mastered multiple weapons so this is probably what he does as a Catalyst
Wonder what he’d be like using other weapons
you're laughing. The umbrella academy's final season destroyed every character's personal growth and semi-healed traumas, left huge plot-holes, completely abandoned some of it's most beloved side characters that were crucial in previous seasons and you're laugh-oh. You're crying. My bad. Go ahead. Let it out. Understandable.
From the river to the sea,